A meta-analysis of gene expression signatures of blood pressure and hypertension

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered numerous genetic variants (SNPs) that are associated with blood pressure (BP). Genetic variants may lead to BP changes by acting on intermediate molecular phenotypes such as coded protein sequence or gene expression, which in turn affect BP varia...

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Published in:PLoS genetics 2015-03, Vol.11 (3), p.e1005035
Main Authors: Huan, Tianxiao, Esko, Tõnu, Peters, Marjolein J, Pilling, Luke C, Schramm, Katharina, Schurmann, Claudia, Chen, Brian H, Liu, Chunyu, Joehanes, Roby, Johnson, Andrew D, Yao, Chen, Ying, Sai-Xia, Courchesne, Paul, Milani, Lili, Raghavachari, Nalini, Wang, Richard, Liu, Poching, Reinmaa, Eva, Dehghan, Abbas, Hofman, Albert, Uitterlinden, André G, Hernandez, Dena G, Bandinelli, Stefania, Singleton, Andrew, Melzer, David, Metspalu, Andres, Carstensen, Maren, Grallert, Harald, Herder, Christian, Meitinger, Thomas, Peters, Annette, Roden, Michael, Waldenberger, Melanie, Dörr, Marcus, Felix, Stephan B, Zeller, Tanja, Vasan, Ramachandran, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Munson, Peter J, Yang, Xia, Prokisch, Holger, Völker, Uwe, van Meurs, Joyce B J, Ferrucci, Luigi, Levy, Daniel
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Language:English
Subjects:
Blood pressure
Blood Pressure - genetics
Diabetes
Education
Gene expression
Gene Expression Regulation
Genetic aspects
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genome-Wide Association Study
Genomes
Genomics
Genotype
Humans
Hypertension
Hypertension - genetics
Hypertension - pathology
Identification and classification
Laboratories
Meta-analysis
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Science
Studies
Transcriptome - genetics
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Summary:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered numerous genetic variants (SNPs) that are associated with blood pressure (BP). Genetic variants may lead to BP changes by acting on intermediate molecular phenotypes such as coded protein sequence or gene expression, which in turn affect BP variability. Therefore, characterizing genes whose expression is associated with BP may reveal cellular processes involved in BP regulation and uncover how transcripts mediate genetic and environmental effects on BP variability. A meta-analysis of results from six studies of global gene expression profiles of BP and hypertension in whole blood was performed in 7017 individuals who were not receiving antihypertensive drug treatment. We identified 34 genes that were differentially expressed in relation to BP (Bonferroni-corrected p
ISSN:1553-7404
1553-7390
1553-7404
DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005035