Sex-specific QTLs and interacting loci underlie salt-sensitive hypertension and target organ complications in Dahl S/jrHS hypertensive rats
Section of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts Sex-specific differences in polygenic (essential) hypertension are commonly attributed to the role of sex steroid hormone-receptor systems attenua...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physiological genomics 2006-08, Vol.26 (3), p.172-179 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Section of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Sex-specific differences in polygenic (essential) hypertension are commonly attributed to the role of sex steroid hormone-receptor systems attenuating sex-common disease mechanisms in premenopausal women. However, emerging observations indicate sex-specific genetic susceptibility in various traits, thus requiring systematic study. Here we report a comparative analysis of independent total genome scans for salt-sensitive hypertension susceptibility quantitative trait loci (QTLs) in male and female F 2 [Dahl R/jr HS x S/jr HS ] intercross rats exposed to high-salt (8% NaCl) rat diets. Hypertension was phenotyped with three quantitative traits: blood pressure (BP) elevation associated with increased hypertensive renal disease [glomerular injury score (GIS)] and increased cardiac mass [relative heart weight (RHW)] obtained 812 wk after high-salt challenge; 24-h nonstress, telemetric BP measurements were used. Although sex-common QTLs were detected for BP [chromosome (chr) 1144.3 Mbp; chr 1208.8 Mbp], GIS (chr 1208.8 Mbp), and cardiac mass (chr 5150.3 Mbp), most QTLs across the three phenotypes studied are gender specific as follows: female QTLs for BP (chr 2106.7 Mbp, chr 2181.7 Mbp, chr 5113.9 Mbp, chr 5146.7 Mbp, chr 1212.8 Mbp), GIS (chr 1559.6 Mbp), and RHW (chr 231.5 Mbp, chr 5154.7 Mbp, chr 5110.9 Mbp); male QTLs for BP (chr 2196.7 Mbp, chr 1148.0 Mbp, chr 2035.7 Mbp), GIS (chr 63.3 Mbp, chr 2040.7 Mbp), and RHW (chr 63.3 Mbp, chr 2040.7 Mbp). Furthermore, interacting loci with significant linkage were detected only in female F 2 intercross rats for BP and hypertensive renal disease. Comparative analyses revealed concordance of BP QTL peaks with previously reported rat model and human hypertension susceptibility genes and with BP QTLs in previous Dahl S-derived F 2 intercross studies and also suggest strain-specific genetic modifiers of sex-specific determinants. Altogether, the data provide key experimental bases for sex-specific investigation of mechanisms and intervention and prevention strategies for polygenic hypertension in humans.
sex-specific susceptibility; genetics; blood pressure; renal disease; relative heart weight; quantitative trait locus |
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ISSN: | 1094-8341 1531-2267 |
DOI: | 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00285.2005 |