期刊
STROKE
卷 36, 期 3, 页码 540-545出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000155746.65185.4e
关键词
coronary artery disease; genetics; intima-media thickness; linkage mapping; stroke
资金
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR03655, RR000425] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-60030] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK63491] Funding Source: Medline
Background and Purpose-Carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT), a subclinical measure of atherosclerosis, is associated with coronary artery disease (CAD), and stroke. CIMT is also an important predictor of clinical cardiovascular events. To systematically identify the genetic determinants of CIMT, we performed a genome-wide scan using data from 91 2-generation Mexican American families ascertained via a parent with CAD diagnosed. Methods-CIMT was measured in 274 adult offspring (mean age, 34.6 years) using high-resolution B-mode ultrasound; 413 subjects, including adult offspring and their parents, were genotyped using Marshfield screen set 12 (380 microsatellite markers at approximate to 10-cM interval). Heritability was estimated using the variance component approach implemented in SOLAR. Linkage analyses were performed using both the sib-pair regression approach and the variance component approach. Results-The estimated heritability was 0.68, 0.45, and 0.40 for unadjusted, gender- and age-adjusted, and multivariate-adjusted CIMT, respectively. The strongest evidence of linkage was found on chromosome 2 at D2S2944 (logarithm of the odds [LOD]=3.08). Other suggestive linkages were also found on chromosome 6 at D6S1022 to D6S2410 (LOD=2.21) and chromosome 13 at D13S796 to D13S895 (LOD=1.34). Conclusions-These results show that there is a strong genetic effect on CIMT in these Mexican American CAD families. The linkage peak on chromosome 2 suggests that there is a gene (or genes) at this chromosome location influencing CIMT.
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