Phenome-wide association study and functional annotation of hemoglobin A1c-associated variants in African populations

• Chisom Soremekun,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations NCD Genomics & The African Computational Genomics (TACG) Research Group, MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Centre for Genomics Research and Innovation, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstädter Landstr, Neuherberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9533-0102

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• Oyesola Ojewunmi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NCD Genomics & The African Computational Genomics (TACG) Research Group, MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Precision Healthcare University Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

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• Amarachukwu Nwagbata,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Homa Bazireh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstädter Landstr, Neuherberg, Germany, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, München, Germany

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• Sapna Sharma,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstädter Landstr, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Daudi Jjingo,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences, Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Computer Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• David Patrick Kateete,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Oyekanmi Nash,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Centre for Genomics Research and Innovation, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria

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• Harald Grallert,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstädter Landstr, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Ingolstädter Landstr, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Chiara Batini,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Annette Peters,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstädter Landstr, Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Ingolstädter Landstr, Neuherberg, Germany, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

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• Segun Fatumo

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s.fatumo@qmul.ac.uk

  Affiliations NCD Genomics & The African Computational Genomics (TACG) Research Group, MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Precision Healthcare University Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4525-3362

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