Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18591397›Full record

SynthesisDiabetes2008

Evaluating the role of LPIN1 variation in insulin resistance, body weight, and human lipodystrophy in U.K. Populations.

Katherine A Fawcett, Neil Grimsey, Ruth J F Loos, Eleanor Wheeler, Allan Daly, Maria Soos, Robert Semple, Holly Syddall, Cyrus Cooper, Symeon Siniossoglou and 3 more

Open access · hybridAbstract readMeta-Analysis
In one paragraph

Synthesis in Diabetes, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Role of lipins in cardiovascular diseases.Lipids in health and disease · 2023
    Review
  3. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Name Change: Requiem or Reveille?Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2021
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Genetic Effects ofGenes · 2019
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
  19. Lipins: multifunctional lipid metabolism proteins.Annual review of nutrition · 2010
    Review
  20. The lipin family: mutations and metabolism.Current opinion in lipidology · 2009
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine A FawcettMetabolic Disease Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
Neil Grimsey
Ruth J F Loos
Eleanor Wheeler
Allan Daly
Maria Soos
Robert Semple
Holly Syddall
Cyrus Cooper
Symeon Siniossoglou
Stephen O'Rahilly
Nicholas J Wareham
Inês Barroso
Medical Research Council · GBWellcome Sanger Institute · GBAddenbrooke's Hospital · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBWellcome Trust · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0000934Medical Research Council G0000934(68341)Medical Research Council G0600717Medical Research Council G0701446Medical Research Council MC_U106188470Medical Research Council MC_U147574221Medical Research Council MC_U147585824Medical Research Council MC_UP_A620_1014Medical Research Council U.1475.00.002.00001.01 (85824)Medical Research Council U.1475.00.004.00002.01(74221)Wellcome Trust 068545Wellcome Trust 068545/Z/02Wellcome Trust 077016Wellcome Trust 078986Wellcome Trust 078986/Z/06/ZWellcome Trust 080952Wellcome Trust 080952/Z/06/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveLoss of lipin 1 activity causes lipodystrophy and insulin resistance in the fld mouse, and LPIN1 expression and common genetic variation were recently suggested to influence adiposity and insulin sensitivity in humans. We aimed to conduct a comprehensive association study to clarify the influence of common LPIN1 variation on adiposity and insulin sensitivity in U.K. populations and to examine the role of LPIN1 mutations in insulin resistance syndromes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND

methodTwenty-two single nucleotide polymorphisms tagging common LPIN1 variation were genotyped in Medical Research Council (MRC) Ely (n = 1,709) and Hertfordshire (n = 2,901) population-based cohorts. LPIN1 exons, exon/intron boundaries, and 3' untranslated region were sequenced in 158 patients with idiopathic severe insulin resistance (including 23 lipodystrophic patients) and 48 control subjects.

resultsWe found no association between LPIN1 single nucleotide polymorphisms and fasting insulin but report a nominal association between rs13412852 and BMI (P = 0.042) in a meta-analysis of 8,504 samples from in-house and publicly available studies. Three rare nonsynonymous variants (A353T, R552K, and G582R) were detected in severely insulin-resistant patients. However, these did not cosegregate with disease in affected families, and Lipin1 protein expression and phosphorylation in patients with variants were indistinguishable from those in control subjects.

conclusionsOur data do not support a major effect of common LPIN1 variation on metabolic traits and suggest that mutations in LPIN1 are not a common cause of lipodystrophy in humans. The nominal associations with BMI and other metabolic traits in U.K. cohorts require replication in larger cohorts.

Indexed as

Polymorphism, Single NucleotideAdultAgedBody WeightCohort StudiesFemaleGenetic VariationHumansInsulin ResistanceLipodystrophyMaleMiddle AgedNuclear ProteinsNucleic Acid HybridizationPedigreePhosphatidate PhosphataseLPIN1 protein, humanNuclear ProteinsPhosphatidate Phosphatase

Identifiers

PMID18591397
PMCPMC2518506
OpenAlexW2105172949

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.