Peer Reviewed
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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Keywords
LDL cholesterol, statins.
Funder/Sponsor
Competing financial interests: B.M.P. serves on the Data and Safety Monitoring Board of a clinical trial funded by the device manufacturer (Zoll LifeCor). N.P. and A.S. received funding from Pfizer for the extended follow-up of the ASCOT UK participants. D.I.C. and P.M.R. received research support for independent genetic analysis in JUPITER from AstraZeneca. F.N. and B.J.B. have employment, stock and stock options in AstraZeneca, a for-profit company engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of proprietary therapeutics such as rosuvastatin, but do not consider that this creates any conflict of interest with the subject–matter of this publication. R.M.K. serves on the Merck Global Atherosclerosis Advisory Board. The remaining authors declare no competing financial interests.
Abstract
Statins effectively lower LDL cholesterol levels in large studies and the observed interindividual response variability may be partially explained by genetic variation. Here we perform a pharmacogenetic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in studies addressing the LDL cholesterol response to statins, including up to 18,596 statin-treated subjects. We validate the most promising signals in a further 22,318 statin recipients and identify two loci, SORT1/CELSR2/PSRC1 and SLCO1B1, not previously identified in GWAS. Moreover, we confirm the previously described associations with APOE and LPA. Our findings advance the understanding of the pharmacogenetic architecture of statin response.
Disciplines
Life Sciences
Citation
Postmus, I. et al. Pharmacogenetic meta-analysis of genomewide association studies of LDL cholesterol response to statins. Nature Communications. 2014;5:5068
PubMed ID
25350695
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http://epubs.rcsi.ie/mctart/72/
DOI Link
10.1038/ncomms6068
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