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James M Eales1, Xiao Jiang1, Xiaoguang Xu1, Sushant Saluja1, Artur Akbarov1, Eddie Cano-Gamez2, Michelle T McNulty3,4, Christopher Finan5, Hui Guo6, Wojciech Wystrychowski7, Monika Szulinska8, Huw B Thomas9, Sanjeev Pramanik1,10, Sandesh Chopade5, Priscilla R Prestes11, Ingrid Wise12, Evangelos Evangelou13,14, Mahan Salehi1, Yusif Shakanti1, Mikael Ekholm1,15, Matthew Denniff16, Alicja Nazgiewicz1, Felix Eichinger17, Bradley Godfrey18, Andrzej Antczak18, Maciej Glyda19, Robert Król7, Stephen Eyre20, Jason Brown21, Carlo Berzuini6, John Bowes20, Mark Caulfield22,23, Ewa Zukowska-Szczechowska24, Joanna Zywiec25, Pawel Bogdanski8, Matthias Kretzler17, Adrian S Woolf26,27, David Talavera1, Bernard Keavney1,28, Pasquale Maffia29,30,31, Tomasz J Guzik30,32, Raymond T O'Keefe9, Gosia Trynka2,33, Nilesh J Samani16,34, Aroon Hingorani5, Matthew G Sampson3,4,35, Andrew P Morris20,36, Fadi J Charchar11,16,37, Maciej Tomaszewski38,39.
Abstract
The kidney is an organ of key relevance to blood pressure (BP) regulation, hypertension and antihypertensive treatment. However, genetically mediated renal mechanisms underlying susceptibility to hypertension remain poorly understood. We integrated genotype, gene expression, alternative splicing and DNA methylation profiles of up to 430 human kidneys to characterize the effects of BP index variants from genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on renal transcriptome and epigenome. We uncovered kidney targets for 479 (58.3%) BP-GWAS variants and paired 49 BP-GWAS kidney genes with 210 licensed drugs. Our colocalization and Mendelian randomization analyses identified 179 unique kidney genes with evidence of putatively causal effects on BP. Through Mendelian randomization, we also uncovered effects of BP on renal outcomes commonly affecting patients with hypertension. Collectively, our studies identified genetic variants, kidney genes, molecular mechanisms and biological pathways of key relevance to the genetic regulation of BP and inherited susceptibility to hypertension.Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33958779 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00835-w
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 41.307