The MAP2K5-linked SNP rs2241423 is associated with BMI and obesity in two cohorts of Swedish and Greek children

BMC Medical Genetics

Helgi B Schiöth⁴  Robert Fredriksson²  Yannis Manios¹  Claude Marcus⁵  George P Chrousos³  Anna E Ek⁵  George Moschonis¹  Josefin A Jacobsson²  Mathias Rask-Andersen² 

[1] Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece;Department of Neuroscience, Functional Pharmacology, Uppsala University, BMC, Uppsala SE 75124, Sweden;First Department of Pediatrics, Athens University Medical School, Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Thivon and Levadias, 115 27, Goudi, Athens, Greece;Pediatrics, National Childhood Obesity Centre, Stockholm, Sweden;Department for Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), department of Pediatrics, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, B57, 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden

关键词: rs2241423;    Genetics;    Childhood obesity;    MAP2K5;    Obesity;   

Others  :  1177861
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2350-13-36

 received in 2012-01-24, accepted in 2012-05-04,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Recent genome-wide association studies have identified a single nucleotide polymorphism within the last intron of MAP2K5 associated with a higher body mass index (BMI) in adults. MAP2K5 is a component of the MAPK-family intracellular signaling pathways, responding to extracellular growth factors such as brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and nerve growth factor (NGF). In this study, we examined the association of this variant in two cohorts of children from Sweden and Greece.

Methods

We examine the association of rs2241423 to BMI in a cohort of 474 Swedish children admitted for treatment of childhood obesity and 519 children matched for gender, ethnicity and socioeconomic background from the Stockholm area, as well as a cross-sectional cohort of 2308 Greek school children (Healthy Growth Study). Children were genotyped using a predesigned TaqMan polymorphism assay. Logistic regression was used to test for an association of rs2241423 to obesity in the cohort of Swedish children. Linear regression was used to test for an association of rs2241423 to BMI z-score and phenotypic measurements of body adiposity in the cohort of Greek children. Models were adjusted for age and gender. In the cohort of Greek children the model was also adjusted for stage of pubertal development.

Results

The minor allele of rs2241423, allele A, was associated with a protective effect against obesity in the cohort of Swedish children (p = 0.029, OR = 0.79 (95% CI: 0.64–0.98)), and with a lower BMI z-score in the cohort of Greek children (p = 0.028, β = −0.092). No association to phenotypic measurements of body fat distribution could be observed in our study.

Conclusions

rs2241423 was associated with BMI and obesity in two independent European cohorts suggesting a role for MAP2K5 in early weight regulation.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Rask-Andersen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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