Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan

Muralidharan Sargurupremraj; Aniket Mishra; Lannie Ligthart; Jouke Jan Hottenga; Dorret I. Boomsma; Stéphanie Debette; International Network against Thrombosis (INVENT) Consortium; International Headache Genomics Consortium (IHGC)

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Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan

Muralidharan Sargurupremraj, Aniket Mishra, Lannie Ligthart, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Dorret I. Boomsma, Stéphanie Debette^*, International Network against Thrombosis (INVENT) Consortium, International Headache Genomics Consortium (IHGC)

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Abstract

White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are the most common brain-imaging feature of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), hypertension being the main known risk factor. Here, we identify 27 genome-wide loci for WMH-volume in a cohort of 50,970 older individuals, accounting for modification/confounding by hypertension. Aggregated WMH risk variants were associated with altered white matter integrity (p = 2.5×10-7) in brain images from 1,738 young healthy adults, providing insight into the lifetime impact of SVD genetic risk. Mendelian randomization suggested causal association of increasing WMH-volume with stroke, Alzheimer-type dementia, and of increasing blood pressure (BP) with larger WMH-volume, notably also in persons without clinical hypertension. Transcriptome-wide colocalization analyses showed association of WMH-volume with expression of 39 genes, of which four encode known drug targets. Finally, we provide insight into BP-independent biological pathways underlying SVD and suggest potential for genetic stratification of high-risk individuals and for genetically-informed prioritization of drug targets for prevention trials.

Original language	English
Article number	6285
Pages (from-to)	1-18
Number of pages	18
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19111-2
Publication status	Published - 8 Dec 2020

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Sargurupremraj, M., Mishra, A., Ligthart, L., Hottenga, J. J., Boomsma, D. I., Debette, S., International Network against Thrombosis (INVENT) Consortium, & International Headache Genomics Consortium (IHGC) (2020). Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan. Nature Communications, 11, 1-18. Article 6285. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19111-2

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N2 - White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are the most common brain-imaging feature of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), hypertension being the main known risk factor. Here, we identify 27 genome-wide loci for WMH-volume in a cohort of 50,970 older individuals, accounting for modification/confounding by hypertension. Aggregated WMH risk variants were associated with altered white matter integrity (p = 2.5×10-7) in brain images from 1,738 young healthy adults, providing insight into the lifetime impact of SVD genetic risk. Mendelian randomization suggested causal association of increasing WMH-volume with stroke, Alzheimer-type dementia, and of increasing blood pressure (BP) with larger WMH-volume, notably also in persons without clinical hypertension. Transcriptome-wide colocalization analyses showed association of WMH-volume with expression of 39 genes, of which four encode known drug targets. Finally, we provide insight into BP-independent biological pathways underlying SVD and suggest potential for genetic stratification of high-risk individuals and for genetically-informed prioritization of drug targets for prevention trials.

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