Thomas R Webb, Jeanette Erdmann, Kathleen E Stirrups, Nathan O Stitziel, Nicholas G D Masca, Henning Jansen, Stavroula Kanoni, Christopher P Nelson, Paola G Ferrario, Inke R König, John D Eicher, Andrew D Johnson, Stephen E Hamby, Christer Betsholtz, Arno Ruusalepp, Oscar Franzén, Eric E Schadt, Johan L M Björkegren, Peter E Weeke, Paul L Auer, Ursula M Schick, Yingchang Lu, He Zhang, Marie-Pierre Dube, Anuj Goel, Martin Farrall, Gina M Peloso, Hong-Hee Won, Ron Do, Erik van Iperen, Jochen Kruppa, Anubha Mahajan, Robert A Scott, Christina Willenborg, Peter S Braund, Julian C van Capelleveen, Alex S F Doney, Louise A Donnelly, Rosanna Asselta, Pier A Merlini, Stefano Duga, Nicola Marziliano, Josh C Denny, Christian Shaffer, Nour Eddine El-Mokhtari, Andre Franke, Stefanie Heilmann, Christian Hengstenberg, Per Hoffmann, Oddgeir L Holmen, Kristian Hveem, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Thorsten Kessler, Jennifer Kriebel, Karl L Laugwitz, Eirini Marouli, Nicola Martinelli, Mark I McCarthy, Natalie R Van Zuydam, Christa Meisinger, Tõnu Esko, Evelin Mihailov, Stefan A Escher, Maris Alver, Susanne Moebus, Andrew D Morris, Jarma Virtamo, Majid Nikpay, Oliviero Olivieri, Sylvie Provost, Alaa AlQarawi, Neil R Robertson, Karen O Akinsansya, Dermot F Reilly, Thomas F Vogt, Wu Yin, Folkert W Asselbergs, Charles Kooperberg, Rebecca D Jackson, Eli Stahl, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Konstantin Strauch, Tibor V Varga, Melanie Waldenberger, Lingyao Zeng, Rajiv Chowdhury, Veikko Salomaa, Ian Ford, J Wouter Jukema, Philippe Amouyel, Jukka Kontto, Børge G Nordestgaard, Jean Ferrières, Danish Saleheen, Naveed Sattar, Praveen Surendran, Aline Wagner, Robin Young, Joanna M M Howson, Adam S Butterworth, John Danesh, Diego Ardissino, Erwin P Bottinger, Raimund Erbel, Paul W Franks, Domenico Girelli, Alistair S Hall, G Kees Hovingh, Adnan Kastrati, Wolfgang Lieb, Thomas Meitinger, William E Kraus, Svati H Shah, Ruth McPherson, Marju Orho-Melander, Olle Melander, Andres Metspalu, Colin N A Palmer, Annette Peters, Daniel J Rader, Muredach P Reilly, Ruth J F Loos, Alex P Reiner, Dan M Roden, Jean-Claude Tardif, John R Thompson, Nicholas J Wareham, Hugh Watkins, Cristen J Willer, Nilesh J Samani, Heribert Schunkert, Panos Deloukas, Sekar Kathiresan
BACKGROUND: Genome-wide association studies have so far identified 56 loci associated with risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). Many CAD loci show pleiotropy; that is, they are also associated with other diseases or traits. OBJECTIVES: This study sought to systematically test if genetic variants identified for non-CAD diseases/traits also associate with CAD and to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the extent of pleiotropy of all CAD loci. METHODS: In discovery analyses involving 42,335 CAD cases and 78,240 control subjects we tested the association of 29,383 common (minor allele frequency >5%) single nucleotide polymorphisms available on the exome array, which included a substantial proportion of known or suspected single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with common diseases or traits as of 2011...
February 21, 2017: Journal of the American College of Cardiology