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Type 2 diabetes partitioned polygenic scores associate with disease outcomes in 454,193 individuals across 13 cohorts

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DiCorpo, Daniel, LeClair, Jessica, Cole, Joanne B., Sarnowski, Chloé, Ahmadizar, Fariba, Bielak, Lawrence F., Blokstra, Anneke, Bottinger, Erwin P. +45 more·2022·Diabetes Care

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OBJECTIVE: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has heterogeneous patient clinical characteristics and outcomes. In previous work, we investigated the genetic basis of this heterogeneity by clustering 94 T2D genetic loci using their associations with 47 diabetes-related traits and identified five clusters, termed β-cell, proinsulin, obesity, lipodystrophy, and liver/lipid. The relationship between these clusters and individual-level metabolic disease outcomes has not been assessed. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Here we constructed individual-level partitioned polygenic scores (pPS) for these five clusters in 12 studies from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium and the UK Biobank (n = 454,193) and tested for cross-sectional association with T2D-related outcomes, including blood pressure, renal function, insulin use, age at T2D diagnosis, and coronary artery disease (CAD). RESULTS: Despite all clusters containing T2D risk-increasing alleles, they had differential associations with metabolic outcomes. Increased obesity and lipodystrophy cluster pPS, which had opposite directions of association with measures of adiposity, were both significantly associated with increased blood pressure and hypertension. The lipodystrophy and liver/lipid cluster pPS were each associated with CAD, with increasing and decreasing effects, respectively. An increased liver/lipid cluster pPS was also significantly associated with reduced renal function. The liver/lipid cluster includes known loci linked to liver lipid metabolism (e.g., GCKR, PNPLA3, and TM6SF2), and these findings suggest that cardiovascular disease risk and renal function may be impacted by these loci through their shared disease pathway. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support that genetically driven pathways leading to T2D also predispose differentially to clinical outcomes.

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  • The authors have high suspicion that the nominal association between β-cell cluster pPS and diabetes incidence is a true association.

    “We have high suspicion that it is a true association because all the individual alleles in the pPS are associated with T2D risk (by design) and the β-cell cluster pPS has been shown in prior work to have the strongest association with prevalent T2D of any cluster (11).”

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DiCorpo, D., LeClair, J., Cole, J. B., Sarnowski, C., Ahmadizar, F., Bielak, L. F., Blokstra, A., Bottinger, E. P., Chaker, L., Chen, Y.-D. I., Chen, Y., de Vries, P. S., Faquih, T., Ghanbari, M., Gudmundsdottir, V., Guo, X., Hasbani, N. R., Ibi, D., Ikram, M. A., Kavousi, M., Leonard, H. L., Leong, A., Mercader, J. M., Morrison, A. C., Nadkarni, G. N., Nalls, M. A., Noordam, R., Preuss, M., Smith, J. A., Trompet, S., Vissink, P., Yao, J., Zhao, W., Boerwinkle, E., Goodarzi, M. O., Gudnason, V., Jukema, J. W., Kardia, S. L. R., Loos, R. J. F., Liu, C.-T., Manning, A. K., Mook-Kanamori, D., Pankow, J. S., Picavet, H. S. J., Sattar, N., Simonsick, E. M., Verschuren, W. M. M., Willems van Dijk, K., Florez, J. C., Rotter, J. I., Meigs, J. B., Dupuis, J., & Udler, M. S.
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  • Boston University (US)
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  • 19Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
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Corresponding author
Udler, Miriam S.
Venue
Diabetes Care
Published
2022-01-27
Volume
45
Issue
3
Pages
674-683
ISSN
0149-5992 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4210360628
Cited by
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References
41
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2026: 10 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 8
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
Keywords
type 2 diabetes, genetic heterogeneity, obesity, lipodystrophy, hepatic lipid metabolism, blood pressure, hypertension, coronary artery disease, renal function, insulin use, age at diabetes diagnosis, GCKR, PNPLA3, TM6SF2, cardiovascular risk
MeSH terms
Alleles, Cross-Sectional Studies, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Humans, Obesity, Genetic Loci

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