DESCRIPTION:

QTL Associated with Renal function. On Chromosome 1 with a LOD score= 3.7, p-value =. From a(n) (FHH x ACI) x FHH Backcross of ACIxFHH;FHH x ACI

LABEL:

QTL-Rf2-Rat-Chr 1

SCORE TYPE:

Binary

DATE ADDED:

2015-06-10

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

Brown DM, Provoost AP, Daly MJ, Lander ES, Jacob HJ

TITLE:

Renal disease susceptibility and hypertension are under independent genetic control in the fawn-hooded rat.

JOURNAL:

Nature genetics None None, Vol 12, pp. 44-51

ABSTRACT:

1. Nat Genet. 1996 Jan;12(1):44-51. Renal disease susceptibility and hypertension are under independent genetic control in the fawn-hooded rat. Brown DM(1), Provoost AP, Daly MJ, Lander ES, Jacob HJ. Author information: (1)Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA. Hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia are risk factors for life-threatening complications such as end-stage renal disease, coronary artery disease and stroke. Why some patients develop complications is unclear, but only susceptibility genes may be involved. To test this notion, we studied crosses involving the fawn-hooded rat, an animal model of hypertension that develops chronic renal failure. Here, we report the localization of two genes, Rf-1 and Rf-2, responsible for about half of the genetic variation in key indices of renal impairment. In addition, we localize a gene, Bpfh-1, responsible for about 26% of the genetic variation in blood pressure. Rf-1 strongly affects the risk of renal impairment, but has no significant effect on blood pressure. Our results show that susceptibility to a complication of hypertension is under at least partially independent genetic control from susceptibility to hypertension itself. PMID: 8528250 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PUBMED: 8528250
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