David S Siscovick, Qi Sun, Melissa Richard, Ani Manichaikul, Alexis C Frazier-Wood, Jose M Ordovas, Luigi Ferrucci, Yii-Der I Chen, Shuang Liang, Bruce M Psaty, Myriam Fornage, Frank B Hu, Eric B Rimm, Majken K Jensen, Andrew P Morris, Huaixing Li, Xu Lin, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Jason H Y Wu, Weihua Guan, Jingwen Zhu, Toshiko Tanaka, Donna K Arnett, Edmond K Kabagambe, Irena B King, Stefania Bandinelli, Lyn M Steffen, Paul N Hopkins, Yao Hu, Stephen S Rich, Barbara McKnight, Dariush Mozaffarian, Michael Y Tsai
Journal: Journal of lipid research 2017;58(5):974-981
PMID: 28298293
MUFAs are unsaturated FAs with one double bond and are derived from endogenous synthesis and dietary intake. Accumulating evidence has suggested that plasma and erythrocyte MUFA levels are associated with cardiometabolic disorders, including CVD, T2D, and metabolic syndrome (MS). Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified seven loci for plasma and erythrocyte palmitoleic and oleic acid levels in populations of European origin. To identify additional MUFA-associated loci and the potential functional variant at each locus, we performed ethnic-specific GWAS meta-analyses and trans-ethnic meta-analyses in more than 15,000 participants of Chinese and European ancestry. We identified novel genome-wide significant associations for vaccenic acid at and [log(Bayes factor) ≥ 8.07] and for gondoic acid at and [log(Bayes factor) ≥ 6.22], and also observed improved fine-mapping resolutions at and loci. The greatest improvement was observed at , where the number of variants in the 99% credible set was reduced from 16 (covering 94.8 kb) to 5 (covering 19.6 kb, including a missense variant rs1260326) after trans-ethnic meta-analysis. We also confirmed the previously reported associations of , , , and with palmitoleic acid and of and with oleic acid in the Chinese-specific GWAS and the trans-ethnic meta-analyses. Pathway-based analyses suggested that the identified loci were in unsaturated FA metabolism and signaling pathways. Our findings provide novel insight into the genetic basis relevant to MUFA metabolism and biology.
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