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Evaluation of the metabochip genotyping array in African Americans and implications for fine mapping of GWAS-identified loci: the PAGE study.

TitleEvaluation of the metabochip genotyping array in African Americans and implications for fine mapping of GWAS-identified loci: the PAGE study.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsBuyske, S, Wu, Y, Carty, CL, Cheng, I, Assimes, TL, Dumitrescu, L, Hindorff, LA, Mitchell, S, Ambite, JLuis, Boerwinkle, E, Bůzková, P, Carlson, CS, Cochran, B, Duggan, D, Eaton, CB, Fesinmeyer, MD, Franceschini, N, Haessler, J, Jenny, N, Kang, HMin, Kooperberg, C, Lin, Y, Le Marchand, L, Matise, TC, Robinson, JG, Rodriguez, C, Schumacher, FR, Voight, BF, Young, A, Manolio, TA, Mohlke, KL, Haiman, CA, Peters, U, Crawford, DC, North, KE
JournalPLoS One
Volume7
Issue4
Paginatione35651
Date Published2012
ISSN1932-6203
KeywordsAfrican Americans, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cholesterol Ester Transfer Proteins, Cholesterol, HDL, Cholesterol, LDL, Chromosomes, Human, Cohort Studies, Gene Frequency, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genotype, Humans, Metabolic Diseases, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci
Abstract<p>The Metabochip is a custom genotyping array designed for replication and fine mapping of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric trait loci and includes low frequency variation content identified from the 1000 Genomes Project. It has 196,725 SNPs concentrated in 257 genomic regions. We evaluated the Metabochip in 5,863 African Americans; 89% of all SNPs passed rigorous quality control with a call rate of 99.9%. Two examples illustrate the value of fine mapping with the Metabochip in African-ancestry populations. At CELSR2/PSRC1/SORT1, we found the strongest associated SNP for LDL-C to be rs12740374 (p = 3.5 × 10(-11)), a SNP indistinguishable from multiple SNPs in European ancestry samples due to high correlation. Its distinct signal supports functional studies elsewhere suggesting a causal role in LDL-C. At CETP we found rs17231520, with risk allele frequency 0.07 in African Americans, to be associated with HDL-C (p = 7.2 × 10(-36)). This variant is very rare in Europeans and not tagged in common GWAS arrays, but was identified as associated with HDL-C in African Americans in a single-gene study. Our results, one narrowing the risk interval and the other revealing an associated variant not found in Europeans, demonstrate the advantages of high-density genotyping of common and rare variation for fine mapping of trait loci in African American samples.</p>
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0035651
Alternate JournalPLoS ONE
PubMed ID22539988
PubMed Central IDPMC3335090
Grant List24152 / / PHS HHS / United States
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32105-6 / / PHS HHS / United States
32108-9 / / PHS HHS / United States
32111-13 / / PHS HHS / United States
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