Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks
Creators Name:	Demenais, F. and Margaritte-Jeannin, P. and Barnes, K.C. and Cookson, W.O.C. and Altmüller, J. and Ang, W. and Barr, R.G. and Beaty, T.H. and Becker, A.B. and Beilby, J. and Bisgaard, H. and Bjornsdottir, U.S. and Bleecker, E. and Bonnelykke, K. and Boomsma, D.I. and Bouzigon, E. and Brightling, C.E. and Brossard, M. and Brusselle, G.G. and Burchard, E. and Burkart, K.M. and Bush, A. and Chan-Yeung, M. and Chung, K.F. and Couto Alves, A. and Curtin, J.A. and Custovic, A. and Daley, D. and de Jongste, J.C. and Del-Rio-Navarro, B.E. and Donohue, K.M. and Duijts, L. and Eng, C. and Eriksson, J.G. and Farrall, M. and Fedorova, Y. and Feenstra, B. and Ferreira, M.A. and Freidin, M.B. and Gajdos, Z. and Gauderman, J. and Gehring, U. and Geller, F. and Genuneit, J. and Gharib, S.A and Gilliland, F. and Granell, R. and Graves, P.E. and Gudbjartsson, D.F. and Haahtela, T. and Heckbert, S.R. and Heederik, D. and Heinrich, J. and Helioevaara, M. and Henderson, J. and Himes, B.E. and Hirose, H. and Hirschhorn, J.N. and Hofman, A. and Holt, P. and Hottenga, J. and Hudson, T.J. and Hui, J. and Imboden, M. and Ivanov, V. and Jaddoe, V.W.V. and James, A. and Janson, C. and Jarvelin, M.R. and Jarvis, D. and Jones, G. and Jonsdottir, I. and Jousilahti, P. and Kabesch, M. and Kähönen, M. and Kantor, D.B. and Karunas, A.S. and Khusnutdinova, E. and Koppelman, G.H. and Kozyrskyj, A.L. and Kreiner, E. and Kubo, M. and Kumar, R. and Kumar, A. and Kuokkanen, M. and Lahousse, L. and Laitinen, T. and Laprise, C. and Lathrop, M. and Lau, S. and Lee, Y.A. and Lehtimaeki, T. and Letort, S. and Levin, A.M. and Li, G. and Liang, L. and Loehr, L.R. and London, S.J. and Loth, D.W. and Manichaikul, A. and Marenholz, I. and Martinez, F.J. and Matheson, M.C. and Mathias, R.A. and Matsumoto, K. and Mbarek, H. and McArdle, W.L. and Melbye, M. and Melen, E. and Meyers, D. and Michel, S. and Mohamdi, H. and Musk, A.W. and Myers, R.A. and Nieuwenhuis, M.A.E. and Noguchi, E. and O'Connor, G.T. and Ogorodova, L.M. and Palmer, C.D. and Palotie, A. and Park, J.E. and Pennell, C.E. and Pershagen, G. and Polonikov, A. and Postma, D.S. and Probst-Hensch, N. and Puzyrev, V.P. and Raby, B.A. and Raitakari, O.T. and Ramasamy, A. and Rich, S.S. and Robertson, C.F. and Romieu, I. and Salam, M.T. and Salomaa, V. and Schluenssen, V. and Scott, R. and Selivanova, P.A. and Sigsgaard, T. and Simpson, A. and Siroux, V. and Smith, L.J. and Solodilova, M. and Standl, M. and Stefansson, K. and Strachan, D.P. and Stricker, B.H. and Takahashi, A. and Thompson, P.J. and Thorleifsson, G. and Thorsteinsdottir, U. and Tiesler, C.M.T. and Torgerson, D.G. and Tsunoda, T. and Uitterlinden, A.G. and van der Valk, R.J.P. and Vaysse, A. and Vedantam, S. and von Berg, A. and von Mutius, E. and Vonk, J.M. and Waage, J. and Wareham, N.J. and Weiss, S.T. and White, W.B. and Wickman, M. and Widén, E. and Willemsen, G. and Williams, L.K. and Wouters, I.M. and Yang, J.J. and Zhao, J.H. and Moffatt, M.F. and Ober, C. and Nicolae, D.L.
Abstract:	We examined common variation in asthma risk by conducting a meta-analysis of worldwide asthma genome-wide association studies (23,948 asthma cases, 118,538 controls) of individuals from ethnically diverse populations. We identified five new asthma loci, found two new associations at two known asthma loci, established asthma associations at two loci previously implicated in the comorbidity of asthma plus hay fever, and confirmed nine known loci. Investigation of pleiotropy showed large overlaps in genetic variants with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The enrichment in enhancer marks at asthma risk loci, especially in immune cells, suggested a major role of these loci in the regulation of immunologically related mechanisms.
Keywords:	Alleles, Asthma, Genetic Enhancer Elements, Genetic Epigenesis, Genetic Loci, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetic Promoter Regions, Genome-Wide Association Study, Histone Code, Leukocytes, Phenotype, Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis, Risk
Source:	Nature Genetics
ISSN:	1061-4036
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
Volume:	50
Number:	1
Page Range:	42-53
Date:	January 2018
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-017-0014-7
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