CETP and metabolic disease: Taking into account the meta-analyses of the associations of genes APOE and CETP and chromosomal region 9p21.3 with the risk of MI [6,7,8,9,10,11,12], data from pilot studies showing an association of these variants with the risk of MI in other populations [4,5], and preliminary data on the correlation of these variants with metabolic disorders leading to MI [6,14,15,16], we chose common variants in APOE, CETP, and genes located in 9p21.3 to evaluate their possible association with MI.