2013-07-01
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in five cohorts reveals common variants in RBFOX1, a regulator of tissue-specific splicing, associated with refractive error
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Human Molecular Genetics , Volume 22 - Issue 13 p. 2754- 2764
Visual refractive errors (REs) are complex genetic traits with a largely unknown etiology. To date, genomewide association studies (GWASs) of moderate size have identified several novel risk markers for RE, measured here as mean spherical equivalent (MSE). We performed a GWAS using a total of 7280 samples from five cohorts: the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS); the KORA study ('Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg'); the Framingham Eye Study (FES); the Ogliastra Genetic Park-Talana (OGPTalana) Study and the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Genotyping was performed on Illumina and Affymetrix platforms with additional markers imputed to the HapMap II reference panel. We identified a new genome-wide significant locus on chromosome 16 (rs10500355, P = 3.9 × 10-9) in a combined discovery and replication set (26 953 samples). This single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is located within the RBFOX1 gene which is a neuron-specific splicing factor regulating a wide range of alternative splicing events implicated in neuronal development and maturation, including transcription factors, other splicing factors and synaptic proteins.
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| doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddt116, hdl.handle.net/1765/56920 | |
| Human Molecular Genetics | |
| Organisation | Department of Internal Medicine |
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Stambolian, D., Wojciechowski, R., Oexle, K., Pirastu, M., Li, X., Raffe, L., … Bailey-Wilson, J. (2013). Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in five cohorts reveals common variants in RBFOX1, a regulator of tissue-specific splicing, associated with refractive error. Human Molecular Genetics, 22(13), 2754–2764. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddt116 |
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