Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Multi-ancestry study of blood lipid levels identifies four loci interacting with physical activity

  • Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,
  • Amy R. Bentley,
  • Raymond Noordam,
  • Yun Ju Sung,
  • Karen Schwander,
  • Thomas W. Winkler,
  • Hermina Jakupović,
  • Daniel I. Chasman,
  • Alisa Manning,
  • Ioanna Ntalla,
  • Hugues Aschard,
  • Michael R. Brown,
  • Lisa de las Fuentes,
  • Nora Franceschini,
  • Xiuqing Guo,
  • Dina Vojinovic,
  • Stella Aslibekyan,
  • Mary F. Feitosa,
  • Minjung Kho,
  • Solomon K. Musani,
  • Melissa Richard,
  • Heming Wang,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Traci M. Bartz,
  • Lawrence F. Bielak,
  • Archie Campbell,
  • Rajkumar Dorajoo,
  • Virginia Fisher,
  • Fernando P. Hartwig,
  • Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto,
  • Changwei Li,
  • Kurt K. Lohman,
  • Jonathan Marten,
  • Xueling Sim,
  • Albert V. Smith,
  • Salman M. Tajuddin,
  • Maris Alver,
  • Marzyeh Amini,
  • Mathilde Boissel,
  • Jin Fang Chai,
  • Xu Chen,
  • Jasmin Divers,
  • Evangelos Evangelou,
  • Chuan Gao,
  • Mariaelisa Graff,
  • Sarah E. Harris,
  • Meian He,
  • Fang-Chi Hsu,
  • Anne U. Jackson,
  • Jing Hua Zhao,
  • Aldi T. Kraja,
  • Brigitte Kühnel,
  • Federica Laguzzi,
  • Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,
  • Ilja M. Nolte,
  • Rainer Rauramaa,
  • Muhammad Riaz,
  • Antonietta Robino,
  • Rico Rueedi,
  • Heather M. Stringham,
  • Fumihiko Takeuchi,
  • Peter J. van der Most,
  • Tibor V. Varga,
  • Niek Verweij,
  • Erin B. Ware,
  • Wanqing Wen,
  • Xiaoyin Li,
  • Lisa R. Yanek,
  • Najaf Amin,
  • Donna K. Arnett,
  • Eric Boerwinkle,
  • Marco Brumat,
  • Brian Cade,
  • Mickaël Canouil,
  • Yii-Der Ida Chen,
  • Maria Pina Concas,
  • John Connell,
  • Renée de Mutsert,
  • H. Janaka de Silva,
  • Paul S. de Vries,
  • Ayşe Demirkan,
  • Jingzhong Ding,
  • Charles B. Eaton,
  • Jessica D. Faul,
  • Yechiel Friedlander,
  • Kelley P. Gabriel,
  • Mohsen Ghanbari,
  • Franco Giulianini,
  • Chi Charles Gu,
  • Dongfeng Gu,
  • Tamara B. Harris,
  • Jiang He,
  • Sami Heikkinen,
  • Chew-Kiat Heng,
  • Steven C. Hunt,
  • M. Arfan Ikram,
  • Jost B. Jonas,
  • Woon-Puay Koh,
  • Pirjo Komulainen,
  • Jose E. Krieger,
  • Stephen B. Kritchevsky,
  • Zoltán Kutalik,
  • Johanna Kuusisto,
  • Carl D. Langefeld,
  • Claudia Langenberg,
  • Lenore J. Launer,
  • Karin Leander,
  • Rozenn N. Lemaitre,
  • Cora E. Lewis,
  • Jingjing Liang,
  • Lifelines Cohort Study,
  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Reedik Mägi,
  • Ani Manichaikul,
  • Thomas Meitinger,
  • Andres Metspalu,
  • Yuri Milaneschi,
  • Karen L. Mohlke,
  • Thomas H. Mosley,
  • Alison D. Murray,
  • Mike A. Nalls,
  • Ei-Ei Khaing Nang,
  • Christopher P. Nelson,
  • Sotoodehnia Nona,
  • Jill M. Norris,
  • Chiamaka Vivian Nwuba,
  • Jeff O’Connell,
  • Nicholette D. Palmer,
  • George J. Papanicolau,
  • Raha Pazoki,
  • Nancy L. Pedersen,
  • Annette Peters,
  • Patricia A. Peyser,
  • Ozren Polasek,
  • David J. Porteous,
  • Alaitz Poveda,
  • Olli T. Raitakari,
  • Stephen S. Rich,
  • Neil Risch,
  • Jennifer G. Robinson,
  • Lynda M. Rose,
  • Igor Rudan,
  • Pamela J. Schreiner,
  • Robert A. Scott,
  • Stephen S. Sidney,
  • Mario Sims,
  • Jennifer A. Smith,
  • Harold Snieder,
  • Tamar Sofer,
  • John M. Starr,
  • Barbara Sternfeld,
  • Konstantin Strauch,
  • Hua Tang,
  • Kent D. Taylor,
  • Michael Y. Tsai,
  • Jaakko Tuomilehto,
  • André G. Uitterlinden,
  • M. Yldau van der Ende,
  • Diana van Heemst,
  • Trudy Voortman,
  • Melanie Waldenberger,
  • Patrik Wennberg,
  • Gregory Wilson,
  • Yong-Bing Xiang,
  • Jie Yao,
  • Caizheng Yu,
  • Jian-Min Yuan,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Alan B. Zonderman,
  • Diane M. Becker,
  • Michael Boehnke,
  • Donald W. Bowden,
  • Ulf de Faire,
  • Ian J. Deary,
  • Paul Elliott,
  • Tõnu Esko,
  • Barry I. Freedman,
  • Philippe Froguel,
  • Paolo Gasparini,
  • Christian Gieger,
  • Norihiro Kato,
  • Markku Laakso,
  • Timo A. Lakka,
  • Terho Lehtimäki,
  • Patrik K. E. Magnusson,
  • Albertine J. Oldehinkel,
  • Brenda W. J. H. Penninx,
  • Nilesh J. Samani,
  • Xiao-Ou Shu,
  • Pim van der Harst,
  • Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,
  • Peter Vollenweider,
  • Lynne E. Wagenknecht,
  • Ya X. Wang,
  • Nicholas J. Wareham,
  • David R. Weir,
  • Tangchun Wu,
  • Wei Zheng,
  • Xiaofeng Zhu,
  • Michele K. Evans,
  • Paul W. Franks,
  • Vilmundur Gudnason,
  • Caroline Hayward,
  • Bernardo L. Horta,
  • Tanika N. Kelly,
  • Yongmei Liu,
  • Kari E. North,
  • Alexandre C. Pereira,
  • Paul M. Ridker,
  • E. Shyong Tai,
  • Rob M. van Dam,
  • Ervin R. Fox,
  • Sharon L. R. Kardia,
  • Ching-Ti Liu,
  • Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,
  • Michael A. Province,
  • Susan Redline,
  • Cornelia M. van Duijn,
  • Jerome I. Rotter,
  • Charles B. Kooperberg,
  • W. James Gauderman,
  • Bruce M. Psaty,
  • Kenneth Rice,
  • Patricia B. Munroe,
  • Myriam Fornage,
  • L. Adrienne Cupples,
  • Charles N. Rotimi,
  • Alanna C. Morrison,
  • Dabeeru C. Rao,
  • Ruth J. F. Loos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08008-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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GWAS have identified more than 500 genetic loci associated with blood lipid levels. Here, the authors report a genome-wide analysis of interactions between genetic markers and physical activity, and find that physical activity modifies the effects of four genetic loci on HDL or LDL cholesterol.