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| Abstract |
<p>Thiazide diuretics, commonly used antihypertensives, may cause QT interval (QT) prolongation, a risk factor for highly fatal and difficult to predict ventricular arrhythmias. We examined whether common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) modified the association between thiazide use and QT or its component parts (QRS interval, JT interval) by performing ancestry-specific, trans-ethnic and cross-phenotype genome-wide analyses of European (66%), African American (15%) and Hispanic (19%) populations (N=78 199), leveraging longitudinal data, incorporating corrected standard errors to account for underestimation of interaction estimate variances and evaluating evidence for pathway enrichment. Although no loci achieved genome-wide significance (P<5 × 10), we found suggestive evidence (P<5 × 10) for SNPs modifying the thiazide-QT association at 22 loci, including ion transport loci (for example, NELL1, KCNQ3). The biologic plausibility of our suggestive results and simulations demonstrating modest power to detect interaction effects at genome-wide significant levels indicate that larger studies and innovative statistical methods are warranted in future efforts evaluating thiazide-SNP interactions.</p> |
| Year of Publication |
2018
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| Journal |
Pharmacogenomics J
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| Volume |
18
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| Issue |
2
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| Number of Pages |
215-226
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| Date Published |
2018 Apr
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| ISSN Number |
1473-1150
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| DOI |
10.1038/tpj.2017.10
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| Alternate Journal |
Pharmacogenomics J
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| PMID |
28719597
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