Genome of The Netherlands population-specific imputations identify an ABCA6 
variant associated with cholesterol levels

van Leeuwen, E. M.; Karssen, L. C.; Deelen, J.; Isaacs, A.; Medina-Gomez, C.; Mbarek, H.; Kanterakis, A.; Trompet, S.; Postmus, I.; Verweij, N.; van Enckevort, D. J.; Huffman, J. E.; White, C. C.; Feitosa, M. F.; Bartz, T. M.; Manichaikul, A.; Joshi, P. K.; Peloso, G. M.; Deelen, P.; van Dijk, F.; Willemsen, G.; de Geus, E. J.; Milaneschi, Y.; Penninx, B. W.; Francioli, L. C.; Menelaou, A.; Pulit, S. L.; Rivadeneira, F.; Hofman, A.; Oostra, B. A.; Franco, O. H.; Mateo Leach, I.; Beekman, M.; de Craen, A. J.; Uh, H. W.; Trochet, H.; Hocking, L. J.; Porteous, D. J.; Sattar, N.; Packard, C. J.; Buckley, B. M.; Brody, J. A.; Bis, J. C.; Rotter, J. I.; Mychaleckyj, J. C.; Campbell, H.; Duan, Q.; Lange, L. A.; Wilson, J. F.; Hayward, C.; Polasek, O.; Vitart, V.; Rudan, I.; Wright, A. F.; Rich, S. S.; Psaty, B. M.; Borecki, I. B.; Kearney, P. M.; Stott, D. J.; Adrienne Cupples, L.; Genome of The Netherlands, Consortium; Jukema, J. W.; van der Harst, P.; Sijbrands, E. J.; Hottenga, J. J.; Uitterlinden, A. G.; Swertz, M. A.; van Ommen, G. J.; de Bakker, P. I.; Slagboom, P. E.; Boomsma, D. I.; Wijmenga, C.; van Duijn, C. M.

doi:10.1038/ncomms7065

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Genome of The Netherlands population-specific imputations identify an ABCA6 variant associated with cholesterol levels

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Deelen, J.
Deelen – Genetics and Biomarkers of Human Ageing, Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Max Planck Society;

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van Leeuwen, E. M., Karssen, L. C., Deelen, J., Isaacs, A., Medina-Gomez, C., Mbarek, H., et al. (2015). Genome of The Netherlands population-specific imputations identify an ABCA6 variant associated with cholesterol levels. Nat Commun, 6, 6065. doi:10.1038/ncomms7065.

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Variants associated with blood lipid levels may be population-specific. To identify low-frequency variants associated with this phenotype, population-specific reference panels may be used. Here we impute nine large Dutch biobanks (~35,000 samples) with the population-specific reference panel created by the Genome of The Netherlands Project and perform association testing with blood lipid levels. We report the discovery of five novel associations at four loci (P value <6.61 x 10(-4)), including a rare missense variant in ABCA6 (rs77542162, p.Cys1359Arg, frequency 0.034), which is predicted to be deleterious. The frequency of this ABCA6 variant is 3.65-fold increased in the Dutch and its effect (betaLDL-C=0.135, betaTC=0.140) is estimated to be very similar to those observed for single variants in well-known lipid genes, such as LDLR.