Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Elucidating mechanisms of genetic cross-disease associations at the PROCR vascular disease locus

  • David Stacey,
  • Lingyan Chen,
  • Paulina J. Stanczyk,
  • Joanna M. M. Howson,
  • Amy M. Mason,
  • Stephen Burgess,
  • Stephen MacDonald,
  • Jonathan Langdown,
  • Harriett McKinney,
  • Kate Downes,
  • Neda Farahi,
  • James E. Peters,
  • Saonli Basu,
  • James S. Pankow,
  • Weihong Tang,
  • Nathan Pankratz,
  • Maria Sabater-Lleal,
  • Paul S. de Vries,
  • Nicholas L. Smith,
  • CHARGE Hemostasis Working Group,
  • Amy D. Gelinas,
  • Daniel J. Schneider,
  • Nebojsa Janjic,
  • Nilesh J. Samani,
  • Shu Ye,
  • Charlotte Summers,
  • Edwin R. Chilvers,
  • John Danesh,
  • Dirk S. Paul

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28729-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Many individual genetic risk loci associate with multiple diseases, but the molecular basis of these loci often remains unclear. Here, the authors provide a framework to reveal the genetic cross-disease associations at the PROCR vascular disease locus.