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Meta-Analysis
. 2016 Mar 29:7:11008.
doi: 10.1038/ncomms11008.

Meta-analysis of gene-environment-wide association scans accounting for education level identifies additional loci for refractive error

Qiao Fan  1   2 Virginie J M Verhoeven  3   4 Robert Wojciechowski  5   6 Veluchamy A Barathi  1   2   7 Pirro G Hysi  8 Jeremy A Guggenheim  9 René Höhn  10   11 Veronique Vitart  12 Anthony P Khawaja  13 Kenji Yamashiro  14 S Mohsen Hosseini  15 Terho Lehtimäki  16 Yi Lu  17 Toomas Haller  18 Jing Xie  19 Cécile Delcourt  20   21 Mario Pirastu  22 Juho Wedenoja  23   24 Puya Gharahkhani  17 Cristina Venturini  8   25 Masahiro Miyake  14 Alex W Hewitt  19   26 Xiaobo Guo  27 Johanna Mazur  28 Jenifer E Huffman  12 Katie M Williams  8   29 Ozren Polasek  30 Harry Campbell  31 Igor Rudan  31 Zoran Vatavuk  32 James F Wilson  31 Peter K Joshi  31 George McMahon  33   34 Beate St Pourcain  33   34   35 David M Evans  33   34   36 Claire L Simpson  5   37 Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An  5 Robert P Igo  38 Alireza Mirshahi  10   39 Audrey Cougnard-Gregoire  20   21 Céline Bellenguez  40   41   42 Maria Blettner  28 Olli Raitakari  43   44 Mika Kähönen  45 Ilkka Seppala  16 Tanja Zeller  46 Thomas Meitinger  47   48 Consortium for Refractive Error and MyopiaJanina S Ried  49 Christian Gieger  49 Laura Portas  22 Elisabeth M van Leeuwen  4 Najaf Amin  4 André G Uitterlinden  4   50   51 Fernando Rivadeneira  4   50   51 Albert Hofman  4   51 Johannes R Vingerling  3 Ya Xing Wang  52 Xu Wang  53 Eileen Tai-Hui Boh  53 M Kamran Ikram  1   2 Charumathi Sabanayagam  1   2 Preeti Gupta  1 Vincent Tan  1 Lei Zhou  1 Candice E H Ho  1 Wan'e Lim  7 Roger W Beuerman  1   2   7 Rosalynn Siantar  1   54 E-Shyong Tai  2   53   55 Eranga Vithana  1   2   7 Evelin Mihailov  18 Chiea-Chuen Khor  1   53   56 Caroline Hayward  12 Robert N Luben  13 Paul J Foster  57   58 Barbara E K Klein  59 Ronald Klein  59 Hoi-Suen Wong  15 Paul Mitchell  60 Andres Metspalu  18 Tin Aung  1   7 Terri L Young  61 Mingguang He  62 Olavi Pärssinen  63   64 Cornelia M van Duijn  4 Jie Jin Wang  60 Cathy Williams  34 Jost B Jonas  52   65 Yik-Ying Teo  53   56   66 David A Mackey  26   67 Konrad Oexle  48 Nagahisa Yoshimura  14 Andrew D Paterson  15 Norbert Pfeiffer  10 Tien-Yin Wong  1   2   7   53 Paul N Baird  19 Dwight Stambolian  68 Joan E Bailey Wilson  5 Ching-Yu Cheng  1   2   7 Christopher J Hammond  8   29 Caroline C W Klaver  3   4 Seang-Mei Saw  1   2   7   53 Jugnoo S RahiJean-François KorobelnikJohn P KempNicholas J TimpsonGeorge Davey SmithJamie E CraigKathryn P BurdonRhys D FogartySudha K IyengarEmily ChewSarayut JanmahasatianNicholas G MartinStuart MacGregor  17 Liang Xu  52 Maria Schache  19 Vinay NangiaSonghomitra Panda-JonasAlan F Wright  12 Jeremy R FondranJonathan H LassSheng FengJing Hua ZhaoKay-Tee Khaw  13 Nick J WarehamTaina RantanenJaakko KaprioChi Pui PangLi Jia ChenPancy O TamVishal JhanjiAlvin L YoungAngela DöringLeslie J RaffelMary-Frances CotchXiaohui LiShea Ping YipMaurice K H YapGinevra BiinoSimona Vaccargiu  22 Maurizio Fossarello  22 Brian FleckSeyhan Yazar  19   67 Jan Willem L Tideman  3   4 Milly Tedja  3   4 Margaret M DeangelisMargaux MorrisonLindsay FarrerXiangtian ZhouWei ChenNobuhisa MizukiAkira MeguroKari Matti Mäkelä
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Meta-Analysis

Meta-analysis of gene-environment-wide association scans accounting for education level identifies additional loci for refractive error

Qiao Fan et al. Nat Commun. .

Abstract

Myopia is the most common human eye disorder and it results from complex genetic and environmental causes. The rapidly increasing prevalence of myopia poses a major public health challenge. Here, the CREAM consortium performs a joint meta-analysis to test single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) main effects and SNP × education interaction effects on refractive error in 40,036 adults from 25 studies of European ancestry and 10,315 adults from 9 studies of Asian ancestry. In European ancestry individuals, we identify six novel loci (FAM150B-ACP1, LINC00340, FBN1, DIS3L-MAP2K1, ARID2-SNAT1 and SLC14A2) associated with refractive error. In Asian populations, three genome-wide significant loci AREG, GABRR1 and PDE10A also exhibit strong interactions with education (P<8.5 × 10(-5)), whereas the interactions are less evident in Europeans. The discovery of these loci represents an important advance in understanding how gene and environment interactions contribute to the heterogeneity of myopia.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Forest plot of education main effects on spherical equivalent across studies.
The β-coefficient represents the differences of dioptres in refractive error comparing individuals in higher education group versus lower education group in Europeans (n=40,036), Asians (n=10,315) and all studies (n=50,351). The studies are sorted by effect size of education on spherical equivalent within Europeans and Asians studies, respectively.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Manhattan plots of −log10(P) for the JMA on SNP main effects and SNP × education effects on spherical equivalent in (a) European ancestry populations and (b) Asian populations.
The horizontal red line indicates the genome-wide significance level of PJMA<5 × 10−8. The horizontal blue line indicates the suggestive significance level of PJMA<1 × 10−5. Novel loci reaching genome-wide significance are labelled in red and known loci are in grey.

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