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Chan, Melanie M Y; Sadeghi-Alavijeh, Omid; Lopes, Filipa M; Hilger, Alina C; Stanescu, Horia C; Voinescu, Catalin D; Beaman, Glenda M; Newman, William G; Zaniew, Marcin; Weber, Stefanie; Ho, Yee Mang; Connolly, John O; Wood, Dan; Maj, Carlo; Stuckey, Alexander; Kousathanas, Athanasios; Kleta, Robert; Woolf, Adrian S; Bockenhauer, Detlef; Levine, Adam P; Gale, Daniel P
eLife, 09/2022, Volume: 11Journal Article
Posterior urethral valves (PUV) are the commonest cause of end-stage renal disease in children, but the genetic architecture of this rare disorder remains unknown. We performed a sequencing-based genome-wide association study (seqGWAS) in 132 unrelated male PUV cases and 23,727 controls of diverse ancestry, identifying statistically significant associations with common variants at 12q24.21 (p=7.8 × 10 ; OR 0.4) and rare variants at 6p21.1 (p=2.0 × 10 ; OR 7.2), that were replicated in an independent European cohort of 395 cases and 4151 controls. Fine mapping and functional genomic data mapped these loci to the transcription factor and planar cell polarity gene , respectively, the encoded proteins of which were detected in the developing urinary tract of human embryos. We also observed enrichment of rare structural variation intersecting with candidate -regulatory elements, particularly inversions predicted to affect chromatin looping (p=3.1 × 10 ). These findings represent the first robust genetic associations of PUV, providing novel insights into the underlying biology of this poorly understood disorder and demonstrate how a diverse ancestry seqGWAS can be used for disease locus discovery in a rare disease.
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