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ArticleAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2019

Biologically Defined or Biologically Informed Traits Are More Heritable Than Clinically Defined Ones: The Case of Oral and Dental Phenotypes.

Cary S Agler, Kevin Moss, Kamaira H Philips, Julie T Marchesan, Miguel Simancas-Pallares, James D Beck, Kimon Divaris

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Article in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Cary S AglerDivision of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Kevin MossDivision of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Kamaira H PhilipsDivision of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Julie T MarchesanDivision of Comprehensive Oral Health - Periodontology, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Miguel Simancas-PallaresDivision of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
James D BeckDivision of Comprehensive Oral Health - Periodontology, Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Kimon DivarisDepartment of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Kimon_Divaris@unc.edu.

Funding

Genome-Wide Association Study of Early Childhood CariesU01DE025046 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DIVARIS, KIMON · 2015 to 2019
$8.4M
IFI16 is a Periodontitis Modulating ProteinK01DE027087 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MARCHESAN, JULIE TERESA · 2017 to 2022
$833k
NIDCR NIH HHS K01 DE027087NIDCR NIH HHS U01 DE025046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genetic basis of oral health has long been theorized, but little information exists on the heritable variance in common oral and dental disease traits explained by the human genome. We sought to add to the evidence base of heritability of oral and dental traits using high-density genotype data in a well-characterized community-based cohort of middle-age adults. We used genome-wide association (GWAS) data combined with clinical and biomarker information in the Dental Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) cohort. Genotypes comprised SNPs directly typed on the Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0 chip with minor allele frequency of >5% (n = 656,292) or were imputed using HapMap II-CEU (n = 2,104,905). We investigated 30 traits including "global" [e.g., number of natural teeth (NT) and incident tooth loss], clinically defined (e.g., dental caries via the DMFS index, periodontitis via the CDC/AAP and WW17 classifications), and biologically informed (e.g., subgingival pathogen colonization and "complex" traits). Heritability (i.e., variance explained; h

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Dental CariesGenome-Wide Association StudyPhenotypeGenotypeHumansPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

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PMID31732942
PMCPMC7328987

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