Whole genome association testing in 333,100 individuals across three biobanks identifies rare non-coding single variant and genomic aggregate associations with height

Abstract The role of rare non-coding variation in complex human phenotypes is still largely unknown. To elucidate the impact of rare variants in regulatory elements, we performed a whole-genome sequencing association analysis for height using 333,100 individuals from three datasets: UK Biobank (N=200,003), TOPMed (N=87,652) and All of Us (N=45,445). We performed rare (<0.1% minor-allele-frequency) single-variant and aggregate testing of non-coding variants in regulatory regions based on proximal, intergenic and deep-intronic annotation. We observed 29 independent variants associated with height atP< 6 × 10−10after conditioning on previously reported variants, with effect sizes ranging from -7cm to +4.7cm. We also identified and replicated non-coding aggregate-based associations proximal toHMGA1containing variants associated with a 5cm taller height and of highly-conserved variants inMIR497HGon chromosome 17. We have developed a novel approach for identifying non-coding rare variants in regulatory regions with large effects from whole-genome sequencing data associated with complex traits..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 23. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hawkes, Gareth [VerfasserIn]
Beaumont, Robin N [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zilin [VerfasserIn]
Mandla, Ravi [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xihao [VerfasserIn]
Albert, Christine M. [VerfasserIn]
Arnett, Donna K. [VerfasserIn]
Ashley-Koch, Allison E. [VerfasserIn]
Ashrani, Aneel A. [VerfasserIn]
Barnes, Kathleen C. [VerfasserIn]
Boerwinkle, Eric [VerfasserIn]
Brody, Jennifer A. [VerfasserIn]
Carson, April P. [VerfasserIn]
Chami, Nathalie [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yii-Der Ida [VerfasserIn]
Chung, Mina K. [VerfasserIn]
Curran, Joanne E. [VerfasserIn]
Darbar, Dawood [VerfasserIn]
Ellinor, Patrick T. [VerfasserIn]
Fornage, Myrian [VerfasserIn]
Gordeuk, Victor R. [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Xiuqing [VerfasserIn]
He, Jiang [VerfasserIn]
Hwu, Chii-Min [VerfasserIn]
Kalyani, Rita R. [VerfasserIn]
Kaplan, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Kardia, Sharon L.R. [VerfasserIn]
Kooperberg, Charles [VerfasserIn]
Loos, Ruth J.F. [VerfasserIn]
Lubitz, Steven A. [VerfasserIn]
Minster, Ryan L. [VerfasserIn]
Mitchell, Braxton D. [VerfasserIn]
Murabito, Joanne M. [VerfasserIn]
Palmer, Nicholette D. [VerfasserIn]
Psaty, Bruce M. [VerfasserIn]
Redline, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Benjamin Shoemaker, M. [VerfasserIn]
Silverman, Edwin K. [VerfasserIn]
Telen, Marilyn J. [VerfasserIn]
Weiss, Scott T. [VerfasserIn]
Yanek, Lisa R. [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Hufeng [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ching-Ti [VerfasserIn]
North, Kari E. [VerfasserIn]
Justice, Anne E. [VerfasserIn]
Locke, Jon [VerfasserIn]
Owens, Nick [VerfasserIn]
Murray, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Kashyap [VerfasserIn]
Frayling, Timothy M. [VerfasserIn]
Wright, Caroline F. [VerfasserIn]
Wood, Andrew R. [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Xihong [VerfasserIn]
Manning, Alisa [VerfasserIn]
Weedon, Michael N. [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.11.19.566520

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XBI041601769