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Additional information on genetic susceptibility effects relevant to type 2 diabetes pathogenesis can be extracted from existing genome scans by extending examination to related phenotypes such as age at disease onset. In this study, we report the reanalysis of data from 573 U.K. sibships ascertained for multiplex type 2 diabetes, using age at onset (assessed by the proxy measure of age at diagnosis) as the phenotype of interest. Genome-wide evidence for linkage to age at diagnosis was evaluated using both variance components and Haseman-Elston (HECOM) regression approaches, with extensive simulations to derive empirical significance values. There was broad agreement across analyses with six regions of interest (logarithm of odds [LOD] ≥1.18) identified on chromosomes 1qter, 4p15-4q12, 5p15, 12p13-12q13, 12q24, and 14q12-14q21. The strongest empirically "suggestive" evidence for linkage comes from regions on chromosome 12. The first region (12p13-12q13), peaking at D12S310 (variance components LOD [LODVC] = 2.08, empirical pointwise P = 0.0007; HECOM LOD [LODHECOM] = 2.58, P = 0.0010) seems to be novel. The second (12q24) peaking between D12S324 and D12S1659 (LODVC = 1.87, P = 0.0016; LODHECOM = 1.93, P = 0.0027) overlaps a region showing substantial prior evidence for diabetes linkage. These data provide additional evidence that genes mapping to these chromosomal regions are involved in the susceptibility to, and/or development of, type 2 diabetes.
Author(s): Wiltshire S, Frayling TM, Groves CJ, Levy JC, Hitman GA, Sampson M, Walker M, Menzel S, Hattersley AT, Cardon LR, McCarthy MI
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Diabetes
Year: 2004
Volume: 53
Issue: 3
Pages: 855-860
ISSN (print): 0012-1797
ISSN (electronic): 1939-327X
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/diabetes.53.3.855
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.53.3.855
PubMed id: 14988275
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