@article{e382884b4e144f8f8cd2523edbcc529b,
title = "Fifteen new risk loci for coronary artery disease highlight arterial-wall-specific mechanisms",
abstract = "Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although 58 genomic regions have been associated with CAD thus far, most of the heritability is unexplained, indicating that additional susceptibility loci await identification. An efficient discovery strategy may be larger-scale evaluation of promising associations suggested by genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Hence, we genotyped 56,309 participants using a targeted gene array derived from earlier GWAS results and performed meta-analysis of results with 194,427 participants previously genotyped, totaling 88,192 CAD cases and 162,544 controls. We identified 25 new SNP-CAD associations (P < 5 × 10-8, in fixed-effects meta-analysis) from 15 genomic regions, including SNPs in or near genes involved in cellular adhesion, leukocyte migration and atherosclerosis (PECAM1, rs1867624), coagulation and inflammation (PROCR, rs867186 (p.Ser219Gly)) and vascular smooth muscle cell differentiation (LMOD1, rs2820315). Correlation of these regions with cell-type-specific gene expression and plasma protein levels sheds light on potential disease mechanisms.",
keywords = "Arteries, Atherosclerosis, Cell Adhesion, Chemotaxis, Leukocyte, Coronary Artery Disease, Energy Metabolism, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Histone Code, Humans, Male, Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Risk Factors, Journal Article, Meta-Analysis",
author = "Howson, {Joanna M M} and Wei Zhao and Barnes, {Daniel R} and Weang-Kee Ho and Robin Young and Paul, {Dirk S} and Waite, {Lindsay L} and Freitag, {Daniel F} and Fauman, {Eric B} and Salfati, {Elias L} and Sun, {Benjamin B} and Eicher, {John D} and Johnson, {Andrew D} and Sheu, {Wayne H H} and Nielsen, {Sune F} and Wei-Yu Lin and Praveen Surendran and Anders Malarstig and Wilk, {Jemma B} and Anne Tybj{\ae}rg-Hansen and Rasmussen, {Katrine L} and Kamstrup, {Pia R} and Panos Deloukas and Jeanette Erdmann and Sekar Kathiresan and Samani, {Nilesh J} and Heribert Schunkert and Hugh Watkins and Ron Do and Rader, {Daniel J} and Johnson, {Julie A} and Hazen, {Stanley L} and Quyyumi, {Arshed A} and Spertus, {John A} and Pepine, {Carl J} and Nora Franceschini and Anne Justice and Reiner, {Alex P} and Steven Buyske and Hindorff, {Lucia A} and Carty, {Cara L} and North, {Kari E} and Charles Kooperberg and Eric Boerwinkle and Kristin Young and Mariaelisa Graff and Ulrike Peters and Devin Absher and Hsiung, {Chao A} and Nordestgaard, {B{\o}rge G} and CARDIoGRAMplusC4D",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1038/ng.3874",
language = "English",
volume = "49",
pages = "1113--1119",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Research",
number = "7",
}