Transcriptome-Wide Analysis Identifies Novel Associations With Blood Pressure

Tanja Zeller¹, Claudia Schurmann², Katharina Schramm²+38

• ¹From the General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany (T.Z., C.M., A.J., M.K., J.T.N., R.B.S., F.O., S.B.); DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Germany (T.Z., C.S., C.M., P.S.W., A.T., A.S., A.K., A.J., M.K., J.T.N., T.K., R.B.S., M.D., T.M., K.J.L., S.B.F., U.L., A.Z., U.V., S.B.); Institute of Human Genetics (K.S., T.M., H.P.), Molecular Epidemiology (C.G., S.W.), and Institute of Epidemiology II (C.G., S.W.), Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany; Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (C.M., A.S., A.Z.); Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, UCLA Medical Center (S.K., J.I.R., X.G.); Preventive Cardiology and Preventive Medicine (P.S.W.), Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (K.J.L.), and Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (P.S.W.), University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany; Institute for Community Medicine (A.T.) and Department of Internal Medicine B (M.D., S.B.F.), University Medicine Greifswald, Germany; Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Greifswald, Germany (C.S., T.K., U.V., G.H.); Department of Internal Medicine (D.H., J.D.) and Department of Epidemiology and Prevention (Y.L.), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC; Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed, Pozzilli IS, Italy (L.I., S.C.); Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, Charite, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (A.K., U.L.); National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland (K.K.); Institute for Clinical Diabetology, German Diabetes Center, Duesseldorf, Germany (M.R., M.C.-K., C.H.); Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty Düsseldorf, Germany (M.R.); German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Munich, Germany (M.R., S.W., M.C.-K., C.H.); Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, INSERM, UMR_S 1166, ICAN Institute for Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France (D.-A.T.); Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Germany (T.M., P.W., H.P.); ZIK_FunGene, Universität Greifswald, Germany (U.V., G.H.); and Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY (W.P.). t.zeller@uke.de.+1