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. 2014 Oct 26;7:21. doi: 10.1186/1756-0381-7-21

Table 5.

Plasma cholesterol-induced lesion networks are enriched for cardiometabolic GxE genes

Network, number of genes* Genes shared with GxE catalog Genes shared with GWAS catalog Enrichment in GxE catalog, p -value
Plasma cholesterol-lowering, 2697
32
80
< 0.001
Regression-reactive, 6096 55 174 < 0.001

*All genes comprising each network, as described [88].

GxE genes supporting commonly measured phenotypes and involving common environmental modifiers, n =108.

GWAS genes supporting associations with cardiometabolic phenotypes, n =519.

p-value based on two-sample z-test.