A genome-wide analysis of %26apos;Bounty%26apos; descendants implicates several novel variants in migraine susceptibility

作者：Cox Hannah C; Lea Rod A; Bellis Claire; Carless Melanie; Dyer Thomas D; Curran Joanne; Charlesworth Jac; Macgregor Stuart; Nyholt Dale; Chasman Daniel; Ridker Paul M; Schuerks Markus; Blangero John; Griffiths Lyn R^*

来源：Neurogenetics, 2012, 13(3): 261-266.

DOI：10.1007/s10048-012-0325-x

• Migraine
• Association
• Gene

Migraine is a common neurological disease with a complex genetic aetiology. The disease affects similar to 12 % of the Caucasian population and females are three times more likely than males to be diagnosed. In an effort to identify loci involved in migraine susceptibility, we performed a pedigree-based genome-wide association study of the isolated population of Norfolk Island, which has a high prevalence of migraine. This unique population originates from a small number of British and Polynesian founders who are descendents of the Bounty mutiny and forms a very large multigenerational pedigree (Bellis et al.; Human Genetics, 124(5):543-5542, 2008). These population genetic features may facilitate disease gene mapping strategies (Peltonen et al.; Nat Rev Genet, 1(3):182-90, 2000. In this study, we identified a high heritability of migraine in the Norfolk Island population (h (2) = 0.53, P = 0.016). We performed a pedigree-based GWAS and utilised a statistical and pathological prioritisation approach to implicate a number of variants in migraine. An SNP located in the zinc finger protein 555 (ZNF555) gene (rs4807347) showed evidence of statistical association in our Norfolk Island pedigree (P = 9.6 x 10(-6)) as well as replication in a large independent and unrelated cohort with %26gt; 500 migraineurs. In addition, we utilised a biological prioritisation to implicate four SNPs, in within the ADARB2 gene, two SNPs within the GRM7 gene and a single SNP in close proximity to a HTR7 gene. Association of SNPs within these neurotransmitter-related genes suggests a disrupted serotoninergic system that is perhaps specific to the Norfolk Island pedigree, but that might provide clues to understanding migraine more generally.

• 出版日期2012-8
• 单位河北医科大学