Genetic contributions to urgency urinary incontinence in women
Results
Following quality control, 975,508 single nucleotide polymorphisms in 2,241 cases (discovery 1,102; replication 1,133) and 776 controls (discovery 405, replication 371) remained. Genotype imputation resulted in 9,077,347 single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions/deletions with minor allele frequency greater than 0.01 available for analysis. Meta-analysis of the discovery and replication samples identified 6 loci on chromosomes 5, 10, 11, 12 and 18 associated with urgency urinary incontinence at p <10-6. Of the loci 3 were within genes, the zinc finger protein 521 (ZFP521) gene on chromosome 18q11, the ADAMTS16 gene on chromosome 5p15 and the CIT gene on chromosome 12q24. The other 3 loci were intergenic.
Conclusions
Although environmental factors also likely contribute, this first exploratory genome-wide association study for urgency urinary incontinence suggests that genetic variants in the ZFP521, CIT and ADAMTS16 genes might account for some of the observed heritability of the condition.
Citation
Richter, H. E., Whitehead, N., Arya, L., Ridgeway, B., Allen-Brady, K., Norton, P., ... Pelvic, F. (2015). Genetic contributions to urgency urinary incontinence in women. Journal of Urology, 193(6), 2020-2027. DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2014.12.023
