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Kraja AT, Chasman DI, North KE, Reiner AP, Yanek LR, Kilpeläinen TO, Smith JA, Dehghan A, Dupuis J, Johnson AD, Feitosa MF, Tekola-Ayele F, Chu AY, Nolte IM, Dastani Z, Morris A, Pendergrass SA, Sun YV, Ritchie MD, Vaez A, Lin H, Ligthart S, Marullo L, Rohde R, Shao Y, Ziegler MA, Im HK, Schnabel RB, Jørgensen T, Jørgensen ME, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Stolk RP, Snieder H, Hofman A, Uitterlinden AG, Franco OH, Ikram MA, Richards JB, Rotimi C, Wilson JG, Lange L, Ganesh SK, Nalls M, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Pankow JS, Coresh J, Tang W, Linda Kao WH, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC, Ridker PM, Becker DM, Rotter JI, Kardia SLR, Loos RJF, Larson MG, Hsu YH, Province MA, Tracy R, Voight BF, Vaidya D, O'Donnell CJ, Benjamin EJ, Alizadeh BZ, Prokopenko I, Meigs JB, Borecki IB. Pleiotropic genes for metabolic syndrome and inflammation. Mol Genet Metab 2014; 112:317-38. [PMID: 24981077 PMCID: PMC4122618 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2014.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Revised: 04/26/2014] [Accepted: 04/26/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has become a health and financial burden worldwide. The MetS definition captures clustering of risk factors that predict higher risk for diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Our study hypothesis is that additional to genes influencing individual MetS risk factors, genetic variants exist that influence MetS and inflammatory markers forming a predisposing MetS genetic network. To test this hypothesis a staged approach was undertaken. (a) We analyzed 17 metabolic and inflammatory traits in more than 85,500 participants from 14 large epidemiological studies within the Cross Consortia Pleiotropy Group. Individuals classified with MetS (NCEP definition), versus those without, showed on average significantly different levels for most inflammatory markers studied. (b) Paired average correlations between 8 metabolic traits and 9 inflammatory markers from the same studies as above, estimated with two methods, and factor analyses on large simulated data, helped in identifying 8 combinations of traits for follow-up in meta-analyses, out of 130,305 possible combinations between metabolic traits and inflammatory markers studied. (c) We performed correlated meta-analyses for 8 metabolic traits and 6 inflammatory markers by using existing GWAS published genetic summary results, with about 2.5 million SNPs from twelve predominantly largest GWAS consortia. These analyses yielded 130 unique SNPs/genes with pleiotropic associations (a SNP/gene associating at least one metabolic trait and one inflammatory marker). Of them twenty-five variants (seven loci newly reported) are proposed as MetS candidates. They map to genes MACF1, KIAA0754, GCKR, GRB14, COBLL1, LOC646736-IRS1, SLC39A8, NELFE, SKIV2L, STK19, TFAP2B, BAZ1B, BCL7B, TBL2, MLXIPL, LPL, TRIB1, ATXN2, HECTD4, PTPN11, ZNF664, PDXDC1, FTO, MC4R and TOMM40. Based on large data evidence, we conclude that inflammation is a feature of MetS and several gene variants show pleiotropic genetic associations across phenotypes and might explain a part of MetS correlated genetic architecture. These findings warrant further functional investigation.
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Affiliation(s)
- Aldi T Kraja
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
| | - Kari E North
- Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
| | | | - Lisa R Yanek
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
| | - Tuomas O Kilpeläinen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
| | - Jennifer A Smith
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
| | - Abbas Dehghan
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
| | - Josée Dupuis
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA.
| | - Andrew D Johnson
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Division of Intramural Research and NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA.
| | - Mary F Feitosa
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
| | - Fasil Tekola-Ayele
- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
| | - Audrey Y Chu
- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
| | - Ilja M Nolte
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
| | - Zari Dastani
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Jewish General Hospital, Lady Davis Institute, McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
| | - Andrew Morris
- The Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
| | - Sarah A Pendergrass
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science and The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.
| | - Yan V Sun
- Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, and Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
| | - Marylyn D Ritchie
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
| | - Ahmad Vaez
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Section of Computational Biomedicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
| | - Symen Ligthart
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
| | - Letizia Marullo
- The Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
| | - Rebecca Rohde
- Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
| | - Yaming Shao
- Department of Epidemiology and Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
| | - Mark A Ziegler
- Division of Biostatistics, MSIBS Program, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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- Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, IL, USA.
| | - Renate B Schnabel
- Department of General and Interventional Cardiology University Heart Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
| | - Torben Jørgensen
- Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark; Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Section of Metabolic Genetics, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
| | - Ronald P Stolk
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
| | - Albert Hofman
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Jewish General Hospital, Lady Davis Institute, McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Medicine, Human Genetics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Canada; Department of Twin Research, King's College, London, UK.
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- Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, NC, USA.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, MI, USA.
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- Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
| | - Alanna C Morrison
- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas - Houston Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed), Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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- The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
| | - Martin G Larson
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research, Harvard Medical School and Molecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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- University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania - Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Division of Intramural Research and NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA.
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's and Boston University's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA; Cardiology and Preventive Medicine Sections, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
| | - Inga Prokopenko
- Department of Genomics of Common Diseases, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK.
| | - James B Meigs
- General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
| | - Ingrid B Borecki
- Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics and Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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