@article {8529,
	title = {{Variants Associated with the Ankle Brachial Index Differ by Hispanic/Latino Ethnic Group: a genome-wide association study in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos},
	journal = {Sci Rep},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2019},
	month = {08},
	pages = {11410},
	abstract = {Lower extremity peripheral artery disease (PAD) burden differs by race/ethnicity. Although familial aggregation and heritability studies suggest a genetic basis, little is known about the genetic susceptibility to PAD, especially in non-European descent populations. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the ankle brachial index (ABI) and PAD (defined as an ABI < 0.90) have not been conducted in Hispanics/Latinos. We performed a GWAS of PAD and the ABI in 7,589 participants aged >45 years from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). We also performed GWAS for ABI stratified by Hispanic/Latino ethnic subgroups: Central American, Mexican, and South American (Mainland group), and Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican (Caribbean group). We detected two genome-wide significant associations for the ABI in COMMD10 in Puerto Ricans, and at SYBU in the Caribbean group. The lead SNP rs4466200 in the COMMD10 gene had a replication p = 0.02 for the ABI in Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) African Americans, but it did not replicate in African Americans from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). In a regional look-up, a nearby SNP rs12520838 had Bonferroni adjusted p = 0.05 (unadjusted p = 7.5 {\~A}{\textemdash} 10-5) for PAD in MESA Hispanics. Among three suggestive associations (p < 10-7) in subgroup-specific analyses, DMD on chromosome X, identified in Central Americans, replicated in MESA Hispanics (p = 2.2 {\~A}{\textemdash} 10-4). None of the previously reported ABI and PAD associations in whites generalized to Hispanics/Latinos.},
	author = {Sofer, T. and Emery, L. and Jain, D. and Ellis, A. M. and Laurie, C. C. and Allison, M. A. and Lee, J. and Kurniansyah, N. and Kerr, K. F. and Gonz?lez, H. M. and Tarraf, W. and Criqui, M. H. and Lange, L. A. and Palmas, W. R. and Franceschini, N. and Wassel, C. L.}
}
