Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Incident Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) in African Americans: A Short Report
African Americans have the highest rate of mortality due to coronary heart disease (CHD). Although multiple loci have been identified influencing CHD risk in European-Americans using a genome-wide association (GWAS) approach, no GWAS of incident CHD has been reported for African Americans. We perfor...
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| Vydáno v: | PLoS genetics Ročník 7; číslo 8; s. e1002199 |
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| Hlavní autoři: | , , , , , , , , , |
| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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United States
Public Library of Science
01.08.2011
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
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| ISSN: | 1553-7404, 1553-7390, 1553-7404 |
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| Shrnutí: | African Americans have the highest rate of mortality due to coronary heart disease (CHD). Although multiple loci have been identified influencing CHD risk in European-Americans using a genome-wide association (GWAS) approach, no GWAS of incident CHD has been reported for African Americans. We performed a GWAS for incident CHD events collected during 19 years of follow-up in 2,905 African Americans from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. We identified a genome-wide significant SNP (rs1859023, MAF = 31%) located at 7q21 near the PFTK1 gene (HR = 0.57, 95% CI 0.46 to 0.69, p = 1.86×10(-08)), which replicated in an independent sample of over 8,000 African American women from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) (HR = 0.81, 95% CI 0.70 to 0.93, p = 0.005). PFTK1 encodes a serine/threonine-protein kinase, PFTAIRE-1, that acts as a cyclin-dependent kinase regulating cell cycle progression and cell proliferation. This is the first finding of incident CHD locus identified by GWAS in African Americans. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Conceived and designed the experiments: MB APR EB. Analyzed the data: MB APR CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APR JEH CBE GH DC TM EB. Wrote the paper: MB APR EB NF. |
| ISSN: | 1553-7404 1553-7390 1553-7404 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002199 |