1 Methods

1.1 Study Overview

We conducted a two-sample Mendelian Randomization (MR) analysis to evaluate the causal effect of 183 UKB-PPP proteins circulating protein levels (1 Mb region surrounding their respective transcription start sites [TSSs]), on coronary heart disease (CHD) using CARDIoGRAMplusC4D and FinnGen summary statistics.

1.2 Data

I had previously obtained the pQTL files (see https://rpubs.com/YodaMendel/1243451 for an example of how to programmatically get files from UKB-PPP). For obtaining the files and adding rsids, refer to:

1.3 10 previously selected UKB-PPP proteins

I initially ran a similar analysis with 10 proteins.

SHISA5
IGFBP7
STC2
SLURP1
SPINT1
HYOU1
SELL
CD59
FGF3
CYTL1

Now expanded to 183.

1.4 Cardiogram CHD

cd /Users/charleenadams/mr_ukbppp_chd
wget https://gwas.mrcieu.ac.uk/files/ieu-a-7/ieu-a-7.vcf.gz
MRC IEU ID: ieu-a-7
PMID    26343387
Year    2015
Category:   Disease
Sub category?   Cardiovascular
Population: Mixed (European and South Asian)
Sex Males and Females
ncase:  60,801
ncontrol:   123,504
Sample size:    184,305
Number of SNPs: 9,455,779
Unit:   log odds
Priority    1
Author: Nikpay
Consortium: CARDIoGRAMplusC4D
Build:  HG19/GRCh37

Other CARDIoGRAM GWASes: https://www.cardiogramplusc4d.org/data-downloads/

1.5 FinnGen CHD

FinnGen R12 summary stats
Released Oct 25th 2023

Update Mar 2024: Added summary stats for chr X pseudoautosomal regions (PAR)

Summary stats are available in gs://finngen-production-library-green/finngen_R12/finngen_R12_analysis_data/summary_stats/release/
Analysis document is available in gs://finngen-production-library-green/finngen_R12/finngen_R12_analysis_documentation/finngen_R12_analysis_document_GWAS.pdf

Columns:

#chrom  chromosome
pos chromosome position in GRCh38
ref reference allele
alt alternative (effect) allele
rsids   rsid(s), comma separated
nearest_genes   nearest gene or nearest genes (comma separated) when more than one gene overlap the position
pval    p-value
mlogp   -log10 p-value
beta    effect size beta (log(OR) scale)
sebeta  standard error of effect size
af_alt  alternative allele frequency in cases+controls
af_alt_cases    alternative allele frequency in cases
af_alt_controls alternative allele frequency in controls

Major coronary heart disease event
IX Diseases of the circulatory system (I9_)
https://r12.finngen.fi/pheno/I9_CHD
https://risteys.finngen.fi/endpoints/I9_CHD

56650 cases
443698 controls

2 Bioinformatics Prep: CHD file

5 MR Loop (Cardiogram)

6 MR Loop (FinnGen)

7 Comparison of Cardiogram and FinnGen

8 Formating the Merged Excel Results

This is to have results in a format that are easier on the eyes and near-publication ready. I removed the MR-LASSO and MR-ConMix.

9 App