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. 2022 May 23;14(10):2177. doi: 10.3390/nu14102177

Table 2.

Brain-related phenotype of significant proteins or genes identified by PWAS and TWAS analysis.

Beverage Type Proteins/Genes Brain-Related Phenotype p Value
Symbol EnsemblID Name
PWAS Bitter beverages
Total bitter beverages ABCG2 ENSG00000118777 ATP binding cassette subfamily G member 2 Narcolepsy 7.90 × 10−5
Volume Left-Cerebellum-Cortex 5.37 × 10−5
Volume Right-Thalamus-Proper 4.79 × 10−5
CPNE1 ENSG00000214078 copine 1 Cognitive performance 1.57 × 10−4
Intelligence 1.10 × 10−4
Mood swings 2.70 × 10−4
Alcoholic bitter beverages FLOT2 ENSG00000132589 flotillin 2 Cognitive performance 8.13 × 10−6
Neuroticism 3.35 × 10−4
Tense/‘highly strung’ 3.20 × 10−4
Tea ABCG2 ENSG00000118777 ATP binding cassette subfamily G member 2 Narcolepsy 7.90 × 10−5
Volume Left-Cerebellum-Cortex 5.37 × 10−5
Volume Right-Thalamus-Proper 4.79 × 10−5
Sweet beverages
Total sweet beverages FLOT2 ENSG00000132589 flotillin 2 Cognitive performance 8.13 × 10−6
Neuroticism 3.35 × 10−4
Tense/‘highly strung’ 3.20 × 10−4
Artificially sweetened beverages ACTR1B ENSG00000115073 actin related protein 1B Bipolar disorder 1.40 × 10−4
Schizophrenia 2.93 × 10−4
Ever depressed for a whole week 2.84 × 10−4
TWAS Bitter beverages
Total bitter beverages PIGG ENSG00000174227 phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis class G Not found /
C3orf18 ENSG00000088543 chromosome 3 open reading frame 18 Intelligence 4.50 × 10−4
Anxiety, nerves or generalized anxiety disorder 4.91 × 10−4
Mood swings 7.50 × 10−4
Alcoholic bitter beverages ZSWIM7 ENSG00000214941 zinc finger SWIM-type containing 7 Depressed affect 8.96 × 10−4
Parkinson’s disease 3.07 × 10−7
Feeling miserable 2.50 × 10−5
Non-alcoholic bitter beverages PIGG ENSG00000174227 phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis class G Not found /
Coffee PEX7 ENSG00000112357 peroxisomal biogenesis factor 7 Easily tired during worst period of anxiety 4.90 × 10−4
IDP T1 FAST ROIs R heschl gyrus 5.75 × 10−4
Tea PKP4 ENSG00000144283 plakophilin 4 Manic/hyper symptoms 8.80 × 10−4
Grape juice RPLP2 ENSG00000177600 ribosomal protein lateral stalk subunit P2 DKTatlas lh paracentral area 4.17 × 10−4
Manic/hyper symptoms 1.66 × 10−4
IDP SWI T2star left thalamus 5.89 × 10−4

Note: PWAS, proteome-wide association study; TWAS, transcriptome-wide association study. ROS/MAP and Banner means human brain proteomes for PWAS analysis; CBR and CBRS means two datasets of human brain gene expressions for TWAS analysis. IDP, imaging derived phenotype; ROI, region of interest; DKT, Desikan–Killiany–Tourville cortical labeling protocol; SWI, susceptibility weighted imaging. FAST is a segmentation sentence in a brain image analysis software.