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- Title
A genome-wide association study in the Japanese population identifies susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes at UBE2E2 and C2CD4A-C2CD4B.
- Authors
Yamauchi, Toshimasa; Hara, Kazuo; Maeda, Shiro; Yasuda, Kazuki; Takahashi, Atsushi; Horikoshi, Momoko; Nakamura, Masahiro; Fujita, Hayato; Grarup, Niels; Cauchi, Stephane; Ng, Daniel P. K.; Ma, Ronald C. W.; Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko; Kubo, Michiaki; Watada, Hirotaka; Maegawa, Hiroshi; Okada-Iwabu, Miki; Iwabu, Masato; Shojima, Nobuhiro; Hyoung Doo Shin
- Abstract
We conducted a genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes (T2D) using 459,359 SNPs in a Japanese population with a three-stage study design (stage 1, 4,470 cases and 3,071 controls; stage 2, 2,886 cases and 3,087 controls; stage 3, 3,622 cases and 2,356 controls). We identified new associations in UBE2E2 on chromosome 3 and in C2CD4A-C2CD4B on chromosome 15 at genome-wide significant levels (rs7612463 in UBE2E2, combined P = 2.27 × 10−9; rs7172432 in C2CD4A-C2CD4B, combined P = 3.66 × 10−9). The association of these two loci with T2D was replicated in other east Asian populations. In the European populations, the C2CD4A-C2CD4B locus was significantly associated with T2D, and a combined analysis of all populations gave P = 8.78 × 10−14, whereas the UBE2E2 locus did not show association to T2D. In conclusion, we identified two new loci at UBE2E2 and C2CD4A-C2CD4B associated with susceptibility to T2D.
- Subjects
HUMAN chromosome 15; TYPE 2 diabetes; EUROPEANS; ASIANS; JAPANESE people; HEALTH
- Publication
Nature Genetics, 2010, Vol 42, Issue 10, p864
- ISSN
1061-4036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ng.660