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Genome-Wide Association Study of Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension in the CHARGE Consortium: The CHARGE Pharmacogenetics Working Group.

TitleGenome-Wide Association Study of Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension in the CHARGE Consortium: The CHARGE Pharmacogenetics Working Group.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsIrvin, MR, Sitlani, CM, Floyd, JS, Psaty, BM, Bis, JC, Wiggins, KL, Whitsel, EA, Stürmer, T, Stewart, J, Raffield, L, Sun, F, Liu, C-T, Xu, H, Cupples, AL, Tanner, RM, Rossing, P, Smith, A, Zilhão, NR, Launer, LJ, Noordam, R, Rotter, JI, Yao, J, Li, X, Guo, X, Limdi, N, Sundaresan, A, Lange, L, Correa, A, Stott, DJ, Ford, I, J Jukema, W, Gudnason, V, Mook-Kanamori, DO, Trompet, S, Palmas, W, Warren, HR, Hellwege, JN, Giri, A, O'donnell, C, Hung, AM, Edwards, TL, Ahluwalia, TS, Arnett, DK, Avery, CL
JournalAm J Hypertens
Volume32
Issue12
Pagination1146-1153
Date Published2019 Nov 15
ISSN1941-7225
KeywordsAged, Antihypertensive Agents, Black or African American, Blood Pressure, Case-Control Studies, DNA (Cytosine-5-)-Methyltransferases, DNA Methyltransferase 3A, DNA-Binding Proteins, Drug Resistance, Dystrophin-Associated Proteins, Europe, Female, Genetic Loci, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Hypertension, Male, Middle Aged, Myosin Heavy Chains, Myosin Type V, Neuropeptides, Pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenomic Variants, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Risk Assessment, Risk Factors, Transcription Factors, United States, White People
Abstract<p><b>BACKGROUND: </b>Only a handful of genetic discovery efforts in apparent treatment-resistant hypertension (aTRH) have been described.</p><p><b>METHODS: </b>We conducted a case-control genome-wide association study of aTRH among persons treated for hypertension, using data from 10 cohorts of European ancestry (EA) and 5 cohorts of African ancestry (AA). Cases were treated with 3 different antihypertensive medication classes and had blood pressure (BP) above goal (systolic BP ≥ 140 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP ≥ 90 mm Hg) or 4 or more medication classes regardless of BP control (nEA = 931, nAA = 228). Both a normotensive control group and a treatment-responsive control group were considered in separate analyses. Normotensive controls were untreated (nEA = 14,210, nAA = 2,480) and had systolic BP/diastolic BP < 140/90 mm Hg. Treatment-responsive controls (nEA = 5,266, nAA = 1,817) had BP at goal (<140/90 mm Hg), while treated with one antihypertensive medication class. Individual cohorts used logistic regression with adjustment for age, sex, study site, and principal components for ancestry to examine the association of single-nucleotide polymorphisms with case-control status. Inverse variance-weighted fixed-effects meta-analyses were carried out using METAL.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>The known hypertension locus, CASZ1, was a top finding among EAs (P = 1.1 × 10-8) and in the race-combined analysis (P = 1.5 × 10-9) using the normotensive control group (rs12046278, odds ratio = 0.71 (95% confidence interval: 0.6-0.8)). Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in this locus were robustly replicated in the Million Veterans Program (MVP) study in consideration of a treatment-responsive control group. There were no statistically significant findings for the discovery analyses including treatment-responsive controls.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION: </b>This genomic discovery effort for aTRH identified CASZ1 as an aTRH risk locus.</p>
DOI10.1093/ajh/hpz150
Alternate JournalAm J Hypertens
PubMed ID31545351
PubMed Central IDPMC6856621
Grant ListR01 HL120393 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
UL1 RR025005 / RR / NCRR NIH HHS / United States
HHSN268201800014I / HB / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
U01 HL130114 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
R01 HL086694 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
P30 DK079626 / DK / NIDDK NIH HHS / United States
HHSN268201800014C / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
K24 HL133373 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
P30 DK063491 / DK / NIDDK NIH HHS / United States
HHSN268201800013I / MD / NIMHD NIH HHS / United States
S10 OD023680 / OD / NIH HHS / United States
K12 HD043483 / HD / NICHD NIH HHS / United States
HHSN268201800015I / HB / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
R01 AG023629 / AG / NIA NIH HHS / United States
R01 HL073410 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
RES 13-457 / RD / ORD VA / United States
U01 HL120393 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
U01 HG004402 / HG / NHGRI NIH HHS / United States
UL1 TR000124 / TR / NCATS NIH HHS / United States
R01 HL105756 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
K08 HL116640 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
ePub date: 
19/11