TY - JOUR
T1 - Mixed-model admixture mapping identifies smoking-dependent loci of lung function in African Americans
AU - Ziyatdinov, Andrey
AU - Parker, Margaret M.
AU - Vaysse, Amaury
AU - Beaty, Terri H.
AU - Kraft, Peter
AU - Cho, Michael H.
AU - Aschard, Hugues
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to European Society of Human Genetics.
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Admixture mapping has led to the discovery of many genes associated with differential disease risk by ancestry, highlighting the importance of ancestry-based approaches to association studies. However, the potential of admixture mapping in deciphering the interplay between genes and environment exposures has been seldom explored. Here we performed a genome-wide screening of local ancestry–smoking interactions for five spirometric lung function phenotypes in 3300 African Americans from the COPDGene study. To account for population structure and outcome heterogeneity across exposure groups, we developed a multi-component linear mixed model for mapping gene–environment interactions and empirically showed its robustness and increased power. When applied to the COPDGene study, our approach identified two 11p15.2-3 and 2q37 loci, exhibiting local ancestry–smoking interactions at genome-wide significant level, which would have been missed by standard single-nucleotide polymorphism analyses. These two loci harbor the PARVA and RAB17 genes previously recognized to be involved in smoking behavior. Overall, our study provides the first evidence for potential synergistic effects between African ancestry and smoking on pulmonary function, and underlines the importance of ethnic diversity in genetic studies.
AB - Admixture mapping has led to the discovery of many genes associated with differential disease risk by ancestry, highlighting the importance of ancestry-based approaches to association studies. However, the potential of admixture mapping in deciphering the interplay between genes and environment exposures has been seldom explored. Here we performed a genome-wide screening of local ancestry–smoking interactions for five spirometric lung function phenotypes in 3300 African Americans from the COPDGene study. To account for population structure and outcome heterogeneity across exposure groups, we developed a multi-component linear mixed model for mapping gene–environment interactions and empirically showed its robustness and increased power. When applied to the COPDGene study, our approach identified two 11p15.2-3 and 2q37 loci, exhibiting local ancestry–smoking interactions at genome-wide significant level, which would have been missed by standard single-nucleotide polymorphism analyses. These two loci harbor the PARVA and RAB17 genes previously recognized to be involved in smoking behavior. Overall, our study provides the first evidence for potential synergistic effects between African ancestry and smoking on pulmonary function, and underlines the importance of ethnic diversity in genetic studies.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41431-019-0545-8
DO - 10.1038/s41431-019-0545-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 31836859
AN - SCOPUS:85076837012
SN - 1018-4813
VL - 28
SP - 656
EP - 668
JO - European Journal of Human Genetics
JF - European Journal of Human Genetics
IS - 5
ER -