Genetic imputation of kidney transcriptome, proteome and multi-omics illuminates new blood pressure and hypertension targets

X Xu, C Khunsriraksakul, JM Eales, S Rubin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic mechanisms of blood pressure (BP) regulation remain poorly defined. Using kidney-
specific epigenomic annotations and 3D genome information we generated and validated …

[HTML][HTML] Kidney omics in hypertension: from statistical associations to biological mechanisms and clinical applications

M Tomaszewski, AP Morris, JMM Howson… - Kidney international, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypertension is a major cardiovascular disease risk factor and contributor to premature
death globally. Family-based investigations confirmed a significant heritable component of …

Uncovering genetic mechanisms of hypertension through multi-omic analysis of the kidney

JM Eales, X Jiang, X Xu, S Saluja, A Akbarov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The kidney is an organ of key relevance to blood pressure (BP) regulation, hypertension and
antihypertensive treatment. However, genetically mediated renal mechanisms underlying …

Novel blood pressure locus and gene discovery using genome-wide association study and expression data sets from blood and the kidney

LV Wain, A Vaez, R Jansen, R Joehanes… - …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Elevated blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has a
substantial genetic contribution. Genetic variation influencing blood pressure has the …

Large-scale multi-omics studies provide new insights into blood pressure regulation

Z Kamali, JM Keaton, S Haghjooy Javanmard… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent genome-wide association studies uncovered part of blood pressure's heritability.
However, there is still a vast gap between genetics and biology that needs to be bridged …

Transcriptome-and proteome-wide association studies nominate determinants of kidney function and damage

P Schlosser, J Zhang, H Liu, AL Surapaneni, EP Rhee… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Background The pathophysiological causes of kidney disease are not fully understood. Here
we show that the integration of genome-wide genetic, transcriptomic, and proteomic …

From GWAS to functional genomics-based precision medicine

DL Mattson, M Liang - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2017 - nature.com
Several recent studies have provided insights into the genetic regulation of blood pressure.
A new study extends these findings by coupling genome-wide association study data with …

Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

A Giri, JN Hellwege, JM Keaton, J Park, C Qiu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In this trans-ethnic multi-omic study, we reinterpret the genetic architecture of blood pressure
to identify genes, tissues, phenomes and medication contexts of blood pressure …

Genomics and precision medicine for clinicians and scientists in hypertension

A Dominiczak, C Delles, S Padmanabhan - Hypertension, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Dominiczak et al Genomics and Precision Medicine e11 descent. 16 Similar to previous
studies, 66 SNP genetic risk scores were significantly associated with target organ damage …

Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease

H Liu, T Doke, D Guo, X Sheng, Z Ma, J Park, HMT Vy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
More than 800 million people suffer from kidney disease, yet the mechanism of kidney
dysfunction is poorly understood. In the present study, we define the genetic association with …