Understanding the comorbidity between posttraumatic stress severity and coronary artery disease using genome-wide information and electronic health records
Polimanti R, Wendt FR, Pathak GA, Tylee DS, Tcheandjieu C, Hilliard AT, Levey DF, Adhikari K, Gaziano JM, O’Donnell C, Assimes TL, Stein MB, Gelernter J. Understanding the comorbidity between posttraumatic stress severity and coronary artery disease using genome-wide information and electronic health records. Molecular Psychiatry 2022, 27: 3961-3969. PMID: 35986173, PMCID: PMC10986859, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-022-01735-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCoronary artery diseasePosttraumatic stress disorderElectronic health recordsMillion Veteran ProgramArtery diseaseTotal scoreCAD diagnosisPlatelet amyloid precursor proteinHealth recordsPosttraumatic stress severityAmyloid precursor proteinEarly CAD diagnosisUK BiobankBidirectional relationshipTwo-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysisMendelian randomization analysisCAD riskHigh morbidityPTSD symptom severityCARDIoGRAMplusC4D consortiumPleiotropic mechanismsSymptom severityLongitudinal changesDiscordant effectsStress disorderUnderstanding the complex genetic architecture connecting rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and inflammation: discovering causal pathways
Kasher M, Williams F, Freidin M, Malkin I, Cherny S, Benjamin E, Chasman D, Dehghan A, Ahluwalia T, Meigs J, Tracy R, Alizadeh B, Ligthart S, Bis J, Eiriksdottir G, Pankratz N, Gross M, Rainer A, Snieder H, Wilson J, Psaty B, Dupuis J, Prins B, Vaso U, Stathopoulou M, Franke L, Lehtimaki T, Koenig W, Jamshidi Y, Siest S, Abbasi A, Uitterlinden A, Abdollahi M, Schnabel R, Schick U, Nolte I, Kraja A, Hsu Y, Tylee D, Zwicker A, Uher R, Davey-Smith G, Morrison A, Hicks A, van Duijn C, Ward-Caviness C, Boerwinkle E, Rotter J, Rice K, Lange L, Perola M, de Geus E, Morris A, Makela K, Stacey D, Eriksson J, Frayling T, Slagboom E, Livshits G. Understanding the complex genetic architecture connecting rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis and inflammation: discovering causal pathways. Human Molecular Genetics 2022, 31: 2623-2632. PMID: 35349660, PMCID: PMC9402243, DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac061.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCausal single nucleotide polymorphismsSingle nucleotide polymorphismsGenetic architectureColocalization analysisSame molecular functionAnalysis of pleiotropyComplex genetic architectureGenome-wide association study summary statisticsOp phenotypeMolecular functionsGenomic regionsPleiotropyOsteoporosis ConsortiumGenetic relationshipsGenetic backgroundGenetic variantsNucleotide polymorphismsMendelian randomizationGenesTraitsPhenotypeGenetic factorsProtein bindingUK BiobankHorizontal pleiotropy