GWAS of stool frequency provides insights into gastrointestinal motility and irritable bowel syndrome

Ferdinando  Bonfiglio; Xingrong Liu; Christopher Smillie; Anita Pandit; Nicholas John  Timpson; Alexander Kurilshikov; Rodrigo Bacigalupe; Tenghao Zheng; Hieu Nim; Koldo Garcia-Etzebarria; Luis Bujanda; Anna Andreasson; Lars Agreus; Susanna Walter; Goncalo R Abecasis; Chris Eijsbouts; Luke Jostins; Miles Parkes; David A Hughes; Jeroen Raes; Andre Franke; Nicholas A. Kennedy; Aviv  Regev; Alexandra Zhernakova; Magnus Simren; Michael Camilleri; Mauro D’Amato

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GWAS of stool frequency provides insights into gastrointestinal motility and irritable bowel syndrome

Ferdinando Bonfiglio, Xingrong Liu, Christopher Smillie, Anita Pandit, Nicholas John Timpson, Alexander Kurilshikov, Rodrigo Bacigalupe, Tenghao Zheng, Hieu Nim, Koldo Garcia-Etzebarria, Luis Bujanda, Anna Andreasson, Lars Agreus, Susanna Walter, Goncalo R Abecasis, Chris Eijsbouts, Luke Jostins, Miles Parkes, David A Hughes, Jeroen RaesAndre Franke, Nicholas A. Kennedy, Aviv Regev, Alexandra Zhernakova, Magnus Simren, Michael Camilleri, Mauro D’Amato

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Gut dysmotility is associated with constipation, diarrhea, and functional gastrointestinal disorders like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), although its molecular underpinnings are poorly characterized. We studied stool frequency (defined by the number of bowel movements per day, based on questionnaire data) as a proxy for gut motility in a GWAS meta-analysis including 167,875 individuals from UK Biobank and four smaller population-based cohorts. We identify 14 loci associated with stool frequency (p ≤ 5.0 × 10−8). Gene set and pathway analyses detected enrichment for genes involved in neurotransmitter/neuropeptide signaling and preferentially expressed in enteric motor neurons controlling peristalsis. PheWAS identified pleiotropic associations with dysmotility syndromes and the response to their pharmacological treatment. The genetic architecture of stool frequency correlates with that of IBS, and UK Biobank participants from the top 1% of stool frequency polygenic score distribution were associated with 5× higher risk of IBS with diarrhea. These findings pave the way for the identification of actionable pathological mechanisms in IBS and the dysmotility syndromes.

Original language	English
Article number	100069
Number of pages	15
Journal	Cell Genomics
Volume	1
Issue number	3
Early online date	8 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2021.100069
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 8 Dec 2021

Keywords

gut motility
GWAS
SNP
irritable bowel syndrome
polygenic scores
genetics
peristalsis
enteric nervous system

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Bonfiglio, F., Liu, X., Smillie, C., Pandit, A., Timpson, N. J., Kurilshikov, A., Bacigalupe, R., Zheng, T., Nim, H., Garcia-Etzebarria, K., Bujanda, L., Andreasson, A., Agreus, L., Walter, S., Abecasis, G. R., Eijsbouts, C., Jostins, L., Parkes, M., Hughes, D. A., ... D’Amato, M. (2021). GWAS of stool frequency provides insights into gastrointestinal motility and irritable bowel syndrome. Cell Genomics, 1(3), Article 100069. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2021.100069

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