Gene Study of Blood Pressure Response to Dietary Potassium Intervention: Genetic Epidemiology of Salt Sensitivity
Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Genome-Wide Linkage and Positional Candidate Gene Study of Blood Pressure Response to Dietary Potassium Intervention
The Genetic Epidemiology Network of Salt Sensitivity Study
Tanika N. Kelly, PhD, James E. Hixson, PhD, Dabeeru C. Rao, PhD, Hao Mei, MD, PhD,Treva K. Rice, PhD, Cashell E. Jaquish, PhD, Lawrence C. Shimmin, PhD, Karen Schwander, MS, Chung-Shuian Chen, MS, Depei Liu, PhD, Jichun Chen, MD,Concetta Bormans, PhD, Pramila Shukla, MS, Naveed Farhana, MS, Colin Stuart, BS,Paul K. Whelton, MD, MSc, Jiang He, MD, PhD and Dongfeng Gu, MD, PhD
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Epidemiology (T.N.K., H.M., C.-S.C., J.H.), Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Department of Medicine (J.H.), Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La; Department of Epidemiology (J.E.H., L.C.S., C.B., P.S., N.F., C.S.), University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Tex; Division of Biostatistics (D.C.R., T.K.R., K.S.), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo; Division of Prevention and Population Sciences (C.E.J.), National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md; National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology (D.L.), Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China; Cardiovascular Institute and Fuwai Hospital (J.C., D.G.), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College and Chinese National Center for Cardiovascular Disease Control and Research, Beijing, China; and Office of the President (P.K.W.), Loyola University Health System and Medical Center, Maywood, Ill.
Correspondence to Dongfeng Gu, MD, PhD, Division of Population Genetics and Prevention, Cardiovascular Institute and Fuwai Hospital, 167 Beilishi Rd, Beijing 100037, China. E-mail gudongfeng@vip.sina.com
Abstract
Background— Genetic determinants of blood pressure (BP) response to potassium, or potassium sensitivity, are largely unknown. We conducted a genome-wide linkage scan and positional candidate gene analysis to identify genetic determinants of potassium sensitivity.
Conclusions— Genetic regions on chromosomes 3 and 11 may harbor important susceptibility loci for potassium sensitivity. Furthermore, the AGTR1 gene was a significant predictor of BP responses to potassium intake.
SOURCE:
Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. 2010; 3: 539-547
Published online before print September 22, 2010,
doi: 10.1161/ CIRCGENETICS.110.940635
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