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Assessing potential shared genetic aetiology between body mass index and sleep duration in 142,209 individuals

Garfield, V; Fatemifar, G; Dale, C; Smart, M; Bao, Y; Llewellyn, C; Steptoe, A; ... Kumari, M; + view all (2019) Assessing potential shared genetic aetiology between body mass index and sleep duration in 142,209 individuals. Genetic Epidemiology , 43 (2) pp. 207-214. 10.1002/gepi.22174. Green open access

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Abstract

Observational studies find an association between increased body mass index (BMI) and short self‐reported sleep duration in adults. However, the underlying biological mechanisms that underpin these associations are unclear. Recent findings from the UK Biobank suggest a weak genetic correlation between BMI and self‐reported sleep duration. However, the potential shared genetic aetiology between these traits has not been examined using a comprehensive approach. To investigate this, we created a polygenic risk score (PRS) of BMI and examined its association with self‐reported sleep duration in a combination of individual participant data and summary‐level data, with a total sample size of 142,209 individuals. Although we observed a nonsignificant genetic correlation between BMI and sleep duration, using LD score regression (rg = −0.067 [SE = 0.039], P = 0.092) we found that a PRS of BMI is associated with a decrease in sleep duration (unstandardized coefficient = −1.75 min [SE = 0.67], P = 6.13 × 10−7), but explained only 0.02% of the variance in sleep duration. Our findings suggest that BMI and self‐reported sleep duration possess a small amount of shared genetic aetiology and other mechanisms must underpin these associations.

Type: Article
Title: Assessing potential shared genetic aetiology between body mass index and sleep duration in 142,209 individuals
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22174
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/gepi.22174
Language: English
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Keywords: Body mass index, genetic correlation, polygenic risk score, sleep duration
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine > MRC Unit for Lifelong Hlth and Ageing
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics > Clinical Epidemiology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062512
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