SPARC and Hypertension: Although SPARC rs4958487 has not yet been associated with any phenotype (including glucose or hypertension) at p<10−8 in the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog, it was included on the Metabochip genotyping array for replication based on early meta-analyses of mean platelet volume in European-descent populations at p<1.0x10-3 [82–84].