Association analyses based on false discovery rate implicate new loci for coronary artery disease

Christopher P. Nelson, Anuj Goel, Adam S. Butterworth, Stavroula Kanoni, Tom R Webb, Eirini Marouli, Lingyao Zeng, Ioanna Ntalla, Florence Y Lai, Jemma C. Hopewell, Olga Giannakopoulou, Tao Jiang, Stephen E. Hamby, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Themistocles L. Assimes, Erwin P. Bottinger, John C. Chambers, Robert Clarke, Colin N A Palmer, Richard M. CubbonPatrick T. Ellinor, Raili Ermel, Evangelos Evangelou, Paul W. Franks, Christopher Grace, Dongfeng Gu, Aroon D. Hingorani, Joanna M. M. Howson, Erik Ingelsson, Adnan Kastrati, Thorsten Kessler, Theodosios Kyriakou, Terho Lehtimäki, Xiangfeng Lu, Yingchang Lu, Winfried März, Ruth McPherson, Andres Metspalu, Mar Pujades-Rodriguez, Arno Ruusalepp, Eric E. Schadt, Amand F Schmidt, Michael J Sweeting, Pierre A. Zalloua, Kamal AlGhalayini, Bernard D. Keavney, Jaspal S. Kooner, Ruth J. F. Loos, Riyaz S Patel, Martin K Rutter, EPIC-CVD Consortium, CARDIoGRAMplusC4D, The UK Biobank CardioMetabolic Consortium CHD working group

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    Abstract

    Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in coronary artery disease (CAD) had identified 66 loci at 'genome-wide significance' (P < 5 × 10(-8)) at the time of this analysis, but a much larger number of putative loci at a false discovery rate (FDR) of 5% (refs. 1,2,3,4). Here we leverage an interim release of UK Biobank (UKBB) data to evaluate the validity of the FDR approach. We tested a CAD phenotype inclusive of angina (SOFT; ncases = 10,801) as well as a stricter definition without angina (HARD; ncases = 6,482) and selected cases with the former phenotype to conduct a meta-analysis using the two most recent CAD GWAS. This approach identified 13 new loci at genome-wide significance, 12 of which were on our previous list of loci meeting the 5% FDR threshold, thus providing strong support that the remaining loci identified by FDR represent genuine signals. The 304 independent variants associated at 5% FDR in this study explain 21.2% of CAD heritability and identify 243 loci that implicate pathways in blood vessel morphogenesis as well as lipid metabolism, nitric oxide signaling and inflammation.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1385-1391
    Number of pages6
    JournalNature Genetics
    Volume49
    Issue number9
    Early online date17 Jul 2017
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2017

    Keywords

    • Journal article
    • Cardiovascular diseases
    • Genetics
    • Genome-wide association studies
    • Genome-wide association studies

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