Objectives
Genetic factors contribute substantially to variability in warfarin dose requirements and are important in the dose-titration phase; their effects on the stability of anticoagulation later in therapy are not known.
Methods
Using de-identified electronic medical records linked to a DNA-biobank, we studied 140 African-Americans and 943 European-Americans after the warfarin dose-titration phase. We genotyped 12 SNPs in genes (CYP2C9, VKORC1, CYP4F2, GGCX, EPHX1, CALU) associated with altered warfarin dose-requirements and tested their associations with INR variability (INRVAR) and percent time in therapeutic range (TTR) in European-Americans and African-Americans.
Results
One allele copy of rs2108622 in CYP4F2 was associated with a 15 percent (95% CI, 1, 26, p = 0.03) decrease in median INRVAR in European-Americans. In African-Americans, GGCX variants rs11676382 and rs699664 were associated with 4.16 (95% CI, 1.45, 11.97, p = 0.009) and 1.50 (95% CI, 1.07, 2.08, p = 0.02) fold changes in median INRVAR per variant allele copy respectively; rs11676382 was also significantly associated with a 23.19 (95%CI, 5.89, 40.48, p = 0.01) percent decrease in TTR. The total variation in INRVAR explained by both clinical factors and rs2108622 was 5.2% for European-Americans. In African-Americans, the inclusion of GGCX variants rs11676382 and rs699664, and CYP2C9*8 variant rs7900194 explained approximately 29% of the variation in INRVAR.
Conclusions
The stability of anticoagulation after the warfarin dose-titration phase is differentially affected by variants in CYP4F2 in European-Americans and GGCX loci in African-Americans.