Genome of the Netherlands population-specific imputations identify an ABCA6 variant associated with cholesterol levels
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(2015) Nature Communications [E], volume 6
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Abstract
Variants associated with blood lipid levels may be population-specific. To identify low-frequency variants associated with this phenotype, population-specific reference panels may be used. Here we impute nine large Dutch biobanks (∼35,000 samples) with the population-specific reference panel created by the Genome of the Netherlands Project and perform association testing with
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blood lipid levels. We report the discovery of five novel associations at four loci (P value <6.61 × 10-4), including a rare missense variant in ABCA6 (rs77542162, p.Cys1359Arg, frequency 0.034), which is predicted to be deleterious. The frequency of this ABCA6 variant is 3.65-fold increased in the Dutch and its effect (βLDL-C =0.135, βTC =0.140) is estimated to be very similar to those observed for single variants in well-known lipid genes, such as LDLR.
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Keywords: General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology, General Chemistry, General Physics and Astronomy
ISSN: 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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