Identification of a specific intronic PEAR1 gene variant associated with greater platelet aggregability and protein expression |
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Authors: | Faraday Nauder Yanek Lisa R Yang Xiao Ping Mathias Rasika Herrera-Galeano J Enrique Suktitipat Bhoom Qayyum Rehan Johnson Andrew D Chen Ming-Huei Tofler Geoffrey H Ruczinski Ingo Friedman Alan D Gylfason Arnaldur Thorsteinsdottir Unnur Bray Paul F O'Donnell Christopher J Becker Diane M Becker Lewis C |
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Affiliation: | Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine,J ohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. nfaraday@jhmi.edu |
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Abstract: | Genetic variation is thought to contribute to variability in platelet function; however, the specific variants and mechanisms that contribute to altered platelet function are poorly defined. With the use of a combination of fine mapping and sequencing of the platelet endothelial aggregation receptor 1 (PEAR1) gene we identified a common variant (rs12041331) in intron 1 that accounts for ≤ 15% of total phenotypic variation in platelet function. Association findings were robust in 1241 persons of European ancestry (P = 2.22 × 10??) and were replicated down to the variant and nucleotide level in 835 persons of African ancestry (P = 2.31 × 10?2?) and in an independent sample of 2755 persons of European descent (P = 1.64 × 10??). Sequencing confirmed that variation at rs12041331 accounted most strongly (P = 2.07 × 10??) for the relation between the PEAR1 gene and platelet function phenotype. A dose-response relation between the number of G alleles at rs12041331 and expression of PEAR1 protein in human platelets was confirmed by Western blotting and ELISA. Similarly, the G allele was associated with greater protein expression in a luciferase reporter assay. These experiments identify the precise genetic variant in PEAR1 associated with altered platelet function and provide a plausible biologic mechanism to explain the association between variation in the PEAR1 gene and platelet function phenotype. |
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