Genome-wide linkage analysis of type 2 diabetes mellitus reconfirms the susceptibility locus on 11p13-p12 in Japanese

Hajime Nawata, Senji Shirasawa, Naoki Nakashima, Eiichi Araki, Jun Hashiguchi, Seibei Miyake, Teruaki Yamauchi, Kazuyuki Hamaguchi, Hironobu Yoshimatsu, Haruo Takeda, Hideo Fukushima, Takayuki Sasahara, Kohei Yamaguchi, Noriyuki Sonoda, Tomoko Sonoda, Masahiro Matsumoto, Yoshiya Tanaka, Hidekatsu Sugimoto, Hirotaka Tsubouchi, Toyoshi InoguchiToshihiko Yanase, Nakayasu Wake, Kenziro Narazaki, Takashi Eto, Fumio Umeda, Mitsuhiro Nakazaki, Junko Ono, Takashi Asano, Yasuko Ito, Shoichi Akazawa, Iwaho Hazegawa, Nobuyuki Takasu, Moritsugu Shinohara, Takeshi Nishikawa, Seiho Nagafuchi, Toshimitsu Okeda, Katsumi Eguchi, Masanori Iwase, Mayuko Ishikawa, Masayuki Aoki, Naoto Keicho, Norihiro Kato, Kazuki Yasuda, Ken Yamamoto, Takehiko Sasazuki

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Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous disorder, and the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with both insulin secretion defect and insulin resistance. The primary metabolic defect leading to type 2 diabetes mellitus has been thought to be varied among populations, especially in Japanese and Caucasians. Here, we have done the genome-wide scan for type 2 diabetes mellitus using 102 affected Japanese sib-pairs to identify the genetic factors predisposing to type 2 diabetes mellitus. Nonparametric linkage analysis showed one suggestive evidence for linkage to 11p13-p12 [ D11S905: two-point maximum LOD score (MLS) of 2.89 and multipoint MLS of 2.32] and one nominally significant evidence for linkage to 6q15-q16 (D6S462: two-point MLS of 2.02). Interestingly, the 11p13-p12 region was reported to be a susceptibility locus for Japanese type 2 diabetes mellitus with suggestive evidence of linkage, and D11S905 was within 5 cM to D11S935 with the highest MLS in the previous linkage analysis reported. The only overlapped susceptibility region with suggestive evidence of linkage for Japanese type 2 diabetes mellitus was D11S935-D11S905 among the three reports including this study. These results taken together suggest that a susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese will reside in 11p13-p12.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)629-634
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of Human Genetics
Volume49
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2004

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Genetics
  • Genetics(clinical)

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