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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Integrative GWAS Catalog Analysis of Proxy-Trait Intersection in Sarcopenia-Related Musculoskeletal Aging with Multi-Criteria Evidence Integration.

Hung-Wen Chen, Chen-Long Chen, Yao-Jen Liang, Yen-Lin Chen

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Hung-Wen ChenGraduate Institute of Applied Science and Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242, Taiwan.
Chen-Long ChenGraduate Institute of Applied Science and Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242, Taiwan.
Yao-Jen LiangGraduate Institute of Applied Science and Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242, Taiwan.
Yen-Lin ChenDepartment of Pathology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical University, New Taipei City 114, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-6381-4269

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Abstract

backgroundSarcopenia is a multidimensional musculoskeletal-aging phenotype defined by reduced muscle quantity together with weakness and impaired performance, but public genetic resources rarely capture sarcopenia as a single uniformly labeled phenotype.

methodsOfficial National Human Genome Research Institute-European Bioinformatics Institute (NHGRI-EBI) genome-wide association studies (GWAS) Catalog association files archived locally on 15 April 2026 were grouped into muscle-quantity and function-frailty domains. Exact shared rsIDs were identified, assigned to catalog representative/mapped genes, evaluated against exploratory skeletal-muscle transcriptomic context, benchmarked with trait-grouping sensitivity analyses, and ranked with a secondary multi-criteria evidence-integration framework.

resultsThe muscle-quantity domain contained 1580 unique single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the function-frailty domain contained 383 unique SNPs, with 14 exact rsIDs shared between domains. A trait-file permutation benchmark did not show that this overlap exceeded a catalog-level null expectation (empirical

conclusionsThis framework generates candidate hypotheses for sarcopenia-related musculoskeletal aging but does not establish causal, fine-mapped, or statistically enriched genetic sharing.

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appendicular lean massevidence integrationfrailtygenome-wide association studygrip strengthmusculoskeletal agingsarcopenia

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PMID42653046
PMCPMC13514895

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