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. 2012 Sep 18;7:607–631. doi: 10.2147/COPD.S35294

Table 2.

Susceptibility loci for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and related phenotypes identified by genome-wide association studies

Reference Study* Sample size (cases/controls) Disease/trait Platform (# SNPs) Region (size) Gene Key SNPs
Pillai et al15 Norway 823/810 COPD Illumina (Human Hap550) 15q25 CHRNA3 rs8034191
ICGN 1891 CHRNA5 rs1051730
NETT-NAS 389/472
EOCOPD 949
4q31 HHIP rs1828591
rs13118928
Cho et al19 Norway 2940/1380 COPD Illumina (Human Hap550 or Quad610) 4q22 FAM13A rs7671167
NETT-NAS rs1903003
ECLIPSE
COPDGene 502/504
EOCOPD 949
ICGN 2859
15q25 CHRNA3 rs1062980
CHRNA5
IREB2
4q31 HHIP rs1828591
Cho et al20 ECLIPSE 1764/178 COPD Illumina (Human Hap550, Quad610, or Omni1 Quad) 19q13 RAB4B rs7937
NAS-NETT 373/435 EGLN2 rs2604894
GenKOLS 863/808 MIA
COPDGene 499/501 CYP2A6
ICGN 983 probands/ 1876 siblings
4q22 FAM13A rs1964516
rs7671167
4q31 HHIP rs13141641
rs13118928
15q25 CHRNA3 rs11858836
CHRNA5 rs13180
IREB2
Wilk et al37 FHS 1059–1222 Ten spirometry phenotypes Affymetrix (70,987) 10q25 GSTO2 rs156697
Wilk et al38 FHS 7691 FEV1/FVC Affymetrix (500 K + 50 K) 4q31 HHIP rs13147758
Family heart study 835
Repapi et al40 SpiroMeta Consortium 20,288 FEV1 and FEV1/FVC Affymetrix and Illumina (2.5 million) 4q31 HHIP rs12504628
CHARGE consortium 32,184
21,209
Health 2000 survey 883
FEV1 2q35 TNS1 rs2571445
4q24 GSTCD rs10516526
5q33 HTR4 rs3995090
FEV1/FVC 6p21 AGER rs2070600
15q23 THSD4 rs12899618
Hancock et al39 CHARGE Consortium 20,890 FEV1/FVC Affymetrix and Illumina (2,515,866) 2q36 PID1 rs1435867
SpiroMeta consortium 16,178
4q22 FAM13A rs2869967
4q31 HHIP rs1980057
5q33 HTR4 rs11168048
5q33 ADAM19 rs2277027
6p21 AGER-PPT2 rs2070600
6q24 GPR126 rs3817928
9q22 PTCH1 rs16909898
FEV1 4q24 INTS12 rs17331332
GSTCD
NPNT
Soler Artigas et al41,** 23 studies 48,201 FEV1 Illumina and Affymetrix (2,706,349) 3q26 MECOM rs134555
17 studies 46,411
6p22 ZKSCAN3 rs6903823
10q22 C10orf11 rs11001819
FEV1/FVC 1p36 MFAP2 rs2284746
1q41 TGFB2- LYPLAL1 rs993925
2q37 HDAC4- FLJ43879 rs12477314
3p24 RARB rs1529672
5q15 SPATA9- RHOBTB3 rs153916
6q21 ARMC2 rs2798641
6p21 NCR3-AIF1 rs2857595
12q13 LRP1 rs11172113
12q22 CCDC38 rs1036429
16q13 MMP15 rs12447804
16q23 CFDP1 rs2865531
21q22 KCNE2- LINC00310 rs9978142
FEV1 and FEV1/FVC 10p23 CDC123 rs7068966
Imboden et al42 SAPALDIA 2677 nonasthmatic, 1441 asthmatic FEV1 decline in nonasthmatic Illumina 13q14 DLEU7 rs9316500
ECRHS Human
EGEA 610quad
FHS 10,858 nonasthmatic, 1138 asthmatic
ARIC
B58C
Dutch asthma study
FEV1/FVC decline in asthmatic 8p22 TUSC3 rs4831760
Kong et al43 ECLIPSE 1557 Emphysema (qualitative) Illumina 12q11 BICD1 rs10844154
Norway 432 Human rs161976
Hap550 (499,578)
Wan et al44 ECLIPSE 1734 Cachexia-related phenotypes (BMI and fat-free mass index) Illumina 16q12 FTO rs8050136
Norway 851
NETT 365
COPDGene 502

Notes:

*

Bold entries indicates replication cohorts;

**

only the new loci are identified for this study, but ten loci previously reported by Hancock et al39 and Repapi et al40 were also detected.

Abbreviations: ARIC, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities; B58C, British 1958 Birth Cohort; EOCOPD, Boston Early-Onset COPD Study; BMI, body mass index; COPDGene, COPDGene study; ECLIPSE, Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints; ECRHS, European Community Respiratory Health Survey; EGEA, Epidemiological study on the Genetics and Environment of Asthma; FEV1, forced expiratory volume in 1 second; FHS, Framingham Heart Study; FVC, forced vital capacity; GenKOLS, Bergen, Norway COPD Cohort; ICGN, International COPD Genetics Network study; NAS-NETT, Normative Aging Study and National Emphysema Treatment Trial; SAPALDIA, Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart Disease in Adults; SNPs, single-nucleotide polymorphisms.