Identifying susceptibility genes for essential hypertension by transcriptome-wide association study.

Biochem Biophys Rep

Medical Research Center, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases, Xi'an No.3 Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710018, China.

Published: December 2022

Hypertension is a leading risk factor of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the population worldwide. Recently, hundreds of genomic loci were reported for hypertension by GWAS, however, the most SNPs are located in intergenic regions of genome, where a functional cause is difficult to determine. In the current study, a TWAS of hypertension was conducted using 452,264 individuals including 84,640 patients. KEGG and GO enrichment analyses were performed for the hypertension-related genes identified via TWAS. PPI network analysis based on the STRING database was also performed to detect TWAS-identified genes in hypertension. We have identified 18,420 genes from the GWAS summary data, and of those 1010 non-overlapping genes expression were significantly associated with hypertension after FDR correction (PFDR <0.05) in four tissues (left heart ventricle, aorta, whole blood, and peripheral blood). The KEGG and GO terms were mostly related to autoimmune mechanisms, and the autoimmune-related pathways have also been enriched using GO analysis for PPI genes. We further performed Mendelian randomization analysis, and the results supported a significant association between autoimmunity and hypertension. Moreover, 15 novel hypertension-susceptible genes were identified in all tissues, and five of the genes ( and ) were associated with autoimmune system, which provide further evidence supporting an autoimmune mechanism in hypertension. In summary, our study supports that an autoimmune mechanism plays an important role in the development of hypertension, and these findings will provide new biological insights that will assist in deciphering the molecular etiology of hypertension.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrep.2022.101387DOI Listing

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