Journal Article

Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

Authors

Publication date

2019

Summary

In this trans-ethnic multi-omic study, we reinterpret the genetic architecture of blood pressure to identify genes, tissues, phenomes and medication contexts of blood pressure homeostasis. We discovered 208 novel common blood pressure SNPs and 53 rare variants in genome-wide association studies of systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure in up to 776,078 participants from the Million Veteran Program (MVP) and collaborating studies, with analysis of the blood pressure clinical phenome in MVP. Our transcriptome-wide association study detected 4,043 blood pressure associations with genetically predicted gene expression of 840 genes in 45 tissues, and mouse renal single-cell RNA sequencing identified upregulated blood pressure genes in kidney tubule cells.

Published in

Nature Genetics

Volume and page numbers

51 , 51 -62

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0303-9

ISSN

16

Subjects

Ethnic Groups, Health, Biology, and Genetics

Links

University of Essex, Albert Sloman Library Periodicals (except current 12 months) *restricted to University of Essex registered users* - http://catalogue.essex.ac.uk/record=b1680801~S5

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