Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Genetic architecture of spatial electrical biomarkers for cardiac arrhythmia and relationship with cardiovascular disease

  • William J. Young,
  • Jeffrey Haessler,
  • Jan-Walter Benjamins,
  • Linda Repetto,
  • Jie Yao,
  • Aaron Isaacs,
  • Andrew R. Harper,
  • Julia Ramirez,
  • Sophie Garnier,
  • Stefan van Duijvenboden,
  • Antoine R. Baldassari,
  • Maria Pina Concas,
  • ThuyVy Duong,
  • Luisa Foco,
  • Jonas L. Isaksen,
  • Hao Mei,
  • Raymond Noordam,
  • Casia Nursyifa,
  • Anne Richmond,
  • Meddly L. Santolalla,
  • Colleen M. Sitlani,
  • Negin Soroush,
  • Sébastien Thériault,
  • Stella Trompet,
  • Stefanie Aeschbacher,
  • Fariba Ahmadizar,
  • Alvaro Alonso,
  • Jennifer A. Brody,
  • Archie Campbell,
  • Adolfo Correa,
  • Dawood Darbar,
  • Antonio De Luca,
  • Jean-François Deleuze,
  • Christina Ellervik,
  • Christian Fuchsberger,
  • Anuj Goel,
  • Christopher Grace,
  • Xiuqing Guo,
  • Torben Hansen,
  • Susan R. Heckbert,
  • Rebecca D. Jackson,
  • Jan A. Kors,
  • Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa,
  • Allan Linneberg,
  • Peter W. Macfarlane,
  • Alanna C. Morrison,
  • Pau Navarro,
  • David J. Porteous,
  • Peter P. Pramstaller,
  • Alexander P. Reiner,
  • Lorenz Risch,
  • Ulrich Schotten,
  • Xia Shen,
  • Gianfranco Sinagra,
  • Elsayed Z. Soliman,
  • Monika Stoll,
  • Eduardo Tarazona-Santos,
  • Andrew Tinker,
  • Katerina Trajanoska,
  • Eric Villard,
  • Helen R. Warren,
  • Eric A. Whitsel,
  • Kerri L. Wiggins,
  • Dan E. Arking,
  • Christy L. Avery,
  • David Conen,
  • Giorgia Girotto,
  • Niels Grarup,
  • Caroline Hayward,
  • J.Wouter Jukema,
  • Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,
  • Morten Salling Olesen,
  • Sandosh Padmanabhan,
  • Bruce M. Psaty,
  • Cristian Pattaro,
  • Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro,
  • Jerome I. Rotter,
  • Bruno H. Stricker,
  • Pim van der Harst,
  • Cornelia M. van Duijn,
  • Niek Verweij,
  • James G. Wilson,
  • Michele Orini,
  • Philippe Charron,
  • Hugh Watkins,
  • Charles Kooperberg,
  • Henry J. Lin,
  • James F. Wilson,
  • Jørgen K. Kanters,
  • Nona Sotoodehnia,
  • Borbala Mifsud,
  • Pier D. Lambiase,
  • Larisa G. Tereshchenko,
  • Patricia B. Munroe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36997-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The spatial and frontal QRS-T angles are electrocardiographic (ECG) predictors for arrhythmia. This work used genetic analyses to identify associated loci and pathways, and explore their relationships with other ECG traits and cardiovascular disease.