Whole blood gene expression and atrial fibrillation: the Framingham Heart Study
Authors
Lin, HonghuangYin, Xiaoyan
Lunetta, Kathryn L.
Dupuis, Josee
McManus, David D.
Lubitz, Steven A.
Magnani, Jared W.
Joehanes, Roby
Munson, Peter J.
Larson, Martin G.
Levy, Daniel
Ellinor, Patrick T.
Benjamin, Emelia J.
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Epidemiology DivisionMeyers Primary Care Institute
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
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Journal ArticlePublication Date
2014-05-07Keywords
UMCCTS fundingCardiology
Cardiovascular Diseases
Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Genetics
Molecular Genetics
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BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) involves substantial electrophysiological, structural and contractile remodeling. We hypothesize that characterizing gene expression might uncover important pathways related to AF. METHODS AND RESULTS: We performed genome-wide whole blood transcriptomic profiling (Affymetrix Human Exon 1.0 ST Array) of 2446 participants (mean age 66 +/- 9 years, 55% women) from the Offspring cohort of Framingham Heart Study. The study included 177 participants with prevalent AF, 143 with incident AF during up to 7 years follow up, and 2126 participants with no AF. We identified seven genes statistically significantly up-regulated with prevalent AF. The most significant gene, PBX1 (P = 2.8 x 10(-7)), plays an important role in cardiovascular development. We integrated differential gene expression with gene-gene interaction information to identify several signaling pathways possibly involved in AF-related transcriptional regulation. We did not detect any statistically significant transcriptomic associations with incident AF. CONCLUSION: We examined associations of gene expression with AF in a large community-based cohort. Our study revealed several genes and signaling pathways that are potentially involved in AF-related transcriptional regulation.Source
PLoS One. 2014 May 7;9(5):e96794. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096794. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/37296PubMed ID
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