rs4704210

This is a upstream gene variant variant in the HMGCR gene.

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GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (8)

Genome-wide significant associations (p < 5×10⁻⁸) from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.

omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid measurement

Borges MC et al. “Role of circulating polyunsaturated fatty acids on cardiovascular diseases risk: analysis using Mendelian randomization and fatty acid genetic association data from over 114,000 UK Biobank participants.” Bmc Medicine 20(1):210 (2022)
Allele G
OR 0.05
p 4.0e-29
N 114,999
Major Consortium StudyLarge GWAS
European
Richardson TG et al. “Characterising metabolomic signatures of lipid-modifying therapies through drug target mendelian randomisation.” Plos Biology 20(2):e3001547 (2022)
Allele G
OR 0.05
p 1.0e-28
N 115,006
Large GWAS
European
Davyson E et al. “Metabolomic Investigation of Major Depressive Disorder Identifies a Potentially Causal Association With Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids.” Biological Psychiatry 94(8):630-639 (2023)
Allele G
OR 0.05
p 1.0e-22
N 88,268
Large GWAS
European

HMG CoA reductase inhibitor use measurement

Sakaue S et al. “A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes.” Nature Genetics 53(10):1415-1424 (2021)
Allele C
OR 0.10
p 2.0e-27
N 178,726
Large GWAS
East Asian

About HMGCR

HMG-CoA reductase is the rate-limiting enzyme for cholesterol synthesis and is regulated via a negative feedback mechanism mediated by sterols and non-sterol metabolites derived from mevalonate, the product of the reaction catalyzed by reductase. Normally in mammalian cells this enzyme is suppressed by cholesterol derived from the internalization and degradation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) via the LDL receptor. Competitive inhibitors of the reductase induce the expression of LDL receptors in the liver, which in turn increases the catabolism of plasma LDL and lowers the plasma concentration of cholesterol, an important determinant of atherosclerosis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2008]

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Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.

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