PLIN1 Haploinsufficiency Causes a Favorable Metabolic Profile

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Endocrine Society..

CONTEXT: PLIN1 encodes perilipin-1, which coats lipid droplets in adipocytes and is involved in droplet formation, triglyceride storage, and lipolysis. Rare PLIN1 frameshift variants that extend the translated protein have been described to cause lipodystrophy.

OBJECTIVE: This work aimed to test whether PLIN1 protein-truncating variants (PTVs) cause lipodystrophy in a large population-based cohort.

METHODS: We identified individuals with PLIN1 PTVs in individuals with exome data in the UK Biobank. We performed gene-burden testing for individuals with PLIN1 PTVs. We replicated the associations using data from the T2D Knowledge portal. We performed a phenome-wide association study using publicly available association statistics. A total of 362 791 individuals in the UK Biobank, a population-based cohort, and 43 125 individuals in the T2D Knowledge portal, a type 2 diabetes (T2D) case-control study, were included in the analyses. Main outcome measures included 22 diseases and traits relevant to lipodystrophy.

RESULTS: The 735 individuals with PLIN1 PTVs had a favorable metabolic profile. These individuals had increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (0.12 mmol/L; 95% CI, 0.09 to 0.14, P = 2 × 10-18), reduced triglycerides (-0.22 mmol/L; 95% CI, -0.29 to -0.14, P = 3 × 10-11), reduced waist-to-hip ratio (-0.02; 95% CI, -0.02 to -0.01, P = 9 × 10-12), and reduced systolic blood pressure (-1.67 mm Hg; 95% CI, -3.25 to -0.09, P = .05). These associations were consistent in the smaller T2D Knowledge portal cohort. In the UK Biobank, PLIN1 PTVs were associated with reduced risk of myocardial infarction (odds ratio [OR] = 0.59; 95% CI, 0.35 to 0.93, P = .02) and hypertension (OR = 0.85; 95% CI, 0.73 to 0.98, P = .03), but not T2D (OR = 0.99; 95% CI, 0.63-1.51, P = .99).

CONCLUSION: Our study suggests that PLIN1 haploinsufficiency causes a favorable metabolic profile and may protect against cardiovascular disease.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:107

Enthalten in:

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 107(2022), 6 vom: 17. Mai, Seite e2318-e2323

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Patel, Kashyap A [VerfasserIn]
Burman, Shivang [VerfasserIn]
Laver, Thomas W [VerfasserIn]
Hattersley, Andrew T [VerfasserIn]
Frayling, Timothy M [VerfasserIn]
Weedon, Michael N [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

HDL
Journal Article
Lipodystrophy
PLIN1
PLIN1 protein, human
Perilipin-1
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Triglycerides

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Date Completed 19.05.2022

Date Revised 08.03.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1210/clinem/dgac104

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337669066