Citation
Nolte, Ilja M.; Munoz, M. Loretto; Tragante, Vinicius; Amare, Azmeraw T.; Jansen, Rick; Vaez, Ahmad; von der Heyde, Benedikt; Avery, Christy L.; Bis, Joshua C.; & Dierckx, Bram, et al. (2017). Genetic Loci Associated with Heart Rate Variability and Their Effects on Cardiac Disease Risk. Nature Communications, 8, 15805. PMCID: PMC5474732Abstract
Reduced cardiac vagal control reflected in low heart rate variability (HRV) is associated with greater risks for cardiac morbidity and mortality. In two-stage meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies for three HRV traits in up to 53,174 individuals of European ancestry, we detect 17 genome-wide significant SNPs in eight loci. HRV SNPs tag non-synonymous SNPs (in NDUFA11 and KIAA1755), expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) (influencing GNG11, RGS6 and NEO1), or are located in genes preferentially expressed in the sinoatrial node (GNG11, RGS6 and HCN4). Genetic risk scores account for 0.9 to 2.6% of the HRV variance. Significant genetic correlation is found for HRV with heart rate (-0.74URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15805Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2017Journal Title
Nature CommunicationsSeries Title
IM Nolte et al. Nat Commun 8, 16140. 2017. PMID 28767105.Author(s)
Nolte, Ilja M.Munoz, M. Loretto
Tragante, Vinicius
Amare, Azmeraw T.
Jansen, Rick
Vaez, Ahmad
von der Heyde, Benedikt
Avery, Christy L.
Bis, Joshua C.
Dierckx, Bram
van Dongen, Jenny
Gogarten, Stephanie M.
Goyette, Philippe
Hernesniemi, Jussi
Huikari, Ville
Hwang, Shih-Jen
Jaju, Deepali
Kerr, Kathleen F.
Kluttig, Alexander
Krijthe, Bouwe P.
Kumar, Jitender
van der Laan, Sander W.
Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka
Maihofer, Adam X.
Minassian, Arpi
van der Most, Peter J.
Muller-Nurasyid, Martina
Nivard, Michel G.
Salvi, Erika
Stewart, James D.
Thayer, Julian F.
Verweij, Niek
Wong, Andrew
Zabaneh, Delilah
Zafarmand, Mohammad H.
Abdellaoui, Abdel
Albarwani, Sulayma
Albert, Christine M.
Alonso, Alvaro
Ashar, Foram
Auvinen, Juha
Axelsson, Tomas
Baker, Dewleen G.
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Bayoumi, Riad
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McKnight, Barbara
zu Schwabedissen, Henriette Meyer
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Morris, Andrew P.
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Nikus, Kjell
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O'Connor, Daniel T.
Ormel, Johan
Perz, Siegfried
Peters, Annette
Psaty, Bruce M.
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Lehtimaki, Terho
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Nievergelt, Caroline M.
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Penninx, Brenda W. J. H. W.
Reiner, Alexander P.
Riese, Harriette
van Roon, Arie M.
Rioux, John D.
Rotter, Jerome I.
Sofer, Tamar
Stricker, Bruno H.
Tiemeier, Henning
Vrijkotte, Tanja G. M.
Asselbergs, Folkert W.
Brundel, Bianca J. J. M.
Heckbert, Susan R.
Whitsel, Eric A.
den Hoed, Marcel
Snieder, Harold
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