Whole-genome sequence-based analysis of thyroid function.

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Taylor, PN; Porcu, E; Chew, S; Campbell, PJ; Traglia, M; Brown, SJ; Mullin, BH; Shihab, HA; Min, J; Walter, K; ...Date
2015-03-06Source Title
Nature CommunicationsPublisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Kaye, JaneAffiliation
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Taylor, P. N., Porcu, E., Chew, S., Campbell, P. J., Traglia, M., Brown, S. J., Mullin, B. H., Shihab, H. A., Min, J., Walter, K., Memari, Y., Huang, J., Barnes, M. R., Beilby, J. P., Charoen, P., Danecek, P., Dudbridge, F., Forgetta, V., Greenwood, C. ,... UK0K Consortium (2015). Whole-genome sequence-based analysis of thyroid function.. Nat Commun, 6 (1), pp.5681-. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6681.Access Status
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366514Abstract
Normal thyroid function is essential for health, but its genetic architecture remains poorly understood. Here, for the heritable thyroid traits thyrotropin (TSH) and free thyroxine (FT4), we analyse whole-genome sequence data from the UK10K project (N=2,287). Using additional whole-genome sequence and deeply imputed data sets, we report meta-analysis results for common variants (MAF≥1%) associated with TSH and FT4 (N=16,335). For TSH, we identify a novel variant in SYN2 (MAF=23.5%, P=6.15 × 10(-9)) and a new independent variant in PDE8B (MAF=10.4%, P=5.94 × 10(-14)). For FT4, we report a low-frequency variant near B4GALT6/SLC25A52 (MAF=3.2%, P=1.27 × 10(-9)) tagging a rare TTR variant (MAF=0.4%, P=2.14 × 10(-11)). All common variants explain ≥20% of the variance in TSH and FT4. Analysis of rare variants (MAF<1%) using sequence kernel association testing reveals a novel association with FT4 in NRG1. Our results demonstrate that increased coverage in whole-genome sequence association studies identifies novel variants associated with thyroid function.
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