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TITLE
International Genome-Wide Association Study Consortium Identifies Novel Loci Associated With Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND NlmCategory: BACKGROUND
-Our aim was to identify genetic variants associated with blood pressure (BP) in childhood and adolescence.
METHODS AND RESULTS NlmCategory: RESULTS
-Genome-wide association study data from participating European ancestry cohorts of the EAGLE ( EA: rly G: enetics and L: ifecourse E: pidemiology) Consortium was meta-analysed across three 'epochs'; pre-puberty [4-7 years], puberty [8-12 years] and post-puberty [13-20 years]. Two novel loci were identified as having genome-wide associations with systolic blood pressure across specific age epochs; rs1563894 (ITGA11, located in active H3K27Ac mark and transcription factor CHiP and CpG methylation site) during pre-puberty (p = 2.86 × 10(-8)) and rs872256 during puberty (p = 8.67 × 10(-9)). Several SNP 'clusters' were also associated with childhood BP at p < 5 × 10(-3). Using a p-value threshold of < 5 × 10(-3) we found some overlap in variants across the different age epochs within our study, and between several SNPs in any of the three epochs and adult BP related SNPs.
CONCLUSIONS NlmCategory: CONCLUSIONS
-Our results suggest that genetic determinants of blood pressure act from childhood, develop over the lifecourse, and show some evidence of age-specific effects.
(c) 2016 American Heart Association, Inc.
DATE PUBLISHED
2016 Jun
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
entrez 2016/03/13 06:00
pubmed 2016/03/13 06:00
medline 2016/03/13 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Parmar PG
Taal HR
Timpson NJ
Thiering E
Lehtimaki T
Marinelli M
Lind PA
Howe LD
Verwoert G
Aalto V
Uitterlinden AG
Briollais L
Evans DM
Wright MJ
Newnham JP
Whitfield JB
Lyytikainen LP
Rivadeneira F
Boomsma DI
Viikari J
Gillman MW
St Pourcain B
Hottenga JJ
Montgomery GW
Hofman A
Kahonen M
Martin NG
Tobin MD
Raitakari O
Vioque J
Jaddoe VW
Jarvelin MR
Beilin LJ
Heinrich J
van Duijn CM
Pennell CE
Lawlor DA
Palmer LJ
Early Genetics and Lifecourse Epidemiology Consortium
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ISSUE:
TITLE: Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics
ISOABBREVIATION: Circ Cardiovasc Genet
YEAR: 2016
MONTH: Mar
DAY: 11
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CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1942-3268
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Circ Cardiovasc Genet
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 1942-3268
NLMUNIQUEID: 101489144
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PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
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KEYWORD
Genome Wide Association Study
blood pressure
children
genetic epidemiology
hypertension
prehypertension
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