Whole-genome sequence-based analysis of thyroid function

Peter N Taylor; Eleonora Porcu; Shelby Chew; Purdey J Campbell; Michela Traglia; Suzanne J Brown; Benjamin H Mullin; Hashem A Shihab; Josine Min; Klaudia Walter; Yasin Memari; Jie Huang; Michael R Barnes; John P Beilby; Pimphen Charoen; Petr Danecek; Frank Dudbridge; Vincenzo Forgetta; Celia Greenwood; Elin Grundberg; Andrew D Johnson; Jennie Hui; Ee M Lim; Shane McCarthy; Dawn Muddyman; Vijay Panicker; John R B Perry; Jordana T Bell; Wei Yuan; Caroline Relton; Tom Gaunt; David Schlessinger; Goncalo Abecasis; Francesco Cucca; Gabriela L Surdulescu; Wolfram Woltersdorf; Eleftheria Zeggini; Hou-Feng Zheng; Daniela Toniolo; Colin M Dayan; Silvia Naitza; John P Walsh; Tim Spector; George Davey Smith; Richard Durbin; J Brent Richards; Serena Sanna; Nicole Soranzo; Nicholas J Timpson; Scott G Wilson; UK0K Consortium

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Whole-genome sequence-based analysis of thyroid function

Peter N Taylor, Eleonora Porcu, Shelby Chew, Purdey J Campbell, Michela Traglia, Suzanne J Brown, Benjamin H Mullin, Hashem A Shihab, Josine Min, Klaudia Walter, Yasin Memari, Jie Huang, Michael R Barnes, John P Beilby, Pimphen Charoen, Petr Danecek, Frank Dudbridge, Vincenzo Forgetta, Celia Greenwood, Elin GrundbergAndrew D Johnson, Jennie Hui, Ee M Lim, Shane McCarthy, Dawn Muddyman, Vijay Panicker, John R B Perry, Jordana T Bell, Wei Yuan, Caroline Relton, Tom Gaunt, David Schlessinger, Goncalo Abecasis, Francesco Cucca, Gabriela L Surdulescu, Wolfram Woltersdorf, Eleftheria Zeggini, Hou-Feng Zheng, Daniela Toniolo, Colin M Dayan, Silvia Naitza, John P Walsh, Tim Spector, George Davey Smith, Richard Durbin, J Brent Richards, Serena Sanna, Nicole Soranzo, Nicholas J Timpson, Scott G Wilson, UK0K Consortium

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Normal thyroid function is essential for health, but its genetic architecture remains poorly understood. Here, for the heritable thyroid traits thyrotropin (TSH) and free thyroxine (FT4), we analyse whole-genome sequence data from the UK10K project (N=2,287). Using additional whole-genome sequence and deeply imputed data sets, we report meta-analysis results for common variants (MAF≥1%) associated with TSH and FT4 (N=16,335). For TSH, we identify a novel variant in SYN2 (MAF=23.5%, P=6.15 × 10(-9)) and a new independent variant in PDE8B (MAF=10.4%, P=5.94 × 10(-14)). For FT4, we report a low-frequency variant near B4GALT6/SLC25A52 (MAF=3.2%, P=1.27 × 10(-9)) tagging a rare TTR variant (MAF=0.4%, P=2.14 × 10(-11)). All common variants explain ≥20% of the variance in TSH and FT4. Analysis of rare variants (MAF<1%) using sequence kernel association testing reveals a novel association with FT4 in NRG1. Our results demonstrate that increased coverage in whole-genome sequence association studies identifies novel variants associated with thyroid function.

Original language	English
Article number	5681 (2015)
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6681
Publication status	Published - 6 Mar 2015

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Taylor, P. N., Porcu, E., Chew, S., Campbell, P. J., Traglia, M., Brown, S. J., Mullin, B. H., Shihab, H. A., Min, J., Walter, K., Memari, Y., Huang, J., Barnes, M. R., Beilby, J. P., Charoen, P., Danecek, P., Dudbridge, F., Forgetta, V., Greenwood, C., ... UK0K Consortium (2015). Whole-genome sequence-based analysis of thyroid function. Nature Communications, 6, Article 5681 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6681

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