Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases

Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases

Reduced central corneal thickness (CCT) is observed in common eye diseases as well as in rare Mendelian disorders. Here, in a cross-ancestry GWAS, the authors identify 19 novel genetic loci associated with CCT, a subset of which is involved in rare corneal or connective tissue disorders.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Adriana I. Iglesias, Aniket Mishra, Veronique Vitart, Yelena Bykhovskaya, René Höhn, Henriët Springelkamp, Gabriel Cuellar-Partida, Puya Gharahkhani, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Colin E. Willoughby, Xiaohui Li, Seyhan Yazar, Abhishek Nag, Anthony P. Khawaja, Ozren Polašek, David Siscovick, Paul Mitchell, Yih Chung Tham, Jonathan L. Haines, Lisa S. Kearns, Caroline Hayward, Yuan Shi, Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Kent D. Taylor, Blue Mountains Eye Study—GWAS group, Pieter Bonnemaijer, Jerome I. Rotter, Nicholas G. Martin, Tanja Zeller, Richard A. Mills, Emmanuelle Souzeau, Sandra E. Staffieri, Jost B. Jonas, Irene Schmidtmann, Thibaud Boutin, Jae H. Kang, Sionne E. M. Lucas, Tien Yin Wong, Manfred E. Beutel, James F. Wilson, NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2), André G. Uitterlinden, Eranga N. Vithana, Paul J. Foster, Pirro G. Hysi, Alex W. Hewitt, Chiea Chuen Khor, Louis R. Pasquale, Grant W. Montgomery, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Tin Aung, Norbert Pfeiffer, David A. Mackey, Christopher J. Hammond, Ching-Yu Cheng, Jamie E. Craig, Yaron S. Rabinowitz, Janey L. Wiggs, Kathryn P. Burdon, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Stuart MacGregor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03646-6

Similar Items

Similar Items