Gene-centric Meta-analysis in 87,736 Individuals of European Ancestry Identifies Multiple Blood-Pressure-Related Loci

V. Tragante, M.R. Barnes, S.K. Ganesh, M.B. Lanktree, W. Guo, N. Franceschini, E.N. Smith, T. Johnson, M.V. Holmes, S. Padmanabhan, K.J. Karczewski, B. Almoguera, J. Barnard, J. Baumert, Y.P.C. Chang, C.C. Elbers, M. Farrall, M.E. Fischer, T.R. Gaunt, J.M.I.H. GhoC. Gieger, A. Goel, Y. Gong, A. Isaacs, M.E. Kleber, I.M. Leach, C.W. McDonough, M.F.L. Meijs, O. Melander, C.P. Nelson, I.M. Nolte, N. Pankratz, T.S. Price, J. Shaffer, S. Shah, M. Tomaszewski, P.J. van der Most, E.P.A. van Iperen, J.M. Vonk, K. Witkowska, C.O.L. Wong, L. Zhang, A.L. Beitelshees, G.S. Berenson, D.L. Bhatt, M. Brown, A. Burt, R.M. Cooper-DeHoff, J.M. Connell, K.J. Cruickshanks, S.P. Curtis, G. Davey-Smith, C. Delles, R.T. Gansevoort, X.Q. Guo, S. Haiqing, C.E. Hastie, M.H. Hofker, G.K. Hovingh, D.S. Kim, S.A. Kirkland, B.E. Klein, R. Klein, Y.R. Li, S. Maiwald, C. Newton-Cheh, E.T. O'Brien, N.C. Onland-Moret, W. Palmas, A. Parsa, B.W. Penninx, M. Pettinger, R.S. Vasan, J.E. Ranchalis, P.M. Ridker, L.M. Rose, P. Sever, D. Shimbo, L. Steele, R.P Stolk, B. Thorand, M.D. Trip, C.M. van Duijn, W.M. Verschuren, C. Wijmenga, S. Wyatt, J.H. Young, A.H. Zwinderman, C.R. Bezzina, E. Boerwinkle, J.P. Casas, M.J. Caulfield, A. Chakravarti, D.I. Chasman, K.W. Davidson, P.A. Doevendans, A.F. Dominiczak, G.A. FitzGerald, J.G. Gums, P.B. Munroe, B.J. Keating

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    Abstract

    Blood pressure (BP) is a heritable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. To investigate genetic associations with systolic BP (SBP), diastolic BP (DBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), and pulse pressure (PP), we genotyped ∼50,000 SNPs in up to 87,736 individuals of European ancestry and combined these in a meta-analysis. We replicated findings in an independent set of 68,368 individuals of European ancestry. Our analyses identified 11 previously undescribed associations in independent loci containing 31 genes including PDE1A, HLA-DQB1, CDK6, PRKAG2, VCL, H19, NUCB2, RELA, HOXC@ complex, FBN1, and NFAT5 at the Bonferroni-corrected array-wide significance threshold (p < 6 × 10
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)349-360
    JournalAmerican Journal of Human Genetics
    Volume94
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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