PMID- 35043955 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220824 LR - 20221207 IS - 1460-2083 (Electronic) IS - 0964-6906 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 15 DP - 2022 Aug 17 TI - Phenome-wide association study of the major histocompatibility complex region in the Korean population identifies novel association signals. PG - 2655-2667 LID - 10.1093/hmg/ddac016 [doi] AB - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) gene variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region are associated with numerous complex human diseases and quantitative traits. Previous phenome-wide association studies (PheWAS) for this region demonstrated that HLA association patterns to the phenome have both population-specific and population-shared components. We performed MHC PheWAS in the Korean population by analyzing associations between phenotypes and genetic variants in the MHC region using the Korea Biobank Array project data samples from the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study cohorts. Using this single-population dataset, we curated and analyzed 82 phenotypes for 125 673 Korean individuals after imputing HLA using CookHLA, a recently developed imputation framework. More than one-third of these phenotypes showed significant associations, confirming 56 known associations and discovering 13 novel association signals that were not reported previously. In addition, we analyzed heritability explained by the variants in the MHC region and genetic correlations among phenotypes based on the MHC variants. CI - (c) The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. FAU - Kim, Chanwoo AU - Kim C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1950-1230 AD - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea. AD - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. FAU - Kim, Young Jin AU - Kim YJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4132-4437 AD - Division of Genome Science, Department of Precision Medicine, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28159,, Republic of Korea. FAU - Choi, Wanson AU - Choi W AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences, BK21 Plus Biomedical Science Project, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea. FAU - Jang, Hye-Mi AU - Jang HM AD - Division of Genome Science, Department of Precision Medicine, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28159,, Republic of Korea. FAU - Hwang, Mi Yeong AU - Hwang MY AD - Division of Genome Science, Department of Precision Medicine, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28159,, Republic of Korea. FAU - Jung, Sunwoo AU - Jung S AD - Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea. FAU - Lim, Hyunjoon AU - Lim H AD - Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea. FAU - Hong, Sang Bin AU - Hong SB AD - Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea. FAU - Yoon, Kyungheon AU - Yoon K AD - Division of Genome Science, Department of Precision Medicine, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28159,, Republic of Korea. FAU - Kim, Bong-Jo AU - Kim BJ AD - Division of Genome Science, Department of Precision Medicine, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28159,, Republic of Korea. FAU - Park, Hyun-Young AU - Park HY AD - Department of Precision Medicine, National Institute of Health, Cheongju-si, Chungcheongbuk-do 28159, Republic of Korea. FAU - Han, Buhm AU - Han B AD - Department of Biomedical Sciences, BK21 Plus Biomedical Science Project, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea. AD - Interdisciplinary Program in Bioengineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Hum Mol Genet JT - Human molecular genetics JID - 9208958 SB - IM MH - Asian People/genetics MH - Genetic Predisposition to Disease MH - *Genome-Wide Association Study MH - Humans MH - Major Histocompatibility Complex/genetics MH - Phenomics MH - Phenotype MH - *Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics EDAT- 2022/01/20 06:00 MHDA- 2022/08/25 06:00 CRDT- 2022/01/19 08:54 PHST- 2021/07/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/11/11 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/01/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/01/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/08/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/19 08:54 [entrez] AID - 6511391 [pii] AID - 10.1093/hmg/ddac016 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hum Mol Genet. 2022 Aug 17;31(15):2655-2667. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddac016.