SynthesisMolecular genetics and metabolism2014
Pleiotropic genes for metabolic syndrome and inflammation.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 147 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
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- Association Between Interleukin-6 -572 C>G and -174 G>C Polymorphisms and Hypertension: A Meta-analysis of Case-control Studies.Medicine · 2016Pooled it
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- C-reactive protein polygenic risk is associated with obesity-related traits in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Vegan and Plant-Based Diets in the Management of Metabolic Syndrome: A Narrative Review from Anti-Inflammatory and Antithrombotic Perspectives.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Zrt-Irt-like Proteins (ZIP) Family Zinc Transporters: Emerging Players in Pancreatic β Cell Function and Insulin Regulation.The Journal of nutrition · 2025Review
- The interplay of genetics and fatty acid metabolism: exploring their impact on metabolic syndrome in Swedish men.Nutrition journal · 2025Article
- The clinical impact of mitochondrial autophagy on very late-onset recurrence after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation.European heart journal open · 2025Article
- The 14-year cumulative genetic high blood pressure and risk of type 2 diabetes in Korean: observational and Mendelian randomization evidence.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2025Observational
- Correlating tissue and plasma‑specific piRNA changes to predict their possible role in pancreatic malignancy and chronic inflammation.Biomedical reports · 2024Article
- Multivariate genomic analysis of 5 million people elucidates the genetic architecture of shared components of the metabolic syndrome.Nature genetics · 2024Article
- Multipartite network analysis to identify environmental and genetic associations of metabolic syndrome in the Korean population.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Coinheritance of HNF1A and glucokinase variants in maturity-onset diabetes of the young.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism case reports · 2024Article
- GlycA and CRP Are Genetically Correlated: Insight into the Genetic Architecture of Inflammageing.Biomolecules · 2024Article
- Review
- ZebrafishFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Metabolic Syndrome: A Narrative Review from the Oxidative Stress to the Management of Related Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Cross-Sectional Gene-Smoking Interaction Analysis in Relation to Subclinical Atherosclerosis-Results From the IMPROVE Study.Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) has become a health and financial burden worldwide. The MetS definition captures clustering of risk factors that predict higher risk for diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Our study hypothesis is that additional to genes influencing individual MetS risk factors, genetic variants exist that influence MetS and inflammatory markers forming a predisposing MetS genetic network. To test this hypothesis a staged approach was undertaken. (a) We analyzed 17 metabolic and inflammatory traits in more than 85,500 participants from 14 large epidemiological studies within the Cross Consortia Pleiotropy Group. Individuals classified with MetS (NCEP definition), versus those without, showed on average significantly different levels for most inflammatory markers studied. (b) Paired average correlations between 8 metabolic traits and 9 inflammatory markers from the same studies as above, estimated with two methods, and factor analyses on large simulated data, helped in identifying 8 combinations of traits for follow-up in meta-analyses, out of 130,305 possible combinations between metabolic traits and inflammatory markers studied. (c) We performed correlated meta-analyses for 8 metabolic traits and 6 inflammatory markers by using existing GWAS published genetic summary results, with about 2.5 million SNPs from twelve predominantly largest GWAS consortia. These analyses yielded 130 unique SNPs/genes with pleiotropic associations (a SNP/gene associating at least one metabolic trait and one inflammatory marker). Of them twenty-five variants (seven loci newly reported) are proposed as MetS candidates. They map to genes MACF1, KIAA0754, GCKR, GRB14, COBLL1, LOC646736-IRS1, SLC39A8, NELFE, SKIV2L, STK19, TFAP2B, BAZ1B, BCL7B, TBL2, MLXIPL, LPL, TRIB1, ATXN2, HECTD4, PTPN11, ZNF664, PDXDC1, FTO, MC4R and TOMM40. Based on large data evidence, we conclude that inflammation is a feature of MetS and several gene variants show pleiotropic genetic associations across phenotypes and might explain a part of MetS correlated genetic architecture. These findings warrant further functional investigation.
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