; Coassin, Stefan
; Winkler, Thomas ; Aulchenko, Yurii S.
; Fuchsberger, Christian
; Song, Kijoung ; Hivert, Marie-France ; Waterworth, Dawn M. ; Timpson, Nicholas J. ; Richards, J. Brent ; Perry, John R.B. ; Tanaka, Toshiko ; Amin, Najaf
; Kollerits, Barbara ; Pichler, Irene
; Oostra, Ben A. ; Thorand, Barbara
; Frants, Rune R. ; Illig, Thomas ; Dupuis, Josée
; Glaser, Beate ; Spector, Tim ; Guralnik, Jack ; Egan, Josephine M. ; Florez, Jose C. ; Evans, David M.
; Soranzo, Nicole
; Bandinelli, Stefania ; Carlson, Olga D. ; Frayling, Timothy M. ; Burling, Keith ; Smith, George Davey ; Mooser, Vincent ; Ferrucci, Luigi ; Meigs, James B. ; Vollenweider, Peter ; Dijk, Ko Willems van ; Pramstaller, Peter ; Kronenberg, Florian
; van Duijn, Cornelia M. | Item type: | Article | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Atherosclerosis | ||||
| Publisher: | ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD | ||||
| Place of Publication: | CLARE | ||||
| Volume: | 208 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 2 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 412-420 | ||||
| Date: | 2010 | ||||
| Institutions: | Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin | ||||
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| Keywords: | METABOLIC SYNDROME; INSULIN-RESISTANCE; APM1 GENE; RISK; PROMOTER; DISEASE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; CAUCASIANS; CONTRIBUTE; Adiponectin; Genome-wide association study; Polymorphism; Cardiovascular disease; Metabolic syndrome | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine | ||||
| Status: | Published | ||||
| Refereed: | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg: | Yes | ||||
| Item ID: | 66393 |
Abstract
Objective: Plasma adiponectin is strongly associated with various components of metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes. Concentrations are highly heritable and differ between men and women. We therefore aimed to investigate the genetics of plasma adiponectin in men and women. Methods: Wecombined genome-wide association scans of three population-based studies including ...

Abstract
Objective: Plasma adiponectin is strongly associated with various components of metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular outcomes. Concentrations are highly heritable and differ between men and women. We therefore aimed to investigate the genetics of plasma adiponectin in men and women. Methods: Wecombined genome-wide association scans of three population-based studies including 4659 persons. For the replication stage in 13795 subjects, we selected the 20 top signals of the combined analysis, as well as the 10 top signals with p-values less than 1.0 x 10(-4) for each the men-and the women-specific analyses. We further selected 73 SNPs that were consistently associated with metabolic syndrome parameters in previous genome-wide association studies to check for their association with plasma adiponectin. Results: The ADIPOQ locus showed genome-wide significant p-values in the combined (p = 4.3 x 10(-24)) as well as in both women-and men-specific analyses (p = 8.7 x 10(-17) and p = 2.5 x 10(-11), respectively). None of the other 39 top signal SNPs showed evidence for association in the replication analysis. None of 73 SNPs from metabolic syndrome loci e x hibited association with plasma adiponectin (p > 0.01). Conclusions: We demonstrated the ADIPOQ gene as the only major gene for plasma adiponectin, which e x plains 6.7% of the phenotypic variance. We further found that neither this gene nor any of the metabolic syndrome loci e x plained the se x differences observed for plasma adiponectin. Larger studies are needed to identify more moderate genetic determinants of plasma adiponectin. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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