Polygenic risk score-based phenome-wide association for glaucoma and its impact on disease susceptibility in two large biobanks

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2024年4月15日

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Jae-Seung Yun,
Sang-Hyuk Jung,
Su-Nam Lee,
Seung Min Jung,
Daniel J. Rader,
Marylyn D. Ritchie,
JoEllen Weaver,
Nawar Naseer,
Giorgio Sirugo,
Afiya Poindexter,
Yi-An Ko,
Kyle P. Nerz,
Meghan Livingstone,
Fred Vadivieso,
Stephanie DerOhannessian,
Teo Tran,
Julia Stephanowski,
Salma Santos,
Ned Haubein,
Joseph Dunn,
Anurag Verma,
Colleen Morse Kripke,
Marjorie Risman,
Renae Judy,
Colin Wollack,
Anurag Verma,
Shefali S. Verma,
Scott Damrauer,
Yuki Bradford,
Scott Dudek,
Theodore Drivas,
Hong-Hee Won,
Dokyoon Kim,
Jin A. Choi

摘要

Background

Glaucoma is a leading cause of worldwide irreversible blindness. Considerable uncertainty remains regarding the association between a variety of phenotypes and the genetic risk of glaucoma, as well as the impact they exert on the glaucoma development.

Methods

We investigated the associations of genetic liability for primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) with a wide range of potential risk factors and to assess its impact on the risk of incident glaucoma. The phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) approach was applied to determine the association of POAG polygenic risk score (PRS) with a wide range of phenotypes in 377, 852 participants from the UK Biobank study and 43,623 participants from the Penn Medicine Biobank study, all of European ancestry. Participants were stratified into four risk tiers: low, intermediate, high, and very high-risk. Cox proportional hazard models assessed the relationship of POAG PRS and ocular factors with new glaucoma events.

Results

In both discovery and replication set in the PheWAS, a higher genetic predisposition to POAG was specifically correlated with ocular disease phenotypes. The POAG PRS exhibited correlations with low corneal hysteresis, refractive error, and ocular hypertension, demonstrating a strong association with the onset of glaucoma. Individuals carrying a high genetic burden exhibited a 9.20-fold, 11.88-fold, and 28.85-fold increase in glaucoma incidence when associated with low corneal hysteresis, high myopia, and elevated intraocular pressure, respectively.

Conclusion

Genetic susceptibility to POAG primarily influences ocular conditions, with limited systemic associations. Notably, the baseline polygenic risk for POAG robustly associates with new glaucoma events, revealing a large combined effect of genetic and ocular risk factors on glaucoma incidents.