DESCRIPTION:

List of positional candidate genes after correcting for multiple testing and controlling the false discovery rate from genome wide association studies (GWAS) retrieved from the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The disease/trait examined in this study, as reported by the authors, was Cholesterol, total. The EFO term total cholesterol measurement was annotated to this set after curation by NHGRI-EBI. Intergenic SNPS were mapped to both the upstream and downstream gene. P-value uploaded. This gene set was generated using gwas2gs v. 0.1.8 and the GWAS Catalog v. 1.0.1.

LABEL:

GWAS: total cholesterol measurement

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

DATE ADDED:

2017-05-02

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

YS Aulchenko, S Ripatti, I Lindqvist, D Boomsma, IM Heid, PP Pramstaller, BW Penninx, AC Janssens, JF Wilson, T Spector, NG Martin, NL Pedersen, KO Kyvik, J Kaprio, A Hofman, NB Freimer, MR Jarvelin, U Gyllensten, H Campbell, I Rudan, A Johansson, F Marroni, C Hayward, V Vitart, I Jonasson, C Pattaro, A Wright, N Hastie, I Pichler, AA Hicks, M Falchi, G Willemsen, JJ Hottenga, EJ de Geus, GW Montgomery, J Whitfield, P Magnusson, J Saharinen, M Perola, K Silander, A Isaacs, EJ Sijbrands, AG Uitterlinden, JC Witteman, BA Oostra, P Elliott, A Ruokonen, C Sabatti, C Gieger, T Meitinger, F Kronenberg, A Döring, HE Wichmann, JH Smit, MI McCarthy, CM van Duijn, L Peltonen

TITLE:

Loci influencing lipid levels and coronary heart disease risk in 16 European population cohorts.

JOURNAL:

Nature genetics Jan 2009, Vol 41, pp. 47-55

ABSTRACT:

Recent genome-wide association (GWA) studies of lipids have been conducted in samples ascertained for other phenotypes, particularly diabetes. Here we report the first GWA analysis of loci affecting total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and triglycerides sampled randomly from 16 population-based cohorts and genotyped using mainly the Illumina HumanHap300-Duo platform. Our study included a total of 17,797-22,562 persons, aged 18-104 years and from geographic regions spanning from the Nordic countries to Southern Europe. We established 22 loci associated with serum lipid levels at a genome-wide significance level (P < 5 x 10(-8)), including 16 loci that were identified by previous GWA studies. The six newly identified loci in our cohort samples are ABCG5 (TC, P = 1.5 x 10(-11); LDL, P = 2.6 x 10(-10)), TMEM57 (TC, P = 5.4 x 10(-10)), CTCF-PRMT8 region (HDL, P = 8.3 x 10(-16)), DNAH11 (LDL, P = 6.1 x 10(-9)), FADS3-FADS2 (TC, P = 1.5 x 10(-10); LDL, P = 4.4 x 10(-13)) and MADD-FOLH1 region (HDL, P = 6 x 10(-11)). For three loci, effect sizes differed significantly by sex. Genetic risk scores based on lipid loci explain up to 4.8% of variation in lipids and were also associated with increased intima media thickness (P = 0.001) and coronary heart disease incidence (P = 0.04). The genetic risk score improves the screening of high-risk groups of dyslipidemia over classical risk factors. PUBMED: 19060911
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