title: Titin is a candidate gene for stroke volume response to endurance training: the HERITAGE Family Study.
abstract: A genome-wide linkage scan for endurance training-induced changes in submaximal exercise stroke volume (DeltaSV50) in the HERITAGE Family Study revealed two chromosomal regions (2q31-q32 and 10p11.2) with at least suggestive evidence of linkage among white families. Here we report a further characterization of the quantitative trait locus (QTL) in chromosome 2q31 and provide evidence that titin (TTN) is likely a candidate gene involved. The original linkage was detected with two markers (D2S335 and D2S1391), and the QTL covered approximately 25 million base pairs (Mb). We added 12 microsatellite markers resulting in an average marker density of one marker per 2.3 Mb. The evidence of linkage increased from P = 0.006 to P = 0.0002 and 0.00002 in the multi- and single-point analyses, respectively. The strongest evidence of linkage was seen with two markers in and near the TTN gene. Transmission/disequilibrium test (TDT) with the same marker set provided evidence for association with one of the TTN markers (D2S385; P = 0.004). TTN is a major contributor to the elasticity of cardiomyocytes and a key regulator of the Frank-Starling mechanism. Since TTN is the largest gene in the human genome, the challenge is to identify the DNA sequence variants contributing to the interindividual differences in cardiac adaptation to endurance training.
authors.affiliation: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Human Genomics Laboratory, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808-4124, USA. rankint@pbrc.edu
authors.forename: Tuomo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rankinen
authors.forename: Treva
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rice
authors.forename: Anik
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boudreau
authors.forename: Arthur S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Leon
authors.forename: James S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Skinner
authors.forename: Jack H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Wilmore
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bouchard
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002889:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2; D064211:Connectin; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D009124:Muscle Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D010807:Physical Endurance; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics*; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D013318:Stroke Volume / Q000235:genetics*; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D064211:Connectin; D009124:Muscle Proteins; C577285:TTN protein, human; D011494:Protein Kinases