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Identification of new susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes and shared etiological pathways with coronary heart disease.

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Zhao, W., et al. “Identification Of New Susceptibility Loci For Type 2 Diabetes And Shared Etiological Pathways With Coronary Heart Disease.”. Nature Genetics, pp. 1450-1457.
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Author Wei Zhao, Asif Rasheed, Emmi Tikkanen, Jung-Jin Lee, Adam S Butterworth, Joanna M M Howson, Themistocles L Assimes, Rajiv Chowdhury, Marju Orho-Melander, Scott Damrauer, Aeron Small, Senay Asma, Minako Imamura, Toshimasa Yamauch, John C Chambers, Peng Chen, Bishwa R Sapkota, Nabi Shah, Sehrish Jabeen, Praveen Surendran, Yingchang Lu, Weihua Zhang, Atif Imran, Shahid Abbas, Faisal Majeed, Kevin Trindade, Nadeem Qamar, Nadeem Hayyat Mallick, Zia Yaqoob, Tahir Saghir, Syed Nadeem Hasan Rizvi, Anis Memon, Syed Zahed Rasheed, Fazal-Ur-Rehman Memon, Khalid Mehmood, Naveeduddin Ahmed, Irshad Hussain Qureshi, Tanveer -Us-Salam, Wasim Iqbal, Uzma Malik, Narinder Mehra, Jane Z Kuo, Wayne H-H Sheu, Xiuqing Guo, Chao A Hsiung, Jyh-Ming J Juang, Kent D Taylor, Yi-Jen Hung, Wen-Jane Lee, Thomas Quertermous, I-Te Lee, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Erwin P Bottinger, Sarju Ralhan, Yik Ying Teo, Tzung-Dau Wang, Dewan S Alam, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Steve Epstein, Sune F Nielsen, Børge G Nordestgaard, Anne Tybjaerg-Hansen, Robin Young, CHD Exome+ Consortium, Marianne Benn, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Pia R Kamstrup, EPIC-CVD Consortium, EPIC-InterAct Consortium, Michigan Biobank, Wouter Jukema, Naveed Sattar, Roelof Smit, Ren-Hua Chung, Kae-Woei Liang, Sonia Anand, Dharambir K Sanghera, Samuli Ripatti, Ruth J F Loos, Jaspal S Kooner, Shyong Tai, Jerome I Rotter, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Philippe Frossard, Shiro Maeda, Takashi Kadowaki, Muredach Reilly, Guillaume Paré, Olle Melander, Veikko Salomaa, Daniel J Rader, John Danesh, Benjamin F Voight, Danish Saleheen
Abstract

To evaluate the shared genetic etiology of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD), we conducted a genome-wide, multi-ancestry study of genetic variation for both diseases in up to 265,678 subjects for T2D and 260,365 subjects for CHD. We identify 16 previously unreported loci for T2D and 1 locus for CHD, including a new T2D association at a missense variant in HLA-DRB5 (odds ratio (OR) = 1.29). We show that genetically mediated increase in T2D risk also confers higher CHD risk. Joint T2D-CHD analysis identified eight variants-two of which are coding-where T2D and CHD associations appear to colocalize, including a new joint T2D-CHD association at the CCDC92 locus that also replicated for T2D. The variants associated with both outcomes implicate new pathways as well as targets of existing drugs, including icosapent ethyl and adipocyte fatty-acid-binding protein.

Year of Publication
2017
Journal
Nature genetics
Volume
49
Issue
10
Number of Pages
1450-1457
Date Published
10/2017
ISSN Number
1546-1718
DOI
10.1038/ng.3943
Alternate Journal
Nat. Genet.
PMID
28869590
PMCID
PMC5844224
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