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African Ancestry Analysis and Admixture Genetic Mapping for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy in African Americans
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African Ancestry Analysis and Admixture Genetic Mapping for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy in African Americans

Arti Tandon, Ching J Chen, Alan Penman, Heather Hancock, Maurice James, Deeba Husain, Christopher Andreoli, Xiaohui Li, Jane Z Kuo, Omolola Idowu, …
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, v 56(6), pp 3999-4005
01 Jun 2015
PMID: 26098467
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https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.15-16674View
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Adult African Americans - genetics African Americans - statistics & numerical data Aged Blood Pressure - genetics Case-Control Studies Chromosome Mapping Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - genetics Diabetic Retinopathy - ethnology Diabetic Retinopathy - genetics Female Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome-Wide Association Study Genotype Glycated Hemoglobin A - analysis Humans Male Middle Aged Odds Ratio Regression Analysis Risk Factors
To examine the relationship between proportion of African ancestry (PAA) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and to identify genetic loci associated with PDR using admixture mapping in African Americans with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Between 1993 and 2013, 1440 participants enrolled in four different studies had fundus photographs graded using the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study scale. Cases (n = 305) had PDR while controls (n = 1135) had nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (DR) or no DR. Covariates included diabetes duration, hemoglobin A1C, systolic blood pressure, income, and education. Genotyping was performed on the Affymetrix platform. The association between PAA and PDR was evaluated using logistic regression. Genome-wide admixture scanning was performed using ANCESTRYMAP software. In the univariate analysis, PDR was associated with increased PAA (odds ratio [OR] = 1.36, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.16-1.59, P = 0.0002). In multivariate regression adjusting for traditional DR risk factors, income and education, the association between PAA and PDR was attenuated and no longer significant (OR = 1.21, 95% CI = 0.59-2.47, P = 0.61). For the admixture analyses, the maximum genome-wide score was 1.44 on chromosome 1. In this largest study of PDR in African Americans with T2D to date, an association between PAA and PDR is not present after adjustment for clinical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors. No genome-wide significant locus (defined as having a locus-genome statistic > 5) was identified with admixture analysis. Further analyses with even larger sample sizes are needed to definitively assess if any admixture signal for DR is present.

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