Chen, Ji, Sun, Meng, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Pirie, Fraser, Carstensen, Tommy, Pomilla, Cristina, Doumatey, Ayo P, Chen, Guanjie, Young, Elizabeth H, Sandhu, Manjinder et al (show 7 more authors)
(2019)
Genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Africa.
DIABETOLOGIA, 62 (7).
pp. 1204-1211.
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Abstract
<h4>Aims/hypothesis</h4>Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for type 2 diabetes have uncovered >400 risk loci, primarily in populations of European and Asian ancestry. Here, we aimed to discover additional type 2 diabetes risk loci (including African-specific variants) and fine-map association signals by performing genetic analysis in African populations.<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted two type 2 diabetes genome-wide association studies in 4347 Africans from South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya and meta-analysed both studies together. Likely causal variants were identified using fine-mapping approaches.<h4>Results</h4>The most significantly associated variants mapped to the widely replicated type 2 diabetes risk locus near TCF7L2 (p = 5.3 × 10<sup>-13</sup>). Fine-mapping of the TCF7L2 locus suggested one type 2 diabetes association signal shared between Europeans and Africans (indexed by rs7903146) and a distinct African-specific signal (indexed by rs17746147). We also detected one novel signal, rs73284431, near AGMO (p = 5.2 × 10<sup>-9</sup>, minor allele frequency [MAF] = 0.095; monomorphic in most non-African populations), distinct from previously reported signals in the region. In analyses focused on 100 published type 2 diabetes risk loci, we identified 21 with shared causal variants in African and non-African populations.<h4>Conclusions/interpretation</h4>These results demonstrate the value of performing GWAS in Africans, provide a resource to larger consortia for further discovery and fine-mapping and indicate that additional large-scale efforts in Africa are warranted to gain further insight in to the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Africa, Established loci, Fine-mapping, Genome-wide association study, Type 2 diabetes |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 14 May 2019 10:47 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:45 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00125-019-4880-7 |
| Open Access URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-0... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3041251 |
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