The causal variants and genes underlying thousands of cardiac genome-wide association
study (GWAS) signals have yet to be identified. D’Antonio et al (Nat Commun 2023;14:1132,
PMID 36854752) used spatiotemporal information on 966 RNA sequencing cardiac samples
and performed an expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analysis to detect eQTLs
considering both eGenes and eIsoforms. The authors identified 2578 eQTLs associated
with a specific developmental stage, tissue, and/or cell type. Colocalization between
eQTL and GWAS signals of 5 cardiac traits identified variants with high posterior
probabilities for being causal in 210 GWAS loci. Pulse pressure GWAS loci are enriched
for colocalization with fetal and smooth muscle eQTLs, pulse rate with adult and cardiac
muscle eQTLs, and atrial fibrillation with cardiac muscle eQTLs. Fine mapping identifies
79 credible sets with ≤5 single nucleotide polymorphisms, of which 15 were associated
with spatiotemporal eQTLs. The authors conclude that many cardiac GWAS variants impact traits and disease in
a developmental stage-, tissue-, and/or cell type–specific fashion.
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Published online: March 07, 2023
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