The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

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NATURE, 600 (7890). pp. 675-679. ISSN 0028-0836, 1476-4687

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Abstract

Increased blood lipid levels are heritable risk factors of cardiovascular disease with varied prevalence worldwide owing to different dietary patterns and medication use(1). Despite advances in prevention and treatment, in particular through reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels(2), heart disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide(3). Genome-wideassociation studies (GWAS) of blood lipid levels have led to important biological and clinical insights, as well as new drug targets, for cardiovascular disease. However, most previous GWAS(4-23) have been conducted in European ancestry populations and may have missed genetic variants that contribute to lipid-level variation in other ancestry groups. These include differences in allele frequencies, effect sizes and linkage-disequilibrium patterns(24). Here we conduct a multi-ancestry, genome-wide genetic discovery meta-analysis of lipid levels in approximately 1.65 million individuals, including 350,000 of non-European ancestries. We quantify the gain in studying non-European ancestries and provide evidence to support the expansion of recruitment of additional ancestries, even with relatively small sample sizes. We find that increasing diversity rather than studying additional individuals of European ancestry results in substantial improvements in fine-mapping functional variants and portability of polygenic prediction (evaluated in approximately 295,000 individuals from 7 ancestry groupings). Modest gains in the number of discovered loci and ancestry-specific variants were also achieved. As GWAS expand emphasis beyond the identification of genes and fundamental biology towards the use of genetic variants for preventive and precision medicine(25), we anticipate that increased diversity of participants will lead to more accurate and equitable(26) application of polygenic scores in clinical practice.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: LOW-FREQUENCY; LOCI; METAANALYSIS; CHOLESTEROL; ANCESTRY; POLYMORPHISMS; DISCOVERY; VARIANTS; RISK; INDIVIDUALS
Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine
Divisions: Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin > Lehrstuhl für Genetische Epidemiologie
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2022 05:19
Last Modified: 05 Jul 2022 05:19
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/48245

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