Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility

Jennifer Wessel, Audrey Y. Chu, Sara M. Willems, Shuai Wang, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Jennifer A. Brody, Marco Dauriz, Marie France Hivert, Sridharan Raghavan, Leonard Lipovich, Bertha Hidalgo, Keolu Fox, Jennifer E. Huffman, Ping An, Yingchang Lu, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Niels Grarup, Margaret G. Ehm, Li Li, Abigail S. BaldridgeAlena Stančáková, Ravinder Abrol, Céline Besse, Anne Boland, Jette Bork-Jensen, Myriam Fornage, Daniel F. Freitag, Melissa E. Garcia, Xiuqing Guo, Kazuo Hara, Aaron Isaacs, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Leslie A. Lange, Jill C. Layton, Man Li, Jing Hua Zhao, Karina Meidtner, Alanna C. Morrison, Mike A. Nalls, Marjolein J. Peters, Maria Sabater-Lleal, Claudia Schurmann, Angela Silveira, Albert V. Smith, Lorraine Southam, Marcus H. Stoiber, Rona J. Strawbridge, Kent D. Taylor, Tibor V. Varga, Kristine H. Allin, Najaf Amin, Jennifer L. Aponte, Tin Aung, Caterina Barbieri, Nathan A. Bihlmeyer, Michael Boehnke, Cristina Bombieri, Donald W. Bowden, Sean M. Burns, Yuning Chen, Yii Deri Chen, Ching Yu Cheng, Adolfo Correa, Jacek Czajkowski, Abbas Dehghan, Georg B. Ehret, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Stefan A. Escher, Aliki Eleni Farmaki, Mattias Frånberg, Giovanni Gambaro, Franco Giulianini, William A. Goddard, Anuj Goel, Omri Gottesman, Megan L. Grove, Stefan Gustafsson, Yang Hai, Göran Hallmans, Jiyoung Heo, Per Hoffmann, Mohammad K. Ikram, Richard A. Jensen, Marit E. Jørgensen, Torben Jørgensen, Maria Karaleftheri, Chiea C. Khor, Andrea Kirkpatrick, Aldi T. Kraja, Johanna Kuusisto, Ethan M. Lange, I. T. Lee, Wen Jane Lee, Aaron Leong, Jiemin Liao, Chunyu Liu, Yongmei Liu, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Allan Linneberg, Giovanni Malerba, Vasiliki Mamakou, Eirini Marouli, Nisa M. Maruthur, Angela Matchan, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Olga McLeod, Ginger A. Metcalf, Karen L. Mohlke, Donna M. Muzny, Ioanna Ntalla, Nicholette D. Palmer, Dorota Pasko, Andreas Peter, Nigel W. Rayner, Frida Renström, Ken Rice, Cinzia F. Sala, Bengt Sennblad, Ioannis Serafetinidis, Jennifer A. Smith, Nicole Soranzo, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Eli A. Stahl, Kathleen Stirrups, Nikos Tentolouris, Anastasia Thanopoulou, Mina Torres, Michela Traglia, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Sundas Javad, Lisa R. Yanek, Eleni Zengini, Diane M. Becker, Joshua C. Bis, James B. Brown, L. Adrienne Cupples, Torben Hansen, Erik Ingelsson, Andrew J. Karter, Carlos Lorenzo, Rasika A. Mathias, Jill M. Norris, Gina M. Peloso, Wayne H.H. Sheu, Daniela Toniolo, Dhananjay Vaidya, Rohit Varma, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, Heiner Boeing, Erwin P. Bottinger, George Dedoussis, Panos Deloukas, Ele Ferrannini, Oscar H. Franco, Paul W. Franks, Richard A. Gibbs, Vilmundur Gudnason, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B. Harris, Andrew T. Hattersley, Caroline Hayward, Albert Hofman, Jan Håkan Jansson, Claudia Langenberg, Lenore J. Launer, Daniel Levy, Ben A. Oostra, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Stephen O'Rahilly, Sandosh Padmanabhan, James S. Pankow, Ozren Polasek, Michael A. Province, Stephen S. Rich, Paul M. Ridker, Igor Rudan, Matthias B. Schulze, Blair H. Smith, André G. Uitterlinden, Mark Walker, Hugh Watkins, Tien Y. Wong, Eleftheria Zeggini, Markku Laakso, Ingrid B. Borecki, Daniel I. Chasman, Oluf Pedersen, Bruce M. Psaty, E. Shyong Tai, Cornelia M. Van Duijn, Nicholas J. Wareham, Dawn M. Waterworth, Eric Boerwinkle, W. H. Linda Kao, Jose C. Florez, Ruth J.F. Loos, James G. Wilson, Timothy M. Frayling, David S. Siscovick, Josée Dupuis, Jerome I. Rotter, James B. Meigs, Robert A. Scott, Mark O. Goodarzi

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Abstract

Fasting glucose and insulin are intermediate traits for type 2 diabetes. Here we explore the role of coding variation on these traits by analysis of variants on the HumanExome BeadChip in 60,564 non-diabetic individuals and in 16,491 T2D cases and 81,877 controls. We identify a novel association of a low-frequency nonsynonymous SNV in GLP1R (A316T; rs10305492; MAF=1.4%) with lower FG (β=-0.09±0.01mmoll-1, P=3.4 × 10-12), T2D risk (OR[95%CI]=0.86[0.76-0.96], P=0.010), early insulin secretion (β=-0.07±0.035pmolinsulin mmolglucose-1, P=0.048), but higher 2-h glucose (β=0.16±0.05mmoll-1, P=4.3 × 10-4). We identify a gene-based association with FG at G6PC2 (p SKAT =6.8 × 10-6) driven by four rare protein-coding SNVs (H177Y, Y207S, R283X and S324P). We identify rs651007 (MAF=20%) in the first intron of ABO at the putative promoter of an antisense lncRNA, associating with higher FG (β=0.02±0.004mmoll-1, P=1.3 × 10-8). Our approach identifies novel coding variant associations and extends the allelic spectrum of variation underlying diabetes-related quantitative traits and T2D susceptibility.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number5897
JournalNature communications
Volume6
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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