Discovery and fine-mapping of loci associated with MUFAs through trans-ethnic meta-analysis in Chinese and European populations.

David S Siscovick, Qi Sun, Melissa Richard, Ani Manichaikul, Alexis C Frazier-Wood, Jose M Ordovas, Luigi Ferrucci, Yii-Der I Chen, Shuang Liang, Bruce M Psaty, Myriam Fornage, Frank B Hu, Eric B Rimm, Majken K Jensen, Andrew P Morris, Huaixing Li, Xu Lin, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Jason H Y Wu, Weihua Guan, Jingwen Zhu, Toshiko Tanaka, Donna K Arnett, Edmond K Kabagambe, Irena B King, Stefania Bandinelli, Lyn M Steffen, Paul N Hopkins, Yao Hu, Stephen S Rich, Barbara McKnight, Dariush Mozaffarian, Michael Y Tsai

Journal: Journal of lipid research 2017;58(5):974-981

PMID: 28298293

Abstract

MUFAs are unsaturated FAs with one double bond and are derived from endogenous synthesis and dietary intake. Accumulating evidence has suggested that plasma and erythrocyte MUFA levels are associated with cardiometabolic disorders, including CVD, T2D, and metabolic syndrome (MS). Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified seven loci for plasma and erythrocyte palmitoleic and oleic acid levels in populations of European origin. To identify additional MUFA-associated loci and the potential functional variant at each locus, we performed ethnic-specific GWAS meta-analyses and trans-ethnic meta-analyses in more than 15,000 participants of Chinese and European ancestry. We identified novel genome-wide significant associations for vaccenic acid at and [log(Bayes factor) ≥ 8.07] and for gondoic acid at and [log(Bayes factor) ≥ 6.22], and also observed improved fine-mapping resolutions at and loci. The greatest improvement was observed at , where the number of variants in the 99% credible set was reduced from 16 (covering 94.8 kb) to 5 (covering 19.6 kb, including a missense variant rs1260326) after trans-ethnic meta-analysis. We also confirmed the previously reported associations of , , , and with palmitoleic acid and of and with oleic acid in the Chinese-specific GWAS and the trans-ethnic meta-analyses. Pathway-based analyses suggested that the identified loci were in unsaturated FA metabolism and signaling pathways. Our findings provide novel insight into the genetic basis relevant to MUFA metabolism and biology.

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Address: The Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.; Translational Gerontology Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD.; Division of Biostatistics University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.; George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.; Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.; Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA.; Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.; Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.; Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.; Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX.; Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.; Biostatistics Section, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.; USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.; Division of Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.; Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA.; Department of Epidemiology and Population Genetics, National Center for Cardiovascular Investigation, Madrid, Spain.; Geriatric Unit, Azienda Sanitaria Firenze, Florence, Italy.; Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.; Institute for Translational Genomics and Population Sciences, Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA.; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.; New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY.; Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA.; Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.; Genetic and Genomic Epidemiology Unit, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom.; The Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China [email protected] [email protected].
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