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Variants in FAM13A are associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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We performed a genome-wide association study for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in three population cohorts, including 2,940 cases and 1,380 controls who were current or former smokers with normal lung function. We identified a new susceptibility locus at 4q22.1 in FAM13A and replicated this association in one case-control group (n = 1,006) and two family-based cohorts (n = 3,808) (rs7671167, combined P = 1.2 × 10−11, combined odds ratio in case-control studies 0.76, 95% confidence interval 0.69–0.83).

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Figure 1: Regional association plot for signal at the FAM13A locus.

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This work was supported by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants R01 HL075478, R01 HL084323, P01 HL083069, U01 HL089856 (E.K.S.), K12HL089990 (M.H.C) and U01 HL089897 (J.D.C.). The National Emphysema Treatment Trial was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The Normative Aging Study is supported by the Cooperative Studies Program/ERIC of the US Department of Veterans Affairs and is a component of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC). The Norway cohort, the ECLIPSE study (Clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT00292552; GSK Code SCO104960) and the ICGN study are funded by GlaxoSmithKline. Further acknowledgments are given in the Supplementary Note.

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  1. Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael H Cho, Nadia Boutaoui, Barbara J Klanderman, Jody S Sylvia, John P Ziniti, Craig P Hersh, Dawn L DeMeo, Gary M Hunninghake, Augusto A Litonjua & Edwin K Silverman

  2. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael H Cho, Craig P Hersh, Dawn L DeMeo, Gary M Hunninghake, Augusto A Litonjua & Edwin K Silverman

  3. Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    David Sparrow

  4. School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    David Sparrow

  5. School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    David Sparrow

  6. Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Christoph Lange & Sungho Won

  7. National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

    James R Murphy, Elizabeth A Regan, Barry J Make & James D Crapo

  8. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Terri H Beaty

  9. Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA

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  10. GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

    Xiangyang Kong & Ruth Tal-Singer

  11. GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

    Wayne H Anderson & Sreekumar G Pillai

  12. Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    David A Lomas

  13. Haukeland University Hospital and Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Per Bakke & Amund Gulsvik

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Study design: E.K.S., M.H.C., A.A.L., D.S., S.G.P., X.K., W.H.A., R.T.-S., D.A.L., P.B., A.G., J.R.M., T.H.B., E.A.R., B.J.M., J.E.H., J.D.C., C.P.H. and D.L.D. Sample collection and phenotyping: A.A.L., D.S., S.G.P., X.K., W.H.A., R.T.-S., D.A.L., P.B., A.G., E.A.R., B.J.M., J.D.C., E.K.S. Genotyping: N.B., B.J.K., M.H.C., S.G.P., X.K. Informatics: M.H.C., J.S.S., J.P.Z., B.J.K., N.B. Statistical analysis: M.H.C., C.L., S.W., E.K.S. Manuscript writing: M.H.C., G.M.H., E.K.S. All authors reviewed and approved the manuscript.

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E.K.S. has received grant support and consulting and speaker's fees from GlaxoSmithKline, consulting and speaker's fees from Astra-Zeneca and speaker's fees from Bayer and Wyeth. D.A.L. has received grant support, lecture fees and consultancy fees from GlaxoSmithKline. S.G.P, X.Q.K., W.H.A. and R.M.T. are employees of GlaxoSmithKline.

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Cho, M., Boutaoui, N., Klanderman, B. et al. Variants in FAM13A are associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Nat Genet 42, 200–202 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.535

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