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DIABETES
Volume 56, Issue 7, Pages 1922-1929Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db06-1677
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- NCRR NIH HHS [M01-RR00425] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL60030, R01 HL088457] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK58037, DK063491, DK53889, DK66369, DK42273, DK47482] Funding Source: Medline
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OBJECTIVE-A small number of susceptibility genes for human type 2 diabetes have been identified by candidate gene analysis or positional cloning. Genes found to influence diabetes or related traits in mice are likely to be susceptibility genes in humans. SorCS1 is the gene identified as responsible for the mouse chromosome 19 T2dm2 quantitative trait locus for fasting insulin levels, acting via impaired insulin secretion and increased islet disruption in obese females. Genes that impair compensatory insulin secretion in response to obesity-induced insulin resistance may be particularly relevant to human diabetes. Thus, we sought to determine whether variation in the human SORCS1 gene was associated with diabetes-related traits. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS-We assessed the contribution of variation in SORCS1 to human insulin-related traits in two distinct Mexican-American cohorts. One cohort (the Mexican-American Coronary Artery Disease [MACAD] cohort) consisted of nondiabetic individuals, allowing assessment of genetic association with subclinical intermediate insulin-related traits; the second cohort (the San Antonio Family Diabetes Study [SAFADS]) contained individuals with diabetes, allowing association analyses with overt disease. RESULTS-We first found association of SORCSI single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotypes with fasting insulin levels and insulin secretion in the MACAD cohort. Similar to our results in the mice, the genetic association was strongest in overweight women. We then observed association with diabetes risk and age at diagnosis in women of the SAFADS cohort.
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