Browsing by Author "Smith, Nicholas L."

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    Investigating Gene-Diet Interactions Impacting the Association Between Macronutrient Intake and Glycemic Traits
    (American Diabetes Association, 2023) Westerman, Kenneth E.; Walker, Maura E.; Gaynor, Sheila M.; Wessel, Jennifer; DiCorpo, Daniel; Ma, Jiantao; Alonso, Alvaro; Aslibekyan, Stella; Baldridge, Abigail S.; Bertoni, Alain G.; Biggs, Mary L.; Brody, Jennifer A.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Dupuis, Joseé; Goodarzi, Mark O.; Guo, Xiuqing; Hasbani, Natalie R.; Heath, Adam; Hidalgo, Bertha; Irvin, Marguerite R.; Johnson, W. Craig; Kalyani, Rita R.; Lange, Leslie; Lemaitre, Rozenn N.; Liu, Ching-Ti; Liu, Simin; Moon, Jee-Young; Nassir, Rami; Pankow, James S.; Pettinger, Mary; Raffield, Laura M.; Rasmussen-Torvik, Laura J.; Selvin, Elizabeth; Senn, Mackenzie K.; Shadyab, Aladdin H.; Smith, Albert V.; Smith, Nicholas L.; Steffen, Lyn; Talegakwar, Sameera; Taylor, Kent D.; de Vries, Paul S.; Wilson, James G.; Wood, Alexis C.; Yanek, Lisa R.; Yao, Jie; Zheng, Yinan; Boerwinkle, Eric; Morrison, Alanna C.; Fornage, Miriam; Russell, Tracy P.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Levy, Daniel; Heard-Costa, Nancy L.; Ramachandran, Vasan S.; Mathias, Rasika A.; Arnett, Donna K.; Kaplan, Robert; North, Kari E.; Correa, Adolfo; Carson, April; Rotter, Jerome I.; Rich, Stephen S.; Manson, JoAnn E.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Kooperberg, Charles; Florez, Jose C.; Meigs, James B.; Merino, Jordi; Tobias, Deirdre K.; Chen, Han; Manning, Alisa K.; Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    Few studies have demonstrated reproducible gene-diet interactions (GDIs) impacting metabolic disease risk factors, likely due in part to measurement error in dietary intake estimation and insufficient capture of rare genetic variation. We aimed to identify GDIs across the genetic frequency spectrum impacting the macronutrient-glycemia relationship in genetically and culturally diverse cohorts. We analyzed 33,187 participants free of diabetes from 10 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program cohorts with whole-genome sequencing, self-reported diet, and glycemic trait data. We fit cohort-specific, multivariable-adjusted linear mixed models for the effect of diet, modeled as an isocaloric substitution of carbohydrate for fat, and its interactions with common and rare variants genome-wide. In main effect meta-analyses, participants consuming more carbohydrate had modestly lower glycemic trait values (e.g., for glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c], -0.013% HbA1c/250 kcal substitution). In GDI meta-analyses, a common African ancestry-enriched variant (rs79762542) reached study-wide significance and replicated in the UK Biobank cohort, indicating a negative carbohydrate-HbA1c association among major allele homozygotes only. Simulations revealed that >150,000 samples may be necessary to identify similar macronutrient GDIs under realistic assumptions about effect size and measurement error. These results generate hypotheses for further exploration of modifiable metabolic disease risk in additional cohorts with African ancestry. Article highlights: We aimed to identify genetic modifiers of the dietary macronutrient-glycemia relationship using whole-genome sequence data from 10 Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program cohorts. Substitution models indicated a modest reduction in glycemia associated with an increase in dietary carbohydrate at the expense of fat. Genome-wide interaction analysis identified one African ancestry-enriched variant near the FRAS1 gene that may interact with macronutrient intake to influence hemoglobin A1c. Simulation-based power calculations accounting for measurement error suggested that substantially larger sample sizes may be necessary to discover further gene-macronutrient interactions.
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    Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program
    (Springer Nature, 2021) Taliun, Daniel; Harris, Daniel N.; Kessler, Michael D.; Carlson, Jedidiah; Szpiech, Zachary A.; Torres, Raul; Gagliano Taliun, Sarah A.; Corvelo, André; Gogarten, Stephanie M.; Kang, Hyun Min; Pitsillides, Achilleas N.; LeFaive, Jonathon; Lee, Seung-Been; Tian, Xiaowen; Browning, Brian L.; Das, Sayantan; Emde, Anne-Katrin; Clarke, Wayne E.; Loesch, Douglas P.; Shetty, Amol C.; Blackwell, Thomas W.; Smith, Albert V.; Wong, Quenna; Liu, Xiaoming; Conomos, Matthew P.; Bobo, Dean M.; Aguet, François; Albert, Christine; Alonso, Alvaro; Ardlie, Kristin G.; Arking, Dan E.; Aslibekyan, Stella; Auer, Paul L.; Barnard, John; Barr, R. Graham; Barwick, Lucas; Becker, Lewis C.; Beer, Rebecca L.; Benjamin, Emelia J.; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Blangero, John; Boehnke, Michael; Bowden, Donald W.; Brody, Jennifer A.; Burchard, Esteban G.; Cade, Brian E.; Casella, James F.; Chalazan, Brandon; Chasman, Daniel I.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Cho, Michael H.; Choi, Seung Hoan; Chung, Mina K.; Clish, Clary B.; Correa, Adolfo; Curran, Joanne E.; Custer, Brian; Darbar, Dawood; Daya, Michelle; de Andrade, Mariza; DeMeo, Dawn L.; Dutcher, Susan K.; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Emery, Leslie S.; Eng, Celeste; Fatkin, Diane; Fingerlin, Tasha; Forer, Lukas; Fornage, Myriam; Franceschini, Nora; Fuchsberger, Christian; Fullerton, Stephanie M.; Germer, Soren; Gladwin, Mark T.; Gottlieb, Daniel J.; Guo, Xiuqing; Hall, Michael E.; He, Jiang; Heard-Costa, Nancy L.; Heckbert, Susan R.; Irvin, Marguerite R.; Johnsen, Jill M.; Johnson, Andrew D.; Kaplan, Robert; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Kelly, Tanika; Kelly, Shannon; Kenny, Eimear E.; Kiel, Douglas P.; Klemmer, Robert; Konkle, Barbara A.; Kooperberg, Charles; Köttgen, Anna; Lange, Leslie A.; Lasky-Su, Jessica; Levy, Daniel; Lin, Xihong; Lin, Keng-Han; Liu, Chunyu; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Garman, Lori; Gerszten, Robert; Lubitz, Steven A.; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Mak, Angel C. Y.; Manichaikul, Ani; Manning, Alisa K.; Mathias, Rasika A.; McManus, David D.; McGarvey, Stephen T.; Meigs, James B.; Meyers, Deborah A.; Mikulla, Julie L.; Minear, Mollie A.; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Mohanty, Sanghamitra; Montasser, May E.; Montgomery, Courtney; Morrison, Alanna C.; Murabito, Joanne M.; Natale, Andrea; Natarajan, Pradeep; Nelson, Sarah C.; North, Kari E.; O'Connell, Jeffrey R.; Palmer, Nicholette D.; Pankratz, Nathan; Peloso, Gina M.; Peyser, Patricia A.; Pleiness, Jacob; Post, Wendy S.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Rao, D. C.; Redline, Susan; Reiner, Alexander P.; Roden, Dan; Rotter, Jerome I.; Ruczinski, Ingo; Sarnowski, Chloé; Schoenherr, Sebastian; Schwartz, David A.; Seo, Jeong-Sun; Seshadri, Sudha; Sheehan, Vivien A.; Sheu, Wayne H.; Shoemaker, M. Benjamin; Smith, Nicholas L.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Sotoodehnia, Nona; Stilp, Adrienne M.; Tang, Weihong; Taylor, Kent D.; Telen, Marilyn; Thornton, Timothy A.; Tracy, Russell P.; Van Den Berg, David J.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Viaud-Martinez, Karine A.; Vrieze, Scott; Weeks, Daniel E.; Weir, Bruce S.; Weiss, Scott T.; Weng, Lu-Chen; Willer, Cristen J.; Zhang, Yingze; Zhao, Xutong; Arnett, Donna K.; Ashley-Koch, Allison E.; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Gabriel, Stacey; Gibbs, Richard; Rice, Kenneth M.; Rich, Stephen S.; Silverman, Edwin K.; Qasba, Pankaj; Gan, Weiniu; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium; Papanicolaou, George J.; Nickerson, Deborah A.; Browning, Sharon R.; Zody, Michael C.; Zöllner, Sebastian; Wilson, James G.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Laurie, Cathy C.; Jaquish, Cashell E.; Hernandez, Ryan D.; O'Connor, Timothy D.; Abecasis, Gonçalo R.; Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    The Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) programme seeks to elucidate the genetic architecture and biology of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, with the ultimate goal of improving diagnosis, treatment and prevention of these diseases. The initial phases of the programme focused on whole-genome sequencing of individuals with rich phenotypic data and diverse backgrounds. Here we describe the TOPMed goals and design as well as the available resources and early insights obtained from the sequence data. The resources include a variant browser, a genotype imputation server, and genomic and phenotypic data that are available through dbGaP (Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes)1. In the first 53,831 TOPMed samples, we detected more than 400 million single-nucleotide and insertion or deletion variants after alignment with the reference genome. Additional previously undescribed variants were detected through assembly of unmapped reads and customized analysis in highly variable loci. Among the more than 400 million detected variants, 97% have frequencies of less than 1% and 46% are singletons that are present in only one individual (53% among unrelated individuals). These rare variants provide insights into mutational processes and recent human evolutionary history. The extensive catalogue of genetic variation in TOPMed studies provides unique opportunities for exploring the contributions of rare and noncoding sequence variants to phenotypic variation. Furthermore, combining TOPMed haplotypes with modern imputation methods improves the power and reach of genome-wide association studies to include variants down to a frequency of approximately 0.01%.
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    Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis of Body Mass Index Identifies Novel African Ancestry-Specific Risk Allele
    (medRxiv, 2023-08-22) Zhang, Xinruo; Brody, Jennifer A.; Graff, Mariaelisa; Highland, Heather M.; Chami, Nathalie; Xu, Hanfei; Wang, Zhe; Ferrier, Kendra; Chittoor, Geetha; Josyula, Navya S.; Li, Xihao; Li, Zilin; Allison, Matthew A.; Becker, Diane M.; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Bis, Joshua C.; Boorgula, Meher Preethi; Bowden, Donald W.; Broome, Jai G.; Buth, Erin J.; Carlson, Christopher S.; Chang, Kyong-Mi; Chavan, Sameer; Chiu, Yen-Feng; Chuang, Lee-Ming; Conomos, Matthew P.; DeMeo, Dawn L.; Du, Margaret; Duggirala, Ravindranath; Eng, Celeste; Fohner, Alison E.; Freedman, Barry I.; Garrett, Melanie E.; Guo, Xiuqing; Haiman, Chris; Heavner, Benjamin D.; Hidalgo, Bertha; Hixson, James E.; Ho, Yuk-Lam; Hobbs, Brian D.; Hu, Donglei; Hui, Qin; Hwu, Chii-Min; Jackson, Rebecca D.; Jain, Deepti; Kalyani, Rita R.; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Kelly, Tanika N.; Lange, Ethan M.; LeNoir, Michael; Li, Changwei; Marchand, Loic Le; McDonald, Merry-Lynn N.; McHugh, Caitlin P.; Morrison, Alanna C.; Naseri, Take; NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium; O'Connell, Jeffrey; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Palmer, Nicholette D.; Pankow, James S.; Perry, James A.; Peters, Ulrike; Preuss, Michael H.; Rao, D. C.; Regan, Elizabeth A.; Reupena, Sefuiva M.; Roden, Dan M.; Rodriguez-Santana, Jose; Sitlani, Colleen M.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Tiwari, Hemant K.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Wang, Zeyuan; Weeks, Daniel E.; Wessel, Jennifer; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Wilson, Peter W. F.; Yanek, Lisa R.; Yoneda, Zachary T.; Zhao, Wei; Zöllner, Sebastian; Arnett, Donna K.; Ashley-Koch, Allison E.; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Blangero, John; Boerwinkle, Eric; Burchard, Esteban G.; Carson, April P.; Chasman, Daniel I.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Curran, Joanne E.; Fornage, Myriam; Gordeuk, Victor R.; He, Jiang; Heckbert, Susan R.; Hou, Lifang; Irvin, Marguerite R.; Kooperberg, Charles; Minster, Ryan L.; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Nouraie, Mehdi; Psaty, Bruce M.; Raffield, Laura M.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Rich, Stephen S.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Shoemaker, M. Benjamin; Smith, Nicholas L.; Taylor, Kent D.; Telen, Marilyn J.; Weiss, Scott T.; Zhang, Yingze; Heard-Costa, Nancy; Sun, Yan V.; Lin, Xihong; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Lange, Leslie A.; Liu, Ching-Ti; Loos, Ruth J. F.; North, Kari E.; Justice, Anne E.; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of Medicine
    Obesity is a major public health crisis associated with high mortality rates. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) investigating body mass index (BMI) have largely relied on imputed data from European individuals. This study leveraged whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from 88,873 participants from the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program, of which 51% were of non-European population groups. We discovered 18 BMI-associated signals (P < 5 × 10−9). Notably, we identified and replicated a novel low frequency single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in MTMR3 that was common in individuals of African descent. Using a diverse study population, we further identified two novel secondary signals in known BMI loci and pinpointed two likely causal variants in the POC5 and DMD loci. Our work demonstrates the benefits of combining WGS and diverse cohorts in expanding current catalog of variants and genes confer risk for obesity, bringing us one step closer to personalized medicine.