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ArticleScientific reports2019

Improved detection of common variants in coronary artery disease and blood pressure using a pleiotropy cFDR method.

Xiang-Jie Mao, Qiang Zhang, Fei Xu, Pan Gao, Nan Sun, Bo Wang, Qi-Xin Tang, Yi-Bin Hao, Chang-Qing Sun

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Xiang-Jie MaoCollege of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Qiang ZhangCollege of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Fei XuCollege of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Pan GaoCollege of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Nan SunDepartment of Management Information Systems, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Bo WangCollege of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Qi-Xin TangCollege of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Yi-Bin HaoPeople's Hospital of Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou, 450000, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Chang-Qing SunCollege of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China. zzugwsy@163.com.
Zhengzhou University · CNUniversity of Georgia · USZhengzhou People's Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plenty of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified numerous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for coronary artery disease (CAD) and blood pressure (BP). However, these SNPs only explain a small proportion of the heritability of two traits/diseases. Although high BP is a major risk factor for CAD, the genetic intercommunity between them remain largely unknown. To recognize novel loci associated with CAD and BP, a genetic-pleiotropy-informed conditional false discovery rate (cFDR) method was applied on two summary statistics of CAD and BP from existing GWASs. Stratified Q-Q and fold enrichment plots showed a high pleiotropic enrichment of SNPs associated with two traits. Adopting a cFDR of 0.05 as a threshold, 55 CAD-associated loci (25 variants being novel) and 47 BP loci (18 variants being novel) were identified, 25 of which were pleiotropic loci (13 variants being novel) for both traits. Among the 32 genes these 25 SNPs were annotated to, 20 genes were newly detected compared to previous GWASs. This study showed the cFDR approach could improve gene discovery by incorporating GWAS datasets of two related traits. These findings may provide novel understanding of etiology relationships between CAD and BP.

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Genetic PleiotropyBiostatisticsBlood PressureCase-Control StudiesCoronary Artery DiseaseDatabases, GeneticGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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