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TITLE
Genome-wide association studies of asthma in population-based cohorts confirm known and suggested loci and identify an additional association near HLA.
ABSTRACT
RATIONALE NlmCategory: BACKGROUND
Asthma has substantial morbidity and mortality and a strong genetic component, but identification of genetic risk factors is limited by availability of suitable studies.
OBJECTIVES NlmCategory: OBJECTIVE
To test if population-based cohorts with self-reported physician-diagnosed asthma and genome-wide association (GWA) data could be used to validate known associations with asthma and identify novel associations.
METHODS NlmCategory: METHODS
The APCAT (Analysis in Population-based Cohorts of Asthma Traits) consortium consists of 1,716 individuals with asthma and 16,888 healthy controls from six European-descent population-based cohorts. We examined associations in APCAT of thirteen variants previously reported as genome-wide significant (P<5 x 10(-8)) and three variants reported as suggestive (P<5× 10(-7)). We also searched for novel associations in APCAT (Stage 1) and followed-up the most promising variants in 4,035 asthmatics and 11,251 healthy controls (Stage 2). Finally, we conducted the first genome-wide screen for interactions with smoking or hay fever.
MAIN RESULTS NlmCategory: RESULTS
We observed association in the same direction for all thirteen previously reported variants and nominally replicated ten of them. One variant that was previously suggestive, rs11071559 in RORA, now reaches genome-wide significance when combined with our data (P = 2.4 × 10(-9)). We also identified two genome-wide significant associations: rs13408661 near IL1RL1/IL18R1 (P(Stage1+Stage2) = 1.1x10(-9)), which is correlated with a variant recently shown to be associated with asthma (rs3771180), and rs9268516 in the HLA region (P(Stage1+Stage2) = 1.1x10(-8)), which appears to be independent of previously reported associations in this locus. Finally, we found no strong evidence for gene-environment interactions with smoking or hay fever status.
CONCLUSIONS NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS
Population-based cohorts with simple asthma phenotypes represent a valuable and largely untapped resource for genetic studies of asthma.
DATE PUBLISHED
2012
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2012/04/24
accepted 2012/07/27
epublish 2012/09/28
entrez 2012/10/03 06:00
pubmed 2012/10/03 06:00
medline 2013/03/21 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Ramasamy A Ramasamy Adaikalavan A Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Kuokkanen M Kuokkanen Mikko M
Vedantam S Vedantam Sailaja S
Gajdos ZK Gajdos Zofia K ZK
Couto Alves A Couto Alves Alexessander A
Lyon HN Lyon Helen N HN
Ferreira MA Ferreira Manuel A R MA
Strachan DP Strachan David P DP
Zhao JH Zhao Jing Hua JH
Abramson MJ Abramson Michael J MJ
Brown MA Brown Matthew A MA
Coin L Coin Lachlan L
Dharmage SC Dharmage Shyamali C SC
Duffy DL Duffy David L DL
Haahtela T Haahtela Tari T
Heath AC Heath Andrew C AC
Janson C Janson Christer C
Kähönen M Kähönen Mika M
Khaw KT Khaw Kay-Tee KT
Laitinen J Laitinen Jaana J
Le Souef P Le Souef Peter P
Lehtimäki T Lehtimäki Terho T
Australian Asthma Genetics Consortium Collaborators
Madden PA Madden Pamela A F PA
Marks GB Marks Guy B GB
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Matheson MC Matheson Melanie C MC
Palmer CD Palmer Cameron D CD
Palotie A Palotie Aarno A
Pouta A Pouta Anneli A
Robertson CF Robertson Colin F CF
Viikari J Viikari Jorma J
Widen E Widen Elisabeth E
Wjst M Wjst Matthias M
Jarvis DL Jarvis Deborah L DL
Montgomery GW Montgomery Grant W GW
Thompson PJ Thompson Philip J PJ
Wareham N Wareham Nick N
Eriksson J Eriksson Johan J
Jousilahti P Jousilahti Pekka P
Laitinen T Laitinen Tarja T
Pekkanen J Pekkanen Juha J
Raitakari OT Raitakari Olli T OT
O'Connor GT O'Connor George T GT
Salomaa V Salomaa Veikko V
Jarvelin MR Jarvelin Marjo-Riitta MR
Hirschhorn JN Hirschhorn Joel N JN
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 7
ISSUE: 9
TITLE: PloS one
ISOABBREVIATION: PLoS ONE
YEAR: 2012
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CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1932-6203
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: PLoS One
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 1932-6203
NLMUNIQUEID: 101285081
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
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GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
#089062 Wellcome Trust United Kingdom
#5R01HL087679-02 NHLBI NIH HHS United States
1RL1MH083268-01 NIMH NIH HHS United States
G0401527 Medical Research Council United Kingdom
G0901214 Medical Research Council United Kingdom
G1000143 Medical Research Council United Kingdom
K05 AA017688 NIAAA NIH HHS United States
MC_U106179471 Medical Research Council United Kingdom
Department of Health United Kingdom
Intramural NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adult
Asthma genetics
Cohort Studies genetics
Genetic Predisposition to Disease genetics
Genome-Wide Association Study genetics
HLA Antigens genetics
Humans genetics
Middle Aged genetics
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
Quantitative Trait Loci genetics
Risk Factors genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 HLA Antigens
OTHER ID's
OTHERID SOURCE
PMC3461045 NLM
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