TY - JOUR
T1 - Meta-analysis of 49 549 individuals imputed with the 1000 Genomes Project reveals an exonic damaging variant in ANGPTL4 determining fasting TG levels
AU - LifeLines Cohort Study
AU - van Leeuwen, Elisabeth M
AU - Sabo, Aniko
AU - Bis, Joshua C
AU - Huffman, Jennifer E
AU - Manichaikul, Ani
AU - Smith, Albert V
AU - Feitosa, Mary F
AU - Demissie, Serkalem
AU - Joshi, Peter K
AU - Duan, Qing
AU - Marten, Jonathan
AU - van Klinken, Jan B
AU - Surakka, Ida
AU - Nolte, Ilja M
AU - Zhang, Weihua
AU - Mbarek, Hamdi
AU - Li-Gao, Ruifang
AU - Trompet, Stella
AU - Verweij, Niek
AU - Evangelou, Evangelos
AU - Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka
AU - Tayo, Bamidele O
AU - Deelen, Joris
AU - van der Most, Peter J
AU - van der Laan, Sander W
AU - Arking, Dan E
AU - Morrison, Alanna
AU - Dehghan, Abbas
AU - Franco, Oscar H
AU - Hofman, Albert
AU - Rivadeneira, Fernando
AU - Sijbrands, Eric J
AU - Uitterlinden, Andre G
AU - Mychaleckyj, Josyf C
AU - Campbell, Archie
AU - Hocking, Lynne J
AU - Padmanabhan, Sandosh
AU - Brody, Jennifer A
AU - Rice, Kenneth M
AU - White, Charles C
AU - Harris, Tamara
AU - Isaacs, Aaron
AU - Campbell, Harry
AU - Lange, Leslie A
AU - Rudan, Igor
AU - Kolcic, Ivana
AU - Navarro, Pau
AU - Vitart, Veronique
AU - Hayward, Caroline
AU - Wilson, James F
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PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - BACKGROUND: So far, more than 170 loci have been associated with circulating lipid levels through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These associations are largely driven by common variants, their function is often not known, and many are likely to be markers for the causal variants. In this study we aimed to identify more new rare and low-frequency functional variants associated with circulating lipid levels.METHODS: We used the 1000 Genomes Project as a reference panel for the imputations of GWAS data from ∼60 000 individuals in the discovery stage and ∼90 000 samples in the replication stage.RESULTS: Our study resulted in the identification of five new associations with circulating lipid levels at four loci. All four loci are within genes that can be linked biologically to lipid metabolism. One of the variants, rs116843064, is a damaging missense variant within the ANGPTL4 gene.CONCLUSIONS: This study illustrates that GWAS with high-scale imputation may still help us unravel the biological mechanism behind circulating lipid levels.
AB - BACKGROUND: So far, more than 170 loci have been associated with circulating lipid levels through genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These associations are largely driven by common variants, their function is often not known, and many are likely to be markers for the causal variants. In this study we aimed to identify more new rare and low-frequency functional variants associated with circulating lipid levels.METHODS: We used the 1000 Genomes Project as a reference panel for the imputations of GWAS data from ∼60 000 individuals in the discovery stage and ∼90 000 samples in the replication stage.RESULTS: Our study resulted in the identification of five new associations with circulating lipid levels at four loci. All four loci are within genes that can be linked biologically to lipid metabolism. One of the variants, rs116843064, is a damaging missense variant within the ANGPTL4 gene.CONCLUSIONS: This study illustrates that GWAS with high-scale imputation may still help us unravel the biological mechanism behind circulating lipid levels.
U2 - 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103439
DO - 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103439
M3 - Article
C2 - 27036123
SN - 0022-2593
JO - Journal of Medical Genetics
JF - Journal of Medical Genetics
ER -