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Exploring genome-wide – dietary heme iron intake interactions and the risk of type 2 diabetes

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Title
Exploring genome-wide – dietary heme iron intake interactions and the risk of type 2 diabetes
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Frontiers in Genetics, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fgene.2013.00007
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Louis R. Pasquale, Stephanie J. Loomis, Hugues Aschard, Jae H. Kang, Marilyn C. Cornelis, Lu Qi, Peter Kraft, Frank B. Hu

Abstract

Aims/hypothesis: Genome-wide association studies have identified over 50 new genetic loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Several studies conclude that higher dietary heme iron intake increases the risk of T2D. Therefore we assessed whether the relation between genetic loci and T2D is modified by dietary heme iron intake.Methods: We used Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human 6.0 array data [681,770 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)] and dietary information collected in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (n = 725 cases; n = 1,273 controls) and the Nurses' Health Study (n = 1,081 cases; n = 1,692 controls). We assessed whether genome-wide SNPs or iron metabolism SNPs interacted with dietary heme iron intake in relation to T2D, testing for associations in each cohort separately and then meta-analyzing to pool the results. Finally, we created 1,000 synthetic pathways matched to an iron metabolism pathway on number of genes, and number of SNPs in each gene. We compared the iron metabolic pathway SNPs with these synthetic SNP assemblies in their relation to T2D to assess if the pathway as a whole interacts with dietary heme iron intake.Results: Using a genomic approach, we found no significant gene-environment interactions with dietary heme iron intake in relation to T2D at a Bonferroni corrected genome-wide significance level of 7.33 ×10(-) (8) (top SNP in pooled analysis: intergenic rs10980508; p = 1.03 × 10(-) (6)). Furthermore, no SNP in the iron metabolic pathway significantly interacted with dietary heme iron intake at a Bonferroni corrected significance level of 2.10 × 10(-) (4) (top SNP in pooled analysis: rs1805313; p = 1.14 × 10(-) (3)). Finally, neither the main genetic effects (pooled empirical p by SNP = 0.41), nor gene - dietary heme-iron interactions (pooled empirical p-value for the interactions = 0.72) were significant for the iron metabolic pathway as a whole.Conclusions: We found no significant interactions between dietary heme iron intake and common SNPs in relation to T2D.

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Country Count As %
Mexico 1 2%
Nigeria 1 2%
Unknown 45 96%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 17%
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Master 6 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Other 10 21%
Unknown 9 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Physics and Astronomy 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 13 28%
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