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Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms.

ABSTRACT: Being a morning person is a behavioural indicator of a person's underlying circadian rhythm. Using genome-wide data from 697,828 UK Biobank and 23andMe participants we increase the number of genetic loci associated with being a morning person from 24 to 351. Using data from 85,760 individuals with activity-monitor derived measures of sleep timing we find that the chronotype loci associate with sleep timing: the mean sleep timing of the 5% of individuals carrying the most morningness alleles is 25?min earlier than the 5% carrying the fewest. The loci are enriched for genes involved in circadian regulation, cAMP, glutamate and insulin signalling pathways, and those expressed in the retina, hindbrain, hypothalamus, and pituitary. Using Mendelian Randomisation, we show that being a morning person is causally associated with better mental health but does not affect BMI or risk of Type 2 diabetes. This study offers insights into circadian biology and its links to disease in humans.

SUBMITTER: Jones SE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6351539 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms.

Jones Samuel E SE Lane Jacqueline M JM Wood Andrew R AR van Hees Vincent T VT Tyrrell Jessica J Beaumont Robin N RN Jeffries Aaron R AR Dashti Hassan S HS Hillsdon Melvyn M Ruth Katherine S KS Tuke Marcus A MA Yaghootkar Hanieh H Sharp Seth A SA Jie Yingjie Y Thompson William D WD Harrison Jamie W JW Dawes Amy A Byrne Enda M EM Tiemeier Henning H Allebrandt Karla V KV Bowden Jack J Ray David W DW Freathy Rachel M RM Murray Anna A Mazzotti Diego R DR Gehrman Philip R PR Lawlor Debbie A DA Frayling Timothy M TM Rutter Martin K MK Hinds David A DA Saxena Richa R Weedon Michael N MN

Nature communications 20190129 1

Being a morning person is a behavioural indicator of a person's underlying circadian rhythm. Using genome-wide data from 697,828 UK Biobank and 23andMe participants we increase the number of genetic loci associated with being a morning person from 24 to 351. Using data from 85,760 individuals with activity-monitor derived measures of sleep timing we find that the chronotype loci associate with sleep timing: the mean sleep timing of the 5% of individuals carrying the most morningness alleles is 2 ...[more]

PMID: 30696823

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Project description:Disrupted circadian rhythms and reduced sleep duration are associated with several human diseases, particularly obesity and type 2 diabetes, but until recently, little was known about the genetic factors influencing these heritable traits. We performed genome-wide association studies of self-reported chronotype (morning/evening person) and self-reported sleep duration in 128,266 white British individuals from the UK Biobank study. Sixteen variants were associated with chronotype (P<5x10-8), including variants near the known circadian rhythm genes RGS16 (1.21 odds of morningness, 95% CI [1.15, 1.27], P = 3x10-12) and PER2 (1.09 odds of morningness, 95% CI [1.06, 1.12], P = 4x10-10). The PER2 signal has previously been associated with iris function. We sought replication using self-reported data from 89,283 23andMe participants; thirteen of the chronotype signals remained associated at P<5x10-8 on meta-analysis and eleven of these reached P<0.05 in the same direction in the 23andMe study. We also replicated 9 additional variants identified when the 23andMe study was used as a discovery GWAS of chronotype (all P<0.05 and meta-analysis P<5x10-8). For sleep duration, we replicated one known signal in PAX8 (2.6 minutes per allele, 95% CI [1.9, 3.2], P = 5.7x10-16) and identified and replicated two novel associations at VRK2 (2.0 minutes per allele, 95% CI [1.3, 2.7], P = 1.2x10-9; and 1.6 minutes per allele, 95% CI [1.1, 2.2], P = 7.6x10-9). Although we found genetic correlation between chronotype and BMI (rG = 0.056, P = 0.05); undersleeping and BMI (rG = 0.147, P = 1x10-5) and oversleeping and BMI (rG = 0.097, P = 0.04), Mendelian Randomisation analyses, with limited power, provided no consistent evidence of causal associations between BMI or type 2 diabetes and chronotype or sleep duration. Our study brings the total number of loci associated with chronotype to 22 and with sleep duration to three, and provides new insights into the biology of sleep and circadian rhythms in humans.

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Genome-wide association analyses of chronotype in 697,828 individuals provides insights into circadian rhythms.

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