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Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2003;23:859-863
Published online before print March 27, 2003, doi: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000068680.19521.34
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Atherosclerosis and Lipoproteins

Alanine for Proline Substitution in the Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptor Gamma-2 (PPARG2) Gene and the Risk of Incident Myocardial Infarction

Paul M. Ridker; Nancy R. Cook; Suzanne Cheng; Henry A. Erlich; Klaus Lindpaintner; Jorge Plutzky; Robert Y.L. Zee

From the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and the LeDucq Center for Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology (P.M.R., J.P., N.R.C., R.Y.L.Z.), Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Department of Human Genetics (S.C., H.A.E.), Roche Molecular Systems, Alameda, Calif; and the Roche Center for Medical Genomics (K.L.), Basel, Switzerland.

Correspondence to Dr Paul Ridker, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 900 Commonwealth Ave East, Boston, MA 02215. E-mail pridker{at}partners.org

Objective— Recent studies have implicated the potential importance of peroxisome proliferator–activated receptors as a molecular mechanism involved in atherothrombosis. A common alanine (A) for proline (P) substitution at codon 12 in the peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma-2 gene (PPARG2) has been associated with reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus. Because diabetes and atherothrombosis share common antecedents, we sought evidence that this polymorphism might also be associated with reduced risk of myocardial infarction.

Methods and Results— Using DNA samples collected at baseline in a prospective cohort of 14 916 initially healthy American men, we evaluated a P12A polymorphism in the PPARG2 among 523 individuals who subsequently developed myocardial infarction and among 2092 individuals who remained free of reported cardiovascular disease over a mean follow-up period of 13.2 years. As hypothesized, presence of the A12 allele was associated with significantly reduced risk of myocardial infarction (odds ratio in an age- and smoking-adjusted dominant model of inheritance, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.60 to 0.98; P=0.034). This protective effect remained statistically significant in analyses controlling for traditional cardiovascular risk factors, was present among nondiabetic study participants, was observed to be of similar magnitude in analyses assuming codominant or dominant modes of inheritance, and was seen in fully adjusted post hoc analyses in which we limited our control group to those individuals specifically matched to myocardial infarction cases (OR, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.53 to 0.96; P=0.024).

Conclusions— In this cohort, a common A for P substitution at codon 12 in the PPARG2 was associated with reduced incidence of myocardial infarction. If confirmed in other cohorts, these data would have implications for novel treatments of cardiovascular disease, including development of PPARG-targeted therapy.


Key Words: genetics • epidemiology • myocardial infarction • risk prediction • polymorphism




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