MESA Family Study

MESA家庭研究

• 批准号: 6784671
• 负责人: JAMES S PANKOW
• 金额: $ 28.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6784671
• 关键词: Hispanic Americans; angiocardioultrasonography; atherosclerosis; calcium; cardiovascular disorder epidemiology; cardiovascular disorder risk; carotid artery; clinical research; computed axial tomography; coronary artery; family genetics; genetic screening; genetic susceptibility; human subject; linkage mapping; population genetics; quantitative trait loci; siblings

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a first resubmission of the MESA Family Study, HL071205. The overall goals of the proposed MESA Family Study are to locate and identify genes contributing to sub-clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD), assessed by coronary calcium (CAC) and carotid intimal medial wall thickness (IMT) in U.S. minority populations. These goals will be addressed in a study of 2700 individuals from 900 sibships (sibtrios or larger), evenly distributed among African-Americans and Hispanic Americans, utilizing the existing framework of the NHLBI Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). In Aim 1, the MESA Family Study will determine the extent of genetic contribution to variation in CAC (EBCT and helical-gated CT scan) and IMT (B-mode ultrasound) in these two populations. This aim will be accomplished by examination (phenotyping) of 1800 siblings from 900 MESA index cases (evenly divided between African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans). In Aim 2, biological candidate regions in the human genome linked to these quantitative sub-clinical cardiovascular disease traits (coronary calcium and IMT) will be identified by genome scan approaches, including fine mapping of the best regions. This aim will use the MESA Study resources (Data Coordination Center, Central Laboratory, CT and Ultrasound Reading Center, 6 Clinical Field Centers) and the combined resources and cardiovascular genetic epidemiology expertise at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Wake-Forest School of Medicine. In Aim 3, gene localization and identification will be accomplished by association studies of positional as well as biological candidate genes in the subjects from the 3 minority populations of MESA (African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Chinese-Americans). Whereas the purpose of MESA (the parent study) is to assess sub-clinical CVD and identify epidemiological risk factors in multi-ethnic populations, the purpose of the MESA Family Study is to identify the genes (quantitative trait loci, or QTLs) that contribute to these sub-clinical CVD risk factors. In combination with traditional risk factor assessment, identified inherited markers should be useful in the management of patients with vascular disease. These results will permit targeted diagnostic testing and pharmacologic intervention, and in the identification of subjects who could benefit from specific prevention protocols_ thus result in an increase in the overall well being of the US population.

描述(申请人提供)：这是梅萨家庭研究的第一次重新提交，HL071205。拟议的MESA家族研究的总体目标是定位和确定亚临床心血管疾病(CVD)的致病基因，通过美国少数民族人群的冠状动脉钙化(CAC)和颈动脉内膜中膜厚度(IMT)进行评估。这些目标将在一项针对来自900个兄弟姐妹(兄弟姐妹或更多)的2700人的研究中解决，该研究平均分布在非裔美国人和拉美裔美国人中，利用NHLBI动脉粥样硬化多种族研究(MESA)的现有框架。在目标1中，梅萨家族研究将确定基因对这两个人群CAC(EBCT和螺旋CT门控扫描)和IMT(B型超声)变异的贡献程度。这一目标将通过对900例MESA索引病例的1800名兄弟姐妹进行检查(表型分析)来实现(非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人平均分配)。在目标2中，人类基因组中与这些量化的亚临床心血管疾病特征(冠脉钙化和IMT)相关的生物候选区域将通过基因组扫描方法识别，包括最佳区域的精细绘制。这一目标将利用MESA研究资源(数据协调中心、中心实验室、CT和超声阅读中心、6个临床现场中心)以及锡达斯-西奈医学中心和维克-森林医学院的综合资源和心血管遗传流行病学专业知识。在目标3中，将通过对梅萨地区3个少数民族(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和华裔美国人)受试者的位置和生物候选基因的关联研究来完成基因定位和鉴定。MESA(亲代研究)的目的是评估亚临床心血管疾病并确定多种族人群中的流行病学危险因素，而MESA家族研究的目的是确定与这些亚临床心血管疾病危险因素有关的基因(数量性状基因或QTL)。与传统的危险因素评估相结合，识别的遗传标志物在血管疾病患者的管理中应该是有用的。这些结果将使有针对性的诊断测试和药物干预成为可能，并在确定可能受益于特定预防方案的受试者方面--从而增加美国人口的整体福祉。