Epigenetic Patterns in Blood Associated With Lipid Traits Predict Incident Coronary Heart Disease Events and Are Enriched for Results From Genome-Wide Association Studies
FHS (Framingham Heart Study) is funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) contract N01-HC-25195 and HHSN268201500001I and administered by Boston University. The laboratory work for this investigation was funded by the Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, and an NIH Director's Challenge Award (Dr Levy, Principal Investigator). The analytic component of this project was funded by the Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, and the Center for Information Technology, NIH, Bethesda, MD. This study used the computational resources of the Biowulf system at the NIH, Bethesda, MD (https://hpc.nih.gov/). Dr Mendelson is partly supported by the Tommy Kaplan Fund, Boston Children's Hospital. Dr Liang is partially supported by NIH grant P30 DK46200. Dr Ingelsson is supported by Knut and Alice Wallenberg (KAW) Foundation, Swedish Research Council (VR; grant no. 2012-1397), Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation (20120197) NIH grants 1R01DK106236-01A1 and 1R01HL135313-01. Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling in PIVUS was funded by the Uppsala University Hospital (ALF-medel) and was performed by the SNP&SEQ Technology Platform in Uppsala. The facility is part of the National Genomics Infrastructure Sweden and Science for Life Laboratory. The SNP&SEQ Platform is also supported by the VR and the KAW Foundation. Phenotype collection in the LBC1921 (Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921) study was supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), The Royal Society and The Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government. Phenotype collection in the LBC1936 (Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1936) study was supported by Age UK (The Disconnected Mind project). Methylation typing was supported by the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE; Pilot Fund award), Age UK, The Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, The University of Edinburgh, and The University of Queensland. Drs Marioni, Starr, and Deary are members of the University of Edinburgh CCACE. CCACE is supported by funding from the BBSRC, the Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh as part of the cross-council Lifelong Health and Wellbeing initiative (MR/K026992/1). Research reported in this publication was supported by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant 1010374 and an NHMRC Fellowship to Dr McRae (1083656). The GOLDN (Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network) study was supported by NIH National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant R01 HL104135-01. The MuTHER study was funded by the Wellcome Trust; European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013). The study as part of TwinsUK also receives support from the Medical Research Council, European Union, National Institute for Health Research-funded BioResource, Clinical Research Facility and Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King's College London. Dr Spector is a holder of an European Research Council Advanced Principal Investigator award.