@article{c97d38ef0f9e4c6db9e1e46750d7ebc3,
title = "An atlas of genetic influences on human blood metabolites",
abstract = "Genome-wide association scans with high-throughput metabolic profiling provide unprecedented insights into how genetic variation influences metabolism and complex disease. Here we report the most comprehensive exploration of genetic loci influencing human metabolism thus far, comprising 7,824 adult individuals from 2 European population studies. We report genome-wide significant associations at 145 metabolic loci and their biochemical connectivity with more than 400 metabolites in human blood. We extensively characterize the resulting in vivo blueprint of metabolism in human blood by integrating it with information on gene expression, heritability and overlap with known loci for complex disorders, inborn errors of metabolism and pharmacological targets. We further developed a database and web-based resources for data mining and results visualization. Our findings provide new insights into the role of inherited variation in blood metabolic diversity and identify potential new opportunities for drug development and for understanding disease.",
author = "Shin, {So Youn} and Fauman, {Eric B.} and Petersen, {Ann Kristin} and Jan Krumsiek and Rita Santos and Jie Huang and Matthias Arnold and Idil Erte and Vincenzo Forgetta and Yang, {Tsun Po} and Klaudia Walter and Cristina Menni and Lu Chen and Louella Vasquez and Valdes, {Ana M.} and Hyde, {Craig L.} and Vicky Wang and Daniel Ziemek and Phoebe Roberts and Li Xi and Elin Grundberg and Melanie Waldenberger and Richards, {J. Brent} and Mohney, {Robert P.} and Milburn, {Michael V.} and John, {Sally L.} and Jeff Trimmer and Theis, {Fabian J.} and Overington, {John P.} and Karsten Suhre and Brosnan, {M. Julia} and Christian Gieger and Gabi Kastenm{\"u}ller and Spector, {Tim D.} and Nicole Soranzo",
note = "Funding Information: Part of this work was funded by Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development. For TwinsUK, the study was funded by the Wellcome Trust; European Community{\textquoteright}s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/20072013). The study also receives support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) BioResource Clinical Research Facility and Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy{\textquoteright}s and St Thomas{\textquoteright} National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust and King{\textquoteright}s College London. T.D.S. is the holder of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Principal Investigator award. SNP genotyping was performed by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the National Eye Institute via NIH/CIDR. The KORA (Kooperative Gesundheitsforschung in der Region Augsburg) research Funding Information: platform and the MONICA Augsburg studies were initiated and financed by the Helmholtz Zentrum M{\"u}nchen National Research Center for Environmental Health, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology and by the state of Bavaria. This study was supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD). The German National Genome Research Network financed part of this work (NGFNPlus 01GS0823). Computing resources have been made available by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (HLRB project h1231) and by the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (project PHAGEDA). Part of this research was supported within the Munich Center of Health Sciences (MC Health) as part of LMUinnovativ. S.Y.S. is supported by a PostDoctoral Research Fellowship from the Oak Foundation. F.J.T. is supported by an ERC starting grant (LatentCauses). J.K. is supported by the German Research Foundation (SPP 1395, InKoMBio) and by a grant from the German Helmholtz Postdoctoral Programme. K.S. is supported by Biomedical Research Program funds at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, a program funded by the Qatar Foundation. C.G. is supported by the European Union{\textquoteright}s Seventh Framework project MIMOmics (FP7HealthF52012305280) and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)Helmholtz research group program. N.S. is supported by the Wellcome Trust (grants WT098051 and WT091310) and by the European Commission (EUFP7 EPIGENESYS grant 257082 and BLUEPRINT grant HEALTHF52011282510). J.B.R. and V.F. are supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Fonds du Recherche du Science Qu{\'e}bec and the Qu{\'e}bec Consortium for Drug Discovery. The Pfizer colleagues dedicate this manuscript to the memory of our friend Phoebe Roberts, whose passion for text mining, molecular biology and drug discovery contributed to the identification of causal genes in this research and to our work in general. Funding Information: For TwinsUK, we thank the Genotyping Facilities at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR)/US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for SNP genotyping. The KORA Study Group consists of A. Peters (speaker), J. Heinrich, R. Holle, R. Leidl, C. Meisinger, K. Strauch and their coworkers, who are responsible for the design and implementation of the KORA studies. For KORA, we thank P. Lichtner, G. Eckstein, G. Fischer, T. Strom, the Helmholtz Zentrum M{\"u}nchen genotyping staff and the field staff of the MONICA/KORA Augsburg studies. We also thank G. Fischer (KORA) and G. Surdulescu (TwinsUK) for sample handling and H. Chavez (KORA) and D. Hodgkiss (TwinsUK) for sample shipment. We are grateful to the MuTHER investigators for the transcriptomic data. Finally, we wish to express our appreciation to all study participants of the TwinsUK and KORA studies for donating their blood and time.",
year = "2014",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1038/ng.2982",
language = "English",
volume = "46",
pages = "543--550",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Research",
number = "6",
}