Genome-wide Association Analysis of Blood-Pressure Traits in African-Ancestry Individuals Reveals Common Associated Genes in African and Non-African Populations

Genome-wide Association Analysis of Blood-Pressure Traits in African-Ancestry Individuals Reveals Common Associated Genes in African and Non-African Populations

The American Journal of Human Genetics

10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.07.010

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929713003285

Nora Franceschini, Ervin Fox, Zhaogong Zhang, Todd L. Edwards, Michael A. Nalls, Yun Ju Sung, Bamidele O. Tayo, Yan V. Sun, Omri Gottesman, Adebawole Adeyemo, Andrew D. Johnson, Murielle Bochud, Ulrich Broeckel, Steven C. Hunt, Donna Arnett, Susan Redline, Richard S. Cooper, Neil J. Risch, D.C. Rao, Jerome I. Rotter, Aravinda Chakravarti, Alex P. Reiner, Daniel Levy, Brendan J. Keating, Xiaofeng Zhu, J. Hunter Young, Ken Rice, Qing Duan, Fang Chen, Yun Li, Hua Tang, Myriam Fornage, Keith L. Keene, Jeanette S. Andrews, Jennifer A. Smith, Jessica D. Faul, Zhang Guangfa, Wei Guo, Yu Liu, Sarah S. Murray, Solomon K. Musani, Sathanur Srinivasan, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Heming Wang, Lewis C. Becker, Pascal Bovet, Michel Burnier, Cara Carty, Daniel I. Chasman, Georg Ehret, Wei-Min Chen, Guanjie Chen, Wei Chen, Jingzhong Ding, Albert W. Dreisbach, Michele K. Evans, Xiuqing Guo, Melissa E. Garcia, Rich Jensen, Margaux F. Keller, Guillaume Lettre, Vaneet Lotay, Lisa W. Martin, Jason H. Moore, Alanna C. Morrison, Thomas H. Mosley, Adesola Ogunniyi, Walter Palmas, George Papanicolaou, Alan Penman, Joseph F. Polak, Paul M. Ridker, Babatunde Salako, Andrew B. Singleton, Daniel Shriner, Kent D. Taylor, Ramachandran Vasan, Kerri Wiggins, Scott M. Williams, Lisa R. Yanek, Wei Zhao, Alan B. Zonderman, Diane M. Becker, Gerald Berenson, Eric Boerwinkle, Erwin Bottinger, Mary Cushman, Charles Eaton, Fredrik Nyberg, Gerardo Heiss, Joel N. Hirschhron, Virginia J. Howard, Konrad J. Karczewsk, Matthew B. Lanktree, Kiang Liu, Yongmei Liu, Ruth Loos, Karen Margolis, Michael Snyder, Bruce M. Psaty, Nicholas J. Schork, David R. Weir, Charles N. Rotimi, Michele M. Sale, Tamara Harris, Sharon L.R. Kardia

05 September 2013

Nora Franceschini, Ervin Fox, Zhaogong Zhang, Todd L. Edwards, Michael A. Nalls, Yun Ju Sung, Bamidele O. Tayo, Yan V. Sun, Omri Gottesman, Adebawole Adeyemo, Andrew D. Johnson, J. Hunter Young, Ken Rice, Qing Duan, Fang Chen, Yun Li, Hua Tang, Myriam Fornage, Keith L. Keene, Jeanette S. Andrews, Jennifer A. Smith, Jessica D. Faul, Zhang Guangfa, Wei Guo, Yu Liu, Sarah S. Murray, Solomon K. Musani, Sathanur Srinivasan, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Heming Wang, Lewis C. Becker, Pascal Bovet, Murielle Bochud, Ulrich Broeckel, Michel Burnier, Cara Carty, Daniel I. Chasman, Georg Ehret, Wei-Min Chen, Guanjie Chen, Wei Chen, Jingzhong Ding, Albert W. Dreisbach, Michele K. Evans, Xiuqing Guo, Melissa E. Garcia, Rich Jensen, Margaux F. Keller, Guillaume Lettre, Vaneet Lotay, Lisa W. Martin, Jason H. Moore, Alanna C. Morrison, Thomas H. Mosley, Adesola Ogunniyi, Walter Palmas, George Papanicolaou, Alan Penman, Joseph F. Polak, Paul M. Ridker, Babatunde Salako, Andrew B. Singleton, Daniel Shriner, Kent D. Taylor, Ramachandran Vasan, Kerri Wiggins, Scott M. Williams, Lisa R. Yanek, Wei Zhao, Alan B. Zonderman, Diane M. Becker, Gerald Berenson, Eric Boerwinkle, Erwin Bottinger, Mary Cushman, Charles Eaton, Fredrik Nyberg, Gerardo Heiss, Joel N. Hirschhron, Virginia J. Howard, Konrad J. Karczewsk, Matthew B. Lanktree, Kiang Liu, Yongmei Liu, Ruth Loos, Karen Margolis, Michael Snyder, the Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Consortium, Bruce M. Psaty, Nicholas J. Schork, David R. Weir, Charles N. Rotimi, Michele M. Sale, Tamara Harris, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Steven C. Hunt, Donna Arnett, Susan Redline, Richard S. Cooper, Neil J. Risch, D.C. Rao, Jerome I. Rotter, Aravinda Chakravarti, Alex P. Reiner, Daniel Levy, Brendan J. Keating, Xiaofeng Zhu, Genome-wide Association Analysis of Blood-Pressure Traits in African-Ancestry Individuals Reveals Common Associated Genes in African and Non-African Populations, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 93, Issue 3, 5 September 2013, Pages 545-554, ISSN 0002-9297, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.07.010. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929713003285)

High blood pressure (BP) is more prevalent and contributes to more severe manifestations of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in African Americans than in any other United States ethnic group. Several small African-ancestry (AA) BP genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been published, but their findings have failed to replicate to date. We report on a large AA BP GWAS meta-analysis that includes 29,378 individuals from 19 discovery cohorts and subsequent replication in additional samples of AA (n = 10,386), European ancestry (EA) (n = 69,395), and East Asian ancestry (n = 19,601). Five loci (EVX1-HOXA, ULK4, RSPO3, PLEKHG1, and SOX6) reached genome-wide significance (p < 1.0 × 10(-8)) for either systolic or diastolic BP in a transethnic meta-analysis after correction for multiple testing. Three of these BP loci (EVX1-HOXA, RSPO3, and PLEKHG1) lack previous associations with BP. We also identified one independent signal in a known BP locus (SOX6) and provide evidence for fine mapping in four additional validated BP loci. We also demonstrate that validated EA BP GWAS loci, considered jointly, show significant effects in AA samples. Consequently, these findings suggest that BP loci might have universal effects across studied populations, demonstrating that multiethnic samples are an essential component in identifying, fine mapping, and understanding their trait variability.

https://oar.a-star.edu.sg/communities-collections/articles/11900

0002-9297

Genome Institute of Singapore