@article{d036086ce38141afaa37dac6576fa9a2,
title = "Genome-wide association analysis identifies variants associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease that have distinct effects on metabolic traits",
abstract = "Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) clusters in families, but the only known common genetic variants influencing risk are near PNPLA3. We sought to identify additional genetic variants influencing NAFLD using genome-wide association (GWA) analysis of computed tomography (CT) measured hepatic steatosis, a non-invasive measure of NAFLD, in large population based samples. Using variance components methods, we show that CT hepatic steatosis is heritable (∼26%-27%) in family-based Amish, Family Heart, and Framingham Heart Studies (n = 880 to 3,070). By carrying out a fixed-effects meta-analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) results between CT hepatic steatosis and ∼2.4 million imputed or genotyped SNPs in 7,176 individuals from the Old Order Amish, Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik study (AGES), Family Heart, and Framingham Heart Studies, we identify variants associated at genome-wide significant levels (p",
keywords = "Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Blood Glucose, Case-Control Studies, Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans, Cohort Studies, Fatty Liver, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin, Lectins, C-Type, Lipase, Male, Membrane Proteins, Middle Aged, Mutation, Missense, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Tomography, X-Ray Computed",
author = "Speliotes, {Elizabeth K} and Yerges-Armstrong, {Laura M} and Jun Wu and Ruben Hernaez and Kim, {Lauren J} and Palmer, {Cameron D} and Vilmundur Gudnason and Gudny Eiriksdottir and Garcia, {Melissa E} and Launer, {Lenore J} and Nalls, {Michael A} and Clark, {Jeanne M} and Mitchell, {Braxton D} and Shuldiner, {Alan R} and Butler, {Johannah L} and Marta Tomas and Udo Hoffmann and Shih-Jen Hwang and Massaro, {Joseph M} and O'Donnell, {Christopher J} and Sahani, {Dushyant V} and Veikko Salomaa and Schadt, {Eric E} and Schwartz, {Stephen M} and Siscovick, {David S} and Voight, {Benjamin F} and Carr, {J Jeffrey} and Feitosa, {Mary F} and Harris, {Tamara B} and Fox, {Caroline S} and Smith, {Albert V} and Kao, {W H Linda} and Hirschhorn, {Joel N} and Borecki, {Ingrid B} and {NASH CRN}",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1371/journal.pgen.1001324",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
pages = "e1001324",
journal = "P L o S Genetics",
issn = "1553-7390",
publisher = "Public Library of Science",
number = "3",
}