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12172316
TITLE
Repeated blood pressure measurements in a sample of Swedish twins: heritabilities and associations with polymorphisms in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND NlmCategory: BACKGROUND
Twin and family studies have shown that genetic effects explain a relatively high amount of the phenotypic variation in blood pressure. However, many studies have not been able to replicate findings of association between specific polymorphisms and diastolic and systolic blood pressure.
METHODS NlmCategory: METHODS
In a structural equation-modelling framework the authors investigated longitudinal changes in repeated measures of blood pressures in a sample of 298 like-sexed twin pairs from the population-based Swedish Twin Registry. Also examined was the association between blood pressure and polymorphisms in the angiotensin-I converting enzyme and the angiotensin II receptor type 1 with the 'Fulker' test. Both linkage and association were tested simultaneously revealing whether the polymorphism is a Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) or in linkage disequilibrium with the QTL.
RESULTS NlmCategory: RESULTS
Genetic influences explained up to 46% of the phenotypic variance in diastolic and 63% of the phenotypic variance in systolic blood pressure. Genetic influences were stable over time and contributed up to 78% of the phenotypic correlation in both diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Non-shared environmental effects were characterised by time specific influences and little transmission from one time point to the next. There was no significant linkage and association between the polymorphisms and blood pressure.
CONCLUSIONS NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS
There is a considerable genetic stability in both diastolic and systolic blood pressure for a 6-year period of time in adult life. Non-shared environmental influences have a small long-term effect. Although associations with the polymorphisms could not be replicated, results should be interpreted with caution due to power considerations.
DATE PUBLISHED
2002 Aug
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 2002/08/13 10:00
medline 2003/02/07 04:00
entrez 2002/08/13 10:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Iliadou A Iliadou Anastasia A Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. anastasia.iliadou@mep.ki.se
Lichtenstein P Lichtenstein Paul P
Morgenstern R Morgenstern Ralf R
Forsberg L Forsberg Lena L
Svensson R Svensson Richard R
de Faire U de Faire Ulf U
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Pedersen NL Pedersen Nancy L NL
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 20
ISSUE: 8
TITLE: Journal of hypertension
ISOABBREVIATION: J. Hypertens.
YEAR: 2002
MONTH: Aug
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 0263-6352
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: J Hypertens
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 0263-6352
NLMUNIQUEID: 8306882
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Aged
Blood Pressure genetics
Female genetics
Humans genetics
Linkage Disequilibrium genetics
Male genetics
Middle Aged genetics
Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A genetics
Phenotype genetics
Polymorphism, Genetic genetics
Quantitative Trait Loci genetics
Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1 genetics
Receptors, Angiotensin genetics
Renin-Angiotensin System genetics
Sweden genetics
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1
0 Receptors, Angiotensin
EC 3.4.15.1 Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
OTHER ID's