Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

Heavy alcohol consumption is an established risk factor for hypertension; the mechanism by which alcohol consumption impact blood pressure (BP) regulation remains unknown. We hypothesized that a genome-wide association study accounting for gene-alcohol consumption interaction for BP might identify a...

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Main Authors: Feitosa, MF, Kraja, AT, Chasman, DI, Sung, YJ, Winkler, TW, Ntalla, I, Guo, X, Franceschini, N, Cheng, C-Y, Sim, X, Vojinovic, D, Marten, J, Musani, SK, Li, C, Bentley, AR, Brown, MR, Schwander, K, Richard, MA, Noordam, R, Aschard, H, Bartz, TM, Bielak, LF, Dorajoo, R, Fisher, V, Hartwig, FP, Horimoto, ARVR, Lohman, KK, Manning, AK, Rankinen, T, Smith, AV, Tajuddin, SM, Wojczynski, MK, Alver, M, Boissel, M, Cai, Q, Campbell, A, Chai, JF, Chen, X, Divers, J, Gao, C, Goel, A, Hagemeijer, Y, Harris, SE, He, M, Hsu, F-C, Jackson, AU, Kähönen, M, Kasturiratne, A, Komulainen, P, Kühnel, B, Laguzzi, F, Luan, J, Matoba, N, Nolte, IM, Padmanabhan, S, Riaz, M, Rueedi, R, Robino, A, Said, MA, Scott, RA, Sofer, T, Stančáková, A, Takeuchi, F, Tayo, BO, Van Der Most, PJ, Varga, TV, Vitart, V, Wang, Y, Ware, EB, Warren, HR, Weiss, S, Wen, W, Yanek, LR, Zhang, W, Zhao, JH, Afaq, S, Amin, N, Amini, M, Arking, DE, Aung, T, Boerwinkle, E, Borecki, I, Broeckel, U, Brown, M, Brumat, M, Burke, GL, Canouil, M, Chakravarti, A, Charumathi, S, Chen, Y-D, Connell, JM, Correa, A, De Las Fuentes, L, De Mutsert, R, De Silva, HJ, Deng, X, Ding, J, Duan, Q, Eaton, CB, Ehret, G, Eppinga, RN, Evangelou, E, Faul, JD, Felix, SB, Forouhi, NG, Forrester, T, Franco, OH, Friedlander, Y, Gandin, I, Gao, H, Ghanbari, M, Gigante, B, Gu, CC, Gu, D, Hagenaars, SP, Hallmans, G, Harris, TB, He, J, Heikkinen, S, Heng, C-K, Hirata, M, Howard, BV, Ikram, MA, Interact Consortium, John, U, Katsuya, T, Khor, CC, Kilpeläinen, TO, Koh, W-P, Krieger, JE, Kritchevsky, SB, Kubo, M, Kuusisto, J, Lakka, TA, Langefeld, CD, Langenberg, C, Launer, LJ, Lehne, B, Lewis, CE, Li, Y, Lin, S, Liu, J, Loh, M, Louie, T, Mägi, R, McKenzie, CA, Meitinger, T, Metspalu, A, Milaneschi, Y, Milani, L, Mohlke, KL, Momozawa, Y, Nalls, MA, Nelson, CP, Sotoodehnia, N, Norris, JM, O'Connell, JR, Palmer, ND, Perls, T, Pedersen, NL, Peters, A, Peyser, PA, Poulter, N, Raffel, LJ, Raitakari, OT, Roll, K, Rose, LM, Rosendaal, FR, Rotter, JI, Schmidt, CO, Schreiner, PJ, Schupf, N, Scott, WR, Sever, PS, Shi, Y, Sidney, S, Sims, M, Sitlani, CM, Smith, JA, Snieder, H, Starr, JM, Strauch, K, Stringham, HM, Tan, NYQ, Tang, H, Taylor, KD, Teo, YY, Tham, YC, Turner, ST, Uitterlinden, AG, Vollenweider, P, Waldenberger, M, Wang, L, Wang, YX, Wei, WB, Williams, C, Yao, J, Yu, C, Yuan, J-M, Zhao, W, Zonderman, AB, Becker, DM, Boehnke, M, Bowden, DW, Chambers, JC, Deary, IJ, Esko, T, Farrall, M, Franks, PW, Freedman, BI, Froguel, P, Gasparini, P, Gieger, C, Jonas, JB, Kamatani, Y, Kato, N, Kooner, JS, Kutalik, Z, Laakso, M, Laurie, CC, Leander, K, Lehtimäki, T, Study, LC, Magnusson, PKE, Oldehinkel, AJ, Penninx, BWJH, Polasek, O, Porteous, DJ, Rauramaa, R, Samani, NJ, Scott, J, Shu, X-O, Van Der Harst, P, Wagenknecht, LE, Wareham, NJ, Watkins, H, Weir, DR, Wickremasinghe, AR, Wu, T, Zheng, W, Bouchard, C, Christensen, K, Evans, MK, Gudnason, V, Horta, BL, Kardia, SLR, Liu, Y, Pereira, AC, Psaty, BM, Ridker, PM, Van Dam, RM, Gauderman, WJ, Zhu, X, Mook-Kanamori, DO, Fornage, M, Rotimi, CN, Cupples, LA, Kelly, TN, Fox, ER, Hayward, C, Van Duijn, CM, Tai, ES, Wong, TY, Kooperberg, C, Palmas, W, Rice, K, Morrison, AC, Elliott, P, Caulfield, MJ, Munroe, PB, Rao, DC, Province, MA, Levy, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2018