2019-12-05
KCND3 potassium channel gene variant confers susceptibility to electrocardiographic early repolarization pattern
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JCI Insight , Volume 4 - Issue 23
BACKGROUND: The presence of an early repolarization pattern (ERP) on the surface ECG is associated with risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death. Family studies have shown that ERP is a highly heritable trait, but molecular genetic determinants are unknown. METHODS: To identify genetic susceptibility loci for ERP, we performed a GWAS and meta-analysis in 2,181 cases and 23,641 controls of European ancestry. RESULTS. We identified a genome-wide significant (P < 5 × 10-8) locus in the potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily D member 3 (KCND3) gene that was successfully replicated in additional 1,124 cases and 12,510 controls. A subsequent joint meta-analysis of the discovery and replication cohorts identified rs1545300 as the lead SNP at the KCND3 locus (OR 0.82 per minor T allele, P = 7.7 × 10-12) but did not reveal additional loci. Colocalization analyses indicate causal effects of KCND3 gene expression levels on ERP in both cardiac left ventricle and tibial artery. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we identified for the first time to our knowledge a genome-wide significant association of a genetic variant with ERP. Our findings of a locus in the KCND3 gene provide insights not only into the genetic determinants but also into the pathophysiological mechanism of ERP, discovering a promising candidate for functional studies.
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| doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.131156, hdl.handle.net/1765/124208 | |
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| Organisation | Department of Epidemiology |
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Teumer, A., Trenkwalder, T. (Teresa), Kessler, T., Jamshidi, Y. (Yalda), van den Berg, M., Kaess, B. (Bernhard), … Reinhard, W. (2019). KCND3 potassium channel gene variant confers susceptibility to electrocardiographic early repolarization pattern. JCI Insight, 4(23). doi:10.1172/jci.insight.131156 |
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