Journal Article

Genome-Wide Association Study for Type 2 Diabetes in Indians Identifies a New Susceptibility Locus at 2q21

Pandey, Yogesh, Tabassum, Rubina, Bandesh, Khushdeep, Dwivedi, Om Prakash, Kaur, Ismeet, Shah, Viral N., Scaria, Vinod, Saxena, Madhukar, Mathur, Sandeep, Bhansali, Anil, Mathai, Benan John, Chavali, Sreenivas, Chidambaram, Manickam, Basu, Analabha, Tandon, Nikhil, Ghosh, Saurabh, Chauhan, Ganesh, Venkatesh, Pradeep, Sengupta, Shantanu, Srinath, Reddy K., Venkatesan, Radha, Mohan, Viswanathan, Jaiswal, Alok, Banerjee, Monisha, Sharma, Amitabh, Aggarwal, Sanjay K., Madhu, Sri Venkata, McCarthy, Mark I., Ramakrishnan, Lakshmi, Singh, Tejbir, Prabhakaran, Dorairaj, Mahajan, Anubha, Marwaha, Raman K., Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan

2013

Overview

Indians undergoing socioeconomic and lifestyle transitions will be maximally affected by epidemic of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study of T2D in 12,535 Indians, a less explored but high-risk group. We identified a new type 2 diabetes–associated locus at 2q21, with the lead signal being rs6723108 (odds ratio 1.31; P = 3.32 × 10−9). Imputation analysis refined the signal to rs998451 (odds ratio 1.56; P = 6.3 × 10−12) within TMEM163 that encodes a probable vesicular transporter in nerve terminals. TMEM163 variants also showed association with decreased fasting plasma insulin and homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance, indicating a plausible effect through impaired insulin secretion. The 2q21 region also harbors RAB3GAP1 and ACMSD; those are involved in neurologic disorders. Forty-nine of 56 previously reported signals showed consistency in direction with similar effect sizes in Indians and previous studies, and 25 of them were also associated (P < 0.05). Known loci and the newly identified 2q21 locus altogether explained 7.65% variance in the risk of T2D in Indians. Our study suggests that common susceptibility variants for T2D are largely the same across populations, but also reveals a population-specific locus and provides further insights into genetic architecture and etiology of T2D.

• Publisher: American Diabetes Association
• Subject: Aged / Asian People / Biological and medical sciences / Cholesterol / Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2 - genetics / Demographic aspects / Diabetes / Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - genetics / Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - metabolism / Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance / Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases) / Endocrinopathies / Epidemiology / Ethnicity / Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance / Fasting / Genetic aspects / Genetic Loci / Genetic Predisposition to Disease / Genetics/Genomes/Proteomics/Metabolomics / Genome-Wide Association Study / Genomes / Glucose / Humans / India / Insulin Resistance / Medical sciences / Membrane Proteins - genetics / Membrane Proteins - metabolism / Middle Aged / Minority & ethnic groups / Mortality / Nerve Tissue Proteins - genetics / Nerve Tissue Proteins - metabolism / Plasma / Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / Type 2 diabetes / White People