DESCRIPTION:

List of positional candidate genes after correcting for multiple testing and controlling the false discovery rate from genome wide association studies (GWAS) retrieved from the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The disease/trait examined in this study, as reported by the authors, was Central corneal thickness. The EFO term eye measurement was annotated to this set after curation by NHGRI-EBI. Intergenic SNPS were mapped to both the upstream and downstream gene. P-value uploaded. This gene set was generated using gwas2gs v. 0.1.8 and the GWAS Catalog v. 1.0.1.

LABEL:

GWAS: eye measurement

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

DATE ADDED:

2017-05-02

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

V Vitart, G Bencić, C Hayward, J Skunca Herman, J Huffman, S Campbell, K Bućan, P Navarro, G Gunjaca, J Marin, L Zgaga, I Kolcić, O Polasek, M Kirin, ND Hastie, JF Wilson, I Rudan, H Campbell, Z Vatavuk, B Fleck, A Wright

TITLE:

New loci associated with central cornea thickness include COL5A1, AKAP13 and AVGR8.

JOURNAL:

Human molecular genetics Nov 2010, Vol 19, pp. 4304-11

ABSTRACT:

Central corneal thickness (CCT) is a highly heritable trait, which has been proposed to influence disorders of the anterior segment of the eye. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of CCT was performed in 2269 individuals from three Croatian and one Scottish population. In the discovery set (1445 individuals), two genome-wide significant associations were identified for single nucleotide polymorphisms rs12447690 (β = 0.23 SD, P = 4.4 × 10(-9)) and rs1536482 (β = 0.22 SD, P = 7.1 × 10(-8)) for which the closest candidate genes (although ≥90 kb away) were zinc finger 469 (ZNF469) on 16q24.2 and collagen 5 alpha 1 (COL5A1) on 9q34.2, respectively. Only the ZNF469 association was confirmed in our replication set (824 individuals, P = 8.0 × 10(-4)) but COL5A1 remained a suggestive association in the combined sample (β = 0.16 SD, P = 1.1 × 10(-6)). Following a larger meta-analysis including recently published CCT GWAS summary data, COL5A1 was genome-wide significant (β = 0.13 SD, P = 5.1 × 10(-8)), together with two additional novel loci. The second new locus (defined by rs1034200) was 5 kb from the AVGR8 gene, encoding a putative transcription factor with typical ZNF and KRAB domains, in chromosomal region 13q12.11 (β = 0.14 SD, P = 3.5 × 10(-9)). The third new locus (rs6496932), on 15q25.3 (β = 0.13, P = 1.4 × 10(-8)), was within a wide linkage disequilibrium block extending into the 5' end of the AKAP13 gene, encoding a scaffold protein concerned with signal transduction from the cell surface. These associations offer mechanistic insights into the regulation of CCT and offer new candidate genes for susceptibility to common disorders in which CCT has been implicated, including primary open-angle glaucoma and keratoconus. PUBMED: 20719862
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