Markus H Kuehn1, Rajashree Mishra, Benjamin E Deonovic, Kimberly N Miller, Shana E McCormack, Grant T Liu, Mark J Kupersmith, Michael Wall. 1. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (MHK, KNM, MW), The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Division of Human Genetics (RM), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Biostatistics (BED), The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes (SEM), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Pediatrics (SEM), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Division of Ophthalmology (GTL), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (MJK), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a condition characterized by increased intracranial pressure of unknown cause. IIH has been shown to be associated with female sex as well as obesity. This genome-wide association study was performed to determine whether genetic variants are associated with this condition. METHODS: We analyzed the chromosomal DNA of 95 patients with IIH enrolled in the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial and 95 controls matched on sex, body mass index, and self-reported ethnicity. The samples were genotyped using Illumina Infinium HumanCoreExome v1-0 array and analyzed using a generalized linear mixed model that accounted for population stratification using multidimensional scaling. RESULTS: A total of 301,908 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were evaluated. The strongest associations observed were for rs2234671 on chromosome 2 (P = 4.93 × 10), rs79642714 on chromosome 6 (P = 2.12 × 10), and rs200288366 on chromosome 12 (P = 6.23 × 10). In addition, 3 candidate regions marked by multiple associated SNPs were identified on chromosome 5, 13, and 14. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to investigate the genetics of IIH in a rigorously characterized cohort. The study was limited by its modest size and thus would have only been able to demonstrate highly significant association on a genome-wide scale for relatively common alleles exerting large effects. However, several variants and loci were identified that might be strong candidates for follow-up studies in other well-phenotyped cohorts.
BACKGROUND:Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a condition characterized by increased intracranial pressure of unknown cause. IIH has been shown to be associated with female sex as well as obesity. This genome-wide association study was performed to determine whether genetic variants are associated with this condition. METHODS: We analyzed the chromosomal DNA of 95 patients with IIH enrolled in the Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Treatment Trial and 95 controls matched on sex, body mass index, and self-reported ethnicity. The samples were genotyped using Illumina Infinium HumanCoreExome v1-0 array and analyzed using a generalized linear mixed model that accounted for population stratification using multidimensional scaling. RESULTS: A total of 301,908 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were evaluated. The strongest associations observed were for rs2234671 on chromosome 2 (P = 4.93 × 10), rs79642714 on chromosome 6 (P = 2.12 × 10), and rs200288366 on chromosome 12 (P = 6.23 × 10). In addition, 3 candidate regions marked by multiple associated SNPs were identified on chromosome 5, 13, and 14. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to investigate the genetics of IIH in a rigorously characterized cohort. The study was limited by its modest size and thus would have only been able to demonstrate highly significant association on a genome-wide scale for relatively common alleles exerting large effects. However, several variants and loci were identified that might be strong candidates for follow-up studies in other well-phenotyped cohorts.
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