scholarly journals Validation and Disease Risk Assessment of Previously Reported Genome-Wide Genetic Variants Associated With Brugada Syndrome

Author(s):  
Jyh-Ming Jimmy Juang ◽  
Yen-Bin Liu ◽  
Ching-Yu Julius Chen ◽  
Qi-You Yu ◽  
Amrita Chattopadhyay ◽  
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Background: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an oligogenic arrhythmic disease with increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Several BrS or ECG traits-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified through previous genome-wide association studies in white patients. We aimed to validate these SNPs in BrS patients in the Taiwanese population, assessing the cumulative effect of risk alleles and the BrS-polygenic risk score in predicting cardiac events. Methods: We genotyped 190 unrelated BrS patients using the TWB Array, and Taiwan Biobank was used as controls. SNPs not included in the array were imputed by IMPUTE2. Cox proportional hazards model was used to evaluate the associations between each particular SNP, the collective BrS-polygenic risk score, and clinical outcomes. Results: Of the 88 previously reported SNPs, 22 were validated in Taiwanese BrS patients ( P <0.05). Of the 22 SNPs, 2 (rs10428132 and rs9388451) were linked with susceptibility to BrS, 10 were SNPs previously reaching genome-wide significance, and 10 were SNPs associated with ECG traits. For the 3 most commonly reported SNPs, disease risk increased consistently with the number of risk alleles (odds ratio, 3.54; P trend =1.38×10 −9 for 5 risk alleles versus 1). Similar patterns were observed in both SCN5A mutation+ (odds ratio, 3.66; P trend =0.049) and SCN5A mutation− (odds ratio, 3.75; P trend =8.54×10 −9 ) subgroups. Furthermore, BrS patients without SCN5A mutations had more risk alleles than BrS patients with SCN5A mutations regardless of the range of polygenic risk scores. Three SNPs (rs4687718, rs7784776, and rs2968863) showed significant associations with the composite outcome (sudden cardiac arrest plus syncope, hazard ratio, 2.13, 1.48, and 0.41; P =0.02, 0.006, and 0.008, respectively). Conclusions: Our findings suggested that some SNPs associated with BrS or ECG traits exist across multiple populations. The cumulative risk of the BrS-related SNPs is similar to that in white BrS patients, but it appears to correlate with the absence of SCN5A mutations.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minta Thomas ◽  
Lori C Sakoda ◽  
Jeffrey K Lee ◽  
Mark A Jenkins ◽  
Andrea Burnett-Hartman ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 393-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soichiro Nakahara ◽  
Sarah Medland ◽  
Jessica A. Turner ◽  
Vince D. Calhoun ◽  
Kelvin O. Lim ◽  
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2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burcu F. Darst ◽  
Ravi K Madduri ◽  
Alexis A. Rodriguez ◽  
Xin Sheng ◽  
Rosalind A. Eeles ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e18162-e18162
Author(s):  
Omar El Charif ◽  
Heather E. Wheeler ◽  
Matthew Trendowski ◽  
Eric R Gamazon ◽  
Shirin Ardeshirrouhanifard ◽  
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e18162 Background: RP is an adverse drug reaction characterized by reduced blood flow to the extremities causing pain and sensations of cold. Few studies have examined the genetic basis for RP, although family studies suggest a heritable component to primary RP. Methods: Eligible testicular cancer survivors (TCS) were < 55 y at diagnosis, treated with first line cisplatin-based chemotherapy, and completed questionnaires. Genotyping with standard quality control and imputation were performed. A case-control RP phenotype was derived from patient-reported outcomes and associations were computed by logistic regression. GWAS used cumulative bleomycin dose and 10 genetic principal components as covariates. Gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) utilized genes ranked by the most significant GWAS SNP in/within 20 kilobases. A polygenic risk score for CVD derived from four prior independent GWAS (Khera et al. NEJM 2016) was assessed for association with RP. Results: Of 749 patients (median age 38 y, median time since chemotherapy 5 y), 38% reported RP. Bleomycin dose was the most significant predictor of RP (OR100 mg/m2 = 1.25, p < 0.0001). Number of years smoking also correlated with RP (ORyear = 1.05, p = 0.002). Age and hypertension showed no significant correlation with RP. GSEA revealed several significant pathways (FDR q < 0.1), including “ cellular response to VEGF stimulus” (q = 0.05) and “ cardiac muscle cell action potential” (q = 0.09). We hypothesized that RP may share genetic architecture with CVD. Deriving a polygenic risk score from genome-wide significant SNPs in prior CVD GWAS (n = 4260-22,389), we showed nearly significant case-control differences in CVD polygenic risk score (two-tailed t-test, p = 0.053). RP frequency significantly increased with polygenic risk score quartile (OR = 1.19, p = 0.008). Conclusions: Over one third of TCS report RP, with greater frequency among bleomycin-treated patients and smokers. Implicated genetic pathways include ones established in CVD. Although shared genetic risk between chemotherapy-induced RP and CVD may be possible, further investigation is required. Primary RP has been inconsistently linked with CVD.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1528-1528
Author(s):  
Heena Desai ◽  
Anh Le ◽  
Ryan Hausler ◽  
Shefali Verma ◽  
Anurag Verma ◽  
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1528 Background: The discovery of rare genetic variants associated with cancer have a tremendous impact on reducing cancer morbidity and mortality when identified; however, rare variants are found in less than 5% of cancer patients. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of common genetic variants significantly associated with a number of cancers, but the clinical utility of individual variants or a polygenic risk score (PRS) derived from multiple variants is still unclear. Methods: We tested the ability of polygenic risk score (PRS) models developed from genome-wide significant variants to differentiate cases versus controls in the Penn Medicine Biobank. Cases for 15 different cancers and cancer-free controls were identified using electronic health record billing codes for 11,524 European American and 5,994 African American individuals from the Penn Medicine Biobank. Results: The discriminatory ability of the 15 PRS models to distinguish their respective cancer cases versus controls ranged from 0.68-0.79 in European Americans and 0.74-0.93 in African Americans. Seven of the 15 cancer PRS trended towards an association with their cancer at a p<0.05 (Table), and PRS for prostate, thyroid and melanoma were significantly associated with their cancers at a bonferroni corrected p<0.003 with OR 1.3-1.6 in European Americans. Conclusions: Our data demonstrate that common variants with significant associations from GWAS studies can distinguish cancer cases versus controls for some cancers in an unselected biobank population. Given the small effects, future studies are needed to determine how best to incorporate PRS with other risk factors in the precision prediction of cancer risk. [Table: see text]


Author(s):  
V. Escott-Price

Is this paper we present a summary of our association analyses of schizophrenia polygenic risk score with a number of phenotypes in a large cohort of people from the UK population (N=442,192). We show that individuals with higher genetic loading to schizophrenia who have not been diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders are likely to have some cognitive deficits. Although these deficits may be subtle, they can result in significant effects on educational attainment and professional occupation. We also show that the relationship between schizophrenia liability and fecundity is consistent with sexual selection, with liability in unaffected people being associated with a net increase in fecundity, thereby supporting the persistence of schizophrenia risk alleles.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yixuan He ◽  
Chirag M Lakhani ◽  
Danielle Rasooly ◽  
Arjun K Manrai ◽  
Ioanna Tzoulaki ◽  
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OBJECTIVE: <p>Establish a polyexposure score for T2D incorporating 12 non-genetic exposure and examine whether a polyexposure and/or a polygenic risk score improves diabetes prediction beyond traditional clinical risk factors.</p> <h2><a></a>RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS:</h2> <p>We identified 356,621 unrelated individuals from the UK Biobank of white British ancestry with no prior diagnosis of T2D and normal HbA1c levels. Using self-reported and hospital admission information, we deployed a machine learning procedure to select the most predictive and robust factors out of 111 non-genetically ascertained exposure and lifestyle variables for the polyexposure risk score (PXS) in prospective T2D. We computed the clinical risk score (CRS) and polygenic risk score (PGS) by taking a weighted sum of eight established clinical risk factors and over six million SNPs, respectively.</p> <h2><a></a>RESULTS:</h2> <p>In the study population, 7,513 had incident T2D. The C-statistics for the PGS, PXS, and CRS models were 0.709, 0.762, and 0.839, respectively. Hazard ratios (HR) associated with risk score values in the top 10% percentile versus the remaining population is 2.00, 5.90, and 9.97 for PGS, PXS, and CRS respectively. Addition of PGS and PXS to CRS improves T2D classification accuracy with a continuous net reclassification index of 15.2% and 30.1% for cases, respectively, and 7.3% and 16.9% for controls, respectively. </p> <h2><a></a>CONCLUSIONS:</h2> <p>For T2D, the PXS provides modest incremental predictive value over established clinical risk factors. The concept of PXS merits further consideration in T2D risk stratification and is likely to be useful in other chronic disease risk prediction models.</p>


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