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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.117.006057
Keywords
atrial fibrillation; discrimination; gene expression
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Universite Laval (Quebec, Qc, Canada)
- Canada Research Chair in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
- CISCO Professorship in Integrated Health Biosystems
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Canadian Network and Centre for Trials Internationally
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Background-Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation AF) can be difficult, requiring cumbersome investigations. We aimed to determine the association of established whole-blood gene expression scores with prevalent AF and to evaluate their performance for the identification of AF in a SIRS Steroids in Cardiac Surgery) trial cohort. Methods and Results-Whole-blood, transcriptome-wide gene expression profiling was performed using the Illumina HumanHT-12 Expression BeadChip in 416 participants 65% men) before surgery, including 91 with a diagnosis of AF. An AF gene score GS) calculated from 7 genes reported to be upregulated in AF and a validated GS for biological age based on 1254 genes related to aging were both independently associated with AF diagnosis before surgery in multivariate logistic regression analyses adjusting for known risk factors P=0.0006 and P=0.003). Addition of AF and biological age GSs to clinical risk factors led to significant improvement in area under the receiver operating characteristic curve from 0.77 to 0.80;P=0.03), continuous net reclassification improvement index P<0.0001), and integrated discrimination improvement index P=0.0002). When stratifying AF by subtype, AF GS was mainly associated with paroxysmal AF P=0.003), whereas the biological age GS was mainly associated with permanent AF P=0.017). Conclusions-We validated the existence of a blood gene expression signature for prevalent AF and showed that biological age derived from gene expression is significantly associated with prevalent AF. These findings suggest a potential utility of blood gene expression for the identification of patients with AF, particularly paroxysmal AF. This result could have implications for the prevention and management of cryptogenic stroke.
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