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A genome-wide perspective of genetic variation in human metabolism

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Illig, Thomas, Gieger, Christian, Zhai, Guangju, Römisch-Margl, Werner, Wang-Sattler, Rui, Prehn, Cornelia, Altmaier, Elisabeth, Kastenmüller, Gabi +10 more·2010·Nature Genetics

Abstract

Serum metabolite concentrations provide a direct readout of biological processes in the human body, and they are associated with disorders such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We present a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 163 metabolic traits measured in human blood from 1,809 participants from the KORA population, with replication in 422 participants of the TwinsUK cohort. For eight out of nine replicated loci (FADS1, ELOVL2, ACADS, ACADM, ACADL, SPTLC3, ETFDH and SLC16A9), the genetic variant is located in or near genes encoding enzymes or solute carriers whose functions match the associating metabolic traits. In our study, the use of metabolite concentration ratios as proxies for enzymatic reaction rates reduced the variance and yielded robust statistical associations with P values ranging from 3 x 10(-24) to 6.5 x 10(-179). These loci explained 5.6%-36.3% of the observed variance in metabolite concentrations. For several loci, associations with clinically relevant parameters have been reported previously.

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  • Genome-wide analysis studies have identified loci associated with variations in endogenous metabolite concentrations, and many of these genes coded for metabolic enzymes.

    “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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  • Genome-wide association studies of metabolite abundance identified relatively common alleles that accounted for significant fractions of variation in metabolite levels, sometimes more than 20% of total variance.

    “Surprisingly, these studies identified a number of relatively common alleles that accounted for significant fractions of the variation in metabolite levels, sometimes more than 20% of the total variance (Gieger et al., 2008; Illig et al., 2010).”

    From Cellular Metabolism and Disease: What Do Metabolic Outliers Teach Us? (2012) · cites this paper as Illig et al., 2010

  • Some polymorphisms associated with metabolite levels changed the coding sequence of a metabolic enzyme directly related to the variable metabolite.

    “There were several examples in which a polymorphism changed the coding sequence of a metabolic enzyme directly related to the variable metabolite.”

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Illig, T., Gieger, C., Zhai, G., Römisch-Margl, W., Wang-Sattler, R., Prehn, C., Altmaier, E., Kastenmüller, G., Kato, B. S., Mewes, H.-W., Meitinger, T., de Angelis, M. H., Kronenberg, F., Soranzo, N., Wichmann, H.-E., Spector, T. D., Adamski, J., & Suhre, K.
Affiliations
  • Helmholtz Munich (DE)
  • King's College London (GB)
  • TUM Klinikum (DE)
  • Innsbruck Medical University (AT)
Corresponding author
Suhre, Karsten
Venue
Nature Genetics
Published
2009-12-27
Volume
42
Issue
2
Pages
137-141
ISSN
  • 1061-4036 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1718
OpenAlex
W2006141598
Cited by
653
References
29
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FWCI
27.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (091746)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (G20234)
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 › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Keywords
serum metabolites, metabolic phenotypes, genetic variation, genome-wide association study, FADS1, ELOVL2, ACADS, ACADM, ACADL, ETFDH, solute carrier transporters, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, kora, TwinsUK
MeSH terms
Delta-5 Fatty Acid Desaturase, United Kingdom, Humans, Genetic Variation, Reproducibility of Results, Genome, Human, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Genome-Wide Association Study, Metabolome, Genetic Loci

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