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Genome-wide SNP and CNV analysis identifies common and low-frequency variants associated with severe early-onset obesity.


ABSTRACT: Common and rare variants associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity account for <5% of the variance in BMI. We performed SNP and copy number variation (CNV) association analyses in 1,509 children with obesity at the extreme tail (>3 s.d. from the mean) of the BMI distribution and 5,380 controls. Evaluation of 29 SNPs (P < 1 × 10(-5)) in an additional 971 severely obese children and 1,990 controls identified 4 new loci associated with severe obesity (LEPR, PRKCH, PACS1 and RMST). A previously reported 43-kb deletion at the NEGR1 locus was significantly associated with severe obesity (P = 6.6 × 10(-7)). However, this signal was entirely driven by a flanking 8-kb deletion; absence of this deletion increased risk for obesity (P = 6.1 × 10(-11)). We found a significant burden of rare, single CNVs in severely obese cases (P < 0.0001). Integrative gene network pathway analysis of rare deletions indicated enrichment of genes affecting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) involved in the neuronal regulation of energy homeostasis.

SUBMITTER: Wheeler E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4106235 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide SNP and CNV analysis identifies common and low-frequency variants associated with severe early-onset obesity.

Wheeler Eleanor E   Huang Ni N   Bochukova Elena G EG   Keogh Julia M JM   Lindsay Sarah S   Garg Sumedha S   Henning Elana E   Blackburn Hannah H   Loos Ruth J F RJ   Wareham Nick J NJ   O'Rahilly Stephen S   Hurles Matthew E ME   Barroso Inês I   Farooqi I Sadaf IS  

Nature genetics 20130407 5


Common and rare variants associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity account for <5% of the variance in BMI. We performed SNP and copy number variation (CNV) association analyses in 1,509 children with obesity at the extreme tail (>3 s.d. from the mean) of the BMI distribution and 5,380 controls. Evaluation of 29 SNPs (P < 1 × 10(-5)) in an additional 971 severely obese children and 1,990 controls identified 4 new loci associated with severe obesity (LEPR, PRKCH, PACS1 and RMST). A previou  ...[more]

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