Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Vol 2, 937-943, Copyright © 1991 by American Society of Nephrology

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Assessing the role of APNH, a gene encoding for a human amiloride- sensitive Na+/H+ antiporter, on the interindividual variation in red cell Na+/Li+ countertransport

CR Dudley, LA Giuffra, AE Raine and ST Reeders
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

The "reverse genetic" approach to essential hypertension is complicated by the fact that blood pressure is a heterogeneous, quantitative, complex trait. One strategy is to use "intermediate phenotypes" that are not only associated with hypertension but that also have a simple mode of inheritance, compatible with the action of a single gene. Red cell sodium-lithium countertransport (SLC) is one of the best characterized intermediate phenotypes for hypertension. The similarity in stoichiometry and kinetics between SLC and Na+/H+ exchange has led to the proposal that the gene encoding the Na+/H+ antiporter (APNH) may be responsible for the individual variance in SLC. We have tested this hypothesis by both an association study and Haseman and Elston's sib pair method of linkage analysis, by using a polymorphism at the APNH locus detected by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Both analytical techniques were performed before and after correction of SLC values for known covariates. There was no significant association between mean SLC values and any of the three possible genotypes of the APNH locus either before or after regressing out covariates (F = 0.64 and P greater than 0.52; F = 0.63 and P greater than 0.53, respectively). Linkage analysis similarly failed to demonstrate a relationship between the squared difference in SLC values and the identity by descent status for APNH as well as other loci that map close to APNH (D1S57, RH, and ALPL). Taking these results together, we conclude that mutations at the APNH locus are not responsible for the observed variation in SLC values.

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