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Genetic Regulation of Serum Phytosterol Levels and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease Daniel Teupser, Ronny Baber, Uta Ceglarek, Markus Scholz, Thomas Illig, Christian Gieger, Lesca M. Holdt, Alexander Leichtler, Karin H. Greiser, Dominik Huster, Patrick Linsel-Nitschke, Arne Schäfer, Peter S. Braund, Laurence Tiret, Klaus Stark, Dorette Raaz-Schrauder, Georg M. Fiedler, Wolfgang Wilfert, Frank Beutner, Stephan Gielen, Anika Großhennig, Inke R. König, Peter Lichtner, Iris M. Heid, Alexander Kluttig, Nour E. El Mokhtari, Diana Rubin, Arif B. Ekici, André Reis, Christoph Garlichs, Alistair S. Hall, Gert Matthes, Christian Wittekind, Christian Hengstenberg, Francois Cambien, Stefan Schreiber, Karl Werdan, Thomas Meitinger, Markus Löffler, Nilesh J. Samani, Jeanette Erdmann, H. -Erich Wichmann, Heribert Schunkert and Joachim Thiery Circ Cardiovasc Genet published online Jun 7, 2010; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.109.907873 Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 Copyright © 2010 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 1942-325X. Online ISSN: 1942-3268 Subscriptions: Information about subscribing to Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics is online at http://circgenetics.ahajournals.org/subscriptions/ Permissions: Permissions & Rights Desk, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a division of Wolters Kluwer Health, 351 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21202-2436. Phone: 410-528-4050. Fax: 410-528-8550. 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E-mail: [email protected] Reprints: Information about reprints can be found online at http://www.lww.com/reprints Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Genetic Regulation of Serum Phytosterol Levels and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease Running Title: Teupser et al.; Genetics of serum phytosterols and CAD risk Daniel Teupser, MD; Ronny Baber, MSc; Uta Ceglarek, PhD; Markus Scholz, PhD; Thomas Illig, PhD; Christian Gieger, PhD; Lesca M. Holdt, MD; Alexander Leichtle, MD; Karin H. Greiser, MD; Dominik Huster, MD; Patrick Linsel-Nitschke, MD; Arne Schäfer, PhD; Peter S. Braund, MSc; Laurence Tiret, PhD; Klaus Stark, PhD; Dorette Raaz-Schrauder, MD; Georg M. Fiedler, MD; Wolfgang Wilfert, MSc; Frank Beutner, MD; Stephan Gielen, MD; Anika Großhennig, MSc; Inke R. König, PhD; Peter Lichtner, PhD; Iris M. Heid, PhD; Alexander Kluttig, PhD; Nour E. El Mokhtari, MD; Diana Rubin, MD; Arif B. Ekici, PhD; André Reis, MD; Christoph D. Garlichs, MD; Alistair S. Hall, MD; Gert Matthes, MD; Christian Wittekind, MD; Christian Hengstenberg, MD; Francois Cambien, MD, PhD; Stefan Schreiber, MD; Karl Werdan, MD; Thomas Meitinger, MD; Markus Löffler, MD; Nilesh J. Samani, FRCP; Jeanette Erdmann, PhD; H.-Erich Wichmann MD, PhD*; Heribert Schunkert, MD*; Joachim Thiery, MD* y * Contributed equally Inst of Lab Med, Clin Ch C Che Chem em & Molecular Mo olleccul ular ar Diagnostics Diaagn gno osti tics ti cs ((DT (DT, D , RB RB,, UC UC, L UC, LM LMH, MH, A AL, L G L, GMF, MF,, W MF WW, FB, JT), Inst for Med Informatics, Stats Ctrr - Dept of Internal taatss & Epidemiology Epi p de demi mio ology gy (MS, (MS M , ML), MS ML L), Dept Dep pt of Med Med III (DH), (D DH), Heart H arrt Ct He C Med/Cardio (SG), Inst off Transfusion Med Pathology Univ Leipzig, Traansfu usiionn M ed d ((GM), GM), GM ) & In IInst st ooff Pa Path thol th olog ol o y (C og ((CW) CW) W) U niiv L Le eiip pz Germany; Inst of Epidemiology (TI, CG, HEW), Inst Human Genetics TM) C IMH, HE EW) W , & In nst of H uman um an nG en net etic icss (P ic (PL, L, T L, M) Helmholtzz Zentrum München, German Research sear se arch ch Ctr Ctr t for for Environmental Env Env nvir iron onme on ment me ntal nt al Health, H Heeal alth th, Neuherberg, N uh Ne uher erbe er b rg be g, Germany; Germ Ge rman rm any; an y; Dept Dep Dept ep pt for Epidemiology & Preventive Med, Regensburg Ctr, Regensburg, Med Informatics, gensburg g ge ens nsbu burg bu rg Univ Uniiv Med M d Ct Me Ctr C r R Regensburg egen eg enssbu b rg Ge Germany G rman rm any y (I (IMH); (IMH MH); MH ) IInst ); nstt of M ns Biometry & Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ, Munich, Germany (HEW); Inst of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical Univ, Munich, Germany (PL, TM); Inst of Med Epidemiology, Biostatistics, & Informatics, Martin-Luther-Univ Halle-Wittenberg (KHG, AK), & Dept of Med III (KW), Martin-Luther-Univ Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany; Medizinische Klinik II (PL-N, AG, JE, HS), & Inst für Med Biometrie und Statistik (AG, IRK) Univ zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Inst für Klinische Molekularbiologie & Dept of Internal Med I, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany (AS, DR, SS); Dept of Cardiovascular Sciences, Univ of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK (PSB, NJS); Inst Nat de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unité Mixte de Recherche UMR_S 525, Univ Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) Univ. Paris 06, Paris, France (LT, FC); Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Med II, Univ Regensburg, Germany (KS, CH); Dept of Cardio & Angiology, Univ Hospital Erlangen, Germany (DR-S, CG); Klinik für Innere Medizin, Kreiskrankenhaus Rendsburg, Rendsburg, Germany (NEEM); Inst of Human Genetics, Univ of ErlangenNuremberg, Erlangen, Germany (ABE, AR); Leeds Inst of Gen, Health & Therapeutics, Univ of Leeds, Leeds, UK (ASH); Correspondence: Dr. Daniel Teupser, University Leipzig, Liebigstr. 27, 04103 Leipzig, E-mail: [email protected]; Telephone +49-341-9722204; Fax +49-341-9722379 or Dr. Heribert Schunkert, Universität zu Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]; Telephone +49-451-5002501; Fax: +49-451-5003060. Journal Subject Codes: [89] Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease, [90] Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism, [109] Clinical Genetics, [146] Genomics Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 2 Abstract: Background: Phytosterols are plant-derived sterols, which are taken up from food and can serve as biomarkers of cholesterol uptake. Serum levels are under tight genetic control. We used a genomic approach to study the molecular regulation of phytosterol-serum levels and potential links to coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods and Results: A genome-wide association study for serum phytosterols (campesterol, sitosterol, brassicasterol) was conducted in a population-based sample from KORA (n=1495) with subsequent replication in two additional samples (n=1157 and n=1760). Replicated SNPs were tested for association with premature CAD in a meta-analysis nalysis of 11 different d samples comprising a total of 13,764 CAD cases and 13,630 healthy controls. contrrol o s. s Genetic Gen eneti variants in the ranspo po ortter e AB ABCG CG G8 aand n aatt th nd he bl bloo oodd gr oo grou oup AB ou ABO O locus loc ocus us were w ATP-binding cassettee ttransporter ABCG8 the blood group significantly associated with serum um ph um phyt phytosterols. ytos yt ossteero rols l . Ef ls Effe Effects fectts in ABCG8 fe ABCG AB CG88 w CG were eree inde er in independently nde depe pend pe nden nd en ntlly related to SNP 50 25 rs4245791 and rs41360247 3602 36 3602 0247 47 (combined ((co comb co mbin mb ined in ed pp=1.6x10 =1 1.6x1 6x1 x100-50 aand nd 66.2x10 .2x1 2x1 x100-25 , re resp respectively, spec sp ecti ec tive ti vely ve ly,, n=4412). Serum ly campesterol was elevated 12 percent for each rs4245791 T-allele. The same allele was associated with 40 percent decreased hepatic ABCG8 mRNA expression (p=0.009). Effects at the ABO locus were related to SNP rs657152 (combined p=9.4x10-13). Alleles of ABCG8 and ABO associated with elevated phytosterol levels displayed significant associations with increased CAD risk (rs4245791, OR=1.10, 95%CI 1.06-1.14, p=2.2x10-6; rs657152, OR=1.13; 95%CI 1.07-1.19, p=9.4x10-6), whereas alleles at ABCG8 associated with reduced phytosterol levels were associated with reduced CAD risk (rs41360247, OR=0.84, 95%CI 0.78-0.91, p=1.3x10-5). Conclusion: Common variants in ABCG8 and ABO are strongly associated with serum phytosterol levels and show concordant and previously unknown associations with CAD. Key words: Coronary Disease, Genes, Genetics, Lipids Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 3 Phytosterols such as campesterol and sitosterol are naturally occurring constituents of plants with close structural similarity to cholesterol. Mammals are unable to synthesize these substances and thus, the diet is the only source of phytosterols, which are abundant in vegetables, nuts, fruits and seeds.1 An average Western diet contains approximately 200 - 400 mg phytosterols of which less than 5% are absorbed. Excretion of phytosterols is mainly by the biliary route.1 Since phytosterols are exclusively derived from dietary sources and taken up with cholesterol, these substances can serve as markers of cholesterol uptake. Supplementation of phytosterols in “functional foods” is widely used for their potential to lower o cholesterol by interfering with intestinal cholesterol absorption. In humans, dos doses of 0.8 - 4.0 g daily reduce low-density-lipoprotein levels by 10 - 15%.2 However, everr, such such su ch food foo oodd supplementation cconcentration oncentraatio ion o of tthese heese s sste t ro te ols. s F or eexample, xamp xa mple mp lee, di le, ddietary ettar aryy su upp pple leem can raise the serum co sterols. For supplementation with 1.1 g phytosterols/day doubled o bl oubl bled ed ccholesterol h leestterroll no ho norm normalized rmal rm rmal aliz ized iz ed sserum eerrum ccampesterol ampe am pest pe stter erol rol levels. lev e el els. s.3 s. Despite their LDL-lowering owe weri ring ri ngg effect, eeff ffec ff ectt, there ec ther th eree is increasing er iinc ncre nc reas re asin as ingg concern in conc co ncer nc ernn that er that ele eelevated leva le vate va tedd sserum phytosterol te levels may inadvertently increase cardiovascular risk.1 A recent study found that dietary supplementation with phytosterols not only increases serum levels of the respective sterols but also affects atherogenesis in mice and leads to increased tissue sterol concentrations in sclerotic aortic valves of humans.4 Evidence for a pro-atherogenic role of phytosterols is also documented in patients with sitosterolemia, a rare autosomal disease characterized by massive accumulation of phytosterols in serum and tissues, who subsequently develop severe premature atherosclerosis.5 Moreover, some but not all epidemiological studies found an association of elevated serum phytosterol levels with coronary artery disease (CAD).6-8 Serum phytosterol levels are under strong genetic control with heritability estimates of ~80%.9 Known proteins responsible for controlling serum phytosterol levels include Niemann-Pick C1 Like 1 (NPC1L1) and ATP-binding cassette hemitransporters G5 and G8 (ABCG5, ABCG8). Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 4 NPC1L1, a proposed drug target for ezetimibe, plays a role in the entry of sterols into enterocytes,10 whereas ABCG5 and ABCG8 have previously been identified as the genes responsible for familial sitosterolemia and sterol excretion.5 However, little is known about the genetic regulation of phytosterol serum levels in the general population and the association of phytosterol gene variants with CAD. We therefore pursued a genomic approach to first identify common genetic variants associated with phytosterol serum levels and subsequently tested whether these variants were associated with CAD. Methods ement nt. nt. nt A detailed description of methods is provided in the online supplement. Study cohorts The study design is shown show sh ownn in Figure ow F Fig igur ig uree 1. ur 1. The The genome-wide gen gen enoome me-w -wid -w idee association id asso as soci so ciat ci atio at ionn st io stud study udyy w ud was carried out in 1644 population-based subjects from the KORA (Cooperative Research in the Region of Augsburg) S3/F3 study of which 1495 had full phenotypic and genotypic data.11 Replication was sought in two further population-based studies, i.e. a second, independent sample of the KORA S3/F3 study of 1157 adults, and the CARLA study (CARdiovascular disease, Living and Ageing in Halle), comprising 1760 adults.12 Additional replication was performed in 760 healthy blood donors (18-68 years).13 The association of phytosterol SNPs with CAD was investigated in a meta-analysis of 11 different populations comprising a total of 13,764 CAD cases and 13,630 healthy controls. Basic characteristics of these study populations are described in the online supplement. All studies were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and were approved by the respective local ethics committees. The utilization of human liver samples Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 5 obtained from patients who underwent partial liver resection was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Leipzig (registration number 23-2006).14 Phenotyping Serum levels of phytosterols (campesterol, sitosterol and brassicasterol) and cholesterol were determined by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) as previously described.15 Genotyping SNP arrays in the KORA S3/F3 study and the WTCCC CAD stud study uddy we w were eree pperformed ere er with the 16, 6, 17 Affymetrix GeneChip® p® 500 500K 0K Ma Mapp Mapping ppin pp ingg Ar in A Array r y Se ra S Set, t,16 whereas wheere w r as tthe hee Aff A Affymetrix® f ym ymeetrrixx Genome Wide Human SNP Array 6.0 6 0 was 6. was employed em mpl ploy oyed oy ed in in the the German Geerrma mann MI Family Fam amil ilyy Study il Stud St u y II. ud II Genotyping of II individual SNPs was as performed as perf pe rfor rf orme or medd using me usin us ingg iPlex in iPle iP lexx single le sing si ngle ng le base bbas asee primer as prim pr imer im er extension eext xten xt ensi en sion si on and aann MALDI-TOF (matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight) mass spectrometry (Sequenom, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.),18 a melting curve based method with a single fluorescently labelled probe on an ABI PRISM 7900 HT Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany),19 and TaqMan allelic discrimination (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany). Gene expression analysis RNA was isolated from healthy appearing segments of liver samples using the monophasic Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). Gene expression of ABCG5, ABCG8 and beta-actin was determined in an ABI PRISM 7900 HT Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany) by TaqMan quantitative RT-PCR.19 Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 6 Stages of genotyping and statistical analysis First stage genome-wide association study of KORA S3/F3 From 490,032 SNPs, a total of 390,130 were selected based on stringent quality criteria (inclusion criteria for autosomal SNPs: call rate t 95%, minor allele frequency (MAF) t 1%, Pvalues of exact HWE test t 10-6). Campesterol, sitosterol, brassicasterol and corresponding ratios normalized to total cholesterol concentrations as well as total cholesterol itself were logtransformed prior to analysis. Models of additive genetic effects and recessive minor allele effects were calculated adjusting for age, sex and log(BMI). For detection of population tor ors ranged between stratification, we analysed QQ-Plots for all these test statistics. Inflation fact factors 1.00063 and 1.012, indicating no relevant inflation of test statistics isticcs (S ((Supplementary (Sup Suupppl plem em Figure 1). Adjustment for the first fir fir irsst three ee principal priinc ncip ipal ip al components ccom ompo om po one n nts did did not not o substantially sub ubsttan anti tial ti a ly change al cha h n the identified associations, supporting r g tthe rting he aabsence bssenc n e of sig significant igni ig nifi ni fica fi cant bbias ca iass ca ia caus caused u eed us d bby y po ppopulation pula pu l t la stratification (Supplementary Table le 1). le 11)). In In addition, addi ad d ti di tion onn, we we used use sedd multivariate mu ult l iv i ar aria iaatee aanalysis iate n ly na lysi siss of si of vvariance ariiancce (MANOVA) to calculate a summary statistic for the combination of both the total phytosterol concentration and the ratios of total phytosterol and total cholesterol concentration. Second stage, validation in KORA S3/F3 stage 2 We selected 68 SNPs for further validation in remaining individuals of the KORA S3/F3 study (n=1157). These included the 65 top SNPs of the list of SNPs ordered by the minimum of the pvalues of all univariate phenotype associations. In addition, three SNPs located in ABCG8 were genotyped. These include SNP rs4245791, which had initially violated quality criteria (call rate, HWE) on the 500K Array Set due to misgenotyping, and the two coding SNPs rs11887534 (D19H) and rs4148217 (T400K) not present on the 500k Array Set with known associations with serum phytosterol levels.9 SNPs were genotyped using the Sequenome assay. From the 68 7 initially selected SNPs, a total of 9 SNPs, including the 4 SNPs located in ABCG8 (rs41360247, rs4245791, rs11887534 and rs4148217) and 5 additional SNPs showed p-values less than 0.01 in at least one of the test statistics in the second stage and were selected for the final replication step. Third stage, validation in CARLA The 9 SNPs selected in stage 2 were genotyped in n=1760 individuals with full phenotype and covariate information in the CARLA cohort. For association analyses data were additionally adjusted for statin treatment. Five SNPs of the total of 9 SNPs selected in the second stage were finally validated with significance levels below Bonferroni corrected ected thresholds dss in at least one of the test statistics. The set of validated SNPs comprised again gain aall lll ffour ouur S SNPs in ABCG8 791 91, rs11887534, rs11188 8875534 34,, rs4148217) rs41 rs 4148 41 48821 217) 7 and and one one SNP SNP in in AB BO (rs657152). (rs rs65 rs 6571 65 7 5 (rs41360247, rs4245791, ABO a lo aplo ap loty type ty pe aana naly na lysi ly siss in C si CAR ARLA AR LA Fine mapping and haplotype analysis CARLA For fine mapping of the ABCG5/8 locus, we genotyped additional SNPs in the haplotype block containing the four SNPs validated in the third stage from HapMap including flanking and known coding SNPs in CARLA subjects. After phasing of the data,20 we determined the allelic association for each of the haplotypes. Finally, we determined the genetic association for the major haplotype variants determined by rs4952688 and rs11887534 using additive models. Combined analysis We calculated a combined effect for the validated SNPs (rs41360247, rs4245791 and rs657152) which were genotyped in all three stages using regression models which additionally included cohort assignment variables. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 8 DNA sequencing of ABCG5 and ABCG8 DNA sequencing of the intergenic region of ABCG5 and ABCG8 and ~6 kb of the flanking sequence was performed in DNA from 17 human liver samples using the primers described in Supplementary Table 2. Analysis of blood groups Blood groups were determined by standard immunological testing in the cohort of blood donors and by genotyping in the CARLA cohort. Association analysis of blood groups was performed by comparing the sterol phenotypes between the blood group O and nd the pooled blood bl groups A, B and AB. Meta-analysis of phytosterol-related y ost yto ster erol er ol-r ol -rrellatted d SNPs SNP NPss with with C CAD AD iin n 11 studies stu tudi dies di ess comprising com ompr pris pr isin is ingg 13,764 coronary in nd 113 3,63 6300 he 63 heal alth al thyy co th cont ntro nt rols ro ls artery disease cases aand 13,630 healthy controls Association of the identified variants in ABCG8 (rs41360247 and rs4245791) and ABO (rs657152) was performed in a meta-analysis of 11 studies comprising 13,764 coronary artery disease cases and 13,630 healthy controls. Cases and controls of the single studies were selected from the same geographic region. Studies were analysed separately using logistic regression models of additive and recessive heritability. Combined effects were estimated using fixed and random effects models. Heterogeneity between studies was tested with Q-statistics. No significant heterogeneities were found. Calculations were performed using the package “meta” of the R software suite (www.r-project.org). Combined test of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was performed with the help of a stratified test proposed by Troendle et al.21 Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 9 Results Genome-wide Study of Plasma Phytosterols and Replication The initial genome-wide analysis using the Affymetrix 500k array identified one single association at the ATP-binding cassette hemitransporter G8 (ABCG8) gene (rs41360247) achieving genome-wide significance for phytosterol serum levels (Table 1). One additional SNP (rs4245791), located 775 bp distal to rs41360247, was also highly significant but had to be excluded in the initial analysis due to quality problems (Supplementary Table 3). This SNP also achieved genome-wide significance after re-genotyping using thee Sequenome assay a as (Table 1). A total of 68 SNPs (Supplementary Table 3) were taken forward for vvalidation aallid idat a io at on iin n additional 1157 RA S3/F3 RA F sstudy F3 tud udyy (S ud (Sup uppl up pllem men entaary T able ab le 44)) an aand d 9 SN NPs P aachieving c subjects of the KORA (Supplementary Table SNPs nominal significance of p<0.01 0 w 01 were eree ta er ttaken ake keen fo forw forward war ardd fo forr re rep replication pli lica cati ca tion ti on iin n 17 1760 60 iindividuals ndiv nd ivid iv idua id u ls ooff the independent ua CARLA study (Supplementary plem pl emen enta en tary ta ry T Tab Table able ab le 55) 5). ). Fine-mapping and Haplotype Analysis of ABGC5/8 SNPs rs4245791 and rs41360247 at the ABCG8 locus were significantly associated in all three studies (Table 1, Supplementary Table 6) and were independent of each other (r2=0.03, Supplementary Table 7). Fine mapping of the haplotype block in CARLA (Figure 2, Supplementary Table 8) revealed that rs41360247 was in close linkage disequilibrium (r2 = 0.93) with coding SNP rs11887534 (D19H), which has been associated with phytosterol levels in previous studies and is known to affect protein structure.9 In addition, SNP rs4952688 was identified by fine-mapping as a proxy for rs4245791 (r2 = 0.89) with lowest p-values of association of all SNPs used for fine-mapping. Haplotype analyses of the ABCG8 locus indicated Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 10 that the effects of rs11887534 (D19H) and rs4952688 on phytosterol levels SNPs were additive (Supplementary Tables 9, 10; Supplementary Figure 2). Association of ABCG5/8 SNP rs4952688 with mRNA Expression One possible mechanism for the association between SNP rs4952688 and serum phytosterol levels was by affecting expression levels of ABCG5 or ABCG8. To test this hypothesis, we determined mRNA levels of these genes in 57 patient samples of normal human liver tissue and observed significantly reduced mRNA expression levels of these two genes in association with the T allele of rs4952688 (Figure 3) but not with rs41360247 or rs11887534 (D19H). (D1 D Sequencing of the putative intergenic promoter region revealed no SNPs that were rree aassociated sssoocciiaate ted with expression at the the responsible reesppon onsi sibl si bblle va vari r an antt re rresides si side dess ou outs tsid ts de th his i rregion egio eg io on (S (Sup upp up p levels, suggesting that variant outside this (Supplementary Figure 3). Association of Phytosterols with ABO Blood Groups Another novel finding was that in addition to ABCG8, the ABO-gene locus was consistently associated and also achieved genome-wide significance for association with phytosterol levels in the combined analysis (Table 1, Supplementary Table 6). The effect of the ABO gene SNP rs657152 on phytosterol levels was independent of the effects mediated by SNPs in the ABCG8 gene (Supplementary Table 7). The explained variance of serum phytosterols by ABO and ABCG8 loci was ~10% (Supplementary Table 11). ABO codes for a polymorphic glycosyltransferring enzyme, responsible for the major blood groups. Our studies revealed that rs657152 was tightly linked with the blood group O1 allele (Supplementary Figure 4), coding for a protein devoid of glycosyltransferase activity. Genetic analysis of blood groups in CARLA and immunological determination in an independent cohort of blood donors confirmed that the non- Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 11 functional O allele was associated with decreased phytosterol serum levels (Figure 4, Supplementary Tables 12, 13). Meta-analysis of Association of Identified Phytosterol SNPs with CAD Risk Given the evidence suggesting that elevated phytosterol levels may increase the risk of atherosclerosis, we next tested the association of variants in ABGC8 (rs41360247, rs4245791) and ABO (rs657152) with CAD. This was done in a metaanaylsis of 11 different studies comprising a total of 13,764 CAD cases and 13,630 healthy controls (Figure 5). Detailed results for each study are presented in Supplementary Figure 5 and Supplementary upplementary yT Tables 14-16. We found that alleles associated with increased phytosterol levels were rree ppositively osit os itiv veelly associated with y of CAD D, wh whil ille al ile aalleles lele le les as le aassociated sooci c ateed w ithh re it redu duuc d ph duce phyt y os yt o te tero r l were associated increased probability CAD, while with reduced phytosterols with reduced probability b li bili lity ty ooff CA CAD AD (F (Figure Fig igur uree 5) ur 5). We aalso lsoo te ls test tested sted st ed tthe he ef effe effect f ct ooff iidentified genetic fe variants on LDL-cholesterol oles ol este tero te roll le ro leve levels, vels ve ls, si ls sinc since ncee recent nc rece re cent ce nt st sstudies tud udie iess ha ie have ve ssho shown hown ho wn an an as asso association soci so ciat ci att with SNPs in ABCG5/8 (Aulchenko et al, Kathiresan et al Nat Genet 2009). The latter could be confirmed for ABCG8 rs41360247 and rs4245791. We also found an association of ABO (rs657152) with LDLcholesterol (Supplementary Figure 6). Discussion Our genome-wide analysis and functional studies revealed that ~10% of the variability of serum phytosterol levels in the normal population is explained by three variants found at the ABCG8 and ABO gene loci. Using this information, we investigated whether genetic variants affecting phytosterol levels also modulate the risk of CAD. We found that all three polymorphisms identified to display association with phytosterols were independently associated with CAD. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 12 Polymorphisms associated with increased phytosterol serum levels were associated with an increased risk of CAD, whereas a polymorphism associated with decreased phytosterols was associated with decreased CAD risk. Thus, our approach using genome-wide analysis of the intermediate phenotype of serum phytosterols, which is as a maker of cholesterol homeostasis led to the identification of 3 novel genetic variants modulating CAD risk. ABCG8 is a plausible candidate for affecting the inherited variability of serum phytosterol levels, given that the gene encodes the ATP-binding cassette hemitransporter that carries phytosterols into the bile.1, 2, 5 Indeed, smaller studies previously reported ann association between beet the coding variant D19H in this gene and serum phytosterols,9 a finding that w wa was as cco confirmed oonf nffir nfi irm by our data. nd to affect afffec ect th thee su susc scep sc ep pti t bi bili l ty y for or ccholesterol ho ole l st ster eroll ggal er al st al all ston one disease.22 It was on D19H was also found susceptibility gall stone speculated that the 19H 19 9H variant vari va rian an nt may m y increase ma incr in c ea ease se the the efficiency eff ffic icie ic ieenc ncyy of of ssterol tero te rol ex ro eexcretion xcr creet cr into the bile lumen, causing hypersaturation bile, subsequently leading stone formation.23 ersa er satu sa tura tu rati ra tion ti on of of th thee bi bile le, su le subs bseq bs eque eq uent ue ntly nt ly y llea eadi ea ding di ng ttoo ga gall ll sst t Indeed, there is published data about an association between the D19H variant and serum cholesterol levels.24, 25 Moreover, recent genome wide studies identified an association of LDLcholesterol with proxies to D19H and the other ABCG8 variant, rs4245791.26, 27 This effect could be confirmed in the present study (Supplementary Figure 6), albeit the association of D19H – and the other variants we identified – with serum cholesterol levels was only weak and effects on phytosterols remained highly significant after normalization to cholesterol (Table 1) or adjustment to LDL-cholesterol (Supplementary Table 17). A novel finding of the present study is that a second genomic effect at the ABCG8 locus adds independently to the association with serum phytosterol levels. This one was tagged by SNPs rs4952688/rs4245791 and related to increased liver expression of ABCG5 and of ABCG8 mRNAs. The parallel regulation of two genes suggested that rs4952688/rs4245791 might be Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 13 linked to a variant, which affects transcriptional activation. However, sequencing of 6kb around the intergenic region revealed no obvious causative mutations, indicating that other factors outside this region might be responsible (Supplementary Figure 3). An unexpected finding was that the ABO blood group gene locus also affects serum phytosterol levels. The O-allele, which leads to dysfunctional mutations devoid of glycosyltransferase activity, was associated with significantly reduced phytosterol concentrations. One may speculate that addition of carbohydrate groups to oligosaccharide chains of proteins might either reduce the activity of proteins responsible for eliminating sterols or induce nduce the acti activity t of proteins responsible for sterol uptake. In this regard, it is of interest that bo both th h A ABCG5 BC B C and ABCG8 yco cosylati t on ti on.28 H However, owev ow ever ev err, th the he sp specific pecif ific if ic bio bbiological iolo io lo logi ogi gicaal m me mechanism ech chan anis an ism by which ABO is undergo N-linked glycosylation. alters phytosterol levels vel vel elss is uunclear. ncle nc lear le a .29 IInterestingly, ar nter nt e es esti ting ti ngly ng ly,, itt hhas ly as bbeen eenn pr ee prev previously rev evio ious io ussly y rreported ep ep that serum cholesterol levels aree sli sslightly ligh li ghtl gh tlyy bu tl butt co cons consistently nsis ns iste is tent te ntly nt ly y eele elevated leva le vate va tedd in nnon te non-O on-O on -O ssub subjects. ubje ub ject je ctss.30, 31 IInn this regard, it is ct of interest that ABO also showed an association with serum total and LDL-cholesterol levels in our analyses (Table 1, Supplementary Figure 6). Importantly, the genetic variants associated with serum phytosterols were also associated with risk of CAD. It should be emphasised that we only tested the associations of these variants with CAD after their strong association with phytosterol levels became apparent. Therefore, the significance levels achieved for the association of the variants with CAD can be considered to be reasonably definitive. Hence the present study adds three additional variants to the evolving list of genetic markers of this common disease.16, 32, 33 However, our data fall short to prove that these two associations are causally linked, i.e. that the increase in CAD risk is functionally mediated by higher phytosterol serum levels, since the identified variants also had a concomitant effect on Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 14 cholesterol levels. In this regard it is of interest, that early studies demonstrating an effect of ABO on cholesterol, also showed a somewhat higher 5-year incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) in non-O carriers, even though these data were on the margin of statistical significance.34 Association between non-O blood group carriership with MI has been recently confirmed in a meta-analysis of predominantly retrospective studies comprising a total of 8220 cases and 509009 controls.35 Historically, ABO has been one of the first available genetically determined markers and there are numerous reports of associations with various phenotypes. Some of these studies had small sample size and showed only modest statistical significance, adding to scepticism about these findings. However, it is of great interest est that ABO has h been recently associated in a number of hypothesis-free GWA with a diverse such as erse sset e ooff ph et pphenotypes he pancreatic cancer or plasma pla lasma leve llevels le eve velss ooff ICAM-1. IC ICAM CAM AM-1 1.36, 37 T These heese dat hese ddata ataa su at sugg suggest ges estt th that hat a A ABO BO effects on these BO phenotypes may indeed e d un eed unde underlie derl de r ie a ccommon rl ommo om monn me mo mech mechanism chan ch anis an issm th that at sstill till ti ll nneeds eeds ee eds tto o be ddetermined. etee et Despite it is not clear from our study whether phytosterols or cholesterol are causally linked with CAD, our results provide evidence for a role of sterol homoestasis as an effector of CAD since phytosterols are well established markers of sterol uptake and excretion. In this context it should be mentioned that we observed additive effects of risk alleles from the three variants on both phenotypes. In addition, a mechanistic link between phytosterol serum levels and CAD risk cannot be excluded for several reasons: Firstly, elevated phytosterol levels have been associated with CAD in previously published studies.4, 6, 7, 38 Secondly, patients with sitosterolemia, a rare autosomal disease caused by mutations in ABCG5 and ABCG8 display a severe accumulation of phytosterols in serum and tissues and subsequently develop premature atherosclerosis.5 Thirdly, deposits of plant-sterols have been found in plaques and degenerated aortic valves of patients with atherosclerosis.4, 39 Therefore, our findings might have potential public health relevance with Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 15 regard to the frequent use of phytosterol food supplements, since a substantial number of individuals with certain genotypes may respond with relatively high phytosterol serum levels after intake of these additives.3 In summary, this is the first genome-wide association study investigating genetic variability of serum phytosterol levels in the general population. We identified significant associations of serum plant sterols with three functional genetic variants. Particularly, our data suggest novel additive mechanisms for ABCG8 and ABO in regulating serum phytosterol levels which also n genetic variants impact serum LDL-cholesterol levels. Moreover, we show that common associated with serum phytosterol levels affect CAD risk in a conc concordant nnccor o da dantt ffashion. dant a as These data me that me th genetic gen enet eetticc variants var aria iaant ntss af aaffecting feecti t ng ste tero te rol ho ro home meos me o ta tasi siss pl si play ay a ro o in susceptibly show for the first time sterol homeostasis role to CAD. Funding Sources: The KORA research platform was initiated and financed by the Helmholtz Center Munich, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and by the State of Bavaria. The KORA GWAS was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research through the National Genome Research Network (NGFN). Members of the KORA Study Group are listed in the online supplement. The CARLA Study was funded in part by a grant from the German Research Foundation. The German MI Study was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the context of the German National Genome Research Network (NGFN-2 and NGFN-plus). We are grateful to the WTCCC and the Cardiogenics Consortium for allowing us to use data from their CAD genome-wide association scans. Cardiogenics is an EU funded integrated project (LSHM-CT-2006-037593). The Leipzig Heart Study was funded in part by a grant from the Roland-Ernst-Foundation to D.T.. N.J.S. holds a Chair funded by the British Heart Foundation. Part of the study was funded by a grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research through the National Genome Research Network (NGFNplus) to D.T. and J.T. M.S. was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research 01KN0702. Part of the study was funded by a grant of the Medical Faculty, University Leipzig to A.L. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 16 References: 1. John S, Sorokin AV, Thompson PD. Phytosterols and vascular disease. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2007;18:35-40. 2. von Bergmann K, Sudhop T, Lutjohann D. Cholesterol and plant sterol absorption: recent insights. Am J Cardiol. 2005;96:10D-14D. 3. Fransen HP, de Jong N, Wolfs M, Verhagen H, Verschuren WM, Lutjohann D, von Bergmann K, Plat J, Mensink RP. Customary use of plant sterol and plant stanol enriched margarine is associated with changes in serum plant sterol and stanol concentrations in humans. J Nutr. 2007;137:1301-1306. 4. 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Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Table 1: Validation and replication of major genetic associations of serum phytosterol levels Allelic effect and p value of association Cohort SNP Gene Chr bp position Alleles MAF CR HWE CA SI BR KORA S3 500k rs41360247 ABCG8 2 43927160 T>C 0.067 0.966 0.69 -14% -10 3.6 x 10 -24% -15 1.3 x 10 -16% -12 5.5 x 10 3.3 x 10 -15 (n=1495) rs4245791 ABCG8 2 43927935 T>C 0.319 0.967 0.31 12% -17 8.1 x 10 20% -24 4.6 x 10 14% -19 2.3 x 10 2.1 x 10 -22 rs657152 ABO 9 133168819 G>T 0.373 0.951 0.83 8% -5 6.0 x 10 11% -5 6.5 x 10 7% -4 8.0 x 10 3.5 x 10 -4 KORA S3 Stage 2 rs41360247 ABCG8 2 43927160 T>C 0.072 0.990 0.63 -14% -9 5.4 x 10 -20% -10 5.7 x 10 -15% -9 5.1 x 10 1.7 x 10 -9 (n=1157) rs4245791 ABCG8 2 43927935 T>C 0.320 0.976 0.40 15% -21 3.7 x 10 23% -27 8.8 x 10 16% % -23 23 2 3 9.3 x 10 1.5 1 5 x 10 10 rs657152 ABO 9 133168819 G>T 0.353 0.989 9 0.06 .0 06 8% -5 1.8 .8 x 10 1 9% % -4 8 x 10 1 8.5 6% % 0.0 0034 0 03 0.0034 4.6 x 10 CARLA replication rs41360247 ABCG8 2 43927160 T>C 0.056 0.990 0 0.50 0.5 .5 50 -13% -13 3% -9 2.2 2 2 x 10 1 -22% -22 % -1 -11 2.7 2 7 x 10 10 -19% 9% -12 1 8.7 8 7 x 10 1 3.0 0 x 10 10 --10 (n=1760) rs4245791 ABCG8 2 43927935 T>C 0.326 0.957 7 0.01 0 01 0.0 11% -18 3 x 10 3.7 0 20% -23 .3 x 10 1 1.3 15% 5% -20 .5 x 10 5.5 6 1 x 10 6.1 --25 rs657152 ABO 9 133168819 G>T 0.412 0.984 0.50 7% -5 2.9 x 10 7% 0.0097 6% 0.0049 Combined rs41360247 ABCG8 2 43927160 T>C 0.064 - - -14% -25 6.2 x 10 -21% -32 9.6 x 10 -16% -28 4.5 x 10 7.7 x 10 -31 (n=4412) rs4245791 ABCG8 2 43927935 T>C 0.322 - - 12% -50 1.6 x 10 21% -67 2.6 x 10 15% -55 4.3 x 10 2.2 x 10 -70 rs657152 ABO 9 133168819 G>T 0.383 - - 8% -13 9.4 x 10 9% -8 2.4 x 10 6% -7 4.9 x 10 2.8 x 10 -10 MANOVA --26 -5 0.0013 CA/CH SI/CH BR/CH MANOVA/CH -14% -12 2.8 x 10 -24% -18 3.6 x 10 -16% -14 5.3 x 10 6.5 x 10 -17 11% -19 6.5 x 10 20% -27 7.9 x 10 13% -21 4.2 x 10 9.7 x 10 -25 7% -6 8.4 x 10 10% -5 1.6 x 10 7% -4 3.1 x 10 2.4 x 10 -5 -11% -7 1.8 x 10 -17% -9 5.3 x 10 -12% -7 2.3 x 10 8.3 x 10 -9 13% -19 1.0 x 10 21% -26 1.9 x 10 14% -20 1.5 x 10 6.0 x 10 6% -4 5.0 x 10 7% 0.0072 4% 0.051 9.5 x 10 -12% -9 8.0 x 10 -21% -12 9.6 x 10 -18% -11 3.5 x 10 2.3 x 10 -10 10% -20 7.6 x 10 20% -26 3.8 x 10 15% -21 7.8 x 10 4.4 x 10 -29 4% 0.0036 4% 0.075 4% 0.085 -12% -24 1.1 x 10 -21% -33 3.2 x 10 -16% -27 3.1 x 10 4.1 x 10 -33 11% -53 3.2 x 10 20% -72 1.4 x 10 14% -56 9.8 x 10 1.1 x 10 -78 6% -10 2.2 x 10 7% -7 5.1 x 10 5% -5 5.0 x 10 3.5 x 10 -27 -4 -0.4% 0.76 0.8% 0.27 0.2% 0.87 -3% 0.028 2% 0.015 2% 0.035 -2% 0.21 0.5% 0.47 3% 0.0085 0.035 -9 Genome wide association in KORA S3, validation in the remaining individuals of KORA S3, replication in the CARLA cohort and combined analysis of the three SNPs with best p-values of association with phytosterols. CA, campesterol; SI, sitosterol; BR, brassicasterol; CH, cholesterol; MANOVA, multivariate analysis of CA, SI, BR; CA/CH, campesterol normalized to cholesterol; SI/CH, sitosterol normalized to cholesterol; BR/CH, brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol; MANOVA/CH, multivariate analysis of CA/CH, SI/CH, BR/CH; bp position refers to NCBI build 36. Alleles, major allele > minor allele; MAF, minor allele frequency; CR, call rate; HWE, P value of deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; p-values of association are given for the additive model for rs41360247 and rs4245791 and for the recessive model for rs657152. Effects on plasma phytosterol concentrations are shown in Supplementary Table 6. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 CH -2% 0.046 0.9% 0.031 1.5% 0.011 Figure Legends: Figure 1: Study design. Multi-stage association analyses of SNPs with serum phytosterol levels (shaded boxes) and metaanalyses of selected phytosterol-SNPs (rs41360247, rs4245791, rs657152) with CAD ( open box). Figure 2: Association analysis and LD-plot of ABCG5/ABCG8 with plasma campesterol in the CARLA cohort (n=1,760). (A) Genomic structure of ABCG5 and ABCG8. Both genes are located in a head-to-head structure with a short 374 bp intergenic region. (B) –log(P) values of association of tagging SNPs of the haplotype block with plasma campesterol concentrations. A total of 32 SNPs were genotyped. cSNPs and spicing variants were force-included. (C) Haplotype analysis (D’) of SNPs in the CARLA cohort. Figure 3: Effect of SNP expression ABCG5 ABCG8 NP rrs4952688 s49 4952 52 2688 on mRNA expr prression of AB ABC CG5 and ABCG G in human liver tissue (n=57). Expression 0.01. ssio ss on levelss were wer erre no nnormalized ormali lizedd to li o bbeta-actin. etaet a-ac aactiin. * iindicates ac ndicat nd attes P < 0. ates . Figure 4: Effect of AB ABO blood groups plasma A BO O bl bloo oodd gr oo grou oups ou ps on on pl plas asma as ma cam ccampesterol ampe am pest pe ster st erol er ol con cconcentrations. once on cent ce ntra nt rati ra tion onss. (A on ((A) A CARLA study (n=1760). (B) Replication blood The non-functional O-allele i iin bl d ddonors ((n=760). 760) Th f i lO ll l was consistently associated with significantly reduced campesterol concentrations, compared to the functional Aand B-alleles (P = 7.6 x 10-5 and P = 0.011, respectively). Figure 5: Effect of identified SNPs on plasma campesterol and OR of CAD risk. (A) Fold change and 95% CI of campesterol levels in the combined analysis of KORA and CARLA for SNPs located in ABCG8 and ABO genes using additive and recessive models, respectively (n=4,412). (B) Odds ratio and 95% CI for CAD from the meta-analysis including 13,764 cases and 13,630 controls. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Stage 1: Genome-wide association of serum phytosterol levels in population-based sample (KORA S3/F3) n=1,495 (490,032 SNPs/individual) Stage 2: Validation of serum phytosterol association in remaining KORA S3/F3 n=1,157 (68 SNPs/individual) Stage 3: Replication of serum phytosterol assocoation as sso soc co oa attio on in CARLA SNPs/individual) n= n=1,760 = (9 SNPs/ /iin ndividuall) Replication Repl Re plic pl icat ic cat atio ion io n of p phy phytosterol hyttost hy ste e donors associ association asso ciat atio ion n in b blood lood lo od d do o n=760 (ABO) Metaanalysis of association between rs41360247, rs4245791, rs657152 and CAD (13,764 cases vs. 13,630 controls) Angio-Lübeck CARLA ECTIM Erlangen GerMIFSII GoKard KORA-B KORA-MI LE-Heart Popgen WTCCC 2,843 cases vs. 421 controls 145 cases vs. 1,589 controls 1,114 cases vs. 1,154 controls 797 cases vs. 738 controls 1,222 cases vs. 1,407 controls 966 cases vs. 995 controls 589 cases vs. 607 controls 1,504 cases vs. 1,550 controls 469 cases vs. 422 controls 2,189 cases vs. 1,809 controls 1,926 cases vs. 2,938 controls Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 rs4148189 Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 rs4952689 rs6544718(V632A) rs4953028 4 56 rs28517482 (splicing) C rs4245795 rs4245794 rs12468591 rs414821 s 2 7 (T400K) 21 (T T40 4 0K K rs4148217 rs rs49 49 952 5 68 rs4952688 rs67 rs 6733 67 3 45 rs6733452 rrs10174731 rs 1 17 10 7473 rs67 6709 0 90 9 rs6709904 rs34 rs 34 475 7542 243 4 (E238K) (E2 238K K rs34754243 rs rs10 s10 1022 22 219 1 1 rs10221914 2 3 rs17 rs 17 742 2412 rs17424122 rrs4245791 rs 42 24579 rrs41360247 rs 4136 3602 02 24 ABCG5 rs s4148 821 2 1 (Y54C) (Y Y54C C rs4148211 211 rs41 rs 4 48 48210 0 (s (spl plic pl i ing ic g rs4148210 (splicing) rs1017 rs 17992 17 rs10179921 rrs4148202 rs 41 4148 14 20 r 11 rs 188 8 75 7 34 (D19H) (D1 D 9H H rs11887534 43 rs38 rs 3806 0 47 4 rs3806471 rrs 4131 3122 31 22 rs4131228 rs414818 8 rs4148185 10 987 6 5 rs42 rs 4 89 42 8923 92 rs4289236 rs4148187 rs4073237 rs4245786 rs1864814 B rs10439467 -log(P) A ABCG8 78 91011 1213 25 20 15 10 5 0 80 * 60 40 0 32 2 22/3 22/3 A AA AT/TT AT/TT Copies C op ABCG8/ copies c o beta-actin 50 100 20 ABCG8 103 10 103 Copies ABCG5/ copies beta-actin ABCG5 40 * 30 20 1 0 10 0 32 22/3 AA A A AT/TT Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Campesterol (mg/L) A 6.2 6.0 P = 7.6 x10-5 5.8 5.6 5.4 5.2 623 0 777 237 102 A B B Blood lood g group ro oup B AB Campesterol (mg/L) B 5.8 5.6 P = 0.011 5.4 5.2 5.0 301 0 296 111 A B Blood group 52 AB Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 A ABCG8 rs41360247 ABCG8 rs4245791 ABO rs657152 P = 6.2x10-25 P = 1.7x10-50 P = 9.4x10-13 0.8 0.9 lower campesterol 1.0 1.1 1.2 higher campesterol B ABCG8 rs41360247 ABCG8 rs4245791 ABO rs657152 P = 2.3x10-6 P = 2.2x10-6 P = 3.9x10-6 0.8 8 0 0.9 .9 9 less CAD 1.0 1 .0 0 1.1 1 .1 1 1.2 1. . more CAD Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material Teupser et al., Genetic regulation of serum phytosterol levels and risk of coronary artery disease The supplemental materials have the following sections in order: 1. Study cohorts…………………………………………………………………....2 2. Genotyping and gene expression analysis……………………….………..5 3. Statistical analysis……………………………………………………………...7 4. References……………………………………………………………….……..13 5. Supplementary Tables………………………………………………………..16 6. Supplementary Figures…………………………………………………........35 7. Members of the KORA Study Group………………………………………..41 Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 2 1. Study cohorts Cohorts for phytosterol GWA and replications The study design is shown in Figure 1. All study subjects used for association of serum phytosterols were of European descent and recruited in Germany. Genome-wide analysis was performed in a sample of 1495 subjects with full genotype and phenotype information from the KORA S3/F3 study, representative of the general population from the region of Augsburg, Germany, aged 25-69 years (KORA S3/F3 500K). Subjects were examined in 1994–1995. Recruitment and study procedures of KORA have been described.1 For validation, data from a subset of 1157 subjects of KORA S3/F3 aged 2574 years was used (KORA stage 2). Replication and fine mapping of the identified loci was performed in the CARLA study (n=1760), representative of the general population from the region of Halle (Saale), Germany, aged 45-83 years.2 Additional replication was performed in a cohort of 760 healthy blood donors (18-68 years) recruited at the Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Leipzig.3 All studies were performed according to the declaration of Helsinki. Population-based studies were approved by institutional review boards and ethics committees in Leipzig, Munich and Halle (Saale), Germany. The utilization of human liver samples obtained from patients who underwent liver resection was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Leipzig (registration number 23-2006).4 Cohorts for CAD metaanalysis Angio-Lueb. The Lübeck angiographic study includes 2,843 patients with angiographically proven CAD who underwent cardiac catheterization at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck between 2005 and 2007 (Lübeck angiographic registry of patients with structural heart disease). Patients were not selected for particular risk factors or phenotypes. Controls consists of patients with proven exclusion of CAD from Lübeck (n=421).5 CARLA. n=145 patients with confirmed medical history of myocardial infarction or coronary artery disease and n=1589 controls selected from the same cohort.2 Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 3 ECTIM. The ECTIM (Etude Cas-Témoin sur l'Infarctus du Myocarde) Study is a casecontrol study of MI based on the MONICA (Multinational MONItoring of trends and determinants in CArdiovascular disease) project registers in the United-Kingdom, including Northern Ireland and France. 1,114 MI patients were recruited 3 to 9 months after the event and had to satisfy the WHO criteria for definite acute MI (category I). In each center, controls (n=1,154) of similar age and sex were randomly selected in the areas covered by the MONICA registers.6, 7 Erlangen. The Erlangen cohort included 797 consecutive patients with first appearance of CAD seen at the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital Erlangen seen between September 2005 and October 2007. All patients underwent coronary angiography. In addition, we enrolled 738 healthy controls (with invasive exclusion of CAD or healthy blood donors). All patients and controls were of German descent. The study was approved by the institutional ethics committee for human subjects at the Medical Faculty of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg.8 GerMI FS II. The German Myocardial Infarction Family Study (GerMIFS) II compromises 1222 patients that had a validated myocardial infarction (MI) with a strong genetic component as documented by an early age of onset (prior to the age of 60 years).5 Patients were identified following their admission for acute treatment of MI or in cardiac rehabilitation clinics. Population-based controls were derived from the KORA S4 study1 (n=820) and through the population-based PopGen special control biobank (PopGenSPC)9 who were recruited in Schleswig-Holstein (n=587). GoKard. The cohort included n=966 cases with angiographically proven CAD, who underwent coronary angiography because of chest pain or any other clinical reason requiring angiography at the cardiology department at the University of Regensburg (GoKard). The study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Regensburg (Reg Nr. 06211). Population-based controls (n=995) were derived from participants of the KORA S3/F3 cohort. The controls were independent of the controls chosen for KORA-MI and KORA-B (see below). Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 4 KORA-B. The study comprised n=589 patients selected from a myocardial infarction registry who were <60 years at the time of the event. Population-based controls (n=607) were derived from participants of the KORA S3/F3 cohort. The controls were independent of the controls chosen for KORA-MI and GoKard. KORA-MI. Cases (n =1,504) had a validated MI with early age of onset (prior to the age of 60 years) and were drawn from the population-based MONICA/KORA MI Registry.10 Patients were identified at their hospital admission for acute treatments of MI. Population-based controls (n=1,550) were derived from 3,152 randomly selected participants of the KORA S3/F3 cohort.11 The controls represent a gender and agestratified random sample of all German residents from the same geographical area. The controls were independent of the controls chosen for KORA-B and GoKard. LE-Heart. LE-Heart is a cohort study of patients undergoing first coronary angiography for suspected CAD. Cases (n=469) were patients presenting with >50% stenosis of the coronary arteries, controls (n=422) were patients with angiographic exclusion of CAD. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Leipzig (Reg. Nr. 276-2005). PopGen. The PopGen-CAD sample9 (n = 2,189) comprised unrelated German CAD patients who were recruited in Schleswig-Holstein, through regional catheterisation laboratories in the northernmost region in Germany (UK S-H Kiel, local hospitals Rendsburg, Schleswig, Flensburg, Heide), that have been contacted by the populationbased PopGen biobank (www.popgen.de). The 1,809 male PopGen-controls of the BAfM (Bundesanstalt für Milchforschung) were selected by age from the general population via the registration register of the same region. WTCCC. The Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium coronary artery disease (WTCCC CAD) cohort includes 1926 cases with validated history of CAD before the age of 66 years. All cases also had a positive family history for CAD in a first degree relative. 2938 population-based subjects or healthy blood donors were used as controls.12, 13 Subjects in both studies were Caucasian of European origin. All studies were approved by their local ethics committees. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 5 2. Genotyping and gene expression analysis KORA 500K Genotyping DNA of KORA samples was extracted from EDTA anticoagulated blood using a commercially available kit (Gentra, Minneapolis MN) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Genotyping of 1644 samples of the KORA S3/F3 study was performed using the Affymetrix Gene Chip Human Mapping 500K Array Set. Genomic DNA was hybridized in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations and genotypes were called using BRLMM clustering algorithm. Genotyping of the sample has been detailed in.14 From 490,032 SNPs, a total of 374,370 autosomal SNPs were selected for subsequent analyses based on stringent quality control criteria. Inclusion criteria were call rate ≥ 95%, minor allele frequency (MAF) ≥ 1% and P-values of exact HWE test ≥ 10-6. The HWE criterion was violated by 13,220 SNPs (2.7%), the MAF criterion by 63,142 (12.9%) and the call rate criterion by 48,469 (9.9%). 115,662 (23.6%) of SNPs violated at least one of the criteria. For the X-chromosome, these criteria were analyzed for males and females separately and HWE testing was only performed in females. SNPs in the pseudoautosomal region were eliminated. For males, a total of 8,164 SNPs and for females a total of 7,596 SNPs passed all quality criteria. WTCCC CAD and GerMIFS II Genotyping Genotyping in the WTCCC CAD study was performed with the Affymetrix® Human Mapping 500K Array Set12, whereas samples in the GerMIFS II were genotyped with the Affymetrix® Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0. Sequenom MALDI TOF MS Genotyping Genotyping of individual SNPs of KORA samples was performed using iPlex single base primer extension and MALDI-TOF (matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-offlight) mass spectrometry in a 384-well-format (Sequenom, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.) as described.15 Genotyping was performed by laboratory personnel blinded to case-control status. Standard genotyping quality control included 10% duplicate samples, testing for HWE as well as negative samples and revealed no major errors. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 6 Melting Curve and TaqMan Based Genotyping DNA of CARLA samples was isolated using the Qiagen blood kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). SNP genotyping was performed in an ABI PRISM 7900 HT Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany) using a melting curve based method with a single fluorescently labelled probe as previously described16 or by TaqMan allelic discrimination according to the manufacturer’s recommendations (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany). DNA Sequencing of ABCG5 and ABCG8 DNA sequencing of the intergenic region of ABCG5 and ABCG8 and ~6 kb of the flanking sequence was performed in DNA from 17 human liver samples. DNA was amplified under standard conditions using the primers described in Supplementary Table 2. Samples were purified and sequencing was performed by standard dye-terminator chemistry (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany). Gene Expression Analysis RNA from human liver tissue was isolated using the monophasic Trizol reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) and reverse transcribed into cDNA with random hexamer primers using SuperScript II RnaseH- Reverse Transcriptase (Invitrogen). Gene expression of ABCG5, ABCG8 and beta-actin was determined in an ABI PRISM 7900 HT Sequence Detection System (Applied Biosystems, Darmstadt, Germany) by TaqMan quantitative RT-PCR in a 384-well format using specific primers and probes.16 Probes were fluorescently labelled and were selected to span two exons in order to avoid coamplification of genomic DNA. Primers for ABCG5 mRNA were forward 5’ CCCGTACACAGGCATGCTGA 3’, reverse 5’ CTGACTCTCCTGGTCGCTGACA 3’ and the probe sequence 6FAM-ACGCTGTGAATCTGTTTCCCGTGCTGC-TAMRA. Primers for ABCG8 mRNA were forward 5’ GGCTGTACACCACTGGTCCATATT 3’, reverse 5’ GTAGATGATGATGTAGGCACAGTGCTC 3’ and the probe sequence 6FAM-CTTTGCCAAGATCCTCGGGGAGCTTCC-TAMRA. mRNA expression levels were normalized to 103 copies of beta-actin as a housekeeping gene. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 7 3. Statistical analysis First Stage Genome-wide Association Study of KORA S3/F3 Campesterol, sitosterol, brassicasterol and corresponding ratios normalized to total cholesterol concentrations as well as total cholesterol itself were log-transformed prior to analysis to achieve a normal distribution. A total of 374370 autosomal SNPs passed quality criteria, defined as a call rate ≥ 95%, a minor allele frequency (MAF) ≥ 1% and P values of exact Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) test ≥ 10-6. A full set of phenotypes including co-variates (age, gender, body mass index (BMI)) was available from 1495 probands. Association analysis was calculated for these phenotypes using regression models adjusting for log(BMI), age and sex. All analyses were performed with and without normalization of phytosterols to serum cholesterol levels. To account for the high impact of rs41360247 (intron 3 of ABCG8) in the initial analysis, we decided to perform an additional adjustment to this SNP for all SNPs residing outside the ABCG5/ABCG8 locus. Models of additive genetic effects and recessive minor allele effects were calculated. For detection of population stratification, we analysed QQ-Plots for all these test statistics. Inflation factors17 ranged between 1.00063 and 1.012, indicating no relevant inflation of test statistics (Supplementary Figure 1). Adjustment for the first three principal components18 did not substantially change the identifies associations, supporting the absence of significant bias caused by population stratification (Supplementary Table 1). In addition, we calculated a summary statistic for the combination of both the total phytosterol concentration and the ratios of total phytosterol and total cholesterol concentration as well as by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). SNPs at the X-chromosome were analysed separately for males and females. For females, the same models as for autosomal SNPs were calculated. For males only allelic associations were determined. We re-typed one SNP rs4245791, located 775 bp distal to rs41360247, which had been excluded from the initial 500k analysis due to poor call rate (0.883) and HWE violation (p = 1.3 x 10-42) in spite of a highly significant P-value of association (p = 2.6 x 10-26 for sitosterol normalized to cholesterol). Re-genotyping using the SNPplex platform revealed that poor call rate and HWE violation were due to allele-dropout on the 500K Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 8 Array Set. These parameters were not violated using SNPplex, and the P value of association of rs4245791 remained highly significant (p = 7.9 x 10-27) (Table 1). For validation in a second stage of the study we selected the 65 top SNPs of the list of autosomal SNPs ordered by the minimum of the P-values of all univariate phenotype associations adjusted for rs41360247. In addition, we included SNPs for which one of the MANOVA P-values was less than 10-5 and gonosomal SNPs with P-values less than 10-5. This set of SNPs was reduced by selecting tagging SNPs with a cut-off value for linkage disequilibrium of r2=0.8, resulting in a set of 62 autosomal and 3 gonosomal SNPs including rs41360247 (Supplementary Table 3). Additionally, 3 SNPs located in ABCG8 were added: SNP rs4245791 in ABCG8, which had initially violated quality criteria (call rate, HWE) on the 500K Array Set due to misgenotyping and coding SNPs rs11887534 (D19H) and rs4148217 (T400K) with known associations with serum phytosterol levels but not included into the 500k Array Set.19 This brought the total number of SNPs for replication which were transferred to the second stage of the study to n=68. Second Stage, Validation in KORA S3/F3 Stage 2 These 68 SNPs were analysed in the remaining individuals of the KORA S3/F3 cohort (n=1157) with full information of phenotypes, covariables and genotypes available. Out of 65 autosomal and 3 gonosomal SNPs selected in the first stage, 55 autosomal and 3 gonosomal SNPs were successfully genotyped. We performed the same statistical analysis for these SNPs as in the first stage of the study, but in addition to rs41360247, we also adjusted for SNP rs4245791 which was highly significantly associated with all phytosterol traits. A total of 9 SNPs, including the 4 SNPs located ABCG8 (rs41360247, rs4245791, rs11887534 and rs4148217) and 5 additional SNPs showed P-values less than 0.01 in one of the test statistics and were selected for the final validation step at the third stage of the study (Supplementary Table 4). Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 9 Third Stage, Validation in CARLA The 9 SNPs selected in stage 2 were genotyped in n=1760 individuals with full phenotype, covariate and genotype information of the CARLA cohort. All SNPs selected in the second stage were successfully genotyped. We calculated the same models of association as in stage 2 and additionally adjusted for statin treatment which was common in the CARLA cohort. Five SNPs of the total of 9 SNPs selected in the second stage were finally validated with significance levels below Bonferroni corrected thresholds in at least one of the test statistics. This was the case even when all test statistics were assumed to be independent resulting in a total of 162 tests performed at this last stage. The set of validated SNPs comprised again all four SNPs in ABCG8 (rs41360247, rs4245791, rs11887534, rs4148217) and one SNP in ABO (rs657152) (Supplementary Table 5). Combined Analysis We calculated a combined effect for the validated SNPs (rs41360247, rs4245791 and rs657152) which were genotyped in all three stages of 4412 subjects from KORA S3/F3 500K, KORA S3/F3 stage 2 and CARLA using regression models which additionally include cohort assignment variables (Table 1). Fine-mapping and Haplotype Analysis in CARLA For fine mapping of the ABCG5/8 locus, we selected additional SNPs in the haplotypic block containing the four SNPs validated in the third stage. For this purpose, we analysed HapMap data of individuals of European ancestry20 (MAF ≥ 0.01, pairwise r2 ≥ 0.8). Known SNPs leading to coding (n = 7) and splice-variants (n = 3) taken from dbSNP as well as rs3806471 located in the 374 bp intergenic region between ABCG5 and ABCG8 were included. In addition, flanking SNPs on either side of the haplotypic block were chosen to confirm the block’s margins. 35 SNPs were successfully genotyped in the CARLA individuals. Two of these SNPs were excluded due to severe violation of HWE criteria (P < 10-6) and one SNP (rs35648030) was monomorphic. Heatmaps of linkage disequilibrium of the remaining 32 SNPs were constructed using Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 10 Haploview 3.32.20 Within this ~50 kb (Figure 2), SNP rs4952688 and coding SNP rs11887534 (D19H) had the lowest P values of association (P for campesterol = 1.0 x 10-25 and 3.2 x 10-10, respectively) and were tightly linked with the initially identified SNPs rs4245791 (r2 = 0.89) and rs41360247 and (r2 = 0.93), respectively (Figure 2). SNPs rs4245791 and rs41360247 at the ABCG8 locus were significantly associated in all three studies (Table 1; for plasma phytosterol levels see Supplementary Table 6) and were independent of each other (r2=0.03, Supplementary Table 7). A full set of associations at ABCG8 is provided in Supplementary Table 8. Stringent quality criteria were applied for selection of individual haplotypes in the region, and 4 SNPs with a P-value of less than 0.01 for HWE test and 1 SNP with a MAF of less than 1% were excluded. In addition, we excluded individuals with more than 25% genotypes missing, resulting in a total of 1717 individuals with full phenotype, covariate and haplotype information. We identified a haplotype block containing 21 of the 27 SNP’s considered (Supplementary Table 9). For this block 21 different haplotypes were detected with an allelic frequency of more than 1%. Estimation of haplotypes was performed using fastphase 1.2.21 After phasing of the data, we determined the allelic association for each of the haplotypes (Supplementary Table 10). The major effect with respect to phytosterol levels was explained by the two SNPs, rs4952688 and rs11887534 (D19H) which were closely linked with rs4245791 (r2 = 0.89) and rs41360247 (r2 = 0.93), respectively. Because of perfect linkage disequilibrium with respect to Lewontin’s D’ we found only 3 possible haplotypes of these SNPs (CA, CT and GA), where the first nucleotide (C/G) corresponds to rs11887534 (D19H) and the second nucleotide (A/T) corresponds to rs4952688. The fourth theoretically possible combination (GT) was not present. The frequencies of these haplotypes were 64% for CA, 30% for CT and 6% for GA. As shown in Supplementary Figure 3, haplotype CT was associated with elevated phytosterol levels (dose effect 0.11, p = 2.7 x 10-20), whereas the GA haplotype was associated with decreased phytosterol levels (dose effect -0.11, p = 2.8 x 10-6, Supplementary Table 10). The explained variance of these haplotypes on phytosterol serum levels ranged between 7% for campesterol and 9.6% for sitosterol/cholesterol (Supplementary Table 11). Again, phytosterol-related phenotypes had been adjusted to age, sex, log(BMI) and statin treatment status. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 11 ABO Blood Groups ABO codes for a polymorphic glycosyl-transferring enzyme, responsible for the major blood groups, where the O alleles lead to dysfunctional mutations coding for proteins devoid of glycosyltransferase activity. The O1 allele is caused by a frame-shift mutation, whereas the O2 allele is caused by an amino acid exchange placing arginine in the catalytic center rendering the enzyme inactive. In order to investigate the haplotype structure in the vicinity of the lead SNP rs657152, the available neighbouring SNPs on the 500K Array Set were used. However, none of the SNPs in the haplotypic block showed a significant association with serum phytosterol levels below a P value of 0.01 (data not shown). In addition, we found that none of the polymorphisms coding for ABO blood groups was directly represented on the 500K Array Set. The haplotype structure at ABO is shown in Supplementary Figure 4. The major alleles are coded by SNPs rs8176746 (L266M for blood group A vs. B), rs8176747 (G268A for blood group A vs. B), rs41302905 (G268R for blood group A vs. O2) and rs8176719 (deletion leading to frame-shift for blood group O1). We genotyped these SNPs in the CARLA cohort and used the genotyping data to deduce the probands’ blood groups. Interestingly, we found that the major variant (rs8176719) responsible for the dysfunctional O1-allele was tightly linked (r² = 0.98, Supplementary Figure 4) with rs657152, identified in our initial analysis. Both variants (rs8176719 and rs657152) were significantly associated with reduced campesterol concentrations (p = 2.1 x 10-5 and 3.0 x 10-5 for rs8176719 and rs657152, respectively). In general, subjects with blood group O had significantly lower concentrations of campesterol compared to subjects with blood groups A, B, or AB (p = 7.6 x 10-5) (Figure 4A, Supplementary Table 12). The variance of phytosterol levels explained by major blood groups (O vs. A, B and AB) in the CARLA study ranged between 1.1% for campesterol and 0.2% for sitosterol/cholesterol (Supplementary Table 11). To replicate our findings, we determined serum phytosterol levels in an independent cohort of healthy blood donors (n=760). Blood groups were determined by a standard immunoassay. This replication confirmed that the dysfunctional O-allele was consistently associated with decreased campesterol concentrations compared to blood groups A, B, or AB (p = 0.011) (Figure 4B, Supplementary Table 13). These data provided consistent evidence for a reduction of serum phytosterol levels associated with the non-functional O-allele. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 12 Metaanalysis of Phytosterol-related SNPs with CAD in 11 Studies Comprising 13,764 CAD cases and 13,630 Healthy Controls Association of the identified variants in ABCG8 and ABO was performed in a metaanalysis of 11 studies comprising 13,764 coronary artery disease cases and 13,630 healthy controls (Figure 5, Supplementary Figure 5, Supplementary Tables 14, 15, 16). Cases and controls of the single studies were selected from the same geographic region. In ABCG8, we tested the association of rs41360247 and rs4245791, whereas for ABO, rs657152 was used. Studies were analysed separately using logistic regression models of additive and recessive heritability. The odds-ratio was used as measure of the within-study effect. Combined effects were estimated using fixed and random effects models. Heterogeneity between studies was tested with Q-statistics. 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Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 16 Supplementary Table 1 Effects and p-values of association of first stage genome-wide association study after adjustment for the first three principle components Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 SNP rs41360247 ABCG8 rs4245791 ABCG8 rs657152 ABO CA -15% 2.0x10-10 13% 4.8x10-18 8% 9.1x10-5 SI -24% 8.8x10-16 21% 3.2x10-24 10% 1.6x10-4 BR -17% 6.0x10-12 15% 2.9x10-20 7% 1.6x10-3 MANOVA 5.2x10-15 2.2x10-22 5.4x10-4 CA/CH -14% 1.8x10-12 11% 4.5x10-19 8% 6.6x10-6 SI/CH -24% 2.8x10-18 20% 6.4x10-26 10% 2.8x10-5 BR/CH -16% 8.0x10-14 13% 7.6x10-21 7% 3.8x10-4 MANOVA/CH 1.2x10-16 9.2x10-24 2.3x10-5 CH -0.5% 0.71 1.2% 0.11 -0.04% 0.97 CA, campesterol; SI, sitosterol; BR, brassicasterol; CH, cholesterol; MANOVA, multivariate analysis of CA, SI, BR; CA/CH, campesterol normalized to cholesterol; SI/CH, sitosterol normalized to cholesterol; BR/CH, brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol; MANOVA/CH, multivariate analysis of CA/CH, SI/CH, BR/CH; p-values of association are given for the additive model for rs41360247 and rs4245791 and for the recessive model for rs657152. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 17 Supplementary Table 2 List of primers for ABCG5/8 sequencing Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Primer G5/8Intergen-1fw G5/8Intergen-1rv G5/8Intergen-2fw G5/8Intergen-2rv G5/8Intergen-3fw G5/8Intergen-3rv G5/8Intergen-4fw G5/8Intergen-4rv G5/8Intergen-5fw G5/8Intergen-5rv G5/8Intergen-6fw G5/8Intergen-6rv G5/8Intergen-7fw G5/8Intergen-7rv G5/8Intergen-8fw G5/8Intergen-8rv G5/8Intergen-9fw G5/8Intergen-9rv G5/8Intergen-10fw G5/8Intergen-10rv G5/8Intergen-11fw G5/8Intergen-11rv Sequence CACTGCTGCCCAGGCTAGA GCTGCATTGGCCCTGAAGA TGGTAATCCAGTGTAGCAGACACTG AAGACTGGAGAATAATATTTAAAAGTTCATGTAT AAAGAAAAACGACCAGATAAGATCTGA TGAAAGAGTATAAAATTCTGCCTAACATG CCTGAGTACTTTTATATGCCATGGAAC CCAAACGGACAGGACATTCAGA AACCTGGCAGATAGCGACTGA CCAACTGAAGCCACTCTGGG CAGCAAAGCTGGGCAAATTTT CAGGAAGTGACCTCAGAGGCCT AGGACTGTTTCCTGCATGTCAA CCTGTTAGAGCCACACATGCTG GTGATGGGTGAGACAGGGTGA AGCAGAAATGGCAGGGCC CGATTCAGCCACCACAGCTT GCATGAGGAGTTTGTGGGTTAAG TGGCATCTTGGGCACCTG TCCAACCACCATTGAGGGAT GAATTTTCTTCCTCCGAAAGATGA AATATCTGCAGGAGGGATATTAGACAAT Product size 603 616 616 622 642 631 653 646 621 654 401 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 18 Supplementary Table 3 Details on SNPs selected from 500k analysis stage 1 for validation in stage 2 Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 SNP ID rs971814 rs6670302 rs10908776 rs2143091 rs17521970 rs17583313 rs11579522 rs1355391 rs41360247 rs4245791 SNP_A-1963469 rs6738590 rs6739734 rs2461741 rs1898906 rs6750111 rs17011226 rs16860868 rs4413348 rs1990805 rs4425233 rs17276327 rs3860694 rs17088961 rs11097119 rs17800095 rs7690517 rs10041522 rs25946 rs1550826 rs6875519 rs2452753 rs2220621 rs3861862 chr 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 additive model base hwe call maf aa ab bb ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ma ma/ch ch 5,641 0 0.98 0.452 482 800 328 4.7 3.5 3.4 2.5 2 1.6 2.4 0.8 2.7 56,511 0 0.99 0.244 929 602 97 0 0.3 1.2 0.6 0 2.7 4.5 5.6 1 157,147 0.2 1 0.059 1454 185 4 2.9 4.4 3.3 2.2 3.9 2.6 2.7 2.4 1.1 165,548 0 1 0.401 590 788 265 3.4 2.9 2.2 4.3 3.4 2.6 2.6 3.2 0 188,831 0.1 0.99 0.23 964 584 84 4.9 4 3.1 2.9 2.6 1.4 4 2.5 2.2 194,641 0.8 1 0.444 522 781 338 1.8 2.9 2.1 3.7 4.7 3.9 2.7 4.4 0.8 195,999 0 1 0.195 1067 514 63 2.3 2.6 3.8 1.3 1.9 2.8 2.5 1.7 1.2 222,592 0.7 0.99 0.306 794 669 164 1.9 1.7 1.1 2.5 2.2 1.4 2.8 4.1 0.1 43,985 0.2 0.97 0.067 1382 198 8 9.4 14.9 11.3 11.6 17.4 13.3 14.5 16.2 0.1 43,986 41.9 0.88 0.33 768 408 275 14.7 22.7 17.7 16.7 25.6 19.5 21.4 23.6 0.4 59,471 2.6 0.96 0.173 1059 482 30 2.3 4.4 1.7 2.2 4.6 1.5 4.4 4.6 0.3 64,971 0.1 0.99 0.208 1021 533 71 3 2.9 4.2 1.9 2.1 3 2.6 1.6 1.4 176,073 1.4 1 0.23 960 612 72 4.3 3 5 2.2 1.6 2.8 3.5 1.5 2.8 176,156 0 0.99 0.283 834 663 129 4.3 2.7 4.6 2 1.3 2.4 3.6 1.5 3.2 188,718 0.2 0.99 0.027 1533 87 0 4.2 4.7 3.5 4.2 4.8 3.3 3.5 3.6 0.4 228,683 0.5 1 0.48 433 842 368 1.8 0.7 1.4 3.7 1.4 2.8 2.2 5.3 0.8 22,359 0.9 0.96 0.289 813 625 145 4.4 3.8 4.2 4.9 4.1 4.4 3.2 3.5 0.3 114,563 0.3 1 0.18 1099 494 48 4.5 4.2 3.9 4.4 4.1 3.6 3.4 3.1 0.6 143,816 0.1 1 0.417 561 794 287 4.6 3.4 4.4 2.4 2 2.3 4.3 2.5 3.2 171,672 0.2 0.98 0.154 1151 414 40 1.4 1.2 2.8 2.2 1.7 3.9 3.2 4.6 0.1 190,751 0.1 0.99 0.125 1247 359 24 2.1 0.5 2.6 1.5 0.2 2 4.2 3.4 1 12,002 0.3 1 0.443 502 822 314 2.6 3.3 2.4 0.9 1.9 0.9 2.3 1.3 2.3 68,706 1.5 0.98 0.468 478 761 376 2.5 2.6 1.8 2.2 2.4 1.4 2.1 2.2 0.5 68,719 0.5 1 0.264 899 622 122 2.9 3.6 3.1 1.5 2.5 1.7 2.2 1.3 1.9 88,047 1.7 1 0.113 1297 307 31 2.7 1.7 2.2 4.4 2.5 3.6 1.8 3.3 0.5 109,851 0.5 1 0.273 876 637 130 2.1 1.6 0.6 3.7 2.5 1.3 3.8 6.2 0.5 158,393 0.1 0.99 0.316 755 704 160 2.2 1.7 3 4.1 2.8 5 2.5 4.6 0.6 2,268 0.2 1 0.168 1141 453 49 3.9 3.6 3.2 4.8 4.3 3.9 2.5 3.3 0 14,84 0.7 1 0.451 482 837 320 3.3 3 4.6 4.3 3.6 5.8 4.1 5.7 0.1 14,894 0.2 1 0.346 697 755 192 3 2.4 4.4 3.2 2.5 4.7 4.2 4.6 0.4 75,878 0.1 1 0.28 850 669 125 0 0.2 1.6 0.1 0.1 2.5 6.5 6.7 0.3 86,212 0.4 1 0.322 748 732 163 3.3 3.1 4.9 2.3 2.4 3.9 3.6 2.7 1.1 124,915 0.9 0.96 0.029 1489 84 3 3.8 4.6 3.8 1.5 2.8 1.6 2.4 1.1 3 141,823 1 0.99 0.116 1263 349 15 3 2.7 4.6 1.9 1.9 3.4 3.3 2.2 1.5 recessive model ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ma ma/ch ch 3.7 2.7 2.7 1.7 1.4 1.1 2.1 0.7 2.7 0 0.1 1.2 0.4 0.1 2.4 3.8 4.4 0.6 3.4 5.2 3.9 2.7 4.7 3.1 3.3 3 1.1 3.8 3.5 3 4.8 4.2 3.7 3 4 0 4.1 3.5 2.8 2.1 2.1 1.2 3.1 1.6 2.5 1 1.2 1.1 2.3 2.2 2.3 0.6 1.5 0.9 2.8 3.5 4.7 1.8 2.7 3.5 3.2 2.3 1.2 3.1 2.7 2 3.2 2.8 1.9 4.4 5.4 0.4 9.6 15 12 11.9 17.7 14 14.6 16.5 0.1 14.5 19.9 17 15.4 21.5 17 19.1 20.8 0.8 1.9 4 1.3 1.6 3.9 1 4.2 4.2 0.4 2.9 2.8 4.6 1.5 1.7 3 3.3 2 1.8 3.7 2.3 3.6 1.5 1 1.6 2.4 0.6 3 3.3 1.7 3.3 1.6 0.7 1.7 2.9 1.3 2.5 4.2 4.7 3.5 4.2 4.8 3.3 3.5 3.6 0.4 2.3 1.1 1.9 4.7 2.1 3.7 2.4 5.7 0.9 4 3.6 4.2 4 3.5 4.1 2.5 2.3 0.5 5.3 4.6 4.4 5.2 4.5 4.1 4.5 4.3 0.7 2.9 1.9 3 1.7 1.1 1.8 3 2.1 1.9 1.4 1.5 3 2.1 2 4.1 3.7 5.1 0.1 2.2 0.4 2.9 1.4 0.1 2 5.1 4.1 1.1 4.1 4.6 3.3 1.6 2.7 1.2 3.2 1.7 3.4 4.5 5.5 3 3.8 5.1 2.2 4.6 4.5 0.9 4.6 5.4 4.7 2.8 4 2.9 3.7 2.4 2.2 2.7 1.7 2.2 4.9 2.8 3.9 1.8 3.9 0.8 0.9 0.7 0.1 1.7 1.2 0.4 2 3.1 0.4 1.8 1.4 2.6 4.2 2.7 5.2 2 4.5 1.2 3 3.1 2.4 3.8 3.7 3 1.7 2.3 0 1.9 1.4 3 2.9 2 4.2 2.4 3.5 0.1 1.6 1.3 2.6 1.9 1.4 3 2.4 2.9 0.2 0 0.1 1.4 0.3 0 2.4 4.6 5 0.3 1.8 1.1 3.2 1 0.6 2.2 2.3 1.4 1 3.6 4.2 3.9 1.4 2.4 1.6 2.3 0.9 2.9 2.9 2.6 4.4 2 2 3.4 3 2.1 1.2 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 rs6898504 rs10068047 rs3734661 rs763415 rs1932107 rs2253833 rs1567725 rs7824014 rs17715553 rs7049110 rs306549 rs657152 rs10508888 rs17727885 rs5019888 rs3026393 rs4756076 rs4766333 rs4466933 rs10847818 rs12435767 SNP_A-2298008 rs6502764 rs4985687 rs197912 rs17202347 rs10406145 rs2585450 rs470094 rs12008496 rs4370708 rs5907655 5 5 6 6 6 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12 14 15 17 17 17 18 19 20 22 X* X* X* 143 144,082 90,708 107,745 130,512 106,8 5,561 5,626 88,85 131,343 132,5 133,169 44,528 127,218 18,826 31,769 33,861 5,032 53,633 128,259 61,605 76,335 3,848 5,615 42,345 16,849 4,643 52,181 42,619 40,03 95,669 139,611 0.2 0.3 0 0.4 1 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0 0.1 0.4 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.5 0 0.9 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.3 0 0.4 1.4 0.99 0.98 1 1 0.99 0.97 1 0.99 0.98 1 1 0.95 0.99 0.99 0.99 1 1 1 0.99 0.95 1 0.99 0.99 0.99 1 0.98 1 1 1 0.95 1 1 0.262 0.389 0.011 0.184 0.356 0.252 0.198 0.441 0.336 0.13 0.253 0.373 0.09 0.103 0.333 0.49 0.26 0.312 0.074 0.04 0.067 0.112 0.368 0.461 0.357 0.04 0.283 0.467 0.464 0.043 0.498 0.452 19 880 596 1602 1098 661 890 1054 512 708 1246 912 613 1342 1302 729 424 903 774 1386 1447 1429 1282 643 472 693 1482 847 468 478 723 203 234 636 783 37 482 777 601 525 796 722 367 622 736 274 311 719 829 620 708 231 118 209 329 778 808 726 128 652 815 802 66 428 440 107 238 0 61 191 101 63 319 180 30 104 215 10 12 184 391 117 157 5 4 6 18 212 344 224 1 137 361 361 1 200 154 1.9 2.6 3.8 5.7 4.8 4.6 3.2 1.9 0.5 3.3 3.9 2.3 5.8 0.2 1.2 2.4 4.9 2.5 4.7 4.5 4.5 1.4 3.7 0.5 1.3 3.8 4.7 3.5 1.2 0.4 2.8 3.6 1.8 4.8 3.1 3.8 3.7 3.1 4.7 2.1 0.7 4.6 3 2.5 4.2 1.7 3.3 3.8 4.5 0.2 3.8 3.6 3.6 1.8 4.2 0.1 1.5 2.6 3.1 0.8 2.1 0.2 1.9 3.6 2.5 2.5 4.9 3.9 3.9 2.7 3.3 3.4 0.7 3.4 4.3 1.7 5.2 0.2 1.3 2.4 3 1.5 4.3 2.9 3.2 2.9 3.6 0.5 2.6 4.5 2.5 1.8 1.8 0.8 2.3 3.5 4.8 1.6 2.8 3.2 5.5 3.1 3.4 2.9 0.3 2.8 3.1 3 2.2 0 1.2 3.6 2.8 1.5 5.4 5 2.7 2.8 1.6 0.1 2.8 3.3 2.3 1.8 2.3 1 1.7 5.5 3.7 4 2.3 2.2 4 2 5.1 2.9 1.1 4.3 2.4 3 1.9 1.6 3.6 5 3 0.2 4.1 3.8 2.4 2.8 2.5 0.1 2.6 2.3 1.6 0.1 3.3 0 1.2 4.9 5.5 1.5 3.8 1.8 4.2 1.4 3.5 4.7 0.5 2.8 3.5 2.1 1.9 0.5 1.2 3.5 1.3 0.7 4.7 2.9 1.6 4.7 1.6 1.2 4.6 4 0.8 0.6 3.1 0.5 1.3 5 1.7 5.4 4.5 3.2 2.8 4.6 2.8 3.1 4.6 3.4 2.4 1.6 5.5 5.2 3.9 3.3 4.1 5.3 4.1 3.7 3.5 2.3 3.8 3.6 2.4 3.1 3.6 5.4 3.5 4.8 2.1 2.7 5.3 5 3.8 1 3.1 3.4 2.8 4.2 4 3.1 1.5 2.4 2.1 5.3 4.1 4.3 2.5 3.8 5.2 4.4 2.2 3.5 2.3 3.9 4.2 2.3 1.7 3.6 5.2 5.7 1 4.5 1.7 1.7 1.2 2.7 0.2 1.8 0.2 0.2 0.2 1 1 0.1 4.8 0.5 0.1 0.3 2.3 0.9 0.2 0.2 2.6 0.5 3.1 0.8 0.9 0.5 2.8 2.2 0.6 0.6 1.4 0.3 1 1 3.8 4.7 4.6 3.7 2.5 1.1 0.6 2.8 4.1 4.2 5.2 0.3 1.1 1.2 3.3 2.9 3.8 4.2 4.7 1 3.8 0 0.8 3.7 5.1 3.3 0.8 0.4 6 3.2 1.1 2.5 3.1 3.2 3.7 2.8 4 1.5 0.4 4.1 3 4.2 3.6 1.7 3.3 1.4 3.3 0.4 3.1 3.4 3.9 1.4 5.4 0.3 1 2.7 3.5 1.6 1.8 0.2 4.7 3.6 1.2 1 4.9 3.2 4.1 2.6 2.6 2.8 1.3 2.9 4.7 3.1 4.4 0.2 1.1 1.4 1.7 2.1 3.6 2.7 3.5 2.4 3.9 1.6 1.8 4.6 3 1.9 1.9 0.8 4.8 3.6 2.8 0.3 2.8 2.7 4.9 2 3 2.3 0.2 2.5 3.2 5.1 1.8 0.1 1 1.6 2.7 1.4 4.4 5 2.9 2.3 1.5 0.5 1.7 3.2 3 2.3 1.4 1 3.2 5 2.3 1.8 2.3 1.9 3.8 1.6 4.7 2.4 0.9 3.9 2.4 4.8 1.4 1.6 3.6 1.7 2.9 0.1 3.5 3.8 2.6 2.6 3.4 0.8 1.7 2.3 2.1 1 2.5 0 2.8 5.1 2.9 0.3 3.8 1.5 4.2 1.1 3.1 4.6 0.9 2.5 3.8 3.5 1.4 0.4 1 1.8 1.2 0.9 4 3 1.9 4.3 1.6 3 3.1 4 1.3 1 2.9 0.5 2.4 5.2 0.7 3.5 4.5 2.6 2.6 3.4 2.3 2.9 5.2 2.8 2.9 3.5 4.8 5 4.9 0.7 3.2 5 3.3 3.6 3.8 2.2 4.3 4.4 1.4 3.2 3.8 3.4 3.3 4.3 5.2 2.5 3 3.3 3.8 0.9 2.6 2 2.6 4.2 4.4 2.7 1.9 4.6 1.6 5 5 1 2.8 2.9 4.3 4.7 2.5 3.4 2.8 5.2 2.3 2.3 1.9 2.5 4.1 5.1 2.6 3.9 Chr, chromosome; base, base position in Ensembl build 36 in kb; hwe, -log(P) of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test; call, call rate; maf, minor allele frequency; aa, number of probands homozygous for major allele; ab, number of heterozygous probands; bb, number of probands homozygous for minor allele; ca, -log(P) of association for serum campesterol; si, -log(P) of association for serum sitosterol; br, -log(P) of association for serum brassicasterol; ca/ch, -log(P) of association for serum campesterol normalized to cholesterol; si/ch, -log(P) of association for serum sitosterol normalized to cholesterol; br/ch, -log(P) of association for serum brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol; ma, -log(P) of multivariate analysis of variance of campesterol, sitosetrol and brassicasterol; ma/ch, -log(P) of multivariate analysis of variance of campesterol, sitosetrol and brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol; ch, -log(P) of association for serum cholesterol. Yellow: P<0.0001; Red: P<0.00001; Margenta: P<0.000001. * data on the X-chromosome are only presented for females since males did not show significant results. 1.2 1.7 1.2 2.1 0.2 2.4 0 0.6 0.5 0.8 1.2 0.1 4.8 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.7 1.6 0.1 0 2.6 0.8 3.7 0.7 0.7 0.5 2.4 1.3 0.3 0.5 3.2 0.2 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 20 Supplementary Table 4 Details on SNPs from stage 2 validation Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 SNP ID rs971814 rs10908776 rs2143091 rs17521970 rs17583313 rs11579522 rs1355391 rs11887534 rs41360247 rs4245791 rs4148217 SNP_A-1963469 rs6738590 rs6739734 rs2461741 rs1898906 rs6750111 rs17011226 rs4413348 rs1990805 rs4425233 rs17276327 rs3860694 rs17088961 rs11097119 rs7690517 rs10041522 rs25946 rs1550826 rs6875519 rs2452753 rs2220621 rs3861862 rs6898504 chr 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 base hwe 5,641 0 157,147 0 165,548 0.3 188,831 0.2 194,641 0.5 195,999 0 222,592 2 43,92 0.1 43,927 0.2 43,928 0.4 43,953 0 59,471 0 64,971 0.5 176,073 0 176,156 0.8 188,718 0.2 228,683 0.3 22,359 0.1 143,816 0.3 171,672 0.5 190,751 0.8 12,002 0 68,706 0.5 68,719 0.3 88,047 0.6 158,393 0.1 2,268 0.2 14,84 0.4 14,894 7.8 75,878 0.1 86,212 0.6 124,915 0 141,823 0.3 143 0.1 call 0.97 0.99 0.94 0.95 0.98 0.98 0.99 0.96 0.99 0.98 0.95 0.99 0.98 0.98 0.99 0.98 0.99 0.98 0.98 0.99 0.97 0.98 0.98 0.96 0.99 0.98 0.99 0.98 0.98 0.97 0.99 0.99 0.98 0.99 maf aa 0.44 352 0.066 998 0.405 380 0.252 617 0.463 335 0.187 752 0.31 526 0.069 966 0.072 988 0.32 516 0.183 733 0.196 737 0.215 691 0.218 693 0.28 602 0.034 1057 0.477 317 0.314 532 0.42 387 0.161 808 0.12 875 0.416 388 0.476 303 0.274 591 0.102 919 0.31 542 0.158 805 0.439 363 0.375 488 0.275 594 0.325 513 0.023 1092 0.102 913 0.262 620 ab 549 140 537 408 548 345 526 145 150 504 331 359 396 387 442 76 559 492 544 298 227 551 582 436 217 484 309 544 440 447 522 52 213 446 additive model bb ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ma ma/ch ch 218 0.1 0.4 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 5 1.3 1.1 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.1 1.2 0.6 0.9 173 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.3 0.8 0.8 0.5 0.4 0.5 73 0.3 0.6 0.5 1.1 1.3 1.2 0.5 0.9 0.7 252 0.9 0.9 1.1 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.2 0.1 0.2 40 0.3 0.2 0 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.9 0.8 0.4 91 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 1.2 4 8.8 9.2 8.6 7.5 8.5 7.1 8.9 8.3 1.4 7 8.3 9.2 8.3 6.7 8.3 6.6 8.8 8.1 1.6 109 20.4 26.1 22 19 25.7 19.8 25.8 26.2 1.8 36 3.1 5.7 3.8 3.3 6.3 4 5.5 6 0.2 44 0.1 0 0.1 0 0 0.1 0 0 0.1 46 0.9 0.8 1.1 1 0.9 1.3 0.2 0.2 0 54 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.1 99 1.3 0.8 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 1.2 0.6 1.2 0 0.1 0.3 0 0.1 0.2 0 0.2 0.2 0.1 265 0 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.5 0 0.3 0.3 0.2 110 0.3 0.2 0 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0 206 0.4 0.9 1.4 0.4 1 1.5 1.4 1.4 0.1 34 0.5 0.5 0.3 1.2 1 0.9 0.6 1.4 0.5 21 1.4 1.9 2.5 1.8 2.3 3.1 2.4 2.4 0 198 0.9 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.5 248 0.1 0.1 0.6 0 0 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.2 88 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.1 0 0.2 0.2 0.1 8 0.6 0.6 0.1 1.3 1 0.1 1.8 2.2 0.4 111 0.9 0.5 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.1 1.1 1 0.7 26 0.2 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0.2 0.2 0.3 224 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0 0 0 0.1 0.3 204 0.1 0.1 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0.1 0.1 86 0.3 0 0.2 0.1 0.1 0 0.2 0 0.5 112 1.5 1.2 1.6 1.7 1.3 1.6 1 1.4 0.1 0 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 0 0 9 0.1 0.1 0.4 0 0 0.7 0.9 1.1 0.3 76 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.1 recessive model ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ma ma/ch ch 0.1 0 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.7 0.1 0.2 0.7 1.1 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.3 0 1 0.5 1 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.5 1.2 1.3 1.1 0.3 0.6 0.5 1.6 1 1.2 1.5 1 1 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.7 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.4 0 0 1.4 8.9 9.2 8.8 7.9 8.6 7.5 8.8 8.3 1.3 8.2 9.2 8.6 6.9 8.4 7.1 8.7 8.1 1.4 18.5 24.1 20 17 23.6 18 23.3 23.4 1.8 3.6 6 3.9 4 6.7 4 5.5 6.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 0 0.1 0.3 0.8 1 1.4 1.2 1.3 1.8 0.6 0.6 0.1 0.9 1.1 0.3 0.8 1 0.2 1 1.2 0.2 1.5 1.1 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.1 1.3 1 0.9 0.1 0.3 0 0.1 0.2 0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.3 0 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.3 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0 0.2 0.1 0.1 0 0.5 1.1 1.6 0.6 1.2 1.7 1.5 1.5 0.1 0.6 0.6 0.4 1.5 1.2 0.9 0.8 1.7 0.5 1.1 1.4 1.9 1.7 1.9 2.7 1.8 1.9 0.1 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.3 0 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.1 1.1 0.8 0 1.7 2.1 0.2 1 0.5 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.9 0.7 1 0.1 0.1 0 0 0.1 0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0 0.2 0.1 0.2 0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.3 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.1 0 0.1 0.3 0 1 1.7 1.4 2.1 1.7 1.5 2.1 1.5 1.7 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 0 0 0.2 0.1 0.2 0 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.3 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 rs10068047 rs3734661 rs763415 rs1932107 rs1567725 rs7824014 rs7049110 rs306549 rs657152 rs5019888 rs4756076 rs4466933 rs10847818 rs12435767 SNP_A-2298008 rs4985687 rs197912 rs17202347 rs10406145 rs2585450 rs470094 rs12008496 rs4370708 rs5907655 5 6 6 6 8 8 9 9 9 11 11 12 12 14 15 17 17 18 19 20 22 X* X* X* 144,082 90,708 107,745 130,512 5,561 5,626 131,343 132,5 133,169 18,826 33,861 53,633 128,259 61,605 76,335 5,615 42,345 16,849 4,643 52,181 42,619 40,03 95,669 139,611 0.2 1.1 0.4 0 0 0.3 0.6 0.1 1.2 0.3 1.5 0.5 0 0.8 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.9 0.1 0.2 0 0,1 0,2 0.99 0.98 0.97 0.99 0.98 0.94 0.98 0.98 0.99 0.98 0.96 0.98 0.98 0.99 0.98 0.98 0.98 0.97 0.99 0.99 0.98 0.91 0.98 0.99 0.437 366 555 221 0.009 1120 18 1 0.184 742 346 33 0.357 473 522 147 0.204 722 368 48 0.452 334 528 229 0.127 871 244 23 0.249 642 420 72 0.353 494 493 157 0.328 519 490 128 0.275 571 474 70 0.083 958 168 10 0.027 1075 62 0 0.068 986 152 2 0.121 878 235 20 0.447 346 567 225 0.354 466 530 136 0.03 1052 68 0 0.278 607 440 99 0.459 337 560 244 0.449 342 572 225 0.04 511 45 0 0.461 175 293 129 0.458 179 292 129 21 0.2 0.1 0.3 0 0.5 1.3 0.1 0.7 3.2 0.2 0.3 0 1.2 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 Yellow: P<0.01; Red: P<0.001. Otherwise see legend to Supplementary Table 3 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.2 1.2 0.8 0.1 0.7 1.8 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.5 0 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.4 1.3 0.7 0.3 1.2 1.4 0.1 0.9 0 0.6 0.7 0.1 0.3 0.2 0 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0 0.4 0.1 0.4 0.5 0 0.2 2.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.3 0 0.2 0.1 0 0.9 0.1 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.4 0.3 1.2 0.3 0 0.3 1.1 0.1 0.5 0.4 0 0.3 0.3 0 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.1 0 0.5 0.5 0 0 0.6 0.6 1.2 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.6 0 1.1 0.2 0 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.6 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.1 0 0.4 1.7 0.8 0.1 0.6 3.1 0.1 0.9 0.1 0.8 0.7 0.1 0.1 0.8 1.3 0.8 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.9 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 1.7 0.3 0.2 0.2 2.2 0.1 1.2 0.1 0.3 0.5 0 0.2 0.7 1.1 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.2 1.1 0 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.2 1.1 0.1 1 1.2 0 0 0.4 1.7 1 0.2 0.2 0.7 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.3 0 0.1 0.4 0 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.6 4.7 0.1 0.3 0.2 1.2 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.2 0 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.1 0 1.2 0.4 0.3 0.6 3.1 0.1 0.6 0.1 0.5 0 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.2 0 0.3 0 0 0.9 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 1.3 0.2 0.5 1.1 2.5 0.1 1.2 0.1 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.2 0 0.2 0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.1 0 0.2 3.3 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.6 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0 0.4 1.1 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.2 1.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 2.1 0.4 0.7 0.3 0 0.3 0.6 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.2 0.1 0 0 1.4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.6 1.2 0.1 0.3 0.6 1.3 0.3 1.4 0.2 0 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.4 0.1 0 0.4 2.1 0.3 0.1 0.8 4.3 0.2 1.3 0.2 0.8 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.3 0.7 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.7 0.2 0.4 0.1 0 0.3 2 0.1 0.3 0.4 3 0.2 1.5 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.6 1.1 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.9 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.2 0.7 0.1 0.9 0.2 0.7 1.5 1.1 0 0.7 1.7 1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.8 0.6 0.1 0 0.2 0 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 22 Supplementary Table 5 Details on SNPs from stage 3 validation in CARLA Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 SNP ID rs11887534 rs41360247 rs4245791 rs4148217 rs4425233 rs11097119 rs2452753 rs1567725 rs657152 chr base hwe call maf aa ab bb ca 2 43919751 0.1 0.98 0.058 1544 190 6 9.5 2 43927160 0.3 0.99 0.056 1569 182 7 8.7 2 43927935 1.8 0.96 0.326 794 702 203 17.4 2 43952937 0.2 0.98 0.183 1158 529 55 4.3 3 190751500 0 0.97 0.131 1295 392 29 0.7 4 88046712 7.2 0.99 0.094 1423 329 0 0.6 5 86211684 0.9 0.97 0.312 805 770 154 0.4 8 5560754 0.9 0.98 0.189 1139 556 53 1.1 9 133168819 0.3 0.98 0.412 609 829 302 3.7 Yellow: P<0.05 Red: P<0.05/9. Otherwise see legend to Supplementary Table 3 si 11.7 10.6 22.9 5.5 0.4 0.3 1.2 0.2 2.1 additive model br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ma ma/ch ch 11.7 9.3 12.6 11.4 10.1 10.7 0.6 11.1 8.1 11 10.5 9.5 9.6 0.7 19.3 19.1 25.4 20.1 24.2 28.4 0.3 3.1 6.6 7.2 4.3 4.5 6.4 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.9 0 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.2 1.1 0.5 1.3 1.2 0.9 0.9 0 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.1 0.8 0.5 1.1 2.5 1.8 1.2 1.2 1.8 0.7 2 recessive model ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ma ma/ch ch 8.8 10.2 11 8.9 11.1 11 9 9.6 0.5 8.1 9.2 11 7.8 9.7 10.1 8.4 8.6 0.6 15.4 19.7 15 16.3 21.5 15.6 20.3 23 0.4 4.2 5.4 2.6 7 7.4 4 4.3 6.5 0.8 0.8 0.2 0.1 0.2 0 0.2 0.5 0.3 0.8 0.6 0.3 0 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.2 1.2 2 1.6 0.8 1.9 1.3 1.3 1.2 0.4 0.9 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.3 1.4 4.5 2 2.3 2.4 1.1 1.1 2.9 1.5 2.1 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 23 Supplementary Table 6 Geometric mean and standard error per genotype for phytosterols and cholesterol (in mg/L) SNP Allele rs41360247 Hom. major T/T Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 rs4245791 rs657152 CA SI BR 5.9 (1.01) 2.3 (1.01) 0.60 (1.01) Het. T/C 5.1 (1.01) 1.8 (1.02) Hom. minor C/C 4.6 (1.05) Hom. major T/T CA/CH SI/CH BR/CH CH 2.7 (1.005) 1.1 (1.01) 0.28 (1.01) 2162 (1.003) 0.50 (1.02) 2.4 (1.01) 0.85 (1.02) 0.23 (1.02) 2132 (1.01) 1.4 (1.12) 0.46 (1.06) 2.3 (1.05) 0.68 (1.11) 0.22 (1.06) 2038 (1.02) 5.4 (1.01) 2.0 (1.01) 0.54 (1.01) 2.5 (1.01) 0.92 (1.01) 0.25 (1.01) 2141 (1.004) Het. T/C 6.1 (1.01) 2.4 (1.01) 0.62 (1.01) 2.8 (1.01) 1.11 (1.01) 0.29 (1.01) 2175 (1.005) Hom. minor C/C 6.7 (1.02) 2.8 (1.02) 0.71 (1.02) 3.1 (1.01) 1.31 (1.02) 0.33 (1.02) 2166 (1.01) Hom. major G/G 5.6 (1.01) 2.1 (1.01) 0.57 (1.01) 2.6 (1.01) 0.99 (1.01) 0.27 (1.01) 2140 (1.005) Het. G/T 6.0 (1.01) 2.3 (1.01) 0.60 (1.01) 2.8 (1.01) 1.06 (1.01) 0.28 (1.01) 2172 (1.004) Hom. minor T/T 5.9 (1.01) 2.3 (1.02) 0.59 (1.02) 2.7 (1.01) 1.04 (1.02) 0.27 (1.01) 2172 (1.01) Values were adjusted for age, sex, log(BMI), statin treatment and study. CA, campesterol; SI, sitosterol; BR, brassicasterol; CH, cholesterol; CA/CH, campesterol normalized to cholesterol; SI/CH, sitosterol normalized to cholesterol; BR/CH, brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 24 Supplementary Table 7 Analysis of all significant SNPs of serum phytosterol levels within one regression model Allelic effects and p-value of association Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 SNP CA SI BR MANOVA rs41360247 -10% -14 4.4 x 10 -17% -18 3.0 x 10 -13% -15 1.1 x 10 1.3 x 10 -29 rs4245791 11% -39 2.3 x 10 19% -52 1.7 x 10 13% -43 4.1 x 10 2.4 x 10 -55 rs657152 8% -13 9.4 x 10 9% -8 2.4 x 10 6% -7 4.9 x 10 2.8 x 10 -10 CA/CH SI/CH BR/CH MANOVA/CH -9% -13 4.4 x 10 -16% -18 1.5 x 10 -11% -14 2.1 x 10 2.6 x 10 -31 10% -41 1.5 x 10 18% -56 1.3 x 10 12% -43 1.6 x 10 5.1 x 10 -62 6% -10 2.2 x 10 7% -7 5.1 x 10 5% -5 5.0 x 10 3.5 x 10 -9 CH -1.6% 0.065 0.8% 0.068 1.5% 0.012 Allelic effects relative to the major allele and corresponding p-values. Analysis is based on the combined data sets of KORA S3 500k, KORA S3 Stage 2 and CARLA replication. Data were adjusted for age, sex, log(BMI), statin treatment and study. The regression model simultaneously included the additive effects of rs41360247 and rs4245791 and the recessive effect of rs657152. For rs657152 and phytosterol phenotypes, the results are identical with Table 1 (combined analysis). CA, campesterol; SI, sitosterol; BR, brassicasterol; CH, cholesterol; MANOVA, multivariate analysis of CA, SI, BR; CA/CH, campesterol normalized to cholesterol; SI/CH, sitosterol normalized to cholesterol; BR/CH, brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol; MANOVA/CH, multivariate analysis of CA/CH, SI/CH, BR/CH. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 25 Supplementary Table 8 Details on SNPs from fine-mapping of the ABCG5/8 locus Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 SNP ID rs4148189 rs10439467 rs1864814 rs4245786 rs4073237* rs4148187* rs4289236* rs4148185* rs4131228* rs3806471* rs11887534* rs4148202 rs10179921 rs4148210* rs4148211* rs41360247* rs4245791* rs17424122* rs10221914* rs35648030 rs34754243 rs6709904* rs10174731 rs6733452* rs4952688* rs4148217* rs12468591* rs4245794* rs4245795* rs4953027 rs4952689* rs28517482 rs4148227 rs4953028 rs6544718 chr 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 additive model base hwe call maf aa ab bb ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch 43901034 0.4 0.98 0.118 1356 353 28 0.3 0.9 0.8 0.4 1 0.8 43901850 0.2 0.97 0.066 1505 215 6 0.9 2 1.7 0.6 1.7 1.3 43902095 0.4 0.97 0.032 1616 109 0 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.7 43902624 0.2 0.98 0.233 1018 628 91 0 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.4 43903376 0.3 0.98 0.07 1502 231 6 0.1 0.8 0.1 0.6 1.4 0.2 43904392 1 0.97 0.384 671 783 271 0.4 0.5 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.7 43907627 0.6 0.98 0.2 1122 541 77 0.4 0.7 0.6 1.2 1.4 1.3 43909826 1.1 0.98 0.396 651 793 289 0.6 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.3 43911623 0 0.97 0.018 1661 63 0 2.7 3.5 3.1 2.4 3.4 2.8 43919678 1.1 0.99 0.343 774 758 224 1.9 2.6 1.7 1.5 2.3 1.5 43919751 0.1 0.98 0.058 1544 190 6 9.5 11.7 11.7 9.3 12.6 11.4 43921323 4.7 0.95 0.452 549 746 388 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.3 43921795 3.4 0.98 0.058 1550 171 15 0.7 1 1.1 0.8 1 1.2 43925143 0.7 0.99 0.409 625 819 306 2.9 3.3 2.6 2 2.7 1.8 43925247 0.9 0.98 0.409 620 806 306 2.8 3.2 2.5 2 2.6 1.8 43927160 0.3 0.99 0.056 1569 182 7 8.7 10.6 11.1 8.1 11 10.5 43927935 1.8 0.96 0.326 794 702 203 17.4 22.9 19.3 19.1 25.4 20.1 43928721 1 0.99 0.055 1572 176 9 3.3 3.5 2.6 6.1 5.4 4.2 43930957 0.2 0.98 0.027 1642 92 0 0.9 1.1 0.7 0.9 1.2 0.7 43932266 0 0.98 0 1747 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43933259 2.1 0.98 0.002 1730 6 1 1.6 1.5 1 0.6 0.9 0.4 43933828 0.3 0.97 0.104 1378 316 21 0.9 0.9 1.1 1.3 1.2 1.4 43936173 4.8 0.97 0.486 500 771 452 2.2 2.3 2.6 2.3 2.5 2.7 43948349 0 0.98 0.017 1689 59 0 2.3 2.4 3.1 1.6 2.4 2.5 43950274 0.4 0.97 0.302 844 711 164 25 31.4 24.5 26.5 34 24.9 43952937 0.2 0.98 0.183 1158 529 55 4.3 5.5 3.1 6.6 7.2 4.3 43953519 0 0.98 0.051 1572 169 4 2.9 2.2 2.4 4.4 3 3.2 43954353 0.3 0.97 0.117 1352 351 26 0.4 0.2 0.1 1 0 0.3 43954375 0.1 0.98 0.07 1502 227 9 1.7 2.3 2.1 1.2 2 1.6 43954898 28 0.94 0.176 1204 339 123 0.6 0.2 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.4 43954934 0 0.98 0.425 576 853 314 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.2 0.4 0.2 43955042 4.4 0.91 0.425 573 707 332 0 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.5 43955048 123.5 0.97 0.327 595 1124 0 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.7 0.4 0.7 43955331 0.1 0.96 0.446 521 851 335 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0 0.4 43958429 0.4 0.99 0.219 1076 588 91 0.8 0.4 0.8 1 0.5 0.9 ma ma/ch ch 0.6 0.6 0 1.6 1.4 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.6 1.9 2 0.4 3 3.1 0.4 10.1 10.7 0.6 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.7 0.9 0 3.2 2.9 0.9 3.2 3 0.9 9.5 9.6 0.7 24.2 28.4 0.3 2.8 5.6 1 0.4 0.5 0.1 0 0 0 0.8 0.3 1.3 0.3 0.4 0.2 2.7 3.4 0.1 1.3 1.1 0.7 34.2 38.5 0.6 4.5 6.4 0.5 1.5 2.2 0.4 0.7 0.9 0.5 2.2 1.9 0.6 0.8 0.3 1.1 0.5 0.3 0.8 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.3 0 ca 0.3 0.7 0.6 0.2 0 0.8 0.2 0.9 2.7 2.2 8.8 0.6 1 3.1 2.8 8.1 15.4 2.9 0.9 0 1.5 0.8 4 2.3 19.8 4.2 3 0.4 1.8 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 1.3 si 0.9 1.7 0.7 0 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.6 3.5 2.7 10.2 0.5 1.1 3.2 3 9.2 19.7 3.1 1.1 0 1.2 0.8 3 2.4 25.5 5.4 2.2 0.1 2.1 0 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.6 recessive model br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ma ma/ch ch 0.6 0.3 0.9 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.1 1.4 0.4 1.5 1.1 1.3 1.2 0.5 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.3 0 0.6 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.4 1.5 0.1 1.4 1.1 0.8 1 0.6 0.4 0.7 1.1 0.8 0.4 0.6 1 1 1.4 0.1 0.4 1.1 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.2 1 0.4 1.1 3.1 2.4 3.4 2.8 1.9 2 0.4 1.7 1.7 2.3 1.3 3 2.7 0.6 11 8.9 11.1 11 9 9.6 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.3 0 0.4 0.2 0.5 1.3 1.1 1.3 1.5 0.9 1.1 0 2.2 1.9 2.4 1.4 3.2 2.5 1.1 2.1 1.7 2.3 1.3 3 2.4 1.1 11 7.8 9.7 10.1 8.4 8.6 0.6 15 16.3 21.5 15.6 20.3 23 0.4 2.3 5.7 5 3.9 2.3 5 1.1 0.7 0.9 1.2 0.7 0.4 0.5 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 0.7 0.8 0.6 0.6 0.2 1 1 1.4 1.1 1.4 0.2 0.4 0.3 4.1 3.7 3 3.7 4 4.5 0.4 3.1 1.6 2.4 2.5 1.3 1.1 0.7 19 21 27.6 19.5 27.2 30.3 0.5 2.6 7 7.4 4 4.3 6.5 0.8 2.5 4.2 2.9 3.2 1.6 2.1 0.3 0.1 0.9 0 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.4 2.2 1.2 1.8 1.6 2.1 1.7 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.7 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.5 0 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.7 0.4 0.7 0.1 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.6 0 0.3 0.2 0.3 1 1.1 0.6 0.8 0.5 0.4 0.2 Yellow: P<0.01; Red: P<0.001. *indicates SNPs which were used for haplotype analysis (Supplementary Table 9). Otherwise see legend to Supplementary Table 3. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 26 Supplementary Table 9 Geometric mean and standard deviation for carriers of at least one copy of the corresponding haplotype (in mg/L) Nr haplotype N ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ch 1 GTCGTCCTGTTTCAGACTTGG 596 5.57 (1.01) 1.91 (1.02) 0.58 (1.02) 2.72 (1.01) 0.93 (1.02) 0.283 (1.02) 2050 (1.01) 2 GCCATACCATCTCAGTCTTGT 454 6.13 (1.02) 2.26 (1.02) 0.66 (1.02) 2.99 (1.01) 1.10 (1.02) 0.322 (1.02) 2048 (1.01) Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 3 GTTGTCCTGTTTCAGACTTGG 422 5.64 (1.02) 1.98 (1.02) 0.60 (1.02) 2.80 (1.01) 0.98 (1.02) 0.299 (1.02) 2017 (1.01) 4 GCCATACTGTTTCAGACTTGG 182 5.59 (1.02) 1.97 (1.04) 0.59 (1.03) 2.81 (1.02) 0.99 (1.03) 0.295 (1.03) 1987 (1.02) 5 GCCATACCATTTCAGAATTGT 161 5.45 (1.03) 1.92 (1.04) 0.59 (1.03) 2.70 (1.02) 0.95 (1.03) 0.295 (1.03) 2022 (1.01) 6 GCCATACCATTTCAGAAACGT 153 5.29 (1.03) 1.82 (1.04) 0.56 (1.04) 2.56 (1.03) 0.88 (1.04) 0.271 (1.03) 2066 (1.01) 7 GCCATACCATTTCAGACTTGG 147 5.36 (1.03) 1.80 (1.04) 0.54 (1.04) 2.63 (1.02) 0.87 (1.04) 0.265 (1.03) 2041 (1.02) 8 ACCATACCATTTCAGAATTGG 127 5.77 (1.03) 2.00 (1.04) 0.62 (1.04) 2.71 (1.03) 0.94 (1.04) 0.291 (1.03) 2125 (1.02) 9 GCCATACCATCACAGTCTTGG 107 6.38 (1.03) 2.40 (1.05) 0.70 (1.04) 3.15 (1.03) 1.18 (1.04) 0.345 (1.04) 2026 (1.02) 10 GTTGTACCATCTCGGTCTCAT 82 6.27 (1.04) 2.39 (1.06) 0.68 (1.05) 3.02 (1.03) 1.15 (1.05) 0.326 (1.04) 2075 (1.02) 11 ACCATACCATTTCAGAATTGT 76 5.42 (1.03) 1.68 (1.07) 0.57 (1.05) 2.63 (1.03) 0.81 (1.06) 0.278 (1.04) 2065 (1.02) 12 GCCATACCATCTTAGTCTTGT 75 6.10 (1.04) 2.30 (1.06) 0.66 (1.04) 2.98 (1.04) 1.13 (1.06) 0.324 (1.04) 2043 (1.02) 13 GTTGTACCATCACAGTCTTGG 74 5.88 (1.04) 2.10 (1.06) 0.60 (1.05) 2.99 (1.03) 1.07 (1.05) 0.308 (1.04) 1962 (1.02) 14 GCCATAGCACTTCGGACTTGT 73 4.81 (1.04) 1.48 (1.07) 0.46 (1.05) 2.39 (1.04) 0.74 (1.07) 0.231 (1.05) 2009 (1.02) 15 GCCATACCATCTCGGTCTCAT 69 6.35 (1.04) 2.51 (1.06) 0.73 (1.05) 2.99 (1.04) 1.19 (1.05) 0.345 (1.05) 2120 (1.03) 16 GCCACACCATCTCAGTCTTGG 60 6.48 (1.05) 2.53 (1.06) 0.71 (1.06) 3.11 (1.04) 1.21 (1.06) 0.341 (1.05) 2085 (1.02) 17 GCCATAGCACTTCGAACTCAT 54 4.92 (1.04) 1.60 (1.07) 0.49 (1.07) 2.49 (1.04) 0.80 (1.07) 0.247 (1.06) 1973 (1.03) 18 GCCATACCATCTCAGTCTTGG 45 6.23 (1.05) 2.32 (1.08) 0.68 (1.06) 3.00 (1.04) 1.11 (1.07) 0.327 (1.06) 2076 (1.03) 19 GTCGTCCTGTTTCAGACTTGT 40 5.51 (1.05) 1.79 (1.08) 0.56 (1.08) 2.63 (1.04) 0.85 (1.08) 0.266 (1.07) 2101 (1.02) 20 GCCATACCATTTCAGACTTGT 39 5.82 (1.05) 2.14 (1.08) 0.62 (1.07) 2.71 (1.05) 1.00 (1.07) 0.291 (1.06) 2145 (1.03) 21 GCCATAGCACTTCGGAATTGT 36 5.11 (1.05) 1.54 (1.11) 0.49 (1.08) 2.55 (1.05) 0.77 (1.09) 0.247 (1.07) 2002 (1.04) 362 5.50 (1.02) 1.90 (1.03) 0.60 (1.02) 2.76 (1.02) 0.95 (1.03) 0.299 (1.02) 1995 (1.01) 22 Rare variants The variants at rs4952688 and rs11887534 are marked red in the haplotype column. Haplotypes containing C/T variant showed high phytosterol concentrations throughout while haplotypes containing the G/A variant showed low concentrations. Results of association analysis for these haplotypes are shown in Supplementary Table 10. ca, mean and standard error of serum campesterol (mg/L); si, mean and standard error of serum sitosterol (mg/L); br, mean and standard error of serum brassicasterol (mg/L); ca/ch, mean and standard error of serum campesterol 3 3 normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); si/ch, mean and standard error of serum sitosterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); br/ch, mean and standard error of serum brassicasterol normalized to 3 cholesterol (x10 ); ch, mean and standard error of serum cholesterol. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 27 Supplementary Table 10 Geometric mean and standard error of phytosterol and cholesterol concentrations in the CARLA cohort for all genotypes of the three haplotype varaints of rs4952688 and rs11887534 (in mg/L) ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ch Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 CA/CA (N=698) 5.41 (1.01) 1.83 (1.02) 0.57 (1.02) 2.66 (1.01) 0.90 (1.02) 0.281 (1.02) 2036 (1.01) CA/CT (N=662) 5.97 (1.01) 2.17 (1.02) 0.64 (1.02) 2.92 (1.01) 1.06 (1.02) 0.314 (1.02) 2043 (1.01) CT/CT (N=162) 6.76 (1.03) 2.68 (1.04) 0.75 (1.03) 3.30 (1.02) 1.31 (1.04) 0.367 (1.03) 2052 (1.01) CA/GA (N=135) 4.75 (1.03) 1.46 (1.04) 0.46 (1.04) 2.37 (1.03) 0.72 (1.04) 0.229 (1.03) 2006 (1.02) GA/GA (N=6) 3.87 (1.12) 0.80 (1.30) 0.37 (1.16) 2.07 (1.14) 0.43 (1.32) 0.198 (1.18) 1866 (1.03) CT/GA (N=54) 5.73 (1.04) 2.11 (1.06) 0.61 (1.06) 2.79 (1.03) 1.03 (1.05) 0.300 (1.05) 2052 (1.03) 0.13 0.0045 Dose effect C/T p-value C/T Dose effect G/A p-value G/A 0.11 2.7 x 10 0.19 -20 -0.11 2.8 x 10 2.2 x 10 0.14 -24 -0.20 -06 1.4 x 10 1.5 x 10 0.11 -18 -0.17 -7 4.0 x 10 1.9 x 10 0.19 -22 -0.097 -08 5.2 x 10 -06 3.7 x 10 -27 -0.19 4.8 x 10 2.0 x 10 -19 0.54 -0.16 -08 7.7 x 10 -0.013 -08 0.36 Positive dose effect for haplotype C/T and a negative dose effect for haplotype G/A for all phytosterol traits but not for cholesterol. Effects and p-values are shown for the additive model. Date were adjusted for age, sex, log(BMI) and statin treatment status. ca, mean and standard error of serum campesterol (mg/L); si, mean and standard error of serum sitosterol (mg/L); br, mean and 3 standard error of serum brassicasterol (mg/L); ca/ch, mean and standard error of serum campesterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); si/ch, mean and standard error of serum sitosterol 3 3 normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); br/ch, mean and standard error of serum brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); ch, mean and standard error of serum cholesterol. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 28 Supplementary Table 11 Explained variance of serum phytosterols by ABCG8 and ABO loci Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Trait explained variance (%) ABCG8 haplotypes additive model explained variance (%) blood group O vs. A,B,AB explained variance (%) combined ca si br ca/ch si/ch br/ch ch 7.00 8.62 7.19 7.66 9.61 7.49 0.05 1.09 0.39 0.51 0.57 0.20 0.22 0.35 8.08 9.03 7.72 8.25 9.83 7.74 0.4 ca, campesterol; si, sitosterol; br, brassicasterol; ch, cholesterol; ca/ch, campesterol normalized to cholesterol; si/ch, sitosterol normalized to cholesterol; br/ch, brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 29 Supplementary Table 12 Phytosterol and cholesterol concentrations (mg/L) in relation to blood groups in CARLA (genetic determination) Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Blood group O (N=623) A (N=777) B (N=237) AB (N=102) p-value O vs. A,AB,B ca 5.44 (1.01) 5.87 (1.01) 5.72 (1.02) 5.77 (1.03) 7.6x10-5 si 1.91 (1.02) 2.07 (1.02) 1.98 (1.03) 1.98 (1.05) 0.015 br ca/ch si/ch 0.58 (1.02) 2.71 (1.01) 0.95 (1.02) 0.63 (1.02) 2.85 (1.01) 1.00 (1.02) 0.61 (1.03) 2.84 (1.02) 0.98 (1.03) 0.60 (1.04) 2.82 (1.03) 0.97 (1.05) 0.0051 0.0020 0.056 br/ch 0.296 (1.02) 0.311 (1.01) 0.311 (1.03) 0.298 (1.04) 0.042 ch 2006 (1.01) 2067 (1.01) 2012 (1.01) 2034 (1.02) 0.056 Geometric mean and standard error of age, sex, log(BMI) and statin treatment status adjusted traits. Phytosterols were also adjusted for rs4245791 and rs41360247. Blood group O showed reduced phytosterol concentrations while cholesterol concentrations are equal. P-values were calculated for the comparison of blood group O with the pooled blood groups A,B and AB. ca, mean and standard error of serum campesterol (mg/L); si, mean and standard error of serum sitosterol (mg/L); br, mean and standard error of serum brassicasterol (mg/L); ca/ch, mean and standard 3 3 error of serum campesterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); si/ch, mean and standard error of serum sitosterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); br/ch, mean and standard error of serum 3 brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); ch, mean and standard error of serum cholesterol. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 30 Supplementary Table 13 Phytosterol and cholesterol concentrations (mg/L) in blood donors (immunological determination) Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Blood group O (N=301) A (N=296) B (N=111) AB (N=52) p-value O vs. A,AB,B ca 5.17 5.49 5.48 5.49 (1.02) (1.02) (1.03) (1.04) 0.011 si 2.26 2.40 2.38 2.39 (1.02) (1.02) (1.04) (1.05) 0.044 br 0.67 0.71 0.72 0.69 (1.02) (1.02) (1.03) (1.05) 0.031 ca/ch 2.84 3.04 3.02 3.01 (1.02) (1.02) (1.03) (1.04) 0.014 si/ch 1.25 1.33 1.32 1.32 (1.02) (1.02) (1.04) (1.05) 0.030 br/ch 0.370 0.393 0.395 0.378 ch 1819 1810 1815 1823 (1.02) (1.02) (1.03) (1.04) 0.021 (1.02) (1.02) (1.03) (1.04) 0.874 Geometric mean and standard error of age, sex and log(BMI) adjusted traits. Blood group O showed reduced phytosterol concentrations while cholesterol concentrations are equal. P-values were calculated to compare blood group O with the pooled blood groups A,B and AB. ca, mean and standard error of serum campesterol (mg/L); si, mean and standard error of serum sitosterol 3 (mg/L); br, mean and standard error of serum brassicasterol (mg/L); ca/ch, mean and standard error of serum campesterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); si/ch, mean and standard error of 3 3 serum sitosterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); br/ch, mean and standard error of serum brassicasterol normalized to cholesterol (x10 ); ch, mean and standard error of serum cholesterol. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 31 Supplementary Table 14 Metaanalysis of association of ABCG8 SNP rs41360247 with CAD Cases (n) 2843 Controls (n) 421 Call rate 0.937 Cases MAF 0.060 Controls MAF 0.064 P-value (additive) 0.693 OR (95% CI) (additive) 0.94 (0.69-1.28) P-value (recessive) 0.658 OR (95% CI) (recessive) 0.93 (0.68-1.28) CARLA 145 1589 0.991 0.046 0.056 0.481 0.81 (0.46-1.44) 0.388 0.76 (0.41-1,41) ECTIM 1114 1154 0.990 0.053 0.062 0.194 0.85 (0.66-1.09) 0.132 0.82 (0.63-1.06) Erlangen 797 738 0.995 0.059 0.070 0.217 0.83 (0.62-1.11) 0.173 0.81 (0.60-1.10) GerMIFS II 1222 1407 1.000 0.056 0.067 0.083 0.82 (0.65-1.03) 0.063 0.80 (0.63-1.01) GoKard 966 995 0.962 0.056 0.079 0.006 0.70 (0.54-0.90) 0.001 0.63 (0.48-0.83) KORA-B 589 607 0.924 0.067 0.059 0.431 1.15 (0.81-1.63) 0.372 1.18 (0.82-1.69) KORA-MI 1504 1550 0.947 0.057 0.078 0.002 0.72 (0.59-0.89) 0.003 0.72 (0.58-0.90) LE-Heart 469 422 0.988 0.055 0.053 0.870 1.03 (0.69-1.54) 0.828 1.05 (0.68-1.63) PopGen 2189 1809 0.890 0.054 0.056 0.782 0.97 (0.80-1.19) 0.690 0.96 (0.77-1.19) WTCCC 1926 2938 0.958 0.053 0.065 0.018 0.81 (0.68-0.96) 0.012 Cohort Angio-Lueb Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Fixed effects Random effects 13764 13764 13630 13630 0.955 0.955 0.057 0.057 0.065 0.065 1.3 x 10 -5 4.6 x 10 -5 0.84 (0.78-0.91) 0.84 (0.78-0.92) 0.79 (0.65-0.95) 2.3 x 10 -6 0.82 (0.76-0.89) 7.5 x 10 -5 0.83 (0.75-0.91) Cohorts are described in supplementary methods; MAF, minor allele frequency (minor allele C, major allele T); OR (95% CI), odds ratio and 95% confidence interval using additive and recessive models, respectively. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 32 Supplementary Table 15 Metaanalysis of association of ABCG8 SNP rs4245791 with CAD Cases (n) 2843 Controls (n) 421 Call rate 0.941 Cases MAF 0.321 Controls MAF 0.310 P-value (additive) 0.531 OR (95% CI) (additive) 1.05 (0.90-1.24) P-value (recessive) 0.546 OR (95% CI) (recessive) 1.07 (0.86-1.32) CARLA 145 1589 0.957 0.390 0.323 0.030 1.32 (1.03-1.69) 0.033 1.48 (1.03-2.13) ECTIM 1114 1154 0.947 0.342 0.344 0.898 0.99 (0.87-1.13) 0.661 0.96 (0.81-1.14) Erlangen 797 738 0.985 0.346 0.303 0.011 1.22 (1.05-1.42) 0.015 1.29 (1.05-1.58) GerMIFS II 1222 1407 0.965 0.332 0.299 0.011 1.17 (1.04-1.31) 0.013 1.22 (1.04-1.43) GoKard 966 995 0.971 0.332 0.321 0.484 1.05 (0.92-1.20) 0.932 0.99 (0.83-1.19) KORA-B 589 607 0.921 0.333 0.313 0.311 1.10 (0.92-1.31) 0.363 1.12 (0.88-1.42) KORA-MI 1504 1550 0.953 0.343 0.317 0.040 1.12 (1.01-1.25) 0.075 1.14 (0.99-1.32) LE-Heart 469 422 0.987 0.305 0.303 0.925 1.01 (0.82-1.24) 0.809 1.03 (0.79-1.35) PopGen 2189 1809 0.983 0.321 0.313 0.418 1.04 (0.95-1.14) 0.432 1.05 (0.93-1.19) WTCCC 1926 2938 0.997 0.348 0.319 0.003 1.14 (1.04-1.24) 0.009 Cohort Angio-Lueb Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Fixed effects Random effects 13764 13764 13630 13630 0.968 0.968 0.333 0.333 0.317 0.317 2.2 x 10 -6 7.2 x 10 -6 1.10 (1.06-1.14) 1.10 (1.05-1.14) 1.17 (1.04-1.31) 4.6 x 10 -5 1.11 (1.06-1.17) 2.8 x 10 -4 1.11 (1.05-1.18) Cohorts are described in supplementary methods; MAF, minor allele frequency (minor allele C, major allele T); OR (95% CI), odds ratio and 95% confidence interval using additive and recessive models, respectively. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 33 Supplementary Table 16 Metaanalysis of association of ABO SNP rs657152 with CAD Cases (n) 2843 Controls (n) 421 Call rate 0.944 Cases MAF 0.409 Controls MAF 0.400 P-value (additive) 0.636 OR (95% CI) (additive) 1.04 (0.89-1.21) P-value (recessive) 0.507 OR (95% CI) (recessive) 1.08 (0.87-1.34) CARLA 145 1589 0.980 0.432 0.409 0.466 1.10 (0.86-1.40) 0.207 1.27 (0.87-1.86) ECTIM 1114 1154 0.973 0.331 0.330 0.928 1.01 (0.89-1.14) 0.697 1.03 (0.87-1.22) Erlangen 797 738 0.972 0.411 0.389 0.221 1.10 (0.95-1.27) 0.501 1.08 (0.87-1.33) GerMIFS II 1222 1407 0.989 0.420 0.388 0.020 1.14 (1.02-1.27) 0.006 1.26 (1.07-1.47) GoKard 966 995 0.967 0.404 0.361 0.007 1.20 (1.05-1.36) 0.042 1.21 (1.01-1.46) KORA-B 589 607 0.937 0.428 0.357 0.001 1.35 (1.14-1.61) 0.002 1.48 (1.16-1.89) KORA-MI 1504 1550 0.950 0.402 0.385 0.201 1.07 (0.96-1.19) 0.187 1.11 (0.95-1.29) LE-Heart 469 422 0.991 0.432 0.408 0.309 1.10 (0.91-1.33) 0.388 1.13 (0.86-1.49) PopGen 2189 1809 0.979 0.417 0.396 0.065 1.09 (0.99-1.19) 0.143 1.10 (0.97-1.26) WTCCC 1926 2938 0.993 0.360 0.354 0.514 1.03 (0.94-1.12) 0.350 Cohort Angio-Lueb Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Fixed effects Random effects 13764 13764 13630 13630 0.972 0.972 0.399 0.399 0.377 0.377 5.0 x 10 -6 4.0 x 10 -5 1.09 (1.05-1.13) 1.09 (1.05-1.14) 1.06 (0.94-1.19) 9.4 x 10 -6 1.13 (1.07-1.19) 1.1 x 10 -5 1.13 (1.07-1.19) Cohorts are described in supplementary methods; MAF, minor allele frequency (minor allele A, major allele C); OR (95% CI), odds ratio and 95% confidence interval using additive and recessive models, respectively. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 34 Supplementary Table 17 Replication of major genetic associations of serum phytosterol levels in CARLA with additional adjustment to LDL-cholesterol levels Allelic effect and P value of association Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Cohort CARLA (n=1760) SNP Gene rs41360247 ABCG8 rs4245791 ABCG8 rs657152 ABO Chr bp position MAF CR HWE 2 43927160 0.056 0.990 0.50 2 43927935 0.326 0.957 0.016 9 133168819 0.412 0.984 0.50 CA SI -12% 2.0 x 10-8 10% 3.8 x 10-18 5% 5.6 x 10-4 -23% 2.0 x 10-10 19% 2.3 x 10-23 5% 0.059 BR -20% 8.2 x 10-11 14% 2.4 x 10-19 5% 0.027 CA, campesterol; SI, sitosterol; BR, brassicasterol; CH, cholesterol; bp position refers to NCBI build 36. MAF, minor allele frequency; CR, call rate; HWE, P value of deviation from HardyWeinberg equilibrium; P values of association are given for the additive model for rs41360247 and rs4245791 and for the recessive model for rs657152 after additional adjustment to LDLcholesterol. Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 35 Supplementary Figure 1 Supplementary Figure 1: Q/Q plots for campesterol . (A) Additive model. (B) recessive model. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 36 Campesterol (mg/L) Supplementary Figure 2 7.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0 698 662 162 135 6 54 CA/CA CA/CT CT/CT CA/GA GA/GA CT/GA rs11887534, rs4952688 haplotype Supplementary Figure 2: Geometric mean and standard error of campesterol for functionally relevant haplotypes of the ABCG8 locus in the CARLA cohort (n=1760). Haplotype analysis showed that the variation of phytosterol levels at this locus could be best explained by haplotypes defined by rs11887534 (C/G) and rs4952688 (A/T). These SNPs were tightly linked with rs41360247 and rs4245791 (see Figure 1), respectively but showed improved P-values of association. The CT haplotype was associated with elevated phytosterols (dose effect 0.11, P = 2.7 x 10-20), whereas the GA haplotype was associated with decreased phytosterols (dose effect -0.11, P = 2.8 x 10-6). Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 37 rs 4 9 5 2 6 8 8 43952937 rs 4 1 4 8 2 1 7 (T 4 0 0 K ) rs 4 2 4 5 7 9 1 43950274 rs 4 1 3 6 0 2 4 7 43927935 43921355 43927160 43921323 S a m p le ID 43920673 P o s itio n [b p ] rs 10177200 43920380 C T C H C C H H C C C C H C C C C C C C G C C C C C C C C C H C C C H C C C C A C C C C C C C C C H C C C H C C C Major Minor #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 # 10 # 11 # 12 # 13 # 14 # 15 # 16 # 17 T C T T T T T T T T T H T T T T H T T T C T H H H T T H H T H T H T C T T T A T A H H H A A H H A H A H A T A A H C A H C C H C H H C H C C C C C C C C U 11-1 rs 4148202 43919751 C T C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C C U 10-1 rs 3806470 43919678 43922480 rs 4245789 43918594 rs 10179921 rs11887534 (D 19H ) 43918288 G T G G G T C A G C A A G T G H G G H G C G H G G H H H G T G G H H C G T G G G T C G H G G H H H G H G G H H H G T G G G T C G H G G H H C G T G G G T C H T H G G H C G H G G H G T G T G G G T C G G G G A G C G T G G G H C G H G G H H C G G G G A G C G H G G H H C 43921845 rs3806471 43917855 G A G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G rs 4148203 rs 6756629 43917693 G T A C H T H T G H G T H T H T G T H T G T G H H H G T A H G H H H A H H T 43921795 rs 6710544 43917688 G A H H G G H H G H G G H G A G H A H 43921386 U 2-2 43917677 G A A C H H H H G A G A H H H H G A H H G A H A H H G A A C H A H H A C H H rs 10495909 rs 34381269 43917601 C T H H C C H H C H C H H C T H H T H U 2-1 rs 35636239 43917566 C T C C C C C C C C C H C C C H C C C rs 34520479 rs 13425681 43917235 T A H H T T H H T H T H H T A H H A H A T G C H T H T A T A T H T H T A T H T A T G T H T A T G T H T H T G T H T U 1A -1 rs 17031700 43917191 rs 6728053 43916857 43917139 U 1-1 43916850 rs 6741243 rs 13425260 43916819 C A C T T G T C H H C H H H H H C A C T C A C T H H C H H H C H C A C T H H H H C A C T C H C H H H C H C A C T T G C C H H C H H H C H H G C C H H C H 43916861 rs 6712582 43916704 T G H H T T H H T H T T H T G H H H H rs 4953021 43916686 Major Minor #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 # 10 # 11 # 12 # 13 # 14 # 15 # 16 # 17 S am p le ID P o sitio n [b p ] Supplementary Figure 3 Supplementary Figure 3: DNA sequence analysis of 6kb of the intergenic region of ABCG5 and ABCG8 in 17 human liver samples. The region was selected based on a high level of conservation determined with the Vista browser. SNPs in the region failed (left) to show significant linkage with SNP rs4245791 or rs4962688 (right). Homozygousity for major alleles is indicated in blue and homozygousity for minor alleles in orange. “H” stands for heterozygous samples. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 38 Supplementary Figure 4 A B A B 01 02 1 2 3 4 5 rs8176747 rs41302905 rs8176746 rs8176719 rs657152 SNP-ID 136.131.315 136.131.316 136.131.322 136.132.908 136.139.265 position [bp] C/G C/T G/T C/C/A alleles Gly/Ala Gly/Arg Leu/Met Val/X -/amino acid change A/B A/0 A/B A/0 -/blood group change Exon 7 Exon 6 Supplementary Figure 4: (A) Haplotype structure of the ABO locus using the lead SNP rs657152 (75) and neighboring SNPs from the 500K Array Set. (B) SNPs determining blood groups and rs657152 and their corresponding LD-plot in CARLA (r2). Position and effect of the 5 SNPs on amino acids of ABO and blood groups are shown. Minor alleles of SNP 1 and 3 lead to blood group B (blue). Minor alleles of SNP 2 and 4 lead to blood group O2 and O1, respectively. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 39 Supplementary Figure 5 A Angio-Lueb CARLA ECTIM Erlangen GerMIFS II GoKard KORA-B KORA-MI LE-Heart PopGen WTCCC Fixed effect Random effects 0.6 B 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.6 Angio-Lueb CARLA ECTIM Erlangen GerMIFS II GoKard KORA-B KORA-MI LE-Heart PopGen WTCCC Fixed effect Random effects 0.8 C 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 2.0 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 2.0 Angio-Lueb CARLA ECTIM Erlangen GerMIFS II GoKard KORA-B KORA-MI LE-Heart PopGen WTCCC Fixed effect Random effects 0.8 Supplementary Figure 5: Odds ratio and 95% CI in 11 studies of CAD and meta-effects using fixed effects and random effects models. (A) ABCG8, rs41360247 (B) ABCG8, rs4245791 (C) ABO, rs657152 Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 40 Supplementary Figure 6 ABCG8 rs41360247 ABCG8 rs4245791 ABO rs657152 P = 0.039 P = 0.078 P = 0.012 0.8 0.9 lower LDL-cholesterol 1.0 1.1 1.2 higher LDL-cholesterol Supplementary Figure 6: Fold change and 95% CI of LDL-cholesterol in CARLA for SNPs located in ABCG8 and ABO genes using additive and recessive models, respectively. Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010 Supplemental Material, Teupser et al 41 Members of KORA Study Group Cooperative health research in the Region of Augsburg (KORA) KORA study group consists of H.-Erich Wichmann1,2 (speaker), Rolf Holle3, Jürgen John3, Thomas Illig2, Christa Meisinger1, Annette Peters1, and their coworkers, who are responsible for the design and conduct of the KORA studies. The KORA S3/F3 500K study was conducted by Christian Gieger1,2, Guido Fischer1, Iris M. Heid1,2, Susana Eyheramendy1,2, Norman Klopp1,2, Peter Lichtner4, Gertrud Eckstein4, Thomas Illig2, H.Erich Wichmann1,2, and Thomas Meitinger4,5 1 Institute of Epidemiology, GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. 2 Chair of Epidemiology, IBE, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany. 3 Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management, GSF-National Research Centre for Environment and Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. 4 Institute of Human Genetics, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany 5 Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University, 81765 Munich, Germany Downloaded from circgenetics.ahajournals.org by on June 8, 2010