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- Clinical Trial NCT00005325
Identifying Genes Involved in Abnormal Blood Pressure - Hypertension SCOR
Study Overview
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Detailed Description
BACKGROUND:
Essential hypertension is a multifactorial disorder with a Gaussian distribution and with a genetic component that appears to be polygenic and heterogeneous. The studies require clinical knowledge of the pathophysiology and therapy of hypertension, availability of a large racially diverse patient population and a General Clinical Research Center for recruitment, characterization and classification of subjects, in combination with knowledge of molecular biology for DNA preparation and expertise in molecular genetics and molecular epidemiology for genetic analysis.
The study is part of a Specialized Centers of Research initiative in the Molecular Genetics of Hypertension. The initiative originated in deliberations of the September 1992 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council. In May 1993, a program evaluation committee convened by the NHLBI was charged with the task of assessing the overall goals of the Hypertension SCOR program and of recommending areas of future need. The committee's recommendations formed the basis of this proposed initiative which was released as a Request for Applications in December, 1993.
DESIGN NARRATIVE:
The study, a subproject within a Hypertension Specialized Center of Research (SCOR), had five substudies between 1996 and 2001. The first classified hypertensives into relatively homogeneous subgroups according to intermediate phenotypes based on heritable biological traits, including anthropometric and neurohumoral data obtained by submitting selected subjects to a 3-day inpatient protocol, from which data were extrapolated and applied to stratify larger subject populations in order to enhance efficacy of subsequent genetic analysis. The second substudy genotyped subjects for chromosomal loci using approximately 350 highly polymorphic microsatellite markers spaced every 5-10 centimorgans (cM) along each chromosome. The strategy was to initially type markers in a select group of hypertensive kindreds that independently demonstrated linkage. The third substudy analyzed the genetic marker data for linkage using both parametric (lod score) and nonparametric (affected-pedigree-member) methods. Suggestive findings were pursued in the sib-pairs. The fourth substudy used the case-control method to confirm positive linkage from substudy 3 and to identify particular allele associations using methods of linkage disequilibrium and DNA pooling. The fifth substudy screened and assessed mutations in candidate genes linked to hypertension in patients and controls. A collaboration was established with the Framingham Heart Study, with linkage analyses conducted for hypertension in this cohort.
The subproject was renewed in February 2001 through 2006 to continue the clinical studies and to expand the collection of hypertensive families, including subjects who have undergone extensive clinical evaluation and who can be subgrouped into intermediate phenotypes, as well as families from genetically isolated populations from Greece, Israel, and South Africa. Various subsets of this population will be submitted to different genetic analyses as appropriate, including linkage and association studies, genome-wide scan for genetic isolates, evaluation of single nucleotide polymorphisms in selected genes, testing of quantitative trait loci (QTL) by micro satellite markers and mapping of promising marrow regions by DNA sequencing.
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Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Haralambos Gavras, Boston University
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Baima J, Nicolaou M, Schwartz F, DeStefano AL, Manolis A, Gavras I, Laffer C, Elijovich F, Farrer L, Baldwin CT, Gavras H. Evidence for linkage between essential hypertension and a putative locus on human chromosome 17. Hypertension. 1999 Jul;34(1):4-7. doi: 10.1161/01.hyp.34.1.4.
- Levy D, DeStefano AL, Larson MG, O'Donnell CJ, Lifton RP, Gavras H, Cupples LA, Myers RH. Evidence for a gene influencing blood pressure on chromosome 17. Genome scan linkage results for longitudinal blood pressure phenotypes in subjects from the framingham heart study. Hypertension. 2000 Oct;36(4):477-83. doi: 10.1161/01.hyp.36.4.477.
- Nicolaou M, DeStefano AL, Gavras I, Cupples LA, Manolis AJ, Baldwin CT, Gavras H, Farrer LA. Genetic predisposition to stroke in relatives of hypertensives. Stroke. 2000 Feb;31(2):487-92. doi: 10.1161/01.str.31.2.487.
- Erlich PM, Cui J, Chazaro I, Farrer LA, Baldwin CT, Gavras H, DeStefano AL. Genetic variants of WNK4 in whites and African Americans with hypertension. Hypertension. 2003 Jun;41(6):1191-5. doi: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000070025.30572.91. Epub 2003 Apr 28.
- Zhou XF, Cui J, DeStefano AL, Chazaro I, Farrer LA, Manolis AJ, Gavras H, Baldwin CT. Polymorphisms in the promoter region of catalase gene and essential hypertension. Dis Markers. 2005;21(1):3-7. doi: 10.1155/2005/487014.
- Manolis AJ, Iraklianou S, Pittaras A, Zaris M, Tsioufis K, Psaltiras G, Psomali D, Foussas S, Gavras I, Gavras H. Arterial compliance changes in diabetic normotensive patients after angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition therapy. Am J Hypertens. 2005 Jan;18(1):18-22. doi: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2004.08.014.
- Cui J, Melista E, Chazaro I, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Manolis AJ, Baldwin CT, Destefano AL, Gavras H. Sequence variation of bradykinin receptors B1 and B2 and association with hypertension. J Hypertens. 2005 Jan;23(1):55-62. doi: 10.1097/00004872-200501000-00013.
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 4109
- P50HL055001 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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