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ArticleScientific reports2015

Sex-specific association of rs4746172 of VCL gene with hypertension in two Han populations from Southern China.

Qin Yu, Hong-Peng Sun, Wan-Qun Chen, Xiao-Qiong Chen, Yong Xu, Yong-Han He, Qing-Peng Kong

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Qin YuState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
Hong-Peng SunJiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Wan-Qun ChenDepartment of Biochemistry, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
Xiao-Qiong ChenState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
Yong XuJiangsu Key Laboratory of Preventive and Translational Medicine for Geriatric Diseases, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Yong-Han HeState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
Qing-Peng KongState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNKunming Institute of Zoology · CNSoochow University · CNJinan University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypertension is the most common and lethal risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Numerous variants have been associated with hypertension, however, most of which failed to get replication due to ethnic differences. In this study, we analyzed associations of 10 newly reported single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Europeans with hypertension in Chinese. A total of 1766 samples consisting of 880 subjects with hypertension and 886 controls were collected and the SNPs were genotyped using multiple assays based on the SNaPshot mini-sequencing approach. Our results revealed a significant genotypic association of rs4746172 of VCL with hypertension with a lower frequency of minor allele in male subjects (OR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.54-0.92, p = 0.011) but not in females. To validate the result, we genotyped the SNPs in another Chinese population with 546 individuals, and got a consistent association for the rs4746172 (OR = 0.56, 95% CI: 0.38-0.82, p = 2.4 × 10(-3)) in males. The VCL-encoding protein was involved in cardiomyopathy that associated with hypertension, therefore our results suggest the rs4746172 of VCL may be a novel target for clinical interventions to reduce CVD risk by regulating blood pressure in male Chinese.

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Genetic Predisposition to DiseaseAgedAsian PeopleCardiomyopathiesChinaFemaleGenetic Association StudiesGenotypeHaplotypesHumansHypertensionMaleMiddle AgedPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSex CharacteristicsVinculinVCL protein, humanVinculin

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