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JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
Volume 248, Issue 1, Pages 77-83Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2796.2000.00696.x
Keywords
case-control study; genetic epidemiology; leptin receptor; molecular epidemiology; prospective studies; type 2 diabetes
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL44199] Funding Source: Medline
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Objectives. The purpose of the study was to test whether the pentanucleotide insertion/deletion polymorphism in the 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR) of the leptin receptor gene, which has previously been associated with serum insulin levels in obese subjects, is associated with insulin levels and the risk of type 2 diabetes in non-diabetic middle-aged men. Subjects and design. We studied these associations in a prospective population-based nested case-control study in 41 men who developed type 2 diabetes during 4-year follow-up and 81 controls who were matched for age, obesity, baseline glucose and insulin and other strongest risk factors. Both the cases and the controls came from a cohort of 985 men who had no diabetes at baseline. Results. There was one homozygote and 22 heterozygotes for the 3'-UTR insertion allele amongst all 122 men. The carrier frequency of this allele was 9.8% amongst the cases and 23.5% amongst the controls. At baseline, the mean fasting serum insulin was 12.2 mU L-1 in the 23 men who were heterozygous or homozygous for the insertion allele and 17.1 mU L-1 in the 99 men who were homozygous for the deletion allele (P = 0.005). In a logistic regression model adjusting for four strongest non-matched predictors of type 2 diabetes, the carriers of the insertion allele had a 79% reduced risk of diabetes (OR = 0.21; 95% CI = 0.06-0.77, P = 0.019), compared with non-carriers. Conclusion. Our findings support the hypothesis that alterations in the leptin signalling system could contribute to serum insulin levels and the development of type 2 diabetes.
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