@article{93a5e4bae645406aa78c9a9767e3ace4,
title = "A common genetic variant in the NOS1 regulator NOS1AP modulates cardiac repolarization",
abstract = "Extremes of the electrocardiographic QT interval, a measure of cardiac repolarization, are associated with increased cardiovascular mortality. We identified a common genetic variant influencing this quantitative trait through a genome-wide association study on 200 subjects at the extremes of a population-based QT interval distribution of 3,966 subjects from the KORA cohort in Germany, with follow-up screening of selected markers in the remainder of the cohort. We validated statistically significant findings in two independent samples of 2,646 subjects from Germany and 1,805 subjects from the US Framingham Heart Study. This genome-wide study identified NOS1AP (CAPON), a regulator of neuronal nitric oxide synthase, as a new target that modulates cardiac repolarization. Approximately 60% of subjects of European ancestry carry at least one minor allele of the NOS1AP genetic variant, which explains up to 1.5% of QT interval variation.",
author = "Arking, {Dan E.} and Arne Pfeufer and Wendy Post and Kao, {W. H.Linda} and Christopher Newton-Cheh and Morna Ikeda and Kristen West and Carl Kashuk and Mahmut Akyol and Siegfried Perz and Shapour Jalilzadeh and Thomas Illig and Christian Gieger and Guo, {Chao Yu} and Larson, {Martin G.} and Wichmann, {H. Erich} and Eduardo Marb{\'a}n and O'Donnell, {Christopher J.} and Hirschhorn, {Joel N.} and Stefan K{\"a}{\"a}b and Spooner, {Peter M.} and Thomas Meitinger and Aravinda Chakravarti",
note = "Funding Information: FHS for contributions to the electrocardiographic QT measurement study. This work was supported in part by the D.W. Reynolds Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, the US National Institutes of Health, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) both in the context of the program Bioinformatics for the Functional Analysis of Mammalian Genomes (BFAM) and the German National Genome Research Network (NGFN). The authors want to thank H. L{\"o}wel, C. Meisinger, R. Holle and J. John from the KORA Study Group. The FHS replication study is a contribution from the Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health and Boston University School of Medicine, supported by NHLBI{\textquoteright}s Framingham Heart Study (Contract No. N01-HC-25195) and the Cardiogenomics Program for Genomic Applications (5U01HL066582), a GlaxoSmithKline Competitive Grants Award Program for Young Investigators (CNC) and NIH (K23HL080025, CNC). Some of the electrocardiographic measurements were supported by an unrestricted grant from Pfizer, Inc.",
year = "2006",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1038/ng1790",
language = "English",
volume = "38",
pages = "644--651",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Research",
number = "6",
}