1. Genome-wide association for abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose reveals a novel locus for visceral fat in women
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Amelie Bonnefond, Nancy Heard-Costa, Eleftheria Zeggini, Anna Gloyn, LAURA CRISPONI, Eco De Geus, Michael Weedon, Torben Jørgensen, Jaakko Kaprio, Iva Miljkovic, Amanda Bennett, Yurii Aulchenko, Michael Stumvoll, Andrew Hattersley, Christian Dina, Sophie Visvikis-Siest, Udo Seedorf, Vilmundur Gudnason, Michael Marmot, Mika Kivimaki, Mary Feitosa, Danielle Posthuma, Claudia Langenberg, Stavroula Kanoni, Cyrus Cooper, Meena Kumari, Peter Kovacs, Debbie A Lawlor, Inga Prokopenko, Rafn Benediktsson, Stephen Kritchevsky, Philippe Froguel, Cornelia Van Duijn, Nita Forouhi, Anne B. Newman, Ko Willems van Dijk, John Carr, Reedik Mägi, Sutapa Mukherjee, Lyle John Palmer, Francois Pattou, L. Adrienne Cupples, Paul Franks, Paul Elliott, Albert Vernon Smith, MANUELA UDA, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Manuel Serrano Ríos, Richard Bergman, Gonneke Willemsen, Cecilia Lindgren, Igor Rudan, Human genetics, NCA - Attention & Cognition, EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Research Group Ripatti Samuli, Hjelt Institute (-2014), Department of Public Health, Biostatistics Helsinki, Complex Disease Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Biological Psychology, Functional Genomics, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Attention & Cognition, EMGO+ - Lifestyle, Overweight and Diabetes, GIANT Consortium, MAGIC Consortium, GLGC Consortium, Dupuis, J., Langenberg, C., Prokopenko, I., Saxena, R., Soranzo, N., Jackson, AU., Wheeler, E., Glazer, NL., Bouatia-Naji, N., Gloyn, AL., Lindgren, CM., Mägi, R., Morris, AP., Randall, J., Johnson, T., Elliott, P., Rybin, D., Thorleifsson, G., Steinthorsdottir, V., Henneman, P., Grallert, H., Dehghan, A., Hottenga, JJ., Franklin, 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Rivadeneira, F., Roden, M., Rolandsson, O., Sandbaek, A., Sandhu, M., Sanna, S., Sayer, AA., Scheet, P., Scott, LJ., Seedorf, U., Sharp, SJ., Shields, B., Sigurðsson, G., Sijbrands, EJ., Silveira, A., Simpson, L., Singleton, A., Smith, NL., Sovio, U., Swift, A., Syddall, H., Syvänen, AC., Tanaka, T., Thorand, B., Tichet, J., Tönjes, A., Tuomi, T., Uitterlinden, AG., van Dijk KW., van Hoek, M., Varma, D., Visvikis-Siest, S., Vitart, V., Vogelzangs, N., Waeber, G., Wagner, PJ., Walley, A., Walters, GB., Ward, KL., Watkins, H., Weedon, MN., Wild, SH., Willemsen, G., Witteman, JC., Yarnell, JW., Zeggini, E., Zelenika, D., Zethelius, B., Zhai, G., Zhao, JH., Zillikens, MC., Borecki, IB., Loos, RJ., Meneton, P., Magnusson, PK., Nathan, DM., Williams, GH., Hattersley, AT., Silander, K., Salomaa, V., Smith, GD., Bornstein, SR., Schwarz, P., Spranger, J., Karpe, F., Shuldiner, AR., Cooper, C., Dedoussis, GV., Serrano-Ríos, M., Morris, AD., Lind, L., Palmer, LJ., Hu, FB., Franks, PW., Ebrahim, 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[0000-0003-3336-6781], Carr, J Jeffrey [0000-0002-4398-8237], Gudnason, Vilmunder [0000-0001-5696-0084], Cupples, L Adrienne [0000-0003-0273-7965], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, and Medical Research Council (MRC)
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Male ,Netherlands Twin Register (NTR) ,Cancer Research ,Adipose tissue ,Genome-wide association study ,QH426-470 ,FTO gene ,Body Mass Index ,0302 clinical medicine ,Genetics (clinical) ,TISSUE DISTRIBUTION ,GENE-EXPRESSION ,2. Zero hunger ,ATHEROSCLEROSIS MESA ,0303 health sciences ,INSULIN-RESISTANCE ,Sex Characteristics ,MAGIC Consortium ,Adult ,Aged ,Cytokines/genetics ,European Continental Ancestry Group ,Female ,Genome-Wide Association Study ,HapMap Project ,Humans ,Intra-Abdominal Fat ,Lysophospholipase/genetics ,Middle Aged ,Phenotype ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Proteins/genetics ,Subcutaneous Fat, Abdominal ,3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health ,CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE ,OBESITY ,Cytokines ,Medicine ,Lysophospholipase ,Research Article ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Waist ,Alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenase FTO ,030209 endocrinology & metabolism ,HIP RATIO ,Biology ,White People ,GLGC Consortium ,03 medical and health sciences ,Insulin resistance ,Internal medicine ,GIANT Consortium ,medicine ,Genetics ,CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE ,ddc:610 ,Molecular Biology ,PERICARDIAL FAT ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,0604 Genetics ,Proteins ,nutritional and metabolic diseases ,medicine.disease ,Obesity ,Endocrinology ,RISK-FACTORS ,Body mass index ,Developmental Biology - Abstract
Body fat distribution, particularly centralized obesity, is associated with metabolic risk above and beyond total adiposity. We performed genome-wide association of abdominal adipose depots quantified using computed tomography (CT) to uncover novel loci for body fat distribution among participants of European ancestry. Subcutaneous and visceral fat were quantified in 5,560 women and 4,997 men from 4 population-based studies. Genome-wide genotyping was performed using standard arrays and imputed to ∼2.5 million Hapmap SNPs. Each study performed a genome-wide association analysis of subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), visceral adipose tissue (VAT), VAT adjusted for body mass index, and VAT/SAT ratio (a metric of the propensity to store fat viscerally as compared to subcutaneously) in the overall sample and in women and men separately. A weighted z-score meta-analysis was conducted. For the VAT/SAT ratio, our most significant p-value was rs11118316 at LYPLAL1 gene (p = 3.1×10E-09), previously identified in association with waist–hip ratio. For SAT, the most significant SNP was in the FTO gene (p = 5.9×10E-08). Given the known gender differences in body fat distribution, we performed sex-specific analyses. Our most significant finding was for VAT in women, rs1659258 near THNSL2 (p = 1.6×10-08), but not men (p = 0.75). Validation of this SNP in the GIANT consortium data demonstrated a similar sex-specific pattern, with observed significance in women (p = 0.006) but not men (p = 0.24) for BMI and waist circumference (p = 0.04 [women], p = 0.49 [men]). Finally, we interrogated our data for the 14 recently published loci for body fat distribution (measured by waist–hip ratio adjusted for BMI); associations were observed at 7 of these loci. In contrast, we observed associations at only 7/32 loci previously identified in association with BMI; the majority of overlap was observed with SAT. Genome-wide association for visceral and subcutaneous fat revealed a SNP for VAT in women. More refined phenotypes for body composition and fat distribution can detect new loci not previously uncovered in large-scale GWAS of anthropometric traits., Author Summary Body fat distribution, particularly centralized obesity, is associated with metabolic risk above and beyond total adiposity. We performed genome-wide association of abdominal adipose depots quantified using computed tomography (CT) to uncover novel loci for body fat distribution among participants of European ancestry. We quantified subcutaneous and visceral fat in more than 10,000 women and men who also had genome-wide association data available. Given the known gender differences in body fat distribution, we performed sex-specific analyses. Our most significant finding was for VAT in women, near the THNSL2 gene. These findings were not observed in men. We also interrogated our data for the 14 recently published loci for body fat distribution (measured by waist–hip ratio adjusted for BMI); associations were observed for 7 of these loci, most notably for VAT/SAT ratio. We conclude that genome-wide association for visceral and subcutaneous fat revealed a SNP for VAT in women. More refined phenotypes for body composition and fat distribution can detect new loci not uncovered in large-scale GWAS of anthropometric traits.
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