Table 1.

Potentially novel genome-wide significant VTE loci

Variant (risk-increasing allele/non–risk-increasing allele)Risk allele frequency in GBMIRisk allele frequency by ancestry in gnomAD 4.1.0Odds ratioP valuePrioritized gene
chr1:12563482
rs112106699 a/g 
0.004 AMR, 0.0082; AFR, 0.088; FIN, 0.00; NFE, 0.00078 1.57 2 × 10–8 DHRS3
Dehydrogenase/reductase 3 
chr11:100637868
rs11224340 g/a 
0.90 AMR, 0.93; AFR, 0.98; FIN, 0.90; NFE, 0.91 1.09 3 × 10–8 ARHGAP4
Rho GTPase activating protein 4 
chr12:127502539
rs115924439 a/g 
0.002 AMR, 0.0031; AFR, 0.038;
FIN, 0.00; NFE, 0.000088 
1.92 2 × 10–8 LINC02411
Long intergenic nonprotein coding RNA 2411 
chr17:48539858
rs1459062246
166-bp insertion 
0.80 AMR, 0.80; AFR, 0.54;
FIN, 0.77; NFE, 0.78 
1.12 3 × 10–8 HOXB2
Homeobox B2 
Variant (risk-increasing allele/non–risk-increasing allele)Risk allele frequency in GBMIRisk allele frequency by ancestry in gnomAD 4.1.0Odds ratioP valuePrioritized gene
chr1:12563482
rs112106699 a/g 
0.004 AMR, 0.0082; AFR, 0.088; FIN, 0.00; NFE, 0.00078 1.57 2 × 10–8 DHRS3
Dehydrogenase/reductase 3 
chr11:100637868
rs11224340 g/a 
0.90 AMR, 0.93; AFR, 0.98; FIN, 0.90; NFE, 0.91 1.09 3 × 10–8 ARHGAP4
Rho GTPase activating protein 4 
chr12:127502539
rs115924439 a/g 
0.002 AMR, 0.0031; AFR, 0.038;
FIN, 0.00; NFE, 0.000088 
1.92 2 × 10–8 LINC02411
Long intergenic nonprotein coding RNA 2411 
chr17:48539858
rs1459062246
166-bp insertion 
0.80 AMR, 0.80; AFR, 0.54;
FIN, 0.77; NFE, 0.78 
1.12 3 × 10–8 HOXB2
Homeobox B2 

Meta-analysis identified 38 genome-wide significant loci, 4 are potentially novel.

AFR, African ancestry as defined by gnomAD; AMR, Admixed American ancestry; FIN, Finnish ancestry; NFE, non-Finnish EUR.

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