eMERGE Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) identifies clinical associations and pleiotropy for stop-gain variants

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dc.contributor.authorVerma, Anuragen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVerma, Shefali S.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPendergrass, Sarah A.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCrawford, Dana C.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCrosslin, David R.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKuivaniemi, Helenaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBush, William S.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBradford, Yukien_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKullo, Iftikharen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBielinski, Suzette J.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLi, Ronglingen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDenny, Joshua C.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPeissig, Peggyen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHebbring, Scotten_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDe Andrade, Marizaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRitchie, Marylyn D.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorTromp, Gerarden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-28T12:44:35Z
dc.date.available2017-07-28T12:44:35Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionCITATION: Verma, A., et al. 2016. eMERGE Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) identifies clinical associations and pleiotropy for stop-gain variants. BMC Medical Genomics, 9:32, doi:10.1186/s12920-016-0191-8.
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dc.description.abstractBackground: We explored premature stop-gain variants to test the hypothesis that variants, which are likely to have a consequence on protein structure and function, will reveal important insights with respect to the phenotypes associated with them. We performed a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) exploring the association between a selected list of functional stop-gain genetic variants (variation resulting in truncated proteins or in nonsense-mediated decay) and an extensive group of diagnoses to identify novel associations and uncover potential pleiotropy. Results: In this study, we selected 25 stop-gain variants: 5 stop-gain variants with previously reported phenotypic associations, and a set of 20 putative stop-gain variants identified using dbSNP. For the PheWAS, we used data from the electronic MEdical Records and GEnomics (eMERGE) Network across 9 sites with a total of 41,057 unrelated patients. We divided all these samples into two datasets by equal proportion of eMERGE site, sex, race, and genotyping platform. We calculated single effect associations between these 25 stop-gain variants and ICD-9 defined case-control diagnoses. We also performed stratified analyses for samples of European and African ancestry. Associations were adjusted for sex, site, genotyping platform and the first three principal components to account for global ancestry. We identified previously known associations, such as variants in LPL associated with hyperglyceridemia indicating that our approach was robust. We also found a total of three significant associations with p < 0.01 in both datasets, with the most significant replicating result being LPL SNP rs328 and ICD-9 code 272. 1 “Disorder of Lipoid metabolism” (pdiscovery = 2.59x10-6, preplicating = 2.7x10-4). The other two significant replicated associations identified by this study are: variant rs1137617 in KCNH2 gene associated with ICD-9 code category 244 “Acquired Hypothyroidism” (pdiscovery = 5.31x103, preplicating = 1.15x10-3) and variant rs12060879 in DPT gene associated with ICD-9 code category 996 “Complications peculiar to certain specified procedures” (pdiscovery = 8. 65x103, preplicating = 4.16x10-3).en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12920-016-0191-8
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent7 pages
dc.identifier.citationVerma, A., et al. 2016. eMERGE Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) identifies clinical associations and pleiotropy for stop-gain variants. BMC Medical Genomics, 9:32, doi:10.1186/s12920-016-0191-8
dc.identifier.issn1755-8794 (online)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.1186/s12920-016-0191-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102024
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherBioMed Central
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyright
dc.subjectMedical records and genomics networken_ZA
dc.subjectPhenome-Wide Association Studyen_ZA
dc.subjectPhenotypesen_ZA
dc.subjectPleiotropyen_ZA
dc.titleeMERGE Phenome-Wide Association Study (PheWAS) identifies clinical associations and pleiotropy for stop-gain variantsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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