Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Genome-wide association study in 79,366 European-ancestry individuals informs the genetic architecture of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels

  • Xia Jiang,
  • Paul F. O’Reilly,
  • Hugues Aschard,
  • Yi-Hsiang Hsu,
  • J. Brent Richards,
  • Josée Dupuis,
  • Erik Ingelsson,
  • David Karasik,
  • Stefan Pilz,
  • Diane Berry,
  • Bryan Kestenbaum,
  • Jusheng Zheng,
  • Jianan Luan,
  • Eleni Sofianopoulou,
  • Elizabeth A. Streeten,
  • Demetrius Albanes,
  • Pamela L. Lutsey,
  • Lu Yao,
  • Weihong Tang,
  • Michael J. Econs,
  • Henri Wallaschofski,
  • Henry Völzke,
  • Ang Zhou,
  • Chris Power,
  • Mark I. McCarthy,
  • Erin D. Michos,
  • Eric Boerwinkle,
  • Stephanie J. Weinstein,
  • Neal D. Freedman,
  • Wen-Yi Huang,
  • Natasja M. Van Schoor,
  • Nathalie van der Velde,
  • Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot,
  • Anke Enneman,
  • L. Adrienne Cupples,
  • Sarah L. Booth,
  • Ramachandran S. Vasan,
  • Ching-Ti Liu,
  • Yanhua Zhou,
  • Samuli Ripatti,
  • Claes Ohlsson,
  • Liesbeth Vandenput,
  • Mattias Lorentzon,
  • Johan G. Eriksson,
  • M. Kyla Shea,
  • Denise K. Houston,
  • Stephen B. Kritchevsky,
  • Yongmei Liu,
  • Kurt K. Lohman,
  • Luigi Ferrucci,
  • Munro Peacock,
  • Christian Gieger,
  • Marian Beekman,
  • Eline Slagboom,
  • Joris Deelen,
  • Diana van Heemst,
  • Marcus E. Kleber,
  • Winfried März,
  • Ian H. de Boer,
  • Alexis C. Wood,
  • Jerome I. Rotter,
  • Stephen S. Rich,
  • Cassianne Robinson-Cohen,
  • Martin den Heijer,
  • Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin,
  • Alana Cavadino,
  • Peter K. Joshi,
  • James F. Wilson,
  • Caroline Hayward,
  • Lars Lind,
  • Karl Michaëlsson,
  • Stella Trompet,
  • M. Carola Zillikens,
  • Andre G. Uitterlinden,
  • Fernando Rivadeneira,
  • Linda Broer,
  • Lina Zgaga,
  • Harry Campbell,
  • Evropi Theodoratou,
  • Susan M. Farrington,
  • Maria Timofeeva,
  • Malcolm G. Dunlop,
  • Ana M. Valdes,
  • Emmi Tikkanen,
  • Terho Lehtimäki,
  • Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,
  • Mika Kähönen,
  • Olli T. Raitakari,
  • Vera Mikkilä,
  • M. Arfan Ikram,
  • Naveed Sattar,
  • J. Wouter Jukema,
  • Nicholas J. Wareham,
  • Claudia Langenberg,
  • Nita G. Forouhi,
  • Thomas E. Gundersen,
  • Kay-Tee Khaw,
  • Adam S. Butterworth,
  • John Danesh,
  • Timothy Spector,
  • Thomas J. Wang,
  • Elina Hyppönen,
  • Peter Kraft,
  • Douglas P. Kiel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02662-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with multiple human pathologic conditions. In a genome-wide association study of 79,366 individuals, Jiang et al. replicate four and identify two new genetic loci for serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and find evidence for a shared genetic basis with autoimmune diseases.