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Generalization of variants identified by genome-wide association studies for electrocardiographic traits in African Americans.

ABSTRACT: Electrocardiographic (ECG) measurements vary by ancestry. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified loci that contribute to ECG measurements; however, most are performed in Europeans collected from population-based cohorts or surveys. The strongest associations reported are in NOS1AP with QT interval and SCN10A with PR and QRS durations. The extent to which these associations can be generalized to African Americans has yet to be determined. Using electronic medical records, PR and QT intervals, QRS duration, and heart rate were determined in 455 African Americans as part of the Vanderbilt Genome-Electronic Records Project and Northwestern University NUgene Project. We tested for an association between these ECG traits and >930K SNPs. We identified a total 36 novel associations with PR interval, QRS duration, QT interval, and heart rate at p < 1.0 × 10(-6). Using published GWAS data, we compared our results with those previously identified in other populations. Five associations originally identified in other populations generalized with respect to statistical significance and direction of effect. A total of 43 associations have a consistent direction of effect with European and/or Asian populations. This work provides a catalogue of generalized versus nongeneralized associations, a necessary step in prioritizing GWAS-identified regions for further fine-mapping in diverse populations.

SUBMITTER: Jeff JM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3743946 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Generalization of variants identified by genome-wide association studies for electrocardiographic traits in African Americans.

Jeff Janina M JM Ritchie Marylyn D MD Denny Joshua C JC Kho Abel N AN Ramirez Andrea H AH Crosslin David D Armstrong Loren L Basford Melissa A MA Wolf Wendy A WA Pacheco Jennifer A JA Chisholm Rex L RL Roden Dan M DM Hayes M Geoffrey MG Crawford Dana C DC

Annals of human genetics 20130328 4

Electrocardiographic (ECG) measurements vary by ancestry. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified loci that contribute to ECG measurements; however, most are performed in Europeans collected from population-based cohorts or surveys. The strongest associations reported are in NOS1AP with QT interval and SCN10A with PR and QRS durations. The extent to which these associations can be generalized to African Americans has yet to be determined. Using electronic medical records, PR and Q ...[more]

PMID: 23534349

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Project description:The PR interval on the electrocardiogram reflects atrial and atrioventricular nodal conduction time. The PR interval is heritable, provides important information about arrhythmia risk, and has been suggested to differ among human races. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified common genetic determinants of the PR interval in individuals of European and Asian ancestry, but there is a general paucity of GWA studies in individuals of African ancestry. We performed GWA studies in African American individuals from four cohorts (n?=?6,247) to identify genetic variants associated with PR interval duration. Genotyping was performed using the Affymetrix 6.0 microarray. Imputation was performed for 2.8 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using combined YRI and CEU HapMap phase II panels. We observed a strong signal (rs3922844) within the gene encoding the cardiac sodium channel (SCN5A) with genome-wide significant association (p<2.5 x 10??) in two of the four cohorts and in the meta-analysis. The signal explained 2% of PR interval variability in African Americans (beta ?=?5.1 msec per minor allele, 95% CI ?=?4.1-6.1, p?=?3 x 10?²³). This SNP was also associated with PR interval (beta?=?2.4 msec per minor allele, 95% CI?=?1.8-3.0, p?=?3 x 10?¹?) in individuals of European ancestry (n?=?14,042), but with a smaller effect size (p for heterogeneity <0.001) and variability explained (0.5%). Further meta-analysis of the four cohorts identified genome-wide significant associations with SNPs in SCN10A (rs6798015), MEIS1 (rs10865355), and TBX5 (rs7312625) that were highly correlated with SNPs identified in European and Asian GWA studies. African ancestry was associated with increased PR duration (13.3 msec, p?=?0.009) in one but not the other three cohorts. Our findings demonstrate the relevance of common variants to African Americans at four loci previously associated with PR interval in European and Asian samples and identify an association signal at one of these loci that is more strongly associated with PR interval in African Americans than in Europeans.

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Generalization of variants identified by genome-wide association studies for electrocardiographic traits in African Americans.

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Generalization of variants identified by genome-wide association studies for electrocardiographic traits in African Americans.

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