For example, the variants encompassing the neuropeptide Y gene, one of the four target genes which met the gene‐centric statistical significance threshold in participants of the atherosclerosis risk in communities study, have also been marked by the genome‐wide genotyping data from a separate community‐dwelling adult population in a US and a German population.24, 94 However, genome‐wide analyses on either the presence or the counts of certain subgingival plaque pathogens other than in the atherosclerosis risk in the communities population are not available. Here, NPY is linked to atherosclerosis.