Communications Biology (Nov 2022)

A genome-wide association study with tissue transcriptomics identifies genetic drivers for classic bladder exstrophy

  • Enrico Mingardo,
  • Glenda Beaman,
  • Philip Grote,
  • Agneta Nordenskjöld,
  • William Newman,
  • Adrian S. Woolf,
  • Markus Eckstein,
  • Alina C. Hilger,
  • Gabriel C. Dworschak,
  • Wolfgang Rösch,
  • Anne-Karolin Ebert,
  • Raimund Stein,
  • Alfredo Brusco,
  • Massimo Di Grazia,
  • Ali Tamer,
  • Federico M. Torres,
  • Jose L. Hernandez,
  • Philipp Erben,
  • Carlo Maj,
  • Jose M. Olmos,
  • Jose A. Riancho,
  • Carmen Valero,
  • Isabel C. Hostettler,
  • Henry Houlden,
  • David J. Werring,
  • Johannes Schumacher,
  • Jan Gehlen,
  • Ann-Sophie Giel,
  • Benedikt C. Buerfent,
  • Samara Arkani,
  • Elisabeth Åkesson,
  • Emilia Rotstein,
  • Michael Ludwig,
  • Gundela Holmdahl,
  • Elisa Giorgio,
  • Alfredo Berettini,
  • David Keene,
  • Raimondo M. Cervellione,
  • Nina Younsi,
  • Melissa Ortlieb,
  • Josef Oswald,
  • Bernhard Haid,
  • Martin Promm,
  • Claudia Neissner,
  • Karin Hirsch,
  • Maximilian Stehr,
  • Frank-Mattias Schäfer,
  • Eberhard Schmiedeke,
  • Thomas M. Boemers,
  • Iris A. L. M. van Rooij,
  • Wouter F. J. Feitz,
  • Carlo L. M. Marcelis,
  • Martin Lacher,
  • Jana Nelson,
  • Benno Ure,
  • Caroline Fortmann,
  • Daniel P. Gale,
  • Melanie M. Y. Chan,
  • Kerstin U. Ludwig,
  • Markus M. Nöthen,
  • Stefanie Heilmann,
  • Nadine Zwink,
  • Ekkehart Jenetzky,
  • Benjamin Odermatt,
  • Michael Knapp,
  • Heiko Reutter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04092-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A genome-wide association study on classic bladder exstrophy reveals eight genome-wide significant loci, most of which contained genes expressed in embryonic developmental bladder stages.