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Ruddy Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Nat Genet. 2015 Oct;47(10):1121-1130. doi: 10.1038/ng.3396. Epub 2015 Sep 7.
Existing knowledge of genetic variants affecting risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is largely based on genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of common SNPs. Leveraging phased haplotypes from the 1000 Genomes Project, we report a GWAS meta-analysis of ∼185,000 CAD cases and controls, interrogating 6.7 million common (minor allele frequency (MAF) > 0.05) and 2.7 million low-frequency (0.005 < MAF < 0.05) variants. In addition to confirming most known CAD-associated loci, we identified ten new loci (eight additive and two recessive) that contain candidate causal genes newly implicating biological processes in vessel walls. We observed intralocus allelic heterogeneity but little evidence of low-frequency variants with larger effects and no evidence of synthetic association. Our analysis provides a comprehensive survey of the fine genetic architecture of CAD, showing that genetic susceptibility to this common disease is largely determined by common SNPs of small effect size.
目前关于影响冠状动脉疾病(CAD)风险的基因变异的认识,很大程度上基于对常见单核苷酸多态性(SNP)的全基因组关联研究(GWAS)分析。利用来自千人基因组计划的分型单倍型,我们报告了一项对约18.5万例CAD病例和对照的GWAS荟萃分析,检测了670万个常见变异(次要等位基因频率(MAF)>0.05)和270万个低频变异(0.005<MAF<0.05)。除了确认大多数已知的CAD相关位点外,我们还鉴定出了10个新位点(8个加性和2个隐性),这些位点包含新涉及血管壁生物学过程的候选因果基因。我们观察到基因座内等位基因异质性,但几乎没有证据表明低频变异具有更大效应,也没有合成关联的证据。我们的分析对CAD的精细遗传结构进行了全面调查,表明对这种常见疾病的遗传易感性很大程度上由效应大小较小的常见SNP决定。