FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index.
There is evidence across several species for genetic control of phenotypic variation of complex traits, such that the variance among phenotypes is genotype dependent. Understanding genetic control of variability is important in evolutionary biology, agricultural selection programmes and human medici...
| Váldodahkkit: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Materiálatiipa: | Journal article |
| Giella: | English |
| Almmustuhtton: |
2012
|
| _version_ | 1826297474779709440 |
|---|---|
| author | Yang, J Loos, R Powell, J Medland, SE Speliotes, E Chasman, D Rose, L Thorleifsson, G Steinthorsdottir, V Mägi, R Waite, L Smith, A Yerges-Armstrong, L Monda, K Hadley, D Mahajan, A Li, G Kapur, K Vitart, V Huffman, J Wang, SR Palmer, C Esko, T Fischer, K Zhao, J |
| author_facet | Yang, J Loos, R Powell, J Medland, SE Speliotes, E Chasman, D Rose, L Thorleifsson, G Steinthorsdottir, V Mägi, R Waite, L Smith, A Yerges-Armstrong, L Monda, K Hadley, D Mahajan, A Li, G Kapur, K Vitart, V Huffman, J Wang, SR Palmer, C Esko, T Fischer, K Zhao, J |
| author_sort | Yang, J |
| collection | OXFORD |
| description | There is evidence across several species for genetic control of phenotypic variation of complex traits, such that the variance among phenotypes is genotype dependent. Understanding genetic control of variability is important in evolutionary biology, agricultural selection programmes and human medicine, yet for complex traits, no individual genetic variants associated with variance, as opposed to the mean, have been identified. Here we perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of phenotypic variation using ∼170,000 samples on height and body mass index (BMI) in human populations. We report evidence that the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs7202116 at the FTO gene locus, which is known to be associated with obesity (as measured by mean BMI for each rs7202116 genotype), is also associated with phenotypic variability. We show that the results are not due to scale effects or other artefacts, and find no other experiment-wise significant evidence for effects on variability, either at loci other than FTO for BMI or at any locus for height. The difference in variance for BMI among individuals with opposite homozygous genotypes at the FTO locus is approximately 7%, corresponding to a difference of ∼0.5 kilograms in the standard deviation of weight. Our results indicate that genetic variants can be discovered that are associated with variability, and that between-person variability in obesity can partly be explained by the genotype at the FTO locus. The results are consistent with reported FTO by environment interactions for BMI, possibly mediated by DNA methylation. Our BMI results for other SNPs and our height results for all SNPs suggest that most genetic variants, including those that influence mean height or mean BMI, are not associated with phenotypic variance, or that their effects on variability are too small to detect even with samples sizes greater than 100,000. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-07T04:32:11Z |
| format | Journal article |
| id | oxford-uuid:ceb0a34f-a9ba-4ed1-b2eb-80f64a2ec46f |
| institution | University of Oxford |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-07T04:32:11Z |
| publishDate | 2012 |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | oxford-uuid:ceb0a34f-a9ba-4ed1-b2eb-80f64a2ec46f2022-03-27T07:37:33ZFTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ceb0a34f-a9ba-4ed1-b2eb-80f64a2ec46fEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2012Yang, JLoos, RPowell, JMedland, SESpeliotes, EChasman, DRose, LThorleifsson, GSteinthorsdottir, VMägi, RWaite, LSmith, AYerges-Armstrong, LMonda, KHadley, DMahajan, ALi, GKapur, KVitart, VHuffman, JWang, SRPalmer, CEsko, TFischer, KZhao, JThere is evidence across several species for genetic control of phenotypic variation of complex traits, such that the variance among phenotypes is genotype dependent. Understanding genetic control of variability is important in evolutionary biology, agricultural selection programmes and human medicine, yet for complex traits, no individual genetic variants associated with variance, as opposed to the mean, have been identified. Here we perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of phenotypic variation using ∼170,000 samples on height and body mass index (BMI) in human populations. We report evidence that the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs7202116 at the FTO gene locus, which is known to be associated with obesity (as measured by mean BMI for each rs7202116 genotype), is also associated with phenotypic variability. We show that the results are not due to scale effects or other artefacts, and find no other experiment-wise significant evidence for effects on variability, either at loci other than FTO for BMI or at any locus for height. The difference in variance for BMI among individuals with opposite homozygous genotypes at the FTO locus is approximately 7%, corresponding to a difference of ∼0.5 kilograms in the standard deviation of weight. Our results indicate that genetic variants can be discovered that are associated with variability, and that between-person variability in obesity can partly be explained by the genotype at the FTO locus. The results are consistent with reported FTO by environment interactions for BMI, possibly mediated by DNA methylation. Our BMI results for other SNPs and our height results for all SNPs suggest that most genetic variants, including those that influence mean height or mean BMI, are not associated with phenotypic variance, or that their effects on variability are too small to detect even with samples sizes greater than 100,000. |
| spellingShingle | Yang, J Loos, R Powell, J Medland, SE Speliotes, E Chasman, D Rose, L Thorleifsson, G Steinthorsdottir, V Mägi, R Waite, L Smith, A Yerges-Armstrong, L Monda, K Hadley, D Mahajan, A Li, G Kapur, K Vitart, V Huffman, J Wang, SR Palmer, C Esko, T Fischer, K Zhao, J FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index. |
| title | FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index. |
| title_full | FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index. |
| title_fullStr | FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index. |
| title_full_unstemmed | FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index. |
| title_short | FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index. |
| title_sort | fto genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT yangj ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT loosr ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT powellj ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT medlandse ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT speliotese ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT chasmand ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT rosel ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT thorleifssong ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT steinthorsdottirv ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT magir ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT waitel ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT smitha ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT yergesarmstrongl ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT mondak ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT hadleyd ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT mahajana ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT lig ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT kapurk ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT vitartv ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT huffmanj ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT wangsr ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT palmerc ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT eskot ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT fischerk ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex AT zhaoj ftogenotypeisassociatedwithphenotypicvariabilityofbodymassindex |