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Almaghrbi H, Bawadi H. Genetic polymorphisms and their association with neurobiological and psychological factors in anorexia nervosa: a systematic review. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1386233. [PMID: 38979077 PMCID: PMC11229080 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1386233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 07/10/2024] Open
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Background and aims Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder. This systematic review synthesizes evidence from diverse studies to assess and investigate the association between gene polymorphisms and psychological and neurobiological factors in patients with AN. Methods A systematic search across PubMed, PsycINFO, Scopus, and Web of Science databases, along with manual searching, was conducted. The review protocol was approved by PROSPERO (CRD42023452548). Out of 1,250 articles, 11 met the inclusion criteria. The quality of eligible articles was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) tool. The systematic review followed the PRISMA guidelines. Results The serotoninergic system, particularly the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism, is consistently linked to altered connectivity in the ventral attention network, impaired inhibitory control, and increased susceptibility to AN. The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism affects reward processing, motivation, reasoning, working memory, inhibition, and outcome prediction in patients with AN. The dopaminergic system, involving genes like COMT, DRD2, DRD3, and DAT1, regulates reward, motivation, and decision-making. Genetic variations in these dopaminergic genes are associated with psychological manifestations and clinical severity in patients with AN. Across populations, the Val66Met polymorphism in the BDNF gene influences personality traits, eating behaviors, and emotional responses. Genes like OXTR, TFAP2B, and KCTD15 are linked to social cognition, emotional processing, body image concerns, and personality dimensions in patients with AN. Conclusion There was an association linking multiple genes to the susceptibly and/or severity of AN. This genetic factor contributes to the complexity of AN and leads to higher diversity of its clinical presentation. Therefore, conducting more extensive research to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of anorexia nervosa pathology is imperative for advancing our understanding and potentially developing targeted therapeutic interventions for the disorder.Systematic review registration: [https://clinicaltrials.gov/], identifier [CRD42023452548].
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- Heba Almaghrbi
- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Human Nutrition, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
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Wang XG, Shen MM, Lu J, Dou TC, Ma M, Guo J, Wang KH, Qu L. Genome-wide association analysis of eggshell color of an F2 generation population reveals candidate genes in chickens. Animal 2024; 18:101167. [PMID: 38762993 DOI: 10.1016/j.animal.2024.101167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 05/21/2024] Open
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Eggshell color is an important visual characteristic that affects consumer preferences for eggs. Eggshell color, which has moderate to high heritability, can be effectively enhanced through molecular marker selection. Various studies have been conducted on eggshell color at specific time points. However, few longitudinal data are available on eggshell color. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate eggshell color using the Commission International de L'Eclairage L*a*b* system with multiple measurements at different ages (age at the first egg and at 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 66, and 72 weeks) within the same individuals from an F2 resource population produced by crossing White Leghorn and Dongxiang Blue chicken. Using an Affymetrix 600 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array, we estimated the genetic parameters of the eggshell color trait, performed genome-wide association studies (GWASs), and screened for the potential candidate genes. The results showed that pink-shelled eggs displayed a significant negative correlation between L* values and both a* and b* values. Genetic heritability based on SNPs showed that the heritability of L*, a*, and b* values ranged from 0.32 to 0.82 for pink-shelled eggs, indicating a moderate to high level of genetic control. The genetic correlations at each time point were mostly above 0.5. The major-effect regions affecting the pink eggshell color were identified in the 10.3-13.0 Mb interval on Gallus gallus chromosome 20, and candidate genes were selected, including SLC35C2, PCIF1, and SLC12A5. Minor effect polygenic regions were identified on chromosomes 1, 6, 9, 12, and 15, revealing 11 candidate genes, including MTMR3 and SLC35E4. Members of the solute carrier family play an important role in influencing eggshell color. Overall, our findings provide valuable insights into the phenotypic and genetic aspects underlying the variation in eggshell color. Using GWAS analysis, we identified multiple quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for pink eggshell color, including a major QTL on chromosome 20. Genetic variants associated with eggshell color may be used in genomic breeding programs.
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- X G Wang
- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Sericultural and Animal Biotechnology, School of Biotechnology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou 225125, China.
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Littleton SH, Trang KB, Volpe CM, Cook K, DeBruyne N, Maguire JA, Weidekamp MA, Hodge KM, Boehm K, Lu S, Chesi A, Bradfield JP, Pippin JA, Anderson SA, Wells AD, Pahl MC, Grant SFA. Variant-to-function analysis of the childhood obesity chr12q13 locus implicates rs7132908 as a causal variant within the 3' UTR of FAIM2. CELL GENOMICS 2024; 4:100556. [PMID: 38697123 PMCID: PMC11099382 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2023] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/04/2024]
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The ch12q13 locus is among the most significant childhood obesity loci identified in genome-wide association studies. This locus resides in a non-coding region within FAIM2; thus, the underlying causal variant(s) presumably influence disease susceptibility via cis-regulation. We implicated rs7132908 as a putative causal variant by leveraging our in-house 3D genomic data and public domain datasets. Using a luciferase reporter assay, we observed allele-specific cis-regulatory activity of the immediate region harboring rs7132908. We generated isogenic human embryonic stem cell lines homozygous for either rs7132908 allele to assess changes in gene expression and chromatin accessibility throughout a differentiation to hypothalamic neurons, a key cell type known to regulate feeding behavior. The rs7132908 obesity risk allele influenced expression of FAIM2 and other genes and decreased the proportion of neurons produced by differentiation. We have functionally validated rs7132908 as a causal obesity variant that temporally regulates nearby effector genes and influences neurodevelopment and survival.
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- Sheridan H Littleton
- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Quantinuum Research LLC, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Immunology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Reshetnikov E, Churnosova M, Reshetnikova Y, Stepanov V, Bocharova A, Serebrova V, Trifonova E, Ponomarenko I, Sorokina I, Efremova O, Orlova V, Batlutskaya I, Ponomarenko M, Churnosov V, Aristova I, Polonikov A, Churnosov M. Maternal Age at Menarche Genes Determines Fetal Growth Restriction Risk. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:2647. [PMID: 38473894 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25052647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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We aimed to explore the potential link of maternal age at menarche (mAAM) gene polymorphisms with risk of the fetal growth restriction (FGR). This case (FGR)-control (FGR free) study included 904 women (273 FGR and 631 control) in the third trimester of gestation examined/treated in the Departments of Obstetrics. For single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) multiplex genotyping, 50 candidate loci of mAAM were chosen. The relationship of mAAM SNPs and FGR was appreciated by regression procedures (logistic/model-based multifactor dimensionality reduction [MB-MDR]) with subsequent in silico assessment of the assumed functionality pithy of FGR-related loci. Three mAAM-appertain loci were FGR-linked to genes such as KISS1 (rs7538038) (effect allele G-odds ratio (OR)allelic = 0.63/pperm = 0.0003; ORadditive = 0.61/pperm = 0.001; ORdominant = 0.56/pperm = 0.001), NKX2-1 (rs999460) (effect allele A-ORallelic = 1.37/pperm = 0.003; ORadditive = 1.45/pperm = 0.002; ORrecessive = 2.41/pperm = 0.0002), GPRC5B (rs12444979) (effect allele T-ORallelic = 1.67/pperm = 0.0003; ORdominant = 1.59/pperm = 0.011; ORadditive = 1.56/pperm = 0.009). The haplotype ACA FSHB gene (rs555621*rs11031010*rs1782507) was FRG-correlated (OR = 0.71/pperm = 0.05). Ten FGR-implicated interworking models were founded for 13 SNPs (pperm ≤ 0.001). The rs999460 NKX2-1 and rs12444979 GPRC5B interplays significantly influenced the FGR risk (these SNPs were present in 50% of models). FGR-related mAAM-appertain 15 polymorphic variants and 350 linked SNPs were functionally momentous in relation to 39 genes participating in the regulation of hormone levels, the ovulation cycle process, male gonad development and vitamin D metabolism. Thus, this study showed, for the first time, that the mAAM-appertain genes determine FGR risk.
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- Evgeny Reshetnikov
- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
- Department of Biology, Medical Genetics and Ecology and Research Institute for Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Kursk State Medical University, 305041 Kursk, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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Littleton SH, Trang KB, Volpe CM, Cook K, DeBruyne N, Ann Maguire J, Ann Weidekamp M, Boehm K, Chesi A, Pippin JA, Anderson SA, Wells AD, Pahl MC, Grant SF. Variant-to-function analysis of the childhood obesity chr12q13 locus implicates rs7132908 as a causal variant within the 3' UTR of FAIM2. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.08.21.553157. [PMID: 37662342 PMCID: PMC10473629 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.21.553157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
Abstract
The ch12q13 obesity locus is among the most significant childhood obesity loci identified in genome-wide association studies. This locus resides in a non-coding region within FAIM2; thus, the underlying causal variant(s) presumably influence disease susceptibility via an influence on cis-regulation within the genomic region. We implicated rs7132908 as a putative causal variant at this locus leveraging a combination of our inhouse 3D genomic data, public domain datasets, and several computational approaches. Using a luciferase reporter assay in human primary astrocytes, we observed allele-specific cis-regulatory activity of the immediate region harboring rs7132908. Motivated by this finding, we went on to generate isogenic human embryonic stem cell lines homozygous for either rs7132908 allele with CRISPR-Cas9 homology-directed repair to assess changes in gene expression due to genotype and chromatin accessibility throughout a differentiation to hypothalamic neurons, a key cell type known to regulate feeding behavior. We observed that the rs7132908 obesity risk allele influenced the expression of FAIM2 along with other genes, decreased the proportion of neurons produced during differentiation, up-regulated cell death gene sets, and conversely down-regulated neuron differentiation gene sets. We have therefore functionally validated rs7132908 as a causal obesity variant which temporally regulates nearby effector genes at the ch12q13 locus and influences neurodevelopment and survival.
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- Sheridan H. Littleton
- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Graduate Group in Genomics and Computational Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Institute for Immunology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Spatial and Functional Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Reshetnikova Y, Churnosova M, Stepanov V, Bocharova A, Serebrova V, Trifonova E, Ponomarenko I, Sorokina I, Efremova O, Orlova V, Batlutskaya I, Ponomarenko M, Churnosov V, Eliseeva N, Aristova I, Polonikov A, Reshetnikov E, Churnosov M. Maternal Age at Menarche Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated with Offspring Birth Weight. Life (Basel) 2023; 13:1525. [PMID: 37511900 PMCID: PMC10381708 DOI: 10.3390/life13071525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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In this study, the association between maternal age at menarche (AAM)-related polymorphisms and offspring birth weight (BW) was studied. The work was performed on a sample of 716 pregnant women and their newborns. All pregnant women underwent genotyping of 50 SNPs of AAM candidate genes. Regression methods (linear and Model-Based Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MB-MDR)) with permutation procedures (the indicator pperm was calculated) were used to identify the correlation between SNPs and newborn weight (transformed BW values were analyzed) and in silico bioinformatic examination was applied to assess the intended functionality of BW-associated loci. Four AAM-related genetic variants were BW-associated including genes such as POMC (rs7589318) (βadditive = 0.202/pperm = 0.015), KDM3B (rs757647) (βrecessive = 0.323/pperm = 0.005), INHBA (rs1079866) (βadditive = 0.110/pperm = 0.014) and NKX2-1 (rs999460) (βrecessive = -0.176/pperm = 0.015). Ten BW-significant models of interSNPs interactions (pperm ≤ 0.001) were identified for 20 polymorphisms. SNPs rs7538038 KISS1, rs713586 RBJ, rs12324955 FTO and rs713586 RBJ-rs12324955 FTO two-locus interaction were included in the largest number of BW-associated models (30% models each). BW-associated AAM-linked 22 SNPs and 350 proxy loci were functionally related to 49 genes relevant to pathways such as the hormone biosynthesis/process and female/male gonad development. In conclusion, maternal AMM-related genes polymorphism is associated with the offspring BW.
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- Yuliya Reshetnikova
- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Research Institute for Medical Genetics, Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
- Department of Biology, Medical Genetics and Ecology and Research Institute for Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Kursk State Medical University, 305041 Kursk, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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- Department of Medical Biological Disciplines, Belgorod State National Research University, 308015 Belgorod, Russia
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Fischer JA, Monroe TO, Pesce LL, Sawicki KT, Quattrocelli M, Bauer R, Kearns SD, Wolf MJ, Puckelwartz MJ, McNally EM. Opposing effects of genetic variation in MTCH2 for obesity versus heart failure. Hum Mol Genet 2023; 32:15-29. [PMID: 35904451 PMCID: PMC9837833 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2022] [Revised: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Genetic variation in genes regulating metabolism may be advantageous in some settings but not others. The non-failing adult heart relies heavily on fatty acids as a fuel substrate and source of ATP. In contrast, the failing heart favors glucose as a fuel source. A bootstrap analysis for genes with deviant allele frequencies in cardiomyopathy cases versus controls identified the MTCH2 gene as having unusual variation. MTCH2 encodes an outer mitochondrial membrane protein, and prior genome-wide studies associated MTCH2 variants with body mass index, consistent with its role in metabolism. We identified the referent allele of rs1064608 (p.Pro290) as being overrepresented in cardiomyopathy cases compared to controls, and linkage disequilibrium analysis associated this variant with the MTCH2 cis eQTL rs10838738 and lower MTCH2 expression. To evaluate MTCH2, we knocked down Mtch in Drosophila heart tubes which produced a dilated and poorly functioning heart tube, reduced adiposity and shortened life span. Cardiac Mtch mutants generated more lactate at baseline, and they displayed impaired oxygen consumption in the presence of glucose but not palmitate. Treatment of cardiac Mtch mutants with dichloroacetate, a pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase inhibitor, reduced lactate and rescued lifespan. Deletion of MTCH2 in human cells similarly impaired oxygen consumption in the presence of glucose but not fatty acids. These data support a model in which MTCH2 reduction may be favorable when fatty acids are the major fuel source, favoring lean body mass. However, in settings like heart failure, where the heart shifts toward using more glucose, reduction of MTCH2 is maladaptive.
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- Julie A Fischer
- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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Marcos-Pasero H, Aguilar-Aguilar E, de la Iglesia R, Espinosa-Salinas I, Molina S, Colmenarejo G, Martínez JA, Ramírez de Molina A, Reglero G, Loria-Kohen V. "GENYAL" Study to Childhood Obesity Prevention: Methodology and Preliminary Results. Front Nutr 2022; 9:777384. [PMID: 35350411 PMCID: PMC8957940 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.777384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective This article describes the methodology and summarizes some preliminary results of the GENYAL study aiming to design and validate a predictive model, considering both environmental and genetic factors, that identifies children who would benefit most from actions aimed at reducing the risk of obesity and its complications. Design The study is a cluster randomized clinical trial with 5-year follow-up. The initial evaluation was carried out in 2017. The schools were randomly split into intervention (nutritional education) and control schools. Anthropometric measurements, social and health as well as dietary and physical activity data of schoolchildren and their families are annually collected. A total of 26 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were assessed. Machine Learning models are being designed to predict obesity phenotypes after the 5-year follow-up. Settings Six schools in Madrid. Participants A total of 221 schoolchildren (6-8 years old). Results Collected results show that the prevalence of excess weight was 19.0, 25.4, and 32.2% (according to World Health Organization, International Obesity Task Force and Orbegozo Foundation criteria, respectively). Associations between the nutritional state of children with mother BMI [β = 0.21 (0.13-0.3), p (adjusted) <0.001], geographical location of the school [OR = 2.74 (1.24-6.22), p (adjusted) = 0.06], dairy servings per day [OR = 0.48 (0.29-0.75), p (adjusted) = 0.05] and 8 SNPs [rs1260326, rs780094, rs10913469, rs328, rs7647305, rs3101336, rs2568958, rs925946; p (not adjusted) <0.05] were found. Conclusions These baseline data support the evidence that environmental and genetic factors play a role in the development of childhood obesity. After 5-year follow-up, the GENYAL study pretends to validate the predictive model as a new strategy to fight against obesity. Clinical Trial Registration This study has been registered in ClinicalTrials.gov with the identifier NCT03419520, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03419520.
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- Helena Marcos-Pasero
- Nutrition and Clinical Trials Unit, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Valencian International University (VIU), Valencia, Spain
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- Nutrition and Clinical Trials Unit, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ciencias Farmaceúticas y de la Salud, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain
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- Nutritional Genomics and Health Unit, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- GenyalLab, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Precision Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- IdisNA, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Pamplona, Spain
- Center of Biomedical Research in Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Molecular Oncology and Nutritional Genomics of Cancer, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Production and Development of Foods for Health, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Production and Characterization of Novel Foods, Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL), CEI UAM+CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Nutrition and Clinical Trials Unit, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- Departamento de Nutrición y Ciencia de los Alimentos, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Grupo de Investigación VALORNUT-UCM, Madrid, Spain
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Chung W, Cho Y. Bayesian mixed models for longitudinal genetic data: theory, concepts, and simulation studies. Genomics Inform 2022; 20:e8. [PMID: 35399007 PMCID: PMC9001998 DOI: 10.5808/gi.21080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Despite the success of recent genome-wide association studies investigating longitudinal traits, a large fraction of overall heritability remains unexplained. This suggests that some of the missing heritability may be accounted for by gene-gene and gene-time/environment interactions. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian variable selection method for longitudinal genetic data based on mixed models. The method jointly models the main effects and interactions of all candidate genetic variants and non-genetic factors and has higher statistical power than previous approaches. To account for the within-subject dependence structure, we propose a grid-based approach that models only one fixed-dimensional covariance matrix, which is thus applicable to data where subjects have different numbers of time points. We provide the theoretical basis of our Bayesian method and then illustrate its performance using data from the 1000 Genome Project with various simulation settings. Several simulation studies show that our multivariate method increases the statistical power compared to the corresponding univariate method and can detect gene-time/environment interactions well. We further evaluate our method with different numbers of individuals, variants, and causal variants, as well as different trait-heritability, and conclude that our method performs reasonably well with various simulation settings.
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- Wonil Chung
- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Korea.,Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Korea
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Grid-based Gaussian process models for longitudinal genetic data. COMMUNICATIONS FOR STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS AND METHODS 2022. [DOI: 10.29220/csam.2022.29.1.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Grid-based Gaussian process models for longitudinal genetic data. COMMUNICATIONS FOR STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS AND METHODS 2022. [DOI: 10.29220/csam.2022.29.1.745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Zhang P, Fu Y, Zhang R, Shang P, Zhang H, Zhang B. Association of KCTD15 gene with fat deposition in pigs. J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl) 2021; 106:537-544. [PMID: 34106484 DOI: 10.1111/jpn.13587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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KCTD15 is associated with body mass index and fat deposition in humans, mice and chickens. However, the function of KCTD15 in pig fat deposition remains unclear. In this study, we cloned and analysed the cDNA sequence of porcine KCTD15. The full length of the mRNA sequence of KCTD15 is 4,091 bp, encoding 283 amino acids. The protein is hydrophilic, it has a relative molecular mass of about 31.9 kDa and an isoelectric point of 7.09 with no signal peptide sequence or transmembrane structure. Expression analysis showed that KCTD15 expression level was significantly higher in the tissues of Large White pigs (LW) than in those of Tibetan pigs (TP) and Diannan Small-ear pigs (DN) at 6 months of age, whereas its expression level in embryonic tissues of LW at 60 days was lower than that in tissues of TP and Wujin pigs (WJ). In pig primary adipocytes, the expression level of KCTD15 is high in the early stage of differentiation and gradually decreases in later stages. Additionally, the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) site T-2030C (T/C mutation, located 2,030 bp upstream of the start codon) showed a dominant allele T with high promoter activity in the LW population and a dominant allele C in the TP and WJ populations. Our results indicate that KCTD15 is involved in pig fat deposition and that T-2030C is an important regulatory site for transcriptional activity, affecting fat deposition.
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- Pan Zhang
- National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science, Tibet Agriculture and Animal Husbandry College, Linzhi, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Anguita-Ruiz A, Bustos-Aibar M, Plaza-Díaz J, Mendez-Gutierrez A, Alcalá-Fdez J, Aguilera CM, Ruiz-Ojeda FJ. Omics Approaches in Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle Addressing the Role of Extracellular Matrix in Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:2756. [PMID: 33803198 PMCID: PMC7963192 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22052756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling plays important roles in both white adipose tissue (WAT) and the skeletal muscle (SM) metabolism. Excessive adipocyte hypertrophy causes fibrosis, inflammation, and metabolic dysfunction in adipose tissue, as well as impaired adipogenesis. Similarly, disturbed ECM remodeling in SM has metabolic consequences such as decreased insulin sensitivity. Most of described ECM molecular alterations have been associated with DNA sequence variation, alterations in gene expression patterns, and epigenetic modifications. Among others, the most important epigenetic mechanism by which cells are able to modulate their gene expression is DNA methylation. Epigenome-Wide Association Studies (EWAS) have become a powerful approach to identify DNA methylation variation associated with biological traits in humans. Likewise, Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and gene expression microarrays have allowed the study of whole-genome genetics and transcriptomics patterns in obesity and metabolic diseases. The aim of this review is to explore the molecular basis of ECM in WAT and SM remodeling in obesity and the consequences of metabolic complications. For that purpose, we reviewed scientific literature including all omics approaches reporting genetic, epigenetic, and transcriptomic (GWAS, EWAS, and RNA-seq or cDNA arrays) ECM-related alterations in WAT and SM as associated with metabolic dysfunction and obesity.
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- Augusto Anguita-Ruiz
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (A.A.-R.); (M.B.-A.); (J.P.-D.); (A.M.-G.); (F.J.R.-O.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS.GRANADA, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, 18014 Granada, Spain
- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Center of Biomedical Research, University of Granada, Avda. del Conocimiento s/n., 18016 Granada, Spain
- CIBEROBN (CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (A.A.-R.); (M.B.-A.); (J.P.-D.); (A.M.-G.); (F.J.R.-O.)
- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Center of Biomedical Research, University of Granada, Avda. del Conocimiento s/n., 18016 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (A.A.-R.); (M.B.-A.); (J.P.-D.); (A.M.-G.); (F.J.R.-O.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS.GRANADA, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, 18014 Granada, Spain
- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Center of Biomedical Research, University of Granada, Avda. del Conocimiento s/n., 18016 Granada, Spain
- Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (A.A.-R.); (M.B.-A.); (J.P.-D.); (A.M.-G.); (F.J.R.-O.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS.GRANADA, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, 18014 Granada, Spain
- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Center of Biomedical Research, University of Granada, Avda. del Conocimiento s/n., 18016 Granada, Spain
- CIBEROBN (CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain;
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (A.A.-R.); (M.B.-A.); (J.P.-D.); (A.M.-G.); (F.J.R.-O.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS.GRANADA, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, 18014 Granada, Spain
- Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology “José Mataix”, Center of Biomedical Research, University of Granada, Avda. del Conocimiento s/n., 18016 Granada, Spain
- CIBEROBN (CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II, School of Pharmacy, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain; (A.A.-R.); (M.B.-A.); (J.P.-D.); (A.M.-G.); (F.J.R.-O.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS.GRANADA, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, 18014 Granada, Spain
- RG Adipocytes and Metabolism, Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, 85764 Munich, Germany
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Marcos-Pasero H, Aguilar-Aguilar E, Ikonomopoulou MP, Loria-Kohen V. BDNF Gene as a Precision Skill of Obesity Management. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2021; 1331:233-248. [PMID: 34453302 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74046-7_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
The scarcity of the results obtained for the treatment of obesity leads us to consider new strategies, contemplating all the factors involved in the development of the disease. One of the key molecules for controlling body weight and energy homeostasis is the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). This work summarizes the mechanisms in which BDNF gene regulates this multifactorial disease. In addition, we discuss the role of other BDNF polymorphisms as genetic determinants of obesity. In this context, a total of 14 SNPs near or inside BDNF/BDNF-AS related to BMI were identified in various GWASs. Finally, we assess gene-diet interaction as a novel tool to prevent obesity and formulate solid and personalized nutritional management. Our research group has performed the first study on the association of BDNF-AS rs925946 polymorphism and calcium intake as potential modulators of the nutritional status. Although these results should be confirmed in future studies, they open the path for new prevention opportunities.
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- Helena Marcos-Pasero
- Nutrition and Clinical Trials Unit, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Nutrition and Clinical Trials Unit, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Translational Venomics Group, IMDEA-Food, CEI UAM+CSIC, Madrid, Spain.,Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Nutrition and Clinical Trials Unit, GENYAL Platform, IMDEA-Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, Madrid, Spain. .,Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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Perez-Calahorra S, Civeira F, Guallar-Castillón P, Pinto X, Banegas JR, Pedro-Botet J, Suarez-Tembra M, Mauri M, Soler C, Rodriguez-Artalejo F, Laclaustra M. Behavioural cardiovascular risk factors and prevalence of diabetes in subjects with familial hypercholesterolaemia. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2020; 27:1649-1660. [PMID: 31914797 DOI: 10.1177/2047487319896138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A low prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus has been reported in familial hypercholesterolaemia. Whether a healthier lifestyle could explain it has not been explored. This cross-sectional study determines the prevalence of lifestyle-related cardiovascular risk factors in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HeFH) from the Dyslipidaemia Registry of the Spanish Atherosclerosis Society and in the ENRICA study, a representative sample of the adult Spanish general population, weighted to match the age and sex distribution of the HeFH sample. A total of 2185 HeFH patients and 11,856 individuals from ENRICA were included. HeFH had lower body mass index and fewer of them were smokers than in the reference population. A model adjusted for age, sex and body mass index showed that HeFH more frequently had cardiovascular disease (odds ratio (OR) 23.98; 95% confidence interval (CI) 18.40-31.23) and hypertension (OR 1.20; 95% CI 1.07-1.35), and took anti-hypertensive medication (OR 1.36; 95% CI 1.18-1.56) and anti-diabetic medication (OR 1.25; 95% CI 1.00-1.56), but less frequently were smokers (OR 0.79; 95% CI 0.71-0.89). In a HeFH subsample (n = 513) with complete blood glucose information, those patients without cardiovascular disease showed lower prevalence of smoking and type 2 diabetes mellitus, lower body mass index and glucose, and higher diastolic blood pressure than the Spanish population. The differences in type 2 diabetes mellitus were justified mostly by the difference in body mass index. Body mass index adjustment also showed higher prevalence of hypertension and use of anti-hypertensive drugs in HeFH. In summary, HeFH patients had lower body mass index, which may contribute to explaining the lower prevalence of diabetes, and lower current smoking but higher hypertension.
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- Sofia Perez-Calahorra
- Lipid Unit, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IIS Aragon, CIBERCV, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Lipid Unit, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IIS Aragon, CIBERCV, Zaragoza, Spain.,Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University Autonoma of Madrid/Research Institute of University Hospital La Paz (IdiPAZ) and CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.,IMDEA Food Institute, CEI UAM+CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Lipid Unit and Vascular Risk Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital de Bellvitge, CIBEROBN, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University Autonoma of Madrid/Research Institute of University Hospital La Paz (IdiPAZ) and CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio Endocrinología y Nutrición, Hospital del Mar and Departamento de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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- Lipid Unit, Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa-Hospital de Terrassa, Spain
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- Internal Medicine Department, Hospital de Santa Caterina de Salt, Parc Hospitalari Martí i Julià, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University Autonoma of Madrid/Research Institute of University Hospital La Paz (IdiPAZ) and CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.,IMDEA Food Institute, CEI UAM+CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Lipid Unit, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, IIS Aragon, CIBERCV, Zaragoza, Spain.,Fundación Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigación y Desarrollo (ARAID), Zaragoza, Spain
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The Association Between Body Mass Index (BMI) and Sleep Duration: Where Are We after nearly Two Decades of Epidemiological Research? INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2019; 16:ijerph16224327. [PMID: 31698817 PMCID: PMC6888565 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16224327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 11/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Over the past twenty years we have seen a vast number of epidemiological studies emerge on the topic of obesity and sleep duration, with a focus on body mass index, as it is easy and cheap to measure and analyse. Such studies largely observe that cross-sectionally a higher BMI is associated with shorter sleep and that in longitudinal studies shorter sleep duration is associated with increases in BMI over time, but some research has found no relationship between the two. This narrative review is not exhaustive, but appraises the literature on sleep duration and BMI from perspectives that have previously been unexplored in a single paper. As such, I discuss research in these important areas: bidirectionality, objective vs. subjective sleep duration, how meaningful the effect sizes are and how we have begun to address causality in this area. From the evidence appraised in this review, it is clear that: (i) there is some modest evidence of a bidirectional relationship between BMI and sleep duration in both children and adults; (ii) objective measurements of sleep should be used where possible; (iii) it remains difficult to confirm whether the effect sizes are conclusively meaningful in a clinical setting, but at least in adults this so far seems unlikely; (iv) to date, there is no solid evidence that this relationship (in either direction) is in fact causal. In the near future, I would like to see triangulation of these findings and perhaps a move towards focusing on distinct aspects of the relationship between obesity and sleep that have not previously been addressed in detail, for various reasons.
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Lee S, Kim S, Kim Y, Oh B, Hwang H, Park T. Pathway analysis of rare variants for the clustered phenotypes by using hierarchical structured components analysis. BMC Med Genomics 2019; 12:100. [PMID: 31296220 PMCID: PMC6624181 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-019-0517-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUNDS Recent large-scale genetic studies often involve clustered phenotypes such as repeated measurements. Compared to a series of univariate analyses of single phenotypes, an analysis of clustered phenotypes can be useful for substantially increasing statistical power to detect more genetic associations. Moreover, for the analysis of rare variants, incorporation of biological information can boost weak effects of the rare variants. RESULTS Through simulation studies, we showed that the proposed method outperforms other method currently available for pathway-level analysis of clustered phenotypes. Moreover, a real data analysis using a large-scale whole exome sequencing dataset of 995 samples with metabolic syndrome-related phenotypes successfully identified the glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism pathway that could not be identified by the univariate analyses of single phenotypes and other existing method. CONCLUSION In this paper, we introduced a novel pathway-level association test by combining hierarchical structured components analysis and penalized generalized estimating equations. The proposed method analyzes all pathways in a single unified model while considering their correlations. C/C++ implementation of PHARAOH-GEE is publicly available at http://statgen.snu.ac.kr/software/pharaoh-gee/ .
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- Sungyoung Lee
- Center for Precision Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
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Munthali RJ, Sahibdeen V, Kagura J, Hendry LM, Norris SA, Ong KK, Day FR, Lombard Z. Genetic risk score for adult body mass index associations with childhood and adolescent weight gain in an African population. GENES AND NUTRITION 2018; 13:24. [PMID: 30123368 PMCID: PMC6090951 DOI: 10.1186/s12263-018-0613-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Background Ninety-seven independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are robustly associated with adult body mass index (BMI kg/m2) in Caucasian populations. The relevance of such variants in African populations at different stages of the life course (such as childhood) is unclear. We tested whether a genetic risk score composed of the aforementioned SNPs was associated with BMI from infancy to early adulthood. We further tested whether this genetic effect was mediated by conditional weight gain at different growth periods. We used data from the Birth to Twenty Plus Cohort (Bt20+), for 971 urban South African black children from birth to 18 years. DNA was collected at 13 years old and was genotyped using the Metabochip (Illumina) array. The weighted genetic risk score (wGRS) for BMI was constructed based on 71 of the 97 previously reported SNPs. Results The cross-sectional association between the wGRS and BMI strengthened with age from 5 to 18 years. The significant associations were observed from 11 to 18 years, and peak effect sizes were observed at 13 and 14 years of age. Results from the linear mixed effects models showed significant interactions between the wGRS and age on longitudinal BMI but no such interactions were observed in sex and the wGRS. A higher wGRS was associated with an increased relative risk of belonging to the early onset obese longitudinal BMI trajectory (relative risk = 1.88; 95%CI 1.28 to 2.76) compared to belonging to a normal longitudinal BMI trajectory. Adolescent conditional relative weight gain had a suggestive mediation effect of 56% on the association between wGRS and obesity risk at 18 years. Conclusions The results suggest that genetic susceptibility to higher adult BMI can be tracked from childhood in this African population. This supports the notion that prevention of adult obesity should begin early in life. The genetic risk score combined with other non-genetic risk factors, such as BMI trajectory membership in our case, has the potential to be used to screen for early identification of individuals at increased risk of obesity and other related NCD risk factors in order to reduce the adverse health risk outcomes later. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12263-018-0613-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Richard J Munthali
- 1Faculty of Science, School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,2Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng 2193 South Africa.,3MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- 2Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng 2193 South Africa.,4Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- 3MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- 1Faculty of Science, School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,2Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng 2193 South Africa
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- 3MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- 3MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,5MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- 5MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- 1Faculty of Science, School of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.,2Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng 2193 South Africa.,4Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Lieb W, Vasan RS. Scientific Contributions of Population-Based Studies to Cardiovascular Epidemiology in the GWAS Era. Front Cardiovasc Med 2018; 5:57. [PMID: 29930944 PMCID: PMC6001813 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2018.00057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2018] [Accepted: 05/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Longitudinal, well phenotyped, population-based cohort studies offer unique research opportunities in the context of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including GWAS for new-onset (incident) cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, the assessment of gene x lifestyle interactions, and evaluating the incremental predictive utility of genetic information in apparently healthy individuals. Furthermore, comprehensively phenotyped community-dwelling samples have contributed to GWAS of numerous traits that reflect normal organ function (e.g., cardiac structure and systolic and diastolic function) and for many traits along the CVD continuum (e.g., risk factors, circulating biomarkers, and subclinical disease traits). These GWAS have heretofore identified many genetic loci implicated in normal organ function and different stages of the CVD continuum. Finally, population-based cohort studies have made important contributions to Mendelian Randomization analyses, a statistical approach that uses genetic information to assess observed associations between cardiovascular traits and clinical CVD outcomes for potential causality.
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- Wolfgang Lieb
- Institute of Epidemiology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Framingham Heart Study (FHS), Framingham, MA, United States.,Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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Wong TCB, Rebbert M, Wang C, Chen X, Heffer A, Zarelli VE, Dawid IB, Zhao H. Genes regulated by potassium channel tetramerization domain containing 15 (Kctd15) in the developing neural crest. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 2018; 60:159-66. [PMID: 27389986 DOI: 10.1387/ijdb.160058id] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
Neural crest (NC) development is controlled precisely by a regulatory network with multiple signaling pathways and the involvement of many genes. The integration and coordination of these factors are still incompletely understood. Overexpression of Wnt3a and the BMP antagonist Chordin in animal cap cells from Xenopus blastulae induces a large number of NC specific genes. We previously suggested that Potassium Channel Tetramerization Domain containing 15 (Kctd15) regulates NC formation by affecting Wnt signaling and the activity of transcription factor AP-2. In order to advance understanding of the function of Kctd15 during NC development, we performed DNA microarray assays in explants injected with Wnt3a and Chordin, and identified genes that are affected by Kctd15 overexpression. Among the many genes identified, we chose Duf domain containing protein 1 (ddcp1), Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Receptor a (pdgfra), Complement factor properdin (cfp), Zinc Finger SWIM-Type Containing 5 (zswim5), and complement component 3 (C3) to examine their expression by whole mount in situ hybridization. Our work points to a possible role for Kctd15 in the regulation of NC formation and other steps in embryonic development.
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- Thomas C B Wong
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, P. R. China
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Zhao H, Wilkinson A, Shen J, Wu X, Chow WH. Genetic polymorphisms in genes related to risk-taking behaviours predicting body mass index trajectory among Mexican American adolescents. Pediatr Obes 2017; 12:356-362. [PMID: 27228958 PMCID: PMC5319917 DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2016] [Revised: 04/08/2016] [Accepted: 04/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Obesity is associated with multiple health problems and often originates in childhood. The purpose is to investigate the associations of genetic polymorphisms in genes related to risk-taking behaviours with body mass index (BMI) trajectory over adolescence among Mexican Americans. METHODS This study included 1229 Mexican American adolescents who participated in a large population-based cohort study in Houston, Texas. BMI data were obtained at baseline and two follow-ups. The median follow-up time was 59 months. Participants were genotyped for 672 functional and tagging variants in genes involved in the dopamine, serotonin and cannabinoid pathways. RESULTS After adjusting for multiple comparisons, three genetic variants, namely, rs933271 and rs4646310 in COMT gene, and rs9567733 in HTR2A gene were significantly associated with BMI growth over adolescence. Using those three variants, we created an allelic score, and the allelic score was associated with BMI growth over adolescence (P < 0.001). With the increase number of variant allele, the rate of BMI growth over adolescence was slower. Finally, we identified another two genetic variants, namely, rs17069005 in HTR2A gene and rs3776511 in SLC6A3A gene were associated with obesity at last follow-up. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that genetic variants in selected genes involved in dopamine and serotonin pathways have noticeable effects on BMI over adolescence.
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- Hua Zhao
- Departments of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas,Request for reprints: Hua Zhao, Department of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1155 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030 Phone: 713-745-7597; Fax: 713-794-1964;
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- Michael and Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, Austin, Texas
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- Departments of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Departments of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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- Departments of Epidemiology, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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Tuyet LT, Nhung BT, Dao DTA, Hanh NTH, Tuyen LD, Binh TQ, Thuc VTM. The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism, Delivery Method, Birth Weight, and Night Sleep Duration as Determinants of Obesity in Vietnamese Children of Primary School Age. Child Obes 2017; 13:392-399. [PMID: 28471701 DOI: 10.1089/chi.2017.0007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obesity is a complex disease that involves both environmental and genetic factors in its pathogenesis. Several studies have identified multiple obesity-associated loci in many populations. However, their contribution to obesity in the Vietnamese population is not fully described, especially in children. The study aimed to investigate the association of obesity with Val66Met polymorphism in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene, delivery method, birth weight, and lifestyle factors in Vietnamese primary school children. METHODS A case-control study was conducted on 559 children aged 6-11 years (278 obese cases and 281 normal controls). The obesity of the children was classified using both criteria of International Obesity Task Force (IOTF, 2000) and World Health Organization (WHO, 2007). Lifestyle factors, birth delivery, and birth weight of the children were self-reported by parents. The BDNF genotype was analyzed using the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism method. Association was evaluated by multivariate logistic regression and cross-validated by the Bayesian model averaging method. RESULTS The most significantly independent factors for obesity were delivery method (cesarean section vs. vaginal delivery, β = 0.56, p = 0.007), birth weight (>3500 to <4000 g vs. 2500-3500 g, β = 0.52, p = 0.035; ≥4000 g vs. 2500-3500 g, β = 1.06, p = 0.015), night sleep duration (<8 h/day vs. ≥8 h/day, β = 0.99, p < 0.0001), and BDNF Val66Met polymorphism (AA and GG vs. AG, β = 0.38, p = 0.039). CONCLUSIONS The study suggested the significant association of delivery method, birth weight, night sleep duration, and BDNF Val66Met polymorphism, with obesity in Vietnamese primary school children.
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- Le Thi Tuyet
- 1 Department of Biology, Hanoi National University of Education , Hanoi, Vietnam
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- 1 Department of Biology, Hanoi National University of Education , Hanoi, Vietnam
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- 1 Department of Biology, Hanoi National University of Education , Hanoi, Vietnam
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- 2 National Institute of Nutrition , Hanoi, Vietnam .,3 Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology , Hanoi, Vietnam .,4 Dinh Tien Hoang Institute of Medicine , Hanoi, Vietnam
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Gamero-Villarroel C, González LM, Rodríguez-López R, Albuquerque D, Carrillo JA, García-Herráiz A, Flores I, Gervasini G. Influence of TFAP2B and KCTD15 genetic variability on personality dimensions in anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Brain Behav 2017; 7:e00784. [PMID: 28948079 PMCID: PMC5607548 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2017] [Revised: 05/10/2017] [Accepted: 06/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION TFAP2B and KCTD15 are obesity-related genes that interact to regulate feeding behavior. We hypothesize that variability in these loci, isolated or in combination, could also be related to the risk of eating disorders (ED) and/or associated psychological traits. METHODS We screened 425 participants (169 ED patients, 75 obese subjects, and 181 controls) for 10 clinically relevant and tag single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in KCTD15 and TFAP2B by the Sequenom MassARRAY platform and direct sequencing. Psychometric evaluation was performed with EDI-2 and SCL-90R inventories. RESULTS The KCTD15 rs287103 T variant allele was associated with increased risk of bulimia nervosa (BN) (OR = 4.34 [1.47-29.52]; p = .003) and with scores of psychopathological scales of these patients. Haplotype *6 in KCTD15 was more frequent in controls (OR = 0.40 [0.20-0.80], p = .009 for anorexia nervosa), while haplotype *4 in TFAP2B affected all three scales of the SCL-90R inventory in BN patients (p ≤ .01). Epistasis analyses revealed relevant interactions with body mass index of BN patients (p < .001). Genetic profiles in obese patients did not significantly differ from those found in ED patients. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study that evaluates the combined role of TFAP2B and KCTD15 genes in ED. Our preliminary findings suggest that the interaction of genetic variability in these loci could influence the risk for ED and/or anthropometric and psychological parameters.
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- Carmen Gamero-Villarroel
- Department of Medical & Surgical Therapeutics Division of Pharmacology Medical School University of Extremadura Badajoz Spain
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- Department of Medical & Surgical Therapeutics Division of Pharmacology Medical School University of Extremadura Badajoz Spain
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- Service of Clinical Analyses General University Hospital Valencia Spain.,Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) University of Coimbra Coimbra Portugal
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- Department of Medical & Surgical Therapeutics Division of Pharmacology Medical School University of Extremadura Badajoz Spain
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- Eating Disorders UnitInstitute of Mental Disorders Health Service of Extremadura Badajoz Spain
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- Department of Medical & Surgical Therapeutics Division of Pharmacology Medical School University of Extremadura Badajoz Spain
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Ruggiero A, Aloni E, Korkotian E, Zaltsman Y, Oni-Biton E, Kuperman Y, Tsoory M, Shachnai L, Levin-Zaidman S, Brenner O, Segal M, Gross A. Loss of forebrain MTCH2 decreases mitochondria motility and calcium handling and impairs hippocampal-dependent cognitive functions. Sci Rep 2017; 7:44401. [PMID: 28276496 PMCID: PMC5343590 DOI: 10.1038/srep44401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Mitochondrial Carrier Homolog 2 (MTCH2) is a novel regulator of mitochondria metabolism, which was recently associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Here we demonstrate that deletion of forebrain MTCH2 increases mitochondria and whole-body energy metabolism, increases locomotor activity, but impairs motor coordination and balance. Importantly, mice deficient in forebrain MTCH2 display a deficit in hippocampus-dependent cognitive functions, including spatial memory, long term potentiation (LTP) and rates of spontaneous excitatory synaptic currents. Moreover, MTCH2-deficient hippocampal neurons display a deficit in mitochondria motility and calcium handling. Thus, MTCH2 is a critical player in neuronal cell biology, controlling mitochondria metabolism, motility and calcium buffering to regulate hippocampal-dependent cognitive functions.
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- Antonella Ruggiero
- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical research Support, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Veterinary Resources, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Rottiers V, Francisco A, Platov M, Zaltsman Y, Ruggiero A, Lee SS, Gross A, Libert S. MTCH2 is a conserved regulator of lipid homeostasis. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2017; 25:616-625. [PMID: 28127879 DOI: 10.1002/oby.21751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE More than one-third of U.S. adults have obesity, causing an alarming increase in obesity-related comorbidities such as type 2 diabetes. The functional role of mitochondrial carrier homolog 2 (MTCH2), a human obesity-associated gene, in lipid homeostasis was investigated in Caenorhabditis elegans, cell culture, and mice. METHODS In C. elegans, MTCH2/MTCH-1 was depleted, using RNAi and a genetic mutant, and overexpressed to assess its effect on lipid accumulation. In cells and mice, shRNAs against MTCH2 were used for knockdown and MTCH2 overexpression vectors were used for overexpression to study the role of this gene in fat accumulation. RESULTS MTCH2 knockdown reduced lipid accumulation in adipocyte-like cells in vitro and in C. elegans and mice in vivo. MTCH2 overexpression increased fat accumulation in cell culture, C. elegans, and mice. Acute MTCH2 inhibition reduced fat accumulation in animals subjected to a high-fat diet. Finally, MTCH2 influenced estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) activity. CONCLUSIONS MTCH2 is a conserved regulator of lipid homeostasis. MTCH2 was found to be both required and sufficient for lipid homeostasis shifts, suggesting that pharmacological inhibition of MTCH2 could be therapeutic for treatment of obesity and related disorders. MTCH2 could influence lipid homeostasis through inhibition of ESR1 activity.
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- Veerle Rottiers
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Zandoná MR, Sangalli CN, Campagnolo PDB, Vitolo MR, Almeida S, Mattevi VS. Validation of obesity susceptibility loci identified by genome-wide association studies in early childhood in South Brazilian children. Pediatr Obes 2017; 12:85-92. [PMID: 27005443 DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2015] [Revised: 12/11/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND The prevalence of childhood obesity has been dramatically increasing in developing countries as it has been reported for developed nations. Identifying susceptibility genes in early life could provide the foundations for interventions in lifestyle to prevent obese children to become obese adults. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of genetic variants related to obesity identified by genome-wide association studies (MC4R, TMEM18, KCTD15, SH2B1, SEC16B, BDNF, NEGR1, OLFM4 and HOXB5 genes) on anthropometric and dietary phenotypes in two Brazilian cohorts followed-up since birth. METHODS There were 745 children examined at birth, after 1 year and after 3.5 years of follow-up. Ten single nucleotide polymorphisms were genotyped. Anthropometric and dietary parameters were compared among genotypes. Children were classified as overweight when body mass index Z-score was >+1. RESULTS Overweight prevalence was 30.7% at 3.5 years old. Significant associations were identified at 3.5 years old for TMEM18 rs6548238, NEGR1 rs2815752, BDNF rs10767664 and rs6265 (1 year old and 3.5 years old) with anthropometric phenotypes and at 3.5 years old for SEC16B rs10913469 with dietary parameters. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that genetic variants in/near these genes contribute to obesity susceptibility in childhood and highlight the age at which they begin to affect obesity-related phenotypes.
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- M R Zandoná
- Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Nutrition Research Group (NUPEN), Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Department of Nutrition, Vale do Rio do Sinos University, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.,Nutrition Research Group (NUPEN), Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Graff M, North KE, Richardson AS, Young KL, Mazul AL, Highland HM, Mohlke KL, Lange LA, Lange EM, Mullan Harris K, Gordon-Larsen P. BMI loci and longitudinal BMI from adolescence to young adulthood in an ethnically diverse cohort. Int J Obes (Lond) 2016; 41:759-768. [PMID: 28025578 PMCID: PMC5413409 DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2016.233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2016] [Revised: 11/09/2016] [Accepted: 11/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Abstract
Objective The association of obesity susceptibility variants with change in
body mass index (BMI) across the life course is not well understood. Subjects In ancestry stratified models of 5,962 European American (EA), 2,080
African American (AA), and 1,582 Hispanic American (HA) individuals from the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we
examined associations between 34 obesity SNPs with per year change in BMI,
measured by the slope from a growth-curve analysis of two or more BMI
measurements between adolescence and young adulthood. For SNPs nominally
associated with BMI change (p<0.05), we interrogated age differences
within data collection Wave and time differences between age categories that
overlapped between Waves. Results We found SNPs in/near FTO, MC4R, MTCH2, TFAP2B, SEC16B, and
TMEM18 were significantly associated (p<0.0015
≈ 0.05/34) with BMI change in EA and the ancestry-combined
meta-analysis. Rs9939609 in FTO met genome-wide
significance at p<5e-08 in the EA and ancestry combined analysis,
respectively [Beta(se)=0.025(0.004);Beta(se)=0.021(0.003)]. No SNPs were
significant after Bonferroni correction in AA or HA, although 5 SNPs in AA
and 4 SNPs in HA were nominally significant (p<0.05). In EA and the
ancestry-combined meta-analysis, rs3817334 near MTCH2
showed larger effects in younger respondents, while rs987237 near
TFAP2B, showed larger effects in older respondents
across all Waves. Differences in effect estimates across time for
MTCH2 and TFAP2B are suggestive of
either era or cohort effects. Conclusion The observed association between variants in/near FTO, MC4R,
MTCH2, TFAP2B, SEC16B, and TMEM18 with change in BMI from
adolescence to young adulthood suggest that the genetic effect of BMI loci
varies over time in a complex manner, highlighting the importance of
investigating loci influencing obesity risk across the life course.
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- M Graff
- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.,Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Mäkelä J, Lagström H, Pitkänen N, Kuulasmaa T, Kaljonen A, Laakso M, Niinikoski H. Genetic risk clustering increases children's body weight at 2 years of age - the STEPS Study. Pediatr Obes 2016; 11:459-467. [PMID: 26663901 DOI: 10.1111/ijpo.12087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2015] [Revised: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 10/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Genetic determinants have an impact on adult weight but the association between genetic determinants and weight at young age is still poorly understood. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the association between genetic risk scores and early growth from birth to 2 years of age. METHODS Genetic risk scores of 83 adiposity-related or obesity-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (genetic risk score [GRS]83) were calculated for 1278 children. Specific phenotype score for 16 weight-related SNPs (weightGRS) was calculated. Anthropometric data were obtained at birth, 13 months and 2 years of age. RESULTS The GRS83 was associated with weight at 13 months (β = 0.080, P = 0.015) and 2 years (β = 0.080, P = 0.017) of age and with weight gain from birth to 13 months (β = 0.069, P = 0.036) and to 2 years of age (β = 0.074, P = 0.028). At 2 years of age, the GRS83 was also associated with weight for height (β = 0.065, P = 0.046), weight-for-height standard deviation score (SDS) (β = 0.074, P = 0.022) and body mass index SDS (β = 0.068, P = 0.045). WeightGRS was associated with higher body weight at 13 months (β = 0.081, P = 0.014) and 2 years of age (β = 0.086, P = 0.011). The genetic effect on weight varied from 0.69 to 1.89 kg at 2 years of age according to number of risk alleles. Children with high genetic risk for adiposity were heavier than children with low genetic risk at 2 years of age (12.8 vs. 13.4 kg, P = 0.017). CONCLUSION The GRS 83 revealed increased genetic risk for higher weight in children already at 13 months and 2 years of age, which may result in increased obesity risk later in life.
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- J Mäkelä
- Turku Institute for Child and Youth Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Institute for Child and Youth Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine/Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Turku Institute for Child and Youth Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine/Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland.,Institute of Clinical Medicine/Internal Medicine, University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Liu S, Wilson JG, Jiang F, Griswold M, Correa A, Mei H. Multi-variant study of obesity risk genes in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study. Gene 2016; 593:315-21. [PMID: 27575456 PMCID: PMC5235348 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.08.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Revised: 07/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/25/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been successful in identifying obesity risk genes by single-variant association analysis. For this study, we designed steps of analysis strategy and aimed to identify multi-variant effects on obesity risk among candidate genes. METHODS Our analyses were focused on 2137 African American participants with body mass index measured in the Jackson Heart Study and 657 common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) genotyped at 8 GWAS-identified obesity risk genes. RESULTS Single-variant association test showed that no SNPs reached significance after multiple testing adjustment. The following gene-gene interaction analysis, which was focused on SNPs with unadjusted p-value<0.10, identified 6 significant multi-variant associations. Logistic regression showed that SNPs in these associations did not have significant linear interactions; examination of genetic risk score evidenced that 4 multi-variant associations had significant additive effects of risk SNPs; and haplotype association test presented that all multi-variant associations contained one or several combinations of particular alleles or haplotypes, associated with increased obesity risk. CONCLUSIONS Our study evidenced that obesity risk genes generated multi-variant effects, which can be additive or non-linear interactions, and multi-variant study is an important supplement to existing GWAS for understanding genetic effects of obesity risk genes.
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- Shijian Liu
- Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.
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- Physiology & Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
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- Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.
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- Department of Data Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
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- Jackson Heart Study, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
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- Shanghai Children's Medical Center, School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China; Department of Data Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA.
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Munthali RJ, Kagura J, Lombard Z, Norris SA. Childhood adiposity trajectories are associated with late adolescent blood pressure: birth to twenty cohort. BMC Public Health 2016; 16:665. [PMID: 27473865 PMCID: PMC4966706 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3337-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2016] [Accepted: 07/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Elevated blood pressure in childhood is a risk factor for adult hypertension which is a global health problem. Excess adiposity in childhood creates a predisposition to develop adult hypertension. Our aim was to explore distinct sex-specific adiposity trajectories from childhood to late adolescence and examined their association with blood pressure. METHODS Latent Class Growth Mixture Modeling (LCGMM) on longitudinal data was used to derive sex-specific and distinct body mass index (BMI: kg/m(2)) trajectories. We studied 1824 black children (boys = 877, girls = 947) from the Birth to Twenty (Bt20) cohort from Soweto, South Africa, and obtained BMI measures at ages 5 through 18 years. Participants with at least two age-point BMI measures, were included in the analysis. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), chi-square test, multivariate linear and standard logistic regressions were used to test study characteristics and different associations. RESULTS We identified three (3) and four (4) distinct BMI trajectories in boys and girls, respectively. The overall prevalence of elevated blood pressure (BP) was 34.9 % (39.4 % in boys and 30.38 % in girls). Boys and girls in the early onset obesity or overweight BMI trajectories were more likely to have higher BP values in late adolescence. Compared to those in the normal weight BMI trajectory, girls in early onset obesity trajectories had an increased risk of elevated BP with odds ratio (OR) of 2.18 (95 % confidence interval 1.31 to 4.20) and 1.95 (1.01 to 3.77). We also observed the weak association for boys in early onset overweight trajectory, (p-value = 0.18 and odds ratio of 2.39 (0.67 to 8.57)) CONCLUSIONS: Distinct weight trajectories are observed in black South African children from as early as 5 years. Early onset adiposity trajectories are associated with elevated BP in both boys and girls. It is important to consider individual patterns of early-life BMI development, so that intervention strategies can be targeted to at-risk individuals.
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- Richard J. Munthali
- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193 South Africa
- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Biosciences (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- School of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, The Mount, 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193 South Africa
- Division of Human Genetics, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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The number of putative causes of obesity continues to increase at a rapid rate. As science identifies novel causes of obesity, innovations in the treatment of obesity also evolve. These innovations have important implications for clinical practice; however, a gap exists between research and the clinical application of research. Practical considerations about how to address this gap between research and practice are discussed.
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- Craig A. Johnston
- Craig A. Johnston, PhD, Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77030; e-mail:
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Loss of Muscle MTCH2 Increases Whole-Body Energy Utilization and Protects from Diet-Induced Obesity. Cell Rep 2016; 14:1602-1610. [PMID: 26876167 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.01.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2015] [Revised: 12/01/2015] [Accepted: 01/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial carrier homolog 2 (MTCH2) is a repressor of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), and its locus is associated with increased BMI in humans. Here, we demonstrate that mice deficient in muscle MTCH2 are protected from diet-induced obesity and hyperinsulinemia and that they demonstrate increased energy expenditure. Deletion of muscle MTCH2 also increases mitochondrial OXPHOS and mass, triggers conversion from glycolytic to oxidative fibers, increases capacity for endurance exercise, and increases heart function. Moreover, metabolic profiling of mice deficient in muscle MTCH2 reveals a preference for carbohydrate utilization and an increase in mitochondria and glycolytic flux in muscles. Thus, MTCH2 is a critical player in muscle biology, modulating metabolism and mitochondria mass as well as impacting whole-body energy homeostasis.
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Srivastava A, Srivastava N, Mittal B. Genetics of Obesity. Indian J Clin Biochem 2015; 31:361-71. [PMID: 27605733 DOI: 10.1007/s12291-015-0541-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2015] [Accepted: 12/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Numerous classical genetic studies have proved that genes are contributory factors for obesity. Genes are directly responsible for obesity associated disorders such as Bardet-Biedl and Prader-Willi syndromes. However, both genes as well as environment are associated with obesity in the general population. Genetic epidemiological approaches, particularly genome-wide association studies, have unraveled many genes which play important roles in human obesity. Elucidation of their biological functions can be very useful for understanding pathobiology of obesity. In the near future, further exploration of obesity genetics may help to develop useful diagnostic and predictive tests for obesity treatment.
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- Apurva Srivastava
- Department of Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226014 India ; Department of Physiology, King George's Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226003 India
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- Department of Physiology, King George's Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226003 India
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rae Bareli Road, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226014 India
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Yi G, Shen M, Yuan J, Sun C, Duan Z, Qu L, Dou T, Ma M, Lu J, Guo J, Chen S, Qu L, Wang K, Yang N. Genome-wide association study dissects genetic architecture underlying longitudinal egg weights in chickens. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:746. [PMID: 26438435 PMCID: PMC4595193 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1945-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND As a major economic trait in chickens, egg weight (EW) receives widespread interests in breeding, production and consumption. However, limited information is available for underlying genetic architecture of longitudinal trend in EW. Herein, we measured EWs at nine time points from onset of laying to 60 week of age, and conducted comprehensive genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 1,534 F2 hens derived from reciprocal crosses between White Leghorn and Dongxiang chickens. RESULTS Egg weights at all ages except the first egg weight (FEW) exhibited high SNP-based heritability estimates (0.47~0.60). Strong pair-wise genetic correlations (0.77~1.00) were found among all EWs. Nine separate univariate genome-wide screens suggested 73 signals showing significant associations with longitudinal EWs. After multivariate and conditional analyses, four variants on three chromosomes remained independent contributions. The minor alleles at two loci exerted consistent and positive substitution effects on EWs, and other two were negative. The four loci together accounted for 3.84 % of the phenotypic variance for FEW and 7.29~11.06 % for EWs from 32 to 60 week of age. We obtained five candidate genes, of which NCAPG harbors a non-synonymous SNP (rs14491030) causing a valine-to-alanine amino-acid substitution. Genome partitioning analysis indicated a strong linear correlation between the variance explained by each chromosome and its length, which provided evidence that EW follows a highly polygenic nature of inheritance. CONCLUSIONS Identification of significant genetic causes that together implicate EWs at different ages will greatly advance our understanding of the genetic basis behind longitudinal EWs, and would be helpful to illuminate the future breeding direction on how to select desired egg size.
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- Guoqiang Yi
- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125, China.
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125, China.
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125, China.
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125, China.
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125, China.
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125, China.
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- Jiangsu Institute of Poultry Science, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225125, China.
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- Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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Díaz-Anzaldúa A, Ocampo-Mendoza Y, Hernández-Lagunas JO, Díaz-Madrid FA, Romo-Nava F, Juárez-García F, Ortega-Ortiz H, Díaz-Anzaldúa A, Gutiérrez-Mora D, Becerra-Palars C, Berlanga-Cisneros C. Differences in body mass index according to fat mass- and obesity-associated (FTO) genotype in Mexican patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord 2015; 17:662-9. [PMID: 26529281 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2014] [Accepted: 07/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased in many countries and it is particularly high in patients with bipolar disorder (BD). A region in the first intron of the fat mass- and obesity-associated (FTO) gene, encompassing markers rs9939973, rs8050136, and rs9939609, has been consistently associated with obesity and body mass index (BMI) in different populations. We sought to determine whether FTO is associated with BMI and/or obesity in patients with BD. METHODS The sample included 129 Mexican Mestizo patients with bipolar I or bipolar II disorder. After obtaining informed consent, participants were evaluated with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders and weight, height, and body measurements were recorded. DNA was extracted from a 5-mL blood sample and real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed. The results were analyzed with Haploview v4.2 and SPSS v21. RESULTS Differences in mean BMI were explained by rs8050136 and rs9939609 genotypes, especially by comparing non-carriers and carriers of two copies of the risk allele (Tukey's p ≤ 0.019), with a mean difference in BMI as high as 7.81 kg/m(2) . Differences in BMI were also explained by the interaction of the genotype (rs8050136 and/or rs9939609), the use of second-generation antipsychotics, and the use of mood stabilizers (p ≤ 0.41). Obesity was also associated with these two markers when patients with and without obesity were compared. CONCLUSIONS In patients with BD, differences in BMI may be affected by the presence of FTO risk alleles, especially in homozygous individuals for these variants. Besides evaluating the possible metabolic effects of certain antipsychotics or mood stabilizers, it is important to evaluate the role of other factors such as FTO risk alleles.
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- Adriana Díaz-Anzaldúa
- Departamento de Genética, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Pisquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRF), Mexico D.F, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Pisquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRF), Mexico D.F, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Pisquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRF), Mexico D.F, Mexico
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- Departamento de Genética, Subdirección de Investigaciones Clínicas, Instituto Nacional de Pisquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRF), Mexico D.F, Mexico
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico D.F, Mexico
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Lichenstein SD, Jones BL, O'Brien JW, Zezza N, Stiffler S, Holmes B, Hill SY. Familial risk for alcohol dependence and developmental changes in BMI: the moderating influence of addiction and obesity genes. Pharmacogenomics 2015; 15:1311-21. [PMID: 25155933 DOI: 10.2217/pgs.14.86] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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AIM Familial loading for alcohol dependence (AD) and variation in genes reported to be associated with AD or BMI were tested in a longitudinal study. MATERIALS & METHODS Growth curve analyses of BMI data collected at approximately yearly intervals and obesity status (BMI > 30) were examined. RESULTS High-risk males were found to have higher BMI than low-risk males, beginning at age 15 years (2.0 kg/m(2) difference; p = 0.046), persisting through age 19 years (3.3 kg/m(2) difference; p = 0.005). CHRM2 genotypic variance predicted longitudinal BMI and obesity status. Interactions with risk status and sex were also observed for DRD2 and FTO gene variation. CONCLUSION Variation at loci implicated in addiction may be influential in determining susceptibility to increased BMI in childhood and adolescence.
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- Sarah D Lichenstein
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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Fulford AJ, Ong KK, Elks CE, Prentice AM, Hennig BJ. Progressive influence of body mass index-associated genetic markers in rural Gambians. J Med Genet 2015; 52:375-80. [PMID: 25921383 PMCID: PMC4453496 DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2014-102784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2014] [Accepted: 12/13/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Background In populations of European ancestry, the genetic contribution to body mass index (BMI) increases with age during childhood but then declines during adulthood, possibly due to the cumulative effects of environmental factors. How the effects of genetic factors on BMI change with age in other populations is unknown. Subjects and methods In a rural Gambian population (N=2535), we used a combined allele risk score, comprising genotypes at 28 ‘Caucasian adult BMI-associated’ single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), as a marker of the genetic influence on body composition, and related this to internally-standardised z-scores for birthweight (zBW), weight-for-height (zWT-HT), weight-for-age (zWT), height-for-age (zHT), and zBMI cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Results Cross-sectionally, the genetic score was positively associated with adult zWT (0.018±0.009 per allele, p=0.034, N=1426) and zWT-HT (0.025±0.009, p=0.006), but not with size at birth or childhood zWT-HT (0.008±0.005, p=0.11, N=2211). The effect of the genetic score on zWT-HT strengthened linearly with age from birth through to late adulthood (age interaction term: 0.0083 z-scores/allele/year; 95% CI 0.0048 to 0.0118, p=0.0000032). Conclusions Genetic variants for obesity in populations of European ancestry have direct relevance to bodyweight in nutritionally deprived African settings. In such settings, genetic obesity susceptibility appears to regulate change in weight status throughout the life course, which provides insight into its potential physiological role.
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- Anthony J Fulford
- MRC International Nutrition Group at LSHTM, UK & MRC Unit, The Gambia; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Box 285 Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC International Nutrition Group at LSHTM, UK & MRC Unit, The Gambia; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
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- MRC International Nutrition Group at LSHTM, UK & MRC Unit, The Gambia; Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, UK
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Lv D, Zhang DD, Wang H, Zhang Y, Liang L, Fu JF, Xiong F, Liu GL, Gong CX, Luo FH, Chen SK, Li ZL, Zhu YM. Genetic variations in SEC16B, MC4R, MAP2K5 and KCTD15 were associated with childhood obesity and interacted with dietary behaviors in Chinese school-age population. Gene 2015; 560:149-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.01.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2014] [Revised: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Yokum S, Marti CN, Smolen A, Stice E. Relation of the multilocus genetic composite reflecting high dopamine signaling capacity to future increases in BMI. Appetite 2014; 87:38-45. [PMID: 25523644 DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.12.202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2014] [Revised: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Because food intake exerts its rewarding effect by increasing dopamine (DA) signaling in reward circuitry, it theoretically follows that individuals with a greater number of genotypes putatively associated with high DA signaling capacity are at increased risk for overeating and subsequent weight gain. We tested the association between the multilocus genetic composite risk score, defined by the total number of genotypes putatively associated with greater DA signaling capacity (i.e. TaqIA A2 allele, DRD2-141C Ins/Del and Del/Del genotypes, DRD4-S allele, DAT1-S allele, and COMT Val/Val genotype), and future increases in Body Mass Index (BMI) in three prospective studies. Participants in Study 1 (N = 30; M age = 15.2; M baseline BMI = 26.9), Study 2 (N = 34; M age = 20.9; M baseline BMI = 28.2), and Study 3 (N = 162; M age = 15.3, M baseline BMI = 20.8) provided saliva samples from which epithelial cells were collected, permitting DNA extraction. The multilocus genetic composite risk score was associated with future increases in BMI in all three studies (Study 1, r = 0.37; Study 2, r = 0.22; Study 3, r = 0.14) and the overall sample (r = 0.19). DRD4-S was associated with increases in BMI in Study 1 (r = 0.42), Study 2 (r = 0.27), and in the overall sample (r = 0.17). DAT1-S was associated with increases in BMI in Study 3 (r = 0.17) and in the overall sample (r = 0.12). There were no associations between the other genotypes (TaqIA, COMT, and DRD2-141C) and change in BMI over 2-year follow-up. Data suggest that individuals with a genetic propensity for greater DA signaling capacity are at risk for future weight gain and that combining alleles that theoretically have a similar function may provide a more reliable method of modeling genetic risk associated with future weight gain than individual genotypes.
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- Sonja Yokum
- Oregon Research Institute, 1776 Millrace Drive, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
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- Oregon Research Institute, 1776 Millrace Drive, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, 1480 30th Street, Boulder, CO 80303
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- Oregon Research Institute, 1776 Millrace Drive, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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Xu Z, Shen X, Pan W. Longitudinal analysis is more powerful than cross-sectional analysis in detecting genetic association with neuroimaging phenotypes. PLoS One 2014; 9:e102312. [PMID: 25098835 PMCID: PMC4123854 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 06/17/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Most existing genome-wide association analyses are cross-sectional, utilizing only phenotypic data at a single time point, e.g. baseline. On the other hand, longitudinal studies, such as Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), collect phenotypic information at multiple time points. In this article, as a case study, we conducted both longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses of the ADNI data with several brain imaging (not clinical diagnosis) phenotypes, demonstrating the power gains of longitudinal analysis over cross-sectional analysis. Specifically, we scanned genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with 56 brain-wide imaging phenotypes processed by FreeSurfer on 638 subjects. At the genome-wide significance level P < 1.8 x 10(9)) or a less stringent level (e.g. P < 10(7)), longitudinal analysis of the phenotypic data from the baseline to month 48 identified more SNP-phenotype associations than cross-sectional analysis of only the baseline data. In particular, at the genome-wide significance level, both SNP rs429358 in gene APOE and SNP rs2075650 in gene TOMM40 were confirmed to be associated with various imaging phenotypes in multiple regions of interests (ROIs) by both analyses, though longitudinal analysis detected more regional phenotypes associated with the two SNPs and indicated another significant SNP rs439401 in gene APOE. In light of the power advantage of longitudinal analysis, we advocate its use in current and future longitudinal neuroimaging studies.
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- Zhiyuan Xu
- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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Tan Q, B Hjelmborg JV, Thomassen M, Jensen AK, Christiansen L, Christensen K, Zhao JH, Kruse TA. Hierarchical linear modeling of longitudinal pedigree data for genetic association analysis. BMC Proc 2014; 8:S82. [PMID: 25519411 PMCID: PMC4144324 DOI: 10.1186/1753-6561-8-s1-s82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Genetic association analysis on complex phenotypes under a longitudinal design involving pedigrees encounters the problem of correlation within pedigrees, which could affect statistical assessment of the genetic effects. Approaches have been proposed to integrate kinship correlation into the mixed-effect models to explicitly model the genetic relationship. These have proved to be an efficient way of dealing with sample clustering in pedigree data. Although current algorithms implemented in popular statistical packages are useful for adjusting relatedness in the mixed modeling of genetic effects on the mean level of a phenotype, they are not sufficiently straightforward to handle the kinship correlation on the time-dependent trajectories of a phenotype. We introduce a 2-level hierarchical linear model to separately assess the genetic associations with the mean level and the rate of change of a phenotype, integrating kinship correlation in the analysis. We apply our method to the Genetic Analysis Workshop 18 genome-wide association studies data on chromosome 3 to estimate the genetic effects on systolic blood pressure measured over time in large pedigrees. Our method identifies genetic variants associated with blood pressure with estimated inflation factors of 0.99, suggesting that our modeling of random effects efficiently handles the genetic relatedness in pedigrees. Application to simulated data captures important variants specified in the simulation. Our results show that the method is useful for genetic association studies in related samples using longitudinal design.
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- Qihua Tan
- Institute of Clinical Research, Unit of Human Genetics, University of Southern Denmark, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark ; Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J. B. Winsloews Vej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J. B. Winsloews Vej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Research, Unit of Human Genetics, University of Southern Denmark, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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- Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J. B. Winsloews Vej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Research, Unit of Human Genetics, University of Southern Denmark, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark ; Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J. B. Winsloews Vej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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- Institute of Clinical Research, Unit of Human Genetics, University of Southern Denmark, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark ; Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Biodemography, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, J. B. Winsloews Vej 9B, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit and Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Institute of Clinical Research, Unit of Human Genetics, University of Southern Denmark, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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Wu J, Xu J, Zhang Z, Ren J, Li Y, Wang J, Cao Y, Rong F, Zhao R, Huang X, Du J. Association of FTO polymorphisms with obesity and metabolic parameters in Han Chinese adolescents. PLoS One 2014; 9:e98984. [PMID: 24911064 PMCID: PMC4049598 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2013] [Accepted: 05/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Background Previous studies have suggested that fat mass-and obesity-associated (FTO) gene is associated with body mass index (BMI) and the risk of obesity. This study aims to assess the association of five FTO polymorphisms (rs9939609, rs8050136, rs1558902, rs3751812 and rs6499640) with obesity and relative parameters in Han Chinese adolescents. Methods We examined a total of 401 adolescents, 223 normal weights (58.7% boys, 41.3% girls), 178 overweight (60.1% boys, 39.9% girls), aging from 14 to 18-years-old, recruited randomly from public schools in the central region of Wuxi, a southern city of China. DNA samples were genotyped for the five polymorphisms by Sequenom Plex MassARRAY. Association of the FTO polymorphisms with BMI, serum fasting plasm glucose (FPG), fasting insulin (FIns), triglyceride (TG) and cholesterol (TC) were investigated. Results 1) Serum FPG, FIns, TG and TC were statistically significant higher than that in normal control group. 2) We found that BMI was higher in the rs9939609 TA+AA, rs8050136 AC+AA, rs1558902 TA+AA and rs3751812 GT+TT genotypes than in wild TT genotypes (rs9939609: P = 0.038; rs1558902: P = 0.038;), CC genotypes(rs8050136: P = 0.024) and GG genotypes (rs3751812: P = 0.024), which were not significant on adjusting for multiple testing. 3) In case-control studies, five polymorphisms were not significantly associated with overweight (p>0.05), haplotype analyses showed non-haplotype is significantly associated with a higher risk of being overweight (p>0.05). 4) There existed no significant statistical difference about FPG, FIns, TG and TC in genotype model for any SNP. Conclusions Our study has conducted a genetic association study of the FTO polymorphisms with BMI, serum fasting plasm glucose (FPG), fasting insulin (FIns), triglyceride (TG) and cholesterol (TC). Our study found BMI of subjects with A allele of FTO rs9939609 is higher than that with T allele. Further studies on other polymorphisms from FTO and increasing the sample size are needed.
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- Junqing Wu
- WHO Collaborating Center on Human Research, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- * E-mail: (J. Wu); (JD)
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- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- Institute of Reproduction & Development, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- Institute of Reproduction & Development, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Public Health, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang City, Henan, China
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- WHO Collaborating Center on Human Research, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
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- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- Institute of Reproduction & Development, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- Institute of Reproduction & Development, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- WHO Collaborating Center on Human Research, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
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- WHO Collaborating Center on Human Research, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
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- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- Institute of Reproduction & Development, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- NPFPC Key Laboratory of Contraceptives and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, China
- Institute of Reproduction & Development, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- * E-mail: (J. Wu); (JD)
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Genome-Wide Association Studies are widely used to correlate phenotypic traits with genetic variants. These studies usually compare the genetic variation between two groups to single out certain Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) that are linked to a phenotypic variation in one of the groups. However, it is necessary to have a large enough sample size to find statistically significant correlations. Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing can supply additional data: DTC-companies offer the analysis of a large amount of SNPs for an individual at low cost without the need to consult a physician or geneticist. Over 100,000 people have already been genotyped through Direct-To-Consumer genetic testing companies. However, this data is not public for a variety of reasons and thus cannot be used in research. It seems reasonable to create a central open data repository for such data. Here we present the web platform openSNP, an open database which allows participants of Direct-To-Consumer genetic testing to publish their genetic data at no cost along with phenotypic information. Through this crowdsourced effort of collecting genetic and phenotypic information, openSNP has become a resource for a wide area of studies, including Genome-Wide Association Studies. openSNP is hosted at http://www.opensnp.org, and the code is released under MIT-license at http://github.com/gedankenstuecke/snpr.
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Choh AC, Lee M, Kent JW, Diego VP, Johnson W, Curran JE, Dyer TD, Bellis C, Blangero J, Siervogel RM, Towne B, Demerath EW, Czerwinski SA. Gene-by-age effects on BMI from birth to adulthood: the Fels Longitudinal Study. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2014; 22:875-81. [PMID: 23794238 PMCID: PMC3883986 DOI: 10.1002/oby.20517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2012] [Revised: 04/10/2013] [Accepted: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Genome wide association studies have shown 32 loci to influence BMI in European-American adults but replication in other studies is inconsistent and may be attributed to gene-by-age effects. The aims of this study were to determine if the influence of the summed risk score of these 32 loci (GRS) on BMI differed across age from birth to 40 years, and to determine if additive genetic effects other than those in the GRS differed by age. METHODS Serial measures of BMI were calculated at 0, 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 28 months, and 4, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 30, and 40 years for 1,176 (605 females, 571 males) European-American participants in the Fels Longitudinal Study. SOLAR was used for genetic analyses. RESULTS GRS was significant (P < 0.05) at ages: 6, 9 months, 4-15 years, and 23-40 years. Remaining additive genetic effects independently influenced BMI (P < 5.3 × 10(-5) , 0.40 < h(2) < 0.76). Some genetic correlations between ages were not significant. Differential GRS effects did not retain significance after multiple comparisons adjustments. CONCLUSIONS While well-known BMI variants do not appear to have significant differential effects, other additive genes differ over the lifespan.
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- Audrey C. Choh
- Division of Epidemiology, Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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- Division of Epidemiology, Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
- Department of Pediatrics, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London, UK
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
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- Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
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- Division of Epidemiology, Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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- Division of Epidemiology, Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
- Department of Pediatrics, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Division of Epidemiology, Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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Corella D, Sorlí JV, González JI, Ortega C, Fitó M, Bulló M, Martínez-González MA, Ros E, Arós F, Lapetra J, Gómez-Gracia E, Serra-Majem L, Ruiz-Gutierrez V, Fiol M, Coltell O, Vinyoles E, Pintó X, Martí A, Saiz C, Ordovás JM, Estruch R. Novel association of the obesity risk-allele near Fas Apoptotic Inhibitory Molecule 2 (FAIM2) gene with heart rate and study of its effects on myocardial infarction in diabetic participants of the PREDIMED trial. Cardiovasc Diabetol 2014; 13:5. [PMID: 24393375 PMCID: PMC3922966 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2840-13-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2013] [Accepted: 12/31/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Fas apoptotic pathway has been implicated in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Although a polymorphism (rs7138803; G > A) near the Fas apoptotic inhibitory molecule 2 (FAIM2) locus has been related to obesity, its association with other cardiovascular risk factors and disease remains uncertain. METHODS We analyzed the association between the FAIM2-rs7138803 polymorphism and obesity, blood pressure and heart rate in 7,161 participants (48.3% with type 2 diabetes) in the PREDIMED study at baseline. We also explored gene-diet interactions with adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) and examined the effects of the polymorphism on cardiovascular disease incidence per diabetes status after a median 4.8-year dietary intervention (MedDiet versus control group) follow-up. RESULTS We replicated the association between the FAIM2-rs7138803 polymorphism and greater obesity risk (OR: 1.08; 95% CI: 1.01-1.16; P = 0.011; per-A allele). Moreover, we detected novel associations of this polymorphism with higher diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate at baseline (B = 1.07; 95% CI: 0.97-1.28 bmp in AA vs G-carriers for the whole population), that remained statistically significant even after adjustment for body mass index (P = 0.012) and correction for multiple comparisons. This association was greater and statistically significant in type-2 diabetic subjects (B = 1.44: 95% CI: 0.23-2.56 bmp; P = 0.010 for AA versus G-carriers). Likewise, these findings were also observed longitudinally over 5-year follow-up. Nevertheless, we found no statistically significant gene-diet interactions with MedDiet for this trait. On analyzing myocardial infarction risk, we detected a nominally significant (P = 0.041) association in type-2 diabetic subjects (HR: 1.86; 95% CI:1.03-3.37 for AA versus G-carriers), although this association did not remain statistically significant following correction for multiple comparisons. CONCLUSIONS We confirmed the FAIM2-rs7138803 relationship with obesity and identified novel and consistent associations with heart rate in particular in type 2 diabetic subjects. Furthermore, our results suggest a possible association of this polymorphism with higher myocardial infarction risk in type-2 diabetic subjects, although this result needs to be replicated as it could represent a false positive.
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- Dolores Corella
- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Valencia University, Blasco Ibañez, 15, 46010 Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Cardiovascula Risk and Nutrition Research Group, Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Human Nutrition Unit, Faculty of Medicine, IISPV, University Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Lipid Clinic, Endocrinology and Nutrition Service, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Cardiology, Araba University Hospital, Vitoria, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Family Medicine, Primary Care Division of Sevilla, San Pablo Health Center, Sevilla, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de la Grasa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- University Institute for Health Sciences Investigation, Hospital Son Dureta, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Computer Languages and Systems, School of Technology and Experimental Sciences, Jaume I University, Castellón, Spain
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- Primary Care Division, Catalan Institute of Health, Barcelona, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Lipids and Vascular Risk Unit, Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Nutrition and Physiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
- IMDEA Alimentación, Madrid, Spain
- Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
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- CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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Warrington NM, Howe LD, Wu YY, Timpson NJ, Tilling K, Pennell CE, Newnham J, Davey-Smith G, Palmer LJ, Beilin LJ, Lye SJ, Lawlor DA, Briollais L. Association of a body mass index genetic risk score with growth throughout childhood and adolescence. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79547. [PMID: 24244521 PMCID: PMC3823612 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 09/23/2013] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Background While the number of established genetic variants associated with adult body mass index (BMI) is growing, the relationships between these variants and growth during childhood are yet to be fully characterised. We examined the association between validated adult BMI associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and growth trajectories across childhood. We investigated the timing of onset of the genetic effect and whether it was sex specific. Methods Children from the ALSPAC and Raine birth cohorts were used for analysis (n = 9,328). Genotype data from 32 adult BMI associated SNPs were investigated individually and as an allelic score. Linear mixed effects models with smoothing splines were used for longitudinal modelling of the growth parameters and measures of adiposity peak and rebound were derived. Results The allelic score was associated with BMI growth throughout childhood, explaining 0.58% of the total variance in BMI in females and 0.44% in males. The allelic score was associated with higher BMI at the adiposity peak (females = 0.0163 kg/m2 per allele, males = 0.0123 kg/m2 per allele) and earlier age (-0.0362 years per allele in males and females) and higher BMI (0.0332 kg/m2 per allele in females and 0.0364 kg/m2 per allele in males) at the adiposity rebound. No gene:sex interactions were detected for BMI growth. Conclusions This study suggests that known adult genetic determinants of BMI have observable effects on growth from early childhood, and is consistent with the hypothesis that genetic determinants of adult susceptibility to obesity act from early childhood and develop over the life course.
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- Nicole M. Warrington
- School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Medicine and Pharmacology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Aslibekyan S, An P, Frazier-Wood AC, Kabagambe EK, Irvin MR, Straka RJ, Tiwari HK, Tsai MY, Hopkins PN, Borecki IB, Ordovas JM, Arnett DK. Preliminary evidence of genetic determinants of adiponectin response to fenofibrate in the Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2013; 23:987-994. [PMID: 23149075 PMCID: PMC3578131 DOI: 10.1016/j.numecd.2012.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2012] [Revised: 07/27/2012] [Accepted: 07/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Adiponectin is an adipose-secreted protein that has been linked to changes in insulin sensitivity, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, and inflammatory patterns. Although fenofibrate therapy can raise adiponectin levels, treatment response is heterogeneous and heritable, suggesting a role for genetic mediators. This is the first genome-wide association study of fenofibrate effects on circulating adiponectin. METHODS AND RESULTS Plasma adiponectin was measured in participants of the Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network (n = 793) before and after a 3-week daily treatment with 160 mg of fenofibrate. Associations between variants on the Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0 and adiponectin were assessed using mixed linear models, adjusted for age, sex, site, and family. We observed a statistically significant (P = 5 × 10⁻⁸) association between rs2384207 in 12q24, a region previously linked to several metabolic traits, and the fenofibrate-induced change in circulating adiponectin. Additionally, our genome-wide analysis of baseline adiponectin levels replicated the previously reported association with CDH13 and suggested novel associations with markers near the PCK1, ZBP1, TMEM18, and SCUBE1 genes. The findings from the single marker tests were corroborated in gene-based analyses. Biological pathway analyses suggested a borderline significant association between the EGF receptor signaling pathway and baseline adiponectin levels. CONCLUSIONS We present preliminary evidence linking several biologically relevant genetic variants to adiponectin levels at baseline and in response to fenofibrate therapy. Our findings provide support for fine-mapping of the 12q24 region to investigate the shared biological mechanisms underlying levels of circulating adiponectin and susceptibility to metabolic disease.
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, RPHB 217G, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.
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Li C, Qiu X, Yang N, Gao J, Rong Y, Xiong C, Zheng F. Common rs7138803 variant of FAIM2 and obesity in Han Chinese. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2013; 13:56. [PMID: 23924573 PMCID: PMC3765134 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-13-56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2012] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 02/16/2023] Open
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Background Obesity causes severe healthcare problem worldwide leading to numerous diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. Previous Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) identified an association between a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs7138803, on chromosome 12q13 and obesity in European Caucasians. Since the genetic architecture governing the obesity may vary among different populations, we investigate the variant rs7138803 in Chinese population to find out whether it is associated with obesity. Methods A population-based cohort association study was carried out using the High Resolution Melt (HRM) method with 1851 participants. The association between rs7138803 genotypes and body mass index (BMI) was modeled with a general linear model, and a case–control study for the association between rs7138803 genotypes and obesity was performed using Pearson’s χ2 test. There was no indication of a deviation from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE p value = 0.51) in our sample. Results No association was detected between SNP rs7138803 and BMI in our Chinese Han population with a P value of 0.51. SNP rs7138803 was found to be not associated with common forms of obesity after adjusting for age and sex in the Chinese population. SNP rs7138803 was not associated with other obesity related traits, including T2DM, hypertension, lipid profiles, and ischemic stroke. Conclusion Our data suggest that the rs7138803 exerts no significant effect on obesity in Chinese Han population. Larger cohorts may be more appropriate to detect an effect of this SNP on common obesity.
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- Cong Li
- Center for Gene Diagnose, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
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León-Mimila P, Villamil-Ramírez H, Villalobos-Comparán M, Villarreal-Molina T, Romero-Hidalgo S, López-Contreras B, Gutiérrez-Vidal R, Vega-Badillo J, Jacobo-Albavera L, Posadas-Romeros C, Canizalez-Román A, Río-Navarro BD, Campos-Pérez F, Acuña-Alonzo V, Aguilar-Salinas C, Canizales-Quinteros S. Contribution of common genetic variants to obesity and obesity-related traits in mexican children and adults. PLoS One 2013; 8:e70640. [PMID: 23950976 PMCID: PMC3738539 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Background Several studies have identified multiple obesity-associated loci mainly in European populations. However, their contribution to obesity in other ethnicities such as Mexicans is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to examine 26 obesity-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in a sample of Mexican mestizos. Methods 9 SNPs in biological candidate genes showing replications (PPARG, ADRB3, ADRB2, LEPR, GNB3, UCP3, ADIPOQ, UCP2, and NR3C1), and 17 SNPs in or near genes associated with obesity in first, second and third wave GWAS (INSIG2, FTO, MC4R, TMEM18, FAIM2/BCDIN3, BDNF, SH2B1, GNPDA2, NEGR1, KCTD15, SEC16B/RASAL2, NPC1, SFRF10/ETV5, MAF, PRL, MTCH2, and PTER) were genotyped in 1,156 unrelated Mexican-Mestizos including 683 cases (441 obese class I/II and 242 obese class III) and 473 normal-weight controls. In a second stage we selected 12 of the SNPs showing nominal associations with obesity, to seek associations with quantitative obesity-related traits in 3 cohorts including 1,218 Mexican Mestizo children, 945 Mexican Mestizo adults, and 543 Indigenous Mexican adults. Results After adjusting for age, sex and admixture, significant associations with obesity were found for 6 genes in the case-control study (ADIPOQ, FTO, TMEM18, INSIG2, FAIM2/BCDIN3 and BDNF). In addition, SH2B1 was associated only with class I/II obesity and MC4R only with class III obesity. SNPs located at or near FAIM2/BCDIN3, TMEM18, INSIG2, GNPDA2 and SEC16B/RASAL2 were significantly associated with BMI and/or WC in the combined analysis of Mexican-mestizo children and adults, and FTO locus was significantly associated with increased BMI in Indigenous Mexican populations. Conclusions Our findings replicate the association of 8 obesity-related SNPs with obesity risk in Mexican adults, and confirm the role of some of these SNPs in BMI in Mexican adults and children.
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- Paola León-Mimila
- Unidad de Genómica de Poblaciones Aplicada a la Salud, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)-Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico
- Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” (INCMNSZ), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad de Genómica de Poblaciones Aplicada a la Salud, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)-Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico
- Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” (INCMNSZ), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad de Genómica de Poblaciones Aplicada a la Salud, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)-Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad de Genómica de Poblaciones Aplicada a la Salud, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)-Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico
- Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” (INCMNSZ), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad de Genómica de Poblaciones Aplicada a la Salud, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)-Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico
- Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” (INCMNSZ), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departmento de Endocrinología, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez (INCICh), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Alergia e Inmunología Clínica, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad de Genómica de Poblaciones Aplicada a la Salud, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)-Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN), Mexico City, Mexico
- Unidad de Biología Molecular y Medicina Genómica, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición “Salvador Zubirán” (INCMNSZ), Mexico City, Mexico
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Richmond RC, Timpson NJ. Recent Findings on the Genetics of Obesity: Is there Public Health Relevance? Curr Nutr Rep 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s13668-012-0027-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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