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The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

  • Ji Chen
  • , Cassandra N. Spracklen
  • , Gaëlle Marenne
  • , Arushi Varshney
  • , Laura J. Corbin
  • , Jian’An Luan
  • , Sara M. Willems
  • , Ying Wu
  • , Xiaoshuai Zhang
  • , Momoko Horikoshi
  • , Thibaud S. Boutin
  • , Reedik Mägi
  • , Johannes Waage
  • , Ruifang Li-Gao
  • , Kei Hang Katie Chan
  • , Jie Yao
  • , Mila D. Anasanti
  • , Audrey Y. Chu
  • , Annique Claringbould
  • , Jani Heikkinen
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Abstract

Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic health. To date, most genetic studies of glycemic traits have focused on individuals of European ancestry. Here we aggregated genome-wide association studies comprising up to 281,416 individuals without diabetes (30% non-European ancestry) for whom fasting glucose, 2-h glucose after an oral glucose challenge, glycated hemoglobin and fasting insulin data were available. Trans-ancestry and single-ancestry meta-analyses identified 242 loci (99 novel; P < 5 × 10−8), 80% of which had no significant evidence of between-ancestry heterogeneity. Analyses restricted to individuals of European ancestry with equivalent sample size would have led to 24 fewer new loci. Compared with single-ancestry analyses, equivalent-sized trans-ancestry fine-mapping reduced the number of estimated variants in 99% credible sets by a median of 37.5%. Genomic-feature, gene-expression and gene-set analyses revealed distinct biological signatures for each trait, highlighting different underlying biological pathways. Our results increase our understanding of diabetes pathophysiology by using trans-ancestry studies for improved power and resolution.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)840-860
Number of pages21
JournalNature Genetics
Volume53
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Alleles
  • Blood Glucose
  • Epigenesis, Genetic
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Genome, Human
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Glycated Hemoglobin A
  • Humans
  • Multifactorial Inheritance
  • Physical Chromosome Mapping
  • Quantitative Trait Loci
  • Quantitative Trait, Heritable
  • Whites

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