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Genome-wide association study of breakfast skipping links clock regulation with food timing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about the contribution of genetic variation to food timing, and breakfast has been determined to exhibit the most heritable meal timing. As breakfast timing and skipping are not routinely measured in large cohort studies, alternative approaches include analyses of correlated traits.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to elucidate breakfast skipping genetic variants through a proxy-phenotype genome-wide association study (GWAS) for breakfast cereal skipping, a commonly assessed correlated trait.

Methods

We leveraged the statistical power of the UK Biobank (n = 193,860) to identify genetic variants related to breakfast cereal skipping as a proxy-phenotype for breakfast skipping and applied several in silico approaches to investigate mechanistic functions and links to traits/diseases. Next, we attempted validation of our approach in smaller breakfast skipping GWAS from the TwinUK (n = 2,006) and the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium (n = 11,963).

Results

In the UK Biobank, we identified 6 independent GWAS variants, including those implicated for caffeine (ARID3B/CYP1A1), carbohydrate metabolism (FGF21), schizophrenia (ZNF804A), and encoding enzymes important for N6-methyladenosine RNA transmethylation (METTL4, YWHAB, and YTHDF3), which regulates the pace of the circadian clock. Expression of identified genes was enriched in the cerebellum. Genome-wide correlation analyses indicated positive correlations with anthropometric traits. Through Mendelian randomization (MR), we observed causal links between genetically determined breakfast skipping and higher body mass index, more depressive symptoms, and smoking. In bidirectional MR, we demonstrated a causal link between being an evening person and skipping breakfast, but not vice versa. We observed association of our signals in an independent breakfast skipping GWAS in another British cohort (P = 0.032), TwinUK, but not in a meta-analysis of non-British cohorts from the CHARGE consortium (P = 0.095).

Conclusions

Our proxy-phenotype GWAS identified 6 genetic variants for breakfast skipping, linking clock regulation with food timing and suggesting a possible beneficial role of regular breakfast intake as part of a healthy lifestyle.

SUBMITTER: Dashti HS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6669061 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genome-wide association study of breakfast skipping links clock regulation with food timing.

Dashti Hassan S HS Merino Jordi J Lane Jacqueline M JM Song Yanwei Y Smith Caren E CE Tanaka Toshiko T McKeown Nicola M NM Tucker Chandler C Sun Dianjianyi D Bartz Traci M TM Li-Gao Ruifang R Nisa Hoirun H Reutrakul Sirimon S Lemaitre Rozenn N RN Alshehri Tahani M TM de Mutsert Renée R Bazzano Lydia L Qi Lu L Knutson Kristen L KL Psaty Bruce M BM Mook-Kanamori Dennis O DO Perica Vesna Boraska VB Neuhouser Marian L ML Scheer Frank A J L FAJL Rutter Martin K MK Garaulet Marta M Saxena Richa R

The American journal of clinical nutrition 20190801 2

<h4>Background</h4>Little is known about the contribution of genetic variation to food timing, and breakfast has been determined to exhibit the most heritable meal timing. As breakfast timing and skipping are not routinely measured in large cohort studies, alternative approaches include analyses of correlated traits.<h4>Objectives</h4>The aim of this study was to elucidate breakfast skipping genetic variants through a proxy-phenotype genome-wide association study (GWAS) for breakfast cereal skip ...[more]

PMID: 31190057

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Genome-wide association study of breakfast skipping links clock regulation with food timing.

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Genome-wide association study of breakfast skipping links clock regulation with food timing.

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