Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: We included postmenopausal women from the UK Biobank (n=11 495) aged 40 to 70 years with whole exome sequences and from the Women's Health Initiative (n=8111) aged 50 to 79 years with whole genome sequences. Premature menopause was defined as natural or surgical menopause occurring before age 40 years. Co-primary outcomes were the presence of any CHIP and CHIP with variant allele frequency >0.1. Logistic regression tested the association of premature menopause with CHIP, adjusted for age, race, the first 10 principal components of ancestry, smoking, diabetes, and hormone therapy use. Secondary analyses considered natural versus surgical premature menopause and gene-specific CHIP subtypes. Multivariable-adjusted Cox models tested the association between CHIP and incident coronary artery disease. RESULTS: The sample included 19 606 women, including 418 (2.1%) with natural premature menopause and 887 (4.5%) with surgical premature menopause. Across cohorts, CHIP prevalence in postmenopausal women with versus without a history of premature menopause was 8.8% versus 5.5% (P<0.001), respectively. After multivariable adjustment, premature menopause was independently associated with CHIP (all CHIP: odds ratio, 1.36 [95% 1.10-1.68]; P=0.004; CHIP with variant allele frequency >0.1: odds ratio, 1.40 [95% CI, 1.10-1.79]; P=0.007). Associations were larger for natural premature menopause (all CHIP: odds ratio, 1.73 [95% CI, 1.23-2.44]; P=0.001; CHIP with variant allele frequency >0.1: odds ratio, 1.91 [95% CI, 1.30-2.80]; P<0.001) but smaller and nonsignificant for surgical premature menopause. In gene-specific analyses, only DNMT3A CHIP was significantly associated with premature menopause. Among postmenopausal middle-aged women, CHIP was independently associated with incident coronary artery disease (hazard ratio associated with all CHIP: 1.36 [95% CI, 1.07-1.73]; P=0.012; hazard ratio associated with CHIP with variant allele frequency >0.1: 1.48 [95% CI, 1.13-1.94]; P=0.005). CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | Michael C Honigberg, Seyedeh M Zekavat, Abhishek Niroula, Gabriel K Griffin, Alexander G Bick, James P Pirruccello, Tetsushi Nakao, Eric A Whitsel, Leslie V Farland, Cecelia Laurie, Charles Kooperberg, JoAnn E Manson, Stacey Gabriel, Peter Libby, Alexander P Reiner, Benjamin L Ebert, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Program, Pradeep Natarajan |
Journal | Circulation
(Circulation)
Vol. 143
Issue 5
Pg. 410-423
(02 02 2021)
ISSN: 1524-4539 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 33161765
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Multicenter Study, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Topics |
- Adult
- Aged
- Clonal Hematopoiesis
(physiology)
- Coronary Artery Disease
(etiology, physiopathology)
- Female
- Humans
- Menopause, Premature
(physiology)
- Middle Aged
- Postmenopause
(physiology)
- Prospective Studies
- Risk Factors
- Women's Health
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