PUBLICATIONS

Paper

2023


Cross-ancestry genome-wide analysis of atrial fibrillation unveils disease biology and enables cardioembolic risk prediction.

Kazuo Miyazawa, Kaoru Ito, Masamichi Ito, Zhaonan Zou, Masayuki Kubota, Seitaro Nomura, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Satoshi Koyama, Hirotaka Ieki, Masato Akiyama, Yoshinao Koike, Ryo Kurosawa, Hiroki Yoshida, Kouichi Ozaki, Yoshihiro Onouchi, BioBank Japan Project, Atsushi Takahashi, Koichi Matsuda, Yoshinori Murakami, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Michiaki Kubo, Yukihide Momozawa, Chikashi Terao, Shinya Oki, Hiroshi Akazawa, Yoichiro Kamatani and Issei Komuro. Nat Genet. 19 Jan 2023.

2022


Predictive Utility of a Coronary Artery Disease Polygenic Risk Score in Primary Prevention.

Marston NA, Pirruccello JP, Melloni GEM, Koyama S, Kamanu FK, Weng LC, Roselli C, Kamatani Y, Komuro I, Aragam KG, Butterworth AS, Ito K, Lubitz SA, Ellinor PT, Sabatine MS, Ruff CT. JAMA Cardiol. 2022 Dec 28.


Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants.

Aragam KG, Jiang T, Goel A, Kanoni S, Wolford BN, Atri DS, Weeks EM, Wang M, Hindy G, Zhou W, Grace C, Roselli C, Marston NA, Kamanu FK, Surakka I, Venegas LM, Sherliker P, Koyama S, Ishigaki K, Åsvold BO, Brown MR, Brumpton B, de Vries PS, Giannakopoulou O, Giardoglou P, Gudbjartsson DF, Güldener U, Haider SMI, Helgadottir A, Ibrahim M, Kastrati A, Kessler T, Kyriakou T, Konopka T, Li L, Ma L, Meitinger T, Mucha S, Munz M, Murgia F, Nielsen JB, Nöthen MM, Pang S, Reinberger T, Schnitzler G, Smedley D, Thorleifsson G, von Scheidt M, Ulirsch JC; Biobank Japan; EPIC-CVD, Arnar DO, Burtt NP, Costanzo MC, Flannick J, Ito K, Jang DK, Kamatani Y, Khera AV, Komuro I, Kullo IJ, Lotta LA, Nelson CP, Roberts R, Thorgeirsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Webb TR, Baras A, Björkegren JLM, Boerwinkle E, Dedoussis G, Holm H, Hveem K, Melander O, Morrison AC, Orho-Melander M, Rallidis LS, Ruusalepp A, Sabatine MS, Stefansson K, Zalloua P, Ellinor PT, Farrall M, Danesh J, Ruff CT, Finucane HK, Hopewell JC, Clarke R, Gupta RM, Erdmann J, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Watkins H, Willer CJ, Deloukas P, Kathiresan S, Butterworth AS; CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium. Nat Genet. 2022 Dec;54(12):1803-1815.


Prediction of the cell-type-specific transcription of non-coding RNAs from genome sequences via machine learning.

Koido, M., Hon, CC., Koyama, S. , Kawaji, H., Murakawa, Y., Ishigaki, K., Ito, K., Sese, J., Parrish, NF., Kamatani, Y., Carninci, P., Terao, C. Nat Biomed Eng. 2022 Nov 21.


Cross-Ancestry Investigation of Venous Thromboembolism Genomic Predictors.

Thibord F, Klarin D, Brody JA, Chen MH, Levin MG, Chasman DI, Goode EL, Hveem K, Teder-Laving M, Martinez-Perez A, Aïssi D, Daian-Bacq D, Ito KNatarajan P, Lutsey PL, Nadkarni GN, de Vries PS, Cuellar-Partida G, Wolford BN, Pattee JW, Kooperberg C, Braekkan SK, Li-Gao R, Saut N, Sept C, Germain M, Judy RL, Wiggins KL, Ko D, O’Donnell CJ, Taylor KD, Giulianini F, De Andrade M, Nøst TH, Boland A, Empana JP, Koyama S, Gilliland T, Do R, Huffman JE, Wang X, Zhou W, Manuel Soria J, Carlos Souto J, Pankratz N, Haessler J, Hindberg K, Rosendaal FR, Turman C, Olaso R, Kember RL, Bartz TM, Lynch JA, Heckbert SR, Armasu SM, Brumpton B, Smadja DM, Jouven X, Komuro I, Clapham KR, Loos RJF, Willer CJ, Sabater-Lleal M, Pankow JS, Reiner AP, Morelli VM, Ridker PM, Vlieg AVH, Deleuze JF, Kraft P, Rader DJ; Global Biobank Meta-Analysis Initiative; Estonian Biobank Research Team; 23andMe Research Team; Biobank Japan; CHARGE Hemostasis Working Group, Min Lee K, Psaty BM, Heidi Skogholt A, Emmerich J, Suchon P, Rich SS, Vy HMT, Tang W, Jackson RD, Hansen JB, Morange PE, Kabrhel C, Trégouët DA, Damrauer SM, Johnson AD, Smith NL. Circulation. 2022 Oct 18;146(16):1225-1242.


Beiging of perivascular adipose tissue regulates its inflammation and vascular remodeling.

Yusuke Adachi, Kazutaka Ueda, Seitaro Nomura, Kaoru Ito, Manami Katoh, Mikako Katagiri, Shintaro Yamada, Masaki Hashimoto, Bowen Zhai, Genri Numata, Akira Otani, Munetoshi Hinata, Yuta Hiraike, Hironori Waki, Norifumi Takeda, Hiroyuki Morita, Tetsuo Ushiku, Toshimasa Yamauchi, Eiki Takimoto & Issei Komuro. Nat Commun13, 5117 (2022).


Large-scale genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease in genetically diverse populations.

Catherine Tcheandjieu, Xiang Zhu, Austin T Hilliard, Shoa L Clarke, Valerio Napolioni, Shining Ma, Kyung Min Lee, Huaying Fang, Fei Chen, Yingchang Lu, Noah L Tsao, Sridharan Raghavan, Satoshi Koyama, Bryan R Gorman, Marijana Vujkovic, Derek Klarin, Michael G Levin, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Genevieve L Wojcik, Mary E Plomondon, Thomas M Maddox, Stephen W Waldo, Alexander G Bick, Saiju Pyarajan, Jie Huang, Rebecca Song, Yuk-Lam Ho, Steven Buyske, Charles Kooperberg, Jeffrey Haessler, Ruth J F Loos, Ron Do, Marie Verbanck, Kumardeep Chaudhary, Kari E North, Christy L Avery, Mariaelisa Graff, Christopher A Haiman, Loïc Le Marchand, Lynne R Wilkens, Joshua C Bis, Hampton Leonard, Botong Shen, Leslie A Lange, Ayush Giri, Ozan Dikilitas, Iftikhar J Kullo, Ian B Stanaway, Gail P Jarvik, Adam S Gordon, Scott Hebbring, Bahram Namjou, Kenneth M Kaufman, Kaoru Ito, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Yoichiro Kamatani, Shefali S Verma, Marylyn D Ritchie, Rachel L Kember, Aris Baras, Luca A Lotta, Regeneron Genetics Center; CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium; Biobank Japan; Million Veteran Program; Sekar Kathiresan, Elizabeth R Hauser, Donald R Miller, Jennifer S Lee, Danish Saleheen, Peter D Reaven, Kelly Cho, J Michael Gaziano, Pradeep Natarajan, Jennifer E Huffman, Benjamin F Voight, Daniel J Rader, Kyong-Mi Chang, Julie A Lynch, Scott M Damrauer, Peter W F Wilson, Hua Tang, Yan V Sun, Philip S Tsao, Christopher J O’Donnell, Themistocles L Assimes. Nat Med. 2022 Aug;28(8):1679-1692. 


Genetic analysis of right heart structure and function in 40,000 people.

Pirruccello JP, Di Achille P, Nauffal V, Nekoui M, Friedman SF, Klarqvist MDR, Chaffin MD, Weng LC, Cunningham JW, Khurshid S, Roselli C, Lin H, Koyama S, Ito K, Kamatani Y, Komuro I; BioBank Japan Project, Jurgens SJ, Benjamin EJ, Batra P, Natarajan P, Ng K, Hoffmann U, Lubitz SA, Ho JE, Lindsay ME, Philippakis AA, Ellinor PT. Nat Genet. 2022 Jun;54(6):792-803.

2021


Genetic Analysis for Coronary Artery Disease Toward Diverse Populations.

Miyazawa K and Ito K. Front. Genet., 22 November 2021.


A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

Sakaue S, Kanai M, Tanigawa Y, Karjalainen J, Kurki M, Koshiba S, Narita A, Konuma T, Yamamoto K, Akiyama M, Ishigaki K, Suzuki A, Suzuki K, Obara W, Yamaji K, Takahashi K, Asai S, Takahashi Y, Suzuki T, Shinozaki N, Yamaguchi H, Minami S, Murayama S, Yoshimori K, Nagayama S, Obata D, Higashiyama M, Masumoto A, Koretsune Y; FinnGen, Ito K, Terao C, Yamauchi T, Komuro I, Kadowaki T, Tamiya G, Yamamoto M, Nakamura Y, Kubo M, Murakami Y, Yamamoto K, Kamatani Y, Palotie A, Rivas MA, Daly MJ, Matsuda K, Okada Y. Nat Genet. 2021 Oct;53(10):1415-1424.


Contribution of Noncanonical Splice Variants to TTN Truncating Variant Cardiomyopathy

Parth N. Patel, Kaoru Ito, Jon A.L. Willcox, Alireza Haghighi, Min Young Jang, Joshua M. Gorham, Steven R. DePalma, Lien Lam, Barbara McDonough, Renee Johnson, Neal K. Lakdawala, Amy Roberts, Paul J.R. Barton, Stuart A. Cook, Diane Fatkin, Christine E. Seidman, J.G. Seidman. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2021 Oct;14(5):e003389.


The Evolving Story in the Genetic Analysis for Heart Failure

Miyazawa K, Ito K. Front. Cardiovasc. Med., 13 April 2021.


Genome-wide analysis identifies novel susceptibility loci for myocardial infarction.

Hartiala JA, Han Y, Jia Q, Hilser JR, Huang P, Gukasyan J, Schwartzman WS, Cai Z, Biswas S, Trégouët DA, Smith NL; INVENT Consortium; CHARGE Consortium Hemostasis Working Group; GENIUS-CHD Consortium, Seldin M, Pan C, Mehrabian M, Lusis AJ, Bazeley P, Sun YV, Liu C, Quyyumi AA, Scholz M, Thiery J, Delgado GE, Kleber ME, März W, Howe LJ, Asselbergs FW, van Vugt M, Vlachojannis GJ, Patel RS, Lyytikäinen LP, Kähönen M, Lehtimäki T, Nieminen TVM, Kuukasjärvi P, Laurikka JO, Chang X, Heng CK, Jiang R, Kraus WE, Hauser ER, Ferguson JF, Reilly MP, Ito K, Koyama S, Kamatani Y, Komuro I; Biobank Japan, Stolze LK, Romanoski CE, Khan MD, Turner AW, Miller CL, Aherrahrou R, Civelek M, Ma L, Björkegren JLM, Kumar SR, Tang WHW, Hazen SL, Allayee H. Eur Heart J. 2021 Mar 1;42(9):919-933. 


Prediction Score-Guided Genetic Testing for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Ito K, Morita H. Circ J. 2021 Apr 23;85(5):675-676. 

2020


Association of an IGHV3-66 gene variant with Kawasaki disease.

Johnson TA, Mashimo Y, Wu JY, Yoon D, Hata A, Kubo M, Takahashi A, Tsunoda T, Ozaki K, Tanaka T, Ito K, Suzuki H, Hamada H, Kobayashi T, Hara T, Chen CH, Lee YC, Liu YM, Chang LC, Chang CP, Hong YM, Jang GY, Yun SW, Yu JJ, Lee KY, Kim JJ, Park T; Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, Taiwan Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium, Taiwan Pediatric ID Alliance, Japan Kawasaki Disease Genome Consortium, Lee JK, Chen YT, Onouchi Y. J Hum Genet. 2020 Oct 26:1-15.


Population-specific and transethnic genome-wide analyses identify distinct and shared genetic risk loci for coronary artery disease.

Satoshi Koyama, Kaoru Ito, Chikashi Terao, Masato Akiyama, Momoko Horikoshi, Yukihide Momozawa, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Hirotaka Ieki, Kouichi Ozaki, Yoshihiro Onouchi, Atsushi Takahashi, Seitaro Nomura, Hiroyuki Morita, Hiroshi Akazawa, Changhoon Kim, Jeong-sun Seo, Koichiro Higasa, Motoki Iwasaki, Taiki Yamaji, Norie Sawada, Shoichiro Tsugane, Teruhide Koyama, Hiroaki Ikezaki1, Naoyuki Takashima, Keitaro Tanaka, Kokichi Arisawa, Kiyonori Kuriki, Mariko Naito, Kenji Wakai, Shinichiro Suna, Yasuhiko Sakata, Hiroshi Sato, Masatsugu Hori, Yasushi Sakata, Koichi Matsuda, Yoshinori Murakami, Hiroyuki Aburatani, Michiaki Kubo, Fumihiko Matsuda, Yoichiro Kamatani, and Issei Komuro. Nat Genet. 2020 Oct.


Diagnosing Heart Failure from Chest X-Ray Images Using Deep Learning.

Matsumoto T, Kodera S, Shinohara H, Ieki H, Yamaguchi T, Higashikuni Y, Kiyosue A, Ito K, Ando J, Takimoto E, Akazawa H, Morita H, Komuro I. Int Heart J. 2020 Jul 30;61(4):781-786.


Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases.

Ishigaki K, Akiyama M, Kanai M, Takahashi A, Kawakami E, Sugishita H, Sakaue S, Matoba N, Low SK, Okada Y, Terao C, Amariuta T, Gazal S, Kochi Y, Horikoshi M, Suzuki K, Ito K, Koyama S, Ozaki K, Niida S, Sakata Y, Sakata Y, Kohno T, Shiraishi K, Momozawa Y, Hirata M, Matsuda K, Ikeda M, Iwata N, Ikegawa S, Kou I, Tanaka T, Nakagawa H, Suzuki A, Hirota T, Tamari M, Chayama K, Miki D, Mori M, Nagayama S, Daigo Y, Miki Y, Katagiri T, Ogawa O, Obara W, Ito H, Yoshida T, Imoto I, Takahashi T, Tanikawa C, Suzuki T, Sinozaki N, Minami S, Yamaguchi H, Asai S, Takahashi Y, Yamaji K, Takahashi K, Fujioka T, Takata R, Yanai H, Masumoto A, Koretsune Y, Kutsumi H, Higashiyama M, Murayama S, Minegishi N, Suzuki K, Tanno K, Shimizu A, Yamaji T, Iwasaki M, Sawada N, Uemura H, Tanaka K, Naito M, Sasaki M, Wakai K, Tsugane S, Yamamoto M, Yamamoto K, Murakami Y, Nakamura Y, Raychaudhuri S, Inazawa J, Yamauchi T, Kadowaki T, Kubo M, Kamatani Y. Nat Genet. 2020 Jul;52(7):669-679.


Transethnic Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies Identifies Three New Loci and Characterizes Population-Specific Differences for Coronary Artery Disease.

Matsunaga H, Ito K, Akiyama M, Takahashi A, Koyama S, Nomura S, Ieki H, Ozaki K, Onouchi Y, Sakaue S, Suna S, Ogishima S, Yamamoto M, Hozawa A, Satoh M, Sasaki M, Yamaji T, Sawada N, Iwasaki M, Tsugane S, Tanaka K, Arisawa K, Ikezaki H, Takashima N, Naito M, Wakai K, Tanaka H, Sakata Y, Morita H, Sakata Y, Matsuda K, Murakami Y, Akazawa H, Kubo M, Kamatani Y, Komuro I. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2020 Jun;13(3):e002670.


Identification of SAMD9L as a susceptibility locus for intravenous immunoglobulin resistance in Kawasaki disease by genome-wide association analysis.

Kim JJ, Yun SW, Yu JJ, Yoon KL, Lee KY, Kil HR, Kim GB, Han MK, Song MS, Lee HD, Ha KS, Sohn S, Ebata R, Hamada H, Suzuki H, Ito K, Onouchi Y, Hong YM, Jang GY, Lee JK; and the Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium. Pharmacogenomics. 2020 Feb;20(1):80-86.

2019


A rare functional variant of SHARPIN attenuates the inflammatory response and associates with increased risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Asanomi Y, Shigemizu D, Miyashita A, Mitsumori R, Mori T, Hara N, Ito K, Niida S, Ikeuchi T, Ozaki K. Mol Med. 2019 Jun 20;25(1):20.


HLA-C variants associated with amino acid substitutions in the peptide binding groove influence susceptibility to Kawasaki disease.

Shimizu C, Kim J, Eleftherohorinou H, Wright VJ, Hoang LT, Tremoulet AH, Franco A, Hibberd ML, Takahashi A, Kubo M, Ito K, Tanaka T, Onouchi Y, Coin LJM, Levin M, Burns JC, Shike H; International Kawasaki Disease Genetic Consortium. Hum Immunol. 2019 Sep;80(9):731-738.


Genetic Variants Associated With Cancer Therapy-Induced Cardiomyopathy.

Garcia-Pavia P, Kim Y, Restrepo-Cordoba MA, Lunde IG, Wakimoto H, Smith AM, Toepfer CN, Getz K, Gorham J, Patel P, Ito K, Willcox JA, Arany Z, Li J, Owens AT, Govind R, Nuñez B, Mazaika E, Bayes-Genis A, Walsh R, Finkelman B, Lupon J, Whiffin N, Serrano I, Midwinter W, Wilk A, Bardaji A, Ingold N, Buchan R, Tayal U, Pascual-Figal DA, de Marvao A, Ahmad M, Garcia-Pinilla JM, Pantazis A, Dominguez F, John Baksi A, O’Regan DP, Rosen SD, Prasad SK, Lara-Pezzi E, Provencio M, Lyon AR, Alonso-Pulpon L, Cook SA, DePalma SR, Barton PJR, Aplenc R, Seidman JG, Ky B, Ware JS, Seidman CE. Circulation. 2019 Jul 2;140(1):31-41.


Investigation of novel variations of ORAI1 gene and their association with Kawasaki disease.

Thiha K, Mashimo Y, Suzuki H, Hamada H, Hata A, Hara T, Tanaka T, Ito K, Onouchi Y; Japan Kawasaki Disease Genome Consortium. J Hum Genet. 2019 Jun;64(6):511-519.

2018


Cardiomyocyte gene programs encoding morphological and functional signatures in cardiac hypertrophy and failure.

Nomura S, Satoh M, Fujita T, Higo T, Sumida T, Ko T, Yamaguchi T, Tobita T, Naito AT, Ito M, Fujita K, Harada M, Toko H, Kobayashi Y, Ito K, Takimoto E, Akazawa H, Morita H, Aburatani H, Komuro I. Nat Commun. 2018 Oct 30;9(1):4435.


Identification of LEF1 as a Susceptibility Locus for Kawasaki Disease in Patients Younger than 6 Months of Age.

Kim HJ, Yun SW, Yu JJ, Yoon KL, Lee KY, Kil HR, Kim GB, Han MK, Song MS, Lee HD, Ha KS, Sohn S, Ebata R, Hamada H, Suzuki H, Kamatani Y, Kubo M, Ito K, Onouchi Y, Hong YM, Jang GY, Lee JK. Genomics Inform. 2018 Jun;16(2):36-41.


In vivo and In vitro methods to identify DNA sequence variants that alter RNA Splicing.

Patel PN, Gorham JM, Ito K, Seidman CE. Curr Protoc Hum Genet. 2018 Apr;97(1):e60.


Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation.

Roselli C, Chaffin MD, Weng LC, Aeschbacher S, Ahlberg G, Albert CM, Almgren P, Alonso A, Anderson CD, Aragam KG, Arking DE, Barnard J, Bartz TM, Benjamin EJ, Bihlmeyer NA, Bis JC, Bloom HL, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EB, Brody JA, Calkins H, Campbell A, Cappola TP, Carlquist J, Chasman DI, Chen LY, Chen YI, Choi EK, Choi SH, Christophersen IE, Chung MK, Cole JW, Conen D, Cook J, Crijns HJ, Cutler MJ, Damrauer SM, Daniels BR, Darbar D, Delgado G, Denny JC, Dichgans M, Dörr M, Dudink EA, Dudley SC, Esa N, Esko T, Eskola M, Fatkin D, Felix SB, Ford I, Franco OH, Geelhoed B, Grewal RP, Gudnason V, Guo X, Gupta N, Gustafsson S, Gutmann R, Hamsten A, Harris TB, Hayward C, Heckbert SR, Hernesniemi J, Hocking LJ, Hofman A, Horimoto ARVR, Huang J, Huang PL, Huffman J, Ingelsson E, Ipek EG, Ito K, Jimenez-Conde J, Johnson R, Jukema JW, Kääb S, Kähönen M, Kamatani Y, Kane JP, Kastrati A, Kathiresan S, Katschnig-Winter P, Kavousi M, Kessler T, Kietselaer BL, Kirchhof P, Kleber ME, Knight S, Krieger JE, Kubo M, Launer LJ, Laurikka J, Lehtimäki T, Leineweber K, Lemaitre RN, Li M, Lim HE, Lin HJ, Lin H, Lind L, Lindgren CM, Lokki ML, London B, Loos RJF, Low SK, Lu Y, Lyytikäinen LP, Macfarlane PW, Magnusson PK, Mahajan A, Malik R, Mansur AJ, Marcus GM, Margolin L, Margulies KB, März W, McManus DD, Melander O, Mohanty S, Montgomery JA, Morley MP, Morris AP, Müller-Nurasyid M, Natale A, Nazarian S, Neumann B, Newton-Cheh C, Niemeijer MN, Nikus K, Nilsson P, Noordam R, Oellers H, Olesen MS, Orho-Melander M, Padmanabhan S, Pak HN, Paré G, Pedersen NL, Pera J, Pereira A, Porteous D, Psaty BM, Pulit SL, Pullinger CR, Rader DJ, Refsgaard L, Ribasés M, Ridker PM, Rienstra M, Risch L, Roden DM, Rosand J, Rosenberg MA, Rost N, Rotter JI, Saba S, Sandhu RK, Schnabel RB, Schramm K, Schunkert H, Schurman C, Scott SA, Seppälä I, Shaffer C, Shah S, Shalaby AA, Shim J, Shoemaker MB, Siland JE, Sinisalo J, Sinner MF, Slowik A, Smith AV, Smith BH, Smith JG, Smith JD, Smith NL, Soliman EZ, Sotoodehnia N, Stricker BH, Sun A, Sun H, Svendsen JH, Tanaka T, Tanriverdi K, Taylor KD, Teder-Laving M, Teumer A, Thériault S, Trompet S, Tucker NR, Tveit A, Uitterlinden AG, Van Der Harst P, Van Gelder IC, Van Wagoner DR, Verweij N, Vlachopoulou E, Völker U, Wang B, Weeke PE, Weijs B, Weiss R, Weiss S, Wells QS, Wiggins KL, Wong JA, Woo D, Worrall BB, Yang PS, Yao J, Yoneda ZT, Zeller T, Zeng L, Lubitz SA, Lunetta KL, Ellinor PT. Nat Genet. 2018 Jun 11;50(9):1225-1233.


Blood lipid-related low-frequency variants in LDLR and PCSK9 are associated with onset age and risk of myocardial infarction in Japanese.

Tajima T, Morita H, Ito K, Yamazaki T, Kubo M, Komuro I, Momozawa Y. Sci Rep. 2018 May 25;8(1):8107.

2017


Male-specific association of the FCGR2A His167Arg polymorphism with Kawasaki disease.

Kwon YC, Kim JJ, Yun SW, Yu JJ, Yoon KL, Lee KY, Kil HR, Kim GB, Han MK, Song MS, Lee HD, Ha KS, Sohn S, Ebata R, Hamada H, Suzuki H, Ito K, Onouchi Y, Hong YM, Jang GY, Lee JK; Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium. PLoS One. 2017 Sep 8;12(9):e0184248.


A genome-wide association analysis identifies NMNAT2 and HCP5 as susceptibility loci for Kawasaki disease.

Kim JJ, Yun SW, Yu JJ, Yoon KL, Lee KY, Kil HR, Kim GB, Han MK, Song MS, Lee HD, Ha KS, Sohn S, Johnson TA, Takahashi A, Kubo M, Tsunoda T, Ito K, Onouchi Y, Hong YM, Jang GY, Lee JK; Korean Kawasaki Disease Genetics Consortium. J Hum Genet. 2017 Dec;62(12):1023-1029.


Identification of pathogenic gene mutations in LMNA and MYBPC3 that alter RNA splicing.

Ito K, Patel PN, Gorham JM, McDonough B, DePalma SR, Adler EE, Lam L, MacRae CA, Mohiuddin SM, Fatkin D, Seidman CE, Seidman JG. Proc Natl Acad U S A. 2017 Jul 18;114(29):7689-7694.


Protein-Truncating Variants at the Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Gene and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease.

Nomura A, Won HH, Khera AV, Takeuchi F, Ito K, McCarthy S, Emdin CA, Klarin D, Natarajan P, Zekavat SM, Gupta N, Peloso GM, Borecki IB, Teslovich TM, Asselta R, Duga S, Merlini PA, Correa A, Kessler T, Wilson JG, Bown MJ, Hall AS, Braund PS, Carey DJ, Murray MF, Kirchner HL, Leader JB, Lavage DR, Manus JN, Hartze DN, Samani NJ, Schunkert H, Marrugat J, Elosua R, McPherson R, Farrall M, Watkins H, Juang JJ, Hsiung CA, Lin SY, Wang JS, Tada H, Kawashiri MA, Inazu A, Yamagishi M, Katsuya T, Nakashima E, Nakatochi M, Yamamoto K, Yokota M, Momozawa Y, Rotter JI, Lander ES, Rader DJ, Danesh J, Ardissino D, Gabriel S, Willer CJ, Abecasis GR, Saleheen D, Kubo M, Kato N, Ida Chen YD, Dewey FE, Kathiresan S. Circ Res. 2017 Jun 23;121(1):81-88.


Identification of six new genetic loci associated with atrial fibrillation in the Japanese population.

Low SK, Takahashi A, Ebana Y, Ozaki K, Christophersen IE, Ellinor PT; AFGen Consortium, Ogishima S, Yamamoto M, Satoh M, Sasaki M, Yamaji T, Iwasaki M, Tsugane S, Tanaka K, Naito M, Wakai K, Tanaka H, Furukawa T, Kubo M, Ito K, Kamatani Y, Tanaka T. Nat Genet. 2017 Jun;49(6):953-958.

Award


2022.1.

Kaoru Ito
Circulation Journal : Best Reviewers Award 2021

2021.11.

Kazuo Miyazawa
Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine, Early Career Investigator Award Finalist 
American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2021

2021.2.

Kaouru Ito
Communications Biology Reviewer of the Month
(February 2021)

2020.10.

Hirotaka Ieki
The Highest Award
The 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Heart Failure Society (YIA Clinical Department)