ArticleNature cardiovascular research2025
Coronary artery disease-associated variants regulate vascular smooth muscle cell gene expression.
Article in Nature cardiovascular research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Integrative statistical genetics prioritizes candidate ASCVD susceptibility genes across tissues.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Immunothrombotic Cell-Cell Communication Networks in Coronary Atherosclerosis: Critical Insights from Single-Cell and Spatial Systems Biology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Cardiovascular Genetic Epidemiology in the Genome-Wide Era: From Association Discovery to Mechanistic Dissection and Clinical Translation.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2026Review
- Epigenetic regulation in atherosclerosis and its therapeutic potential.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2026Review
- Mapping causal non-coding variants in coronary artery disease.Nature cardiovascular research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Genome-wide association studies have identified over 300 genomic loci associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) risk, but identifying functional variants remains challenging due to linkage disequilibrium. Here we show a comprehensive functional characterization of CAD-associated variants in primary vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs). We performed lentivirus-based massively parallel reporter assays (lentiMPRAs) on 25,892 CAD-associated variants, testing their allele-specific enhancer activity in quiescent and proliferative SMCs. We identified 122 candidate variants with enhancer activity and allelic imbalance, including 23 variants showing condition-biased and 41 showing sex-biased effects. Integrating lentiMPRA with CUT&RUN epigenome profiling and expression quantitative trait loci data, we prioritized 49 functionally relevant variants. CRISPRi experiments on eight variants confirmed their regulatory effects on nine variant-gene pairs: rs35976034 (MAP1S), rs4888409 (CFDP1), rs73193808 (MAP3K7CL), rs67631072 (INPP5B/FHL3), rs1651285 (SNHG18), rs17293632 (SMAD3), rs2238792 (ARVCF) and rs4627080 (NRIP3). Our results fine-map the causal variants that confer CAD risk through their effects on vascular SMCs.
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