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The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

Authors :
Clement Ma
Liisa Hakaste
Claes Ladenvall
Massimo Mangino
Lars Lind
Aaron G. Day-Williams
Ryan Poplin
Thomas Schwarzmayr
Annette Peters
Thomas Meitinger
Satish Kumar
Kyong Soo Park
Ching-Yu Cheng
Farook Thameem
Kyle J. Gaulton
Olov Rolandsson
Yossi Farjoun
Neil Robertson
Mauricio O. Carneiro
Mark A. DePristo
Pierre Fontanillas
Ruth J. F. Loos
Heather M. Highland
Vilmantas Giedraitis
Gemma Buck
Fredrik Karpe
Mohammad Kamran Ikram
Alex S. F. Doney
Hae Kyung Im
Eric S. Lander
Johanna Kuusisto
Dorothée Thuillier
Denis Rybin
Jacquelyn Murphy
Benjamin M. Neale
Martina Müller-Nurasyid
Eric R. Gamazon
Johanne Marie Justesen
Tin Aung
Vincent K. L. Lam
John Danesh
Donna M. Lehman
Goo Jun
Marit E. Jørgensen
Christian Herder
Edmund Chan
Pamela J. Hicks
Todd Green
Claudia Langenberg
Yoon Shin Cho
James G. Wilson
Daniel E. Hale
Rector Arya
Giriraj R. Chandak
Juan Fernandez Tajes
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Christopher P. Jenkinson
Anders Rosengren
Torsten Lauritzen
Michael Griswold
Karen L. Mohlke
Amy J. Swift
Alena Stančáková
Christian Fuchsberger
Iksoo Huh
Nikhil Tandon
João Fadista
Christa Meisinger
Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Pål R. Njølstad
Dwaipayan Bharadwaj
Richard M. Watanabe
Shaun Purcell
Veikko Salomaa
Tim D. Spector
Paul W. Franks
Adam E. Locke
Sharon P. Fowler
Panos Deloukas
Reedik Mägi
Solomon K. Musani
Kee Seng Chia
Barbara Thorand
Soo Heon Kwak
Annemari Käräjämäki
Evelin Mihailov
John Blangero
Thomas Wieland
Christian Gieger
E. Shyong Tai
Jianjun Liu
James B. Meigs
Teemu Kuulasmaa
Martin Hrabé de Angelis
Francis S. Collins
Tim M. Strom
Tibor V. Varga
Juyoung Lee
Mark I. McCarthy
Domenico Palli
Jong-Young Lee
Benjamin Glaser
Tasha E. Fingerlin
Stephen O'Rahilly
Andrew T. Hattersley
Gil Atzmon
Manuel A. Rivas
Noël P. Burtt
Ivan Brandslund
Young-Jin Kim
Dorairaj Prabhakaran
Xu Wang
Taylor J. Maxwell
Valeriya Lyssenko
Frank B. Hu
Adolfo Correa
Khalid Shakir
Kathleen A. Jablonski
Yingchang Lu
Wei-Yen Lim
Min Jin Go
William R. Scott
Hanna E. Abboud
Leena Kinnunen
Inês Barroso
Gabriela L. Surdulescu
Peng Chen
Robert Sladek
Marju Orho-Melander
Xueling Sim
Robert A. Scott
Joanna M. M. Howson
Markku Laakso
David Altshuler
Vidya S. Farook
Harald Grallert
Janina S. Ried
Vineeta Agarwala
Philippe Froguel
Nicholas J. Wareham
Tiinamaija Tuomi
Joon Yoon
Heikki A. Koistinen
Toni I. Pollin
Heiner Boeing
Marie Loh
Nicola L. Beer
Joanne E. Curran
Lars Lannfelt
Dorota Pasko
Taesung Park
David Buck
Nir Barzilai
Stephen C. J. Parker
Michael Roden
Bok-Ghee Han
David Aguilar
Timothy Fennell
Sian-Tsung Tan
Gregory P. Wilson
Momoko Horikoshi
Cramer Christensen
Craig L. Hanis
Gilean McVean
Benjamin F. Voight
Wolfgang Rathmann
Jared Maguire
Ashok Kumar
Donald W. Bowden
Michael L. Stitzel
Yongkang Kim
Christine Blancher
Jason Carey
Min-Seok Kwon
Nicholette D. Palmer
Oluf Pedersen
Niels Grarup
Peter S. Chines
Cornelia Huth
James Scott
Torben Hansen
Konstantin Strauch
Erwin P. Bottinger
Andrew D. Morris
Anette P. Gjesing
Erik Ingelsson
Colin N. A. Palmer
Claudia H. T. Tam
Stacey Gabriel
Pablo Cingolani
Beverley Balkau
Michael Boehnke
Peter M. Nilsson
Wing-Yee So
Andrew R. Wood
Lili Milani
Ravindranath Duggirala
Qibin Qi
Mark Walker
Weiping Jia
Mark Seielstad
Narisu Narisu
Tien Yin Wong
Martijn van de Bunt
Anubha Mahajan
Davis J. McCarthy
Ann-Christine Syvänen
Jennifer Kriebel
N. William Rayner
Han Chen
Jinyan Huang
Chiea Chuen Khor
Richard N. Bergman
Shah Ebrahim
Dylan Hodgkiss
Weihua Zhang
Manjinder S. Sandhu
Richard D. Pearson
Juliana C.N. Chan
Rainer Rauramaa
Ralph A. DeFronzo
Andrew Farmer
Yoshihiko Nagai
Allan Linneberg
Herman A. Taylor
Jose C. Florez
Jaspal S. Kooner
Lori L. Bonnycastle
Jeroen R. Huyghe
Leif Groop
Joseph Trakalo
Sobha Puppala
Bong-Jo Kim
Kathleen Stirrups
Kerrin S. Small
Cecilia M. Lindgren
Jennifer E. Below
Heung Man Lee
Inga Prokopenko
Liming Liang
Timothy M. Frayling
Uzma Afzal
Mark J. Daly
Yik Ying Teo
Andrew P. Morris
Phoenix Kwan
Yvonne T. van der Schouw
Cheng Hu
Katharine R. Owen
Alisa K. Manning
Christopher J. Groves
Josée Dupuis
Ryan P. Welch
Loukas Moutsianas
Joshua D. Smith
Tanya M. Teslovich
Robert C. Onofrio
Maggie C.Y. Ng
Peter Donnelly
Tõnu Esko
Matt Neville
Bo Isomaa
Anne U. Jackson
Jette Bork-Jensen
Barry I. Freedman
Yi Chen
Danish Saleheen
Lu Qi
Laura J. Scott
Jasmina Kravic
Paul Elliott
Mette Hollensted
Carmen Navarro
Selyeong Lee
Benjamin Lehne
Thomas Illig
Nancy J. Cox
Jonathan C. Levy
George B. Grant
John C. Chambers
Adam S. Butterworth
Ronald C.W. Ma
Teresa Ferreira
John R. B. Perry
Eleftheria Zeggini
Hyun Min Kang
Loic Yengo
Eric Banks
Jae-Hoon Lee
Anna L. Gloyn
Christopher Hartl
Wei Zhao
Andres Metspalu
Keng-Han Lin
Graeme I. Bell
Jason Flannick
Torben Jørgensen
Thomas W. Blackwell
Heather M. Stringham
Olle Melander
Omri Gottesman
Other departments
British Heart Foundation
Wellcome Trust
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Altshuler, David M
Internal Medicine
Perry, John [0000-0001-6483-3771]
Butterworth, Adam [0000-0002-6915-9015]
Howson, Joanna [0000-0001-7618-0050]
Danesh, John [0000-0003-1158-6791]
Johnson, Kathleen [0000-0002-6823-3252]
O'Rahilly, Stephen [0000-0003-2199-4449]
Langenberg, Claudia [0000-0002-5017-7344]
Sandhu, Manjinder [0000-0002-2725-142X]
Barroso, Ines [0000-0001-5800-4520]
Wareham, Nicholas [0000-0003-1422-2993]
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Nature, 536(7614), 41-+. 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Prokopenko, I, Mägi, R, Lind, L, Farjoun, Y, Owen, K R, Gloyn, A L, Strauch, K, Tuomi, T, Kooner, J S, Lee, J-Y, Park, T, Donnelly, P, Morris, A D, Hattersley, A T, Bowden, D W, Collins, F S, Atzmon, G, Chambers, J C, Spector, T D, Laakso, M, Strom, T M, Bell, G I, Blangero, J, Duggirala, R, Tai, E S, McVean, G, Hanis, C L, Wilson, J G, Seielstad, M, Frayling, T M, Meigs, J B, Cox, N J, Sladek, R, Lander, E S, Gabriel, S, Burtt, N P, Mohlke, K L, Meitinger, T, Groop, L, Abecasis, G, Florez, J C, Scott, L J, Morris, A P, Kang, H M, Boehnke, M, Altshuler, D & McCarthy, M I 2016, ' The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes ', Nature, vol. 536, no. 7614, pp. 41-47 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18642, PMC, Nature, 536(7614), 41. Nature Publishing Group, Nature, Nature, 536(7614), 41-47. Nature Publishing Group
Publication Year :
2016

Abstract

The genetic architecture of common traits, including the number, frequency, and effect sizes of inherited variants that contribute to individual risk, has been long debated. Genome-wide association studies have identified scores of common variants associated with type 2 diabetes, but in aggregate, these explain only a fraction of the heritability of this disease. Here, to test the hypothesis that lower-frequency variants explain much of the remainder, the GoT2D and T2D-GENES consortia performed whole-genome sequencing in 2,657 European individuals with and without diabetes, and exome sequencing in 12,940 individuals from five ancestry groups. To increase statistical power, we expanded the sample size via genotyping and imputation in a further 111,548 subjects. Variants associated with type 2 diabetes after sequencing were overwhelmingly common and most fell within regions previously identified by genome-wide association studies. Comprehensive enumeration of sequence variation is necessary to identify functional alleles that provide important clues to disease pathophysiology, but large-scale sequencing does not support the idea that lower-frequency variants have a major role in predisposition to type 2 diabetes.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00280836
Volume :
536
Issue :
7614
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....1508fe3fd38042ce3a7e808bc55bf202