Publication: Lack of association of rs3798220 with small apolipoprotein(a) isoforms and high lipoprotein(a) levels in East and Southeast Asians
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2015-10-01
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18791484
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00219150
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Atherosclerosis. Vol.242, No.2 (2015), 521-528
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Mahmoud Khalifa, Asma Noureen, Kathrin Ertelthalner, Ahmad Reza Bandegi, Rhena Delport, Wance J.J. Firdaus, Finney S. Geethanjali, Kalpana Luthra, Orawan Makemaharn, Richard W.C. Pang, Abdel Halim Salem, Jun Sasaki, Wulf Schiefenhoevel, Arno Lingenhel, Florian Kronenberg, Gerd Utermann, Konrad Schmidt Lack of association of rs3798220 with small apolipoprotein(a) isoforms and high lipoprotein(a) levels in East and Southeast Asians. Atherosclerosis. Vol.242, No.2 (2015), 521-528. doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.07.015 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/36315
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Lack of association of rs3798220 with small apolipoprotein(a) isoforms and high lipoprotein(a) levels in East and Southeast Asians
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Medizinische Universitat Innsbruck
Universiteit van Pretoria
Christian Medical College, Vellore
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Mahidol University
Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong
International University of Health and Welfare
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Medical Research Unit of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Universitat Tubingen
Al-Azhar University
Semnan University of Medical Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
Arabian Gulf University
Universiteit van Pretoria
Christian Medical College, Vellore
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Mahidol University
Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong
International University of Health and Welfare
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Medical Research Unit of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Universitat Tubingen
Al-Azhar University
Semnan University of Medical Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
Arabian Gulf University
Abstract
© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Objective: The variant allele of rs3798220 in the apolipoprotein(a) gene (LPA) is used to assess the risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) in Europeans, where it is associated with short alleles of the Kringle IV-2 (KIV-2) copy number variation (CNV) and high lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) concentrations. No association of rs3798220 with CAD was detected in a GWAS of East Asians. Our study investigated the association of rs3798220 with Lp(a) concentrations and KIV-2 CNV size in non-European populations to explain the missing association of the variant with CAD in Asians. Methods: We screened three populations from Africa and seven from Asia by TaqMan Assay for rs3798220 and determined KIV-2 CNV sizes of LPA alleles by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Additionally, CAD cases from India were analysed. To investigate the phylogenetic origin of rs3798220, 40 LPA alleles from Chinese individuals were separated by PFGE and haplotyped for further SNPs. Results: The variant was not found in Africans. Allele frequencies in East and Southeast Asians ranged from 2.9% to 11.6%, and were very low (0.15%) in CAD cases and controls from India. The variant was neither associated with short KIV-2 CNV alleles nor elevated Lp(a) concentrations in Asians. Conclusion: Our study shows that rs3798220 is no marker for short KIV-2 CNV alleles and high Lp(a) in East and Southeast Asians, although the haplotype background is shared with Europeans. It appears unlikely that this SNP confers atherogenic potential on its own. Furthermore, this SNP does not explain Lp(a) attributed risk for CAD in Asian Indians.