LIPA and coronary artery disorder: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of large European, South Asian and Mexican cohorts have identified LIPA single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs1412444 and rs2246833 on chromosome 10q23 as common variants associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) risk (Coronary Artery Disease (C4D) Genetics Consortium, 2011; IBC 50K CAD Consortium, 2011; Wild et al., 2011; Vargas-Alarcón et al., 2013).