AWI-Gen 2023 blood pressure GWAS: African ancestry

Summary statistics are available for download from the GWAS Catalog.

Publication

Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of blood pressure traits and hypertension in sub-Saharan African populations: an AWI-Gen study
Singh S et al.
Nat Commun. 2023 Dec 16;14(1):8376. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44079-0.
PMID: 38104120

Phenotypes

  • Systolic blood pressure
  • Diastolic blood pressure

Experiment summary

This study was a meta-analysis of genetic associations for blood pressure phenotypes in 20,230 individuals of African ancestry, including 10,775 individuals of Sub-Saharan African ancestry from the Africa Wits-INDEPTH partnership for Genomic Studies (AWI-Gen) cohort, 3,058 individuals of African ancestry from the UK Biobank, and 6,400 individuals of African ancestry from the Uganda Genome Resource.

Dataset ID
Singh2023_BP_AF