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Gunter Schumann1, Lachlan J Coin, Anbarasu Lourdusamy, Pimphen Charoen, Karen H Berger, David Stacey, Sylvane Desrivières, Fazil A Aliev, Anokhi A Khan, Najaf Amin, Yurii S Aulchenko, Georgy Bakalkin, Stephan J Bakker, Beverley Balkau, Joline W Beulens, Ainhoa Bilbao, Rudolf A de Boer, Delphine Beury, Michiel L Bots, Elemi J Breetvelt, Stéphane Cauchi, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, John C Chambers, Toni-Kim Clarke, Norbert Dahmen, Eco J de Geus, Danielle Dick, Francesca Ducci, Alanna Easton, Howard J Edenberg, Tõnu Esko, Tõnu Esk, Alberto Fernández-Medarde, Tatiana Foroud, Nelson B Freimer, Jean-Antoine Girault, Diederick E Grobbee, Simonetta Guarrera, Daniel F Gudbjartsson, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Andrew C Heath, Victor Hesselbrock, Albert Hofman, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Matti K Isohanni, Jaakko Kaprio, Kay-Tee Khaw, Brigitte Kuehnel, Jaana Laitinen, Stéphane Lobbens, Jian'an Luan, Massimo Mangino, Matthieu Maroteaux, Giuseppe Matullo, Mark I McCarthy, Christian Mueller, Gerjan Navis, Mattijs E Numans, Alejandro Núñez, Dale R Nyholt, Charlotte N Onland-Moret, Ben A Oostra, Paul F O'Reilly, Miklos Palkovits, Brenda W Penninx, Silvia Polidoro, Anneli Pouta, Inga Prokopenko, Fulvio Ricceri, Eugenio Santos, Johannes H Smit, Nicole Soranzo, Kijoung Song, Ulla Sovio, Michael Stumvoll, Ida Surakk, Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Claire Troakes, Thorarinn Tyrfingsson, Anke Tönjes, Cuno S Uiterwaal, Andre G Uitterlinden, Pim van der Harst, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Oliver Staehlin, Nicole Vogelzangs, Peter Vollenweider, Gerard Waeber, Nicholas J Wareham, Dawn M Waterworth, John B Whitfield, Erich H Wichmann, Gonneke Willemsen, Jacqueline C Witteman, Xin Yuan, Guangju Zhai, Jing H Zhao, Weihua Zhang, Nicholas G Martin, Andres Metspalu, Angela Doering, James Scott, Tim D Spector, Ruth J Loos, Dorret I Boomsma, Vincent Mooser, Leena Peltonen, Kari Stefansson, Cornelia M van Duijn, Paolo Vineis, Wolfgang H Sommer, Jaspal S Kooner, Rainer Spanagel, Ulrike A Heberlein, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Paul Elliott.
Abstract
Alcohol consumption is a moderately heritable trait, but the genetic basis in humans is largely unknown, despite its clinical and societal importance. We report a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of ∼2.5 million directly genotyped or imputed SNPs with alcohol consumption (gram per day per kilogram body weight) among 12 population-based samples of European ancestry, comprising 26,316 individuals, with replication genotyping in an additional 21,185 individuals. SNP rs6943555 in autism susceptibility candidate 2 gene (AUTS2) was associated with alcohol consumption at genome-wide significance (P = 4 × 10(-8) to P = 4 × 10(-9)). We found a genotype-specific expression of AUTS2 in 96 human prefrontal cortex samples (P = 0.026) and significant (P < 0.017) differences in expression of AUTS2 in whole-brain extracts of mice selected for differences in voluntary alcohol consumption. Down-regulation of an AUTS2 homolog caused reduced alcohol sensitivity in Drosophila (P < 0.001). Our finding of a regulator of alcohol consumption adds knowledge to our understanding of genetic mechanisms influencing alcohol drinking behavior.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21471458 PMCID： PMC3084048 DOI： 10.1073/pnas.1017288108
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN： 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205