Analysis of 200,000 exome-sequenced UK Biobank subjects implicates genes involved in increased and decreased risk of hypertension
By
David Curtis
Posted 15 Feb 2021
medRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.10.21251503
BackgroundPrevious analyses have identified common variants along with some specific genes and rare variants which are associated with risk of hypertension but much remains to be discovered. Methods and ResultsExome-sequenced UK Biobank participants were phenotyped based on having a diagnosis of hypertension or taking anti-hypertensive medication to produce a sample of 66,123 cases and 134,504 controls. Variants with minor allele frequency (MAF) < 0.01 were subjected to a gene-wise weighted burden analysis, with higher weights assigned to variants which are rarer and/or predicted to have more severe effects. Of 20,384 genes analysed, two genes were exome-wide significant, DNMT3A and FES. Also strongly implicated were GUCY1A1 and GUCY1A1, which code for the subunits of soluble guanylate cyclase. There was further support for the previously reported effects of variants in NPR1 and protective effects of variants in DBH. An inframe deletion in CACNAD10 with MAF = 0.005, rs72556363, is associated with modestly increased of hypertension. Other biologically plausible genes highlighted consist of CSK, AGTR1, ZYX and PREP. All variants implicated were rare and cumulatively they are not predicted to make a large contribution to the population risk of hypertension. ConclusionsThis approach confirms and clarifies previously reported findings and also offers novel insights into biological processes influencing hypertension risk, potentially facilitating the development of improved therapeutic interventions. This research has been conducted using the UK Biobank Resource.
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