Analysis with the exome array identifies multiple new independent variants in lipid loci

Stavroula Kanoni, Nicholas G D Masca, Kathleen E Stirrups, Tibor V Varga, Helen R Warren, Robert A Scott, Lorraine Southam, Weihua Zhang, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Alexessander Couto Alves, Rona J Strawbridge, Lazaros Lataniotis, Nikman An Hashim, Céline Besse, Anne Boland, Peter S Braund, John M Connell, Anna Dominiczak, Aliki-Eleni FarmakiStephen Franks, Harald Grallert, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Maria Karaleftheri, Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi, Angela Matchan, Dorota Pasko, Annette Peters, Neil Poulter, Nigel W Rayner, Frida Renström, Olov Rolandsson, Maria Sabater-Lleal, Bengt Sennblad, Peter Sever, Denis Shields, Angela Silveira, Alice V Stanton, Konstantin Strauch, Maciej Tomaszewski, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Melanie Waldenberger, Alexandra I F Blakemore, George Dedoussis, Stefan A Escher, Jaspal S Kooner, Mark I McCarthy, Colin N A Palmer, Anders Hamsten, Mark J. Caulfield

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Abstract

It has been hypothesized that low frequency (1-5% minor allele frequency (MAF)) and rare (<1% MAF) variants with large effect sizes may contribute to the missing heritability in complex traits. Here, we report an association analysis of lipid traits (total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol triglycerides) in up to 27 312 individuals with a comprehensive set of low frequency coding variants (ExomeChip), combined with conditional analysis in the known lipid loci. No new locus reached genome-wide significance. However, we found a new lead variant in 26 known lipid association regions of which 16 were >1000-fold more significant than the previous sentinel variant and not in close LD (six had MAF <5%). Furthermore, conditional analysis revealed multiple independent signals (ranging from 1 to 5) in a third of the 98 lipid loci tested, including rare variants. Addition of our novel associations resulted in between 1.5- and 2.5-fold increase in the proportion of heritability explained for the different lipid traits. Our findings suggest that rare coding variants contribute to the genetic architecture of lipid traits.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftHuman Molecular Genetics
Vol/bind25
Udgave nummer18
Sider (fra-til)4094-4106
Antal sider13
ISSN0964-6906
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 15 sep. 2016
Udgivet eksterntJa

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