Abstract
Aim: We conducted a methylome-wide association study to examine associations between DNA methylation in whole blood and central adiposity and body fat distribution, measured as waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio adjusted for body mass index, in 2684 African-American adults in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Materials & methods: We validated significantly associated cytosine-phosphate-guanine methylation sites (CpGs) among adults using the Women's Health Initiative and Framingham Heart Study participants (combined n = 5743) and generalized associations in adolescents from The Raine Study (n = 820). Results & conclusion: We identified 11 CpGs that were robustly associated with one or more central adiposity trait in adults and two in adolescents, including CpG site associations near TXNIP, ADCY7, SREBF1 and RAP1GAP2 that had not previously been associated with obesity-related traits.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1483-1499 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Epigenomics |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 17 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2020 |
Funding
AE Justice and analysis support was funded by K99/R00 HL130580. KE North was supported in part by R01HG010297. KE North, AG Howard, and P Gordon-Larsen were funded in part under NIH R01HL143885. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services (contract numbers: HHSN268201700001I, HHSN268201700002I, HHSN268201700003I, HHSN268201700004I and HHSN268201700005I). Funding was also supported by 5RC2HL102419 and R01NS087541.The Framingham Heart Study is conducted and supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in collaboration with Boston University (Contract no. N01-HC-25195, HHSN268201500001I and 75N92019D00031). The Women\u2019s Health Initiative (WHI) program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201600018C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN268201600002C, HHSN268201600003C and HHSN268201600004C. WHI-EMPC was supported by the NIH/NIEHS grant R01-ES020836 (L Hou, A Baccarelli, EA Whitsel). Funding for Core Management of The Raine Study is provided by The University of Western Australia (UWA), Raine Medical Research Foundation, The Telethon Kids Institute, Women and Infants Research Foundation, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Raine Medical Research Foundation, and Curtin University. For Raine, the DNA methylation work was supported by NHMRC grant 1059711. Collaborative analyses are supported by NHMRC 1142858. Data collection and biological specimens at the 17-year follow-up were funded by the NHMRC Program Grant ID 353514 and Project Grant ID 403981. R-C Huang and TA Mori are supported by NHMRC Research Fellowships (ID 1053384 and ID 1136046, respectively). This work was supported by resources provided by The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of Western Australia. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. The ARIC study. The authors thank the staff and participants of the ARIC study for their important contributions. The FHS Study. The authors thank the participants for the many years of commitment to the research conducted by the Framingham Heart Study. This manuscript was not prepared in collaboration with investigators of the Framingham Heart Study and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Framingham Heart Study, Boston University, or NHLBI. The Raine study. The authors are grateful to The Raine study participants and their families, and the Raine study management team for cohort co-ordination and data collection, the National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) for their long-term contribution to funding the study over the last 29 years and The Telethon Kids Institute for long-term support of the Study. The WHI study. The WHI program is supported by contracts from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH. The authors thank the WHI investigators and staff for their dedication, and the study participants for making the program possible. A listing of WHI investigators can be found at www.whi.org/researchers/Documents%20%20Write%20a%20Paper/WHI%20Investigator%20Short%20List.pdf AE Justice and analysis support was funded by K99/R00 HL130580. KE North was supported in part by R01HG010297. KE North, AG Howard, and P Gordon-Larsen were funded in part under NIH R01HL143885. The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services (contract numbers: HHSN268201700001I, HHSN268201700002I, HHSN268201700003I, HHSN268201700004I and HHSN268201700005I). Funding was also supported by 5RC2HL102419 and R01NS087541.The Framingham Heart Study is conducted and supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in collaboration with Boston University (Contract no. N01-HC-25195, HHSN268201500001I and 75N92019D00031). The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) program is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services through contracts HHSN268201600018C, HHSN268201600001C, HHSN268201600002C, HHSN268201600003C and HHSN268201600004C. WHI-EMPC was supported by the NIH/NIEHS grant R01-ES020836 (L Hou, A Baccarelli, EA Whitsel).
Keywords
- DNA methylation
- TXNIP
- ancestrally diverse
- body fat distribution
- cardiometabolic disease
- central adiposity
- methylome-wide association study
- waist circumference
- waist-to-height ratio
- waist-to-hip ratio
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Genetics
- Cancer Research
