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A Major Gene Effect on Fasting Insulin and Insulin Sensitivity in Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
² Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

The most common inherited dyslipidemia, familial combined hyperlipidemia (FCHL), is associated with insulin resistance. Whether insulin sensitivity in these families is inherited is not known. Therefore, we investigated the inheritance of insulin sensitivity in 352 nondiabetic family members from 37 families with FCHL, 105 of whom had undergone testing using the hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp technique for the measurement of insulin sensitivity. First, complex segregation analysis of fasting insulin levels (both unadjusted and age-, age²-, and BMI-adjusted) was used for modeling of the variance in fasting insulin levels. In these analyses, Mendelian codominant inheritance (P = 0.320 for unadjusted and P = 0.295 for adjusted insulin values) was not rejected over the most general model and fit the data significantly better than the sporadic model (P < 0.001). Polygenic and environmental models were rejected (P < 0.001). The Mendelian codominant model explained 44 and 45% of the variance in unadjusted and adjusted fasting insulin levels, respectively. The proposed genotypes of this locus, based on segregation analysis, were associated with directly measured insulin sensitivity in 105 FCHL family members who underwent the hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp (P < 0.001). These results provide evidence for a major gene regulating insulin sensitivity in FCHL families. Possible pleiotropic effects of this insulin sensitivity locus on dyslipidemias in FCHL remain to be elucidated.

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