Clarifying Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Genetic Associations Observed in Biobanks via Mediation Analysis of Smoking

Varying case definitions of COPD have heterogenous genetic risk profiles, potentially reflective of disease subtypes or classification bias (e.g., smokers more likely to be diagnosed with COPD). To better understand differences in genetic loci associated with ICD-defined versus spirometry-defined CO...

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Published inAMIA Summits on Translational Science proceedings Vol. 2024; p. 499
Main Authors Bazemore, Katrina, Joo, Jaehyun, Hwang, Wei-Ting, Himes, Blanca E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 2024
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ISSN2153-4063
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Summary:Varying case definitions of COPD have heterogenous genetic risk profiles, potentially reflective of disease subtypes or classification bias (e.g., smokers more likely to be diagnosed with COPD). To better understand differences in genetic loci associated with ICD-defined versus spirometry-defined COPD we contrasted their GWAS results with those for heavy smoking among 337,138 UK Biobank participants. Overlapping risk loci were found in/near the genes ZEB2, FAM136B, CHRNA3, and CHRNA4, with the CHRNA3 locus shared across all three traits. Mediation analysis to estimate the effects of lead genotyped variants mediated by smoking found significant indirect effects for the FAM136B, CHRNA3, and CHRNA4 loci for both COPD definitions. Adjustment for mediator-outcome confounders modestly attenuated indirect effects, though in the CHRNA4 locus for spirometry-defined COPD the proportion mediated increased an additional 8.47%. Our results suggest that differences between ICD-defined and spirometry-defined COPD associated genetic loci are not a result of smoking biasing classification.
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ISSN:2153-4063
2153-4063