| AB | abdominal obesity BMI |
| BMI | Body mass index CH |
| CH | hypercholesterolemia |
| CVD | cardiovascular disease |
| DBP | diastolic blood pressure |
| DM | Type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| GO | general obesity |
| GWAS | genome-wide association study |
| HDL | hypo-high-density lipoprotein |
| HDL | hypo-HDL cholesterolemia |
| HTN | hypertension |
| KoGES | Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study |
| LD | linkage disequilibrium |
| MAF | minor allele frequency |
| MetS | Metabolic syndrome |
| SBP | Systolic blood pressure |
| SNP | single nucleotide polymorphism |
| T2D | type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| TFAP2A | Transcription factor activating enhancer binding protein 2 alpha |
| TG | hypertriglyceridemia |
| TLE4 | Transducin-like enhancer of split 4 |