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Author Lardone, M.C.; Busch, A.S.; Santos, J.L.; Miranda, P.; Eyheramendy, S.; Pereira, A.; Juul, A.; Almstrup, K.; Mericq, V. doi  openurl
  Title (up) A Polygenic Risk Score Suggests Shared Genetic Architecture of Voice Break With Early Markers of Pubertal Onset in Boys Type
  Year 2020 Publication Journal Of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Abbreviated Journal J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab.  
  Volume 105 Issue 3 Pages E349-E357  
  Keywords gonadarche; pubarche; polygenic risk score; GWAS; male puberty  
  Abstract Context: Voice break, as a landmark of advanced male puberty in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), has revealed that pubertal timing is a highly polygenic trait. Although voice break is easily recorded in large cohorts, it holds quite low precision as a marker of puberty. In contrast, gonadarche and pubarche are early and clinically well-defined measures of puberty onset. Objective: To determine whether a polygenic risk score (PRS) of alleles that confer risk for voice break associates with age at gonadarche (AAG) and age at pubarche (AAP) in Chilean boys. Experimental Design: Longitudinal study. Subjects and Methods: 401 boys from the Growth and Obesity Chilean Cohort Study (n = 1194; 49.2% boys). Main Outcome Measures: Biannual clinical pubertal staging including orchidometry. AAG and AAP were estimated by censoring methods. Genotyping was performed using the Multi-Ethnic Global Array (Illumina). Using GWAS summary statistics from the UK-Biobank, 29 significant and independent single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with age at voice break were extracted. Individual PRS were computed as the sum of risk alleles weighted by the effect size. Results: The PRS was associated with AAG (beta=0.01, P = 0.04) and AAP (beta=0.185, P = 0.0004). In addition, boys within the 20% highest PRS experienced gonadarche and pubarche 0.55 and 0.67 years later than those in the lowest 20%, respectively (P = 0.013 and P = 0.007). Conclusions: Genetic variants identified in large GWAS on age at VB significantly associate with age at testicular growth and pubic hair development, suggesting that these events share a genetic architecture across ethnically distinct populations.  
  Address [Lardone, Maria C.; Mericq, Veronica] Univ Chile, Sch Med, Inst Maternal & Child Res, Santiago 8360160, Chile, Email: vmericq@med.uchile.cl  
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  Publisher Endocrine Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 0021-972x ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000525870500035 Approved  
  Call Number UAI @ eduardo.moreno @ Serial 1151  
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Author Vicuna, L.; Barrientos, E.; Norambuena, T.; Alvares, D.; Gana, J.C.; Leiva-Yamaguchi, V.; Meza, C.; Santos, J.L.; Mericq, V.; Pereira, A.; Eyheramendy, S. doi  openurl
  Title (up) New insights from GWAS on BMI-related growth traits in a longitudinal cohort of admixed children with Native American and European ancestry Type
  Year 2023 Publication iScience Abbreviated Journal iScience  
  Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 106091  
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  Abstract Body-mass index (BMI) is a hallmark of adiposity. In contrast with adulthood, the genetic architecture of BMI during childhood is poorly understood. The few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on children have been performed almost exclusively in Europeans and at single ages. We performed cross-sectional and longitudinal GWAS for BMI-related traits on 904 admixed children with mostly Mapuche Native American and European ancestries. We found regulatory variants of the immune gene HLA-DQB3 strongly associated with BMI at 1.5 – 2.5 years old. A variant in the sex-determining gene DMRT1 was associated with the age at adiposity rebound (Age-AR) in girls (P = 9.8 x 10(-9)). BMI was significantly higher in Mapuche than in Europeans between 5.5 and 16.5 years old. Finally, Ag  
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  ISSN 2589-0042 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000990651700001 Approved  
  Call Number UAI @ alexi.delcanto @ Serial 1808  
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