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Journal Article
Pleiotropic genetic architecture and novel loci for C-reactive protein levels
2022
Overview
C-reactive protein is involved in a plethora of pathophysiological conditions. Many genetic loci associated with C-reactive protein are annotated to lipid and glucose metabolism genes supporting common biological pathways between inflammation and metabolic traits. To identify novel pleiotropic loci, we perform multi-trait analysis of genome-wide association studies on C-reactive protein levels along with cardiometabolic traits, followed by a series of in silico analyses including colocalization, phenome-wide association studies and Mendelian randomization. We find 41 novel loci and 19 gene sets associated with C-reactive protein with various pleiotropic effects. Additionally, 41 variants colocalize between C-reactive protein and cardiometabolic risk factors and 12 of them display unexpected discordant effects between the shared traits which are translated into discordant associations with clinical outcomes in subsequent phenome-wide association studies. Our findings provide insights into shared mechanisms underlying inflammation and lipid metabolism, representing potential preventive and therapeutic targets.
Chronic inflammation and lipometabolism share many causal genes and possibly pathways. Here, the authors use a multi-trait GWAS approach to study shared genetic determinants of low-grade inflammation, measured by C-reactive protein (CRP), and closely linked lipid and metabolic pathways.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ 45/43
/ 692/4017
/ C-Reactive Protein - genetics
/ Genes
/ Genetic Predisposition to Disease
/ Genome-wide association studies
/ Genome-Wide Association Study
/ Genomes
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Lipids
/ Mendelian Randomization Analysis
/ Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
/ Proteins
/ Quality
/ Science
