Table 4 Functional mapping and annotation of GWAS meta-analyses in the European and African ancestry data

From: International meta-analysis of PTSD genome-wide association studies identifies sex- and ancestry-specific genetic risk loci

Group

GWAS hit lead variant

#SNPs in LD (r2 > 0.6)

genomic coordinate risk locus (hg19)

predicted genes in risk locus

SNPs in LD with CADD scores > 12.37

SNPs in LD with RegulomeDB scores < 5

Chromatin state analysis (Roadmap Epigenomics) in neuronal cell lines/tissuesa

eQTL

Hi-C in 3 neuronal tissue/ cell line datasets, GSE87112

EUA

 All

rs34517852

20

chr6: 157,780,424–157,801,753

ZDHHC14 (upstream of TSS)

rs35262389 = 15.28

rs9348095 = 1 (TSS site)

Transcriptional active chromatin at TSS

None

Yes, with downstream elements

rs9364611

12

chr6: 162,157,139–162,168,506

PARK2 (intronic)

None

None

Overall quiecent, some enhancer function

None

Yes, intronic within the same intron

 Men

rs571848662

5

chr19: 53,988,841–53,990,834

ZNF813

None

None

Weak transcription

None

None

rs148757321

10

chr1: 15,427,801–15,449,791

KAZN and TMEM51-AS1

None

None

 

None

Significant interaction with regions further upstream of KAZN

AFR

         

 All

rs115539978

61

chr13: 55,652,129–55,759,209

LINC02335, MIR5007, TUC338

None

None

Overall silenced chromatin (score of 15), some SNPs map to loci with weak transcription or enhancer function

None

Interaction between risk locus and upstream region harboring LINC00458, MIR1297, and LINC00558 as well as downstream region harboring HNF4GP1

 Men

rs142174523

237

chr6: 31,257,622–31,319,815 (MHC locus)

LINC02571, HLA-B

None

manyb

Overall PolyComb repressed chromatin, heterochromatin

16 c

None

  1. GWAS in females of European and African ancestry did not identify genome-wide significant hits
  2. TSS transcriptional start site, eQTL expression quantitative trait locus (in 28 neuronal tissue/ cell lines from CommonMind Consortium, BRAINEAC or GTEx v7)
  3. aIn neuronal cell lines/tissues E053, E054, E067, E068, E069, E070, E071, E072, E073, E074, E081, E082, E125
  4. bSee http://fuma.ctglab.nl/browse 30–32 for a visualization of these results
  5. cATP6V1G2, C4A, C4B, CCHCR1, CYP21A1P, DDR1, HCG27, HLA-B, HLA-C, MICB, NOTCH4, POU5F1, PSORS1C3, SKIV2L, VARS and VARS2