Authors
Carolina Roselli, Mark D Chaffin, Lu-Chen Weng, Stefanie Aeschbacher, Gustav Ahlberg, Christine M Albert, Peter Almgren, Alvaro Alonso, Christopher D Anderson, Krishna G Aragam, Dan E Arking, John Barnard, Traci M Bartz, Emelia J Benjamin, Nathan A Bihlmeyer, Joshua C Bis, Heather L Bloom, Eric Boerwinkle, Erwin B Bottinger, Jennifer A Brody, Hugh Calkins, Archie Campbell, Thomas P Cappola, John Carlquist, Daniel I Chasman, Lin Y Chen, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Eue-Keun Choi, Seung Hoan Choi, Ingrid E Christophersen, Mina K Chung, John W Cole, David Conen, James Cook, Harry J Crijns, Michael J Cutler, Scott M Damrauer, Brian R Daniels, Dawood Darbar, Graciela Delgado, Joshua C Denny, Martin Dichgans, Marcus Dörr, Elton A Dudink, Samuel C Dudley, Nada Esa, Tonu Esko, Markku Eskola, Diane Fatkin, Stephan B Felix, Ian Ford, Oscar H Franco, Bastiaan Geelhoed, Raji P Grewal, Vilmundur Gudnason, Xiuqing Guo, Namrata Gupta, Stefan Gustafsson, Rebecca Gutmann, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B Harris, Caroline Hayward, Susan R Heckbert, Jussi Hernesniemi, Lynne J Hocking, Albert Hofman, Andrea RVR Horimoto, Jie Huang, Paul L Huang, Jennifer Huffman, Erik Ingelsson, Esra Gucuk Ipek, Kaoru Ito, Jordi Jimenez-Conde, Renee Johnson, J Wouter Jukema, Stefan Kääb, Mika Kähönen, Yoichiro Kamatani, John P Kane, Adnan Kastrati, Sekar Kathiresan, Petra Katschnig-Winter, Maryam Kavousi, Thorsten Kessler, Bas L Kietselaer, Paulus Kirchhof, Marcus E Kleber, Stacey Knight, Jose E Krieger, Michiaki Kubo, Lenore J Launer, Jari Laurikka, Terho Lehtimäki, Kirsten Leineweber, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Man Li, Hong Euy Lim, Henry J Lin, Honghuang Lin, Lars Lind, Cecilia M Lindgren, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Barry London, Ruth JF Loos, Siew-Kee Low, Yingchang Lu, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Peter W Macfarlane, Patrik K Magnusson, Anubha Mahajan, Rainer Malik, Alfredo J Mansur, Gregory M Marcus, Lauren Margolin, Kenneth B Margulies, Winfried März, David D McManus, Olle Melander, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Jay A Montgomery, Michael P Morley, Andrew P Morris, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Andrea Natale, Saman Nazarian, Benjamin Neumann, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Maartje N Niemeijer, Kjell Nikus, Peter Nilsson, Raymond Noordam, Heidi Oellers, Morten S Olesen, Marju Orho-Melander, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Hui-Nam Pak, Guillaume Paré, Nancy L Pedersen, Joanna Pera, Alexandre Pereira, David Porteous, Bruce M Psaty, Sara L Pulit, Clive R Pullinger, Daniel J Rader, Lena Refsgaard, Marta Ribasés, Paul M Ridker, Michiel Rienstra
Publication date
2018/9
Journal
Nature genetics
Volume
50
Issue
9
Pages
1225-1233
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US
Description
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide and has a complex heritability. We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for AF to date, consisting of more than half a million individuals, including 65,446 with AF. In total, we identified 97 loci significantly associated with AF, including 67 that were novel in a combined-ancestry analysis, and 3 that were novel in a European-specific analysis. We sought to identify AF-associated genes at the GWAS loci by performing RNA-sequencing and expression quantitative trait locus analyses in 101 left atrial samples, the most relevant tissue for AF. We also performed transcriptome-wide analyses that identified 57 AF-associated genes, 42 of which overlap with GWAS loci. The identified loci implicate genes enriched within cardiac developmental, electrophysiological, contractile and structural pathways. These …
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