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A meta-analysis of gene expression signatures of blood pressure and hypertension.
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Huan, Tianxiao; Esko, Tõnu; Peters, Marjolein J; Pilling, Luke C; Schramm, Katharina; Schurmann, Claudia; Chen, Brian H; Liu, Chunyu; Joehanes, Roby; Johnson, Andrew D; Yao, Chen; Ying, Sai-Xia; Courchesne, Paul; Milani, Lili; Raghavachari, Nalini; Wang, Richard; Liu, Poching; Reinmaa, Eva; Dehghan, Abbas; Hofman, Albert; Uitterlinden, André G; Hernandez, Dena G; Bandinelli, Stefania; Singleton, Andrew; Melzer, David; Metspalu, Andres; Carstensen, Maren; Grallert, Harald; Herder, Christian; Meitinger, Thomas; Peters, Annette; Roden, Michael; Waldenberger, Melanie; Dörr, Marcus; Felix, Stephan B; Zeller, Tanja; International Consortium for Blood Pressure GWAS (ICBP); Vasan, Ramachandran; O'Donnell, Christopher J; Munson, Peter J; Yang, Xia; Prokisch, Holger; Völker, Uwe; van Meurs, Joyce BJ; Ferrucci, Luigi; Levy, Daniel
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PLoS genetics. 11(3)
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Abstract
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have uncovered numerous genetic variants (SNPs) that are associated with blood pressure (BP). Genetic variants may lead to BP changes by acting on intermediate molecular phenotypes such as coded protein sequence or gene expression, which in turn affect BP variability. Therefore, characterizing genes whose expression is associated with BP may reveal cellular processes involved in BP regulation and uncover how transcripts mediate genetic and environmental effects on BP variability. A meta-analysis of results from six studies of global gene expression profiles of BP and hypertension in whole blood was performed in 7017 individuals who were not receiving antihypertensive drug treatment. We identified 34 genes that were differentially expressed in relation to BP (Bonferroni-corrected p