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Gene loci associated with insulin secretion in islets from non-diabetic mice.

ABSTRACT: Genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes is primarily due to ?-cell dysfunction. However, a genetic study to directly interrogate ?-cell function ex vivo has never been previously performed. We isolated 233,447 islets from 483 Diversity Outbred (DO) mice maintained on a Western-style diet, and measured insulin secretion in response to a variety of secretagogues. Insulin secretion from DO islets ranged >1,000-fold even though none of the mice were diabetic. The insulin secretory response to each secretagogue had a unique genetic architecture; some of the loci were specific for one condition, whereas others overlapped. Human loci that are syntenic to many of the insulin secretion QTL from mouse are associated with diabetes-related SNPs in human genome-wide association studies. We report on three genes, Ptpn18, Hunk and Zfp148, where the phenotype predictions from the genetic screen were fulfilled in our studies of transgenic mouse models. These three genes encode a non-receptor type protein tyrosine phosphatase, a serine/threonine protein kinase, and a Kr?ppel-type zinc-finger transcription factor, respectively. Our results demonstrate that genetic variation in insulin secretion that can lead to type 2 diabetes is discoverable in non-diabetic individuals.

SUBMITTER: Keller MP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6763251 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Gene loci associated with insulin secretion in islets from non-diabetic mice.

Keller Mark P MP Rabaglia Mary E ME Schueler Kathryn L KL Stapleton Donnie S DS Gatti Daniel M DM Vincent Matthew M Mitok Kelly A KA Wang Ziyue Z Ishimura Takanao T Simonett Shane P SP Emfinger Christopher H CH Das Rahul R Beck Tim T Kendziorski Christina C Broman Karl W KW Yandell Brian S BS Churchill Gary A GA Attie Alan D AD

The Journal of clinical investigation 20190725 10

Genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes is primarily due to β-cell dysfunction. However, a genetic study to directly interrogate β-cell function ex vivo has never been previously performed. We isolated 233,447 islets from 483 Diversity Outbred (DO) mice maintained on a Western-style diet, and measured insulin secretion in response to a variety of secretagogues. Insulin secretion from DO islets ranged >1,000-fold even though none of the mice were diabetic. The insulin secretory response to each ...[more]

PMID: 31343992

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Gene loci associated with insulin secretion in islets from non-diabetic mice.

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Gene loci associated with insulin secretion in islets from non-diabetic mice.

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