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Author: de Mutsert, Renée ; Liu, Ching-Ti ; Beilin, Lawrence J. ; Bentley, Amy R. ; Munroe, Patricia B. ; Guo, Xiuqing ; Fretts, Amanda M. ; Warren, Helen R. ; Heerkens, Luc ; Lemaitre, Rozenn N. ; Rosendaal, Frits R. ; Rebholz, Casey M. ; Mori, Trevor A. ; Rao, D.C. ; van Dam, Rob M. ; Franceschini, Nora ; Huan, TianXiao ; de Vries, Paul S. ; Gauderman, W. James ; Voortman, Trudy ; McKeown, Nicola M. ; Tinker, Lesley F. ; Wang, Carol A. ; Bartz, Traci M. ; Tai, E. Shyong ; Chen, Han ; Ma, Jiantao ; Winkler, Thomas W. ; Guirette, Mélanie ; Chen, Honglei ; Morrison, Alanna C. ; Noordam, Raymond ; Levy, Daniel ; Lan, Jessie ; Oddy, Wendy H. ; Tanaka, Toshiko ; Liu, Jianjun ; Kooperberg, Charles ; van Rooij, Jeroen ; Neuhouser, Marian L. ; Pennell, Craig E. ; Sim, Xueling ; Kim, Hyunju ; Brown, Michael R. ; Whitton, Clare ; Chai, Jin Fang
BACKGROUND:The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet score lowers blood pressure (BP). We examined interactions between genotype and the DASH diet score in relation to systolic BP.METHODS:We analyzed up to 9 420 585 single nucleotide polymorphisms in up to 127 282 individuals of 6 population groups (91% of European population) from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium (n=35 660) and UK Biobank (n=91 622) and performed European population-specific and cross-population meta-analyses.RESULTS:
We identified 3 loci in European-specific analyses and an additional 4 loci in cross-population analyses at
Pinteraction
<5e−8. We observed a consistent interaction between rs117878928 at 15q25.1 (minor allele frequency, 0.03) and the DASH diet score (
Pinteraction
=4e−8;
P
for heterogeneity, 0.35) in European population, where the interaction effect size was 0.42±0.09 mm Hg (
Pinteraction
=9.4e−7) and 0.20±0.06 mm Hg (
Pinteraction
=0.001) in Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology and the UK Biobank, respectively. The 1 Mb region surrounding rs117878928 was enriched with cis-expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) variants (
P
=4e−273) and cis-DNA methylation quantitative trait loci variants (
P
=1e−300). Although the closest gene for rs117878928 is
MTHFS
, the highest narrow sense heritability accounted by single nucleotide polymorphisms potentially interacting with the DASH diet score in this locus was for gene
ST20
at 15q25.1.
CONCLUSIONS:We demonstrated gene-DASH diet score interaction effects on systolic BP in several loci. Studies with larger diverse populations are needed to validate our findings.