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Edwards TL, Giri A, Hellwege JN, Hartmann KE, Stewart EA, Jeff JM, Bray MJ, Pendergrass SA, Torstenson ES, Keaton JM, Jones SH, Gogoi RP, Kuivaniemi H, Jackson KL, Kho AN, Kullo IJ, McCarty CA, Im HK, Pacheco JA, Pathak J, Williams MS, Tromp G, Kenny EE, Peissig PL, Denny JC, Roden DM, Velez Edwards DR. A -Ethnic Genome-Wide Association Study of Uterine Fibroids. Frontiers in genetics. 10(10). 511 p.
Abstract
Uterine fibroids affect up to 77% of women by menopause and account for up to $34 billion in healthcare costs each year. Although fibroid risk is heritable, genetic risk for fibroids is not well understood. We conducted a two-stage case-control meta-analysis of genetic variants in European and African ancestry women with and without fibroids classified by a previously published algorithm requiring pelvic imaging or confirmed diagnosis. Women from seven electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network sites (3,704 imaging-confirmed cases and 5,591 imaging-confirmed controls) and women of African and European ancestry from UK Biobank (UKB, 5,772 cases and 61,457 controls) were included in the discovery genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis. Variants showing evidence of association in Stage I GWAS (