Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases.
Adriana I Iglesias,
Aniket Mishra,
Veronique Vitart,
Yelena Bykhovskaya,
René Höhn,
Henriët Springelkamp,
Gabriel Cuellar-Partida,
Puya Gharahkhani,
Jessica N Cooke Bailey,
Colin E Willoughby,
Xiaohui Li,
Seyhan Yazar,
Abhishek Nag,
Anthony P Khawaja,
Ozren Polašek,
David Siscovick,
Paul Mitchell,
Yih Chung Tham,
Jonathan L Haines,
Lisa S Kearns,
Caroline Hayward,
Yuan Shi,
Elisabeth M van Leeuwen,
Kent D Taylor,
Blue Mountains Eye Study—GWAS group,
Pieter Bonnemaijer,
Jerome I Rotter,
Nicholas G Martin,
Tanja Zeller,
Richard A Mills,
Emmanuelle Souzeau,
Sandra E Staffieri,
Jost B Jonas,
Irene Schmidtmann,
Thibaud Boutin,
Jae H Kang,
Sionne EM Lucas,
Tien Yin Wong,
Manfred E Beutel,
James F Wilson,
NEIGHBORHOOD Consortium,
Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2),
André G Uitterlinden,
Eranga N Vithana,
Paul J Foster,
Pirro G Hysi,
Alex W Hewitt,
Chiea Chuen Khor,
Louis R Pasquale,
Grant W Montgomery,
Caroline CW Klaver,
Tin Aung,
Norbert Pfeiffer,
David A Mackey,
Christopher J Hammond,
Ching-Yu Cheng,
Jamie E Craig,
Yaron S Rabinowitz,
Janey L Wiggs,
Kathryn P Burdon,
Cornelia M van Duijn,
Stuart MacGregor
Sep 05, 2018
Central corneal thickness (CCT) is a highly heritable trait associated with complex eye diseases such as keratoconus and glaucoma. We perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis of CCT and identify 19 novel regions. In...