Genome-wide association study identifies three novel loci for type 2 diabetes

Kazuo Hara, Hayato Fujita, Todd A. Johnson, Toshimasa Yamauchi, Kazuki Yasuda, Momoko Horikoshi, Chen Peng, Cheng Hu, Ronald C.W. Ma, Minako Imamura, Minoru Iwata, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Takashi Morizono, Nobuhiro Shojima, Wing Yee So, Ting Fan Leung, Patrick Kwan, Rong Zhang, Jie Wang, Weihui YuHiroshi Maegawa, Hiroshi Hirose, Kohei Kaku, Chikako Ito, Hirotaka Watada, Yasushi Tanaka, Kazuyuki Tobe, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Ryuzo Kawamori, Weiping Jia, Juliana C.N. Chan, Yik Ying Teo, Tai E. Shyong, Naoyuki Kamatani, Michiaki Kubo, Shiro Maeda, Takashi Kadowaki

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Abstract

Although over 60loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D) havebeenidentified, there still remains a large geneticcomponent to be clarified. To explore unidentified loci for T2D, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 6 209 637 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which were directly genotyped or imputed using East Asian references from the 1000 Genomes Project (June 2011 release) in 5976 Japanese patients with T2D and 20 829 nondiabetic individuals. Nineteen unreported loci were selected and taken forward to follow-up analyses. Combined discovery and follow-up analyses (30 392 cases and 34 814 controls) identified three new loci with genome-wide significance, which were MIR129-LEP [rs791595; risk allele 5 A; risk allele frequency (RAF) 5 0.080; P 5 2.55 × 10-13; odds ratio (OR) 5 1.17], GPSM1 [rs11787792; risk allele 5 A; RAF 5 0.874; P 5 1.74 × 10-10; OR 5 1.15] and SLC16A13 (rs312457; risk allele 5 G; RAF 5 0.078; P 5 7.69 × 10-13; OR 5 1.20). This study demonstrates that GWASs based on the imputation of genotypes using modern reference haplotypes such as that from the 1000 Genomes Project data can assist in identification of new loci for common diseases.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberddt399
Pages (from-to)239-246
Number of pages8
JournalHuman Molecular Genetics
Volume23
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes

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