Abstract
Stroke is a complex disorder with a poorly understood multifactorial and polygenic aetiology. We used the stroke–prone spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHRSP) as a model organism, mated it with the stroke–resistant spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and performed a genome–wide screen in the resultant F2 cohort where latency until stroke, but not hypertension (a major confounder) segregated. We identified three major quantitative trait loci, STR1–3, with lod scores of 7.4,4.7 and 3.0, respectively, that account for 28% of the overall phenotypic variance. STR2 colocalizes with the genes encoding atrial and brain natriuretic factor, peptides with important vasoactive properties. Our results demonstrate the existence of primary, blood pressure–independent genetic factors predisposing to a complex form of stroke
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Rubattu, S., Volpe, M., Kreutz, R. et al. Chromosomal mapping of quantitative trait loci contributing to stroke in a rat model of complex human disease. Nat Genet 13, 429–434 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0896-429
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