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The pathophysiology of arterial stiffness is not completely understood and the underlying genetic factors affect different segments of the arterial tree. While pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an established marker for arterial stiffness, there is no research analysing arterial stiffness in different segments of the body in one cohort in parallel. We wanted to gain a better understanding of the underlying genetic factors for the different PWV.
We analysed if measuring PWV in different segments of the body leads to association with different genetic variants, as well as different heritability and different genetic correlation with other biological traits. Furthermore we searched for shared genetic architecture concerning PWV, blood pressure (BP) and coronary artery disease (CAD) and examined the causal relationship between PWV and BP.
Health Atlas ID: 82VN4QCEF1-1
Projects: Genetical Statistics and Systems Biology, LIFE Adult, LIFE Heart
Study type: Genetic study
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The group is interested in omic-level studies including the genome, methylome, transcriptome, and metabolome of the general population as well as of various diseases including cardiovascular diseases, pneumonia, sepsis, obesity, and brain cancers. Additionally, we aim at transfering results of biomathematical model simulations into clinical practice e.g. by haematopoietic growth-factor opimization during cytotoxic chemotherapy and optimization of EPO applications in chronic kidney disease.
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Programme: This Project is not associated with a Programme
Public web page: http://www.imise.uni-leipzig.de/en/Groups/GenStat/
Start date: 1st Jan 2013
Organisms: Homo sapiens
Goal of the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE) is the investigation of civilization diseases like depression, diabetes, allergies or cardiovascular diseases. For this purpose we collect as much data as possible regarding health and living conditions of the population in Leipzig and provide these data for scientists of the University of Leipzig and other research institutions.
The LIFE-Heart study recruited 7,000 patients with suspected coronary heart disease, manifest heart disease or myocardial infarction. All patients received coronary angiography so that the vascular status in the heart is precisely known. In principle, this examination is not feasible in population-related studies. In addition, the patients were thoroughly examined with regard to the general vascular status and the health of the cardiovascular system. Extensive environmental factors were recorded.
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Organisms: Homo sapiens
Human Diseases: cardiovascular system disease
This population-based study examined 10,000 participants randomly selected from the Leipzig population (2011 to 2014). A follow-up is to be carried out from 2017 - 2020. The study mainly included people aged between 40 and 79. All participants underwent a 6-hour study program and people over 60 years of age were invited two more times to in-depth study of cognition and depression and the brain (MRI, EEG). Extensive measurements of genome, metabolome and transcriptome are available. The LIFE-ADULT
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Programme: Epidemiology
Public web page: http://life.uni-leipzig.de/en/adults/life_adult.html
Start date: 1st Jan 2009
Organisms: Homo sapiens
Human Diseases: mood disorder, dementia, coronary artery disease, obesity
Resutls of different OMICS-level using LIFE Adult and LIFE Heart data are presented (Publications, Supplemental Data, & Summary Statistics).
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Summary statistics from GWAS of baPWV, bfPWV, cfPWV
All samples (adjusted for age, sex and log_sys)
These data is intended for research purposes only.
Citation: tbc
When using this data acknowledge the source as follows: 'Data on PWV has been contributed by LIFE-Adult investigators and has been downloaded from https://www.health-atlas.de/assays/34'
For any enquiries about the datasets, please contact Michael Rode (michael.rode@imise.uni-leipzig.de) or Markus Scholz (markus.scholz@imise.uni-leipzig.de)
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Submitter: Michael Rode
Resource type: Genome Wide Association
Technology type: SNP Array
Snapshots: No snapshots
Investigation: OMICS Investigations
Study: GWAS Pulse Wave Velocity
Organisms: No organisms
Human Diseases: No human diseases
SOPs: No SOPs
Data files: PWV summary statistics
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Authors: Michael Rode, Andrej Teren, Kerstin Wirkner, Katrin Horn, Holger Kirsten, Markus Loeffler, Markus Scholz, Janne Pott
Date Published: 13th Aug 2020
Publication Type: Journal article
Human Diseases: arteriosclerosis, arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237237
Citation: PLoS ONE 15(8):e0237237
SNP summary statistics for three PWV modes (baPWV, cfPWV, bfPWV) - all samples. Adjusted for sex, age, log(SYS).
Investigations: OMICS Investigations
Studies: GWAS Pulse Wave Velocity
Resources: Summary Statistic for PWV GWAS