COL6A3 and atherosclerosis: Notably, the risk increasing allele of rs11677932 is also associated with increased COL6A3 total transcript levels in both GTEx and Stockholm-Tartu Atherosclerosis Reverse Networks Engineering Task (STARNET) studies in the aorta (GTEx Aorta p = 1.6x10−6 and STARNET Aorta p = 6.91x10−6).38