Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
- Helen R. Warren
- Evangelos Evangelou
- Claudia P. Cabrera
- He Gao
- Meixia Ren
- Borbala Mifsud
- Ioanna Ntalla
- Praveen Surendran
- Chunyu Liu
- James P. Cook
- Aldi T. Kraja
- Fotios Drenos
- Marie Loh
- Niek Verweij
- Jonathan Marten
- Ibrahim Karaman
- Marcelo P. Segura Lepe
- Paul F. O'Reilly
- Joanne Knight
- Harold Snieder
- Norihiro Kato
- Jiang He
- E. Shyong Tai
- M. Abdullah Said
- David Porteous
- Maris Alver
- Neil Poulter
- Martin Farrall
- Ron T. Gansevoort
- Sandosh Padmanabhan
- Reedik Mägi
- Alice Stanton
- John Connell
- Stephan J. L. Bakker
- Andres Metspalu
- Denis C. Shields
- Simon Thom
- Morris Brown
- Peter Sever
- Tonu Esko
- Caroline Hayward
- Danish Saleheen
- Rajiv Chowdhury
- John C. Chambers
- Daniel I. Chasman
- Aravinda Chakravarti
- Christopher Newton-Cheh
- Cecilia M. Lindgren
- Daniel Levy
- Jaspal S. Kooner
- Bernard Keavney
- Maciej Tomaszewski
- Nilesh J. Samani
- Joanna M. M. Howson
- Martin D. Tobin
- Patricia B. Munroe
- Georg B. Ehret
- Louise V. Wain
- Ahmad Vaez
- Rick Jansen
- Roby Joehanes
- Peter J. van der Most
- A. Mesut Erzurumluoglu
- Paul O'Reilly
- Lynda M. Rose
- Germaine C. Verwoert
- Jouke-Jan Hottenga
- Rona J. Strawbridge
- Dan E. Arking
- Shih-Jen Hwang
- Xiuqing Guo
- Zoltán Kutalik
- Stella Trompet
- Nick Shrine
- Alexander Teumer
- Janina S. Ried
- Joshua C. Bis
- Albert V. Smith
- Najaf Amin
- Ilja M. Nolte
- Leo-Pekka Lyytikainen
- 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 Del Greco M
- 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
- Ilaria Gandin
- Sarah E. Harris
- Tatijana Zemonik
- Yingchang Lu
- Nabi Shah
- Martin H. de Borst
- Massimo Mangino
- Bram P. Prins
- Archie Campbell
- Ruifang Li-Gao
- Ganesh Chauhan
- Christopher Oldmeadow
- Goncalo Abecasis
- Maryam Abedi
- Caterina M. Barbieri
- Michael R. Barnes
- Chiara Batini
- Tineka Blake
- Michael Boehnke
- Erwin P. Bottinger
- Peter S. Braund
- Marco Brumat
- Harry Campbell
- Massimiliano Cocca
- Francis Collins
- 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
- Teresa Ferreira
- Mattias Frånberg
- Vilmantas Giedraitis
- Christian Gieger
- Franco Giulianini
- Alan J. Gow
- Anders Hamsten
- Tamara B. Harris
- Albert Hofman
- Elizabeth G. Holliday
- Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
- Åsa Johansson
- Andrew D. Johnson
- 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
- 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
- Aarno Palotie
- Guillaume Pare
- Alison Pattie
- Brenda W. J. H. Penninx
- Peter P. Pramstaller
- Olli T. Raitakari
- 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
- David Siscovick
- Rossella Sorice
- David J. Stott
- Johan Sundström
- Morris Swertz
- Kent D. Taylor
- 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
- 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
- Veronique Vitart
- 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
- Erik Ingelsson
- Dorret I. Boomsma
- Oscar H. Franco
- Murielle Bochud
- Paul Elliott
- Andrew P. Morris
- Mark J. Caulfield
Publication date
January 15, 2017
Abstract:
Elevated blood pressure is the leading heritable risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide. We report genetic association of blood pressure (systolic, diastolic, pulse pressure) among UK Biobank participants of European ancestry with independent replication in other cohorts, and robust validation of 107 independent loci. We also identify new independent variants at 11 previously reported blood pressure loci. In combination with results from a range of in silico functional analyses and wet bench experiments, our findings highlight new biological pathways for blood pressure regulation enriched for genes expressed in vascular tissues and identify potential therapeutic targets for hypertension. Results from genetic risk score models raise the possibility of a precision medicine approach through early lifestyle intervention to offset the impact of blood pressure–raising genetic variants on future cardiovascular disease risk.
Published in
Nature Genetics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 49 , p.403 -415
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.3768
ISSN
10614036
Subjects
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