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Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

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The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium·2010·Nature

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Copy number variants (CNVs) account for a major proportion of human genetic polymorphism and have been predicted to have an important role in genetic susceptibility to common disease. To address this we undertook a large, direct genome-wide study of association between CNVs and eight common human diseases. Using a purpose-designed array we typed approximately 19,000 individuals into distinct copy-number classes at 3,432 polymorphic CNVs, including an estimated approximately 50% of all common CNVs larger than 500 base pairs. We identified several biological artefacts that lead to false-positive associations, including systematic CNV differences between DNAs derived from blood and cell lines. Association testing and follow-up replication analyses confirmed three loci where CNVs were associated with disease-IRGM for Crohn's disease, HLA for Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, and TSPAN8 for type 2 diabetes-although in each case the locus had previously been identified in single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based studies, reflecting our observation that most common CNVs that are well-typed on our array are well tagged by SNPs and so have been indirectly explored through SNP studies. We conclude that common CNVs that can be typed on existing platforms are unlikely to contribute greatly to the genetic basis of common human diseases.

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The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium
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Nature
Published
2010-04
Volume
464
Issue
7289
Pages
713-720
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2130542470
Cited by
807
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43
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Language
en
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Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (85517, 061858, 089989, 090532, 083948)
  • National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0508-10299, NF-SI-0508-10335)
  • British Heart Foundation (RG/08/014/24067, RG/09/012/28096)
  • Versus Arthritis (/17552, 18475)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genome Rearrangement Algorithms
Keywords
copy number variation, common diseases, genetic susceptibility, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, IRGM, HLA, TSPAN8, false positive association, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, genetic polymorphism, de novo mutations
MeSH terms
Arthritis, Rheumatoid, Crohn Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Disease, Gene Frequency, Humans, Nucleic Acid Hybridization, Pilot Projects, Quality Control, Case-Control Studies, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study, DNA Copy Number Variations

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