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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 75, 期 5, 页码 832-843出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/425340
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Recent reports have suggested that WNT signaling is an important regulator for adipogenesis or insulin secretion and might be involved in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. To investigate possible roles of the WNT genes in conferring susceptibility to type 2 diabetes, we examined the association of the genes that encode members of the WNT family with type 2 diabetes in the Japanese population. First, 40 single-nucleotide polymorphism ( SNP) loci within 11 WNT genes were analyzed in 188 subjects with type 2 diabetes (case-1) and 564 controls (control-1). Among them, six SNP loci exhibited a significant difference (P < .05) in the allele and/or genotype distributions between case and control subjects. These SNP loci were further analyzed in another set of case (case-2;) n = 733 and control (control-2; n = 375) subjects to confirm their statistical significance. As a result, one SNP locus in the WNT5B gene was strongly associated with type 2 diabetes (chi(2) = 15.6; P = .00008; odds; ratio = 1.74; 95% confidence interval 1.32-2.29). Expression of the WNT5B gene was detectable in several tissues, including adipose, pancreas, and liver. Subsequent in vitro experiments identified the fact that expression of the Wnt5b gene was increased at an early phase of adipocyte differentiation in mouse 3T3-L1 cells. Furthermore, overexpression of the Wnt5b gene in preadipocytes resulted in the promotion of adipogenesis and the enhancement of adipocytokine-gene expression. These results indicate that the WNT5B gene may contribute to conferring susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and may be involved in the pathogenesis of this disease through the regulation of adipocyte function.
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