Parent-of-Origin Effects of the APOB Gene on Adiposity in Young Adults
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Hochner, Hagit
Allard, Catherine
Granot-Hershkovitz, Einat
Chen, Jinbo
Sitlani, Colleen M.
Sazdovska, Sandra
Lumley, Thomas
McKnight, Barbara
Rice, Kenneth
Enquobahrie, Daniel A.
Kwok, Pui
Borecki, Ingrid B.
Gomez, Felicia
Wang, Ting
van Duijn, Cornelia
Amin, Najaf
Rotter, Jerome I.
Stamatoyannopoulos, John
Meiner, Vardiella
Manor, Orly
Dupuis, Josée
Friedlander, Yechiel
Siscovick, David S.
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Hochner, H., C. Allard, E. Granot-Hershkovitz, J. Chen, C. M. Sitlani, S. Sazdovska, T. Lumley, et al. 2015. “Parent-of-Origin Effects of the APOB Gene on Adiposity in Young Adults.” PLoS Genetics 11 (10): e1005573. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005573. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005573.Abstract
Loci identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of cardio-metabolic traits account for a small proportion of the traits' heritability. To date, most association studies have not considered parent-of-origin effects (POEs). Here we report investigation of POEs on adiposity and glycemic traits in young adults. The Jerusalem Perinatal Family Follow-Up Study (JPS), comprising 1250 young adults and their mothers was used for discovery. Focusing on 18 genes identified by previous GWAS as associated with cardio-metabolic traits, we used linear regression to examine the associations of maternally- and paternally-derived offspring minor alleles with body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), fasting glucose and insulin. We replicated and meta-analyzed JPS findings in individuals of European ancestry aged ≤50 belonging to pedigrees from the Framingham Heart Study, Family Heart Study and Erasmus Rucphen Family study (total N≅4800). We considered p<2.7x10-4 statistically significant to account for multiple testing. We identified a common coding variant in the 4th exon of APOB (rs1367117) with a significant maternally-derived effect on BMI (β = 0.8; 95%CI:0.4,1.1; p = 3.1x10-5) and WC (β = 2.7; 95%CI:1.7,3.7; p = 2.1x10-7). The corresponding paternally-derived effects were non-significant (p>0.6). Suggestive maternally-derived associations of rs1367117 were observed with fasting glucose (β = 0.9; 95%CI:0.3,1.5; p = 4.0x10-3) and insulin (ln-transformed, β = 0.06; 95%CI:0.03,0.1; p = 7.4x10-4). Bioinformatic annotation for rs1367117 revealed a variety of regulatory functions in this region in liver and adipose tissues and a 50% methylation pattern in liver only, consistent with allelic-specific methylation, which may indicate tissue-specific POE. Our findings demonstrate a maternal-specific association between a common APOB variant and adiposity, an association that was not previously detected in GWAS. These results provide evidence for the role of regulatory mechanisms, POEs specifically, in adiposity. In addition this study highlights the benefit of utilizing family studies for deciphering the genetic architecture of complex traits.Other Sources
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