Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

Heribert Schunkert; Inke R. König; Sekar Kathiresan; Muredach P. Reilly; Themistocles L. Assimes; Hilma Holm; Michael Preuss; Alexandre F. R. Stewart; Maja Barbalic; Christian Gieger; Devin Absher; Zouhair Aherrahrou; Hooman Allayee; David Altshuler; Sonia S. Anand; Karl Andersen; Jeffrey L. Anderson; Diego Ardissino; Stephen G. Ball; Anthony J. Balmforth; Timothy A. Barnes; Diane M. Becker; Lewis C. Becker; Klaus Berger; Joshua C. Bis; S. Matthijs Boekholdt; Eric Boerwinkle; Peter S. Braund; Morris J. Brown; Mary Susan Burnett; Ian Buysschaert; John F. Carlquist; Li Chen; Sven Cichon; Veryan Codd; Robert W. Davies; George Dedoussis; Abbas Dehghan; Serkalem Demissie; Joseph M. Devaney; Patrick Diemert; Ron Do; Angela Doering; Sandra Eifert; Nour Eddine El Mokhtari; Stephen G. Ellis; Roberto Elosua; James C. Engert; Stephen E. Epstein; Ulf de Faire; Marcus Fischer; Aaron R. Folsom; Jennifer Freyer; Bruna Gigante; Domenico Girelli; Solveig Gretarsdottir; Vilmundur Gudnason; Jeffrey R. Gulcher; Eran Halperin; Naomi Hammond; Stanley L. Hazen; Albert Hofman; Benjamin D. Horne; Thomas Illig; Carlos Iribarren; Gregory T. Jones; J. Wouter Jukema; Michael A. Kaiser; Lee M. Kaplan; John J. P. Kastelein; Kay-Tee Khaw; Joshua W. Knowles; Genovefa Kolovou; Augustine Kong; Reijo Laaksonen; Diether Lambrechts; Karin Leander; Guillaume Lettre; Mingyao Li; Wolfgang Lieb; Christina Loley; Andrew J. Lotery; Pier M. Mannucci; Seraya Maouche; Nicola Martinelli; Pascal P. McKeown; Christa Meisinger; Thomas Meitinger; Olle Melander; Pier Angelica Merlini; Vincent Mooser; Thomas Morgan; Thomas W. Mühleisen; Joseph B. Muhlestein; Thomas Münzel; Kiran Musunuru; Janja Nahrstaedt; Christopher P. Nelson; Markus M. Nöthen; Oliviero Olivieri; Riyaz S. Patel; Chris C. Patterson; Annette Peters; Flora Peyvandi; Liming Qu; Arshed A. Quyyumi; Daniel J. Rader; Loukianos S. Rallidis; Catherine Rice; Frits R. Rosendaal; Diana Rubin; Veikko Salomaa; M. Lourdes Sampietro; Manj S. Sandhu; Eric Schadt; Arne Schäfer; Arne Schillert; Stefan Schreiber; Jürgen Schrezenmeir; Stephen M. Schwartz; David S. Siscovick; Mohan Sivananthan; Suthesh Sivapalaratnam; Albert Smith; Tamara B. Smith; Jaapjan D. Snoep; Nicole Soranzo; John A. Spertus; Klaus Stark; Kathy Stirrups; Monika Stoll; W. H. Wilson Tang; Stephanie Tennstedt; Gudmundur Thorgeirsson; Gudmar Thorleifsson; Maciej Tomaszewski; Andre G. Uitterlinden; Andre M. van Rij; Benjamin F. Voight; Nick J. Wareham; George A. Wells; H.-Erich Wichmann; Philipp S. Wild; Christina Willenborg; Jaqueline C. M. Witteman; Benjamin J. Wright; Shu Ye; Tanja Zeller; Andreas Ziegler; Francois Cambien; Alison H. Goodall; L. Adrienne Cupples; Thomas Quertermous; Winfried März; Christian Hengstenberg; Stefan Blankenberg; Willem H. Ouwehand; Alistair S. Hall; Panos Deloukas; John R. Thompson; Kari Stefansson; Robert Roberts; Unnur Thorsteinsdottir; Christopher J. O'Donnell; Ruth McPherson; Jeanette Erdmann; Nilesh J. Samani

doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.784

Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

Heribert Schunkert, Inke R. König, Sekar Kathiresan, Muredach P. Reilly, Themistocles L. Assimes, Hilma Holm, Michael Preuss, Alexandre F. R. Stewart, Maja Barbalic, Christian Gieger, Devin Absher, Zouhair Aherrahrou, Hooman Allayee, David Altshuler, Sonia S. Anand, Karl Andersen, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Diego Ardissino, Stephen G. Ball, Anthony J. BalmforthTimothy A. Barnes, Diane M. Becker, Lewis C. Becker, Klaus Berger, Joshua C. Bis, S. Matthijs Boekholdt, Eric Boerwinkle, Peter S. Braund, Morris J. Brown, Mary Susan Burnett, Ian Buysschaert, John F. Carlquist, Li Chen, Sven Cichon, Veryan Codd, Robert W. Davies, George Dedoussis, Abbas Dehghan, Serkalem Demissie, Joseph M. Devaney, Patrick Diemert, Ron Do, Angela Doering, Sandra Eifert, Nour Eddine El Mokhtari, Stephen G. Ellis, Roberto Elosua, James C. Engert, Stephen E. Epstein, Ulf de Faire, Marcus Fischer, Aaron R. Folsom, Jennifer Freyer, Bruna Gigante, Domenico Girelli, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jeffrey R. Gulcher, Eran Halperin, Naomi Hammond, Stanley L. Hazen, Albert Hofman, Benjamin D. Horne, Thomas Illig, Carlos Iribarren, Gregory T. Jones, J. Wouter Jukema, Michael A. Kaiser, Lee M. Kaplan, John J. P. Kastelein, Kay-Tee Khaw, Joshua W. Knowles, Genovefa Kolovou, Augustine Kong, Reijo Laaksonen, Diether Lambrechts, Karin Leander, Guillaume Lettre, Mingyao Li, Wolfgang Lieb, Christina Loley, Andrew J. Lotery, Pier M. Mannucci, Seraya Maouche, Nicola Martinelli, Pascal P. McKeown, Christa Meisinger, Thomas Meitinger, Olle Melander, Pier Angelica Merlini, Vincent Mooser, Thomas Morgan, Thomas W. Mühleisen, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Thomas Münzel, Kiran Musunuru, Janja Nahrstaedt, Christopher P. Nelson, Markus M. Nöthen, Oliviero Olivieri, Riyaz S. Patel, Chris C. Patterson, Annette Peters, Flora Peyvandi, Liming Qu, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Daniel J. Rader, Loukianos S. Rallidis, Catherine Rice, Frits R. Rosendaal, Diana Rubin, Veikko Salomaa, M. Lourdes Sampietro, Manj S. Sandhu, Eric Schadt, Arne Schäfer, Arne Schillert, Stefan Schreiber, Jürgen Schrezenmeir, Stephen M. Schwartz, David S. Siscovick, Mohan Sivananthan, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Albert Smith, Tamara B. Smith, Jaapjan D. Snoep, Nicole Soranzo, John A. Spertus, Klaus Stark, Kathy Stirrups, Monika Stoll, W. H. Wilson Tang, Stephanie Tennstedt, Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Maciej Tomaszewski, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Andre M. van Rij, Benjamin F. Voight, Nick J. Wareham, George A. Wells, H.-Erich Wichmann, Philipp S. Wild, Christina Willenborg, Jaqueline C. M. Witteman, Benjamin J. Wright, Shu Ye, Tanja Zeller, Andreas Ziegler, Francois Cambien, Alison H. Goodall, L. Adrienne Cupples, Thomas Quertermous, Winfried März, Christian Hengstenberg, Stefan Blankenberg, Willem H. Ouwehand, Alistair S. Hall, Panos Deloukas, John R. Thompson, Kari Stefansson, Robert Roberts, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Ruth McPherson, Jeanette Erdmann, Nilesh J. Samani

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We performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals. This analysis identified 13 loci newly associated with CAD at P <5 x 10(-8) and confirmed the association of 10 of 12 previously reported CAD loci. The 13 new loci showed risk allele frequencies ranging from 0.13 to 0.91 and were associated with a 6% to 17% increase in the risk of CAD per allele. Notably, only three of the new loci showed significant association with traditional CAD risk factors and the majority lie in gene regions not previously implicated in the pathogenesis of CAD. Finally, five of the new CAD risk loci appear to have pleiotropic effects, showing strong association with various other human diseases or traits

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	333-U153
Journal	Nature Genetics
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.784
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Schunkert, H., König, I. R., Kathiresan, S., Reilly, M. P., Assimes, T. L., Holm, H., Preuss, M., Stewart, A. F. R., Barbalic, M., Gieger, C., Absher, D., Aherrahrou, Z., Allayee, H., Altshuler, D., Anand, S. S., Andersen, K., Anderson, J. L., Ardissino, D., Ball, S. G., ... Samani, N. J. (2011). Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease. Nature Genetics, 43(4), 333-U153. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.784

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AU - Assimes, Themistocles L.

AU - Holm, Hilma

AU - Preuss, Michael

AU - Stewart, Alexandre F. R.

AU - Barbalic, Maja

AU - Gieger, Christian

AU - Absher, Devin

AU - Aherrahrou, Zouhair

AU - Allayee, Hooman

AU - Altshuler, David

AU - Anand, Sonia S.

AU - Andersen, Karl

AU - Anderson, Jeffrey L.

AU - Ardissino, Diego

AU - Ball, Stephen G.

AU - Balmforth, Anthony J.

AU - Barnes, Timothy A.

AU - Becker, Diane M.

AU - Becker, Lewis C.

AU - Berger, Klaus

AU - Bis, Joshua C.

AU - Boekholdt, S. Matthijs

AU - Boerwinkle, Eric

AU - Braund, Peter S.

AU - Brown, Morris J.

AU - Burnett, Mary Susan

AU - Buysschaert, Ian

AU - Carlquist, John F.

AU - Chen, Li

AU - Cichon, Sven

AU - Codd, Veryan

AU - Davies, Robert W.

AU - Dedoussis, George

AU - Dehghan, Abbas

AU - Demissie, Serkalem

AU - Devaney, Joseph M.

AU - Diemert, Patrick

AU - Do, Ron

AU - Doering, Angela

AU - Eifert, Sandra

AU - Mokhtari, Nour Eddine El

AU - Ellis, Stephen G.

AU - Elosua, Roberto

AU - Engert, James C.

AU - Epstein, Stephen E.

AU - de Faire, Ulf

AU - Fischer, Marcus

AU - Folsom, Aaron R.

AU - Freyer, Jennifer

AU - Gigante, Bruna

AU - Girelli, Domenico

AU - Gretarsdottir, Solveig

AU - Gudnason, Vilmundur

AU - Gulcher, Jeffrey R.

AU - Halperin, Eran

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AU - Hazen, Stanley L.

AU - Hofman, Albert

AU - Horne, Benjamin D.

AU - Illig, Thomas

AU - Iribarren, Carlos

AU - Jones, Gregory T.

AU - Jukema, J. Wouter

AU - Kaiser, Michael A.

AU - Kaplan, Lee M.

AU - Kastelein, John J. P.

AU - Khaw, Kay-Tee

AU - Knowles, Joshua W.

AU - Kolovou, Genovefa

AU - Kong, Augustine

AU - Laaksonen, Reijo

AU - Lambrechts, Diether

AU - Leander, Karin

AU - Lettre, Guillaume

AU - Li, Mingyao

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AU - Smith, Albert

AU - Smith, Tamara B.

AU - Snoep, Jaapjan D.

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AU - Spertus, John A.

AU - Stark, Klaus

AU - Stirrups, Kathy

AU - Stoll, Monika

AU - Tang, W. H. Wilson

AU - Tennstedt, Stephanie

AU - Thorgeirsson, Gudmundur

AU - Thorleifsson, Gudmar

AU - Tomaszewski, Maciej

AU - Uitterlinden, Andre G.

AU - van Rij, Andre M.

AU - Voight, Benjamin F.

AU - Wareham, Nick J.

AU - Wells, George A.

AU - Wichmann, H.-Erich

AU - Wild, Philipp S.

AU - Willenborg, Christina

AU - Witteman, Jaqueline C. M.

AU - Wright, Benjamin J.

AU - Ye, Shu

AU - Zeller, Tanja

AU - Ziegler, Andreas

AU - Cambien, Francois

AU - Goodall, Alison H.

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AU - März, Winfried

AU - Hengstenberg, Christian

AU - Blankenberg, Stefan

AU - Ouwehand, Willem H.

AU - Hall, Alistair S.

AU - Deloukas, Panos

AU - Thompson, John R.

AU - Stefansson, Kari

AU - Roberts, Robert

AU - Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur

AU - O'Donnell, Christopher J.

AU - McPherson, Ruth

AU - Erdmann, Jeanette

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PY - 2011

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N2 - We performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals. This analysis identified 13 loci newly associated with CAD at P <5 x 10(-8) and confirmed the association of 10 of 12 previously reported CAD loci. The 13 new loci showed risk allele frequencies ranging from 0.13 to 0.91 and were associated with a 6% to 17% increase in the risk of CAD per allele. Notably, only three of the new loci showed significant association with traditional CAD risk factors and the majority lie in gene regions not previously implicated in the pathogenesis of CAD. Finally, five of the new CAD risk loci appear to have pleiotropic effects, showing strong association with various other human diseases or traits

AB - We performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals. This analysis identified 13 loci newly associated with CAD at P <5 x 10(-8) and confirmed the association of 10 of 12 previously reported CAD loci. The 13 new loci showed risk allele frequencies ranging from 0.13 to 0.91 and were associated with a 6% to 17% increase in the risk of CAD per allele. Notably, only three of the new loci showed significant association with traditional CAD risk factors and the majority lie in gene regions not previously implicated in the pathogenesis of CAD. Finally, five of the new CAD risk loci appear to have pleiotropic effects, showing strong association with various other human diseases or traits

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