Implication of an AGT Haplotype in a Multigene Association Study With Pregnancy Hypertension
Open Access
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Hypertension
- Vol. 43 (1), 71-78
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.0000104525.76016.77
Abstract
Several association studies of candidate genes for preeclampsia and essential hypertension have led to discordant results, partly because of small sample sizes. Using a large population-based sample of pregnant women, we conducted an association study of 10 polymorphisms in 9 genes and aimed (1) to validate 10 published associations with preeclampsia or essential hypertension, (2) to investigate candidate polymorphisms previously associated with preeclampsia for association with essential hypertension and similarly with polymorphisms previously associated with essential hypertension. From a prospective sample of 3391 nulliparous French Canadian pregnant women, we identified 180 cases of preeclampsia, 203 cases of essential hypertension that were matched with normotensive control subjects (n=310 and 357, respectively). Polymorphisms were genotyped by allele-specific PCR. Among our candidate polymorphisms, the Met allele of Thr174Met of AGT was associated with preeclampsia ( P =0.0033). Haplotype analysis revealed that the A-Met-Thr (G1035A-Thr174Met-Met235Thr) haplotype was associated with a 2.1-fold increased risk of preeclampsia (95% CI, 1.4 to 3.4; P =0.0008). In conclusion, we observed a strong association between a specific AGT haplotype and preeclampsia in our population, without replicating previous published associations with either preeclampsia or essential hypertension. Our data support a role for AGT in genetic susceptibility to preeclampsia.Keywords
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