rs113785523 - FGFR3P3 - CASC20

Magnitude 4.5 · 1 study on file

Reported associations

• High heritability of ascending aortic diameter and trans-ancestry prediction of thoracic aortic disease. - Nature genetics (2022) · Tcheandjieu C, Xiao K, Tejeda H, Lynch JA, Ruotsalainen S, Bellomo T, Palnati M, Judy R, Klarin D, Kember RL, Verma S, Palotie A, Daly M, Ritchie M, Rader DJ, Rivas MA, Assimes T, Tsao P, Damrauer S, Priest JR · PubMed 35637384

  Enlargement of the aorta is an important risk factor for aortic aneurysm and dissection, a leading cause of morbidity in the developed world. Here we performed automated extraction of ascending aortic diameter from cardiac magnetic resonance images of 36,021 individuals from the UK Biobank, followed by genome-wide association. We identified lead variants across 41 loci, including genes related to cardiovascular development (HAND2, TBX20) and Mendelian forms of thoracic aortic disease (ELN, FBN1). A polygenic score significantly predicted prevalent risk of thoracic aortic aneurysm and the need for surgical intervention for patients with thoracic aneurysm across multiple ancestries within the UK Biobank, FinnGen, the Penn Medicine Biobank and the Million Veterans Program (MVP). Additionally,

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