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- Title
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in five cohorts reveals common variants in RBFOX1, a regulator of tissue-specific splicing, associated with refractive error.
- Authors
Stambolian, Dwight; Wojciechowski, Robert; Oexle, Konrad; Pirastu, Mario; Li, Xiaohui; Raffel, Leslie J.; Cotch, Mary Frances; Chew, Emily Y.; Klein, Barbara; Klein, Ronald; Wong, Tien Y.; Simpson, Claire L.; Klaver, Caroline C.W.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Verhoeven, Virginie J.M.; Baird, Paul N.; Vitart, Veronique; Paterson, Andrew D.; Mitchell, Paul; Saw, Seang Mei
- Abstract
Visual refractive errors (REs) are complex genetic traits with a largely unknown etiology. To date, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of moderate size have identified several novel risk markers for RE, measured here as mean spherical equivalent (MSE). We performed a GWAS using a total of 7280 samples from five cohorts: the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS); the KORA study (‘Cooperative Health Research in the Region of Augsburg’); the Framingham Eye Study (FES); the Ogliastra Genetic Park-Talana (OGP-Talana) Study and the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Genotyping was performed on Illumina and Affymetrix platforms with additional markers imputed to the HapMap II reference panel. We identified a new genome-wide significant locus on chromosome 16 (rs10500355, P = 3.9 × 10−9) in a combined discovery and replication set (26 953 samples). This single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is located within the RBFOX1 gene which is a neuron-specific splicing factor regulating a wide range of alternative splicing events implicated in neuronal development and maturation, including transcription factors, other splicing factors and synaptic proteins.
- Publication
Human Molecular Genetics, 2013, Vol 22, Issue 13, p2754
- ISSN
0964-6906
- Publication type
Article