Genomic approaches to identify and investigate genes associated with atrial fibrillation and heart failure susceptibility

KK Patel, C Venkatesan, H Abdelhalim, S Zeeshan… - Human genomics, 2023 - Springer
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) contribute to about 45% of all cardiovascular
disease (CVD) deaths in the USA and around the globe. Due to the complex nature …

United Kingdom Biobank (UK Biobank) JACC Focus Seminar 6/8

R Caleyachetty, T Littlejohns, B Lacey, J Bešević… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - jacc.org
An increasing number of people are now living with cardiovascular disease (CVD), with
concomitant CVD-related hospitalizations, operations, and prescriptions. To ultimately …

Analysis of rare genetic variation underlying cardiometabolic diseases and traits among 200,000 individuals in the UK Biobank

SJ Jurgens, SH Choi, VN Morrill, M Chaffin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cardiometabolic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite a known
genetic component, our understanding of these diseases remains incomplete. Here, we …

Shared genetic pathways contribute to risk of hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies with opposite directions of effect

R Tadros, C Francis, X Xu, AMC Vermeer, AR Harper… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The heart muscle diseases hypertrophic (HCM) and dilated (DCM) cardiomyopathies are
leading causes of sudden death and heart failure in young, otherwise healthy, individuals …

Genome-wide association analyses identify new Brugada syndrome risk loci and highlight a new mechanism of sodium channel regulation in disease susceptibility

J Barc, R Tadros, C Glinge, DY Chiang, M Jouni… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a cardiac arrhythmia disorder associated with sudden death in
young adults. With the exception of SCN5A, encoding the cardiac sodium channel NaV1. 5 …

Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure

S Shah, A Henry, C Roselli, H Lin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A small proportion
of HF cases are attributable to monogenic cardiomyopathies and existing genome-wide …

Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy

JP Pirruccello, A Bick, M Wang, M Chaffin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of heart failure and the leading
indication for heart transplantation. Many rare genetic variants have been associated with …

Genetic drug target validation using Mendelian randomisation

AF Schmidt, C Finan, M Gordillo-Marañón… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mendelian randomisation (MR) analysis is an important tool to elucidate the causal
relevance of environmental and biological risk factors for disease. However, causal …

Genome-wide association and multi-trait analyses characterize the common genetic architecture of heart failure

MG Levin, NL Tsao, P Singhal, C Liu, HMT Vy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Heart failure is a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, the
contribution of common genetic variation to heart failure risk has not been fully elucidated …

Effects of tumour necrosis factor on cardiovascular disease and cancer: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study

S Yuan, P Carter, M Bruzelius, M Vithayathil, S Kar… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors are used in the treatment of certain
autoimmune diseases but given the role of TNF in tumour biology and atherosclerosis, such …