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标题：ZNF542P is a pseudogene associated with LDL response to simvastatin treatment
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作者：Kyungpil Kim ; Elizabeth Theusch ; Yu-Lin Kuang 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：12443
DOI：10.1038/s41598-018-30859-y
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：Statins are the most commonly prescribed cardiovascular disease drug, but their inter-individual efficacy varies considerably. Genetic factors uncovered to date have only explained a small proportion of variation in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC) lowering. To identify novel markers and determinants of statin response, we used whole transcriptome sequence data collected from simvastatin and control incubated lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) established from participants of the Cholesterol and Pharmacogenetics (CAP) simvastatin clinical trial. We looked for genes whose statin-induced expression changes were most different between LCLs derived from individuals with high versus low plasma LDLC statin response during the CAP trial. We created a classification model of 82 “signature” gene expression changes that distinguished high versus low LDLC statin response. One of the most differentially changing genes was zinc finger protein 542 pseudogene ( ZNF542P ), the signature gene with changes most correlated with statin-induced change in cellular cholesterol ester, an in vitro marker of statin response. ZNF542P knock-down in a human hepatoma cell line increased intracellular cholesterol ester levels upon simvastatin treatment. Together, these findings imply a role for ZNF542P in LDLC response to simvastatin and, importantly, highlight the potential significance of noncoding RNAs as a contributing factor to variation in drug response.