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Original Article

9p21 is a Shared Susceptibility Locus Strongly for CAD and Weakly for Ischemic Stroke in Chinese Han Population

Hu Ding¹; Yujun Xu¹; Xiaojing Wang²; Qi Wang¹; Lan Zhang¹; Yuanchao Tu³; Jiangtao Yan¹; Wei Wang¹; Rutai Hui⁴; Cong–Yi Wang⁵ and Dao Wen Wang^1,6

¹ Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;
² University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;
³ Xinhua Hospital, Hubei, China;
⁴ Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China;
⁵ Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

⁶ E-mail: dwwang{at}tjh.tjmu.edu.cn

Background—Recent studies on genome-wide association have identified common variants on chromosome 9p21 associated with CAD. Given that ischemic stroke and CAD share several aspects of etiology and pathogenesis; we investigated the association of variants on chromosome 9p21 with ischemic stroke and CAD in the Chinese Han population by capturing the majority of diversity in this locus using haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (tagSNPs).

Methods and Results—We performed a shared control–cases study using 15 tagSNPs and 2 previously reported susceptibility SNPs spanning 58 kilobases (kb) of the chromosome of 9p21 in a set of 558 ischemic stroke patients, 510 CAD patients and 557 unaffected participants (controls) in the Chinese Han population. The association analyses were performed at both SNP and haplotype levels. We further verified our findings in an independent cohort of 442 ischemic stroke cases and 502 control subjects. In the first study, rs2383206, rs1004638 and rs10757278 in block 3 were significantly associated with CAD but not with ischemic stroke independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in additive model(P=0.002 to 0.0001, q= 0.026 to 0.004). Analysis from all blocks revealed that haplotype profiles of block 3 on 9p21 were significantly different between shared control and cases of CAD (P=1.3 x 10^-10, q=1.2 x 10^-9) and ischemic stroke (P=1.7 x ;10^-6, q=7.7 x 10^-6). In the expanded second case-control study, block 3 on 9p21 remained associated with ischemic stroke (P=2.6 x 10^-4, q=6.3 x 10^-4).

Conclusions—Our results suggest for the first time that 9p21 is a shared susceptibility locus, strongly for CAD, and weakly for ischemic stroke, in a Chinese Han population.

Key Words: cerebrovascular disorders • coronary disease • genetics • 9p21 • single nucleotide polymorphisms • Chinese Han population • haplotypes • ischemic stroke