Multi-ancestry Polygenic Mechanisms of Type 2 Diabetes Elucidate Disease Processes and Clinical Heterogeneity

Abstract We identified genetic subtypes of type 2 diabetes (T2D) by analyzing genetic data from diverse groups, including non-European populations. We implemented soft clustering with 650 T2D-associated genetic variants, capturing known and novel T2D subtypes with distinct cardiometabolic trait associations. The twelve genetic clusters were distinctively enriched for single-cell regulatory regions. Polygenic scores derived from the clusters differed in distribution between ancestry groups, including a significantly higher proportion of lipodystrophy-related polygenic risk in East Asian ancestry. T2D risk was equivalent at a BMI of 30 kg/m2in the European subpopulation and 24.2 (22.9- 25.5) kg/m2in the East Asian subpopulation; after adjusting for cluster-specific genetic risk, the equivalent BMI threshold increased to 28.5 (27.1-30.0) kg/m2in the East Asian group, explaining about 75% of the difference in BMI thresholds. Thus, these multi-ancestry T2D genetic subtypes encompass a broader range of biological mechanisms and help explain ancestry-associated differences in T2D risk profiles..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 03. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Smith, Kirk [VerfasserIn]
Deutsch, Aaron J. [VerfasserIn]
McGrail, Carolyn [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Hyunkyung [VerfasserIn]
Hsu, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Mandla, Ravi [VerfasserIn]
Schroeder, Philip H. [VerfasserIn]
Westerman, Kenneth E. [VerfasserIn]
Szczerbinski, Lukasz [VerfasserIn]
Majarian, Timothy D. [VerfasserIn]
Kaur, Varinderpal [VerfasserIn]
Williamson, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Claussnitzer, Melina [VerfasserIn]
Florez, Jose C. [VerfasserIn]
Manning, Alisa K. [VerfasserIn]
Mercader, Josep M. [VerfasserIn]
Gaulton, Kyle J. [VerfasserIn]
Udler, Miriam S. [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.09.28.23296294

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XBI040988724