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Increased Genetic Vulnerability to Smoking at CHRNA5 in Early-Onset Smokers

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Hartz, Sarah M., Short, Susan E., Saccone, Nancy L., Culverhouse, Robert, Chen, LiShiun, Schwantes-An, Tae-Hwi, Coon, Hilary, Han, Younghun +144 more·2012·Archives of General Psychiatry

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CONTEXT: Recent studies have shown an association between cigarettes per day (CPD) and a nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphism in CHRNA5, rs16969968. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the association between rs16969968 and smoking is modified by age at onset of regular smoking. DATA SOURCES: Primary data. STUDY SELECTION: Available genetic studies containing measures of CPD and the genotype of rs16969968 or its proxy. DATA EXTRACTION: Uniform statistical analysis scripts were run locally. Starting with 94,050 ever-smokers from 43 studies, we extracted the heavy smokers (CPD >20) and light smokers (CPD ≤10) with age-at-onset information, reducing the sample size to 33,348. Each study was stratified into early-onset smokers (age at onset ≤16 years) and late-onset smokers (age at onset >16 years), and a logistic regression of heavy vs light smoking with the rs16969968 genotype was computed for each stratum. Meta-analysis was performed within each age-at-onset stratum. DATA SYNTHESIS: Individuals with 1 risk allele at rs16969968 who were early-onset smokers were significantly more likely to be heavy smokers in adulthood (odds ratio [OR] = 1.45; 95% CI, 1.36-1.55; n = 13,843) than were carriers of the risk allele who were late-onset smokers (OR = 1.27; 95% CI, 1.21-1.33, n = 19,505) (P = .01). CONCLUSION: These results highlight an increased genetic vulnerability to smoking in early-onset smokers.

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Hartz, S. M., Short, S. E., Saccone, N. L., Culverhouse, R., Chen, L., Schwantes-An, T.-H., Coon, H., Han, Y., Stephens, S. H., Sun, J., Chen, X., Ducci, F., Dueker, N., Franceschini, N., Frank, J., Geller, F., Gubjartsson, D., Hansel, N. N., Jiang, C., Keskitalo-Vuokko, K., Liu, Z., Lyytikäinen, L.-P., Michel, M., Rawal, R., Rosenberger, A., Scheet, P., Shaffer, J. R., Teumer, A., Thompson, J. R., Vink, J. M., Vogelzangs, N., Wenzlaff, A. S., Wheeler, W., Xiao, X., Yang, B.-Z., Aggen, S. H., Balmforth, A. J., Baumeister, S. E., Beaty, T., Bennett, S., Bergen, A. W., Boyd, H. A., Broms, U., Campbell, H., Chatterjee, N., Chen, J., Cheng, Y.-C., Cichon, S., Couper, D., Cucca, F., Dick, D. M., Foroud, T., Furberg, H., Giegling, I., Gu, F., Hall, A. S., Hällfors, J., Han, S., Hartmann, A. M., Hayward, C., Heikkilä, K., Hewitt, J. K., Hottenga, J. J., Jensen, M. K., Jousilahti, P., Kaakinen, M., Kittner, S. J., Konte, B., Korhonen, T., Landi, M.-T., Laatikainen, T., Leppert, M., Levy, S. M., Mathias, R. A., McNeil, D. W., Medland, S. E., Montgomery, G. W., Muley, T., Murray, T., Nauck, M., North, K., Pergadia, M., Polasek, O., Ramos, E. M., Ripatti, S., Risch, A., Ruczinski, I., Rudan, I., Salomaa, V., Schlessinger, D., Styrkársdóttir, U., Terracciano, A., Uda, M., Willemsen, G., Wu, X., Abecasis, G., Barnes, K., Bickeböller, H., Boerwinkle, E., Boomsma, D. I., Caporaso, N., Duan, J., Edenberg, H. J., Francks, C., Gejman, P. V., Gelernter, J., Grabe, H. J., Hops, H., Jarvelin, M.-R., Viikari, J., Kähönen, M., Kendler, K. S., Lehtimäki, T., Levinson, D. F., Marazita, M. L., Marchini, J., Melbye, M., Mitchell, B. D., Murray, J. C., Nöthen, M. M., Penninx, B. W., Raitakari, O., Rietschel, M., Rujescu, D., Samani, N. J., Sanders, A. R., Schwartz, A. G., Shete, S., Shi, J., Spitz, M., Stefansson, K., Swan, G. E., Thorgeirsson, T., Völzke, H., Wei, Q., Wichmann, H.-E., Amos, C. I., Breslau, N., Cannon, D. S., Ehringer, M., Grucza, R., Hatsukami, D., Heath, A., Johnson, E. O., Kaprio, J., Madden, P., Martin, N. G., Stevens, V. L., Stitzel, J. A., Weiss, R. B., Kraft, P., & Bierut, L. J.
Affiliations
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • University of Pisa (IT)
  • Statens Serum Institut (DK)
Corresponding author
Bierut, Laura J.
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Archives of General Psychiatry
Published
2012-08-01
Volume
69
Issue
8
Pages
854
ISSN
0003-990X (ISSN-L)
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W2098545747
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75
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39
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8.30
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en
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Funders
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Helsingin Yliopisto
  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
  • Wellcome Trust (090532)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Gr1912/5‐1)
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  • National Institutes of Health (N01-AG-1-2109, n01ag12100-57-0-2, KL2TR000450, N01-PC35145, n01pc35145-19-0-7, PC35145, 6u54rr020278-06, UL1TR000448, Z99 AG999999, TL1TR000449, 5u01ns069208-04, AA008401, CA089392, n01hr046002-024)
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  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K02AA018755, K05AA017688, R01AA017535, R01AA011330, U10AA008401)
  • National Institute on Aging (N01-AG-12109, N01-AG012100, R03AG035146, ZIAAG000196)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (N01 HR046002, R01HL089651)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH046276, R01MH059566, U01MH046318, R01MH059571, R01MH060879, R01MH059565, MH46289, R01MH081800, MH46318, R01MH060870, U01MH046289, U01MH079469, R01MH061675, R01MH059586, R01MH059588, T32MH014677, R01MH067257, U01MH079470, R01MH059587)
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  • National Human Genome Research Institute (U01HG004738, U01HG004446, U01HG006513, U01HG004438, U01HG004436, HHSN268200782096C)
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA060691, N01 PC035145, N01 PC 35145, P01CA089392, U19CA148127, N01-PC35146, K07CA118412)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK072488)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U01-NS069208, R01NS045012)
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  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041020)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
Keywords
CHRNA5, rs16969968, smoking initiation age, early smoking onset, heavy smoking, cigarettes per day, genetic susceptibility to smoking, non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Europe, Female, Humans, Male, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Nicotine, Receptors, Nicotinic, Severity of Illness Index, Smoking, Tobacco Use Disorder, Age of Onset, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Adolescent Development, Genetic Association Studies, Gene-Environment Interaction

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