Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

GWAS meta-analysis of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy implicates multiple hepatic genes and regulatory elements

  • Peter H. Dixon,
  • Adam P. Levine,
  • Inês Cebola,
  • Melanie M. Y. Chan,
  • Aliya S. Amin,
  • Anshul Aich,
  • Monika Mozere,
  • Hannah Maude,
  • Alice L. Mitchell,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • NIHR BioResource,
  • Genomics England Research Consortium Collaborators,
  • Jenny Chambers,
  • Argyro Syngelaki,
  • Jennifer Donnelly,
  • Sharon Cooley,
  • Michael Geary,
  • Kypros Nicolaides,
  • Malin Thorsell,
  • William M. Hague,
  • Maria Cecilia Estiu,
  • Hanns-Ulrich Marschall,
  • Daniel P. Gale,
  • Catherine Williamson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29931-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Investigation of variation in three cohorts has identified multiple genetic signals associated with the pregnancy-specific liver disorder, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, giving insight into the disease which can cause preterm birth and stillbirth.