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SynthesisMolecular psychiatry2017

Pathways to smoking behaviours: biological insights from the Tobacco and Genetics Consortium meta-analysis.

C C Minicã, H Mbarek, R Pool, C V Dolan, D I Boomsma, J M Vink

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Synthesis in Molecular psychiatry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. A Novel Tobacco Use Phenotype Suggests the 15q25 and 19q13 Loci May be Differentially Associated With Cigarettes per Day and Tobacco-Related Problems.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

C C MinicãDepartment of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
H MbarekDepartment of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
R PoolDepartment of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
C V DolanDepartment of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
D I BoomsmaDepartment of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J M VinkDepartment of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

Funding

Psychometric and Genetic Assessments of Substance UseR01DA018673 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI NEALE, MICHAEL CHURTON · 2004 to 2019
$2.3M
European Research Council 284167NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA018673
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

By running gene and pathway analyses for several smoking behaviours in the Tobacco and Genetics Consortium (TAG) sample of 74 053 individuals, 21 genes and several chains of biological pathways were implicated. Analyses were carried out using the HYbrid Set-based Test (HYST) as implemented in the Knowledge-based mining system for Genome-wide Genetic studies software. Fifteen genes are novel and were not detected with the single nucleotide polymorphism-based approach in the original TAG analysis. For quantity smoked, 14 genes passed the false discovery rate of 0.05 (corrected for multiple testing), with the top association signal located at the IREB2 gene (P=1.57E-37). Three genomic loci were significantly associated with ever smoked. The top signal is located at the noncoding antisense RNA transcript BDNF-AS (P=6.25E-07) on 11p14. The SLC25A21 gene (P=2.09E-08) yielded the top association signal in the analysis of smoking cessation. The 19q13 noncoding RNA locus exceeded the genome-wide significance in the analysis of age at initiation (P=1.33E-06). Pathways belonging to the Neuronal system pathways, harbouring the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor genes expressing the α (CHRNA 1-9), β (CHRNB 1-4), γ, δ and ɛ subunits, yielded the smallest P-values in the pathway analysis of the quantity smoked (lowest P=4.90E-42). Additionally, pathways belonging to 'a subway map of cancer pathways' regulating the cell cycle, mitotic DNA replication, axon growth and synaptic plasticity were found significantly enriched for genetic variants in ever smokers relative to never smokers (lowest P=1.61E-07). In addition, these pathways were also significantly associated with the quantity smoked (lowest P=4.28E-17). Our results shed light on one of the world's leading causes of preventable death and open a path to potential therapeutic targets. These results are informative in decoding the biological bases of other disease traits, such as depression and cancers, with which smoking shares genetic vulnerabilities.

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FemaleGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationGenomeGenome-Wide Association StudyGenotypeHumansIron Regulatory Protein 2MaleMitochondrial Membrane Transport ProteinsNicotianaPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReceptors, NicotinicSmokingSmoking CessationTobacco UseIron Regulatory Protein 2Mitochondrial Membrane Transport ProteinsReceptors, NicotinicSLC25A22 protein, human

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PMID27021816
PMCPMC5777181
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