Genome-wide association study on dimethylarginines reveals novel AGXT2 variants associated with heart rate variability but not with overall mortality.

Autor:	Seppälä I; Department of Clinical Chemistry, Fimlab Laboratories, Tampere University School of Medicine, Finn-Medi 2, 3rd floor, PO Box 2000, Tampere FI-33521, Finland., Kleber ME, Lyytikäinen LP, Hernesniemi JA, Mäkelä KM, Oksala N, Laaksonen R, Pilz S, Tomaschitz A, Silbernagel G, Boehm BO, Grammer TB, Koskinen T, Juonala M, Hutri-Kähönen N, Alfthan G, Viikari JS, Kähonen M, Raitakari OT, März W, Meinitzer A, Lehtimäki T
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	European heart journal [Eur Heart J] 2014 Feb; Vol. 35 (8), pp. 524-31. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Oct 24.
DOI:	10.1093/eurheartj/eht447
Abstrakt:	Aims: The purpose of this study was to identify novel genetic variants influencing circulating asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) levels and to evaluate whether they have a prognostic value on cardiovascular mortality. Methods and Results: We conducted a genome-wide association study on the methylarginine traits and investigated the predictive value of the new discovered variants on mortality. Our meta-analyses replicated the previously known locus for ADMA levels in DDAH1 (rs997251; P = 1.4 × 10(-40)), identified two non-synomyous polymorphisms for SDMA levels in AGXT2 (rs37369; P = 1.4 × 10(-40) and rs16899974; P = 1.5 × 10(-38)) and one in SLC25A45 (rs34400381; P = 2.5 × 10(-10)). We also fine-mapped the AGXT2 locus for further independent association signals. The two non-synonymous AGXT2 variants independently associated with SDMA levels were also significantly related with short-term heart rate variability (HRV) indices in young adults. The major allele (C) of the novel non-synonymous rs16899974 (V498L) variant associated with decreased SDMA levels and an increase in the ratio between the low- and high-frequency spectral components of HRV (P = 0.00047). Furthermore, the SDMA decreasing allele (G) of the non-synomyous SLC25A45 (R285C) variant was associated with a lower resting mean heart rate during the HRV measurements (P = 0.0046), but not with the HRV indices. None of the studied genome-wide significant variants had any major effect on cardiovascular or total mortality in patients referred for coronary angiography. Conclusions: AGXT2 has an important role in SDMA metabolism in humans. AGXT2 may additionally have an unanticipated role in the autonomic nervous system regulation of cardiac function.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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