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Genetic determinants of telomere length from 109,122 ancestrally diverse whole-genome sequences in TOPMed
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Taub, Margaret A; Conomos, Matthew P; Keener, Rebecca; Iyer, Kruthika R; Weinstock, Joshua S; Yanek, Lisa R; Lane, John; Miller-Fleming, Tyne W; Brody, Jennifer A; Raffield, Laura M; McHugh, Caitlin P; Jain, Deepti; Gogarten, Stephanie M; Laurie, Cecelia A; Keramati, Ali; Arvanitis, Marios; Smith, Albert V; Heavner, Benjamin; Barwick, Lucas; Becker, Lewis C; Bis, Joshua C; Blangero, John; Bleecker, Eugene R; Burchard, Esteban G; Celedón, Juan C; Chang, Yen Pei C; Custer, Brian; Darbar, Dawood; de las Fuentes, Lisa; DeMeo, Dawn L; Freedman, Barry I; Garrett, Melanie E; Gladwin, Mark T; Heckbert, Susan R; Hidalgo, Bertha A; Irvin, Marguerite R; Islam, Talat; Johnson, W Craig; Kaab, Stefan; Launer, Lenore; Lee, Jiwon; Liu, Simin; Moscati, Arden; North, Kari E; Peyser, Patricia A; Rafaels, Nicholas; Seidman, Christine; Weeks, Daniel E; Wen, Fayun; Wheeler, Marsha M; Williams, L Keoki; Yang, Ivana V; Zhao, Wei; Aslibekyan, Stella; Auer, Paul L; Bowden, Donald W; Cade, Brian E; Chen, Zhanghua; Cho, Michael H; Cupples, L Adrienne; Curran, Joanne E; Daya, Michelle; Deka, Ranjan; Eng, Celeste; Fingerlin, Tasha E; Guo, Xiuqing; Hou, Lifang; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Johnsen, Jill M; Kenny, Eimear E; Levin, Albert M; Liu, Chunyu; Minster, Ryan L; Naseri, Take; Nouraie, Mehdi; Reupena, Muagututi A Sefuiva; Sabino, Ester C; Smith, Jennifer A; Smith, Nicholas L; Lasky-Su, Jessica; Taylor, James G; Telen, Marilyn J; Tiwari, Hemant K; Tracy, Russell P; White, Marquitta J; Zhang, Yingze; Wiggins, Kerri L; Weiss, Scott T; Vasan, Ramachandran S; Taylor, Kent D; Sinner, Moritz F; Silverman, Edwin K; Shoemaker, M Benjamin; Sheu, Wayne H-H; Sciurba, Frank; Schwartz, David A; Rotter, Jerome I; Roden, Daniel; Redline, Susan; Raby, Benjamin A
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Cell Genomics. 2(1)
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Genetic studies on telomere length are important for understanding age-related diseases. Prior GWAS for leukocyte TL have been limited to European and Asian populations. Here, we report the first sequencing-based association study for TL across ancestrally-diverse individuals (European, African, Asian and Hispanic/Latino) from the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program. We used whole genome sequencing (WGS) of whole blood for variant genotype calling and the bioinformatic estimation of telomere length in n=109,122 individuals. We identified 59 sentinel variants (p-value