A Quantitative Trait Locus on 7q31 for the Changes in Plasma Insulin in Response to Exercise Training
The HERITAGE Family Study
- Timo A. Lakka12,
- Tuomo Rankinen1,
- S. John Weisnagel3,
- Yvon C. Chagnon4,
- Treva Rice5,
- Arthur S. Leon6,
- James S. Skinner7,
- Jack H. Wilmore8,
- D.C. Rao59 and
- Claude Bouchard1
- 1Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- 2Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
- 3Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada
- 4Laval University, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada
- 5Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- 6School of Kinesiology and Leisure Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 7Department of Kinesiology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- 8Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
- 9Departments of Genetics and Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Abstract
Several genome-wide linkage scans have been carried out to identify quantitative trait loci for type 2 diabetes and related metabolic phenotypes. However, no previous linkage scans have focused on the response to exercise training of relevant metabolic traits. We performed a genome-wide linkage scan for baseline fasting glucose, insulin, and C-peptide and their responses to a 20-week exercise training program in nondiabetic white and black men and women from the HERITAGE Family Study. In SIBPAL linkage analyses, the maximum number of sibpairs available was 344 and 93 for baseline phenotypes and 300 and 72 for exercise training response phenotypes in whites and blacks, respectively. A total of 509 markers with an average spacing of 6.0 Mb were used. The strongest linkage was found for the changes in fasting insulin in response to exercise training with a marker in the leptin gene on 7q31 (empirical multipoint P = 0.0004) in whites. In blacks, the strongest linkage was observed for baseline fasting glucose on 12q13-q14 (empirical multipoint P = 0.0006). These regions harbor several potential candidate genes. The present findings may be important in identifying individuals at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes and who are most likely to benefit from a physically active lifestyle.
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to Claude Bouchard, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4124. E-mail: bouchac{at}pbrc.edu.
Received for publication 22 January 2003 and accepted in revised form 12 March 2003.
IBD, identical by descent; PFKM, phosphofructokinase; PPP1R3, protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 3; QTL, quantitative trait locus.
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