Objective: The aim of this study is to discover common variants in 6 lipid metabolic genes and construct and validate a genetic risk score (GRS) based on the joint effects of genetic variants in multiple genes from lipid and other pathobiologic pathways.
Background: Explaining the genetic basis of coronary artery disease (CAD) is incomplete. Discovery and aggregation of genetic variants from multiple pathways may advance this objective.
Methods: Premature CAD cases (n = 1,947) and CAD-free controls (n = 1,036) were selected from our angiographic registry. In a discovery phase, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at 56 loci from internal discovery and external reports were tested for associations with biomarkers and CAD: 28 promising SNPs were then tested jointly for CAD associations, and a GRS consisting of SNPs contributing independently was constructed and validated in a replication set of familial cases and population-based controls (n = 1,320).
Results: Five variants contributed jointly to CAD prediction in a multigenic GRS model: odds ratio 1.24 (95% CI 1.16-1.33) per risk allele, P = 8.2 x 10(-11), adjusted OR 2.03 (1.53-2.70), fourth versus first quartile. 5-SNP genetic risk score had minor impact on area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (P > .05) but resulted in substantial net reclassification improvement: 0.16 overall, 0.28 in intermediate-risk patients (both P < .0001). GRS(5) predicted familial CAD with similar magnitude in the validation set.
Conclusions: The Intermountain Healthcare's Coronary Genetics study demonstrates the ability of a multigenic, multipathway GRS to improve discrimination of angiographic CAD. Genetic risk scores promise to increase understanding of the genetic basis of CAD and improve identification of individuals at increased CAD risk.
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