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Genetic analysis in UK Biobank links insulin resistance and transendothelial migration pathways to coronary artery disease.

Derek KlarinQiuyu Martin ZhuConnor A EmdinMark ChaffinSteven HornerBrian J McMillanAlison LeedMichael E WealeChris C A SpencerFrançois AguetAyellet V SegrèKristin G ArdlieAmit V KheraVirendar K KaushikPradeep Natarajannull nullSekar Kathiresan
Published in: Nature genetics (2017)
UK Biobank is among the world's largest repositories for phenotypic and genotypic information in individuals of European ancestry. We performed a genome-wide association study in UK Biobank testing ∼9 million DNA sequence variants for association with coronary artery disease (4,831 cases and 115,455 controls) and carried out meta-analysis with previously published results. We identified 15 new loci, bringing the total number of loci associated with coronary artery disease to 95 at the time of analysis. Phenome-wide association scanning showed that CCDC92 likely affects coronary artery disease through insulin resistance pathways, whereas experimental analysis suggests that ARHGEF26 influences the transendothelial migration of leukocytes.
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