Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of loci associated with adult height in individuals of African ancestry

Amidou N'Diaye; Gary K. Chen; Cameron D. Palmer; Bing Ge; Bamidele Tayo; Rasika A. Mathias; Jingzhong Ding; Michael A. Nalls; Adebowale Adeyemo; Véronique Adoue; Christine B. Ambrosone; Larry Atwood; Elisa V. Bandera; Lewis C. Becker; Sonja I. Berndt; Leslie Bernstein; William J. Blot; Eric Boerwinkle; Angela Britton; Graham Casey; Stephen J. Chanock; Ellen Demerath; Sandra L. Deming; W. Ryan Diver; Caroline Fox; Tamara B. Harris; Dena G. Hernandez; Jennifer J. Hu; Sue A. Ingles; Esther M. John; Craig Johnson; Brendan Keating; Rick A. Kittles; Laurence N. Kolonel; Stephen B. Kritchevsky; Loic Marchand; Kurt Lohman; Jiankang Liu; Robert C. Millikan; Adam Murphy; Solomon Musani; Christine Neslund-Dudas; Kari E. North; Sarah Nyante; Adesola Ogunniyi; Elaine A. Ostrander; George Papanicolaou; Sanjay Patel; Curtis A. Pettaway; Michael F. Press; Susan Redline; Jorge L. Rodriguez-Gil; Charles Rotimi; Benjamin A. Rybicki; Babatunde Salako; Pamela J. Schreiner; Lisa B. Signorello; Andrew B. Singleton; Janet L. Stanford; Alex H. Stram; Daniel O. Stram; Sara S. Strom; Bhoom Suktitipat; Michael J. Thun; John S. Witte; Lisa R. Yanek; Regina G. Ziegler; Wei Zheng; Xiaofeng Zhu; Joseph M. Zmuda; Alan B. Zonderman; Michele K. Evans; Yongmei Liu; Diane M. Becker; Richard S. Cooper; Tomi Pastinen; Brian E. Henderson; Joel N. Hirschhorn; Guillaume Lettre; Christopher A. Haiman

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Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of loci associated with adult height in individuals of African ancestry

Amidou N'Diaye, Gary K. Chen, Cameron D. Palmer, Bing Ge, Bamidele Tayo, Rasika A. Mathias, Jingzhong Ding, Michael A. Nalls, Adebowale Adeyemo, Véronique Adoue, Christine B. Ambrosone, Larry Atwood, Elisa V. Bandera, Lewis C. Becker, Sonja I. Berndt, Leslie Bernstein, William J. Blot, Eric Boerwinkle, Angela Britton, Graham CaseyStephen J. Chanock, Ellen Demerath, Sandra L. Deming, W. Ryan Diver, Caroline Fox, Tamara B. Harris, Dena G. Hernandez, Jennifer J. Hu, Sue A. Ingles, Esther M. John, Craig Johnson, Brendan Keating, Rick A. Kittles, Laurence N. Kolonel, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Loic Marchand, Kurt Lohman, Jiankang Liu, Robert C. Millikan, Adam Murphy, Solomon Musani, Christine Neslund-Dudas, Kari E. North, Sarah Nyante, Adesola Ogunniyi, Elaine A. Ostrander, George Papanicolaou, Sanjay Patel, Curtis A. Pettaway, Michael F. Press, Susan Redline, Jorge L. Rodriguez-Gil, Charles Rotimi, Benjamin A. Rybicki, Babatunde Salako, Pamela J. Schreiner, Lisa B. Signorello, Andrew B. Singleton, Janet L. Stanford, Alex H. Stram, Daniel O. Stram, Sara S. Strom, Bhoom Suktitipat, Michael J. Thun, John S. Witte, Lisa R. Yanek, Regina G. Ziegler, Wei Zheng, Xiaofeng Zhu, Joseph M. Zmuda, Alan B. Zonderman, Michele K. Evans, Yongmei Liu, Diane M. Becker, Richard S. Cooper, Tomi Pastinen, Brian E. Henderson, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Guillaume Lettre, Christopher A. Haiman

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Adult height is a classic polygenic trait of high heritability (h ² ~0.8). More than 180 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), identified mostly in populations of European descent, are associated with height. These variants convey modest effects and explain ~10% of the variance in height. Discovery efforts in other populations, while limited, have revealed loci for height not previously implicated in individuals of European ancestry. Here, we performed a meta-analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) results for adult height in 20,427 individuals of African ancestry with replication in up to 16,436 African Americans. We found two novel height loci (Xp22-rs12393627, P = 3.4×10 ^-12 and 2p14-rs4315565, P = 1.2×10 ^-8). As a group, height associations discovered in European-ancestry samples replicate in individuals of African ancestry (P = 1.7×10 ^-4 for overall replication). Fine-mapping of the European height loci in African-ancestry individuals showed an enrichment of SNPs that are associated with expression of nearby genes when compared to the index European height SNPs (P<0.01). Our results highlight the utility of genetic studies in non-European populations to understand the etiology of complex human diseases and traits.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e1002298
Journal	PLoS genetics
Volume	7
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002298
State	Published - Oct 2011

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N'Diaye, A., Chen, G. K., Palmer, C. D., Ge, B., Tayo, B., Mathias, R. A., Ding, J., Nalls, M. A., Adeyemo, A., Adoue, V., Ambrosone, C. B., Atwood, L., Bandera, E. V., Becker, L. C., Berndt, S. I., Bernstein, L., Blot, W. J., Boerwinkle, E., Britton, A., ... Haiman, C. A. (2011). Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of loci associated with adult height in individuals of African ancestry. PLoS genetics, 7(10), Article e1002298. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002298

N'Diaye, A, Chen, GK, Palmer, CD, Ge, B, Tayo, B, Mathias, RA, Ding, J, Nalls, MA, Adeyemo, A, Adoue, V, Ambrosone, CB, Atwood, L, Bandera, EV, Becker, LC, Berndt, SI, Bernstein, L, Blot, WJ, Boerwinkle, E, Britton, A, Casey, G, Chanock, SJ, Demerath, E, Deming, SL, Diver, WR, Fox, C, Harris, TB, Hernandez, DG, Hu, JJ, Ingles, SA, John, EM, Johnson, C, Keating, B, Kittles, RA, Kolonel, LN, Kritchevsky, SB, Marchand, L, Lohman, K, Liu, J, Millikan, RC, Murphy, A, Musani, S, Neslund-Dudas, C, North, KE, Nyante, S, Ogunniyi, A, Ostrander, EA, Papanicolaou, G, Patel, S, Pettaway, CA, Press, MF, Redline, S, Rodriguez-Gil, JL, Rotimi, C, Rybicki, BA, Salako, B, Schreiner, PJ, Signorello, LB, Singleton, AB, Stanford, JL, Stram, AH, Stram, DO, Strom, SS, Suktitipat, B, Thun, MJ, Witte, JS, Yanek, LR, Ziegler, RG, Zheng, W, Zhu, X, Zmuda, JM, Zonderman, AB, Evans, MK, Liu, Y, Becker, DM, Cooper, RS, Pastinen, T, Henderson, BE, Hirschhorn, JN, Lettre, G & Haiman, CA 2011, 'Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of loci associated with adult height in individuals of African ancestry', PLoS genetics, vol. 7, no. 10, e1002298. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002298

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