APOA5 and metabolic syndrome: Additionally, there were still residual associations between MetS and APOA5 rs662799 (P = 0.0114) as well as between MetS and CETP rs820299 (P = 0.0399) after further accounting for triglyceride and HDL, suggesting an independent association of MetS with APOA5 rs662799 and CETP rs820299.