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- Title
Effects of Genetic Variation in the Human Retinol Binding Protein-4 Gene (RBP4) on Insulin Resistance and Fat Depot-Specific mRNA Expression.
- Authors
Kovacs, Peter; Geyer, Michaela; Berndt, Janin; Klöting, Nora; Graham, Timothy E.; Böttcher, Yvonne; Enigk, Beate; Tönjes, Anke; Schleinitz, Dorit; Schön, Michael R.; Kahn, Barbara B.; Blüher, Matthias; Stumvoll, Michael
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE--Serum retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) is a new liver- and adipocyte-derived signal that may contribute to insulin resistance. Therefore, the RBP4 gene represents a plausible candidate gene involved in susceptibility to type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS--In this study, the RBP4 gene was sequenced in DNA samples from 48 nonrelated Caucasian subjects. Five novel and three known single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified. Furthermore, five recently reported SNPs were genotyped in 90 subjects. Six SNPs, representative of their linkage disequilibrium groups, were then genotyped in 934 diabetic and 716 nondiabetic subjects. RESULTS--A haplotype of six common SNPs (A-G-G-T-G-C) was significantly increased in 934 case subjects with type 2 diabetes compared with 537 healthy control subjects with normal glucose tolerance (P = 0.02; odds ratio 1.37 [95% CI 1.05-1.79]). Furthermore, in the cohort of 716 nondiabetic Caucasian subjects, carriers of the A-G-G-T-G-C haplotype had significantly higher mean fasting plasma insulin and 2-h plasma glucose than subjects without the haplotype. Two single SNPs (rs10882283 and rs10882273) were "also associated with BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, and fasting plasma insulin, and several SNPs were associated with circulating free fatty acids (all adjusted P < 0.05). In addition, subjects canting a previously reported diabetes-associated haplotype had significantly higher mRNA levels in visceral adipose tissue (adjusted P < 0.05) in a subgroup of nondiabetic subjects (n = 170) with measurements of RBP4 mRNA expression in visceral and subcutaneous fat depots. CONCLUSIONS--Our data indicate a role of RBP4 genetic variation in susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance, possibly through an effect on RBP4 expression. Diabetes 56:3095-3100, 2007
- Subjects
HUMAN genetic variation; GENES; INSULIN resistance; MESSENGER RNA; TYPE 2 diabetes
- Publication
Diabetes, 2007, Vol 56, Issue 12, p3095
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2337/db06-1647