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Novel loci associated with usual sleep duration: The CHARGE Consortium Genome-Wide Association Study

  • D. J. Gottlieb*
  • , K. Hek
  • , T. H. Chen
  • , N. F. Watson
  • , G. Eiriksdottir
  • , E. M. Byrne
  • , M. Cornelis
  • , S. C. Warby
  • , S. Bandinelli
  • , L. Cherkas
  • , D. S. Evans
  • , H. J. Grabe
  • , J. Lahti
  • , M. Li
  • , T. Lehtimäki
  • , T. Lumley
  • , K. D. Marciante
  • , L. Pérusse
  • , B. M. Psaty
  • , J. Robbins
  • G. J. Tranah, J. M. Vink, J. B. Wilk, J. M. Stafford, C. Bellis, R. Biffar, C. Bouchard, B. Cade, G. C. Curhan, J. G. Eriksson, R. Ewert, L. Ferrucci, T. Fülöp, P. R. Gehrman, R. Goodloe, T. B. Harris, A. C. Heath, D. Hernandez, A. Hofman, J. J. Hottenga, D. J. Hunter, M. K. Jensen, A. D. Johnson, M. Kähönen, L. Kao, P. Kraft, E. K. Larkin, D. S. Lauderdale, A. I. Luik, M. Medici, G. W. Montgomery, A. Palotie, S. R. Patel, G. Pistis, E. Porcu, L. Quaye, O. Raitakari, S. Redline, E. B. Rimm, J. I. Rotter, A. V. Smith, T. D. Spector, A. Teumer, A. G. Uitterlinden, M. C. Vohl, E. Widen, G. Willemsen, T. Young, X. Zhang, Y. Liu, J. Blangero, D. I. Boomsma, V. Gudnason, F. Hu, M. Mangino, N. G. Martin, G. T. O'Connor, K. L. Stone, T. Tanaka, J. Viikari, S. A. Gharib, N. M. Punjabi, K. Räikkönen, H. Völzke, E. Mignot, H. Tiemeier
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Boston University
  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study
  • Department of Epidemiology
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Department of Psychiatry
  • Department of Neurology
  • University of Washington
  • Icelandic Heart Association
  • University of Queensland
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University
  • Azienda Sanitaria Firenze
  • Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology
  • King's College London
  • California Pacific Medical Center
  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • University of Greifswald
  • Institute of Behavioural Sciences
  • University of Helsinki
  • Folkhalsan
  • Department of Epidemiology
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Department of Clinical Chemistry
  • Fimlab Laboratories
  • Department of Statistics
  • The University of Auckland
  • Department of Kinesiology
  • Université Laval
  • Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods
  • Department of Epidemiology and Health Services
  • Group Health Cooperative
  • University of California at Davis
  • Department of Biological Psychology
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Precision Medicine
  • Division of Public Health Sciences
  • Wake Forest University
  • Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
  • Department of Prosthodontics
  • LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center
  • Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care
  • Helsinki University Hospital
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Vaasa Hospital District
  • Dept. of Int. Med. B-Cardiology
  • Translational Gerontology Branch
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Department of Medicine
  • University of Mississippi
  • Department of Psychiatry
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Laboratory of Epidemiology
  • Department of Psychiatry
  • Washington University St. Louis
  • Laboratory of Neurogenetics
  • Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology
  • National Heart
  • Department of Clinical Physiology
  • Tampere University
  • Department of Health Studies
  • The University of Chicago
  • Department of Internal Medicine
  • Program in Medical and Population Genetics and Genetic Analysis Platform
  • Broad Institute
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Division of Genetics and Cell Biology
  • San Raffaele Scientific Institute
  • University of Trieste
  • National Research Council of Italy
  • Department of Biomedical Sciences
  • University of Sassari
  • Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine
  • University of Turku
  • Department of Pediatrics
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • University of Iceland
  • Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics
  • Institute for Community Medicine
  • Netherlands Genomics Initiative
  • Department of Food Science and Nutrition
  • Department of Population Health Sciences
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Department of Medicine
  • GeneSTAR Research Program
  • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Abstract

Usual sleep duration is a heritable trait correlated with psychiatric morbidity, cardiometabolic disease and mortality, although little is known about the genetic variants influencing this trait. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of usual sleep duration was conducted using 18 population-based cohorts totaling 47 180 individuals of European ancestry. Genome-wide significant association was identified at two loci. The strongest is located on chromosome 2, in an intergenic region 35- to 80-kb upstream from the thyroid-specific transcription factor PAX8 (lowest P=1.1 × 10 -9). This finding was replicated in an African-American sample of 4771 individuals (lowest P=9.3 × 10 -4). The strongest combined association was at rs1823125 (P=1.5 × 10 -10, minor allele frequency 0.26 in the discovery sample, 0.12 in the replication sample), with each copy of the minor allele associated with a sleep duration 3.1 min longer per night. The alleles associated with longer sleep duration were associated in previous GWAS with a more favorable metabolic profile and a lower risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Understanding the mechanisms underlying these associations may help elucidate biological mechanisms influencing sleep duration and its association with psychiatric, metabolic and cardiovascular disease.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1232-1239
Number of pages8
JournalMolecular Psychiatry
Volume20
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2015
Externally publishedYes

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