B3201 - Phenome-wide Mendelian randomization study mapping the influence of the plasma proteome on complex diseases - 01/11/2018

B number: 
B3201
Principal applicant name: 
JIE ZHENG | MRC IEU (United Kingdom)
Co-applicants: 
Prof. Tom Gaunt, Dr Valeriia Haberland
Title of project: 
Phenome-wide Mendelian randomization study mapping the influence of the plasma proteome on complex diseases
Proposal summary: 

The human proteome is the major source of therapeutic targets and, as such, understanding the causal consequences of varying protein levels has the capacity to identify new target-indication pairs and additional or alternative indications for existing therapeutics. Recent advances in protein measurement have enabled large-scale genome-wide investigations of components of the human plasma proteome. Here, we employed two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) to evaluate the influence of 968 genetically-influenced plasma protein levels on 153 diseases and 72 quantitative risk factors from MR-Base.

Impact of research: 
this will directly influence drug development using Mendelian randomization and colocalization analysis
Date proposal received: 
Thursday, 1 November, 2018
Date proposal approved: 
Thursday, 1 November, 2018
Keywords: 
Genetic epidemiology (including association studies and mendelian randomisation), Biomarkers - e.g. cotinine, fatty acids, haemoglobin, etc.