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Common variants in UMOD associate with urinary uromodulin levels: a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Uromodulin is expressed exclusively in the thick ascending limb and is the most abundant protein excreted in normal urine. Variants in UMOD, which encodes uromodulin, are associated with renal function, and urinary uromodulin levels may be a biomarker for kidney disease. However, the genetic factors regulating uromodulin excretion are unknown. We conducted a meta-analysis of urinary uromodulin levels to identify associated common genetic variants in the general population. We included 10,884 individuals of European descent from three genetic isolates and three urban cohorts. Each study measured uromodulin indexed to creatinine and conducted linear regression analysis of approximately 2.5 million single nucleotide polymorphisms using an additive model. We also tested whether variants in genes expressed in the thick ascending limb associate with uromodulin levels. rs12917707, located near UMOD and previously associated with renal function and CKD, had the strongest association with urinary uromodulin levels (P<0.001). In all cohorts, carriers of a G allele of this variant had higher uromodulin levels than noncarriers did (geometric means 10.24, 14.05, and 17.67 ?g/g creatinine for zero, one, or two copies of the G allele). rs12446492 in the adjacent gene PDILT (protein disulfide isomerase-like, testis expressed) also reached genome-wide significance (P<0.001). Regarding genes expressed in the thick ascending limb, variants in KCNJ1, SORL1, and CAB39 associated with urinary uromodulin levels. These data indicate that common variants in the UMOD promoter region may influence urinary uromodulin levels. They also provide insights into uromodulin biology and the association of UMOD variants with renal function.

SUBMITTER: Olden M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4116060 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Common variants in UMOD associate with urinary uromodulin levels: a meta-analysis.

Olden Matthias M Corre Tanguy T Hayward Caroline C Toniolo Daniela D Ulivi Sheila S Gasparini Paolo P Pistis Giorgio G Hwang Shih-Jen SJ Bergmann Sven S Campbell Harry H Cocca Massimiliano M Gandin Ilaria I Girotto Giorgia G Glaudemans Bob B Hastie Nicholas D ND Loffing Johannes J Polasek Ozren O Rampoldi Luca L Rudan Igor I Sala Cinzia C Traglia Michela M Vollenweider Peter P Vuckovic Dragana D Youhanna Sonia S Weber Julien J Wright Alan F AF Kutalik Zoltán Z Bochud Murielle M Fox Caroline S CS Devuyst Olivier O

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20140227 8

Uromodulin is expressed exclusively in the thick ascending limb and is the most abundant protein excreted in normal urine. Variants in UMOD, which encodes uromodulin, are associated with renal function, and urinary uromodulin levels may be a biomarker for kidney disease. However, the genetic factors regulating uromodulin excretion are unknown. We conducted a meta-analysis of urinary uromodulin levels to identify associated common genetic variants in the general population. We included 10,884 ind ...[more]

PMID: 24578125

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Project description:Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified common variants in the UMOD region associated with kidney function and disease in the general population. To identify novel rare variants as well as common variants that may account for this GWAS signal, the exons and 4 kb upstream region of UMOD were sequenced.Individuals (n?=?485) were selected based on presence of the GWAS risk haplotype and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the ARIC Study and on the extremes of of the UMOD gene product, uromodulin, in urine (Tamm Horsfall protein, THP) in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Targeted sequencing was conducted using capillary based Sanger sequencing (3730 DNA Analyzer). Variants were tested for association with THP concentrations and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and identified non-synonymous coding variants were genotyped in up to 22,546 follow-up samples. Twenty-four and 63 variants were identified in the 285 ARIC and 200 FHS participants, respectively. In both studies combined, there were 33 common and 54 rare (MAF<0.05) variants. Five non-synonymous rare variants were identified in FHS; borderline enrichment of rare variants was found in the extremes of THP (SKAT p-value?=?0.08). Only V458L was associated with THP in the FHS general-population validation sample (p?=?9*10(-3), n?=?2,522), but did not show direction-consistent and significant association with eGFR in both the ARIC (n?=?14,635) and FHS (n?=?7,520) validation samples. Pooling all non-synonymous rare variants except V458L together showed non-significant associations with THP and eGFR in the FHS validation sample. Functional studies of V458L revealed no alternations in protein trafficking.Multiple novel rare variants in the UMOD region were identified, but none were consistently associated with eGFR in two independent study samples. Only V458L had modest association with THP levels in the general population and thus could not account for the observed GWAS signal.

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Common variants in UMOD associate with urinary uromodulin levels: a meta-analysis.

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Common variants in UMOD associate with urinary uromodulin levels: a meta-analysis.

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