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Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many risk loci for complex diseases, but effect sizes are typically small and information on the underlying biological processes is often lacking. Associations with metabolic traits as functional intermediates can overcome these problems and potentially inform individualized therapy. Here we report a comprehensive analysis of genotype-dependent metabolic phenotypes using a GWAS with non-targeted metabolomics. We identified 37 genetic loci associated with blood metabolite concentrations, of which 25 show effect sizes that are unusually high for GWAS and account for 10-60% differences in metabolite levels per allele copy. Our associations provide new functional insights for many disease-related associations that have been reported in previous studies, including those for cardiovascular and kidney disorders, type 2 diabetes, cancer, gout, venous thromboembolism and Crohn's disease. The study advances our knowledge of the genetic basis of metabolic individuality in humans and generates many new hypotheses for biomedical and pharmaceutical research.
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“Comparing to most GWAS findings, these associations showed much larger effect sizes than those for disease traits (Suhre et al., 2011)”
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“A non-targeted genome-metabolome-wide study analyzed more than 250 metabolites from 60 known pathways in human serum samples. Combined with genome-wide SNP data from the same 2,820 individuals with metabolomic data, 37 mQTLs were significant at a stringent genome-wide threshold.”
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“A number of loci associated with variations in the concentration of endogenous metabolites could be identified in genome-wide analysis studies, and many of these genes were coding for metabolic enzymes (180-182).”
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“Other polymorphisms had previously been shown to associate with cardiovascular disorders, gout and type-2 diabetes, all of which are known to involve changes in core metabolic pathways (Suhre et al., 2011).”
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“However, there were also associations with drug toxicity, Crohn’s disease and other conditions not conventionally thought to be related to intermediary metabolism (Suhre et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- CARDIoGRAM, Suhre, K., Shin, S.-Y., Petersen, A.-K., Mohney, R. P., Meredith, D., Wägele, B., Altmaier, E., Deloukas, P., Erdmann, J., Grundberg, E., Hammond, C. J., de Angelis, M. H., Kastenmüller, G., Köttgen, A., Kronenberg, F., Mangino, M., Meisinger, C., Meitinger, T., Mewes, H.-W., Milburn, M. V., Prehn, C., Raffler, J., Ried, J. S., Römisch-Margl, W., Samani, N. J., Small, K. S., -Erich Wichmann, H., Zhai, G., Illig, T., Spector, T. D., Adamski, J., Soranzo, N., & Gieger, C.
- Affiliations
- Helmholtz Munich (DE)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- Oxford Brookes University (GB)
- St Thomas' Hospital (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- University Medical Center Freiburg (DE)
- Innsbruck Medical University (AT)
- TUM Klinikum (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Suhre, Karsten
- Soranzo, Nicole
- ORCID
- Suhre, Karsten
- Shin, So-Youn
- Mohney, Robert P.
- Meredith, David
- Deloukas, Panos
- Erdmann, Jeanette
- Grundberg, Elin
- Hammond, Christopher J.
- Kastenmüller, Gabi
- Köttgen, Anna
- Kronenberg, Florian
- Mangino, Massimo
- Meisinger, Christa
- Meitinger, Thomas
- Mewes, Hans-Werner
- Prehn, Cornelia
- Raffler, Johannes
- Samani, Nilesh J.
- Small, Kerrin S.
- Zhai, Guangju
- Spector, Tim D.
- Adamski, Jerzy
- Soranzo, Nicole
- Gieger, Christian
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2011-08-31
- Volume
- 477
- Issue
- 7362
- Pages
- 54-60
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC3832838
- OpenAlex
- W2166711199
- Cited by
- 1,017
- References
- 52
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- FWCI
- 57.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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- Nature (publishedVersion)
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- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
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- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester) (submittedVersion)
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- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- OPUS (Augsburg University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (091746/Z/10/Z, 091746)
- Cancer Research UK
- British Heart Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (n01ag12100-57-0-2, n01hc55021-47-0-1, n01hc55020-39-0-0, n01hc55016-37-0-0, n01hc055022-024, n01hc55019-35-0-1, n01hc55018-38-0-1, n01hc55015-48-0-1)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP--82810, #MOP77682, MOP172605)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- National Institute on Aging (N01-AG12100)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (N01-HC55022, N01-HC-55018, N01 HC 55020, N01 HC 55019, R01HL087676, R01HL103931, R01HL087647, HL087647, N01-HC55016, P01HL076491, P01HL098055, P01HL087018, N01‐HC‐55015, N01-HC55021, R01HL089650)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK080732)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Keywords
- blood metabolites, genetic loci, untargeted metabolomics, endophenotypes, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, cancer, gout, venous thromboembolism, Crohn's disease, gene-environment interaction, TwinsUK
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Blood, Child, Chronic Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Drug Industry, Female, Genotype, Humans, Male, Metabolism, Middle Aged, Pharmacogenetics, Risk Factors, Genetic Variation, Biomedical Research, Renal Insufficiency, Venous Thromboembolism, Genome-Wide Association Study, Metabolomics, Young Adult, Genetic Loci
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