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  • Titel: Genome‐wide meta‐analysis of late‐onset Alzheimer’s disease using rare variant imputation in 65,602 subjects identifies risk loci with roles in memory, neurodevelopment, and cardiometabolic traits: The international genomics of Alzheimer’s project (IGAP) : Genetics: Genetics and omics of AD II
  • Beteiligte: Naj, Adam C.; Sha, Jin; Zhao, Yi; Leonenko, Ganna; Jian, Xueqiu; Grenier‐Boley, Benjamin; Dalmasso, Maria Carolina; van der Lee, Sven J.; Sims, Rebecca; Chouraki, Vincent; Bis, Josh C.; Kuzma, Amanda B.; Kunkle, Brian W.; Karamujić‐Čomić, Hata; Pitsillides, Achilleas N.; Xia, Rui; Fulton‐Howard, Brian; Holmans, Peter; Dupuis, Josée; Wang, Li‐San; Farrer, Lindsay A.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Haines, Jonathan L.; Destefano, Anita L.; [...]
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2020
  • Erschienen in: Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1002/alz.044193
  • ISSN: 1552-5260; 1552-5279
  • Schlagwörter: Psychiatry and Mental health ; Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ; Geriatrics and Gerontology ; Neurology (clinical) ; Developmental Neuroscience ; Health Policy ; Epidemiology
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Recent meta‐analyses of genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have identified ∼30 susceptibility LOAD loci in addition to <jats:italic>APOE</jats:italic>, however the majority are common variants (minor allele frequency (MAF)&gt;0.02). We used the dense, high‐resolution Haplotype Reference Consortium (HRC) r1.1 reference panel (64,976 haplotypes/39,235,157 SNPs), which allows imputation of rare variants (MAF&gt;0.0008), to impute 44 GWAS datasets of the IGAP consortia to identify novel rare variant, gene, and pathway associations.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method</jats:title><jats:p>We imputed 25,192 cases and 40,410 controls to the HRC r1.1 panel using Minimac3 on the Michigan Imputation Server. Converting imputed genotype probabilities to minor allele dosage, we ran logistic regression using SNPTEST on individual variants with MAF &gt; 0.01 (and using generalized linear mixed models in R with family‐based datasets), and performed a fixed‐effects, inverse‐variance‐weighted meta‐analysis using METAL. Variants with MAF ≤ 0.01 were meta‐analyzed using score‐based tests via SeqMeta/R. Both analyses adjusted for age‐at‐onset(cases)/age‐at‐exam(controls), sex, and principal components for population substructure. Gene‐based associations were done with SKAT‐O and burden testing, while pathway associations were examined using VEGAS2.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Result</jats:title><jats:p>Discovery analyses of ∼39.2M genotyped or imputed SNVs confirmed single variant associations in 26 of 30 known IGAP LOAD loci at suggestive levels of significance (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 10<jats:sup>−5</jats:sup>), with 12 known loci attaining genome‐wide statistical significance (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic> &lt; 5 × 10<jats:sup>−8</jats:sup>) (Figure 1). Newly observed associations included common variants (MAF&gt;0.01) in or near homologs of known AD loci, <jats:italic>EPHA5</jats:italic> (rs17086136, OR[95% CI] = 1.23 [1.13,1.33], <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 6.36 × 10<jats:sup>−7</jats:sup>) and <jats:italic>ADAM28</jats:italic> (rs10096379, OR[95% CI] = 0.86 [0.81,0.92], <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 3.02 × 10<jats:sup>−6</jats:sup>); in/near neuronal development genes including <jats:italic>DAB1</jats:italic> (neuronal migration; 1:57700874:T:G, OR[95% CI] = 0.71 [0.62, 0.81], <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 6.94 × 10<jats:sup>−7</jats:sup>) and <jats:italic>DCC</jats:italic> (axon guidance; rs2054289, OR[95% CI] = 0.71 [0.62, 0.83], <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 6.69 × 10<jats:sup>−6</jats:sup>); and in/near genes involved in cardiometabolic traits including <jats:italic>THADA</jats:italic> (type 2 diabetes; rs77101426, OR[95% CI] = 0.89 [0.85, 0.95], <jats:italic>P</jats:italic> = 2.37 × 10<jats:sup>−6</jats:sup>). Several known AD loci demonstrated novel rare variant associations with genome‐wide significance, including <jats:italic>CR1</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>PICALM</jats:italic>, and the <jats:italic>MS4A</jats:italic> region (Figure 2), and novel rare variant associations were observed in or near genes involved in memory and cognitive function, including <jats:italic>HS3ST4</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>DBX1</jats:italic>. Independent replication in external datasets including the UK Biobank is on‐going.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title><jats:p>Several novel LOAD candidate loci, including those with prior associations with neurodevelopment and cardiometabolic traits, were identified using high‐quality imputation of rare and low‐frequency variants in IGAP.</jats:p></jats:sec>