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Genome-wide association study of PR interval in Hispanics/Latinos identifies novel locus at ID2.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:PR interval (PR) is a heritable electrocardiographic measure of atrial and atrioventricular nodal conduction. Changes in PR duration may be associated with atrial fibrillation, heart failure and all-cause mortality. Hispanic/Latino populations have high burdens of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, are highly admixed and represent exceptional opportunities for novel locus identification. However, they remain chronically understudied. We present the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) of PR in 14?756 participants of Hispanic/Latino ancestry from three studies. METHODS:Study-specific summary results of the association between 1000 Genomes Phase 1 imputed single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and PR assumed an additive genetic model and were adjusted for global ancestry, study centre/region and clinical covariates. Results were combined using fixed-effects, inverse variance weighted meta-analysis. Sequential conditional analyses were used to identify independent signals. Replication of novel loci was performed in populations of Asian, African and European descent. ENCODE and RoadMap data were used to annotate results. RESULTS:We identified a novel genome-wide association (P<5×10-8) with PR at ID2 (rs6730558), which replicated in Asian and European populations (P<0.017). Additionally, we generalised 10 previously identified PR loci to Hispanics/Latinos. Bioinformatics annotation provided evidence for regulatory function in cardiac tissue. Further, for six loci that generalised, the Hispanic/Latino index SNP was genome-wide significant and identical to (or in high linkage disequilibrium with) the previously identified GWAS lead SNP. CONCLUSIONS:Our results suggest that genetic determinants of PR are consistent across race/ethnicity, but extending studies to admixed populations can identify novel associations, underscoring the importance of conducting genetic studies in diverse populations.

SUBMITTER: Seyerle AA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6946379 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide association study of PR interval in Hispanics/Latinos identifies novel locus at <i>ID2</i>.

Seyerle Amanda A AA Lin Henry J HJ Gogarten Stephanie M SM Stilp Adrienne A Méndez Giráldez Raul R Soliman Elsayed E Baldassari Antoine A Graff Mariaelisa M Heckbert Susan S Kerr Kathleen F KF Kooperberg Charles C Rodriguez Carlos C Guo Xiuqing X Yao Jie J Sotoodehnia Nona N Taylor Kent D KD Whitsel Eric A EA Rotter Jerome I JI Laurie Cathy C CC Avery Christy L CL

Heart (British Cardiac Society) 20171110 11

<h4>Objective</h4>PR interval (PR) is a heritable electrocardiographic measure of atrial and atrioventricular nodal conduction. Changes in PR duration may be associated with atrial fibrillation, heart failure and all-cause mortality. Hispanic/Latino populations have high burdens of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, are highly admixed and represent exceptional opportunities for novel locus identification. However, they remain chronically understudied. We present the first genome-wide associ ...[more]

PMID: 29127183

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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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Genome-wide association study of PR interval in Hispanics/Latinos identifies novel locus at ID2.

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Genome-wide association study of PR interval in Hispanics/Latinos identifies novel locus at <i>ID2</i>.

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