Identification of novel genetic variants for type 2 diabetes, childhood obesity, and their pleiotropic loci

Journal of Human Genetics
Chun-Ping ZengHong-Wen Deng

Abstract

Obesity has result in increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in children. The genetic mechanisms underlying their relationship, however, are not fully understood. Here, we aim to identify novel SNPs associated with T2D and childhood obesity (CO), especially their pleiotropic loci. We integrated the summary statistics for two independent GWASs of T2D (n = 149,821) and childhood body mass index (CBMI) (n = 35,668) using the pleiotropy-informed conditional false discovery rate (cFDR) method. By leveraging the information of different levels of association for CBMI, we observed a strong enrichment of genetic variants associated with T2D. We identified 139 T2D-associated SNPs with 125 novel ones (cFDR < 0.05). Conditioned on T2D, we identified 37 significant SNPs for CBMI (cFDR < 0.05), including 25 novel ones. The conjunctional cFDR (ccFDR) analysis showed ten novel pleiotropic loci for T2D and CBMI (ccFDR < 0.05). Interestingly, the novel SNP rs1996023 is located at protein coding gene GNPDA2 (ccFDR = 1.28E-02), which has been reported to influence the risk of T2D and CO through central nervous system. Our findings may help to explain a greater proportion of the heritability for human traits and advance the understanding of...Continue Reading

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