Genome-wide association study across European and African American ancestries identifies a SNP in DNMT3B contributing to nicotine dependence

Autor: D B, Hancock, Y, Guo, G W, Reginsson, N C, Gaddis, S M, Lutz, R, Sherva, A, Loukola, C C, Minica, C A, Markunas, Y, Han, K A, Young, D F, Gudbjartsson, F, Gu, D W, McNeil, B, Qaiser, C, Glasheen, S, Olson, M T, Landi, P A F, Madden, L A, Farrer, J, Vink, N L, Saccone, M C, Neale, H R, Kranzler, J, McKay, R J, Hung, C I, Amos, M L, Marazita, D I, Boomsma, T B, Baker, J, Gelernter, J, Kaprio, N E, Caporaso, T E, Thorgeirsson, J E, Hokanson, L J, Bierut, K, Stefansson, E O, Johnson
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Molecular psychiatry
ISSN: 1476-5578
Popis: Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of preventable mortality worldwide. Nicotine dependence, which reduces the likelihood of quitting smoking, is a heritable trait with firmly established associations with sequence variants in nicotine acetylcholine receptor genes and at other loci. To search for additional loci, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis of nicotine dependence, totaling 38,602 smokers (28,677 Europeans/European Americans and 9,925 African Americans) across 15 studies. In this largest ever GWAS meta-analysis for nicotine dependence and the largest-ever cross-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis for any smoking phenotype, we reconfirmed the well-known CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 genes and further yielded a novel association in the DNA methyltransferase gene DNMT3B. The intronic DNMT3B rs910083-C (frequency=44%–77%) associates with increased risk of nicotine dependence at P=3.7×10−8 (odds ratio [OR]=1.06 and 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.04–1.07 for severe vs mild dependence). The association was independently confirmed in the UK Biobank (N=48,931) using heavy vs never smoking as a proxy phenotype (P=3.6×10−4, OR=1.05, and 95% CI=1.02–1.08). Rs910083-C is also associated with increased risk of squamous cell lung carcinoma in the International Lung Cancer Consortium (N=60,586, meta-analysis P=0.0095, OR=1.05, and 95% CI=1.01–1.09). Moreover, rs910083-C was implicated as a cis-methylation quantitative trait locus (QTL) variant associated with higher DNMT3B methylation in fetal brain (N=166, P=2.3×10−26) and a cis-expression QTL variant associated with higher DNMT3B expression in adult cerebellum from the Genotype-Tissue Expression project (N=103, P=3.0×10−6) and the independent Brain eQTL Almanac (N=134, P=0.028). This novel DNMT3B cis-acting QTL variant highlights the importance of genetically influenced regulation in brain on the risks of nicotine dependence, heavy smoking, and consequent lung cancer.
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