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Study Report - GWAS of osteoporosis (HGVST506)| HGVbaseG2P identifier | HGVST506 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Study name | GWAS of osteoporosis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Phenotype(s) tested | Osteoporosis |
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| Study design | Case and control with replication | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Genotype Platforms |
Affymetrix 281,533 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Osteoporosis is a major public health problem. It is mainly characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD) and/or low-trauma osteoporotic fractures (OF), both of which have strong genetic determination. The specific genes influencing these phenotypic traits, however, are largely unknown. Using the Affymetrix 500K array set, we performed a case-control genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 700 elderly Chinese Han subjects (350 with hip OF and 350 healthy matched controls). A follow-up replication study was conducted to validate our major GWAS findings in an independent Chinese sample containing 390 cases with hip OF and 516 controls. We found that a SNP, rs13182402 within the ALDH7A1 gene on chromosome 5q31, was strongly associated with OF with evidence combined GWAS and replication studies (P = 2.08x10(-9), odds ratio = 2.25). In order to explore the target risk factors and potential mechanism underlying hip OF risk, we further examined this candidate SNP's relevance to hip BMD both in Chinese and Caucasian populations involving 9,962 additional subjects. This SNP was confirmed as consistently associated with hip BMD even across ethnic boundaries, in both Chinese and Caucasians (combined P = 6.39x10(-6)), further attesting to its potential effect on osteoporosis. ALDH7A1 degrades and detoxifies acetaldehyde, which inhibits osteoblast proliferation and results in decreased bone formation. Our findings may provide new insights into the pathogenesis of osteoporosis. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Cross-references |
NHGRI GWAS catalog study annotation for HGVST506 |
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| Background | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Key results | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Conclusions | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reason for study size | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Study power | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources of bias | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Limitations | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Acknowledgements | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other citations |
Hindorff LA, Sethupathy P, Junkins HA et al.
Potential etiologic and functional implications of genome-wide association loci for human diseases and traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. 2009 May 27
Guo Y, Tan LJ, Lei SF et al.
Genome-wide association study identifies ALDH7A1 as a novel susceptibility gene for osteoporosis. PLoS Genetics 2010 Jan 8;6(1):e1000806 |
