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Common variants at 12q14 and 12q24 are associated with hippocampal volume

  • Joshua C. Bis
  • , Charles Decarli
  • , Albert Vernon Smith
  • , Fedde van der Lijn
  • , Fabrice Crivello
  • , Myriam Fornage
  • , Stephanie Debette
  • , Joshua M. Shulman
  • , Helena Schmidt
  • , Velandai Srikanth
  • , Maaike Schuur
  • , Lei Yu
  • , Seung-Hoan Choi
  • , Sigurdur Sigurdsson
  • , Benjamin F. J. Verhaaren
  • , Anita L. Destefano
  • , Jean-Charles Lambert
  • , Clifford R. Jack
  • , Maksim Struchalin
  • , Jim Stankovich
  • Carla A. Ibrahim-Verbaas, Debra Fleischman, Alex Zijdenbos, Tom den Heijer, Bernard Mazoyer, Laura H. Coker, Christian Enzinger, Patrick Danoy, Najaf Amin, Konstantinos Arfanakis, Mark A. van Buchem, Renée F. A. G. de Bruijn, Alexa Beiser, Carole Dufouil, Juebin Huang, Margherita Cavalieri, Russell Thomson, Wiro J. Niessen, Lori B. Chibnik, Gauti K. Gislason, Albert Hofman, Aleksandra Pikula, Philippe Amouyel, Kevin B. Freeman, Thanh G. Phan, Ben A. Oostra, Jason L. Stein, Sarah E. Medland, Alejandro Arias Vasquez, Derrek P. Hibar, Margaret J. Wright, Barbara Franke, Nicholas G. Martin, Paul M. Thompson, Michael A. Nalls, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Rhoda Au, Alexis Elbaz, Richard J. Beare, John C. van Swieten, Oscar L. Lopez, Tamara B. Harris, Vincent Chouraki, Monique M. B. Breteler, Philip L. de Jager, James T. Becker, Meike W. Vernooij, David Knopman, Franz Fazekas, Philip A. Wolf, Aad van der Lugt, Vilmundur Gudnason, W. T. Longstreth, Matthew A. Brown, David A. Bennett, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Thomas H. Mosley, Reinhold Schmidt, Christophe Tzourio, Lenore J. Launer, M. Arfan Ikram, Sudha Seshadri, J.J. Hottenga, D.I. Boomsma
  • University of Washington
  • University of California at Davis
  • Icelandic Heart Association
  • University of Iceland
  • Erasmus MC
  • Université de Bordeaux
  • CNRS
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • U1179 UVSQ-INSERM Handicap Neuromusculaire: Physiologie, France
  • Boston University
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Broad Institute
  • Medical University of Graz
  • Monash University
  • Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • Rush University
  • Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
  • Institut Pasteur de Lille
  • Université de Lille
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • University of Montreal
  • St. Franciscus Hospital
  • Wake Forest University
  • University of Queensland
  • Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Leiden University Medical Center
  • University of Mississippi
  • Delft University of Technology
  • Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Radboud University Medical Center
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • University of Bonn
  • Harvard University

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Abstract

Aging is associated with reductions in hippocampal volume that are accelerated by Alzheimer's disease and vascular risk factors. Our genome-wide association study (GWAS) of dementia-free persons (n = 9,232) identified 46 SNPs at four loci with P values of <4.0 × 10 -7. In two additional samples (n = 2,318), associations were replicated at 12q14 within MSRB3-WIF1 (discovery and replication; rs17178006; P = 5.3 × 10 -11) and at 12q24 near HRK-FBXW8 (rs7294919; P = 2.9 × 10 -11). Remaining associations included one SNP at 2q24 within DPP4 (rs6741949; P = 2.9 × 10 -7) and nine SNPs at 9p33 within ASTN2 (rs7852872; P = 1.0 × 10 -7); along with the chromosome 12 associations, these loci were also associated with hippocampal volume (P < 0.05) in a third younger, more heterogeneous sample (n = 7,794). The SNP in ASTN2 also showed suggestive association with decline in cognition in a largely independent sample (n = 1,563). These associations implicate genes related to apoptosis (HRK), development (WIF1), oxidative stress (MSR3B), ubiquitination (FBXW8) and neuronal migration (ASTN2), as well as enzymes targeted by new diabetes medications (DPP4), indicating new genetic influences on hippocampal size and possibly the risk of cognitive decline and dementia. © 2012 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)545-551
JournalNature genetics
Volume44
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2012

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