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  • Title: -6A promoter variant of angiotensinogen and blood pressure variation in Canadian Oji-Cree.
    Author: Hegele RA, Harris SB, Hanley AJ, Sun F, Connelly PW, Zinman B.
    Journal: J Hum Genet; 1998; 43(1):37-41. PubMed ID: 9609996.
    Abstract:
    We previously reported significant associations between variation in the AGT gene at codon 235 and both systolic pressure and hypertension in Canadian Oji-Cree. Recently, Inoue et al suggested that the AGT T235 variant was not causative, but was rather in linkage disequilibrium with a variant in the AGT promoter, namely -6A, that was associated with increased in vitro expression of angiotensinogen and was thus a strong candidate to be the functional basis of the previously observed associations. We genotyped 518 adult Oji-Cree for the AGT promoter polymorphism and tested for its association with blood pressure and hypertension. We found that the frequency of the -6A variant was 0.85 in the Oji-Cree, which is much higher than the frequency observed in other human samples. We also found strong linkage disequilibrium between the AGT -6A and T235 variants. However, genetic variation of the AGT promoter was only marginally associated with variation in systolic pressure, with a trend to significantly higher systolic pressure seen in AGT -6A/A homozygotes than in subjects with other genotypes. In addition, genetic variation of the AGT promoter tended to be associated with a diagnosis of hypertension. Despite the very high prevalence of -6A, our native sample was essentially normotensive. Our findings are consistent with a marginally deleterious effect of the AGT -6A allele on blood pressure, but linkage disequilibrium with another causative variant cannot be ruled out in this sample of aboriginal Canadians.
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