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Central corneal thickness (CCT) is a highly heritable trait, which has been proposed to influence disorders of the anterior segment of the eye. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of CCT was performed in 2269 individuals from three Croatian and one Scottish population. In the discovery set (1445 individuals), two genome-wide significant associations were identified for single nucleotide polymorphisms rs12447690 ( β  = 0.23 SD,  P  = 4.4 × 10 −9 ) and rs1536482 ( β  = 0.22 SD,  P  = 7.1 × 10 −8 ) for which the closest candidate genes (although ≥90 kb away) were zinc finger 469 ( ZNF469 ) on 16q24.2 and collagen 5 alpha 1 ( COL5A1 ) on 9q34.2, respectively. Only the  ZNF469  association was confirmed in our replication set (824 individuals,  P  = 8.0 × 10 −4 ) but  COL5A1  remained a suggestive association in the combined sample ( β  = 0.16 SD,  P  = 1.1 × 10 −6 ). Following a larger meta-analysis including recently published CCT GWAS summary data, COL5A1 was genome-wide significant ( β  = 0.13 SD,  P  = 5.1 × 10 −8 ), together with two additional novel loci. The second new locus (defined by rs1034200) was 5 kb from the  AVGR8  gene, encoding a putative transcription factor with typical ZNF and KRAB domains, in chromosomal region 13q12.11 ( β  = 0.14 SD,  P  = 3.5 × 10 −9 ). The third new locus (rs6496932), on 15q25.3 ( β  = 0.13,  P  = 1.4 × 10 −8 ), was within a wide linkage disequilibrium block extending into the 5′ end of the  AKAP13  gene, encoding a scaffold protein concerned with signal transduction from the cell surface. These associations offer mechanistic insights into the regulation of CCT and offer new candidate genes for susceptibility to common disorders in which CCT has been implicated, including primary open-angle glaucoma and keratoconus.

New loci associated with central cornea thickness include COL5A1 , AKAP13 and AVGR8