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Large-scale analyses of common and rare variants identify 12 new loci associated with atrial fibrillation.

  • Christophersen IE Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Rienstra M Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • Roselli C Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Yin X NHLBI and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Geelhoed B Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • Barnard J Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Molecular Cardiology, and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Lin H NHLBI and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Arking DE McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Smith AV Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland.
  • Albert CM Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Chaffin M Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Tucker NR Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Li M Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Klarin D Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Bihlmeyer NA Predoctoral Training Program in Human Genetics, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Low SK Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Weeke PE Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
  • Müller-Nurasyid M Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
  • Smith JG Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Brody JA Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Niemeijer MN Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Dörr M Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Trompet S Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Huffman J MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Gustafsson S Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Epidemiology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Schurmann C Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
  • Kleber ME Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Lyytikäinen LP Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • Seppälä I Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • Malik R Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
  • Horimoto ARVR Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Perez M Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
  • Sinisalo J Heart and Lung Center HUS, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Aeschbacher S Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Thériault S Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Yao J Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
  • Radmanesh F Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Weiss S DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Teumer A DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Choi SH Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Weng LC Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Clauss S Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Deo R Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Rader DJ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • Shah SH Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
  • Sun A Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
  • Hopewell JC CTSU-Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Debette S INSERM U1219 (Bordeaux Population Health Centre), Bordeaux, France.
  • Chauhan G INSERM U1219 (Bordeaux Population Health Centre), Bordeaux, France.
  • Yang Q Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Worrall BB Departments of Neurology and Public Health Science, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • Paré G Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Kamatani Y Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Hagemeijer YP Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • Verweij N Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • Siland JE Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • Kubo M RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Smith JD Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Molecular Cardiology, and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Van Wagoner DR Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Molecular Cardiology, and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Bis JC Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Perz S Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
  • Psaty BM Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Ridker PM Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Magnani JW NHLBI and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Harris TB Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  • Launer LJ Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
  • Shoemaker MB Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
  • Padmanabhan S Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
  • Haessler J Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Bartz TM Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Waldenberger M DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany.
  • Lichtner P Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
  • Arendt M Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
  • Krieger JE Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Kähönen M Department of Clinical Physiology, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • Risch L University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  • Mansur AJ Heart Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Peters A DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany.
  • Smith BH Division of Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
  • Lind L Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Scott SA Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
  • Lu Y Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
  • Bottinger EB Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
  • Hernesniemi J Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • Lindgren CM Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Wong JA Division of Cardiology, Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Huang J Boston VA Research Institute, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Eskola M Department of Cardiology, Heart Hospital, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • Morris AP Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Ford I Robertson Center for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
  • Reiner AP Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Delgado G Vth Department of Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Chen LY Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  • Chen YI Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
  • Sandhu RK Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • Li M Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • Boerwinkle E Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
  • Eisele L Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
  • Lannfelt L Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Geriatrics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Rost N Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Anderson CD Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Taylor KD Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
  • Campbell A Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Magnusson PK Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Porteous D Generation Scotland, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Hocking LJ Musculoskeletal Research Programme, Division of Applied Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
  • Vlachopoulou E Transplantation Laboratory, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Pedersen NL Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Nikus K Department of Cardiology, Heart Hospital, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • Orho-Melander M Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
  • Hamsten A Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics Group, Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Heeringa J Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Denny JC Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
  • Kriebel J Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
  • Darbar D Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Newton-Cheh C Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Shaffer C Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
  • Macfarlane PW Institute of Health and Wellbeing, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
  • Heilmann-Heimbach S Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
  • Almgren P Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
  • Huang PL Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Sotoodehnia N Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Soliman EZ Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center (EPICARE), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
  • Uitterlinden AG Department of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Hofman A Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Franco OH Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Völker U DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Jöckel KH Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
  • Sinner MF Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
  • Lin HJ Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
  • Guo X Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
  • Dichgans M Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Ingelsson E Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
  • Kooperberg C Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
  • Melander O Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart Hospital, Tampere University Hospital and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • Loos RJF Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Laurikka J Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Conen D Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
  • Rosand J Transplantation Laboratory, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
  • van der Harst P Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Lokki ML Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Heart Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Kathiresan S Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Pereira A MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Jukema JW Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, LABioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
  • Hayward C Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
  • Rotter JI Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories and University of Tampere School of Medicine, Tampere, Finland.
  • März W Department of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Lehtimäki T Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Molecular Cardiology, and Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • Stricker BH Department of Internal Medicine B, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
  • Chung MK Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland.
  • Felix SB Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • Gudnason V Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
  • Alonso A Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
  • Roden DM Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Kääb S Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Chasman DI NHLBI and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Heckbert SR Laboratory for Cardiovascular Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Benjamin EJ NHLBI and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Tanaka T Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Lunetta KL Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Lubitz SA
  • Ellinor PT
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  • 2017-04-19
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  • Nature genetics. - 2017
English Atrial fibrillation affects more than 33 million people worldwide and increases the risk of stroke, heart failure, and death. Fourteen genetic loci have been associated with atrial fibrillation in European and Asian ancestry groups. To further define the genetic basis of atrial fibrillation, we performed large-scale, trans-ancestry meta-analyses of common and rare variant association studies. The genome-wide association studies (GWAS) included 17,931 individuals with atrial fibrillation and 115,142 referents; the exome-wide association studies (ExWAS) and rare variant association studies (RVAS) involved 22,346 cases and 132,086 referents. We identified 12 new genetic loci that exceeded genome-wide significance, implicating genes involved in cardiac electrical and structural remodeling. Our results nearly double the number of known genetic loci for atrial fibrillation, provide insights into the molecular basis of atrial fibrillation, and may facilitate the identification of new potential targets for drug discovery.
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