Shungin, Dmitry, Deng, Wei Q, Varga, Tibor V, Luan, Jian'an, Mihailov, Evelin, Metspalu, Andres, Morris, Andrew P, Forouhi, Nita G, Lindgren, Cecilia, Magnusson, Patrik KE et al (show 20 more authors)
(2017)
Ranking and characterization of established BMI and lipid associated loci as candidates for gene-environment interactions.
PLOS GENETICS, 13 (6).
e1006812-.
Abstract
Phenotypic variance heterogeneity across genotypes at a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) may reflect underlying gene-environment (G×E) or gene-gene interactions. We modeled variance heterogeneity for blood lipids and BMI in up to 44,211 participants and investigated relationships between variance effects (Pv), G×E interaction effects (with smoking and physical activity), and marginal genetic effects (Pm). Correlations between Pv and Pm were stronger for SNPs with established marginal effects (Spearman's ρ = 0.401 for triglycerides, and ρ = 0.236 for BMI) compared to all SNPs. When Pv and Pm were compared for all pruned SNPs, only BMI was statistically significant (Spearman's ρ = 0.010). Overall, SNPs with established marginal effects were overrepresented in the nominally significant part of the Pv distribution (Pbinomial <0.05). SNPs from the top 1% of the Pm distribution for BMI had more significant Pv values (PMann-Whitney = 1.46×10-5), and the odds ratio of SNPs with nominally significant (<0.05) Pm and Pv was 1.33 (95% CI: 1.12, 1.57) for BMI. Moreover, BMI SNPs with nominally significant G×E interaction P-values (Pint<0.05) were enriched with nominally significant Pv values (Pbinomial = 8.63×10-9 and 8.52×10-7 for SNP × smoking and SNP × physical activity, respectively). We conclude that some loci with strong marginal effects may be good candidates for G×E, and variance-based prioritization can be used to identify them.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | GIANT Consortium, Humans, Obesity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Body Mass Index, Risk Factors, Smoking, Genotype, Genetic Heterogeneity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Female, Male, Cholesterol, LDL, Cholesterol, HDL, Genome-Wide Association Study, Gene-Environment Interaction, White People |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2017 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2023 20:51 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006812 |
| Open Access URL: | http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=1... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3008109 |
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