A blood pressure genetic risk score is a significant predictor of incident cardiovascular events in 32,669 individuals.

ABSTRACT: Recent genome-wide association studies have identified genetic variants associated with blood pressure (BP). We investigated whether genetic risk scores (GRSs) constructed of these variants would predict incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. We genotyped 32 common single nucleotide polymorphisms in several Finnish cohorts, with up to 32,669 individuals after exclusion of prevalent CVD cases. The median follow-up was 9.8 years, during which 2295 incident CVD events occurred. We created GRSs separately for systolic BP and diastolic BP by multiplying the risk allele count of each single nucleotide polymorphism by the effect size estimated in published genome-wide association studies. We performed Cox regression analyses with and without adjustment for clinical factors, including BP at

SUBMITTER: Havulinna AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3648219 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature