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ArticleGenetic epidemiology2020

Transethnic meta-analysis of metabolic syndrome in a multiethnic study.

Emileigh L Willems, Jia Y Wan, Trina M Norden-Krichmar, Karen L Edwards, Stephanie A Santorico

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Article in Genetic epidemiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Emileigh L WillemsDepartment of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado.ORCID 0000-0003-3088-8576
Jia Y WanDepartment of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.
Trina M Norden-KrichmarDepartment of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.
Karen L EdwardsDepartment of Epidemiology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.
Stephanie A SantoricoDepartment of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado.

Funding

Identifying genes underlying linkage peaks for clusters of CVD risk factorsR01HL113189 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI EDWARDS, KAREN L · 2012 to 2016
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NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL113189
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Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to establish thousands of genetic associations across numerous phenotypes. To improve the power of GWAS and generalize associations across ethnic groups, transethnic meta-analysis methods are used to combine the results of several GWAS from diverse ancestries. The goal of this study is to identify genetic associations for eight quantitative metabolic syndrome (MetS) traits through a meta-analysis across four ethnic groups. Traits were measured in the GENetics of Noninsulin dependent Diabetes Mellitus (GENNID) Study which consists of African-American (families = 73, individuals = 288), European-American (families = 79, individuals = 519), Japanese-American (families = 17, individuals = 132), and Mexican-American (families = 113, individuals = 610) samples. Genome-wide association results from these four ethnic groups were combined using four meta-analysis methods: fixed effects, random effects, TransMeta, and MR-MEGA. We provide an empirical comparison of the four meta-analysis methods from the GENNID results, discuss which types of loci (characterized by allelic heterogeneity) appear to be better detected by each of the four meta-analysis methods in the GENNID Study, and validate our results using previous genetic discoveries. We specifically compare the two transethnic methods, TransMeta and MR-MEGA, and discuss how each transethnic method's framework relates to the types of loci best detected by each method.

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Meta-Analysis as TopicAsianBlack or African AmericanDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2Genome-Wide Association StudyHumansMaleMetabolic SyndromeMexican AmericansPhenotypePolymorphism, Single NucleotideWhite Peopleallelic heterogeneitygenome-wide associationmeta-analysismetabolic syndrometransethnic

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PMCPMC6986323

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