Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Interethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent

  • Fumihiko Takeuchi,
  • Masato Akiyama,
  • Nana Matoba,
  • Tomohiro Katsuya,
  • Masahiro Nakatochi,
  • Yasuharu Tabara,
  • Akira Narita,
  • Woei-Yuh Saw,
  • Sanghoon Moon,
  • Cassandra N. Spracklen,
  • Jin-Fang Chai,
  • Young-Jin Kim,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Chaolong Wang,
  • Huaixing Li,
  • Honglan Li,
  • Jer-Yuarn Wu,
  • Rajkumar Dorajoo,
  • Jovia L. Nierenberg,
  • Ya Xing Wang,
  • Jing He,
  • Derrick A. Bennett,
  • Atsushi Takahashi,
  • Yukihide Momozawa,
  • Makoto Hirata,
  • Koichi Matsuda,
  • Hiromi Rakugi,
  • Eitaro Nakashima,
  • Masato Isono,
  • Matsuyuki Shirota,
  • Atsushi Hozawa,
  • Sahoko Ichihara,
  • Tatsuaki Matsubara,
  • Ken Yamamoto,
  • Katsuhiko Kohara,
  • Michiya Igase,
  • Sohee Han,
  • Penny Gordon-Larsen,
  • Wei Huang,
  • Nanette R. Lee,
  • Linda S. Adair,
  • Mi Yeong Hwang,
  • Juyoung Lee,
  • Miao Li Chee,
  • Charumathi Sabanayagam,
  • Wanting Zhao,
  • Jianjun Liu,
  • Dermot F. Reilly,
  • Liang Sun,
  • Shaofeng Huo,
  • Todd L. Edwards,
  • Jirong Long,
  • Li-Ching Chang,
  • Chien-Hsiun Chen,
  • Jian-Min Yuan,
  • Woon-Puay Koh,
  • Yechiel Friedlander,
  • Tanika N. Kelly,
  • Wen Bin Wei,
  • Liang Xu,
  • Hui Cai,
  • Yong-Bing Xiang,
  • Kuang Lin,
  • Robert Clarke,
  • Robin G. Walters,
  • Iona Y. Millwood,
  • Liming Li,
  • John C. Chambers,
  • Jaspal S. Kooner,
  • Paul Elliott,
  • Pim van der Harst,
  • The International Genomics of Blood Pressure (iGEN-BP) Consortium,
  • Zhengming Chen,
  • Makoto Sasaki,
  • Xiao-Ou Shu,
  • Jost B. Jonas,
  • Jiang He,
  • Chew-Kiat Heng,
  • Yuan-Tsong Chen,
  • Wei Zheng,
  • Xu Lin,
  • Yik-Ying Teo,
  • E-Shyong Tai,
  • Ching-Yu Cheng,
  • Tien Yin Wong,
  • Xueling Sim,
  • Karen L. Mohlke,
  • Masayuki Yamamoto,
  • Bong-Jo Kim,
  • Tetsuro Miki,
  • Toru Nabika,
  • Mitsuhiro Yokota,
  • Yoichiro Kamatani,
  • Michiaki Kubo,
  • Norihiro Kato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07345-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and more than 200 genetic loci associated with BP are known. Here, the authors perform discovery GWAS for BP in East Asians and meta-analysis in East Asians and Europeans and report ancestry-specific BP SNPs and selection signals.