Journal
NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Volume 23, Issue 7, Pages 684-692Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2012.02.008
Keywords
Platelet; Leukocytes; Mixed aggregates; Chromosome 9 genetics; Linkage studies
Funding
- Telethon Foundation [GGP04198]
- Italian Ministry of Research [MIUR 1588-19/11/2004]
- U.S. Public Health Service Resource Grant from the National Center for Research Resources [RR03655]
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Background and aims: Variations in mixed platelet-leukocyte conjugate formation in human whole blood could be genetically determined. We quantified platelet and leukocyte activation and interaction in families with or without early myocardial infarction and evaluated their heritability, genetic correlation and linkage to the 9p21.3 region. Methods and results: The study population included 739 subjects (>= 15 years old) from 54 large pedigrees, 23 with and 31 without familial myocardial infarction. Mixed platelet-leukocyte conjugates and markers of platelet or leukocyte activation (P-selectin, CD11b and L-selectin surface expression) were measured both before and after in vitro blood stimulation with collagen-ADP. All traits had significant genetic components (17.5-65.3% of the phenotypic variability), while shared household effects (0-39.6%) and environmental covariates (0-10.2%) tended to be smaller. Stimulated platelet-polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) and platelet-monocyte conjugates showed the highest linkage to the 9p21.3 region (LOD = 0.94 and 1.33, respectively; empirical p value = 0.017 and 0.009). PMN markers resulted strongly genetically correlated between them in bivariate analysis among pairs of quantitative traits. Conclusion: This study supports a genetic regulation of human mixed platelet-leukocyte conjugates. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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