GENES OF HYPERTENSION IN AFRICAN AMERICANS

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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. We hypothesize that we will be able to identify genes contributing to hypertension in African Americans by focusing on the physiological pathways that determine arterial pressure. We propose to extensively phenotype 500 hypertensive and 500 normotensive African American subjects to conduct a genetic association study, using a SNP genomic scan approach. Inclusion of phenotypes is based on their relevance to the pathophysiology of hypertension and prior evidence of "heritability". Candidate genes for SNP analysis will be based on QTLs previously identified by ourselves and others. A final goal of the project is to determine if distinct clusters of blood pressure-related phenotypes can be identified that will permit stratification of hypertensive individuals into distinct subgroups to facilitate the analysis of the genetic determinants of hypertension.