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Variants inKCNQ1 are associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Kazuki Yasuda1,
- Kazuaki Miyake2,
- Yukio Horikawa3,
- Kazuo Hara4,
- Haruhiko Osawa5,
- Hiroto Furuta6,
- Yushi Hirota2,
- Hiroyuki Mori2,
- Anna Jonsson7,
- Yoshifumi Sato8,
- Kazuya Yamagata8 nAff27,
- Yoshinori Hinokio9,
- He-Yao Wang1 nAff27,
- Toshihito Tanahashi10,
- Naoto Nakamura11,
- Yoshitomo Oka9,
- Naoko Iwasaki12,
- Yasuhiko Iwamoto12,
- Yuichiro Yamada13 nAff27,
- Yutaka Seino13 nAff27,
- Hiroshi Maegawa14,
- Atsunori Kashiwagi14,
- Jun Takeda3,
- Eiichi Maeda15,
- Hyoung Doo Shin16,
- Young Min Cho17,
- Kyong Soo Park17,
- Hong Kyu Lee17,
- Maggie C Y Ng18,
- Ronald C W Ma18,
- Wing-Yee So18,
- Juliana C N Chan18,
- Valeriya Lyssenko7,
- Tiinamaija Tuomi19,20,
- Peter Nilsson21,
- Leif Groop7,19,
- Naoyuki Kamatani22,
- Akihiro Sekine23 nAff27,
- Yusuke Nakamura23,
- Ken Yamamoto24,
- Teruhiko Yoshida25,
- Katsushi Tokunaga26,
- Mitsuo Itakura10,
- Hideichi Makino5,
- Kishio Nanjo6,
- Takashi Kadowaki4 &
- …
- Masato Kasuga2
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Abstract
We carried out a multistage genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese individuals, with a total of 1,612 cases and 1,424 controls and 100,000 SNPs. The most significant association was obtained with SNPs inKCNQ1, and dense mapping within the gene revealed that rs2237892 in intron 15 showed the lowestP value (6.7 × 10−13, odds ratio (OR) = 1.49). The association ofKCNQ1 with type 2 diabetes was replicated in populations of Korean, Chinese and European ancestry as well as in two independent Japanese populations, and meta-analysis with a total of 19,930 individuals (9,569 cases and 10,361 controls) yielded aP value of 1.7 × 10−42 (OR = 1.40; 95% CI = 1.34–1.47) for rs2237892. Among control subjects, the risk allele of this polymorphism was associated with impairment of insulin secretion according to the homeostasis model assessment of β-cell function or the corrected insulin response. Our data thus implicateKCNQ1 as a diabetes susceptibility gene in groups of different ancestries.
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We thank all the participants in the project; S. Sugano and S. Tsuji for support and helpful discussion throughout the project; H. Sakamoto, K. Yoshimura and N. Nishida for genotyping and quality control of the data; M. Yamaoka-Sageshima, K. Nagase, D. Suzuki and A. Berglund for technical assistance; and staff of Mitsui Knowledge Industry Inc. (Tokyo) for help with bioinformatics. This work was supported by a grant from the Program for Promotion of Fundamental Studies in Health Sciences of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) of Japan; a grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO) of Japan; grants from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan; a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (C), “Medical Genome Science (Millennium Genome Project),” “Applied Genomics” and “Comprehensive Genomics” from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan; and a grant from New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The replication 2 study was supported by a grant from Cooperative Link of Unique Science and Technology for Economy Revitalization (CLUSTER, Tokushima, Japan). The Hong Kong diabetes case-control study was supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Committee Central Allocation Scheme CUHK 1/04C. The Korean case-control study was supported by a grant from the Korea Health 21 R&D Project of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Republic of Korea (00-PJ3-PG6-GN07-001 to K.S.P.). The replication 5 study and Botnia prospective study were supported by Swedish Research Council (Linne grant), Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Folkhaelsan Research Foundation, European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes and Swedish Diabetes Research Foundation.
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Kazuya Yamagata, He-Yao Wang, Yuichiro Yamada, Yutaka Seino & Akihiro Sekine
Present address: Present addresses: Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan (K. Yamagata), Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200031, China (H.-Y.W.), Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita 010-8543, Japan (Y.Y.), Kansai Electric Power Hospital, Osaka 553-0003, Japan (Y. Seino) and Genome Informatics, Center for Genomic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan (A.S.).,
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Department of Metabolic Disorder, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, 162-8655, Japan
Kazuki Yasuda & He-Yao Wang
Division of Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, Metabolism, and Endocrinology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, 650-0017, Japan
Kazuaki Miyake, Yushi Hirota, Hiroyuki Mori & Masato Kasuga
Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Division of Molecule and Structure, Gifu University School of Medicine, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan
Yukio Horikawa & Jun Takeda
Department of Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
Kazuo Hara & Takashi Kadowaki
Department of Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, 791-0295, Japan
Haruhiko Osawa & Hideichi Makino
First Department of Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan
Hiroto Furuta & Kishio Nanjo
Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, University Hospital Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, S-205 02, Sweden
Anna Jonsson, Valeriya Lyssenko & Leif Groop
Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan
Yoshifumi Sato & Kazuya Yamagata
Division of Molecular Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan
Yoshinori Hinokio & Yoshitomo Oka
Division of Genetic Information, Institute for Genome Research, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan
Toshihito Tanahashi & Mitsuo Itakura
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan
Naoto Nakamura
Department of Medicine, Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan
Naoko Iwasaki & Yasuhiko Iwamoto
Department of Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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Naoyuki Kamatani
SNP Research Center, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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Department of Molecular Genetics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
Ken Yamamoto
Genetics Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan
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Principal investigators: K. Yasuda and M.K. Manuscript writing: K. Yasuda., K.M., Y. Horikawa and M.K. Diabetes project planning and design: K. Yasuda, K.M., Y. Hirota, H. Mori, T.Y. and M.K. Ascertainment of study subjects and general data analyses in Japan: K. Yasuda, K.M., Y. Horikawa, K.H., H.O., H.F., Y. Hirota, H. Mori, Y. Sato, K. Yamagata, Y. Hinokio, H.-Y.W., T. Tanahashi, N.N., Y.O., N.I., Y.I., Y.Y., Y. Seino, H. Maegawa, A.K., J.T., E.M., N.K., M.I., H. Makino, K.N., T.K. and M.K. Genotyping and sequencing analyses in Japan: K.M., Y. Horikawa, Y. Hirota, T. Tanahashi, A.S., Y.N., K. Yamamoto, T.Y., K.T. and M.I. Statistical analyses: K.M., Y. Horikawa, Y. Hirota, E.M., T.Y., K.T. and M.I. Genetic analyses in Korea: H.D.S., Y.M.C., K.S.P. and H.K.L. Genetic analyses in Hong Kong: M.C.Y.N., R.C.W.M., W.-Y.S. and J.C.N.C. Genetic analyses in Europe: A.J., V.L., T. Tuomi, P.N. and L.G. Millennium Genome Project Human Genome Variation Team Leader: Y.N. Millennium Genome Project Diabetes Subteam Leader: M.K.
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