eprintid: 153360 rev_number: 43 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/00/15/33/60 datestamp: 2010-10-29 18:55:40 lastmod: 2021-10-16 22:05:35 status_changed: 2010-10-29 18:55:40 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Zabaneh, D creators_name: Balding, DJ title: A Genome-Wide Association Study of the Metabolic Syndrome in Indian Asian Men ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D09 divisions: F99 keywords: LOCI, POPULATION, RISK, VARIANTS, DISEASE note: © 2010 Zabaneh, Balding. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. D. Zabaneh and stage one and two genotyping were funded by the British Heart Foundation [SP/04/02]. The funders had no role in study design, abstract: We conducted a two-stage genome-wide association study to identify common genetic variation altering risk of the metabolic syndrome and related phenotypes in Indian Asian men, who have a high prevalence of these conditions. In Stage 1, approximately 317,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms were genotyped in 2700 individuals, from which 1500 SNPs were selected to be genotyped in a further 2300 individuals. Selection for inclusion in Stage 1 was based on four metabolic syndrome component traits: HDL-cholesterol, plasma glucose and Type 2 diabetes, abdominal obesity measured by waist to hip ratio, and diastolic blood pressure. Association was tested with these four traits and a composite metabolic syndrome phenotype. Four SNPs reaching significance level p<5x10(-7) and with posterior probability of association >0.8 were found in genes CETP and LPL, associated with HDL-cholesterol. These associations have already been reported in Indian Asians and in Europeans. Five additional loci harboured SNPs significant at p<10(-6) and posterior probability >0.5 for HDL-cholesterol, type 2 diabetes or diastolic blood pressure. Our results suggest that the primary genetic determinants of metabolic syndrome are the same in Indian Asians as in other populations, despite the higher prevalence. Further, we found little evidence of a common genetic basis for metabolic syndrome traits in our sample of Indian Asian men. date: 2010-08-04 publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011961 vfaculties: VFLS oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_batch elements_source: Web of Science elements_id: 252250 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011961 language_elements: EN lyricists_name: Balding, David lyricists_name: Zabaneh, Delilah lyricists_id: DJBAL01 lyricists_id: DMZAB47 full_text_status: public publication: PLOS ONE volume: 5 number: 8 article_number: e11961 issn: 1932-6203 citation: Zabaneh, D; Balding, DJ; (2010) A Genome-Wide Association Study of the Metabolic Syndrome in Indian Asian Men. PLOS ONE , 5 (8) , Article e11961. 10.1371/journal.pone.0011961 <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011961>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/153360/1/153360.pdf