Sleep duration does not mediate or modify association of common genetic variants with type 2 diabetes

Archana Tare, Jacqueline M. Lane, Brian E. Cade, Struan F.A. Grant, Ting Hsu Chen, Naresh M. Punjabi, Diane S. Lauderdale, Phyllis C. Zee, Sina A. Gharib, Daniel J. Gottlieb, Frank A.J.L. Scheer, Susan Redline, Richa Saxena

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Abstract

Aims/hypothesis: Short and long sleep duration are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. We aimed to investigate whether genetic variants for fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes associate with short or long sleep duration and whether sleep duration modifies the association of genetic variants with these traits. Methods: We examined the cross-sectional relationship between self-reported habitual sleep duration and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in individuals of European descent participating in five studies included in the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe), totalling 1,474 cases and 8,323 controls. We tested for association of 16 fasting glucose-associated variants, 27 type 2 diabetes-associated variants and aggregate genetic risk scores with continuous and dichotomised (≤5 h or ≥9 h) sleep duration using regression models adjusted for age, sex and BMI. Finally, we tested whether a gene × behaviour interaction of variants with sleep duration had an impact on fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes risk. Results: Short sleep duration was significantly associated with type 2 diabetes in CARe (OR 1.32; 95% CI 1.08, 1.61; p = 0.008). Variants previously associated with fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes and genetic risk scores were not associated with sleep duration. Furthermore, no study-wide significant interaction was observed between sleep duration and these variants on glycaemic traits. Nominal interactions were observed for sleep duration and PPARG rs1801282, CRY2 rs7943320 and HNF1B rs4430796 in influencing risk of type 2 diabetes (p < 0.05). Conclusions/interpretation: Our findings suggest that differences in habitual sleep duration do not mediate or modify the relationship between common variants underlying glycaemic traits (including in circadian rhythm genes) and diabetes.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)339-346
Number of pages8
JournalDiabetologia
Volume57
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Circadian genes
  • Genetic association studies
  • Genetic risk score
  • Sleep duration
  • Type 2 diabetes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Internal Medicine
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

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