TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
JF  - Nature Communications
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SN  - 2041-1723
ID  - discovery10065033
Y1  - 2018/11/28/
VL  - 9
A1  - Takeuchi, F
A1  - Akiyama, M
A1  - Matoba, N
A1  - Katsuya, T
A1  - Nakatochi, M
A1  - Tabara, Y
A1  - Narita, A
A1  - Saw, W-Y
A1  - Moon, S
A1  - Spracklen, CN
A1  - Chai, J-F
A1  - Kim, Y-J
A1  - Zhang, L
A1  - Wang, C
A1  - Li, H
A1  - Li, H
A1  - Wu, J-Y
A1  - Dorajoo, R
A1  - Nierenberg, JL
A1  - Wang, YX
A1  - He, J
A1  - Bennett, DA
A1  - Takahashi, A
A1  - Momozawa, Y
A1  - Hirata, M
A1  - Matsuda, K
A1  - Rakugi, H
A1  - Nakashima, E
A1  - Isono, M
A1  - Shirota, M
A1  - Hozawa, A
A1  - Ichihara, S
A1  - Matsubara, T
A1  - Yamamoto, K
A1  - Kohara, K
A1  - Igase, M
A1  - Han, S
A1  - Gordon-Larsen, P
A1  - Huang, W
A1  - Lee, NR
A1  - Adair, LS
A1  - Hwang, MY
A1  - Lee, J
A1  - Chee, ML
A1  - Sabanayagam, C
A1  - Zhao, W
A1  - Liu, J
A1  - Reilly, DF
A1  - Sun, L
A1  - Huo, S
A1  - Edwards, TL
A1  - Long, J
A1  - Chang, L-C
A1  - Chen, C-H
A1  - Yuan, J-M
A1  - Koh, W-P
A1  - Friedlander, Y
A1  - Kelly, TN
A1  - Bin Wei, W
A1  - Xu, L
A1  - Cai, H
A1  - Xiang, Y-B
A1  - Lin, K
A1  - Clarke, R
A1  - Walters, RG
A1  - Millwood, IY
A1  - Li, L
A1  - Chambers, JC
A1  - Kooner, JS
A1  - Elliott, P
A1  - van der Harst, P
A1  - International Genomics of Blood Pressure (iGEN-BP) Consortium, .
A1  - Chen, Z
A1  - Sasaki, M
A1  - Shu, X-O
A1  - Jonas, JB
A1  - He, J
A1  - Heng, C-K
A1  - Chen, Y-T
A1  - Zheng, W
A1  - Lin, X
A1  - Teo, Y-Y
A1  - Tai, E-S
A1  - Cheng, C-Y
A1  - Wong, TY
A1  - Sim, X
A1  - Mohlke, KL
A1  - Yamamoto, M
A1  - Kim, B-J
A1  - Miki, T
A1  - Nabika, T
A1  - Yokota, M
A1  - Kamatani, Y
A1  - Kubo, M
A1  - Kato, N
N2  - Blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and more than 200 genetic loci associated with BP are known. Here, we perform a multi-stage genome-wide association study for BP (max N?=?289,038) principally in East Asians and meta-analysis in East Asians and Europeans. We report 19 new genetic loci and ancestry-specific BP variants, conforming to a common ancestry-specific variant association model. At 10 unique loci, distinct non-rare ancestry-specific variants colocalize within the same linkage disequilibrium block despite the significantly discordant effects for the proxy shared variants between the ethnic groups. The genome-wide transethnic correlation of causal-variant effect-sizes is 0.898 and 0.851 for systolic and diastolic BP, respectively. Some of the ancestry-specific association signals are also influenced by a selective sweep. Our results provide new evidence for the role of common ancestry-specific variants and natural selection in ethnic differences in complex traits such as BP.
IS  - 1
TI  - Interethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent
KW  - Asian Continental Ancestry Group
KW  -  Blood Pressure
KW  -  Continental Population Groups
KW  -  Europe
KW  -  European Continental Ancestry Group
KW  -  Female
KW  -  Genetic Loci
KW  -  Genome-Wide Association Study
KW  -  Humans
KW  -  Linkage Disequilibrium
KW  -  Male
KW  -  Polymorphism
KW  -  Single Nucleotide
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07345-0
ER  -