Title | Genome-wide association study of heart rate and its variability in Hispanic/Latino cohorts. |
Publication Type | Publication |
Year | 2017 |
Authors | Kerr KF, Avery CL, Lin HJ, Raffield LM, Zhang QS, Browning BL, Browning SR, Conomos MP, Gogarten SM, Laurie CC, Sofer T, Thornton TA, Hohensee C, Jackson RD, Kooperberg C, Li Y, Méndez-Giráldez R, Perez MV, Peters U, Reiner AP, Zhang Z-M, Yao J, Sotoodehnia N, Taylor KD, Guo X, Lange LA, Soliman EZ, Wilson JG, Rotter JI, Heckbert SR, Jain D, Whitsel EA |
Journal | Heart Rhythm |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 11 |
Pagination | 1675-1684 |
Date Published | 2017 Nov |
ISSN | 1556-3871 |
Keywords | Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Autonomic Nervous System, Black or African American, Electrocardiography, genome-wide association study, Genotype, heart rate, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, United States |
Abstract | BACKGROUND: Although time-domain measures of heart rate variability (HRV) are used to estimate cardiac autonomic tone and disease risk in multiethnic populations, the genetic epidemiology of HRV in Hispanics/Latinos has not been characterized.OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to conduct a genome-wide association study of heart rate (HR) and its variability in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, and Women's Health Initiative Hispanic SNP-Health Association Resource project (n = 13,767).METHODS: We estimated HR (bpm), standard deviation of normal-to-normal interbeat intervals (SDNN, ms), and root mean squared difference in successive, normal-to-normal interbeat intervals (RMSSD, ms) from resting, standard 12-lead ECGs. We estimated associations between each phenotype and 17 million genotyped or imputed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), accounting for relatedness and adjusting for age, sex, study site, and ancestry. Cohort-specific estimates were combined using fixed-effects, inverse-variance meta-analysis. We investigated replication for select SNPs exceeding genome-wide (P <5 × 10) or suggestive (P <10) significance thresholds.RESULTS: Two genome-wide significant SNPs replicated in a European ancestry cohort, 1 one for RMSSD (rs4963772; chromosome 12) and another for SDNN (rs12982903; chromosome 19). A suggestive SNP for HR (rs236352; chromosome 6) replicated in an African-American cohort. Functional annotation of replicated SNPs in cardiac and neuronal tissues identified potentially causal variants and mechanisms.CONCLUSION: This first genome-wide association study of HRV and HR in Hispanics/Latinos underscores the potential for even modestly sized samples of non-European ancestry to inform the genetic epidemiology of complex traits. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.hrthm.2017.06.018 |
Alternate Journal | Heart Rhythm |
PubMed ID | 28610988 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC5671896 |
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Genome-wide association study of heart rate and its variability in Hispanic/Latino cohorts.
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