Refined mapping of a hypertension susceptibility locus on rat chromosome 12.

ABSTRACT: Previously, we found that transferring 6.1 Mb of salt-sensitive (SS) chromosome 12 (13.4-19.5 Mb) onto the consomic SS-12(BN) background significantly elevated mean arterial pressure in response to an 8% NaCl diet (178±7 versus 144±2 mm Hg; P<0.001). Using congenic mapping, we have now narrowed the blood pressure locus by 86% from a 6.1-Mb region containing 133 genes to an 830-kb region (chr12:14.36-15.19 Mb) with 14 genes. Compared with the SS-12(BN) consomic, the 830-kb blood pressure locus was associated with a ∆+15 mm Hg (P<0.01) increase in blood pressure, which coincided with elevated albuminuria (∆+32 mg/d; P<0.001), proteinuria (∆+48 mg/d; P<0.01), protein casting (∆+154%; P<0.05), and renal fibrosis (∆+79%; P<0.05). Of the 14 genes residing in the 830-kb locus, 8 were differential

SUBMITTER: Prisco SZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4162822 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature