Pleiotropy of genetic variants on obesity and smoking phenotypes: Results from the Oncoarray Project of The International Lung Cancer Consortium

Tao Wang; Jee-Young Moon; Yiqun Wu; Christopher I Amos; Rayjean J Hung; Adonina Tardon; Angeline Andrew; Chu Chen; David C Christiani; Demetrios Albanes; Erik H F M van der Heijden; Eric Duell; Gadi Rennert; Gary Goodman; Geoffrey Liu; James D Mckay; Jian-Min Yuan; John K Field; Jonas Manjer; Kjell Grankvist; Lambertus A Kiemeney; Loic Le Marchand; M Dawn Teare; Matthew B Schabath; Mattias Johansson; Melinda C Aldrich; Michael Davies; Mikael Johansson; Ming-Sound Tsao; Neil Caporaso; Philip Lazarus; Stephen Lam; Stig E Bojesen; Susanne Arnold; Xifeng Wu; Xuchen Zong; Yun-Chul Hong; Gloria Y F Ho

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Pleiotropy of genetic variants on obesity and smoking phenotypes: Results from the Oncoarray Project of The International Lung Cancer Consortium

Tao Wang, Jee-Young Moon, Yiqun Wu, Christopher I Amos, Rayjean J Hung, Adonina Tardon, Angeline Andrew, Chu Chen, David C Christiani, Demetrios Albanes, Erik H F M van der Heijden, Eric Duell, Gadi Rennert, Gary Goodman, Geoffrey Liu, James D Mckay, Jian-Min Yuan, John K Field, Jonas Manjer, Kjell GrankvistLambertus A Kiemeney, Loic Le Marchand, M Dawn Teare, Matthew B Schabath, Mattias Johansson, Melinda C Aldrich, Michael Davies, Mikael Johansson, Ming-Sound Tsao, Neil Caporaso, Philip Lazarus, Stephen Lam, Stig E Bojesen, Susanne Arnold, Xifeng Wu, Xuchen Zong, Yun-Chul Hong, Gloria Y F Ho

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Obesity and cigarette smoking are correlated through complex relationships. Common genetic causes may contribute to these correlations. In this study, we selected 241 loci potentially associated with body mass index (BMI) based on the Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) consortium data and calculated a BMI genetic risk score (BMI-GRS) for 17,037 individuals of European descent from the Oncoarray Project of the International Lung Cancer Consortium (ILCCO). Smokers had a significantly higher BMI-GRS than never-smokers (p = 0.016 and 0.010 before and after adjustment for BMI, respectively). The BMI-GRS was also positively correlated with pack-years of smoking (p<0.001) in smokers. Based on causal network inference analyses, seven and five of 241 SNPs were classified to pleiotropic models for BMI/smoking status and BMI/pack-years, respectively. Among them, three and four SNPs associated with smoking status and pack-years (p<0.05), respectively, were followed up in the ever-smoking data of the Tobacco, Alcohol and Genetics (TAG) consortium. Among these seven candidate SNPs, one SNP (rs11030104, BDNF) achieved statistical significance after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing, and three suggestive SNPs (rs13021737, TMEM18; rs11583200, ELAVL4; and rs6990042, SGCZ) achieved a nominal statistical significance. Our results suggest that there is a common genetic component between BMI and smoking, and pleiotropy analysis can be useful to identify novel genetic loci of complex phenotypes.

Original language	English
Article number	e0185660
Journal	PloS one
Volume	12
Issue number	9
Number of pages	17
ISSN	1932-6203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185660
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2017

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Aged
Body Mass Index
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Obesity
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Smoking
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Wang, T., Moon, J.-Y., Wu, Y., Amos, C. I., Hung, R. J., Tardon, A., Andrew, A., Chen, C., Christiani, D. C., Albanes, D., Heijden, E. H. F. M. V. D., Duell, E., Rennert, G., Goodman, G., Liu, G., Mckay, J. D., Yuan, J.-M., Field, J. K., Manjer, J., ... Ho, G. Y. F. (2017). Pleiotropy of genetic variants on obesity and smoking phenotypes: Results from the Oncoarray Project of The International Lung Cancer Consortium. PloS one, 12(9), Article e0185660. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185660

Wang, T, Moon, J-Y, Wu, Y, Amos, CI, Hung, RJ, Tardon, A, Andrew, A, Chen, C, Christiani, DC, Albanes, D, Heijden, EHFMVD, Duell, E, Rennert, G, Goodman, G, Liu, G, Mckay, JD, Yuan, J-M, Field, JK, Manjer, J, Grankvist, K, Kiemeney, LA, Marchand, LL, Teare, MD, Schabath, MB, Johansson, M, Aldrich, MC, Davies, M, Johansson, M, Tsao, M-S, Caporaso, N, Lazarus, P, Lam, S, Bojesen, SE, Arnold, S, Wu, X, Zong, X, Hong, Y-C & Ho, GYF 2017, 'Pleiotropy of genetic variants on obesity and smoking phenotypes: Results from the Oncoarray Project of The International Lung Cancer Consortium', PloS one, vol. 12, no. 9, e0185660. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185660

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Pleiotropy of genetic variants on obesity and smoking phenotypes: Results from the Oncoarray Project of The International Lung Cancer Consortium

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