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Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations

Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations


Titill: Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations
Höfundur: Daya, Michelle
Bjarnadóttir, Hrafnhildur
Útgáfa: 2019-02-20
Tungumál: Enska
Umfang: 880
Háskóli/Stofnun: Háskóli Íslands
University of Iceland
Svið: Heilbrigðisvísindasvið (HÍ)
School of Health Sciences (UI)
Deild: Læknadeild (HÍ)
Faculty of Medicine (UI)
Birtist í: Nature Communications;10(1)
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08469-7
Efnisorð: Asthma; Genetic variation; Genome-wide association studies; Immunogenetics; Astmi; Erfðabreytileiki; Erfðarannsóknir; Ónæmiserfðafræði
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/1641

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Daya, M., Rafaels, N., Brunetti, T.M. et al. Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations. Nature Communications 10, 880 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08469-7

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Asthma is a complex disease with striking disparities across racial and ethnic groups. Despite its relatively high burden, representation of individuals of African ancestry in asthma genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been inadequate, and true associations in these underrepresented minority groups have been inconclusive. We report the results of a genome-wide meta-analysis from the Consortium on Asthma among African Ancestry Populations (CAAPA; 7009 asthma cases, 7645 controls). We find strong evidence for association at four previously reported asthma loci whose discovery was driven largely by non-African populations, including the chromosome 17q12–q21 locus and the chr12q13 region, a novel (and not previously replicated) asthma locus recently identified by the Trans-National Asthma Genetic Consortium (TAGC). An additional seven loci reported by TAGC show marginal evidence for association in CAAPA. We also identify two novel loci (8p23 and 8q24) that may be specific to asthma risk in African ancestry populations.

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