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Background: Brain arterial diameters (BADs) are novel imaging biomarkers of cerebrovascular disease, cognitive decline, and dementia. Traditional vascular risk factors have been associated with BADs, but whether there may be genetic determinants of BADs is unknown.
Methods And Results: The authors studied 4150 participants from 6 geographically diverse population-based cohorts (40% European, 14% African, 22% Hispanic, 24% Asian ancestries). Brain arterial diameters for 13 segments were measured and averaged to obtain a global measure of BADs as well as the posterior and anterior circulations. A genome-wide association study revealed 14 variants at one locus associated with global BAD at genome-wide significance (<5×10) (top single-nucleotide polymorphism, rs7921574; β=0.06 [=1.54×10]). This locus mapped to an intron of . A trans-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis identified 2 more loci at (rs10748839; =2.54×10) and (rs10786721; =4.97×10), associated with global BAD. In addition, 2 single-nucleotide polymorphisms colocalized with expression of (rs7897654; β=0.12 [=6.17×10]) and (rs10786719; β=-0.17 [=6.60×10]) in brain tissue. For the posterior BAD, 2 variants at one locus mapped to an intron of were identified (top single-nucleotide polymorphism, rs35994878; β=0.11 [=2.94×10]). For the anterior BAD, one locus at was identified in trans-ancestry genome-wide association analysis (rs34217249; =3.11×10).
Conclusions: The current study reveals 3 novel risk loci (, , and ) associated with BADs. These findings may help elucidate the mechanism by which BADs may influence cerebrovascular health.
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