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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Psychiatry. 2017 May 9;22(9):1359–1367. doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.101

Table 2.

Top genome-wide associations with alcohol consumption in each individual race/ethnicity group and in the trans-ethnic meta-analysis


Drinker Status Drinks/Week

SNP Chr Position (bp) Type Gene EA Ethnicity EAF OR (95%CI) P Beta (95%CI) P
NHW 0.28 1.05 (1.03–1.08) 6.74×10−5 0.04 (0.02–0.05) 1.05×10−6
H/L 0.38 0.97 (0.90–1.04) 0.41 0.05 (0.002–0.09) 0.04
rs4665985 2 27,753,878 Intergenic GCKR C EAS 0.44 1.02 (0.94–1.09) 0.68 0.02 (−0.04–0.08) 0.58
AA 0.12 1.05 (0.86–1.79) 0.63 0.21 (0.08–0.33) 0.002

Meta 1.04 (1.02–1.06) 5.0×10−4 0.04 (0.03–0.06) 2.26×10−8

NHW 0.47 0.96 (0.94–0.99) 0.0014 −0.03 (−0.05–−0.02) 8.95×10−8
H/L 0.48 0.92 (0.85–0.98) 0.01 −0.05 (−0.09–−0.01) 0.02
rs7686419 4 39,406,370 Upstream KLB A EAS 0.46 0.94 (0.87–1.02) 0.13 −0.10 (−0.15–−0.04) 7.67×10−4
AA 0.45 0.97 (0.85–1.73) 0.61 0.01 (−0.08–0.09) 0.91

Meta 0.96 (0.94–0.98) 4.08×10−5 −0.04 (−0.05–−0.02) 3.41×10−10

NHW 0.05 0.79 (0.74–0.84) 2.47×10−20 −0.19 (−0.22–−0.16) 1.91×10−35
H/L 0.07 0.72 (0.59–0.85) 4.35×10−7 −0.21 (−0.30–−0.12) 2.58×10−6
rs1229984 4 100,239,319 Missense ADH1B T EAS 0.69 0.94 (0.86–1.02) 0.15 −0.07 (−0.12–−0.01) 0.02
AA 0.03 0.61 (0.26–0.69) 0.004 −0.11 (−0.39–0.16) 0.41

Meta *0.79 (0.69–0.91) *8.0×10−4 *−0.15 (−0.23–−0.07) *3.04×10−4

NHW 0.0005 NA NA NA NA
H/L 0.03 NA NA NA NA
rs671 12 112,241,766 Missense ALDH2 A EAS 0.21 0.40 (0.29–0.50) 2.28×10−72 −0.17 (−0.26–−0.07) 5.42×10−4
AA 0.004 NA NA NA NA

Meta NA NA NA NA

Abbreviations: Chr, chromosome; bp, base pair (based on UCSC Genome Browser Assembly February 2009 (GRCh37/hg19)); EA, Effect Allele; EAF, Effect Allele Frequency; NWW, non-Hispanic whites; H/L, Hispanic/Latinos; EAS, East Asians; AA, African Americans; Meta, combined trans-ethnic meta-analysis. The combined meta-analysis includes 71 071 non-Hispanic Whites, 7 047 Hispanic/Latinos, 6 034 East Asians, and 2 475 African Americans.

*

values for random effects model are reported when significant heterogeneity between race/ethnicity groups was detected (I2≥60%; Q≤0.05)

Bold numbers are p-values <5.0×10−8; NA: ALDH2 rs671 was not polymorphic (MAF<0.5%) in non-Hispanic whites and African Americans, and was observed at a low frequency and imputation quality in Hispanic/Latinos, and so was excluded from the analysis in these race/ethnicity groups.