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BACKGROUND: The long-term probability of developing atrial fibrillation Lu-Chen Weng, PhD*
(AF) considering genetic predisposition and clinical risk factor burden is Sarah R. Preis, ScD, MPH*
unknown. Olivia L. Hulme, BA
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examinations, and laboratory tests every 2 years. Beginning in
he probability of developing atrial fibrillation (AF)
1971, spouses and children of the Original cohort participants
is influenced by both inherited and acquired risk
(n=5124) were recruited in the Offspring cohort with similar
factors.1–3 Genetic association studies of common examinations every 4 to 8 years. Participants from the Third
genetic variants have confirmed a polygenic basis for Generation cohort (ie, grandchildren of the Original cohort)
AF.4,5 Well-validated clinical risk factors such as anthro- were enrolled in 2002 and examined every 6 to 8 years. All
pometrics and cardiovascular disease components can participants signed informed consents at each examination
stratify short-term AF risk.3 Although both genetic pre- cycle, and the Boston University Medical Center Institutional
disposition and clinical risk factor burden are associated Review Board approved study protocols.
with AF risk, the contribution of these well-established For the present analysis, we derived 3 samples based on
risk factors to the long-term probability of developing participants who attended a study examination in ≤5 years of
AF is unknown. each of the attained ages of 55 (n=10 239), 65 (n=7909), and
75 (n=5047) years. We selected 55 years of age as the initial
By accounting for competing causes of death, life-
age to maximize the sample of participants in whom DNA was
time risk estimates provide accurate assessments of
ascertained before an index attained age. Participants could
long-term disease probabilities within populations.6 For be included in >1 sample. From these samples, we excluded
AF in particular, such estimates can serve as practical participants if they lacked follow-up after the attained age,
risk approximations for both clinicians and patients be- did not participate in DNA collection, had prevalent AF at the
cause the short-term risks of AF are generally small.3 study examination or DNA collection, had DNA collected >95
Previous lifetime risk estimates for AF have typically re- years of age, or lacked complete single-nucleotide polymor-
flected average risks in entire study samples rather than phism (SNP) or risk factor data (see the following text for fur-
within specific risk factor strata.7–12 ther description and sample selection flowcharts in Figure I
Comprehensive genomic assessment is currently fea- through IV in the online-only Data Supplement). In sensitivity
sible and accessible as is evidenced by direct-to-consum- analyses, we also estimated the lifetime risk of AF in individu-
als without available DNA.
er availability of genetic tests, yet it remains of uncertain
utility partly owing to the lack of valid associations with
long-term disease risks.13 Simultaneously, increasing AF ASCERTAINMENT
emphasis is being placed on addressing modifiable risk AF was ascertained in the Framingham Heart Study as
factors to potentially prevent AF given morbidity associ- previously described.22 Briefly, at each study examina-
tion, participants’ medical histories, physical examina- Polygenic risk scores were strongly associated with
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tions, and electrocardiograms were obtained. Records AF in the UK Biobank, with P values ranging from
of all interim outpatient appointments and hospital- 3.1x10‒55 to 1.5x10‒146. The best-fitting score (Figure 1)
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izations for cardiovascular disease were sought for was derived from a candidate group of 1168 SNPs (of
manual review by mailings and telephone calls via which 835 were imputed with high quality in the UK
health history updates every 24 months. Participants Biobank) (Table I in the online-only Data Supplement).
were classified as having AF if the arrhythmia was pres- Regions tagged by the optimal SNP score accounted
ent on an ECG obtained at a study visit or encounter for a greater proportion of variance in AF susceptibil-
with external clinicians, Holter monitoring, or noted in ity in the UK Biobank as measured by SNP heritability29
hospital records. Study investigators reviewed all avail- (7.4%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 6.1‒8.8) than
able records, regardless of symptoms, to determine the those tagged by genome-wide significant loci alone
dates of AF. Two physicians adjudicated first-detected (3.0%; 95% CI, 2.2‒3.8) (see online-only Data Supple-
AF events. ment Methods for details). We therefore calculated
polygenic risk scores for AF in the Framingham Heart
Study participants on the basis of the same candidate
GENOTYPING AND IMPUTATION SNP group (of which 986 SNPs were genotyped or im-
Details of genotyping, imputation, and quality control puted with high confidence in Framingham) using the
have been previously described23 and are summarized same approach defined earlier. Further description of
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in the online-only Data Supplement Methods. our approach is provided in the online-only Data Sup-
plement Methods.
All participants in the UK Biobank provided written
POLYGENIC RISK FOR AF informed consent to participate in research as previous-
ly described,17 and the UK Biobank was approved by
Full methods of the approach to estimating genetic pre-
the UK Biobank Research Ethics Committee (reference
disposition to AF are described in the online-only Data
number 11/NW/0382). Use of UK Biobank data were
Supplement Methods and are briefly summarized here.
approved by the local Partners Healthcare Institutional
Our approach was motivated by the concept that com-
Review Board.
plex genetic trait liability may be explained by the cumu-
lative effects of hundreds or thousands of common ge-
netic variants, many of which are associated with traits CLINICAL RISK FOR AF
at levels that do not exceed the stringent genome-wide
significance threshold (ie, P<5x10-8).24–27 We therefore We estimated clinical risk factor burden in each Fram-
created 30 candidate SNP groups using association re- ingham Heart Study participant by using a validated
sults from a prior genome-wide association study of AF composite 5-year clinical risk score for AF (CHARGE-AF
(133 073 individuals overall, 17 931 with AF)4 by select- Score [Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Ge-
ing SNPs across a preselected range of 6 increasingly nomic Epidemiology AF]).3,30–33 For each sample at the
liberal degrees of association with AF (ie, from P value attained ages of 55, 65, and 75 years, we measured
<5x10‒8 to <0.001) and 5 linkage disequilibrium thresh- clinical risk factors for each individual in ≤5 years of
olds (ie, from r2 ≥0.1 to ≥0.9). The derived groups were the attained age and calculated the clinical composite
comprised of between 58 and 10 751 SNPs. score as a weighted sum of clinical risk factors that in-
We then constructed polygenic risk scores from cluded height, weight, systolic and diastolic blood pres-
the candidate SNP groups and independently validat- sure, current smoking status, use of antihypertensive
ed scores by testing each for association with AF in medication, diabetes mellitus, and history of myocardial
120 286 individuals of European ancestry in the popu- infarction and heart failure. Weights for each compo-
lation-based UK Biobank17 (described in the online-only nent are provided in the online-only Data Supplement
Data Supplement Methods) using multivariable logis- Methods. Ascertainment of these clinical risk factors
tic regression. We calculated scores by summing the has previously been described.22 Because we assessed
dosage of each AF risk allele carried by an individual the residual lifetime risk of AF within strata of attained
(ranging from 0 to 2 for each SNP) weighted by the age, we omitted age from the composite score.
natural logarithm of the relative risk for each SNP from
the prior analysis4 to yield a single continuous value for
each individual. Models were adjusted for age, sex, ge- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
notyping array, and 1 principal component of ancestry. We performed lifetime risk analyses in each of 3 samples
We considered the most informative score the 1 with from the Framingham Heart Study based on a person’s
the best model fit, as measured by the lowest Akaike index or attained age free of AF. The 3 samples were de-
information criterion.28 fined at 55, 65, and 75 years of age. Participants were
followed from the later of the date of their index age the polygenic risk score and clinical risk score, resulting
free of AF or their date of DNA collection until their first in 9 risk strata. In secondary analyses, we calculated the
AF event, death, last available date known to be free cumulative incidences of AF at 10-, 20-, and 30-year
of AF based on a Framingham examination or medical time horizons. We also performed an exploratory anal-
records, 95 years of age, or December 31, 2014, which- ysis in which we regressed AF on continuous genetic
ever occurred first. The multiple-decrement life-table predisposition and clinical risk factor burden in the 55
approach was applied to calculate the lifetime risk of years of age sample, and we introduced a multiplicative
AF, adjusting for the competing risk of death.6 Adjust- interaction term. Models were fit using proportional
ment for the competing risk of death avoids overinfla- hazards regression with and without adjustment for the
tion of cumulative incidence estimates that may occur if competing risk of death.34
the competing risk is not taken into account. To assess whether a favorable cardiovascular risk pro-
We first calculated lifetime risk estimates for each file was associated with a later age of AF onset after ac-
attained age overall. We then performed the same life- counting for genetic predisposition, we regressed the
table approach stratified by tertiles of the AF polygenic age of AF onset on the clinical risk factor burden both
risk score and the clinical risk factor score separately. within tertiles of polygenic risk scores and separately and
Tertiles were derived based on the distributions in the adjusted for tertiles of polygenic risk among individuals
overall sample specific to each index age. Tertile 1 was who developed AF using linear regression. Analyses were
considered low risk, tertile 2 was considered intermedi- performed in the sample of individuals with an attained
ate risk, and tertile 3 was considered high risk. We then age of 55 years without AF. Two-sided P values <0.05
assessed the joint contributions of genetic predisposi- were considered statistically significant. All statistical
tion and clinical risk factor burden by calculating life- analyses were performed using SAS software, version
time risks of AF within cross-tabulated tertiles of both 9.4 (SAS Institute), PLINK v1.9,35 and R version 3.2.2.36
RESULTS
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In total, 5131 unique individuals were included in the
analyses for the 3 samples defined by attained ages
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of 55 (n=4606), 65 (n=3271), and 75 (n=1887) years
without AF (Table). Among participants alive and free
of AF at 55 years of age, 580 developed AF during
the observed follow-up period. The median (25th-
75th percentile) follow-up durations for the attained
55, 65, and 75 years of age samples were 9.4 years
(4.4–14.3 years), 7.4 years (3.2–12.7 years), and 5.6
years (2.1–9.1 years), respectively. As expected, the
proportions with comorbid medical illnesses were
generally greater among older participants. Partici-
pants with DNA who were included in the study were
generally ascertained in a more contemporary era
than those without DNA (Table II in the online-only
Data Supplement). Figure 2. Lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) at se-
Estimates of lifetime risk of AF are displayed in Fig- lected attained ages, adjusted for the competing risk
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Figure 3. Lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) stratified by polygenic risk or clinical risk factor burden tertiles ad-
justed for the competing risk of death.
A through F, Lifetime risk of AF in Framingham Heart Study participants stratified by low-, intermediate-, and high-polygenic
risk (A through C) or clinical risk factor burden (D through F) at attained ages of 55, 65, and 75 years free of AF.
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Figure 4. Lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) stratified by polygenic risk within clinical risk factor burden tertiles
adjusted for the competing risk of death.
A through I, Lifetime risk of AF in Framingham Heart Study participants stratified by low-, intermediate-, and high-polygenic
risk and clinical risk factor burden at attained ages of 55 years (A through C), 65 years (D through F), and 75 years (G
through I).
that did not exceed stringent genome-wide significance Second, our observation that individuals with a low-
thresholds, an approach that likely contributed to the er burden of clinical risk factors had a reduced prob-
considerable degree of risk stratification observed. Our ability of developing AF within polygenic risk strata
study provides absolute AF risk estimates associated underscores the potential importance of risk factor
with comprehensively ascertained polygenic risk, and modification for attenuating AF risk regardless of inher-
demonstrates that genomic risk profiles can be incor- ited predisposition, similar to a recent analysis of coro-
porated into lifetime risk models. Given the increasing nary heart disease.39 Among individuals who developed
ubiquity of genomic data in the clinical setting and AF, a more favorable clinical risk profile was associated
through direct-to-consumer testing, epidemiologically with postponement of disease onset, indicating that
derived estimates are necessary for generating accurate optimal cardiovascular health may compress the period
personalized risk assessments. of exposure to AF. Nevertheless, the fact that individu-
High
Clinical risk
Intermediate
Low
Figure 5. Age of atrial fibrillation (AF)
onset stratified by clinical and poly-
Intermediate polygenic risk
genic risk.
Gray dots indicate the age of AF onset in
High Framingham Heart Study participants free
Clinical risk
Intermediate
Low
60 70 80 90
Age of AF onset (yr)
als with few clinical risk factors but high polygenic risk causes of death, greater follow-up during older ages of
had an ≈40% lifetime probability of developing AF un- life when AF risk is greatest, or enhanced surveillance for
derscores the independent contribution of an inherited AF owing to increased awareness of the arrhythmia.46 We
predisposition to disease risk. anticipate that the true lifetime risk of AF and attributable
Modifiable AF risk factors include hypertension, obe- morbidity are currently underestimated because undiag-
sity, smoking, diabetes mellitus, and obstructive sleep nosed AF is common.47,48 Utilization of increasingly avail-
apnea,3,40 the first 4 of which were included in our as- able mobile cardiac rhythm monitoring technology and
sessment of clinical risk factor burden. Risk factor man- wearable sensors is likely to provide refined estimates of
agement through lifestyle modification reduces AF bur- the lifetime risk of AF in the future.49,50
den and severity.41,42 Future analyses are warranted to In contrast with prior reports demonstrating that AF
determine the extent to which dedicated risk factor mod- genetic risk does not add substantively to short-term AF
ification will prevent AF, delay onset, reduce arrhythmia discrimination beyond clinical risk factors,51,52 our current
burden, and minimize overall attributable morbidity and report has several important differences. First, the pres-
mortality across the spectrum of polygenic risk. ent article is focused on residual lifetime probabilities of
Third, the ≈37% average lifetime risk of AF estimated AF conditional on survival to specified ages, rather than
in our study emphasizes the immense public health impact short-term improvements in discrimination of disease
presented by AF. Prevention of AF is an important goal, risk in pooled samples. Second, the comprehensive ap-
particularly when considering the clinical and economic proach for determining AF genetic predisposition we
impacts of the arrhythmia, limitations of antiarrhythmic used is based on a larger and better-powered discovery
and anticoagulant therapy, and increasing prevalence of sample and relaxed assumptions about both SNP associ-
AF in an era of greater longevity.43–45 Whereas prior re- ation with AF and linkage disequilibrium, which resulted
ports have suggested that the lifetime risk of AF is about in a score comprised of ≈1000 variants. In aggregate,
1 in 4,7–12 the higher lifetime risk estimates in our study the findings highlight the high lifetime risk of developing
may be related to diminished mortality from competing AF and the substantial contributions of genetic predis-
position and clinical risk factor burden to variability in Medicine, Cardiology Division, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Worcester (D.D.M.). Cardiovascular Research Center, Herlev and Gentofte Uni-
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long-term AF risk. Nevertheless, the clinical utility and versity Hospital, Hellerup, Denmark (L.S.). Department of Medicine, Sections of
cost-effectiveness of genomic profiling remain unclear. Computational Biomedicine (H.L.) and Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular
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Our study should be interpreted in the context of the Medicine (E.J.B.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA.
ants and utilize different methods for variant selection or Fellowship Award 17POST33660226 (to Dr Weng); American Heart Associa-
tion Established Investigator Awards 13EIA14220013 (to Dr Ellinor); and the
weighting may improve the specificity of scores used to Fondation Leducq 14CVD01 (to Dr Ellinor). The funding agencies had no role
summarize genetic predisposition to AF. We cannot es- in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and
tablish causal relations between the specific SNPs and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the article; and
decision to submit the article for publication.
clinical risk factors included in our score and risk of AF.
Further refinement of polygenic risk or clinical risk algo-
rithms, and application to larger samples, may further Disclosures
enhance short, intermediate, and lifetime risk estimation Dr Ellinor is a principal investigator on a Bayer HealthCare grant to the Broad
Institute related to the development of new therapeutics for atrial fibrillation.
for AF. Additional clinical risk factors, such as echocardio-
Dr Lubitz receives sponsored research support from Bayer HealthCare, Bio-
graphic measurements, may be important determinants tronik, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Boehringer Ingelheim and has consulted for
of disease risk and were not included. Abbott and Quest Diagnostics. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.
Dr McManus reports receiving research funding from Philips, Pfizer, Samsung,
In conclusion, the contributions of genetic predis-
Bristol-Myers Squibb, consultation fees from Pfizer, Samsung, Flexcon, and Bris-
position and clinical risk to the development of AF are tol Myers Squibb, and equity in Mobile Sense Technologies.
substantial. Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of
assessing AF risk within genetic and clinical risk factor
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2 Supplemental Methods
6 Supplemental Figure 1. Study overview.
7 Supplemental Figure 2. Study sample flow chart for the analysis at attained age of
55 years.
8 Supplemental Figure 3. Study sample flow chart for the analysis at attained age of
65 years.
9 Supplemental Figure 4. Study sample flow chart for the analysis at attained age of
75 years.
10 Supplemental Table 1. Characteristics of atrial fibrillation genetic risk variants.
11 Supplemental Table 2. Difference in lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation in participants
with and without DNA in the Framingham Heart Study.
12 Supplemental Table 3. Characteristics of individuals stratified by polygenic risk of
atrial fibrillation.
13 Supplemental Table 4. Characteristics of individuals stratified by clinical risk of
atrial fibrillation.
14 Supplemental Table 5. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation at varying time
horizons and attained ages stratified by polygenic risk of AF, adjusted for the
competing risk of death.
15 Supplemental Table 6. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation at varying time
horizons and attained ages stratified by clinical risk of AF, adjusted for the
competing risk of death.
16 Supplemental Table 7. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation assuming event-
free survival to age 55 years stratified by polygenic and clinical risk, adjusted for the
competing risk of death.
17 Supplemental Table 8. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation assuming event-
free survival to age 65 years stratified by polygenic and clinical risk, adjusted for the
competing risk of death.
18 Supplemental Table 9. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation assuming event-
free survival to age 75 years stratified by polygenic and clinical risk, adjusted for the
competing risk of death.
19 Supplemental Table 10. Associations between continuous clinical and genetic risk
scores with atrial fibrillation in models with and without adjustment for the
competing risk of death among individuals free of atrial fibrillation at age 55 years.
20 Supplemental References
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SUPPLEMENTAL METHODS
UK Biobank Description
Study Sample
We used the population-based UK Biobank sample to validate and compare polygenic risk
scores for atrial fibrillation (AF, see below). The UK Biobank is comprised of about 500,000
individuals aged 40-69 years recruited between 2006-2010 across the United Kingdom.1
Phenotypic data includes disease information attained through self-report, verbal interviews,
and linkage to national outpatient, inpatient, and other registries. The present analyses were
conducted in 120,286 unrelated adults of European ancestry from an interim data release. All
described,1 and the UK Biobank was approved by the UK Biobank Research Ethics Committee
AF Ascertainment
had undergone a cardioversion, pulmonary vein isolation procedure, atrial flutter ablation,
billing code of 427.3 (ICD-9) or I48 (ICD-10). In total, 2,987 individuals had AF, of which 63,350
(52.7%) were female and the average age at data collection was 56.9 years.
Genotype QC
Individuals from the UK Biobank were genotyped on the UK BiLEVE Axiom array or UK Biobank
Axiom arrays and imputed using the 1000 Genomes Phase 3 and UK10K reference panels.
Detailed descriptions of the genotyping and imputation procedures can be found on the UK
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restricted to variants with high imputation quality (info ≥ 0.4), low missingness rates (< 5%),
minor allele frequencies (MAF) ≥ 1%, and high genotype imputation probabilities (≥ 0.9) across
at least 90% of samples. We transformed variants that passed these quality control criteria to
hard-called genotypes in PLINK version 1.90b2 using a probability threshold ≥ 0.9. In total,
8,423,233 genetic variants (SNPs and indels) were retained. The first 15 principal components
SNP Selection
We selected SNPs by pruning 11.8 million common (≥1% minor allele frequency [MAF]) 1000
from the AFGen consortium (133,073 individuals, 17,931 individuals with AF).5 As previously
performed,6 we recursively extracted SNPs within a sliding 250 kilobase window using PLINK
reflecting the strength of association between each SNP and AF in age and sex-adjusted
analyses from the prior meta-analysis (thresholds included P value <5x10-8, <1x10-7, <1x10-6,
<1x10-5, <1x10-4, and <1x10-3), and by selecting variants in different degrees of linkage
equilibrium (LD) within each 250 kilobase window (thresholds included r2 ≥0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, and
0.9). For pruning, LD was estimated using all ethnic groups in the 1000 Genomes Project
version 3.4
For each individual in an independent sample (see below), we then calculated polygenic risk
scores comprised of SNPs from each of the 30 predefined SNP groups. Scores were calculated
by summing the dosage of each AF risk allele (ranging from zero to two) weighted by the natural
logarithm of the relative risk for each SNP determined from the prior meta-analysis.5 Thus,
polygenic risk scores for each individual were single linear predictor variables.
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Association testing and selection of optimal polygenic risk score
To identify the optimal score associated with AF to carry forward for lifetime risk analyses, we
tested each of the 30 scores for association with AF in the UK Biobank sample. We did so by
fitting multivariable logistic regression models adjusted for age at data collection, sex, array, and
the one AF-related principal component of ancestry. We selected the model with the best
goodness-of-fit, as determined by the lowest Akaike’s Information Criterion (AIC). The optimal
score was subsequently applied to participants in the Framingham Heart Study, where SNPs
that were genotyped or imputed with high quality (r2 >0.3) were utilized for score construction.
Since the UK Biobank sample used was comprised of both prevalent events at baseline
enrollment and events accrued through relatively short longitudinal follow-up (median 2.17
years), we combined the samples and performed our primary analyses in the pooled sample (N
events 2,987, N overall 120,286) using logistic regression. In sensitivity analyses, the polygenic
risk score was significantly associated with prevalent AF (P<0.001, N events 2,025, N
overall=119,324) using logistic regression, and with incident AF (P<0.001, N events 962, N
We then estimated SNP heritability (h2g) for the optimal set of SNPs in the UK Biobank
removed variants with a missingness rate of ≥ 0.5%, MAF < 1%, and variants with differential
missingness between cases and referents (p-value <0.05). In order to reduce suspicious LD
bias from REML estimation7,9-11 and due to computational capacity of the software, we further
performed two rounds of LD pruning at r2 =0.9 (PLINK 1.90b;2 i.e., using a --indep-pairwise 50 5
0.9 flag) and decreased the total number of variants to 811,488 (with a small fraction of biallelic
indels). We contrasted the 23 SNP score representing the genome-wide significant loci from the
discovery sample analysis, and the 1,168 SNP score from the optimal set of SNPs. To account
for SNPs that were eliminated after linkage disequilibrium pruning of the data set (a step
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necessary for computational efficiency), and to include any variants tagged by the lead SNP, we
included regions ± 25K bases of each selected SNP. We converted the h2g estimate from the
observed scale to a disease liability scale12 by setting the disease prevalence as the observed
We estimated clinical risk for AF based on a weighted sum of clinical risk factors, as performed
in a prior validated analysis.13 The following weights were used: height per 10 cm=0.248; weight
per 15 kg= 0.115; systolic blood pressure per 20 mmHg= 0.197; diastolic blood pressure per 10
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Supplemental Figure 1. Study overview.
Estimate Polygenic,
Clinical, and Lifetime Risk
CHARGE-AF Composite
Risk Score
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Supplemental Figure 2. Study sample flow chart for the analysis at attained age of 55 years.
N=10,136
[4565 (G1), 4215 (G2), 1356 (G3)] with
covariates measured age 50-59.9 years
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Supplemental Figure 3. Study sample flow chart for the analysis at attained age of 65 years.
N=7637
[3969 (G1), 3468 (G2), 200 (G3)] with
covariates measured age 60-69.9 years
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Supplemental Figure 4. Study sample flow chart for the analysis at attained age of 75 years.
N=4620
[2782(G1), 1829 (G2), 9 (G3)] with covariates
measured age 70-79.9 years
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Supplemental Table 1. Characteristics of atrial fibrillation genetic risk variants.
SNP associations with traits were obtained from published data using the NHGRI-EBI GWAS
catalog.14 Proxies for sentinel SNPs associated with atrial fibrillation included those with an r2 ≥
0.6 based on the European (EUR) population from the 1000 Genomes Project, phase 1.15
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Supplemental Table 2. Difference in lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in participants with and without DNA in the Framingham
Heart Study.
Attained age 55 Attained age 65 Attained age 75
With DNA Without DNA With DNA Without DNA With DNA Without DNA
No. participants 4606 4558 3271 3633 1887 2159
Framingham Heart Study Cohort
Original, No. (%) 378 (8.2) 3622 (79.5) 542 (16.6) 3045 (83.8) 638 (33.8) 1925 (89.2)
Offspring, No. (%) 3124 (67.8) 856 (18.8) 2584 (79.0) 576 (15.9) 1242 (65.8) 10.8
Third Generation, No. (%) 1104 (24.0) 80 (1.8) 145 (4.4) 12 (0.3) 7 (0.4) 0 (0.0)
th
Year of exam – median (25 - 1997 (1986- 1963 (1954- 1999 (1989- 1970 (1963- 1999 (1992- 1978 (1972,
th
75 percentile) 2006) 1972) 2006) 1980) 2006) 1987)
Years of follow-up – median 9.4 (4.4-14.3) 19.8 (11.2-27.5) 7.4 (3.2-12.7) 13.1 (6.6-19.6) 5.6 (2.1-9.1) 7.5 (3.2-12.4)
th th
(25 -75 percentile)
No. incident AF events 580 881 530 751 384 462
Lifetime risk (95% CI) 37.1 (34.6-39.6) 21.0 (19.8-22.3) 35.7 (33.2-38.2) 22.2 (20.7-23.6) 33.9 (31.0-36.8) 22.5 (20.6-24.4)
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Supplemental Table 3. Characteristics of individuals stratified by polygenic risk of atrial fibrillation.
Characteristic Attained age 55 Attained age 65 Attained age 75
Low Intermediate High Low Intermediate High Low Intermediate High
polygenic polygenic polygenic polygenic polygenic polygenic polygenic polygenic polygenic
risk risk risk risk risk risk risk risk risk
No. participants 1535 1536 1535 1090 1091 1090 629 629 629
Age at covariate 55.0±1.9 55.0±1.9 54.9±1.9 65.0±1.7 65.0±1.7 65.1±1.7 74.9±1.6 74.8±1.7 74.9±1.7
measurement, y
Age at DNA 59.7±11.4 59.9±11.2 59.2±11.2 65.8±10.5 66.1±10.5 65.6±10.1 73.6±9.0 73.3±8.6 73.3±8.3
collection, y
Women, No. (%) 827 (53.9) 844 (55.0) 821 (53.5) 612 (56.2) 637 (58.4) 620 (56.9) 377 (59.9) 374 (59.5) 369 (58.7)
Current smoker, 311 (20.3) 286 (18.6) 318 (20.7) 144 (13.2) 128 (11.7) 150 (13.8) 49 (7.8) 35 (5.6) 40 (6.4)
No. (%)
Systolic blood 126±17 126±16 125±17 131±18 130±18 132±18 138±19 137±20 137±19
pressure – mm Hg
Diastolic blood 78±10 78±9 78±10 76±10 75±10 75±10 73±10 72±10 72±10
pressure – mm Hg
Hypertension 352 (22.9) 340 (22.1) 339 (22.1) 436 (40.0) 436 (40.0) 427 (39.2) 348 (55.3) 331 (52.6) 336 (53.4)
treatment, No. (%)
Height – cm 167.7±9.1 168.1±9.3 168.5±9.4 165.9±9.3 165.8±9.4 165.9±9.2 163.0±9.5 163.6±9.5 163.4±9.4
Weight – kg 78.3±18.2 77.9±16.9 78.6±17.4 77.1±16.7 76.8±16.8 77.0±16.2 73.2±15.3 73.8±14.9 73.8±15.4
Diabetes, No. (%) 94 (6.1) 81 (5.3) 95 (6.2) 110 (10.1) 122 (11.2) 118 (10.8) 76 (12.1) 86 (13.7) 84 (13.4)
History of heart 6 (0.39) 5 (0.33) 4 (0.26) 11 (1.0) 6 (0.55) 3 (0.28) 10 (1.6) 5 (0.8) 6 (1.0)
failure, No. (%)
History of 26 (1.7) 22 (1.4) 26 (1.7) 44 (4.0) 42 (3.9) 40 (3.7) 33 (5.3) 39 (6.2) 29 (4.6)
myocardial
infarction, No. (%)
Clinical AF 5.85±0.45 5.85±0.43 5.87±0.44 5.93±0.47 5.92±0.48 5.94±0.46 5.98±0.47 5.98±0.48 5.98±0.45
composite score
Polygenic risk 74.9±1.6 78.3±0.8 82.2±2.0 74.9±1.5 78.3±0.8 82.1±2.0 74.8±1.5 78.2±0.8 81.9±1.9
score
Plus-minus values represent mean ± standard deviation.
Risk groups represent tertiles.
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Supplemental Table 4. Characteristics of individuals stratified by clinical risk of atrial fibrillation.
Characteristic Attained age 55 Attained age 65 Attained age 75
Low clinical Intermediate High clinical Low clinical Intermediate High clinical Low clinical Intermediate High clinical
risk clinical risk risk risk clinical risk risk risk clinical risk risk
No. participants 1535 1536 1535 1090 1091 1090 629 629 629
Age at covariate 54.9±1.9 54.9±1.9 55.1±1.9 65.0±1.6 65.0±1.7 65.0±1.8 74.9±1.6 74.9±1.6 74.9±1.7
measurement, y
Age at DNA 60.9±12.3 60.0±11.3 57.8±9.9 67.6±11.4 66.0±10.3 63.9±8.9 75.1±9.2 73.2±8.7 71.8±7.6
collection, y
Women, No. (%) 1403 (91.4) 766 (49.9) 323 (21.0) 1001 (91.8) 590 (54.1) 278 (25.5) 559 (88.9) 378 (60.1) 183 (29.1)
Current smoker, 121 (7.9) 307 (20.0) 487 (31.7) 73 (6.7) 137 (12.6) 212 (19.5) 30 (4.8) 53 (8.4) 41 (6.5)
No. (%)
Systolic blood 118±15 126±16 132±17 124±15 132±17 137±20 131±16 137±18 144±22
pressure – mm Hg
Diastolic blood 75±9 79±9 80±10 74±9 76±9 76±10 72±9 72±10 72±11
pressure – mm Hg
Hypertension 51 (3.3) 266 (17.3) 714 (46.5) 115 (10.6) 410 (37.6) 774 (71.0) 126 (20.0) 368 (58.5) 521 (82.8)
treatment, No. (%)
Height – cm 160.3±5.7 168.7±7.2 175.3±7.9 158.7±6.0 166.4±7.6 172.5±8.3 156.8±6.5 162.9±8.0 170.4±8.4
Weight – kg 64.8±10.5 77.8±12.4 92.3±16.6 64.6±10.4 76.8±12.0 89.5±16.1 62.9±10.4 73.0±11.3 84.9±14.6
Diabetes, No. (%) 11 (0.72) 34 (2.2) 225 (14.7) 6 (0.6) 64 (5.9) 280 (25.7) 8 (1.3) 51 (8.1) 187 (29.7)
History of heart 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 15 (1.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 20 (1.8) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 21 (3.3)
failure, No. (%)
History of 0 (0.0) 3 (0.2) 71 (4.6) 1 (0.1) 4 (0.4) 121 (11.1) 2 (0.3) 8 (1.3) 91 (14.5)
myocardial
infarction, No. (%)
Clinical AF 5.39±0.17 5.83±0.11 6.35±0.27 5.44±0.19 5.90± 0.12 6.45±0.30 5.49±0.20 5.95±0.11 6.50±0.29
composite score
Polygenic risk 78.3±3.3 78.5±3.3 78.5±3.4 78.4±3.2 78.4±3.4 78.5±3.3 78.3±3.3 78.3±3.2 78.2±3.2
score
Plus-minus values represent mean ± standard deviation.
Risk groups represent tertiles.
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Supplemental Table 5. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation at varying time horizons and attained ages stratified by polygenic risk
of atrial fibrillation, adjusted for the competing risk of death.
Time horizon Age Low Intermediate High
attained polygenic risk polygenic risk polygenic risk
(years) N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative
N total incidence, % N total Incidence, % N total Incidence, %
(95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
10 years 55 13/1050 1.96 (0.91-3.02) 30/1044 4.48 (2.91-6.05) 51/1066 7.63 (5.61-9.66)
65 39/849 7.36 (5.11-9.61) 38/840 7.25 (4.99-9.52) 85/848 15.6 (12.5-18.7)
75 43/542 12.4 (8.85-15.9) 71/560 19.9 (15.5-24.2) 108/559 28.8 (23.9-33.8)
20 years 55 54/1341 8.73 (6.50-11.0) 67/1342 10.6 (8.15-13.0) 137/1351 21.0 (17.9-24.2)
65 87/1022 17.5 (14.1-20.9) 107/1026 21.3 (17.6-24.9) 188/1037 34.6 (30.5-38.7)
75 81/627 22.4 (18.0-26.8) 133/629 34.8 (29.8-39.9) 163/629 41.1 (35.7-46.4)
30 years 55 101/1485 18.4 (15.1-21.7) 137/1496 24.6 (21.0-28.3) 233/1493 38.9 (34.9-42.9)
65 122/1090 26.3 (22.2-30.4) 167/1091 35.1 (30.7-39.5) 237/1090 43.9 (39.6-48.2)
75 - - - - - -
Lifetime risk 55 127/1535 25.8 (21.8-29.9) 185/1536 37.8 (33.3-42.3) 268/1535 46.9 (42.7-51.2)
65 123/1090 26.3 (22.2-30.4) 168/1091 35.1 (30.7-39.5) 239/1090 44.4 (40.1-48.7)
75 83/629 23.0(18.6-27.5) 135/629 35.5 (30.4-40.6) 166/629 41.8 (36.5-47.1)
Risk groups represent tertiles.
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Supplemental Table 6. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation at varying time horizons and attained ages stratified by clinical risk of
atrial fibrillation, adjusted for the competing risk of death.
Time horizon Age Low Intermediate High
attained clinical risk clinical risk clinical risk
(years) N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative
N total incidence, % N total Incidence, % N total Incidence, %
(95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
10 years 55 11/979 1.78 (0.74-2.83) 23/1032 3.47 (2.08-4.87) 60/1149 8.27 (6.25-10.3)
65 27/768 5.82 (3.66-7.98) 42/832 8.13 (5.73-10.5) 93/937 15.0 (12.2-17.9)
75 44/513 13.6 (9.77-17.4) 67/558 19.3 (15.0-23.7) 111/590 27.5 (22.8-32.1)
20 years 55 47/1279 8.24 (5.98-10.5) 63/1335 9.79 (7.49-12.1) 148/1420 21.4 (18.3-24.5)
65 81/978 17.7 (14.2-21.3) 102/1037 19.9 (16.4-23.4) 199/1070 35.1 (31.0-39.1)
75 95/627 26.3 (21.6-30.9) 115/629 31.0 (26.0-36.0) 167/629 41.6 (36.4-46.9)
30 years 55 107/1462 20.9 (17.4-24.5) 126/1491 22.4 (18.9-25.9) 238/1521 38.2 (34.3-42.1)
65 132/1090 28.7 (24.5-32.9) 162/1091 33.3 (29.0-37.6) 232/1090 43.6 (39.2-48.0)
75 - - - - - -
Lifetime risk 55 151/1535 32.6 (28.2-37.0) 174/1536 35.1 (30.7-39.5) 255/1535 43.1 (38.9-47.3)
65 136/1090 29.7 (25.5-33.9) 162/1091 33.3 (29.0-37.6) 232/1090 43.6 (39.2-48.0)
75 100/629 27.7 (23.0-32.4) 117/629 31.6 (26.5-36.6) 167/629 41.6 (36.4-46.9)
Risk groups represent tertiles.
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Supplemental Table 7. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation assuming event-free survival to age 55 years stratified by polygenic
and clinical risk, adjusted for the competing risk of death.
Clinical risk
Low Intermediate High
N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative
Time N total incidence, % N total incidence, % N total incidence, %
horizon Polygenic risk (95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
10 years Low 1/332 0.48 (0.00-1.41) 3/331 1.40 (0.00-2.98) 9/387 3.86 (1.38-6.33)
Intermediate 4/320 2.04 (0.06-4.03) 5/355 2.12 (0.28-3.96) 21/369 8.69 (5.13-12.3)
High 6/327 2.96 (0.63-5.29) 15/346 6.82 (3.48-10.2) 30/393 12.0 (7.95-16.1)
20 years Low 8/437 4.19 (1.34-7.04) 11/425 5.48 (2.32-8.65) 35/479 15.5 (10.8-20.2)
Intermediate 12/416 6.47 (2.92-10.0) 11/465 5.01 (2.12-7.91) 44/461 19.4 (14.2-24.5)
High 27/426 14.3 (9.27-19.3) 41/445 18.4 (13.3-23.5) 69/480 29.0 (23.2-34.9)
30 years Low 23/499 14.0 (8.60-19.3) 22/473 12.8 (7.73-17.9) 56/513 26.8 (20.7-32.9)
Intermediate 26/486 15.3 (9.86-20.8) 31/522 16.5 (11.1-21.9) 80/488 42.4 (35.1-49.8)
High 58/477 33.6 (26.4-40.7) 73/496 36.4 (29.6-43.2) 102/520 45.4 (38.7-52.1)
Lifetime risk Low 33/528 22.3 (15.4-29.1) 33/488 24.0 (16.3-31.6) 61/519 30.9 (24.2-37.6)
Intermediate 48/508 32.0 (24.4-39.7) 49/536 31.6 (23.9-39.3) 88/492 51.5 (43.4-59.5)
High 70/499 43.6 (35.6-51.6) 92/512 47.6 (40.4-54.7) 106/524 48.2 (41.3-55.1)
Risk groups represent tertiles of polygenic or clinical risk.
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Supplemental Table 8. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation assuming event-free survival to age 65 years stratified by
polygenic and clinical risk, adjusted for the competing risk of death.
Time Polygenic risk Clinical risk
horizon Low Intermediate High
N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative N events Cumulative
N total incidence, % N total incidence, % / N total incidence, %
(95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
10 years Low 4/245 2.66 (0.09-5.24) 7/291 3.96 (1.02-6.89) 28/313 13.6 (8.85-18.4)
Intermediate 7/264 4.49 (1.20-7.78) 4/265 2.81 (0.04-5.57) 27/311 13.0 (8.30-17.6)
High 16/259 9.98 (5.25-14.7) 31/276 17.2 (11.6-22.8) 38/313 18.4 (13.0-23.8)
20 years Low 14/304 10.2 (5.09-15.3) 17/362 9.77 (5.28-14.3) 56/356 30.7 (23.8-37.6)
Intermediate 23/347 14.6 (9.02-20.2) 20/326 13.4 (7.83-19.0) 64/353 33.5 (26.6-40.4)
High 44/327 27.5 (20.4-34.5) 65/349 35.2 (28.2-42.2) 79/361 40.3 (33.2-47.3)
30 years Low 22/345 16.3 (10.0-22.5) 33/382 20.8 (14.3-27.3) 67/363 39.4 (31.8-47.1)
Intermediate 47/385 28.7 (21.7-35.7) 43/344 32.4 (24.2-40.7) 77/362 43.5 (35.8-51.2)
High 63/360 38.7 (31.0-46.3) 86/365 45.8 (38.5-53.1) 88/365 47.6 (40.0-55.2)
Lifetime risk Low 23/345 17.1 (10.7-23.6) 33/382 20.8 (14.3-27.3) 67/363 39.4 (31.8-47.1)
Intermediate 48/385 29.4 (22.3-36.5) 43/344 32.4 (24.2-40.7) 77/362 43.5 (35.8-51.2)
High 65/360 40.0 (32.3-47.7) 86/365 45.8 (38.5-53.1) 88/365 47.5 (40.0-55.2)
Risk groups represent tertiles of polygenic or clinical risk.
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Supplemental Table 9. Cumulative incidence of atrial fibrillation assuming event-free survival to age 75 years stratified by polygenic
and clinical risk, adjusted for the competing risk of death.
Time Polygenic risk Clinical risk
horizon Low Intermediate High
N events / Cumulative N events / Cumulative N events Cumulative
N total incidence, % N total incidence, % / N total incidence, %
(95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
10 years Low 7/159 7.04 (1.99-12.1) 12/186 9.65 (4.45-14.8) 24/197 18.8 (11.7-25.9)
Intermediate 17/178 14.7 (8.22-21.2) 16/183 15.0 (8.04-22.0) 38/199 27.2 (19.2-35.1)
High 20/176 18.1 (10.6-25.7) 39/189 30.7 (22.0-39.4) 49/194 36.1 (27.4-44.9)
20 years Low 17/203 15.5 (8.67-22.2) 24/212 19.2 (12.3-26.2) 40/212 30.6 (22.2-39.0)
Intermediate 35/213 27.7 (19.9-35.6) 38/205 32.1 (23.3-40.8) 60/211 43.7 (34.4-52.9)
High 43/211 33.5 (24.7-42.3) 53/212 39.6 (30.4-48.8) 67/206 50.3 (40.9-59.7)
Lifetime risk Low 19/205 17.2 (10.1-24.3) 24/212 19.2 (12.3-26.2) 40/212 30.6 (22.2-39.0)
Intermediate 36/213 28.7 (20.7-36.7) 39/205 32.9 (24.1-41.7) 60/211 43.7 (34.4-52.9)
High 45/211 35.0 (26.1-43.9) 54/212 40.2 (30.9-49.4) 67/206 50.3 (40.9-59.7)
Risk groups represent tertiles of polygenic or clinical risk.
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Supplemental Table 10. Associations between continuous clinical and polygenic risk scores with atrial fibrillation in models with and
without adjustment for the competing risk of death among individuals free of atrial fibrillation at age 55 years.
Model Variables in Model Unadjusted for Competing Risk of Adjusted for Competing Risk of Death
Death (Fine-Gray method)
HR (95% CI) P-value HR (95% CI) P-value
Main effects only Clinical risk 3.29 (2.70-4.01) <0.0001 2.26 (1.85-2.77) <0.0001
Polygenic risk 1.14 (1.11-1.16) <0.0001 1.13 (1.10-1.16) <0.0001
Main effects and Clinical risk 75.0 (1.12-5032.3) 0.04 24.4 (0.21-2893.6) 0.19
interaction term Polygenic risk 1.43 (1.05-1.96) 0.02 1.35 (0.95-1.93) 0.10
Clinical X Polygenic 0.96 (0.91-1.01) 0.14 0.97 (0.91-1.03) 0.32
risk score
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Supplemental Appendix. Characteristics of atrial fibrillation genetic risk variants.
Sentinel SNP
Atrial fibrillation Non-risk r2 with Trait P-value Reference
associated Chromosome Position (HG19) Closest Gene(s) Proxy SNP Trait associated with SNP Note
risk allele allele index SNP for SNP (Pubmed ID)
with atrial fibrillation
rs2477708 1 2432464 PLCH2 A C - - - - -
rs12561919 0.684824 Schizophrenia 2.00E-07 27922604
rs7537765 0.712097 QRS complex (12-leadsum) 2.00E-08 27659466
rs149764880 1 11880731 CLCN6 T G
rs17367504 0.6932 Blood pressure 2.00E-16 21909110
rs17367504 0.6932 Systolic blood pressure 2.00E-13 19430483
rs117102976 1 12938780 PRAMEF4 T C - - - - -
rs10927860 1 16155107 UQCRHL(dist=20913);FLJ37453(dist=5603) G C - - - - -
rs189006529 1 18683959 IGSF21 A G - - - - -
rs180803304 1 18683966 IGSF21 A G - - - - -
rs10799811 1 19769675 CAPZB G C - - - - -
rs4912099 1 19797740 CAPZB A G - - - - -
rs10917545 1 20128177 TMCO4(dist=1767);RNF186(dist=12345) G A - - - - -
rs320057 1 49178018 AGBL4 C T - - - - -
rs72690464 1 50923943 FAF1 G T - - - - -
rs72690501 1 51317039 FAF1 A C - - - - -
QRS duration 5.00E-06 27577874
QRS duration 9.00E-09 (European) 27577874
rs116760613 1 51490709 CDKN2C(dist=50400);C1orf185(dist=77197) A G rs17391905 0.63759 QRS complex (12-leadsum) 2.00E-08 27659466
QRS duration 1.00E-11 27659466
QRS duration 3.00E-10 21076409
QRS duration 5.00E-06 27577874
QRS duration 9.00E-09 (European) 27577874
rs146518726 1 51535039 CDKN2C(dist=94730);C1orf185(dist=32867) A G rs17391905 0.958822 QRS duration 1.00E-11 27659466
QRS complex (12-leadsum) 2.00E-08 27659466
QRS duration 3.00E-10 21076409
rs150982068 1 51590008 C1orf185 T C - - - - -
rs55763623 1 51779056 TTC39A G C - - - - -
rs72661386 1 52002010 EPS15(dist=17015);OSBPL9(dist=80536) A G - - - - -
rs113788776 1 62131209 MGC34796(dist=9409);TM2D1(dist=15510) A C - - - - -
rs77925659 1 74136232 NEGR1(dist=1387955);LRRIQ3(dist=355470) A T - - - - -
rs315047 1 77063677 ST6GAL-C3 T C - - - - -
rs1575178 1 87000308 CLCA1(dist=34334);CLCA4(dist=12451) A C - - - - -
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rs12691519 1 116294068 CASQ2 T A - - - - -
rs4073778 1 116297758 CASQ2 A C - - - - -
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rs3810998 1 116311924 CASQ2 G T QRS duration 8.00E-09 27577874
rs10923445 0.673451
QRS duration 3.00E-08 (European) 27577874
rs4074536 0.669672 QRS duration 7.00E-07 27659466
QRS duration 8.00E-09 27577874
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QRS duration 3.00E-08 (European) 27577874
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rs186551975 1 153967271 NUP210L C T - - - - -
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Atopic dermatitis 5.00E-10 26482879
Rheumatoid arthritis 5.00E-06 (EA) 24390342
rs2228145 0.937789
Rheumatoid arthritis 4.00E-09 24390342
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Pulmo-ry function 7.00E-06 17903307
C-reactive protein levels 2.00E-48 21300955
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rs4129267 0.942497
Asthma 2.00E-08 21907864
Blood protein levels 2.00E-265 28240269
Fibrinogen 6.00E-27 23969696
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Cerebrospi-l fluid levels of Alzheimer's disease-
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related proteins
Fibrinogen levels 2.00E-28 28107422
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rs4999127 1 154714006 KCNN3 A G - - - - -
rs10752607 1 154716803 KCNN3 A G - - - - -
rs11264272 1 154808959 KCNN3 T C - - - - -
rs11264274 1 154811127 KCNN3 T G - - - - -
rs36004974 0.795684 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 4.00E-10 28416818
rs34515871 1 154812280 KCNN3 T C rs13376333 0.994174 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-21 20173747
rs6666258 0.994174 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-14 22544366
rs13376333 0.994174 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-21 20173747
rs12754189 1 154812630 KCNN3 C T rs6666258 0.994174 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-14 22544366
rs36004974 0.795684 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 4.00E-10 28416818
rs12740456 1 154814197 KCNN3 A C - - - - -
rs6666258 0.809982 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-14 22544366
rs6426987 1 154815257 KCNN3 A C rs13376333 0.809982 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-21 20173747
rs36004974 0.97725 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 4.00E-10 28416818
rs13376333 0.809982 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-21 20173747
rs6426988 1 154815320 KCNN3 G C rs6666258 0.809982 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-14 22544366
rs36004974 0.97725 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 4.00E-10 28416818
rs883905 1 154815366 KCNN3 G A - - - - -
rs76102976 1 154816174 KCNN3 G A - - - - -
rs4845396 1 154828409 KCNN3 G A - - - - -
rs56382016 1 154828683 KCNN3 C A - - - - -
rs11264280 0.677594 Incident atrial fibrillation 4.00E-09 28416818
rs34245846 1 154831143 KCNN3 G A rs11264280 0.677594 Atrial fibrillation 4.00E-15 (ALL) 28416818
rs11264280 0.677594 Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-17 (European) 28416818
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rs1218582 1 154834183 KCNN3 A G
rs12069356 0.762489 Schizophrenia 2.00E-06 26198764
rs71628635 1 154834546 KCNN3 C A - - - - -
- - Incident atrial fibrillation 4.00E-09 28416818
rs11264280 1 154862952 KCNN3(dist=20198);PMVK(dist=34256) T C - - Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-17 (European) 28416818
- - Atrial fibrillation 4.00E-15 (ALL) 28416818
rs41264253 1 154918352 PBXIP1 A G - - - - -
rs4845401 1 154941593 SHC1 C G - - - - -
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rs6686021 1 154983539 ZBTB7B C T - - - - -
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rs11264303 1 155030557 ADAM15 C A - - - - -
rs45444697 1 155034632 LOC100505666 G C - - - - -
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rs112270735 1 155198771 GBAP1(dist=1446);GBA(dist=5468) G A - - - - -
rs116352080 1 155217437 FAM189B T G - - - - -
rs4492610 1 155328396 ASH1L A G - - - - -
rs1886905 1 155372672 ASH1L T C - - - - -
rs71517783 1 155509622 ASH1L T C - - - - -
rs490608 0.659982 Inflammatory bowel disease 1.00E-06 26192919
rs35698157 1 155780314 GON4L T C
rs2282301 0.66123 Conduct disorder (interaction) 7.00E-06 18846501
rs7521292 1 155941685 ARHGEF2 T A rs2282301 0.686315 Conduct disorder (interaction) 7.00E-06 18846501
rs2282301 0.872502 Conduct disorder (interaction) 7.00E-06 18846501
rs4661217 1 155958404 ARHGEF2(dist=10068);SSR2(dist=20435) A G
rs2364403 0.600875 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (age of onset) 1.00E-06 22959728
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rs3917862 1 169593113 SELP G A - - - - -
rs3917454 1 169700853 SELE A G - - - - -
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rs7523218 1 170149729 METTL11B(dist=12806);LOC284688(dist=90817) G A - - - - -
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rs10919326 1 170171258 METTL11B(dist=34335);LOC284688(dist=69288) A G - - - - -
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rs4414093 1 170185362 METTL11B(dist=48439);LOC284688(dist=55184) C A - - - - -
rs10800507 1 170185641 METTL11B(dist=48718);LOC284688(dist=54905) C G - - Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-11 28416818
rs72700114 1 170193825 METTL11B(dist=56902);LOC284688(dist=46721) C G - - - - -
- - Prevalent atrial fibrillation 1.00E-14 28416818
rs72700118 1 170194823 METTL11B(dist=57900);LOC284688(dist=45723) A C
- - Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-07 28416818
rs4399218 1 170195231 METTL11B(dist=58308);LOC284688(dist=45315) G T - - - - -
rs12736684 1 170195301 METTL11B(dist=58378);LOC284688(dist=45245) C A - - - - -
rs12411144 1 170195723 METTL11B(dist=58800);LOC284688(dist=44823) G C - - - - -
rs144870427 1 170206419 METTL11B(dist=69496);LOC284688(dist=34127) C T - - - - -
rs12129877 1 170222552 METTL11B(dist=85629);LOC284688(dist=17994) G A - - - - -
rs4656753 1 170252728 LOC284688 T G - - - - -
rs35102909 1 170277721 LOC284688(dist=24372);GORAB(dist=223542) G A - - - - -
rs1333144 1 170364401 LOC284688(dist=111052);GORAB(dist=136862) C A - - - - -
rs56193825 1 170371152 LOC284688(dist=117803);GORAB(dist=130111) T A - - - - -
rs12024348 1 170377323 LOC284688(dist=123974);GORAB(dist=123940) T C - - - - -
rs1333135 1 170472532 LOC284688(dist=219183);GORAB(dist=28731) G A - - - - -
rs6661527 1 170534655 GORAB(dist=11681);PRRX1(dist=98658) G T - - - - -
rs61826205 1 170559626 GORAB(dist=36652);PRRX1(dist=73687) T G - - - - -
rs6680785 1 170560332 GORAB(dist=37358);PRRX1(dist=72981) T C - - - - -
- - Atrial fibrillation 6.00E-15 28416818
rs3903239 0.64037 Atrial fibrillation 8.00E-14 22544366
rs651386 1 170591310 GORAB(dist=68336);PRRX1(dist=42003) A T rs639652 0.659206 Atrial fibrillation 4.00E-09 28416822
rs651386 1 170591310 GORAB(dist=68336);PRRX1(dist=42003) A T
rs577676 0.963749 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 3.00E-12 28416818
rs3903239 0.64037 Early onset atrial fibrillation 1.00E-07 28460022
rs12038255 1 170618461 GORAB(dist=95487);PRRX1(dist=14852) G A rs520525 0.647628 Atrial fibrillation 6.00E-16 28416818
rs651822 1 170619930 GORAB(dist=96956);PRRX1(dist=13383) G T rs520525 0.898087 Atrial fibrillation 6.00E-16 28416818
rs56250774 1 170632384 PRRX1 G A - - - - -
rs17838244 1 170633229 PRRX1 C T - - - - -
1 170635002 PRRX1 rs3903239 0.955447 Early onset atrial fibrillation 1.00E-07 28460022
1 170635002 PRRX1 rs577676 0.637724 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 3.00E-12 28416818
rs525489 1 170635002 PRRX1 T G rs651386 0.623105 Atrial fibrillation 6.00E-15 28416818
1 170635002 PRRX1 rs639652 0.935786 Atrial fibrillation 4.00E-09 28416822
1 170635002 PRRX1 rs3903239 0.955447 Atrial fibrillation 8.00E-14 22544366
rs520525 1 170638333 PRRX1 A G Atrial fibrillation 6.00E-16 28416818
rs78710246 1 170641733 PRRX1 A T - - - - -
rs4656220 1 170649277 PRRX1 C T - - - - -
rs2187895 1 170684431 PRRX1 G C - - - - -
rs6701640 1 170696474 PRRX1 A C - - - - -
rs12750959 1 170829471 PRRX1(dist=120930);MROH9(dist=75141) T G - - - - -
rs16836180 1 194045997 CDC73(dist=822055);NONE(dist=NONE) T A - - - - -
rs34918359 1 198184067 NEK7 G C - - - - -
rs11579069 1 203031369 PPFIA4 G C rs3737883 0.943281 Early onset atrial fibrillation 2.00E-09 28460022
rs78588865 1 229569804 ACTA1 G A - - - - -
rs77496162 1 235006143 LOC100506810(dist=138753);TOMM20(dist=266515) A G - - - - -
rs2654892 1 242673570 PLD5 A C - - - - -
rs4854320 2 543892 FAM150B(dist=255584);TMEM18(dist=124081) A G - - - - -
rs77188088 2 5465462 LOC727982(dist=761650);SOX11(dist=367337) C T - - - - -
rs76697877 2 6598574 LOC400940(dist=470210);LINC00487(dist=270726) A C - - - - -
rs76110371 2 15856183 DDX1(dist=84948);MYCNOS(dist=223837) A G - - - - -
rs13432743 2 25069392 ADCY3 G A - - - - -
rs72799646 2 25974513 ASXL2 G A - - - - -
rs7578393 2 26165528 KIF3C T C - - - - -
rs79713994 2 30446372 YPEL5(dist=62973);LBH(dist=8025) T G - - - - -
rs186943263 2 37422050 SULT6B1(dist=6360);LOC100505876(dist=1585) T C - - - - -
rs7602924 2 37460587 NDUFAF7 T A rs2041840 0.93799 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia 9.00E-06 24292274
rs2372992 2 37554761 PRKD3(dist=10539);QPCT(dist=16992) A G rs2041840 0.784713 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia 9.00E-06 24292274
rs137983358 2 37918970 CDC42EP3(dist=19292);RMDN2(dist=233492) T C - - - - -
rs78271848 2 43533214 THADA G A - - - - -
rs2163228 2 43549246 THADA T C rs11694173 0.789179 Male-pattern baldness 2.00E-08 27182965
rs59779859 2 43549438 THADA T A rs11694173 0.757322 Male-pattern baldness 2.00E-08 27182965
rs10182030 2 43750394 THADA A G - - - - -
rs114113890 2 47281700 TTC7A A G - - - - -
rs74489835 2 49239897 FSHR G A - - - - -
rs785300 2 52992459 NRXN1(dist=1732785);ASB3(dist=904658) C G - - - - -
rs189059249 2 60781040 BCL11A T G - - - - -
rs62150977 2 61255456 PEX13 C T - - - - -
rs10194230 2 65244049 SLC1A4 T G rs2540953 0.832689 Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-17 28416822
rs2540970 2 65255099 SLC1A4(dist=4099);CEP68(dist=28396) T C - - - - -
rs2540948 0.680235 Triglycerides 7.00E-09 25961943
rs74181299 0.683603 Pulse pressure 1.00E-12 28135244
rs1009360 2 65276049 SLC1A4(dist=25049);CEP68(dist=7446) T C
rs2723064 0.761015 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-10 28416818
rs2540949 0.753754 Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-10 28416818
- - Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-10 28416818
rs2723064 0.989613 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-10 28416818
rs2540949 2 65284231 CEP68 A T
rs2540948 0.895993 Triglycerides 7.00E-09 25961943
rs74181299 0.901374 Pulse pressure 1.00E-12 28135244
rs2080385 2 65292762 CEP68 G T rs2723064 0.601703 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-10 28416818
rs2540948 0.681415 Triglycerides 7.00E-09 25961943
rs62140432 2 65350406 RAB1A G A
rs2540949 0.600372 Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-10 28416818
rs2723064 0.658642 Atrial fibrillation 2.00E-10 28416818
rs1894875 2 65363579 RAB1A(dist=6144);ACTR2(dist=91250) A G
rs2540949 0.644823 Atrial fibrillation 3.00E-10 28416818
rs11126031 2 65380357 RAB1A(dist=22922);ACTR2(dist=74472) T A - - - - -
rs76925339 2 67007966 MEIS1(dist=208075);LOC644838(dist=342523) C A - - - - -
rs12996020 2 68248093 ETAA1(dist=610560);C1D(dist=21239) G C - - - - -
rs139175321 2 69152640 BMP10(dist=53991);GKN2(dist=19724) A G - - - - -
rs4852274 2 69780637 AAK1 G A - - - - -
rs6546541 2 69908621 AAK1(dist=37644);ANXA4(dist=60506) T C - - - - -
rs6704754 2 69918657 AAK1(dist=47680);ANXA4(dist=50470) G A - - - - -
rs34006125 2 69929296 AAK1(dist=58319);ANXA4(dist=39831) A G - - - - -
rs7578107 2 69929720 AAK1(dist=58743);ANXA4(dist=39407) C T - - - - -
rs11126243 2 69931423 AAK1(dist=60446);ANXA4(dist=37704) G T - - - - -
rs11890955 2 69950308 AAK1(dist=79331);ANXA4(dist=18819) G A - - - - -
- - Atrial fibrillation 1.00E-10 28416818
rs62133983 2 69976384 ANXA4 G T rs7597155 0.931315 Palmitoleic acid (16:1n-7) levels 5.00E-06 23362303
rs62133983 1 Atrial fibrillation 1.00E-10 28416818
rs11695548 2 69985644 ANXA4 C T - - - - -
rs9309429 2 69995580 ANXA4 A G rs6546550 0.664915 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 1.00E-08 28416818
rs7588022 2 70023469 ANXA4 T C rs6546550 0.696296 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 1.00E-08 28416818
rs6759603 2 70031010 ANXA4 A G - - - - -
rs6546550 0.989127 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 1.00E-08 28416818
rs3771537 2 70038792 ANXA4 A C
rs10205487 0.843655 Carotid plaque burden (smoking interaction) 2.00E-06 24954085
rs58819073 2 70049222 ANXA4 G A - - - - -
rs4853109 2 70102735 GMCL1 C G - - - - -
rs55866046 2 70120078 SNRNP27 G C - - - - -
rs143177050 2 70122705 SNRNP27 T C - - - - -
rs6546550 0.652565 Prevalent atrial fibrillation 1.00E-08 28416818
rs3771530 2 70164805 MXD1 G C
rs10205487 0.783126 Carotid plaque burden (smoking interaction) 2.00E-06 24954085
rs897121 2 70171570 MXD1(dist=1494);ASPRV1(dist=15654) C T rs10205487 0.676059 Carotid plaque burden (smoking interaction) 2.00E-06 24954085
rs11686934 2 70172116 MXD1(dist=2040);ASPRV1(dist=15108) A G rs10205487 0.709552 Carotid plaque burden (smoking interaction) 2.00E-06 24954085
rs6756513 2 70172587 MXD1(dist=2511);ASPRV1(dist=14637) G A - - - - -
rs10209606 2 70175957 MXD1(dist=5881);ASPRV1(dist=11267) G C - - - - -
rs71414803 2 70176054 MXD1(dist=5978);ASPRV1(dist=11170) G A - - - - -
rs3796097 2 70188676 ASPRV1 T C - - - - -
rs62151166 2 70312306 PCBP1-AS1 T C rs6708331 0.704727 Obesity-related traits 6.00E-06 23251661
rs10496178 2 70342815 PCBP1(dist=26481);LOC100133985(dist=8353) A G rs6708331 0.691891 Obesity-related traits 6.00E-06 23251661
rs10195155 2 70354475 LOC100133985(dist=2027);C2orf42(dist=22542) G T rs6708331 0.985446 Obesity-related traits 6.00E-06 23251661
rs6721306 2 70417145 C2orf42 C G rs6708331 0.774858 Obesity-related traits 6.00E-06 23251661
rs1973181 2 70542612 FAM136A(dist=13392);TGFA(dist=131800) C T - - - - -
rs3979133 2 70555565 FAM136A(dist=26345);TGFA(dist=118847) A G - - - - -
rs4852604 2 70694437 TGFA G A - - - - -
rs140988217 2 71842129 DYSF A G - - - - -
rs115177932 2 75528072 TACR1(dist=101427);EVA1A(dist=191372) C T - - - - -
rs146828435 2 79740131 CTN-2 T G - - - - -
rs72845604 2 86714970 KDM3A A G - - - - -
3-hydroxy-1-methylpropylmercapturic acid levels in
rs745109 0.654299 8.00E-07 26053186
rs56304923 2 86846399 RNF103;RNF103-CHMP3 T C smokers
rs181394970 0.625971 Glomerular filtration rate in chronic kidney disease 4.00E-06 26420894
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rs6742466 2 108352276 ST6GAL2(dist=848713);LOC729121(dist=87244) T C - - - - -
rs11887934 2 111451816 BUB1(dist=16132);ACOXL(dist=38334) C T - - - - -
rs11890277 2 129090109 HS6ST1(dist=13938);LOC389033(dist=1590326) T C - - - - -
rs114045048 2 129095707 HS6ST1(dist=19536);LOC389033(dist=1584728) T C - - - - -
rs72843118 2 129125050 HS6ST1(dist=48879);LOC389033(dist=1555385) T C - - - - -
rs7570971 0.671677 Body mass index 1.00E-06 25673413
Hip circumference 2.00E-06 (EA, women) 25673412
rs1561277 0.769324
Hip circumference 6.00E-09 (EA) 25673412
rs10187402 2 135771974 MAP3K19 C G Body mass index 2.00E-06 25673413
Cholesterol, total 1.00E-13 24097068
rs7570971 0.671677
Cholesterol, total 1.00E-08 20686565
Blood metabolite levels 8.00E-45 24816252
Hip circumference 2.00E-06 (EA, women) 25673412
rs1561277 0.785965
Hip circumference 6.00E-09 (EA) 25673412
Body mass index 2.00E-06 25673413
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rs7570971 0.691025 Body mass index 1.00E-06 25673413
Cholesterol, total 1.00E-08 20686565
Blood metabolite levels 8.00E-45 24816252
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rs34985138 2 145773702 DKFZp686O1327 T C - - - - -
rs6436373 2 157252095 NR4A2(dist=62808);GPD2(dist=39870) T C - - - - -
rs77924200 2 161096599 ITGB6(dist=40009);RBMS1(dist=32063) C T - - - - -
rs61682180 2 161189587 RBMS1 G C - - - - -
rs7571867 2 161380361 RBMS1(dist=30043);TANK(dist=613105) T A - - - - -
rs13010247 2 161432066 RBMS1(dist=81748);TANK(dist=561400) T C - - - - -
rs7568273 2 162028885 TANK G T - - - - -
rs147847065 2 164635817 FIGN(dist=43304);GRB14(dist=713506) T C - - - - -
rs74443599 2 173126004 DLX2(dist=158526);ITGA6(dist=166310) T C - - - - -
rs28439459 2 179215774 OSBPL6 T A - - - - -
rs11678632 2 179337644 MIR548N A T - - - - -
rs3769866 2 179361205 MIR548N A C - - - - -
rs967507 2 179367086 MIR548N G A - - - - -
rs957875 2 179384417 MIR548N C T - - - - -
rs2303539 2 179403593 TTN-AS1 A G - - - - -
rs2288327 2 179411665 MIR548N;TTN-AS1 G A - - - - -
rs2562830 2 179585393 TTN G A - - - - -
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