Project description:A WTCCC2 project genome-wide association study for pre-eclampsia (PA) in 4375 individuals from Colombia, genotyped on the Affymetrix 6.0 array.
Project description:A WTCCC2 project genome-wide association study for bacteraemia susceptibility in 4924 individuals from Kenya, genotyped on the Affymetrix 6.0 array.
Project description:A WTCCC2 project genome-wide association study for reading and mathematics ability in 3665 12-year-old individuals from the UK, genotyped on the Affymetrix 6.0 array. Details of the WTCCC2 analysis can be found in Davis et al. [Nat. Commun. 2014 July;5:4204]
Project description:WTCCC2 project genome-wide case-control association study for Ulcerative Colitis (UC) using the 1958 British Birth Cohort and the UK National Blood Service collections as controls.
Project description:Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analyses were conducted separately on the glomerular and tubular portions of healthy human kidney samples obtained from subjects of European descent.
Project description:The aim of this study was to identify genes associated with ankylosing spondylitis susceptibility in British and Australian individuals of European descent.
Project description:Bone area is one measure of bone size that is easily derived from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans, primarily performed to evaluate bone density and osteoporosis risk. Here, we report on a genome-wide association (GWA) study of DXA bone area of the hip and spine (N ≥ 28,954). We found associations of common variants at eleven loci that replicate in samples of European and East Asian descent (N = 13,608 – 21,277). We also examined association of these markers with osteoarthritis and fractures in European samples (Ncases = 3,293 – 27,321). The strongest DXA area association is with a variant in the microRNA MIR196A2 gene at the HOXC locus that associates with reduced lumbar spine area (rs11614913[T], P = 2.3 × 10-42, β = −0.090) and confers risk of hip fractures (P = 1.0 × 10-8, OR = 1.11). We demonstrate that the hip fracture risk allele [T] is less efficient in repressing miR-196a-5p target genes. We also show that the DXA area measure contributes to the risk of hip fracture independent of bone density. Eight DXA area loci associate with osteoarthritis, including rs143384 in the 5’ UTR of the GDF5 gene and a missense variant in the COL11A1 gene (rs3753841[G], NP_001177638.1:p.Pro1284Leu). We also report a complex relationship between the variants associated with DXA area measures and height and bone mineral density (BMD).