| Application: | 16651, Genetic architecture of disease and related anthropometric phenotypes |
| Title: | Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use |
| Size: | 1.4 MB |
| Archived: | 30 Oct 2020 |
| Stability: | Complete |
| Personal: | No individual-level data |
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Tobacco and alcohol use are leading causes of mortality that influence risk for many complex diseases and disorders. They are heritable, and etiologically related, behaviors that have been resistant to gene discovery efforts. In sample sizes up to 1.2 million individuals, we discovered 566 genetic variants in 406 loci associated with multiple stages of tobacco use (initiation, cessation, and heaviness) as well as alcohol use, with 150 loci evidencing pleiotropic association. Smoking phenotypes were positively genetically correlated with many health conditions, whereas alcohol use was negatively correlated with these conditions, such that increased genetic risk for alcohol use is associated with lower disease risk. We report evidence for the involvement of many systems in tobacco and alcohol use, including genes involved in nicotinic, dopaminergic, and glutamatergic neurotransmission. The results provide a solid starting point to evaluate the effects of these loci in model organisms and more precise substance use measures.Application 16651
Genetic architecture of disease and related anthropometric phenotypes
We are interested in how anthropomorphic and health/disease phenotypes are associated with health and disease. The specific aim of this study is to examine association signals from SNPs, examine how much of the variation is captured by examining all SNPs simultaneously, and look at the extent to which SNPs that predict variation in these phenotypes in one ethnic group also predict variation in these traits in other ethnic groups. We would also like to conduct association analyses of tobacco use and alcohol phenotypes and meta-analyze them with results from other studies. Finally, we are interested in using these phenotypes to test new methods for using SNP data to estimate the heritability of traits. Several ?intermediate? factors, such as anthropometric phenotypes (e.g.,BMI and height) and blood proteins (e.g., cholesterol) affect human health and disease, yet the genetic underpinnings of these phenotypes remain poorly characterized. This is a request for access to data relevant to health elated traits in order to help elucidate the patterns of genetic variation that may underlie these traits. Access to data containing health and disease outcomes will allow study of the genetic variation underlying the particular diseases, and the relationship of that variation to anthropometric risk factors and correlates.Understanding the genetic architecture of anthropomorphic and health/disease phenotypes can lead to greater understanding of the mediating factors that affect the burden of health and disease in modern societies. We plan to use genetic data (single nucleotide polymorphism data) to investigate whether certain genetic variants predict these intermediate and disease traits, and how well we can predict these traits by considering all genetic data simultaneously. Our methods require large samples; we would like access to all whole genome genotyped data possible.
| Lead investigator: | Dr Matthew Keller |
| Lead institution: | University of Colorado Boulder |
2 related Returns
| Return ID | App ID | Description | Archive Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2693 | 16651 | Exome Chip Meta-analysis Fine Maps Causal Variants and Elucidates the Genetic Architecture of Rare Coding Variants in Smoking and Alcohol Use | 30 Oct 2020 |
| 2154 | 16651 | Imputation of behavioral candidate gene repeat variants in 486,551 publicly-available UK Biobank individuals | 2 Apr 2020 |
1 Publication
| Pub ID | Title | Author(s) | Year | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2693 | Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use | Mengzhen Liu (+122) | 2019 | Nature Genetics |
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