Citation
Saunders, Gretchen R. B.; Wang, Xingyan; Chen, Fang; Jang, Seon-Kyeong; Liu, Mengzhen; Wang, Chen; Gao, Shuang; Jiang, Yu; Khunsriraksakul, Chachrit; & Otto, Jacqueline M., et al. (2022). Genetic Diversity Fuels Gene Discovery for Tobacco and Alcohol Use. Nature, 612(7941), 720-724. PMCID: PMC9771818Abstract
Tobacco and alcohol use are heritable behaviours associated with 15% and 5.3% of worldwide deaths, respectively, due largely to broad increased risk for disease and injury(1-4). These substances are used across the globe, yet genome-wide association studies have focused largely on individuals of European ancestries(5). Here we leveraged global genetic diversity across 3.4 million individuals from four major clines of global ancestry (approximately 21% non-European) to power the discovery and fine-mapping of genomic loci associated with tobacco and alcohol use, to inform function of these loci via ancestry-aware transcriptome-wide association studies, and to evaluate the genetic architecture and predictive power of polygenic risk within and across populations. We found that increases in sample size and genetic diversity improved locus identification and fine-mapping resolution, and that a large majority of the 3,823 associated variants (from 2,143 loci) showed consistent effect sizes across ancestry dimensions. However, polygenic risk scores developed in one ancestry performed poorly in others, highlighting the continued need to increase sample sizes of diverse ancestries to realize any potential benefit of polygenic prediction.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05477-4Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2022Journal Title
NatureAuthor(s)
Saunders, Gretchen R. B.Wang, Xingyan
Chen, Fang
Jang, Seon-Kyeong
Liu, Mengzhen
Wang, Chen
Gao, Shuang
Jiang, Yu
Khunsriraksakul, Chachrit
Otto, Jacqueline M.
Addison, Clifton
Akiyama, Masato
Albert, Christine M.
Aliev, Fazil
Alonso, Alvaro
Arnett, Donna K.
Ashley-Koch, Allison E.
Ashrani, Aneel A.
Barnes, Kathleen C.
Barr, R. Graham
Bartz, Traci M.
Becker, Diane M.
Bielak, Lawrence F.
Benjamin, Emelia J.
Bis, Joshua C.
Bjornsdottir, Gyda
Blangero, John
Bleecker, Eugene R.
Boardman, Jason D.
Boerwinkle, Eric A.
Boomsma, Dorret I.
Boorgula, Meher P.
Bowden, Donald W.
Brody, Jennifer A.
Cade, Brian E.
Chasman, Daniel I.
Chavan, Sameer
Chen, Yii-Der Ida
Chen, Zhengming
Cheng, Iona
Cho, Michael H.
Choquet, Hélène
Cole, John W.
Cornelis, Marilyn C.
Cucca, Francesco
Curran, Joanne E.
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Gillespie, Nathan
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Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.
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Haessler, Jeffrey
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Taylor, Amy E.
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Turman, Constance
Tyrfingsson, Thorarinn
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Walters, Robin G.
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Zuccolo, Luisa
23andMe Research Team
Biobank Japan Project
Batini, Chiara
Bergen, Andrew W.
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David, Sean P.
Gagliano Taliun, Sarah A.
Hancock, Dana B.
Jiang, Bibo
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