Phenotypic and genetic effect of carotid intima-media thickness on the risk of stroke
Human Genetics(2024)
摘要
While carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) as a noninvasive surrogate measure of atherosclerosis is widely considered a risk factor for stroke, the intrinsic link underlying cIMT and stroke has not been fully understood. We aimed to evaluate the clinical value of cIMT in stroke through the investigation of phenotypic and genetic relationships between cIMT and stroke. We evaluated phenotypic associations using observational data from UK Biobank (N = 21,526). We then investigated genetic relationships leveraging genomic data conducted in predominantly European ancestry for cIMT (N = 45,185) and any stroke (AS, Ncase/Ncontrol=40,585/406,111). Observational analyses suggested an increased hazard of stroke per one standard deviation increase in cIMT (cIMTmax-AS: hazard ratio (HR) = 1.39, 95 r_g =0.23, P=9.44 × 10−5; cIMTmean-AS: r_g =0.21, P=3.00 × 10−4; cIMTmin-AS: r_g =0.16, P=6.30 × 10−3). This was further substantiated by five shared independent loci and 15 shared expression-trait associations. Mendelian randomization analyses suggested no causal effect of cIMT on stroke (cIMTmax-AS: odds ratio (OR)=1.12, 95
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Carotid intima-media thickness,Stroke,Phenotypic association,Genetic correlation,Mendelian randomization
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