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Westerman KE, Walker ME, Gaynor SM, Wessel J, DiCorpo D, Ma J, Alonso A, Aslibekyan S, Baldridge AS, Bertoni AG, Biggs ML, Brody JA, Chen YDI, Dupuis J, Goodarzi MO, Guo X, Hasbani NR, Heath A, Hidalgo B, Irvin MR, Johnson WC, Kalyani RR, Lange L, Lemaitre RN, Liu CT, Liu S, Moon JY, Nassir R, Pankow JS, Pettinger M, Raffield LM, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Selvin E, Senn MK, Shadyab AH, Smith AV, Smith NL, Steffen L, Talegakwar S, Taylor KD, de Vries PS, Wilson JG, Wood AC, Yanek LR, Yao J, Zheng Y, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC, Fornage M, Russell TP, Psaty BM, Levy D, Heard-Costa NL, Ramachandran VS, Mathias RA, Arnett DK, Kaplan R, North KE, Correa A, Carson A, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Manson JE, Reiner AP, Kooperberg C, Florez JC, Meigs JB, Merino J, Tobias DK, Chen H, Manning AK. Investigating Gene-Diet Interactions Impacting the Association Between Macronutrient Intake and Glycemic Traits. Diabetes 2023; 72:653-665. [PMID: 36791419 PMCID: PMC10130485 DOI: 10.2337/db22-0851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
Abstract
Few studies have demonstrated reproducible gene-diet interactions (GDIs) impacting metabolic disease risk factors, likely due in part to measurement error in dietary intake estimation and insufficient capture of rare genetic variation. We aimed to identify GDIs across the genetic frequency spectrum impacting the macronutrient-glycemia relationship in genetically and culturally diverse cohorts. We analyzed 33,187 participants free of diabetes from 10 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program cohorts with whole-genome sequencing, self-reported diet, and glycemic trait data. We fit cohort-specific, multivariable-adjusted linear mixed models for the effect of diet, modeled as an isocaloric substitution of carbohydrate for fat, and its interactions with common and rare variants genome-wide. In main effect meta-analyses, participants consuming more carbohydrate had modestly lower glycemic trait values (e.g., for glycated hemoglobin [HbA1c], -0.013% HbA1c/250 kcal substitution). In GDI meta-analyses, a common African ancestry-enriched variant (rs79762542) reached study-wide significance and replicated in the UK Biobank cohort, indicating a negative carbohydrate-HbA1c association among major allele homozygotes only. Simulations revealed that >150,000 samples may be necessary to identify similar macronutrient GDIs under realistic assumptions about effect size and measurement error. These results generate hypotheses for further exploration of modifiable metabolic disease risk in additional cohorts with African ancestry. ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS We aimed to identify genetic modifiers of the dietary macronutrient-glycemia relationship using whole-genome sequence data from 10 Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine program cohorts. Substitution models indicated a modest reduction in glycemia associated with an increase in dietary carbohydrate at the expense of fat. Genome-wide interaction analysis identified one African ancestry-enriched variant near the FRAS1 gene that may interact with macronutrient intake to influence hemoglobin A1c. Simulation-based power calculations accounting for measurement error suggested that substantially larger sample sizes may be necessary to discover further gene-macronutrient interactions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kenneth E. Westerman
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Department of Health Sciences, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Sheila M. Gaynor
- Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
| | - Jennifer Wessel
- Department of Epidemiology, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, IN
- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
- Diabetes Translational Research Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
| | - Daniel DiCorpo
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
| | - Jiantao Ma
- Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA
| | - Alvaro Alonso
- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
| | - Alain G. Bertoni
- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
| | - Mary L. Biggs
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
| | - Jennifer A. Brody
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
| | - Joseé Dupuis
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
| | - Mark O. Goodarzi
- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
| | - Xiuqing Guo
- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
| | - Natalie R. Hasbani
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - Adam Heath
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - Bertha Hidalgo
- School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
| | - Marguerite R. Irvin
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
| | - W. Craig Johnson
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
| | - Rita R. Kalyani
- GeneSTAR Research Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
| | - Leslie Lange
- Department of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
| | - Rozenn N. Lemaitre
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
| | - Ching-Ti Liu
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
- Evans Department of Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Evans Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute and Cardiology Section, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
| | - Simin Liu
- Center for Global Cardiometabolic Health, Boston, MA
| | - Jee-Young Moon
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
| | - Rami Nassir
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
| | - James S. Pankow
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
| | - Mary Pettinger
- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
| | - Laura M. Raffield
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
| | | | - Elizabeth Selvin
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
| | - Mackenzie K. Senn
- USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
| | - Aladdin H. Shadyab
- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
| | - Albert V. Smith
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| | - Nicholas L. Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development, Seattle Epidemiologic Research and Information Center, Seattle, WA
| | - Lyn Steffen
- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
| | - Sameera Talegakwar
- Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
| | - Kent D. Taylor
- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
| | - Paul S. de Vries
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - James G. Wilson
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- USDA/ARS Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
| | - Lisa R. Yanek
- GeneSTAR Research Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
| | - Jie Yao
- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
| | - Yinan Zheng
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
| | - Eric Boerwinkle
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
| | - Alanna C. Morrison
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - Miriam Fornage
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - Tracy P. Russell
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
| | - Bruce M. Psaty
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
| | - Daniel Levy
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
- Population Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD
| | - Nancy L. Heard-Costa
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
| | - Vasan S. Ramachandran
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
- Evans Department of Medicine, Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Evans Department of Medicine, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute and Cardiology Section, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
| | - Rasika A. Mathias
- GeneSTAR Research Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
| | - Donna K. Arnett
- College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
| | - Robert Kaplan
- Clinical Excellence Research Center, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
| | - Adolfo Correa
- Department of Population Health Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
| | - April Carson
- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
| | - Jerome I. Rotter
- The Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA
| | - Stephen S. Rich
- Center for Public Health Genomics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
| | - Jose C. Florez
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
| | - James B. Meigs
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
| | - Jordi Merino
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA
- Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
| | - Deirdre K. Tobias
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
| | - Han Chen
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
- Center for Precision Health, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
| | - Alisa K. Manning
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Programs in Metabolism and Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, MA
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