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Large-scale brainstem neuroimaging and genetic analyses provide new insights into the neuronal mechanisms of hypertension

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العنوان: Large-scale brainstem neuroimaging and genetic analyses provide new insights into the neuronal mechanisms of hypertension
المؤلفون: Tiril P. Gurholt, Torbjørn Elvsåshagen, Shahram Bahrami, Zillur Rahman, Alexey Shadrin, Daniel E. Askeland-Gjerde, Dennis van der Meer, Oleksandr Frei, Tobias Kaufmann, Ida E. Sønderby, Sigrun Halvorsen, Lars T. Westlye, Ole A. Andreassen
المصدر: HGG Advances, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 100392- (2025)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2025.
سنة النشر: 2025
المجموعة: LCC:Genetics
مصطلحات موضوعية: brain structure, magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, morphology, hypertensive, genotype, Genetics, QH426-470
الوصف: Summary: While brainstem regions are central regulators of blood pressure, the neuronal mechanisms underlying their role in hypertension remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the structural and genetic relationships between global and regional brainstem volumes and blood pressure. We used magnetic resonance imaging data from n = 32,666 UK Biobank participants, and assessed the association of volumes of the whole brainstem and its main regions with blood pressure. We applied powerful statistical genetic tools, including bivariate causal mixture modeling (MiXeR) and conjunctional false discovery rate (conjFDR), to non-overlapping genome-wide association studies of brainstem volumes (n = 27,034) and blood pressure (n = 321,843) in the UK Biobank cohort. We observed negative associations between the whole brainstem and medulla oblongata volumes and systolic blood and pulse pressure, and positive relationships between midbrain and pons volumes and blood pressure traits when adjusting for the whole brainstem volume (all partial correlation coefficients ∣r∣ effects between 0.03 and 0.05, p ≤ 0.0042). We observed the largest genetic overlap for the whole brainstem, sharing 77% of its trait-influencing variants with blood pressure. We identified 65 shared loci between brainstem volumes and blood pressure traits and mapped these to 71 genes, implicating molecular pathways linked to sympathetic nervous system development, metal ion transport, and vascular homeostasis. The present findings support a link between brainstem structures and blood pressure and provide insights into their shared genetic underpinnings. The overlapping genetic architectures and mapped genes offer mechanistic information about the roles of brainstem regions in hypertension.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2666-2477
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666247724001325; https://doaj.org/toc/2666-2477
DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100392
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/484fad9ea2ee45b0be51303ce6c31ab0
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.484fad9ea2ee45b0be51303ce6c31ab0
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:26662477
DOI:10.1016/j.xhgg.2024.100392