The results for HDL cholesterol are summarized in Table 3. SNPs at CETP and LPL were strongly associated with HDL cholesterol in all three ethnic groups. Each increase in minor C allele copy number in CETP polymorphism rs1800775 resulted in a 0.05 standard deviation (SD) unit decrease in HDL cholesterol across all ethnicities (P=5.0 × 10−20). LPL rs328 was associated an increase of 0.04 SD unit in HDL cholesterol per allele (P = 5 × 10−8).
