Genome-wide association study for proliferative diabetic retinopathy in Africans.
Liu C, Chen G, Bentley AR et al.
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Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is a sight-threatening complication of diabetes that is associated with longer duration of diabetes and poor glycemic control under a genetic susceptibility background. Although GWAS of PDR have been conducted in Europeans and Asians, none has been done in continental Africans, a population at increased risk for PDR. Here, we report a GWAS of PDR among Africans. PDR cases (n = 64) were T2D patients with neovascularization in the retina and/or retinal detachment. Controls (n = 227) were T2D patients without listed eye complications despite high risk (T2D duration ≥10 years and fasting blood glucose >169 mg/dl). Replication was assessed in African Americans enrolled in the ARIC study. We identified 4 significant loci: WDR72, HLA-B, GAP43/RP11-326J18.1, and AL713866.1. At WDR72 the most strongly associated SNPs were rs12906891 (MAF = 0.071; p = 9.68 × 10-10; OR = 1.46, 95% CI [1.30,1.64]) and rs11070992 (MAF = 0.14; p = 4.23 × 10-8; OR = 1.28, 95%CI [1.17-1.40]). rs11070992 replicated in African Americans (p = 0.04). Variants in this gene have been associated with diabetic retinopathy, glycemic control, revascularization, and kidney disease.
64 African ancestry cases, 227 African ancestry controls
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