Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus highlights genetic links with type 2 diabetes

Natalia Pervjakova; Gunn Helen Moen; Maria Carolina Borges; Teresa Ferreira; James P. Cook; Catherine Allard; Robin N. Beaumont; Mickaël Canouil; Gad Hatem; Anni Heiskala; Anni Joensuu; Ville Karhunen; Soo Heon Kwak; Frederick T.J. Lin; Jun Liu; Sheryl Rifas-Shiman; Claudia H. Tam; Wing Hung Tam; Gudmar Thorleifsson; Toby Andrew; Juha Auvinen; Bishwajit Bhowmik; Amélie Bonnefond; Fabien Delahaye; Ayse Demirkan; Philippe Froguel; Kadri Haller-Kikkatalo; Hildur Hardardottir; Sandra Hummel; Akhtar Hussain; Eero Kajantie; Elina Keikkala; Amna Khamis; Jari Lahti; Tove Lekva; Sanna Mustaniemi; Christine Sommer; Aili Tagoma; Evangelia Tzala; Raivo Uibo; Marja Vääräsmäki; Pia M. Villa; Kåre I. Birkeland; Luigi Bouchard; Cornelia M. Duijn; Sarah Finer; Leif Groop; Esa Hämäläinen; Geoffrey M. Hayes; Graham A. Hitman; Hak C. Jang; Marjo Riitta Järvelin; Anne Karen Jenum; Hannele Laivuori; Ronald C. Ma; Olle Melander; Emily Oken; Kyong Soo Park; Patrice Perron; Rashmi B. Prasad; Elisabeth Qvigstad; Sylvain Sebert; Kari Stefansson; Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir; Tiinamaija Tuomi; Marie France Hivert; Paul W. Franks; Mark I. McCarthy; Cecilia M. Lindgren; Rachel M. Freathy; Deborah A. Lawlor; Andrew P. Morris; Reedik Mägi

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Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus highlights genetic links with type 2 diabetes

Natalia Pervjakova, Gunn Helen Moen, Maria Carolina Borges, Teresa Ferreira, James P. Cook, Catherine Allard, Robin N. Beaumont, Mickaël Canouil, Gad Hatem, Anni Heiskala, Anni Joensuu, Ville Karhunen, Soo Heon Kwak, Frederick T.J. Lin, Jun Liu, Sheryl Rifas-Shiman, Claudia H. Tam, Wing Hung Tam, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Toby AndrewJuha Auvinen, Bishwajit Bhowmik, Amélie Bonnefond, Fabien Delahaye, Ayse Demirkan, Philippe Froguel, Kadri Haller-Kikkatalo, Hildur Hardardottir, Sandra Hummel, Akhtar Hussain, Eero Kajantie, Elina Keikkala, Amna Khamis, Jari Lahti, Tove Lekva, Sanna Mustaniemi, Christine Sommer, Aili Tagoma, Evangelia Tzala, Raivo Uibo, Marja Vääräsmäki, Pia M. Villa, Kåre I. Birkeland, Luigi Bouchard, Cornelia M. Duijn, Sarah Finer, Leif Groop, Esa Hämäläinen, Geoffrey M. Hayes, Graham A. Hitman, Hak C. Jang, Marjo Riitta Järvelin, Anne Karen Jenum, Hannele Laivuori, Ronald C. Ma, Olle Melander, Emily Oken, Kyong Soo Park, Patrice Perron, Rashmi B. Prasad, Elisabeth Qvigstad, Sylvain Sebert, Kari Stefansson, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Marie France Hivert, Paul W. Franks, Mark I. McCarthy, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Rachel M. Freathy, Deborah A. Lawlor, Andrew P. Morris, Reedik Mägi

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Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with increased risk of pregnancy complications and adverse perinatal outcomes. GDM often reoccurs and is associated with increased risk of subsequent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (T2D). To improve our understanding of the aetiological factors and molecular processes driving the occurrence of GDM, including the extent to which these overlap with T2D pathophysiology, the GENetics of Diabetes In Pregnancy Consortium assembled genome-wide association studies of diverse ancestry in a total of 5485 women with GDM and 347 856 without GDM. Through multi-ancestry meta-analysis, we identified five loci with genome-wide significant association (P < 5 × 10-8) with GDM, mapping to/near MTNR1B (P = 4.3 × 10-54), TCF7L2 (P = 4.0 × 10-16), CDKAL1 (P = 1.6 × 10-14), CDKN2A-CDKN2B (P = 4.1 × 10-9) and HKDC1 (P = 2.9 × 10-8). Multiple lines of evidence pointed to the shared pathophysiology of GDM and T2D: (i) four of the five GDM loci (not HKDC1) have been previously reported at genome-wide significance for T2D; (ii) significant enrichment for associations with GDM at previously reported T2D loci; (iii) strong genetic correlation between GDM and T2D and (iv) enrichment of GDM associations mapping to genomic annotations in diabetes-relevant tissues and transcription factor binding sites. Mendelian randomization analyses demonstrated significant causal association (5% false discovery rate) of higher body mass index on increased GDM risk. Our results provide support for the hypothesis that GDM and T2D are part of the same underlying pathology but that, as exemplified by the HKDC1 locus, there are genetic determinants of GDM that are specific to glucose regulation in pregnancy.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3377-3391
Number of pages	15
Journal	Human molecular genetics
Volume	31
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddac050
State	Published - Sep 29 2022

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Pervjakova, N., Moen, G. H., Borges, M. C., Ferreira, T., Cook, J. P., Allard, C., Beaumont, R. N., Canouil, M., Hatem, G., Heiskala, A., Joensuu, A., Karhunen, V., Kwak, S. H., Lin, F. T. J., Liu, J., Rifas-Shiman, S., Tam, C. H., Tam, W. H., Thorleifsson, G., ... Mägi, R. (2022). Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus highlights genetic links with type 2 diabetes. Human molecular genetics, 31(19), 3377-3391. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddac050

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