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Polygenic risk scores of endo-phenotypes identify the effect of genetic background in congenital heart disease

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HUMAN GENETICS AND GENOMICS ADVANCES
Volume 3, Issue 3, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100112

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  1. NIH Common Fund [DP5OD024579]
  2. NHLBI [R03HL150604]
  3. NHGRI [T32 T32 HG002536, T32M012424]
  4. Common Fund of the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health
  5. NCI
  6. NHGRI
  7. NHLBI
  8. NIDA
  9. NIMH
  10. NINDS

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Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a rare structural defect, and common genetic variants have a modest but significant contribution to the phenotypic expression of CHD.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a rare structural defect that occurs in similar to 1% of live births. Studies on CHD genetic architecture have identified pathogenic single-gene mutations in less than 30% of cases. Single-gene mutations often show incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity. Therefore, we hypothesize that genetic background may play a role in modulating disease expression. Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) aggregate effects of common genetic variants to investigate whether, cumulatively, these variants are associated with disease penetrance or severity. However, the major limitations in this field have been in generating sufficient sample sizes for these studies. Here we used CHD-phenotype matched genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics from the UK Biobank (UKBB) as our base study and whole-genome sequencing data from the CHD cohort (n(1) = 711 trios, n(2) = 362 European trios) of the Gabriella Miller Kids First dataset as our target study to develop PRSs for CHD. PRSs estimated using a GWAS for heart valve problems and heart murmur explain 2.5% of the variance in case-control status of CHD (all SNVs, p = 7.90 x 10(-3); fetal cardiac SNVs, p = 8.00 x 10(-3)) and 1.8% of the variance in severity of CHD (fetal cardiac SNVs, p = 6.20 x 10(-3); all SNVs, p = 0.015). These results show that common variants captured in CHD phenotype-matched GWASs have a modest but significant contribution to phenotypic expression of CHD. Further exploration of the cumulative effect of common variants is necessary for understanding the complex genetic etiology of CHD and other rare diseases.

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