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ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2023

Genetic risk factors for postoperative atrial fibrillation-a nationwide genome-wide association study (GWAS).

Mathias A Christensen, Alexander Bonde, Martin Sillesen

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Mathias A ChristensenDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshosptialet, Denmark.
Alexander BondeDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshosptialet, Denmark.
Martin SillesenDepartment of Surgery and Transplantation, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshosptialet, Denmark.

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Abstract

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major cause of morbidity with a high prevalence among the elderly and has an established genetic disposition. Surgery is a well-known risk factor for AF; however, it is currently not recognized how much common genetic variants influence the postoperative risk. The purpose of this study was to identify Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms associated with postoperative AF. Methods: The UK Biobank was utilized to conduct a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) to identify variants associated with AF after surgery. An initial discovery GWAS was performed in patients that had undergone surgery with subsequent replication in a unique non-surgical cohort. In the surgical cohort, cases were defined as newly diagnosed AF within 30 days after surgery. The threshold for significance was set at 5 × 10 Results: After quality control, 144,196 surgical patients with 254,068 SNPs were left for analysis. Two variants (rs17042171 ( Conclusion: In this GWAS-analysis of a large national biobank, we identified 2 variants that were significantly associated with postoperative AF. These variants were subsequently replicated in a unique non-surgical cohort. These findings bring new insight in the genetics of postoperative AF and may help identify at-risk patients and guide management.

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atrial fibrillationGWASpersonalized medicinePITX2postoperativeSNP

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PMCPMC10315824

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