- Smith, Jennifer A;
- Zhao, Wei;
- Yasutake, Kalyn;
- August, Carmella;
- Ratliff, Scott M;
- Faul, Jessica D;
- Boerwinkle, Eric;
- Chakravarti, Aravinda;
- Roux, Ana V Diez;
- Gao, Yan;
- Griswold, Michael E;
- Heiss, Gerardo;
- Kardia, Sharon LR;
- Morrison, Alanna C;
- Musani, Solomon K;
- Mwasongwe, Stanford;
- North, Kari E;
- Rose, Kathryn M;
- Sims, Mario;
- Sun, Yan V;
- Weir, David R;
- Needham, Belinda L
Inter-individual variability in blood pressure (BP) is influenced by both genetic and non-genetic factors including socioeconomic and psychosocial stressors. A deeper understanding of the gene-by-socioeconomic/psychosocial factor interactions on BP may help to identify individuals that are genetically susceptible to high BP in specific social contexts. In this study, we used a genomic region-based method for longitudinal analysis, Longitudinal Gene-Environment-Wide Interaction Studies (LGEWIS), to evaluate the effects of interactions between known socioeconomic/psychosocial and genetic risk factors on systolic and diastolic BP in four large epidemiologic cohorts of European and/or African ancestry. After correction for multiple testing, two interactions were significantly associated with diastolic BP. In European ancestry participants, outward/trait anger score had a significant interaction with the C10orf107 genomic region (p = 0.0019). In African ancestry participants, depressive symptom score had a significant interaction with the HFE genomic region (p = 0.0048). This study provides a foundation for using genomic region-based longitudinal analysis to identify subgroups of the population that may be at greater risk of elevated BP due to the combined influence of genetic and socioeconomic/psychosocial risk factors.