The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

Chen, Ji; Spracklen, Cassandra N.; Marenne, Gaëlle ; Varshney, Arushi ; Corbin, Laura J. ; Luan, Jian’an; Willems, Sara M.; Wu, Ying; Zhang, Xiaoshuai; Horikoshi, Momoko; Boutin, Thibaud S.; Mägi, Reedik; Waage, Johannes; Li-Gao, Ruifang; Chan, Kei Hang Katie; Yao, Jie; Anasanti, Mila D.; Chu, Audrey Y.; Claringbould, Annique; Heikkinen, Jani; Hong, Jaeyoung; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Huo, Shaofeng; Kaakinen, Marika A.; Louie, Tin; März, Winfried; Moreno-Macias, Hortensia; Ndungu, Anne; Nelson, Sarah C.; Nolte, Ilja M.; North, Kari E.; Raulerson, Chelsea K.; Ray, Debashree; Rohde, Rebecca; Rybin, Denis; Schurmann, Claudia; Sim, Xueling; Southam, Lorraine; Stewart, Isobel D.; Wang, Carol A.; Wang, Yujie; Wu, Peitao; Zhang, Weihua; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Appel, Emil V. 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Shyong; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Tönjes, Anke; Tuomilehto, Jaakko; Tusie, Teresa; Uusitupa, Matti; van der Harst, Pim; van Duijn, Cornelia; Vitart, Veronique; Vollenweider, Peter; Vrijkotte, Tanja G. M.; Wagenknecht, Lynne E.; Walker, Mark; Wang, Ya X.; Wareham, Nick J.; Watanabe, Richard M.; Watkins, Hugh; Wei, Wen B.; Wickremasinghe, Ananda R.; Willemsen, Gonneke; Wilson, James F.; Wong, Tien-Yin; Wu, Jer-Yuarn; Xiang, Anny H.; Yanek, Lisa R.; Yengo, Loïc; Yokota, Mitsuhiro; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Zheng, Wei; Zonderman, Alan B.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Gloyn, Anna L.; McCarthy, Mark I.; Dupuis, Josée; Meigs, James B.; Scott, Robert A.; Prokopenko, Inga; Leong, Aaron; Liu, Ching-Ti; Parker, Stephen C. J. ; Mohlke, Karen L.; Langenberg, Claudia ; Wheeler, Eleanor ; Morris, Andrew P. ; Barroso, Inês ; Haan, Hugoline G. de; Akker, Erik van den; Most, Peter J. van der; Geus, Eco J. C. de; Dam, Rob M. van; Heemst, Diana van; Hylckama Vlieg, Astrid van; Willems van Dijk, Ko van; de Silva, H. Janaka; Harst, Pim van der; Duijn, Cornelia van (2021): The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits. In: Nature Genetics, Vol. 53, No. 6: pp. 840-860

Abstract

Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health. To date, most genetic studies of glycemic traits have focused on individuals of European ancestry. Here we aggregated genome-wide association studies comprising up to 281,416 individuals without diabetes (30% non-European ancestry) for whom fasting glucose, 2-h glucose after an oral glucose challenge, glycated hemoglobin and fasting insulin data were available. Trans-ancestry and single-ancestry meta-analyses identified 242 loci (99 novel; P < 5 × 10−8), 80% of which had no significant evidence of between-ancestry heterogeneity. Analyses restricted to individuals of European ancestry with equivalent sample size would have led to 24 fewer new loci. Compared with single-ancestry analyses, equivalent-sized trans-ancestry fine-mapping reduced the number of estimated variants in 99% credible sets by a median of 37.5%. Genomic-feature, gene-expression and gene-set analyses revealed distinct biological signatures for each trait, highlighting different underlying biological pathways. Our results increase our understanding of diabetes pathophysiology by using trans-ancestry studies for improved power and resolution.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Medicine > Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology
• Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medicine and health
• ISSN: 1061-4036
• Language: English