@article {436,
	title = {Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition},
	journal = {Nature Genetics},
	volume = {53},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {156{\textendash}165},
	abstract = {<p>To study the effect of host genetics on gut microbiome composition, the MiBioGen consortium curated and analyzed genome-wide genotypes and 16S fecal microbiome data from 18,340 individuals (24 cohorts). Microbial composition showed high variability across cohorts: only 9 of 410 genera were detected in more than 95\% of samples. A genome-wide association study of host genetic variation regarding microbial taxa identified 31 loci affecting the microbiome at a genome-wide significant (P \&lt; 5 $\times$ 10-8) threshold. One locus, the lactase (LCT) gene locus, reached study-wide significance (genome-wide association study signal: P = 1.28 $\times$ 10-20), and it showed an age-dependent association with Bifidobacterium abundance. Other associations were suggestive (1.95 $\times$ 10-10 \&lt; P \&lt; 5 $\times$ 10-8) but enriched for taxa showing high heritability and for genes expressed in the intestine and brain. A phenome-wide association study and Mendelian randomization identified enrichment of microbiome trait loci in the metabolic, nutrition and environment domains and suggested the microbiome might have causal effects in ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1038/s41588-020-00763-1},
	author = {Kurilshikov, Alexander and Medina-Gomez, Carolina and Bacigalupe, Rodrigo and Radjabzadeh, Djawad and Wang, Jun and Demirkan, Ayse and Le Roy, Caroline I and Raygoza Garay, Juan Antonio and Finnicum, Casey T and Liu, Xingrong and Zhernakova, Daria V and Bonder, Marc Jan and Hansen, Tue H and Frost, Fabian and R{\"u}hlemann, Malte C and Turpin, Williams and Moon, Jee-Young and Kim, Han-Na and L{\"u}ll, Kreete and Barkan, Elad and Shah, Shiraz A and Fornage, Myriam and Szopinska-Tokov, Joanna and Wallen, Zachary D and Borisevich, Dmitrii and Agreus, Lars and Andreasson, Anna and Bang, Corinna and Bedrani, Larbi and Bell, Jordana T and Bisgaard, Hans and Boehnke, Michael and Boomsma, Dorret I and Burk, Robert D and Claringbould, Annique and Croitoru, Kenneth and Davies, Gareth E and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Duijts, Liesbeth and Falony, Gwen and Fu, Jingyuan and van der Graaf, Adriaan and Hansen, Torben and Homuth, Georg and Hughes, David A and Ijzerman, Richard G and Jackson, Matthew A and Jaddoe, Vincent W V and Joossens, Marie and J{\o}rgensen, Torben and Keszthelyi, Daniel and Knight, Rob and Laakso, Markku and Laudes, Matthias and Launer, Lenore J and Lieb, Wolfgang and Lusis, Aldons J and Masclee, Ad A M and Moll, Henriette A and Mujagic, Zlatan and Qibin, Qi and Rothschild, Daphna and Shin, Hocheol and S{\o}rensen, S{\o}ren J and Steves, Claire J and Thorsen, Jonathan and Timpson, Nicholas J and Tito, Raul Y and Vieira-Silva, Sara and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and V{\"o}lzke, Henry and V{\~o}sa, Urmo and Wade, Kaitlin H and Walter, Susanna and Watanabe, Kyoko and Weiss, Stefan and Weiss, Frank U and Weissbrod, Omer and Westra, Harm-Jan and Willemsen, Gonneke and Payami, Haydeh and Jonkers, Daisy M A E and Arias Vasquez, Alejandro and de Geus, Eco J C and Meyer, Katie A and Stokholm, Jakob and Segal, Eran and Org, Elin and Wijmenga, Cisca and Kim, Hyung-Lae and Kaplan, Robert C and Spector, Tim D and Uitterlinden, Andre G and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Franke, Andre and Lerch, Markus M and Franke, Lude and Sanna, Serena and D{\textquoteright}Amato, Mauro and Pedersen, Oluf and Paterson, Andrew D and Kraaij, Robert and Raes, Jeroen and Zhernakova, Alexandra}
}
@article {423,
	title = {Identification, heritability, and relation with gene expression of novel DNA methylation loci for blood pressure},
	journal = {Hypertension},
	volume = {76},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {195{\textendash}205},
	abstract = {<p>We conducted an epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis on blood pressure (BP) in 4820 individuals of European and African ancestry aged 14 to 69. Genome-wide DNA methylation data from peripheral leukocytes were obtained using the Infinium Human Methylation 450k BeadChip. The epigenome-wide association study meta-analysis identified 39 BP-related CpG sites with P\&lt;1$\times$10-5. In silico replication in the CHARGE consortium of 17 010 individuals validated 16 of these CpG sites. Out of the 16 CpG sites, 13 showed novel association with BP. Conversely, out of the 126 CpG sites identified as being associated (P\&lt;1$\times$10-7) with BP in the CHARGE consortium, 21 were replicated in the current study. Methylation levels of all the 34 CpG sites that were cross-validated by the current study and the CHARGE consortium were heritable and 6 showed association with gene expression. Furthermore, 9 CpG sites also showed association with BP with P\&lt;0.05 and consistent direction of the effect in the meta-analysis of the Finnish Twin Cohort (199 twin pairs and 4 singletons; 61\% monozygous) and the Netherlands Twin Register (266 twin pairs and 62 singletons; 84\% monozygous). Bivariate quantitative genetic modeling of the twin data showed that a majority of the phenotypic correlations between methylation levels of these CpG sites and BP could be explained by shared unique environmental rather than genetic factors, with 100\% of the correlations of systolic BP with cg19693031 (TXNIP) and cg00716257 (JDP2) determined by environmental effects acting on both systolic BP and methylation levels.</p>
},
	keywords = {blood pressure, DNA methylation, epigenome, hypertension, twin study},
	doi = {10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.14973},
	author = {Huang, Yisong and Ollikainen, Miina and Muniandy, Maheswary and Zhang, Tao and van Dongen, Jenny and Hao, Guang and van der Most, Peter J and Pan, Yue and Pervjakova, Natalia and Sun, Yan V and Hui, Qin and Lahti, Jari and Fraszczyk, Eliza and Lu, Xueling and Sun, Dianjianyi and Richard, Melissa A and Willemsen, Gonneke and Heikkil{\"a}, Kauko and Mateo Leach, Irene and Mononen, Nina and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Hurme, Mikko A and Raitakari, Olli T and Drake, Amanda J and Perola, Markus and Nuotio, Marja-Liisa and Huang, Yunfeng and Khulan, Batbayar and R{\"a}ikk{\"o}nen, Katri and Wolffenbuttel, Bruce H R and Zhernakova, Alexandra and Fu, Jingyuan and Zhu, Haidong and Dong, Yanbin and van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V and Franke, Lude and Eriksson, Johan G and Fornage, Myriam and Milani, Lili and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Vaccarino, Viola and Boomsma, Dorret I and van der Harst, Pim and de Geus, Eco J C and Salomaa, Veikko and Li, Shengxu and Chen, Wei and Su, Shaoyong and Wilson, James and Snieder, Harold and Kaprio, Jaakko and Wang, Xiaoling}
}
