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Liu CT, Monda KL, Taylor KC, Lange L, Demerath EW, Palmas W, Wojczynski MK, Ellis JC, Vitolins MZ, Liu S, Papanicolaou GJ, Irvin MR, Xue L, Griffin PJ, Nalls MA, Adeyemo A, Liu J, Li G, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Chen WM, Chen F, Henderson BE, Millikan RC, Ambrosone CB, Strom SS, Guo X, Andrews JS, Sun YV, Mosley TH, Yanek LR, Shriner D, Haritunians T, Rotter JI, Speliotes EK, Smith M, Rosenberg L, Mychaleckyj J, Nayak U, Spruill I, Garvey WT, Pettaway C, Nyante S, Bandera EV, Britton AF, Zonderman AB, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Chen YDI, Ding J, Lohman K, Kritchevsky SB, Zhao W, Peyser PA, Kardia SLR, Kabagambe E, Broeckel U, Chen G, Zhou J, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Neuhouser ML, Rampersaud E, Psaty B, Kooperberg C, Manson JE, Kuller LH, Ochs-Balcom HM, Johnson KC, Sucheston L, Ordovas JM, Palmer JR, Haiman CA, McKnight B, Howard BV, Becker DM, Bielak LF, Liu Y, Allison MA, Grant SFA, Burke GL, Patel SR, Schreiner PJ, Borecki IB, Evans MK, Taylor H, Sale MM, Howard V, Carlson CS, Rotimi CN, Cushman M, Harris TB, Reiner AP, Cupples LA, North KE, Fox CS. Genome-wide association of body fat distribution in African ancestry populations suggests new loci. PLoS Genet 2013; 9:e1003681. [PMID: 23966867 PMCID: PMC3744443 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2012] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Central obesity, measured by waist circumference (WC) or waist-hip ratio (WHR), is a marker of body fat distribution. Although obesity disproportionately affects minority populations, few studies have conducted genome-wide association study (GWAS) of fat distribution among those of predominantly African ancestry (AA). We performed GWAS of WC and WHR, adjusted and unadjusted for BMI, in up to 33,591 and 27,350 AA individuals, respectively. We identified loci associated with fat distribution in AA individuals using meta-analyses of GWA results for WC and WHR (stage 1). Overall, 25 SNPs with single genomic control (GC)-corrected p-values<5.0 × 10(-6) were followed-up (stage 2) in AA with WC and with WHR. Additionally, we interrogated genomic regions of previously identified European ancestry (EA) WHR loci among AA. In joint analysis of association results including both Stage 1 and 2 cohorts, 2 SNPs demonstrated association, rs2075064 at LHX2, p = 2.24×10(-8) for WC-adjusted-for-BMI, and rs6931262 at RREB1, p = 2.48×10(-8) for WHR-adjusted-for-BMI. However, neither signal was genome-wide significant after double GC-correction (LHX2: p = 6.5 × 10(-8); RREB1: p = 5.7 × 10(-8)). Six of fourteen previously reported loci for waist in EA populations were significant (p<0.05 divided by the number of independent SNPs within the region) in AA studied here (TBX15-WARS2, GRB14, ADAMTS9, LY86, RSPO3, ITPR2-SSPN). Further, we observed associations with metabolic traits: rs13389219 at GRB14 associated with HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, and fasting insulin, and rs13060013 at ADAMTS9 with HDL-cholesterol and fasting insulin. Finally, we observed nominal evidence for sexual dimorphism, with stronger results in AA women at the GRB14 locus (p for interaction = 0.02). In conclusion, we identified two suggestive loci associated with fat distribution in AA populations in addition to confirming 6 loci previously identified in populations of EA. These findings reinforce the concept that there are fat distribution loci that are independent of generalized adiposity.
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- Ching-Ti Liu
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology & Prevention, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Departments of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Metabolic Disease Prevention, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, Prevention and Population Sciences Program, National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, UAB, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
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- University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Public Health and Genomics and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Center for Public Health and Genomics and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiolgy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Public Health and Genomics and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Center for Public Health and Genomics and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, UAB School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Department of Urology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, NIH Biomedical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology & Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiolgy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiolgy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiolgy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, UAB, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Miami Institute for Human Genomics, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- John T. McDonald Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Services and Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- MedStar Health Research Institute and Georgetown University, Hyattsville, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiolgy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- University of California at San Diego Department of Preventive Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Health Disparities Research Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, NIH Biomedical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America
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- Center for Public Genomics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, UAB School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Colchester, Vermont, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, NIA, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- * E-mail: (KEN); (CSF)
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- NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- NHLBI's Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- * E-mail: (KEN); (CSF)
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