Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries

  • Xikun Han
  • , Jue Sheng Ong
  • , Alex W. Hewitt
  • , Ayellet V. Segrè
  • , John M. Rouhana
  • , Andrew R. Hamel
  • , Robert P. Igo Jr
  • , Adriana Iglesias
  • , Owen M. Siggs
  • , Terri L. Young
  • , Veronique Vitart
  • , Mark Simcoe
  • , Nishani Amersinghe
  • , Angela J. Cree
  • , Rene Hohn
  • , Alicia Poplawski
  • , Li Jia Chen
  • , Shi-Song Rong
  • , Sarah A. Barman
  • , GIGA study group
  • 23 and Me Research Team, Gen Tamiya, Yukihiro Shiga, Masayuki Yamamoto, Toru Nakazawa, Hannah Currant, Ewan Birney, Xin Wang, Adam Auton, Michelle K. Lupton, Nicholas G. Martin, Adeyinka Ashaye, Olusola Olawoye, Susan E. Williams, Stephen Akafo, Michele Ramsay, Kazuki Hashimoto, Yoichiro Kamatani, Masato Akiyama, Yukihide Momozawa, Paul J. Foster, Peng T. Khaw, James E. Morgan, Nicholas G. Strouthidis, Peter Kraft, Jae H. Kang, Chi Pui Pang, Francesca Pasutto, Paul Mitchell, Andrew J. Lotery, Aarno Palotie, Cornelia van Duijn, Jonathan L. Haines, Chris Hammond, Louis R. Pasquale, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Michael Hauser, Chiea Chuen Khor, David A. Mackey, Michiaki Kubo, Ching-Yu Cheng, Jamie E. Craig, Stuart MacGregor, Janey L. Wiggs, Alberta A. H. J. Thiadens, Juha Karjalainen, Steffen Uebe, Ronald B. Melles, K. Saidas Nair, Robert Luben, ANZRAG consortium, Biobank Japan project, FinnGen study, UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium, Navya S. Josyula, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Pieter W. M. Bonnemaijer, Tin Aung, Eranga Nishanthie Vithana, NEIGHBORHOOD consortium, Helene Choquet, Ayub Qassim, Puya Gharahkhani, Eric Jorgenson, Pirro Hysi, Anthony P. Khawaja, Sarah Pendergrass

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    Original languageEnglish
    Article number1258
    JournalNature Communications
    Volume12
    Early online date24 Feb 2021
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 24 Feb 2021

    Bibliographical note

    Note: This work supported by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia [grant numbers #1107098; 1116360, 1116495, 1023911], the Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia, the BrightFocus Foundation, UK and Eire Glaucoma Society, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, International Glaucoma Association-Royal College of Ophthalmologists, National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant (#1173390), National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowships, Moorfields Eye Charity Career Development Fellowship, a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship, Alcon Research Institute Young Investigator Award, the Medical Research Council [grant numbers: MR/N003284/1, MC-UU_12015/1, and MC_PC_13048], Cancer Research UK [grant number C864/A14136], NIH grants P30 EY014104, R01 EY015473, and R01 EY022305, Business Finland [grant numbers: HUS 4685/31/2016 and UH 4386/31/2016], AbbVie Inc, AstraZeneca UK Ltd, Biogen MA Inc, Celgene Corporation, Celgene International II Sàrl, Genentech Inc, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp, Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, Maze Therapeutics Inc., Janssen Biotech Inc, the National Eye Institute/National Institutes of Health [R01EY018246], the National Institutes of Health Center for Inherited Disease Research, University of Wisconsin Centennial Scholars Award, Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.

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    • Biological sciences

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