Journal Article

Identification of 15 novel risk loci for coronary artery disease and genetic risk of recurrent events, atrial fibrillation and heart failure

van der Harst, Pim, Eppinga, Ruben N., Hagemeijer, Yanick, Verweij, Niek

2017

Overview

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. Identification of novel genetic determinants may provide new opportunities for developing innovative strategies to predict, prevent and treat CAD. Therefore, we meta-analyzed independent genetic variants passing P <× 10 −5 in CARDIoGRAMplusC4D with novel data made available by UK Biobank. Of the 161 genetic variants studied, 71 reached genome wide significance (p < 5 × 10 −8 ) including 15 novel loci. These novel loci include multiple genes that are involved in angiogenesis ( TGFB1, ITGB5, CDH13 and RHOA ) and 2 independent variants in the TGFB1 locus. We also identified SGEF as a candidate gene in one of the novel CAD loci. SGEF was previously suggested as a therapeutic target based on mouse studies. The genetic risk score of CAD predicted recurrent CAD events and cardiovascular mortality. We also identified significant genetic correlations between CAD and other cardiovascular conditions, including heart failure and atrial fibrillation. In conclusion, we substantially increased the number of loci convincingly associated with CAD and provide additional biological and clinical insights.

• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
• Subject: 45 / 45/43 / 631/208/205/2138 / 692/4019/592/2727 / Adult / Aged / Alleles / Angiogenesis / Atrial Fibrillation - genetics / Atrial Fibrillation - metabolism / Cardiac arrhythmia / Cardiovascular disease / Cardiovascular diseases / Coronary artery / Coronary artery disease / Coronary Artery Disease - genetics / Coronary Artery Disease - metabolism / Coronary vessels / Fibrillation / Gene Expression Profiling / Gene Regulatory Networks / Genetic Association Studies / Genetic diversity / Genetic Loci / Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Genetic variance / Genetic Variation / Genomes / Genotype / Health risk assessment / Heart diseases / Heart failure / Heart Failure - genetics / Heart Failure - metabolism / Humanities and Social Sciences / Humans / Middle Aged / Morbidity / Mortality / multidisciplinary / Odds Ratio / Proportional Hazards Models / RhoA protein / Risk Assessment / Science / Science (multidisciplinary) / Signal Transduction / Transforming growth factor-b1 / United Kingdom