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The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts.

Karoline Kuchenbaecker | Nikita Telkar | Theresa Reiker | Robin G Walters | Kuang Lin | Anders Eriksson | Deepti Gurdasani | Arthur Gilly | Lorraine Southam | Emmanouil Tsafantakis | Maria Karaleftheri | Janet Seeley | Anatoli Kamali | Gershim Asiki | Iona Y Millwood | Michael Holmes | Huaidong Du | Yu Guo | Meena Kumari | George Dedoussis | Liming Li | Zhengming Chen | Manjinder S Sandhu | Eleftheria Zeggini | Understanding Society Scientific Group
Nature communications | 2019

Most genome-wide association studies are based on samples of European descent. We assess whether the genetic determinants of blood lipids, a major cardiovascular risk factor, are shared across populations. Genetic correlations for lipids between European-ancestry and Asian cohorts are not significantly different from 1. A genetic risk score based on LDL-cholesterol-associated loci has consistent effects on serum levels in samples from the UK, Uganda and Greece (r = 0.23-0.28, p < 1.9 × 10-14). Overall, there is evidence of reproducibility for ~75% of the major lipid loci from European discovery studies, except triglyceride loci in the Ugandan samples (10% of loci). Individual transferable loci are identified using trans-ethnic colocalization. Ten of fourteen loci not transferable to the Ugandan population have pleiotropic associations with BMI in Europeans; none of the transferable loci do. The non-transferable loci might affect lipids by modifying food intake in environments rich in certain nutrients, which suggests a potential role for gene-environment interactions.

Pubmed ID: 31551420

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  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MR/S003711/2
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
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    Id: MR/N01104X/2
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: G1001799
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
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  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MR/N01104X/1
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MC_UU_00017/1
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MC_U137686851
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MR/S003711/1
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MC_PC_13049
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MC_PC_14135
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MR/K013491/1
  • Agency: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom

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European Genome phenome Archive (tool)

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Web service for permanent archiving and sharing of all types of personally identifiable genetic and phenotypic data resulting from biomedical research projects. The repository allows you to explore datasets from numerous genotype experiments, supplied by a range of data providers. The EGA''s role is to provide secure access to the data that otherwise could not be distributed to the research community. The EGA contains exclusive data collected from individuals whose consent agreements authorize data release only for specific research use or to bona fide researchers. Strict protocols govern how information is managed, stored and distributed by the EGA project. As an example, only members of the EGA team are allowed to process data in a secure computing facility. Once processed, all data are encrypted for dissemination and the encryption keys are delivered offline. The EGA also supports data access only for the consortium members prior to publication.

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IMPUTE (tool)

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Software application for estimating (imputing) unobserved genotypes in SNP association studies. The program is designed to work seamlessly with the output of the genotype calling program CHIAMO and the population genetic simulator HAPGEN, and it produces output that can be analyzed using the program SNPTEST. (entry from Genetic Analysis Software)

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