Characterization of the Annexin I Gene and Evaluation of Its Role in Type 2 Diabetes
Abstract
In a previous study, we identified suggestive linkage between type 2 diabetes and a locus on chromosome 9p13-q21. This region contains the gene annexin I (ANXA1), encoding a protein suggested to be involved in both insulin secretion and insulin action. In this study, we sequenced the exon/intron boundaries of the human ANXA1 gene and performed mutation screening in 41 individuals from the initial linkage study. We identified five single nucleotide polymorphisms A58G, A401G, intronic variance sequence (IVS)8-28A/G, IVS11 +31A/G, and IVS12-11T/G, which were further tested for association to diabetes in 197 parent/offspring trios using the transmission disequilibrium test. No significant association with type 2 diabetes was observed, although the common A allele of the +58A/G variant gave a 22:12 transmission distortion (P = 0.12). This variant was further genotyped in 481 case and control subjects, but no difference in allele, genotype, or haplotype frequencies were observed between the groups. Further, a novel polymorphic (CA)15–25 repeat in intron 11 was genotyped in the subjects included in the initial linkage study. No improvement of the original finding was observed. We therefore concluded that the ANXA1 gene is unlikely to harbor variants that contribute to risk of type 2 diabetes.
Footnotes
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Address correspondence to Leif C. Groop, Department of Endocrinology, Wallenberg Laboratory, Malmö University Hospital, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden. E-mail: leif.groop{at}endo.mas.lu.se.
Address reprint requests to Cecilia M. Lindren, Department of Endocrinology, Wallenberg Laboratory, Malmö University Hospital, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden. E-mail: cecilia.lindgren{at}endo.mas.lu.sc.
Received for publication 24 January 2001 and accepted in revised form 8 July 2001.
ANXA1, annexin 1; IFG, impaired fasting glucose; IGT, impaired glucose tolerance; IVS, intronic variance sequence; NPL, nonparametric linkage; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; SBE, single base extension; SSCP, single-strand conformation polymorphism; TDT, transmission disequilibrium test; UTR, untranslated region.
