Genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the SLC22A3-LPAL2-LPA gene cluster as a risk locus for coronary artery disease

David Alexandre Trégouët*, Inke R. König, Jeanette Erdmann, Alexandru Munteanu, Peter S. Braund, Alistair S. Hall, Anika Großhennig, Patrick Linsel-Nitschke, Claire Perret, Maylis DeSuremain, Thomas Meitinger, Ben J. Wright, Michael Preuss, Anthony J. Balmforth, Stephen G. Ball, Christa Meisinger, Cécile Germain, Alun Evans, Dominique Arveiler, Gérald LucJean Bernard Ruidavets, Caroline Morrison, Pim Van Der Harst, Stefan Schreiber, Katharina Neureuther, Arne Schäfer, Peter Bugert, Nour E. El Mokhtari, Jürgen Schrezenmeir, Klaus Stark, Diana Rubin, H. Erich Wichmann, Christian Hengstenberg, Willem Ouwehand, Andreas Ziegler, Laurence Tiret, John R. Thompson, Francois Cambien, Heribert Schunkert, Nilesh J. Samani

*Corresponding author for this work
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Abstract

We identify the SLC22A3-LPAL2-LPA gene cluster as a strong susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease (CAD) through a genome-wide haplotype association (GWHA) study. This locus was not identified from previous genome-wide association (GWA) studies focused on univariate analyses of SNPs. The proposed approach may have wide utility for analyzing GWA data for other complex traits.

Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Genetics
Volume41
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)283-285
Number of pages3
ISSN1061-4036
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.03.2009

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