CCL5 and coronary artery disorder: Our study has three main findings: (i) RANTES serum levels were not associated with incident coronary events in the MONICA/KORA Augsburg case-cohort study, (ii) functional RANTES/CCL5 SNPs were not associated with CAD in the large CARDIoGRAM study, and (iii) RANTES levels were associated with an unstable phenotype of carotid plaques, but no independent predictor of future coronary events in the Athero-Express study.