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(Stroke. 2006;37:1385.)
© 2006 American Heart Association, Inc.

Original Contributions

Association of Phosphodiesterase 4D Polymorphisms With Ischemic Stroke in a US Population Stratified by Hypertension Status

Victoria H. Brophy, PhD; Sunhee K. Ro, PhD; Brian K. Rhees, PhD; Li-Yung Lui, MA, MS; Jocelyn M. Lee, BS; Nanette Umblas, BS; L. Gordon Bentley, MSc; Jia Li, PhD; Suzanne Cheng, PhD; Warren S. Browner, MD Henry A. Erlich, PhD

From Roche Molecular Systems (V.H.B., S.K.R., B.K.R., J.M.L., N.U., L.G.B., J.L., S.C., H.A.E.), Alameda, Calif; and California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (L.-Y.L., W.S.B.), San Francisco, Calif.

Correspondence to Victoria H. Brophy, PhD, Department of Human Genetics, Roche Molecular Systems, Inc, 1145 Atlantic Ave, Alameda, CA 94501. E-mail victoria_h.brophy{at}roche.com

Background and Purpose— Phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) underlies the STRK1 linkage peak for stroke on chromosome 5q12 identified in Iceland. We tested association of 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 1 microsatellite in a nested case-control sample of elderly white women (>65 years of age) from the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) in the United States.

Methods— The genotypes of 248 women who experienced an incident ischemic stroke during an average of 5.4 years of follow-up were compared with 560 controls.

Results— Marginal associations with stroke (P<0.10) were found for 3 polymorphisms. Stratification of the population by hypertension markedly strengthened the association. SNPs 9 (hazard ratio [HR], 0.48; 95% CI, 0.26 to 0.91), 42 (HR, 1.73; 95% CI, 1.10 to 2.70), 219 (HR, 1.73; 95% CI, 1.13 to 2.64), and 220 (HR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.05 to 2.32) showed significant association with stroke (P<0.05) under a dominant model in subjects without hypertension at baseline, and SNP 175 was significantly associated with stroke under an additive model (HR, 0.76; 95% CI, 0.59 to 0.98) in subjects with hypertension. Furthermore, the microsatellite AC008818-1 showed association with stroke only in the nonhypertensive subjects. Based on results in Iceland, specific haplotypes were tested in SOF, and stratification by hypertension also affected these association results.

Conclusion— These data are consistent with an association of the PDE4D gene with stroke in a non-Icelandic sample and suggest an effect of hypertension status.

Key Words: genetics • hypertension • polymorphism • stroke

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