rs7308602

This is a downstream gene variant variant in the SOAT2 gene.

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GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (5)

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

cholesterol to total lipids in medium LDL percentage

Zoodsma M et al. “A genetic map of human metabolism across the allele frequency spectrum.” Nature Genetics 57(10):2445-2455 (2025)
Allele A
OR 0.02
p 9.0e-18
N 450,015
Large GWAS
multi-ancestry

triglycerides to total lipids in large LDL percentage

Zoodsma M et al. “A genetic map of human metabolism across the allele frequency spectrum.” Nature Genetics 57(10):2445-2455 (2025)
Allele A
OR 0.02
p 6.0e-13
N 450,015
Large GWAS
multi-ancestry

triglycerides to total lipids in medium LDL percentage

Zoodsma M et al. “A genetic map of human metabolism across the allele frequency spectrum.” Nature Genetics 57(10):2445-2455 (2025)
Allele A
OR 0.02
p 4.0e-12
N 450,015
Large GWAS
multi-ancestry

free cholesterol to total lipids in IDL percentage

Zoodsma M et al. “A genetic map of human metabolism across the allele frequency spectrum.” Nature Genetics 57(10):2445-2455 (2025)
Allele A
OR 0.02
p 9.0e-12
N 450,015
Large GWAS
multi-ancestry

fatty acid amount

Sun Y et al. “GWAS and multi-omics integrative analysis reveal novel loci and their molecular mechanisms for circulating fatty acids.” Hgg Advances 6(4):100470 (2025)
Allele A
OR —
p 9.0e-11
N 128,922
Large GWAS
European

About SOAT2

Summary:This gene is a member of a small family of acyl coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferases. The gene encodes a membrane-bound enzyme localized in the endoplasmic reticulum that produces intracellular cholesterol esters from long-chain fatty acyl CoA and cholesterol. The cholesterol esters are then stored as cytoplasmic lipid droplets inside the cell. The enzyme is implicated in cholesterol absorption in the intestine and in the assembly and secretion of apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins such as very low density lipoprotein (VLDL). Several alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described, but their full-length nature is not known. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

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Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.

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