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White matter lesion progression: genome-wide search for genetic influences

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posted on 2023-05-18, 14:09 authored by Hofer, E, Cavalieri, M, Bis, JC, DeCarli, C, Fornage, M, Sigurdsson, S, Srikanth, V, Trompet, S, Verhaaren, BFJ, Wolf, C, Yang, Q, Adams, HHH, Amouyel, P, Beiser, A, Buckley, BM, Michele CallisayaMichele Callisaya, Chauhan, M, de Craen, AJM, Dufouil, C, van Dujin, CM, Ford, I, Freudenberger, P, Gottesman, RF, Gudnason, V, Heiss, G, Hofman, A, Lumley, T, Martinez, O, Mazoyer, B, Moran, C, Niessen, WJ, Phan, T, Psaty, BM, Satizabal, CL, Sattar, N, Schilling, S, Shibata, DK, Slagboom, PE, Smith, A, Stott, DJ, Taylor, KD, Russell Thomson, Toglhoger, AM, Tzourio, C, van Buchem, M, Wang, J, Westendorp, RGJ, Windham, BG, Vernooij, MW, Zijdenbos, A, Beare, R, Debette, S, Ikram, MA, Jukema, JW, Launer, LJ, Longstreth Jr, WT, Mosley, TH, Seshadri, S, Schmidt, H, Schmidt, R

Background and Purpose: White matter lesion (WML) progression on magnetic resonance imaging is related to cognitive decline and stroke, but its determinants besides baseline WML burden are largely unknown. Here, we estimated heritability of WML progression, and sought common genetic variants associated with WML progression in elderly participants from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium.

Methods: Heritability of WML progression was calculated in the Framingham Heart Study. The genome-wide association study included 7773 elderly participants from 10 cohorts. To assess the relative contribution of genetic factors to progression of WML, we compared in 7 cohorts risk models including demographics, vascular risk factors plus single-nucleotide polymorphisms that have been shown to be associated cross-sectionally with WML in the current and previous association studies.

Results: A total of 1085 subjects showed WML progression. The heritability estimate for WML progression was low at 6.5%, and no single-nucleotide polymorphisms achieved genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10−8). Four loci were suggestive (P < 1 × 10−5) of an association with WML progression: 10q24.32 (rs10883817, P = 1.46 × 10−6); 12q13.13 (rs4761974, P = 8.71 × 10−7); 20p12.1 (rs6135309, P = 3.69 × 10−6); and 4p15.31 (rs7664442, P = 2.26 × 10−6). Variants that have been previously related to WML explained only 0.8% to 11.7% more of the variance in WML progression than age, vascular risk factors, and baseline WML burden.

Conclusions: Common genetic factors contribute little to the progression of age-related WML in middle-aged and older adults. Future research on determinants of WML progression should focus more on environmental, lifestyle, or host-related biological factors.

History

Publication title

Stroke

Volume

46

Issue

11

Pagination

3048-3057

ISSN

0039-2499

Department/School

Menzies Institute for Medical Research

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Place of publication

United States

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© 2015 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Socio-economic Objectives

Health related to ageing

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