- Main
Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels
- Jiang, Xia;
- O’Reilly, Paul F;
- Aschard, Hugues;
- Hsu, Yi-Hsiang;
- Richards, J Brent;
- Dupuis, Josée;
- Ingelsson, Erik;
- Karasik, David;
- Pilz, Stefan;
- Berry, Diane;
- Kestenbaum, Bryan;
- Zheng, Jusheng;
- Luan, Jianan;
- Sofianopoulou, Eleni;
- Streeten, Elizabeth A;
- Albanes, Demetrius;
- Lutsey, Pamela L;
- Yao, Lu;
- Tang, Weihong;
- Econs, Michael J;
- Wallaschofski, Henri;
- Völzke, Henry;
- Zhou, Ang;
- Power, Chris;
- McCarthy, Mark I;
- Michos, Erin D;
- Boerwinkle, Eric;
- Weinstein, Stephanie J;
- Freedman, Neal D;
- Huang, Wen-Yi;
- Van Schoor, Natasja M;
- van der Velde, Nathalie;
- Groot, Lisette CPGM de;
- Enneman, Anke;
- Cupples, L Adrienne;
- Booth, Sarah L;
- Vasan, Ramachandran S;
- Liu, Ching-Ti;
- Zhou, Yanhua;
- Ripatti, Samuli;
- Ohlsson, Claes;
- Vandenput, Liesbeth;
- Lorentzon, Mattias;
- Eriksson, Johan G;
- Shea, M Kyla;
- Houston, Denise K;
- Kritchevsky, Stephen B;
- Liu, Yongmei;
- Lohman, Kurt K;
- Ferrucci, Luigi;
- Peacock, Munro;
- Gieger, Christian;
- Beekman, Marian;
- Slagboom, Eline;
- Deelen, Joris;
- Heemst, Diana van;
- Kleber, Marcus E;
- März, Winfried;
- de Boer, Ian H;
- Wood, Alexis C;
- Rotter, Jerome I;
- Rich, Stephen S;
- Robinson-Cohen, Cassianne;
- den Heijer, Martin;
- Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta;
- Cavadino, Alana;
- Joshi, Peter K;
- Wilson, James F;
- Hayward, Caroline;
- Lind, Lars;
- Michaëlsson, Karl;
- Trompet, Stella;
- Zillikens, M Carola;
- Uitterlinden, Andre G;
- Rivadeneira, Fernando;
- Broer, Linda;
- Zgaga, Lina;
- Campbell, Harry;
- Theodoratou, Evropi;
- Farrington, Susan M;
- Timofeeva, Maria;
- Dunlop, Malcolm G;
- Valdes, Ana M;
- Tikkanen, Emmi;
- Lehtimäki, Terho;
- Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka;
- Kähönen, Mika;
- Raitakari, Olli T;
- Mikkilä, Vera;
- Ikram, M Arfan;
- Sattar, Naveed;
- Jukema, J Wouter;
- Wareham, Nicholas J;
- Langenberg, Claudia;
- Forouhi, Nita G;
- Gundersen, Thomas E;
- Khaw, Kay-Tee;
- Butterworth, Adam S;
- Danesh, John;
- Spector, Timothy;
- Wang, Thomas J;
- Hyppönen, Elina;
- Kraft, Peter;
- Kiel, Douglas P
- et al.
Abstract
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that is associated with a range of human traits and diseases. Previous GWAS of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations have identified four genome-wide significant loci (GC, NADSYN1/DHCR7, CYP2R1, CYP24A1). In this study, we expand the previous SUNLIGHT Consortium GWAS discovery sample size from 16,125 to 79,366 (all European descent). This larger GWAS yields two additional loci harboring genome-wide significant variants (P = 4.7×10-9 at rs8018720 in SEC23A, and P = 1.9×10-14 at rs10745742 in AMDHD1). The overall estimate of heritability of 25-hydroxyvitamin D serum concentrations attributable to GWAS common SNPs is 7.5%, with statistically significant loci explaining 38% of this total. Further investigation identifies signal enrichment in immune and hematopoietic tissues, and clustering with autoimmune diseases in cell-type-specific analysis. Larger studies are required to identify additional common SNPs, and to explore the role of rare or structural variants and gene-gene interactions in the heritability of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels.
Many UC-authored scholarly publications are freely available on this site because of the UC's open access policies. Let us know how this access is important for you.
Main Content
Enter the password to open this PDF file:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-