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Ching-Yu Cheng1, Maria Schache, M Kamran Ikram, Terri L Young, Jeremy A Guggenheim, Veronique Vitart, Stuart MacGregor, Virginie J M Verhoeven, Veluchamy A Barathi, Jiemin Liao, Pirro G Hysi, Joan E Bailey-Wilson, Beate St Pourcain, John P Kemp, George McMahon, Nicholas J Timpson, David M Evans, Grant W Montgomery, Aniket Mishra, Ya Xing Wang, Jie Jin Wang, Elena Rochtchina, Ozren Polasek, Alan F Wright, Najaf Amin, Elisabeth M van Leeuwen, James F Wilson, Craig E Pennell, Cornelia M van Duijn, Paulus T V M de Jong, Johannes R Vingerling, Xin Zhou, Peng Chen, Ruoying Li, Wan-Ting Tay, Yingfeng Zheng, Merwyn Chew, Kathryn P Burdon, Jamie E Craig, Sudha K Iyengar, Robert P Igo, Jonathan H Lass, Emily Y Chew, Toomas Haller, Evelin Mihailov, Andres Metspalu, Juho Wedenoja, Claire L Simpson, Robert Wojciechowski, René Höhn, Alireza Mirshahi, Tanja Zeller, Norbert Pfeiffer, Karl J Lackner, Thomas Bettecken, Thomas Meitinger, Konrad Oexle, Mario Pirastu, Laura Portas, Abhishek Nag, Katie M Williams, Ekaterina Yonova-Doing, Ronald Klein, Barbara E Klein, S Mohsen Hosseini, Andrew D Paterson, Kari-Matti Makela, Terho Lehtimaki, Mika Kahonen, Olli Raitakari, Nagahisa Yoshimura, Fumihiko Matsuda, Li Jia Chen, Chi Pui Pang, Shea Ping Yip, Maurice K H Yap, Akira Meguro, Nobuhisa Mizuki, Hidetoshi Inoko, Paul J Foster, Jing Hua Zhao, Eranga Vithana, E-Shyong Tai, Qiao Fan, Liang Xu, Harry Campbell, Brian Fleck, Igor Rudan, Tin Aung, Albert Hofman, André G Uitterlinden, Goran Bencic, Chiea-Chuen Khor, Hannah Forward, Olavi Pärssinen, Paul Mitchell, Fernando Rivadeneira, Alex W Hewitt, Cathy Williams, Ben A Oostra, Yik-Ying Teo, Christopher J Hammond, Dwight Stambolian, David A Mackey, Caroline C W Klaver, Tien-Yin Wong, Seang-Mei Saw, Paul N Baird.
Abstract
Refractive errors are common eye disorders of public health importance worldwide. Ocular axial length (AL) is the major determinant of refraction and thus of myopia and hyperopia. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for AL, combining 12,531 Europeans and 8,216 Asians. We identified eight genome-wide significant loci for AL (RSPO1, C3orf26, LAMA2, GJD2, ZNRF3, CD55, MIP, and ALPPL2) and confirmed one previously reported AL locus (ZC3H11B). Of the nine loci, five (LAMA2, GJD2, CD55, ALPPL2, and ZC3H11B) were associated with refraction in 18 independent cohorts (n = 23,591). Differential gene expression was observed for these loci in minus-lens-induced myopia mouse experiments and human ocular tissues. Two of the AL genes, RSPO1 and ZNRF3, are involved in Wnt signaling, a pathway playing a major role in the regulation of eyeball size. This study provides evidence of shared genes between AL and refraction, but importantly also suggests that these traits may have unique pathways.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24144296 PMCID： PMC3772747 DOI： 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.06.016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Hum Genet ISSN： 0002-9297 Impact factor: 11.025