scholarly journals Correction: Self-reported hearing loss questions provide a good measure for genetic studies: a polygenic risk score analysis from UK Biobank

Author(s):  
Stacey S. Cherny ◽  
Gregory Livshits ◽  
Helena R. R. Wells ◽  
Maxim B. Freidin ◽  
Ida Malkin ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1056-1065
Author(s):  
Stacey S. Cherny ◽  
Gregory Livshits ◽  
Helena R. R. Wells ◽  
Maxim B. Freidin ◽  
Ida Malkin ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 1532-1539 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Neilson ◽  
C. Bois ◽  
T.-K. Clarke ◽  
L. Hall ◽  
E. C. Johnstone ◽  
...  

AbstractBackgroundSchizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder, linked to several structural abnormalities of the brain. More specifically, previous findings have suggested that increased gyrification in frontal and temporal regions are implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.MethodsThe current study included participants at high familial risk of schizophrenia who remained well (n= 31), who developed sub-diagnostic symptoms (n= 28) and who developed schizophrenia (n= 9) as well as healthy controls (HC) (n= 16). We first tested whether individuals at high familial risk of schizophrenia carried an increased burden of trait-associated alleles using polygenic risk score analysis. We then assessed the extent to which polygenic risk was associated with gyral folding in the frontal and temporal lobes.ResultsWe found that individuals at high familial risk of schizophrenia who developed schizophrenia carried a significantly greater burden of risk-conferring variants for the disorder compared to those at high risk (HR) who developed sub-diagnostic symptoms or remained well and HC. Furthermore, within the HR cohort, there was a significant and positive association between schizophrenia polygenic risk score and bilateral frontal gyrification.ConclusionsThese results suggest that polygenic risk for schizophrenia impacts upon early neurodevelopment to confer greater gyral folding in adulthood and an increased risk of developing the disorder.


Diabetes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1134-P
Author(s):  
SANGHYUK JUNG ◽  
DOKYOON KIM ◽  
MANU SHIVAKUMAR ◽  
HONG-HEE WON ◽  
JAE-SEUNG YUN

Author(s):  
V. Escott-Price ◽  
A. Myers ◽  
M. Huentelman ◽  
M. Shoai ◽  
J. Hardy

The We and others have previously shown that polygenic risk score analysis (PRS) has considerable predictive utility for identifying those at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with an area under the curve (AUC) of >0.8. However, by far the greatest determinant of this risk is the apolipoprotein E locus with the E4 allele alone giving an AUC of ~0.68 and the inclusion of the protective E2 allele increasing this to ~0.69 in a clinical cohort. An important question is to determine how good PRS is at predicting risk in those who do not carry the E4 allele (E3 homozygotes, E3E2 and E2E2) and in those who carry neither the E4 or E2 allele (i.e. E3 homozygotes). Previous studies have shown that PRS remains a significant predictor of AD risk in clinical cohorts after controlling for APOE ε4 carrier status. In this study we assess the accuracy of PRS prediction in a cohort of pathologically confirmed AD cases and controls. The exclusion of APOE4 carriers has surprisingly little effect on the PRS prediction accuracy (AUC ~0.83 [95% CI: 0.80-0.86]), and the accuracy remained higher than that in clinical cohorts with APOE included as a predictor. From a practical perspective this suggests that PRS analysis will have predictive utility even in E4 negative individuals and may be useful in clinical trial design.


Author(s):  
Siri Ranlund ◽  
Stella Calafato ◽  
Johan H. Thygesen ◽  
Kuang Lin ◽  
Wiepke Cahn ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 2001441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoko Nakanishi ◽  
Vincenzo Forgetta ◽  
Tomohiro Handa ◽  
Toyohiro Hirai ◽  
Vincent Mooser ◽  
...  

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), mainly due to the PI*ZZ genotype in SERPINA1, is one of the most common inherited diseases. Since it is associated with a high disease burden and partially prevented by smoking cessation, identification of PI*ZZ individuals through genotyping could improve health outcomes.We examined the frequency of the PI*ZZ genotype in individuals with and without diagnosed AATD from UK Biobank, and assessed the associations of the genotypes with clinical outcomes and mortality. A phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) was conducted to reveal disease associations with genotypes. A polygenic risk score (PRS) for forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio was used to evaluate variable penetrance of PI*ZZ.Among 458 164 European-ancestry participants in UK Biobank, 140 had the PI*ZZ genotype and only nine (6.4%, 95% CI 3.4–11.7%) of them were diagnosed with AATD. Those with PI*ZZ had a substantially higher odds of COPD (OR 8.8, 95% CI 5.8–13.3), asthma (OR 2.0, 95% CI 1.4–3.0), bronchiectasis (OR 7.3, 95%CI 3.2–16.8), pneumonia (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.5–4.9) and cirrhosis (OR 7.8, 95% CI 2.5–24.6) diagnoses and a higher hazard of mortality (2.4, 95% CI 1.2–4.6), compared to PI*MM (wildtype) (n=398 424). These associations were stronger among smokers. PheWAS demonstrated associations with increased odds of empyema, pneumothorax, cachexia, polycythaemia, aneurysm and pancreatitis. Polygenic risk score and PI*ZZ were independently associated with FEV1/FVC <0.7 (OR 1.4 per 1-sd change, 95% CI 1.4–1.5 and OR 4.5, 95% CI 3.0–6.9, respectively).The important underdiagnosis of AATD, whose outcomes are partially preventable through smoking cession, could be improved through genotype-guided diagnosis.


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