Abstract
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous disorder, and the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with both insulin secretion defect and insulin resistance. The primary metabolic defect leading to type 2 diabetes mellitus has been thought to be varied among populations, especially in Japanese and Caucasians. Here, we have done the genome-wide scan for type 2 diabetes mellitus using 102 affected Japanese sib-pairs to identify the genetic factors predisposing to type 2 diabetes mellitus. Nonparametric linkage analysis showed one suggestive evidence for linkage to 11p13–p12 [D11S905: two-point maximum LOD score (MLS) of 2.89 and multipoint MLS of 2.32] and one nominally significant evidence for linkage to 6q15–q16 (D6S462: two-point MLS of 2.02). Interestingly, the 11p13–p12 region was reported to be a susceptibility locus for Japanese type 2 diabetes mellitus with suggestive evidence of linkage, and D11S905 was within 5 cM to D11S935 with the highest MLS in the previous linkage analysis reported. The only overlapped susceptibility region with suggestive evidence of linkage for Japanese type 2 diabetes mellitus was D11S935–D11S905 among the three reports including this study. These results taken together suggest that a susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese will reside in 11p13–p12.
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Introduction
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diseases, and its prevalence is dramatically increasing worldwide (Zimmet et al. 2001). Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous disorder, and the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with both insulin secretion defect and insulin resistance. Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were reported to be characterized by a lower body mass index (BMI) and lower fasting insulin levels than other populations (Ehm et al. 2000). Insulin secretion defect is thought to be the primary defect in Japanese (Kadowaki et al. 1984) whereas impaired insulin sensitivity is the first metabolic defect predisposing to the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Caucasians (Martin et al. 1992). These findings suggest that Japanese individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus will have a different genetic risk factor, which affects the responsiveness of insulin secretion to glucose, from other populations. Therefore, we need to identify the susceptibility genes for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese to start a primary prevention based on genetic information and to develop the personalized medicine for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese. So far, two whole-genome linkage analyses were carried out using 224 affected sib-pairs (ASPs) from 159 Japanese families (Mori et al. 2002) and 256 ASPs from 164 Japanese families (Iwasaki et al. 2003), besides the analysis of 45 ASPs from 18 JapaneseAmerican families (Ehm et al. 2000). The Japanese people may have advantages in the genetic analysis of polygenic disorders like diabetes since they are supposed to be a relatively homogeneous population. However, the two previous reports on the ASP analysis in Japanese did not give good overlapping regions, except for 6p and 2q, and it has been argued that the replication by the third panel is indispensable for genetic susceptibility loci in Japanese. Here, we have carried out the third whole-genome linkage analysis on 102 ASPs from 102 Japanese families to identify the susceptibility loci for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Subjects and methods
One hundred and two ASPs with type 2 diabetes mellitus from 102 families were collected mainly from the Kyushu region in southwestern Japan. Parents and other siblings were not available in this study. The participants were interviewed and examined and gave written informed consent. This project was approved by the ethics committees of the related institutes. The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus was made based on the American Diabetes Association’s 1997 criteria (Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus 1997).
Genomic DNA was isolated from peripheral blood cells using QIAamp DNA Blood Midi Kits (Qiagen). Autosomal whole-genome screening of 382 microsatellite markers (ABI PRISM Linkage Mapping Set Version 2.5-MD10) was performed using an ABI 3730 automatic sequencer (Applied Biosytems). Analyses and assignment of the marker alleles were done with ABI PRISM GeneMapper Software Version 3.0, and 376 markers were available for the linkage analysis. Nonparametric two-point and multipoint linkage analyses were performed with the MAPMAKER/SIBS program (Kruglyak and Lander 1995), as described (Sakai et al. 2001). Heterozygosities of the markers were estimated with Merlin program (Abecasis et al. 2002) for all individuals.
Results and discussion
Whole autosomal genome linkage analysis using the ASP method with 382 microsatellite markers was carried out on 102 Japanese ASPs with type 2 diabetes mellitus. In this study, the average heterozygosity of the markers used was 0.72. Multipoint linkage analysis at all autosomal chromosomes using the MAPMAKER/SIBS program revealed only one region on chromosome 11p where the MLS was >1 (Fig. 1). The highest multipoint MLS was 2.32 (P=0.0048) at D11S905 (Fig. 1, Table 1). On the other hand, two-point linkage analysis revealed two markers, D11S905 (MLS=2.89, P=0.0013) and D6S462 (MLS=2.02, P=0.0097), with evidence of linkage to type 2 diabetes mellitus (Table 1). Although the heterozygosity of D11S905 was 0.30 in this study, it was 0.75 and 0.60 in our two reports using ASPs (Sakai et al. 2001; Aoki et al. 2004), indicating that D11S905 itself will be useful in the genetic analysis in terms of heterozygosity in the Japanese population, and particular alleles of D11S905 might be associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The 11p13–p12 region was reported to be linked to Japanese type 2 diabetes mellitus specifically, in which multipoint analysis showed the highest MLS of 3.08 near D11S935 (Mori et al. 2002). The distance between D11S905 and D11S935 is about 5 cM. These findings together suggest that the 11p13–p12 region will be a susceptibility region for Japanese type 2 diabetes mellitus.
In addition to D11S905, one nominally significant evidence of linkage was detected at D6S462 (MLS of 2.02) by two-point analysis. However, the multipoint MLS at D6S462 was 0.08, and two other reports did not show evidence of linkage to this region (Mori et al. 2002; Iwasaki et al. 2003), suggesting that 6q15–q16 might not be a susceptibility region for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Two susceptibility regions for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese, chromosome 2 (236.8 cM) and chromosome 6 (42.2 cM), were reported to be overlapped between the two previous linkage studies (Iwasaki et al. 2003). However, the MLS at these two loci were <1 (Iwasaki et al. 2003). Among the three reports including this study, the overlapped susceptibility region with suggestive evidence of linkage for Japanese type 2 diabetes mellitus was D11S935–D11S905 only.
In conclusion, we have reconfirmed that the evidence of linkage for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese to 11p13–p12 and 11p13–p12 will be a promising region for future studies on identification of susceptibility genes for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese.
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We thank all patients for participating in this study, T. Amano in Kyushu University and T. Baba in SRL, Inc., for collecting the samples, and A. Murakami, E. Yachi, K. Ohki, and T. Fujimoto for technical assistance. This work was supported by the Program for Promotion of Fundamental Studies in Health Sciences of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA).
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Collaborating groups listed in alphabetic order: Nobuyuki Abe (Abe Diabetes Clinic), Katsumi Eguchi (Nagasaki University), Nobuaki Fujio (Beppu Medical Center), Masafumi Haji (Kyushu Rosai Hospital), Mine Harada (Kyushu University), Sinsuke Hiramatsu (Kyushu Medical Center), Mitsuo Iida (Kyushu University), Minako Imamura (Kyushu University), Hidehiro Ishii (Kitakyushu Municipal Medical Center), Eiji Kawasaki (Nagasaki University), Kunihisa Kobayashi (Kyushu University), Ichiro Komiya (University of the Ryukyus), Shiori Kondo (Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital), Yasuko Kono (Imamura Hospital), Nobuyuki Koriyama (Kagoshima University), Minoru Kuriyama (Social Health Insurance Inatsuki Hospital), Kazunari Matsumoto (Sasebo Central Hospital), Kazuo Mimura (Fukuoka Medical Association Hospital), Isao Morimoto (Inoue Hospital), Mieko Nakayama (Kyushu University), Shyoichi Natori (Aso Iizuka Hospital), Yosuke Okada (University of Occupational & Environmental Health), Haruka Sasaki (Fukuoka University), Naotaka Sekiguchi (Kyushu University), Yasunori Sera (Sasebo Central Hospital), Michio Shimabukuro (University of the Ryukyus), Yuji Tajiri (Fukuoka Medical Association Hospital), Chuwa Tei (Kagoshima University), Maiko Tsuda (Kitakyushu Municipal Medical Center), Takero Uemura (Yatsushiro General Hospital), Eiji Kawasaki (Nagasaki University).
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Nawata, H., Shirasawa, S., Nakashima, N. et al. Genome-wide linkage analysis of type 2 diabetes mellitus reconfirms the susceptibility locus on 11p13–p12 in Japanese. J Hum Genet 49, 629–634 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10038-004-0199-3
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