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Diabetes 55:1512-1516, 2006
DOI: 10.2337/db05-1520
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Adiponectin Genetic Variability, Plasma Adiponectin, and Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Lu Qi1,2, Alessandro Doria3, JoAnn E. Manson2,4,5, James B. Meigs6, David Hunter1,2,4, Christos S. Mantzoros7, and Frank B. Hu1,2,4

1 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
2 Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
3 Research Division, Department of Medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
4 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
5 Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
6 General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology Units, General Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
7 Division of Endocrinology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Lu Qi, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. E-mail nhlqi{at}channing.harvard.edu

Abbreviations: CVD, cardiovascular disease; LD, linkage disequilibrium; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism


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Adiponectin is an adipocyte-derived hormone that has shown anti-inflammatory and antiatherogenic effects. We assessed the associations of variants in the adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) with circulating adiponectin levels and cardiovascular risk among women with type 2 diabetes. Of 989 diabetic women from the Nurses’ Health Study, 285 developed cardiovascular disease (CVD) during follow-up through 2000. We genotyped five ADIPOQ polymorphisms in the CVD case and control subjects. A promoter polymorphism –11365C->G was significantly associated with lower plasma adiponectin levels (P = 0.004). The homozygotes of allele –4034C were significantly associated with ~60% increased cardiovascular risk (odds ratio 1.62 [95% CI 1.07–2.45]). Adjustment for age, BMI, and other covariates did not appreciably change the associations. In addition, a common haplotype possessing allele +276T (CAATT) was associated with a significantly lower CVD risk than the most common haplotype (CAATG) (0.70 [0.50–0.98]). In our meta-analysis of 827 CVD case and 1,887 CVD-free control subjects, polymorphism +276G->T was significantly associated with ~45% (20–62%) decreased CVD risk under a recessive inheritance mode in diabetic patients. In conclusion, ADIPOQ promoter polymorphism –11365C->G was associated with plasma adiponectin levels, whereas polymorphisms –4034A->C and +276G->T were associated with CVD risk in diabetic patients.

Adiponectin is the most abundant adipocyte-secreted hormone in blood (1). Adiponectin improves insulin action and the metabolism of glucose and lipids (2,3). The adiponectin levels are decreased in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes (4,5). In addition, adiponectin may regulate inflammatory response (6) and has an antiatherogenic effect (7,8). A strong linkage has been reported between the chromosomal region encompassing adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) and cardiovascular risk factors (9,10).

Recently, Lacquemant et al. (11) reported that polymorphism +45T->G in the ADIPOQ gene was associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease among patients with type 2 diabetes. In another study (12), polymorphism +276G->T was associated with a decreased coronary artery disease risk. However, these studies have been limited by the small sample size and case-control retrospective design and need to be replicated in large prospective studies.

In an earlier effort to replicate these findings in a prospective cohort of diabetic men, we found that ADIPOQpolymorphism +276G->T was associated with higher plasma adiponectin levels and a reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk (13). Women and men have different circulating levels of adiponectin (14). In this study, we sought to investigate the associations of ADIPOQ genetic variability with blood adiponectin levels and CVD risk in women with type 2 diabetes. We genotyped five common polymorphisms in the ADIPOQ gene (–11365C->G, –4034A->C, –3964A->G, +45T->G, and +276G->T) among diabetic women from the Nurses’ Health Study.


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The Nurses’ Health Study began in 1976 with the recruitment of 121,700 female registered nurses between the ages of 30 and 55 years. The information of lifestyle factors and disease diagnosis is updated by validated questionnaires every 2 years. A total of 32,826 women provided blood samples during 1989 and 1990. At blood collection, most participants (85%) had diagnosed diabetes, and the rest were diagnosed before 1994. We used National Diabetes Data Group criteria to define diabetes because our subjects were diagnosed before the release of the American Diabetes Association criteria in 1997 (15). The validity of this method has been confirmed (16). A case of diabetes was considered if at least one of the following was reported on the supplementary questionnaire: 1) classic symptoms plus elevated fasting plasma glucose ≥7.8 mmol/l, random plasma glucose ≥11.1 mmol/l, and/or plasma glucose ≥11.1 mmol/l after ≥2 h during an oral glucose tolerance test; 2) no symptoms but at least two elevated plasma glucose concentrations (by the above criteria) on different occasions; or 3) treatment with oral hypoglycemic agents or insulin.

Ascertainment of CVDs.
Subjects were classified as having CVD if they had confirmed fatal coronary heart disease, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and stroke or had experienced coronary artery bypass grafting or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Nonfatal myocardial infarction was confirmed by reviewing medical records using the criteria of the World Health Organization of symptoms plus either typical electrocardiographic changes or elevated levels of cardiac enzymes. Stroke was confirmed by reviewing medical records using the criteria of the National Survey of Stroke. Physicians who reviewed the records had no knowledge of the self-reported risk factors. Cardiovascular deaths were confirmed by review of medical records or autopsy reports with the permission of the next of kin. Sudden deaths were included in the fatal coronary heart disease category. We included the CVD case subjects who were diagnosed as having CVD after the onset of diabetes and through 2000. We excluded those missing all ADIPOQ genotypes. Finally, a total of 989 women (285 CVD case and 704 control subjects) were included in this study.

Assessment of biochemical markers and covariates.
Blood was collected during 1989 and 1990. Plasma adiponectin concentration was measured by competitive radioimunoassay (Linco Research, St. Charles, MO) with a coefficient of variation of 3.4% (17); BMI was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. Physical activity was expressed as MET hours based on self-reported types and durations of activities over the previous year (18).

Genotype determination.
DNA was extracted from the buffy coat fraction of centrifuged blood with the QIAmp Blood Kit (Qiagen, Chatsworth, CA). Four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), –11365C->G (rs266729), –4034A->C (rs822395), +45T->G (rs2241766), and +276G->T (rs1501299), were chosen for their ability to tag all common haplotypes at the adiponectin locus (19). Another SNP, –3964A->G (rs822396), was selected because of its lack of strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) with the four haplotype-tag SNPs (20). The polymorphisms were genotyped with Taqman SNP allelic discrimination by means of an ABI 7900HT (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA). Replicate quality control samples were included and genotyped with 100% concordance.

Statistical analyses.
A {chi}2 test was used to assess whether the genotypes were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and to determine differences in genotype frequencies between CVD case and control subjects. Unconditional logistic regression was used to calculate odds ratios (ORs), adjusting for age, BMI, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, HbA1c, history of hypertension or hypercholesterolemia, duration of diabetes, and postmenopausal hormone use. General linear models were used to compare geometric mean values of quantitative traits across groups. Plasma adiponectin was not normally distributed and was logarithmically transformed to improve the normality. The SAS statistical package was used for the analyses (SAS, Version 8.2 for UNIX). Haplotype analysis was conducted based on the Stochastic-EM algorithm using THESIAS program (21). All P values are two sided.

Because polymorphism +276G->T was repeatedly associated with the risk of CVD in diabetes (12,13), we conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the associations between this polymorphism and CVD risk. Formal test of heterogeneity was assessed by a {chi}2 statistic using STATA (Version 7.0; STATA, College Station, TX). We reported the summary OR derived from both the fixed-effect model and the DerSimonian and Laird random-effect model (22). In the fixed-effect model, the summary OR was obtained by averaging the natural logarithms of the ORs from individual studies, weighted by the inverses of their variances. In the random-effect model, OR was estimated by incorporating both within-study and between-study variability.


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Baseline characteristics of study women and ADIPOQ genotyping.
Table 1 presents the baseline characteristics in CVD case and control subjects. The case subjects were older and more obese and engaged in less physical activity than the control subjects. Among the study participants, the allele frequencies of ADIPOQ variants did not deviate from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (P > 0.05). The promoter polymorphism –11365C->G is not in LD with two intron 1 polymorphisms –4034A->C (D' = 0.04 and r2 = 0.006) and –3964A->G (D' = 0.06 and r2 = 0.003) but is in strong LD with the intron 2 polymorphism +276G->T (D' = 0.8 and r2 = 0.08), which is also in strong LD with +45T->G (D' = 1.0 and r2 = 0.05).


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  		TABLE 1 Baseline characteristics of diabetic women in CVD case and control subjects

 
Associations with body adiposity and plasma adiponectin.
Carriers of allele +45G had significantly lower BMI than the major genotypes (TT, 28.1 kg/m2 vs. TG + GG, 26.7 kg/m2), after adjustment for age and other covariates. Polymorphisms –11365C->G, –4034A->C, –3964A->G, and +276G->T were not significantly associated with adiposity. In addition, +45T->G was associated with significantly higher while –11365C->G was associated with significantly lower plasma adiponectin levels (Table 2). Further adjustment for BMI and other covariates attenuated the association between +45T->G and adiponectin levels but did not appreciably change the association between –11365C->G and plasma adiponectin.


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  		TABLE 2 Associations of ADIPOQ genotypes with plasma adiponectin levels (µg/ml) in women free of CVD

 
Associations with CVD risk.
Polymorphism –4034A->C was significantly associated with ~60% increased CVD risk under a recessive inheritance mode (OR 1.62 [95% CI 1.07–2.45]) (Table 3). Adjustment for age, BMI, and other covariates did not appreciably change the association. Although the frequency of the +276T homozygotes tended to be lower in the CVD case subjects, test for the association between this polymorphism and CVD risk was not statistically significant. However, haplotype analysis indicated that a common haplotype possessing allele +276T (CAATT) was associated with a significantly lower CVD risk than the most common haplotype (CAATG, 0.70 [0.50–0.98]) (Table 4).


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  		TABLE 3 Associations between ADIPOQ genotypes and the risk of CVD

 

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  		TABLE 4 Haplotype association with the risk of CVD in diabetic women

 
Meta-analysis of +276G->T-CVD association.
We conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the association between +276G->T and CVD risk among diabetic patients. In total, 827 CVD case and 1,887 CVD-free control subjects were included (11–13). As suggested by previous evidence, only the association under a recessive inheritance mode was summarized (Fig. 1). Testing for the heterogeneity of the included studies was marginally significant (P = 0.05). With a fixed-effect model, the +276T homozygote was significantly associated with an ~45% reduction in CVD risk (summary OR 0.55 [95% CI 0.38–0.80]). Such an association remained significant when a random-effect model was applied (0.53 [0.29–0.99]). In the analysis, by removing the initial study (11) that attributed largely to the between-study heterogeneity, the association between +276G->T and CVD risk became more significant (0.44 [0.28–0.69], fixed-effect model; test for heterogeneity, P > 0.05).


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  		FIG. 1. Meta-analysis of the associations of adiponectin variant G276T and CVD in patients with type 2 diabetes. ORs were obtained under recessive inheritance model (GT + TT vs. GG). The studies include Bacci et al. (12), Lacquement et al. (two populations of French and Swiss) (11), Qi et al. (13), and the present study.

 

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In this prospective study of diabetic women, the variants –11365C->G and –4034A->C in the ADIPOQ gene were associated with significantly decreased plasma adiponectin levels and a significantly increased cardiovascular risk, respectively. In addition, a common haplotype possessing allele +276T (CAATT) was associated with a significantly decreased CVD risk. Our meta-analysis of 827 CVD case and 1,887 CVD-free control subjects indicates that +276G->T was significantly associated with a ~45% decreased CVD risk under a recessive inheritance mode in diabetic patients.

Adiponectin is a cytokine exclusively secreted by mature adipocytes and circulates at a high concentration (1,23). Adiponectin promotes fatty acid oxidation and glucose uptake (2,3) and has shown strong anti-inflammatory and antiatherogenic effects (7,8). Plasma adiponectin levels are decreased in patients with type 2 diabetes and have been inversely associated with cardiovascular risk (5).

The finding that polymorphism –11365C->G was associated with lower plasma adiponectin levels agrees with previous evidence in French Caucasians (24). However, a recent study (25) suggests that other variants, but not –11365C->G (also coded as –11374C->G), in the ADIPOQ gene are responsible for adiponectin levels in an Amish population. In contrast to our findings in diabetic men (13), polymorphism +276G->T was not significantly associated with plasma adiopnectin in women, although the carriers of this polymorphism also tended to have slightly higher levels of adiponectin. Notably, +276G->T was in strong LD with –11365C->G.

In diabetic women, polymorphism –4034A->C was associated with an increased risk of CVD. Such an association was not observed in our earlier analysis in diabetic men (13) or in another study of mostly male diabetic patients (66% men; the polymorphism was also coded as –4041A->C) (11). In a test combining diabetic women and men (from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study) (13), the interaction between this polymorphism and sex was not significant (data not shown). As in diabetic men, the homozygotes of +276T also tended to be lower in the CVD case than in the control subjects among diabetic women. The haplotype analysis supports a protective effect of allele +276T on CVD risk. In addition, results from the meta-analysis confirm a significant association between +276T homozygotes and a decreased CVD risk. However, we cannot exclude the potential that +276G->T may act as a genetic marker in LD with the actual causal SNP.

We did not find a significant association between polymorphism +45T->G and CVD in diabetic women. This finding is consistent with our earlier observation in diabetic men (13) and the results from an Italian study (12), even though this polymorphism was initially associated with coronary artery disease (11). Interestingly, polymorphism +45T->G showed a strong association with body adiposity in diabetic women. Such an association is consistent with the autocrine function of adiponectin in regulating fat accumulation at adipose tissue (26). However, given its silent nature, +45T->G more likely acts as a genetic marker for other unknown causal variants.

In summary, we found that the promoter polymorphism –11365C->G in the ADIPOQ gene was associated with plasma adiponectin levels. Polymorphisms –4034A->C and +276G->T were associated with the risk of CVD. Our data suggest that ADIPOQ variability may influence plasma adiponectin levels and risk of CVD in diabetic patients. Further studies with more comprehensive and informative genetic markers are warranted to explore the genetic effects of ADIPOQ on CVD in our cohorts and other populations.


   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
This study was supported by research grants (HL65582, HL71981, DK58845, HL34594, and CA87969) from the National Institutes of Health. F.B.H. is partially supported by an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. J.B.M. is supported by an American Diabetes Association Career Development Award.


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Received for publication November 22, 2005 and accepted in revised form February 6, 2006


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