“…However, the majority of interacting genes are located in different pathways. Among 18 pathways, calcium signaling pathway mediates the effect of LDL and plays a role in control of atherosclerosis susceptibility [ 36 ], LDL-cholesterol has multiple roles in regulating focal adhesion dynamics [ 37 ], LDL is involved in free radical induced apoptosis pathway [ 38 ], MAPK and JAK-STAT pathways are involved in dietary flavonoid protection against oxidized LDL [ 39 ], up-regulation of autophagy via AMPK/mTOR signaling pathway alleviates oxidized -LDL induced inflammation [ 40 ], PPARα holds a fundamental role in control of lipid homeostasis [ 41 ] and lectin-like ox-LDL receptor 1 mediates PKC-α/ERK/PPAR-γ/MMP pathway [ 42 ], HDL reduces the TGF-β1-induced collagen deposition [ 43 ], the Wnt pathway plays an important role in lipid storage and homeostasis [ 44 ], From the literatures, we found that both common and rare variants in CETP were associated with the HDL [ 45 ], CREBBP regulated LDL receptor transcription [ 46 ], PLTP was associated with HDL and LDL [ 47 ], TMEM57 was associated with serum lipid levels [ 48 ], SH2B3 was associated with LDL cholesterol [ 49 ]. It was also reported that CSMD1 was associated with multivariate phenotype defined as low levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C < or = 100 mg/dl) and high levels of triglycerides (TG > or = 180 mg/dl) [ 50 ], associated with hypertension [ 51 ].…”