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The effect of CYP7B1 polymorphisms on the risk of coronary heart disease in Hainan Han population
BMC Medical Genomics volume 14, Article number: 220 (2021)
Abstract
Background
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of human death worldwide. Genetic factors play an important role in the occurrence of CHD. Our study is designed to investigate the influence of CYP7B1 polymorphisms on CHD risk.
Methods
In this case–control study, 508 CHD patients and 510 healthy individuals were recruited to determine the correlation between CYP7B1 polymorphisms (rs7836768, rs6472155, and rs2980003) and CHD risk. The associations were evaluated by computing odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) with logistic regression analysis. The association between SNP-SNP interaction and CHD susceptibility was carried out by multifactor dimensionality reduction analyses.
Results
Our study found that rs6472155 is significantly associated with an increased risk of CHD in age > 60 years (OR 2.20, 95% CI = 1.07–4.49, p = 0.031), women (OR 3.17, 95% CI = 1.19–8.44, p = 0.021), and non-smokers (3.43, 95% CI = 1.16–10.09, p = 0.025). Rs2980003 polymorphism has a lower risk of CHD in drinkers (OR 0.47, 95% CI = 0.24–0.91, p = 0.025). Further analyses based on false-positive report probability validated these significant results. Besides, it was found that rs6472155 polymorphism was associated with uric acid level (p = 0.034).
Conclusion
Our study indicated that CYP7B1 polymorphisms are related to the risk of CHD, which provides a new perspective for prevent of CHD.
Introduction
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a kind of heart disease caused by myocardial ischemia, hypoxia or necrosis caused by structural and functional changes of coronary artery, also known as atherosclerotic heart disease, coronary disease or ischemic heart disease. It is the most common type of cardiovascular disease in the world [1,2,3]. In America, about 620,000 people develop new coronary artery disease every year, and about 295,000 people have recurrent attacks [4]. The incidence and mortality of CHD are increasing year by year in China, and the incidence population is also getting younger and younger. Deaths caused by CHD rank the second among deaths caused by other diseases [5]. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that the number of CHD deaths will increase to 23.3 million by 2030, becoming the leading cause of human death [6]. The pathophysiological basis of CHD is atherosclerosis caused by a variety of pathogenic factors, resulting in stenosis or complete occlusion of blood vessels, reduction, or complete interruption of coronary blood flow, and eventually ischemia or necrosis of cardiomyocytes [7]. Although the exact pathogenesis of coronary heart disease is not very clear, the most widely accepted view is that coronary heart disease is a polygenetic disease, which is the result of the interaction between multiple genes and environmental factors [8]. In addition to the classic risk factors such as age, smoking, drinking, hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia [9], a large number of studies have confirmed that genetic factors play an important role in the occurrence and development of CHD [10]. Besides, many genetic variants such as LPA [11], CYP24A1 [12], CYP2C19 [13], PNPLA3 I148M [14], and IL-7/7R [15] can significantly affect the susceptibility of CHD.
Cytochrome P450 (CYP), a superfamily of cystine-heme enzymes, its central role in the pathogenesis, progression, and prognosis of CHD has been determined [16]. CYP7B1 (Cytochrome P450 Family 7 Subfamily B Member 1) is the subfamily member of CYP enzymes, involved in the metabolism of endogenous hydroxysterols and steroids such as neurosteroids [17, 18]. The CYP7B1 gene mainly in human liver, brain, and reproductive tract [18]. 27-hydroxycholesterol (27HC) is a rich cholesterol metabolite, which increases in hypercholesterolemia and is found to be a competitive estrogen receptor antagonist in vascular system in atherosclerotic lesions. Umetani et al. found that increasing 27HC levels in mice caused by genetic manipulation (by knockout of the CYP7B1 gene) could decrease estrogen-dependent vascular nitric oxide synthase expression and inhibited carotid artery endothelialization [19]. This finding indicated that CYP7B1 may play an important role in the occurrence of CHD. It is well accepted that genetics polymorphism can significantly influence the gene expression. However, it is not clear whether CYP7B1 genetic polymorphism affects the risk of CHD.
Thus, we performed a case–control study to determine the potential role of CYP7B1 genetic variants in CHD patients. We obtained the SNPs in the CYP7B1 gene in accordance with 1000 Human Genomic Projects. We further investigated the association between the CYP7B1 polymorphisms and CHD risk in the Chinese Han population. Stratified analyses were carried out to evaluate the association. We also detect the relationship of SNP-SNP interaction in CHD with clinical indicators among genotypes. This study will give new horizon for the molecular mechanism in the CHD.
Materials and methods
Study population
In this case–control study, we recruited 1018 unrelated Chinese individuals including 508 patients with CHD and 510 age/gender-matched healthy subjects at Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Xiangya Medical College. All participants were told the purpose of study and signed written informed consents. Patients were firstly diagnosed and confirmed to be CHD by experienced cardiologists in accordance with coronary angiography [20]. The patients with congenial and rheumatic heart disease, a family history of CHD, a history of any atherosclerotic vascular diseases and other comorbidity such as chronic renal failure, malignancy, and chronic infections should be excluded. The healthy controls were selected from the CHD-free participants who take a normal physical examination in the same hospital. And the controls must meet the following inclusion criterion: (1) without a family history of CHD; (2) no diabetes and hypertension; (3) no cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Basic characteristics included age, gender, smoking status, drinking status, diabetes and hypertension status were acquired by medical records and questionnaire survey. Our study has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Affiliated Haikou Hospital of Xiangya Medical College. Experiments in this study were performed following the protocol of Helsinki’s Declaration.
Selection and genotyping for SNP
In our study, rs7836768, rs62519827, rs62519841, rs10808739, rs13276608, rs6472155, and rs2980003 in the CYP7B1 gene were obtained from 1000 Genomes Project database with a minor allele frequency (MAF) > 5% for further studying. Genomic DNA from peripheral blood samples of all participants was extracted following the protocol of DNA extraction kit (Xi’an GoldMag Co. Ltd., Xi’an, China) [21]. We further designed the primers for PCR amplification according to Agena Bioscience Assay Design software. All SNPs were genotyped by an Agena MassARRAY iPLEX platform (Agena Bioscience Inc., CA, USA) [22]. The PCR reaction consisted of 1 μL of 10 ng/μL genomic DNA and 4 μL of PCR mixture that contained 1.8 μL of water, 0.5 μL of 10 × PCR buffer, 0.4 μL of 25 mM MgCl2, 0.1 μL of 25 mM dNTP, 1 μL of PCR Primer mix and 0.2 μL of 5 U/μL PCR Taq. The PCR conditions were as follows: initial denaturing at 95 °C for 2 min, followed by 45 cycles of denaturing at 95 °C for 30 s, annealing at 56 °C for 30 s, and final extension at 72 °C for 60 s. Then the final step is to keep it at 25 °C indefinitely. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry was used to identify SNP alleles of different quality extension primers after alkaline phosphatase reaction, single group extension and resin desalination reaction [23]. Finally, the data of SNP genotyping was management and analyzed by Agena Bioscience TYPER 4.0 software [24].
Bioinformatics analysis
Online software for HaploReg v4.1 (https://pubs.broadinstitute.org/mammals/haploreg/haploreg.php) was used to predict the possible functional effects on these SNPs.
Statistical analysis
We performed SPSS version 17.0 software for statistical analyses. The p-value with two-tailed test lower than 0.05 means statistically significant. Data distributions are firstly evaluated for normality using the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. Differences of age and clinical indicators between cases and controls were respectively tested by the student’s t-test and Mann–Whitney test. And the comparisons of gender between the cases and controls was compared by Pearson′s χ2 test. The Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) for SNPs in the controls was evaluated by a Chi-squared test. The χ2 test or exact test was used to analyze the allele and genotype distributions of SNPs in the case and control groups. Association of CYP7B1 polymorphisms with CHD susceptibility was determined by computing ORs and 95% Cis using logistic regression analysis under five multiple genetic models. The explanation for the genetic models is as following: If A is the wild-type allele, B is the mutant allele, AA is the wild homozygous genotype, AB is the mutant heterozygous genotype, and BB is the mutant homozygous genotype, then the five genetic models are defined as follows: (1) codominant model: BB Vs. AA, AB Vs. AA (AA was the reference); (2) dominant model: (AB + BB) Vs. AA (AA was the references); (3) recessive model: BB Vs. (AA + AB) (AA + AB was the reference); (4) log-additive model: AA Vs. AB Vs. BB; (5) allele model: B Vs. A (A was the reference). Besides, we also detected the associations stratified by age, gender, smoking, and drinking status. The false-positive report probability (FPRP) analysis was performed to validate these significant results in this study [25]. In the end, we explored the relationship of SNP interaction and CHD susceptibility with multifaceted dimensionality reduction (MDR) method in which the interaction model with the highest cross-validation consistency (CVC) and testing accuracy was considered best. The comparisons between clinical indicators and SNPs were detected by ANOVA test and one-way analysis.
Results
Study subjects
Our study included in 508 CHD patients and 510 healthy individuals. The basic information of the cases and controls were shown in Table 1. The average age was 62.17 ± 10.34 years in the cases and 61.12 ± 9.02 years in the controls. There was no significant differences in age, gender, and urea between the cases and controls (p = 0.084, p = 0.964, p = 0.759, respectively). There were significant comparisons in creatinine, uric acid, total-cholesterol, and apolipoprotein AI between the cases and controls (all p < 0.05).
Association analyses between CYP7B1 polymorphisms and CHD risk
A total of seven SNPs (rs7836768, rs62519827, rs62519841, rs10808739, rs13276608, rs6472155, and rs2980003) in the CYP7B1 gene were successfully detected in our study. The information of each SNP was presented in Table 2. The MAF for rs62519827, rs62519841, rs10808739, and rs13276608 were lower than 0.05, these polymorphisms were deleted in the current study. SNPs including rs7836768, rs6472155, and rs2980003 in the control followed HWE (p > 0.05). We investigated the relationship of CYP7B1 genetic variants and the risk of CHD under five genetic models, and our result showed that there are no significant associations (Table 3).
The association analyses stratified by age and gender
We then determined the effect of CYP7B1 polymorphisms on the risk of CHD stratified by age and gender. Table 4 showed the associations under age-based stratification. We found that rs6472155 is significantly associated with an increased risk of CHD in age > 60 years (allele model: G vs A, OR 1.43, 95% CI = 1.10–1.86, p = 0.008; co-dominant model: GG vs AA, OR 2.20, 95% CI = 1.07–4.49, p = 0.031; log-additive: OR 1.39, 95% CI = 1.06–1.83, p = 0.018). On gender stratification (Table 5), our data indicated that rs6472155 can increase the susceptibility to CHD in women under allele model (G vs A, OR 1.48, 95% CI = 1.06–2.07, p = 0.022), co-dominant model (GG vs AA, OR 3.17, 95% CI = 1.19–8.44, p = 0.021), and recessive model (GG vs AA-AG, OR 2.91, 95% CI = 1.12–7.58, p = 0.029).
CYP7B1 polymorphisms related to CHD susceptibility under smoking and drinking subgroups
We also detected the associations stratified by smoking and drinking status. As was shown in Table 6, rs2980003 polymorphism has a lower risk of CHD in drinkers under allele model (T vs C, OR 0.57, 95% CI = 0.35–0.95, p = 0.031), co-dominant model (TC vs CC, OR 0.48, 95% CI = 0.23–0.97, p = 0.042), dominant model (TC-TT vs CC, OR 0.47, 95% CI = 0.24–0.91, p = 0.025), and log-additive model (OR 0.59, 95% CI = 0.36–0.98, p = 0.041). In non-drinkers, we observed that rs6472155 significantly increased a risk of CHD (co-dominant model: GG vs AA, OR 3.16, 95% CI = 1.05–9.48, p = 0.040; log-additive model: OR 3.43, 95% CI = 1.16–10.09, p = 0.025).
FPRP results
In order to check the positive findings, we conducted the FPRP analysis with setting the FPRP threshold as 0.2. As was presented in Additional file 1: Table S1, at the prior probability of 0.25, all the significant results for the association of rs6472155 and rs2980003 with CHD risk remained noteworthy (all FPRP < 0.2). These results indicated that the significant results made sense.
Effect of SNP-SNP interactions on CHD susceptibility
MDR analyses were performed to determine the influence of SNP-SNP interactions on the susceptibility to CHD. As were demonstrated in Table 7, the two-locus model included rs7836768 and rs6472155 (testing accuracy = 0.5079, CVC = 7/10, p = 0.021). The three-locus model was the combinations of rs7836768, rs6472155, and rs2980003 (testing accuracy = 0.4764, CVC = 10/10, p = 0.002). Thus, the best model for predicting CHD susceptibility was the three-locus model (OR 1.59, 95% CI = 1.19–2.13), which had the highest CVC. Additionally, the dendrogram showed weak or no interactions between the SNPs of the best models of CHD risk (Fig. 1).
The association between SNP genotypes and clinical indicators
Finally, we studied the possible association of SNP with clinical indicators in CHD patients. As was showed in Table 8, the AG genotype (289.796 ± 84.427 umol/l) and GG genotype (296.096 ± 68.438 umol/l) of rs6472155 polymorphism were associated with a decreased uric acid concentration compared with the AA genotype (310.364 ± 86.950 umol/l) (p = 0.034).
Discussion
In our study, we determined the influence of CYP7B1 polymorphisms on CHD susceptibility. Our study showed that CYP7B1 genetic variants significantly relate to the risk of CHD in Chinese Han population. Besides, we found that rs6472155 polymorphism was associated with uric acid level. To our best known, our study is the first time to investigate the effect of CYP7B1 genetic variants on CHD susceptibility.
CHD is a kind of multifactorial disease resulting from environmental and genetic factor. An increasing number studies strongly supported that genetic polymorphisms involve in the risk of CHD, such as SCARB1 [26], RTEL1 [27], 5-HTTLPR [28], CD40 [29], and NT5C2 [30]. The CYP7B1 gene is located on chromosome 8q21.3. CYP7B1 is known to be involved in cholesterol synthesis of bile acids, which contributes to the CHD progression. Whereas there have been no studies on the genetic polymorphism in CHD. Therefore, we tried to evaluate the association between CYP7B1 polymorphisms and CHD risk.
In our study, because the average age of case and control group is 60 years old, we stratified by age of 60 years. Our study found that rs6472155 polymorphism significantly affected the risk of CHD in age > 60 years but not in age ≤ 60 years, which demonstrated rs6472155 polymorphism as a risk factor of CHD in individuals aged 60 and older. Similar to our findings, Zhang et al. and Ye et al. reported that genetic polymorphism influence CHD risk in age > 60 years and age > 65 years [31, 32]. However, Huang et al. and Chen et al. showed that gene variants are associated with the susceptibility to CHD in age ≤ 61 years [30, 33]. Age is a risk factor for CHD. An epidemiologic study indicated that the incidence of CHD was eight to nine times greater in men and women who aged 55–64 years than in young patients [34]. The death rate due to CHD increased quickly in patients aged 55 years and was higher in patients aged 65 years or more than in young patients [35]. Previous studies have confirmed that genetic polymorphisms may play an important role in the pathogenesis of early onset CHD [36, 37]. These findings may suggest that the association of genetic variants with CHD risk relying on age and emphasize the importance of considering heterogeneity in genetic and CHD association study. We also noticed that rs6472155 polymorphism affected the susceptibility to CHD in women but not in men, which suggested that the impact of rs6472155 polymorphism on CHD risk presented gender difference. Our results seem to be consistent with other research which found genetic polymorphisms are associated with CHD risk in women [38]. In contrast, Luo et al., Ma et al., and Chen et al. indicated that genetic polymorphisms affect the risk of CHD in men [26, 30, 39]. Gender is also a risk factor for CHD. It has shown that men have higher cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality rates than women, but the incidence of CHD increased significantly in postmenopausal women [40, 41]. These results revealed that innate differences in occurrence of CHD between women and men. It has been confirmed that gender differences could influence gene expression and then affect disease progression [42], and genetic polymorphism can impact the gene expression. Taken together, we guess that gender differences contribute to the occurrence of CHD depending on the polymorphism, further study was needed to confirm this hypothesis. Besides, rs6472155 polymorphism was related to CHD risk in non-drinkers but not in drinkers. It suggests that rs6472155 might play various roles in the development of CHD, and the risk association may depend on drinking.
Rs2980003 polymorphism has a lower risk of CHD in drinkers, whereas no relationship was found in non-drinkers, suggesting that rs6472155 may related to the risk of CHD relying on drinking status. Although there is no any studies focusing on the association of CYP7B1 polymorphisms with cardiovascular disorders risk, we carried out the FPRP analysis to detect whether the positive findings in our study were just chance or noteworthy observations. The data showed that all of the significant findings remain noteworthy, which indicates our results make sense. In addition, the bioinformatics analysis revealed that rs6472155 might be affect the regulation of promoter histone marks, enhancer histone marks, DNAse, proteins bound, motifs changed, NHGRI/EBI GWAS hits, GRASP QTL hits, and selected eQTL genes, suggesting its possible functions in CHD. Rs2980003 might be associated with the regulation of DNAse and NHGRI/EBI GWAS hits. Several studies provided increasing evidence to support that SNPs confer susceptibilities by affecting gene expression [43,44,45]. Thus, we hypothesized that CYP7B1 polymorphisms, especially rs6472155 and rs2980003 may affect the expression of CYP7B1 to contribute to the risk of CHD. However, further study is necessary to confirm this hypothesis.
Given that SNP-SNP interactions are likely to be a ubiquitous component of the genetic architecture of common diseases [46]. The association of SNP-SNP interaction with CHD risk may help to discover the risk factors because of this disease caused by environmental and genetic interaction. We observed that the combinations of rs7836768, rs6472155, and rs2980003 are the best model to predict CHD.
Uric acid is the end-product of purine metabolism in humans, which play crucial roles in developing cardiovascular diseases including CHD [47]. Hyperuricemia is a potential risk factor for CHD [48, 49]. The possible mechanisms of uric acid induced CHD was that the elevated serum uric acid may lead to endothelial dysfunction through inflammation and oxidative stress and the formation of unstable lipid plaque in the coronary artery, which eventually leads to the occurrence of CHD [50]. Besides, it has been confirmed that serum uric acid can be used as prognostic marker of CHD [51]. Previous studies reveal that genetic polymorphisms can affect serum uric acid level. For example, the genetic polymorphisms in the SAA1 gene was associated with serum uric acid levels, which have a high risk of hyperuricemia [52]. The SLC2A9 rs11722228, SF1 rs606458, and GCKR rs780094 variants modulate uric acid concentrations [53]. Moreover, Wang et al. showed that APOE polymorphism was associated with serum uric acid metabolism in patients with CHD [54]. Our data showed that patients with the rs6472155-AA genotype in the CYP7B1 gene was associated with an increased uric acid level compared with the AG and GG genotype, indicating that carriers of the A allele of rs6472155 have a high risk of CHD. We assume that the CYP7B1 allele may increase serum uric acid level and then exert its destructive endothelial dysfunction, which increases the risk of developing CHD. Of course, the above assumptions require more rigorous follow-up studies to confirm.
Some limitations exist in our present study. First, we investigated the association between CYP7B1 polymorphisms and CHD susceptibility, the relationship between CYP7B1 SNPs and the gene expression should be tested in future. Second, the molecular mechanism of CYP7B1 in CHD is needed to be performed in the next work. In spite the above limitations, our study gives available information for the molecular mechanism of CHD in Chinese Han population.
Conclusion
In summary, this study showed that rs6472155 is significantly related to an increased susceptibility to CHD in age > 60 years, women, and non-smokers. Rs2980003 polymorphism has a lower risk of CHD in drinkers. Besides, it was found that rs6472155 polymorphism was associated with uric acid level. These data may give a new potential biomarker for the prevention and management of CHD in Chinese Han population.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets generated during the current study are available in the figshare repository, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14915088.
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Liang, T., Zhang, X., Liang, A. et al. The effect of CYP7B1 polymorphisms on the risk of coronary heart disease in Hainan Han population. BMC Med Genomics 14, 220 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-021-01067-x
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