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Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets from Blood and the Kidney

  • Louise V. Wain*
  • , Ahmad Vaez
  • , Rick Jansen
  • , Roby Joehanes
  • , Peter J. Van Der Most
  • , A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu
  • , Paul F. O'Reilly
  • , Claudia P. Cabrera
  • , Helen R. Warren
  • , Lynda M. Rose
  • , Germaine C. Verwoert
  • , Jouke Jan Hottenga
  • , Rona J. Strawbridge
  • , Tonu Esko
  • , Dan E. Arking
  • , Shih Jen Hwang
  • , Xiuqing Guo
  • , Zoltan Kutalik
  • , Stella Trompet
  • , Nick Shrine
  • Alexander Teumer, Janina S. Ried, Joshua C. Bis, Albert V. Smith, Najaf Amin, Ilja M. Nolte, Leo Pekka Lyytikäinen, Anubha Mahajan, Nicholas J. Wareham, Edith Hofer, Peter K. Joshi, Kati Kristiansson, Michela Traglia, Aki S. Havulinna, Anuj Goel, Mike A. Nalls, Siim Sõber, Dragana Vuckovic, Jian'An Luan, Fabiola M. Del Greco, Kristin L. Ayers, Jaume Marrugat, Daniela Ruggiero, Lorna M. Lopez, Teemu Niiranen, Stefan Enroth, Anne U. Jackson, Christopher P. Nelson, Jennifer E. Huffman, Weihua Zhang, Jonathan Marten, Ilaria Gandin, Sarah E. Harris, Tatijana Zemunik, Yingchang Lu, Evangelos Evangelou, Nabi Shah, Martin H. De Borst, Massimo Mangino, Bram P. Prins, Archie Campbell, Ruifang Li-Gao, Ganesh Chauhan, Christopher Oldmeadow, Gonçalo Abecasis, Maryam Abedi, Caterina M. Barbieri, Michael R. Barnes, Chiara Batini, John Beilby, Tineka Blake, Michael Boehnke, Erwin P. Bottinger, Peter S. Braund, Morris Brown, Marco Brumat, Harry Campbell, John C. Chambers, Massimiliano Cocca, Francis Collins, John Connell, Heather J. Cordell, Jeffrey J. Damman, Gail Davies, Eco J. De Geus, Renée De Mutsert, Joris Deelen, Yusuf Demirkale, Alex S.F. Doney, Marcus Dörr, Martin Farrall, Teresa Ferreira, Mattias Frånberg, He Gao, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Christian Gieger, Franco Giulianini, Alan J. Gow, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B. Harris, Albert Hofman, Elizabeth G. Holliday, Jennie Hui, Marjo Riitta Jarvelin, Åsa Johansson, Andrew D. Johnson, Pekka Jousilahti, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Sekar Kathiresan, Kay Tee Khaw, Ivana Kolcic, Seppo Koskinen, Claudia Langenberg, Marty Larson, Lenore J. Launer, Benjamin Lehne, David C.M. Liewald, Li Lin, Lars Lind, François Mach, Chrysovalanto Mamasoula, Cristina Menni, Borbala Mifsud, Yuri Milaneschi, Anna Morgan, Andrew D. Morris, Alanna C. Morrison, Peter J. Munson, Priyanka Nandakumar, Quang Tri Nguyen, Teresa Nutile, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Ben A. Oostra, Elin Org, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Aarno Palotie, Guillaume Paré, Alison Pattie, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Neil Poulter, Peter P. Pramstaller, Olli T. Raitakari, Meixia Ren, Kenneth Rice, Paul M. Ridker, Harriëtte Riese, Samuli Ripatti, Antonietta Robino, Jerome I. Rotter, Igor Rudan, Yasaman Saba, Aude Saint Pierre, Cinzia F. Sala, Antti Pekka Sarin, Reinhold Schmidt, Rodney Scott, Marc A. Seelen, Denis C. Shields, David Siscovick, Rossella Sorice, Alice Stanton, David J. Stott, Johan Sundström, Morris Swertz, Kent D. Taylor, Simon Thom, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Christophe Tzourio, André G. Uitterlinden, Uwe Völker, Peter Vollenweider, Sarah Wild, Gonneke Willemsen, Alan F. Wright, Jie Yao, Sébastien Thériault, David Conen, John Attia, Peter Sever, Stéphanie Debette, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Eleftheria Zeggini, Tim D. Spector, Pim Van Der Harst, Colin N.A. Palmer, Anne Claire Vergnaud, Ruth J.F. Loos, Ozren Polasek, John M. Starr, Giorgia Girotto, Caroline Hayward, Jaspal S. Kooner, Cecila M. Lindgren, Veronique Vitart, Nilesh J. Samani, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Ulf Gyllensten, Paul Knekt, Ian J. Deary, Marina Ciullo, Roberto Elosua, Bernard D. Keavney, Andrew A. Hicks, Robert A. Scott, Paolo Gasparini, Maris Laan, Yongmei Liu, Hugh Watkins, Catharina A. Hartman, Veikko Salomaa, Daniela Toniolo, Markus Perola, James F. Wilson, Helena Schmidt, Jing Hua Zhao, Terho Lehtimäki, Cornelia M. Van Duijn, Vilmundur Gudnason, Bruce M. Psaty, Annette Peters, Rainer Rettig, Alan James, J. Wouter Jukema, David P. Strachan, Walter Palmas, Andres Metspalu, Erik Ingelsson, Dorret I. Boomsma, Oscar H. Franco, Murielle Bochud, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Patricia B. Munroe, Paul Elliott, Daniel I. Chasman, Aravinda Chakravarti, Joanne Knight, Andrew P. Morris, Daniel Levy, Martin D. Tobin, Harold Snieder, Mark J. Caulfield, Georg B. Ehret
*Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Leicester
  • Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
  • VU University Medical Center
  • Harvard University
  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study
  • Department of Epidemiology
  • King's College London
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Department of Epidemiolagy
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • University of Tartu
  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Broad Institute
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences
  • University of Lausanne
  • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics
  • Institute for Community Medicine
  • German Centre for Cardiovascular Research
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • Cardiovascular Health Research Unit
  • Icelandic Heart Association
  • University of Iceland
  • Genetic Epidemiology Unit
  • Fimlab Laboratories
  • Tampere University
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Cambridge
  • Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics
  • Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation
  • Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
  • Department of Health
  • San Raffaele Scientific Institute
  • Data Tecnica International
  • Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine
  • IRCCS Ospedale Infantile Burlo Garofolo - Trieste
  • University of Trieste
  • EURAC Research
  • Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
  • Municipal Institute for Medical Research Hospital del Mar
  • National Research Council of Italy
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • University College Dublin
  • Uppsala University
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
  • School of Public Health
  • London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
  • University of Split
  • Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
  • University of Ioannina
  • University of Dundee
  • COMSATS University Islamabad
  • Division of Nephrology
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  • Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine
  • Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
  • Department of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • Université de Bordeaux
  • Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia
  • Center for Statistical Genetics
  • Busselton Population Medical Research Institute
  • PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA
  • School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Institute of Genetic Medicine
  • Amsterdam University Medical Centers
  • Department of Molecular Epidemiology
  • Stockholm University
  • Heriot-Watt University
  • Demography and Biometry
  • School of Population and Global Health
  • Imperial College London
  • Center for Life-Course Health Research
  • University of Oulu
  • Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Center for Human Genetics
  • University of Geneva
  • Cardiovascular Epidemiology
  • Newcastle University
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (IPCE)
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of Helsinki
  • McMaster University
  • Department of Psychology
  • General Central Hospital
  • University of Lübeck
  • University of Turku
  • Fujian Medical University
  • Department of Biostatistics
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Medical University of Graz
  • Etablissement français du sang
  • University of Newcastle
  • Hunter New England Health
  • New York Academy of Medicine
  • IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed - Pozzilli (IS)
  • University of Glasgow
  • Department of Genetics
  • International Centre for Circulatory Health
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • University of Greifswald
  • Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
  • University Hospital of Bordeaux
  • Leiden University
  • University of Groningen
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Hammersmith Hospital
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Dasman Diabetes Institute
  • King Abdulaziz University
  • University for Continuing Education Krems
  • University of Manchester
  • Wake Forest University
  • University of Washington
  • Kaiser Permanent Washington Health Research Institute
  • University of Western Australia
  • Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
  • Department of Cardiology
  • St. George’s Hospital
  • Columbia University
  • Stanford University
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Lancaster University
  • University of Liverpool

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Abstract

Elevated blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has a substantial genetic contribution. Genetic variation influencing blood pressure has the potential to identify new pharmacological targets for the treatment of hypertension. To discover additional novel blood pressure loci, we used 1000 Genomes Project-based imputation in 150 134 European ancestry individuals and sought significant evidence for independent replication in a further 228 245 individuals. We report 6 new signals of association in or near HSPB7, TNXB, LRP12, LOC283335, SEPT9, and AKT2, and provide new replication evidence for a further 2 signals in EBF2 and NFKBIA. Combining large whole-blood gene expression resources totaling 12 607 individuals, we investigated all novel and previously reported signals and identified 48 genes with evidence for involvement in blood pressure regulation that are significant in multiple resources. Three novel kidney-specific signals were also detected. These robustly implicated genes may provide new leads for therapeutic innovation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)e4-e19
JournalHypertension
Volume70
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • GWAS
  • blood pressure
  • cardiovascular risk
  • complex traits
  • eSNP
  • hypertension

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