TY - JOUR
T1 - Genome-wide analyses using UK Biobank data provide insights into the genetic architecture of osteoarthritis
AU - Zengini, Eleni
AU - Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos
AU - Tachmazidou, Ioanna
AU - Steinberg, Julia
AU - Hartwig, Fernando P.
AU - Southam, Lorraine
AU - Hackinger, Sophie
AU - Boer, Cindy G.
AU - Styrkarsdottir, Unnur
AU - Gilly, Arthur
AU - Suveges, Daniel
AU - Killian, Britt
AU - Ingvarsson, Thorvaldur
AU - Jonsson, Helgi
AU - Babis, George C.
AU - McCaskie, Andrew
AU - Uitterlinden, Andre G.
AU - Van Meurs, Joyce B.J.
AU - Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur
AU - Stefansson, Kari
AU - Davey Smith, George
AU - Wilkinson, Jeremy M.
AU - Zeggini, Eleftheria
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Osteoarthritis is a common complex disease imposing a large public-health burden. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study for osteoarthritis, using data across 16.5 million variants from the UK Biobank resource. After performing replication and meta-analysis in up to 30,727 cases and 297,191 controls, we identified nine new osteoarthritis loci, in all of which the most likely causal variant was noncoding. For three loci, we detected association with biologically relevant radiographic endophenotypes, and in five signals we identified genes that were differentially expressed in degraded compared with intact articular cartilage from patients with osteoarthritis. We established causal effects on osteoarthritis for higher body mass index but not for triglyceride levels or genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes.
AB - Osteoarthritis is a common complex disease imposing a large public-health burden. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study for osteoarthritis, using data across 16.5 million variants from the UK Biobank resource. After performing replication and meta-analysis in up to 30,727 cases and 297,191 controls, we identified nine new osteoarthritis loci, in all of which the most likely causal variant was noncoding. For three loci, we detected association with biologically relevant radiographic endophenotypes, and in five signals we identified genes that were differentially expressed in degraded compared with intact articular cartilage from patients with osteoarthritis. We established causal effects on osteoarthritis for higher body mass index but not for triglyceride levels or genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41588-018-0079-y
DO - 10.1038/s41588-018-0079-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 29559693
AN - SCOPUS:85044225612
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 50
SP - 549
EP - 558
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 4
ER -