No Association of Coronary Artery Disease with X-Chromosomal Variants in Comprehensive International Meta-Analysis
Loley, Christina; Alver, Maris; Assimes, Themistocles L; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Karhunen, Pekka J; Kähönen, Mika; Laaksonen, Reijo; Lehtimäki, Terho; Nikus, Kjell (2016)
Loley, Christina
Alver, Maris
Assimes, Themistocles L
Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka
Karhunen, Pekka J
Kähönen, Mika
Laaksonen, Reijo
Lehtimäki, Terho
Nikus, Kjell
et al.2016
Scientific Reports 6
35278
Lääketieteen yksikkö - School of Medicine
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201611042509
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:uta-201611042509
Tiivistelmä
IIn recent years, genome-wide association studies have identified 58 independent risk loci for coronary artery disease (CAD) on the autosome. However, due to the sex-specific data structure of the X chromosome, it has been excluded from most of these analyses. While females have 2 copies of chromosome X, males have only one. Also, one of the female X chromosomes may be inactivated. Therefore, special test statistics and quality control procedures are required. Thus, little is known about the role of X-chromosomal variants in CAD. To fill this gap, we conducted a comprehensive X-chromosome-wide meta-analysis including more than 43,000 CAD cases and 58,000 controls from 35 international study cohorts. For quality control, sex-specific filters were used to adequately take the special structure of X-chromosomal data into account. For single study analyses, several logistic regression models were calculated allowing for inactivation of one female X-chromosome, adjusting for sex and investigating interactions between sex and genetic variants. Then, meta-analyses including all 35 studies were conducted using random effects models. None of the investigated models revealed genome-wide significant associations for any variant. Although we analyzed the largest-to-date sample, currently available methods were not able to detect any associations of X-chromosomal variants with CAD.
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