Journal
CIRCULATION-CARDIOVASCULAR GENETICS
Volume 2, Issue 6, Pages 629-U267Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.109.876243
Keywords
atherosclerosis; calcium; ancestry; epidemiology; genetics
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [T32 HL097972]
- cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention [T32HL07779]
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [N01-HC-95159, N01-HC-95169, R01HL071051, R01HL071205, R01HL071250, R01HL071251, R01HL071252, R01HL071258, R01HL071259]
- DIVISION OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS [N01HC095159, N01HC095165, N01HC095164, N01HC095160, N01HC095167, N01HC095161, N01HC095163, N01HC095162, N01HC095169] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL071252, R01HL071250, R01HL071051, R43HL095169, R44HL095169, R01HL071258, R01HL071205, R01HL071259, R01HL071251, T32HL007779] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Background-Differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden exist among racial/ethnic groups in the United States, with African-Americans having the highest prevalence. Subclinical CVD measures have also been shown to differ by race or ethnicity. In the United States, there has been a significant intermixing among racial/ethnic groups creating admixed populations. Very little research exists on the relationship of genetic ancestry and subclinical CVD measures. Methods and Results-These associations were investigated in 712 black and 705 Hispanic participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis candidate gene substudy. Individual ancestry was estimated from 199 genetic markers using STRUCTURE. Associations of ancestry and coronary artery calcium (CAC) and common and internal carotid intima media thickness were evaluated using log-binomial and linear regression models. Splines indicated linear associations of ancestry with subclinical CVD measures in African-Americans but presence of threshold effects in Hispanics. Among African-Americans, each SD increase in European ancestry was associated with an 8% (95% CI, 1.02 to 1.15; P = 0.01) higher CAC prevalence. Each SD increase in European ancestry was also associated with a 2% (95% CI -3.4% to -0.5%, P = 0.008) lower common carotid intima media thickness in African-Americans. Among Hispanics, the highest tertile of European ancestry was associated with a 34% higher CAC prevalence (P = 0.02) when compared with the lowest tertile. Conclusions-The linear association of ancestry and subclinical CVD suggests that genetic effects may be important in determining CAC and carotid intima media thickness among African-Americans. Our results also suggest that CAC and common carotid intima media thickness may be important phenotypes for further study with admixture mapping. (Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2009;2:629-636.)
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