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- Title
Whole Blood Gene Expression and Atrial Fibrillation: The Framingham Heart Study.
- Authors
Lin, Honghuang; Yin, Xiaoyan; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Dupuis, Josée; 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.
- Abstract
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 = 2.8×10−7), 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.
- Subjects
GENE expression; MOLECULAR genetics; ATRIAL fibrillation; FRAMINGHAM Heart Study (Organization); CARDIOVASCULAR system; BLOOD testing
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0096794