- Title
- A GWAS for grip strength in cohorts of children—Advantages of analysing young participants for this trait
- Creator
- Abbondanza, Filippo; Wang, Carol A.; Schmitz, Judith; Marianski, Krzysztof; Pennell, Craig E.; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Paracchini, Silvia
- Relation
- Genes, Brain and Behavior Vol. 23, Issue 5, no. e70003
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbb.70003
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- Grip strength (GS) is a proxy measure for muscular strength and a predictor for bone fracture risk among other diseases. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been conducted in large cohorts of adults focusing on scores collected for the dominant hand, therefore increasing the likelihood of confounding effects by environmental factors. Here, we perform the first GWAS meta-analyses on maximal GS with the dominant (GSD) and non-dominant (GSND) hand in two cohorts of children (ALSPAC, N = 5450; age range = 10.65–13.61; Raine Study, N = 1162, age range: 9.42–12.38 years). We identified a novel significant association for GSND (rs9546244, LINC02465, p = 3.43e−08) and replicated associations previously reported in adults including with a HOXB3 gene marker that shows an expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) effect. Despite a much smaller sample (~3%) compared with the UK Biobank we replicated correlation analyses previously reported in this much larger adult cohort, such as a negative correlation with coronary artery disease. Although the results from the polygenic risk score (PRS) analyses did not survive multiple testing correction, we observed nominally significant associations between GS and risk of overall fracture, as previously reported, as well ADHD which will require further investigations. Finally, we observed a higher SNP-heritability (24%–41%) compared with previous studies (4%–24%) in adults. Overall, our results suggest that cohorts of children might be better suited for genetic studies of grip strength, possibly due to the shorter exposure to confounding environmental factors compared with adults.
- Subject
- ALSPAC; complex traits; grip strength; genome-wide association studies (GWASs); neurodevelopment; Raine study; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goal
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1516631
- Identifier
- uon:57000
- Identifier
- ISSN:1601-1848
- Rights
- © 2024 The Author(s). Genes, Brain and Behavior published by International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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