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Obesity Studies

Low Physical Activity Accentuates the Effect of the FTO rs9939609 Polymorphism on Body Fat Accumulation

  1. Camilla H. Andreasen1,
  2. Kirstine L. Stender-Petersen1,
  3. Mette S. Mogensen1,
  4. Signe S. Torekov1,
  5. Lise Wegner1,
  6. Gitte Andersen1,
  7. Arne L. Nielsen1,
  8. Anders Albrechtsen2,
  9. Knut Borch-Johnsen134,
  10. Signe S. Rasmussen1,
  11. Jesper O. Clausen1,
  12. Annelli Sandbæk5,
  13. Torsten Lauritzen5,
  14. Lars Hansen6,
  15. Torben Jørgensen3,
  16. Oluf Pedersen14 and
  17. Torben Hansen1
  1. 1Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
  2. 2Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  3. 3Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
  4. 4Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
  5. 5Department of General Practice, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
  6. 6Science and Medicine, Novo Nordisk, Bagsværd, Denmark
  1. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Camilla H. Andreasen, Steno Diabetes Center, Niels Steensens Vej 1, NLC2.13, DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark. E-mail: cila{at}novonordisk.com
Diabetes 2008 Jan; 57(1): 95-101. https://doi.org/10.2337/db07-0910
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE—Three independent studies have shown that variation in the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene associates with BMI and obesity. In the present study, the effect of FTO variation on metabolic traits including obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related quantitative phenotypes was examined.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—The FTO rs9939609 polymorphism was genotyped in a total of 17,508 Danes from five different study groups.

RESULTS—In studies of 3,856 type 2 diabetic case subjects and 4,861 normal glucose-tolerant control subjects, the minor A-allele of rs9939609 associated with type 2 diabetes (odds ratio 1.13 [95% CI 1.06–1.20], P = 9 × 10−5). This association was abolished when adjusting for BMI (1.06 [0.97–1.16], P = 0.2). Among 17,162 middle-aged Danes, the A-allele associated with overweight (1.19 [1.13–1.24], P = 1 × 10−12) and obesity (1.27 [1.20–1.34], P = 2 × 10−16). Furthermore, obesity-related quantitative traits such as body weight, waist circumference, fat mass, and fasting serum leptin levels were significantly elevated in A-allele carriers. An interaction between the FTO rs9939609 genotype and physical activity (P = 0.007) was found, where physically inactive homozygous risk A-allele carriers had a 1.95 ± 0.3 kg/m2 increase in BMI compared with homozygous T-allele carriers.

CONCLUSIONS—We validate that variation in FTO is associated with type 2 diabetes when not adjusted for BMI and with an overall increase in body fat mass. Furthermore, low physical activity seems to accentuate the effect of FTO rs9939609 on body fat accumulation.

  • BIGTT, β-cell function, insulin sensitivity, and glucose tolerance testing
  • BIGTT-AIR, BIGTT acute insulin response
  • BIGTT-Si, BIGTT insulin sensitivity index
  • SDC, Steno Diabetes Center
  • SNP, single-nucleotide polymorphism

Worldwide incidence of obesity has increased dramatically and is today one of the leading causes of lifestyle-related disorders such as type 2 diabetes and premature cardiovascular disease. Association between common forms of obesity and genes such as GAD2 (1), ENPP1 (2), and INSIG2 (3) have been reported but difficult to validate (4–6). Recently, variation in the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene was reported to associate with type 2 diabetes and increased fat mass. As a part of the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium genome-wide association study, which included 1,924 U.K. type 2 diabetic patients and 2,938 U.K. normoglycemic control subjects, an FTO variant (rs9939609) was found to associate with type 2 diabetes; however, this association abolished following adjustment for BMI (7). Subsequently, an association with overweight and obesity was demonstrated in seven population-based study samples comprising a total of 19,424 white European adults and two birth cohorts including 10,172 white European children. Moreover, evidence was presented that the increase in BMI resulted from an overall increase in body fat, evaluated by waist circumference and fat mass estimates, including skinfold measures (7).

In another independent study, the effect of 48 neutral single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on obesity was tested in 2,900 obese and 5,100 control subjects of European ancestry, and the FTO rs1121980 polymorphism, also located in the first intron of FTO, was strongly associated with morbid obesity (BMI ≥40 kg/m2). By selecting HapMap tag SNPs, this association was further replicated in four different European study samples comprising 2,081 obese and 2,783 nonobese subjects of various ages (8). A third independent study showed that the FTO rs9930506 variant and a cluster of nearby SNPs, including rs9939609, were strongly associated with BMI, hip circumference, and body weight in 6,148 individuals from Sardinia. This finding was replicated in different study groups comprising a total of 3,467 individuals of different ethnicities (9).

The function of the FTO gene product and the involved biological pathways are as yet unknown, but gene expression profiles show that FTO is expressed in several tissues, especially specific parts of the brain, and in muscle (7,8). Here, we investigate the effect of FTO variation on obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related metabolic quantitative traits in large study samples of Danes.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

The FTO rs9939609, rs8050136, and rs7193144 polymorphisms were genotyped in 17,508 Danes comprising five study groups: 1) the population-based Inter99 study sample (clinical trial reg. no. NCT00289237, clinicaltrials.gov) (n = 6,104), sampled at the Research Centre for Prevention and Health (10); 2) unrelated type 2 diabetic patients (n = 2,015), sampled through the outpatient clinic at Steno Diabetes Center (SDC) (hereafter referred to as the SDC type 2 diabetes study group); 3) a population-based group of unrelated middle-aged glucose-tolerant subjects (n = 661) examined at SDC (the SDC control group); 4) the ADDITION (Anglo-Danish-Dutch Study of Intensive Treatment in People with Screen Detected Diabetes in Primary Care) study cohort (clinical trial reg. no. NCT00237548) (n = 8,382) sampled by the Department of General Practice at the University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (11); and 5) a population-based sample of young healthy Danish Caucasians (n = 346) recruited from the Research Centre for Prevention and Health (12). All participants in the Inter99 and SDC control group study samples underwent a standard 75-g oral glucose tolerance test, and all participants in the young study group (group 5) underwent a tolbutamide-modified intravenous glucose tolerance test (12).

All study participants were Danes by self-report. Informed written consent was obtained from all subjects before participation. The studies were approved by the regional ethical committees and were in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Type 2 diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glycemia, and normal glucose tolerance were defined according to the World Health Organization (13). Overweight and obesity were defined as BMI ≥25 and ≥30 kg/m2, respectively. Interaction studies with physical activity and insulin sensitivity were performed in study group 1, including subjects with normal glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glycemia, impaired glucose tolerance, and screen-detected diabetes. Further information on the study groups can be found in an online appendix (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db07-0910).

Biochemical and anthropometrical measurements.

Obesity-related measures, fasting serum lipids, plasma glucose, and serum insulin were measured as described (10–12,14–16). Further information can be found in the online appendix. The level of physical activity was self-reported by questionnaire (14) and divided into categories as physically passive, light or medium physically active, and hard or very hard physically active. The BIGTT insulin sensitivity index (BIGTT-Si) and the BIGTT acute insulin response (BIGTT-AIR) were calculated as described (15).

Genotyping.

The FTO rs9939609, rs8050136, and rs7193144 polymorphisms were genotyped using Taqman allelic discrimination (KBioscience, Herts, U.K.). Discordances between 1,464 random duplicate samples were 0.27, 0.14, and 0.14%, respectively, and the genotyping success rates were 97.4, 97.8, and 97.4%, respectively. All genotype groups obeyed Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

Statistical analyses.

Fisher's exact test was applied to examine differences in genotype distributions and allele frequencies between affected and unaffected subjects, and logistic regression was used, assuming an additive model, when adjustments for sex, age, and BMI were introduced. A general linear model was used to test quantitative variables for differences between genotype groups, assuming an additive, dominant, or recessive model. Adjustment for sex, age, and BMI was applied when appropriate. The Benjamini and Hochberg method was used to correct for multiple testing, considering both the number of traits and the genetic models tested. Correction for multiple testing was performed separately in the two studies of quantitative traits. Linear models extended with environmental parameters were used to test for interaction using an ANOVA test, assuming an additive model. BIGTT-Si was included as a covariate, while physical activity and glucose tolerance status were treated as categorical variables. A weighted analysis of the interactions was also performed, wherein variance of BMI in the subgroups of physical activity and insulin sensitivity was estimated from the residuals of a linear model with sex and age included. All analyses were performed with RGui, version 2.5.0 (http://www.r-project.org). P values <0.05 were considered significant.

RESULTS

Due to near-perfect linkage disequilibrium between the three genotyped SNPs (mean r2 = 0.99), we excluded rs8050136 and rs7193144 from further analyses. The overall minor allele frequency for FTO rs9939609 was 41.6%.

We validated the previous observation of a strong unadjusted association between the FTO rs9939609 A-allele and type 2 diabetes (odds ratio 1.13 [95% CI 1.06–1.20]) (Table 1). The association between rs9939609 and type 2 diabetes was abolished when adjusting for BMI (1.06 [0.97–1.16], Padditive = 0.2). The A-allele was associated with overweight and obesity in the population-based Inter99 study sample, the ADDITION study cohort, and the SDC type 2 diabetes study group separately but not in the SDC control group (supplementary Table B). When combining these four study groups, we found a strong association with both overweight (1.19 [1.13–1.24], Pallele frequency = 1 × 10−12) and obesity (1.27 [1.20–1.34], Pallele frequency = 2 × 10−16) (Table 1).

In the population-based Inter99 study sample, the FTO rs9939609 A-allele was highly associated with obesity-related measures including BMI (Padditive = 1 × 10−9), body weight (Padditive = 2 × 10−9), and waist circumference (Padditive = 1 × 10−7). No convincing association with fasting levels of serum triglyceride or cholesterol or with post–oral glucose load levels of serum insulin or plasma glucose were shown. However, decreased BIGTT-Si (Padditive = 0.004) and increased BIGTT-AIR (Padditive = 0.001) were observed in homozygous carriers of the FTO rs9939609 A-allele (Table 2).

In a study of 346 healthy young Danish whites, the FTO rs9939609 A-allele was associated with elevated BMI (Padditive = 0.002), body weight (Padditive = 0.008), fat mass (Padditive = 0.001), body fat percentage (Padditive = 3 × 10−4), and fasting serum leptin concentrations (Padditive = 0.003) but not with height or lean body mass. No association with birth weight, birth length, or the ponderal index at birth was observed (Table 3). To ensure the robustness of the quantitative trait analyses, we corrected for multiple testing using the Benjamini and Hochberg method.

The effect of the FTO rs9939609 genotype on BMI, body weight, and waist circumference in the population-based Inter99 study sample and the SDC type 2 diabetes study group, stratified according to glucose tolerance status, is shown in supplementary Fig. 1. We found no interaction between glucose tolerance status and the FTO rs9939609 genotype effect on BMI, body weight, or waist circumference (data not shown).

We found an interaction between the FTO rs9939609 genotype and self-reported physical activity on BMI levels in the population-based Inter99 study sample (Pinteraction = 0.007). The FTO rs9939609 genotype effect on BMI for physically passive, light or medium physically active, and hard or very hard physically active subjects was 0.38, 0.37, and −0.11 kg/m2, respectively, when comparing homozygous T-allele carriers and heterozygous carriers and 1.95, 0.69, and 0.47 kg/m2, respectively, when comparing homozygous T-allele carriers and homozygous A-allele carriers (Fig. 1A).

Finally, we found an interaction between the FTO rs9939609 genotype and measures of insulin sensitivity. The FTO rs9939609 genotype effect on BMI in the highest, medium, and lowest insulin sensitivity groups, stratified by BIGTT-Si tertiles, was −0.14, 0.31, and 0.54 kg/m2, respectively, between homozygous T-allele carriers and heterozygous carriers, and 0.25, 0.60, and 1.34 kg/m2, respectively, comparing homozygous T-allele carriers and homozygous A-allele carriers (Pinteraction = 2 × 10−4) (Fig. 1B). Since the variance of BMI in the different physical activity and insulin sensitivity subgroups was substantial, we also performed a weighted analysis for the interactions. The subgroups were weighted by the reciprocal variance, and the interactions remained significant for both physical activity (Pinteraction = 0.003) and insulin sensitivity (Pinteraction = 0.03).

DISCUSSION

In the present study, we validated that FTO predisposes to type 2 diabetes. As previously observed (7), this association seems to be mediated by the effect of increased fat mass, since it abolishes when adjusting for BMI. The variant strongly associates with overweight and obesity and with quantitative traits such as BMI, body weight, and waist circumference. Homozygous carriers of the A-allele in the population-based Inter99 study sample weighed on average 3.3 kg (SE 2.1–4.6) more than noncarriers, which is reflected in a BMI increased by 1.1 kg/m2 (0.7–1.4) and a waist circumference increased by 2.3 cm (1.3–3.3). The association with obesity-related measures was not affected by glucose tolerance status.

BMI is by definition influenced by measures of body weight and height, but in the present study, the FTO rs9939609 genotype only affected body weight. BMI is also influenced by lean body mass and fat mass, but in studies of 346 young healthy Danish whites, we only demonstrated an increase in fat mass. Analyses of BMI adjusted for waist circumference remained significant, whereas waist circumference adjusted for BMI did not (data not shown). This indicates that the observed increase in BMI is due to a global increase in fat mass rather than an intra-abdominal fat accumulation.

Finally, the FTO rs9939609 genotype was associated with increased fasting serum leptin levels, which are considered a result of increased adiposity. We observed an increase in body weight estimates at all ages except among newborns, which is in accordance with previous findings (7,8), suggesting that body fat accumulation takes place in early childhood.

In the study of 5,722 middle-aged individuals from the population-based Inter99 study sample, we found no differences in postoral glucose load measures of serum insulin or plasma glucose. However, whole-body insulin sensitivity, estimated by the BIGTT-Si, was significantly decreased in homozygous carriers of the FTO rs9939609 risk A-allele. Furthermore, we found that the impact of the FTO rs9939609 genotype on BMI levels was highly influenced by insulin sensitivity. We only noticed a modest FTO rs9939609–induced increase in BMI levels among participants with a high insulin sensitivity index, whereas low insulin sensitivity index enhanced the genotype effect, particularly among homozygous A-allele carriers.

Thus, this is the first study implying interactions between the FTO rs9939609 genotype and insulin sensitivity. FTO is ubiquitously expressed, and numerous mechanisms leading to decreased insulin sensitivity exist. Since FTO is relatively abundantly expressed in muscle (7), it is feasible that the FTO rs9939609 genotype might affect insulin-mediated glucose uptake in muscle. Obviously, this hypothesis needs to be tested experimentally.

Interestingly, we showed that the impact of the FTO rs9939609 genotype is influenced by the habitual level of physical activity in the population-based Inter99 study sample. Physical inactivity was associated with a BMI increase of 1.95 ± 0.33 kg/m2 in homozygous FTO rs9939609 A-allele carriers, whereas no major effect of sedentary lifestyle was found comparing noncarriers and those heterozygous for the FTO rs9939609 A-allele. Obviously, this finding needs replication in independent study populations to be used in a public health context. Also, since physical activity in our study has been assessed by questionnaire, it would be important to validate the finding with more direct measures of physical activity.

In conclusion, our study validates that variation in FTO associates with an overall increase in body fat accumulation as reflected by BMI, body weight, and waist circumference. Moreover, in middle-aged individuals, the FTO rs9939609 genotype may be associated with a decrease in estimates of whole-body insulin sensitivity, and in homozygous carriers of the FTO A-allele, physical inactivity associates with a relatively large increase in BMI compared with that in noncarriers and those heterozygous for the A-allele.

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FIG. 1.

Effect of physical activity and insulin sensitivity on the impact of the FTO rs9939609 genotype on BMI in the population-based Inter99 study sample. A: Subjects were divided according to self-reported physical activity and stratified according to the FTO rs9939609 genotype. Bars indicate differences in BMI levels between heterozygous and homozygous T-allele carriers and between homozygous A-allele carriers and homozygous T-allele carriers, respectively. We tested for interaction effects using linear models, with or without interaction parameters for physical activity, compared by an ANOVA test (Pinteraction = 0.007). The number of subjects in each genotype group (TT/TA/AA) was (633/943/338) in the group of physically passive, (1,131/1,572/521) in the group of light or medium physically active, and (152/189/75) in the group of hard or very hard physically active, respectively. B: Subjects were divided by insulin sensitivity tertiles, assessed by the BIGTT-Si (lowest tertile: BIGTT-Si <7.4; middle tertile: 7.4 ≤ BIGTT-Si < 11.1; highest tertile: BIGTT-Si<11.1) and stratified according to the FTO rs9939609 genotype. Bars indicate differences in BMI levels between heterozygous and homozygous T-allele carriers and between homozygous A-allele carriers and homozygous T-allele carriers, respectively. We tested for interaction effects using linear models, with or without interaction parameters for BIGTT-Si, compared by an ANOVA test (Pinteraction = 2 × 10−4). The number of subjects in each genotype group (TT/TA/AA) was (557/821/317) in the group with low BIGTT-Si, (568/833/294) in the group with middle BIGTT-Si, and (609/834/253) in the group with high BIGTT-Si.

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Association study of type 2 diabetes, overweight, and obesity

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Anthropometric and metabolic characteristics of 5,722 treatment-naive Danish individuals from the population-based Inter99 study sample, stratified according to FTO rs9939609 genotype

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Anthropometric and metabolic characteristics of 346 young healthy Danish Caucasians stratified according to FTO rs9939609 genotype

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Danish Medical Research Council, the Danish Diabetes Association, the Gerda and Aage Haensch Foundation, the A.P. Møller Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Science, the University of Copenhagen, and the Velux Foundation. This article is part of the Hepatic and Adipose Tissue and Functions in the Metabolic Syndrome project (www.hepadip.org), which is supported by the European Commission as an integrated project under the 6th Framework Programme (LSHM-CT-2005-018734). This study also received support from The Danish Obesity Research Center, which is supported by the Danish Council for Strategic Research (grant 2101-06-0005).

The authors thank Annemette Forman, Inge-Lise Wantzin, and Marianne Stendal for technical assistance and Grete Lademann for secretarial support.

Footnotes

  • Published ahead of print at http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org on 17 October 2007. DOI: 10.2337/db07-0910.

    C.H.A. and K.L.S.-P. contributed equally to this article.

    K.B.-J. has received honorarium for invited lectures by Novo Nordisk, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, Pfizer, Hermedico, and AstraZeneca.

    Additional information for this article can be found in an online appendix at http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db07-0910.

    The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

    • Accepted October 10, 2007.
    • Received July 4, 2007.
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Low Physical Activity Accentuates the Effect of the FTO rs9939609 Polymorphism on Body Fat Accumulation
Camilla H. Andreasen, Kirstine L. Stender-Petersen, Mette S. Mogensen, Signe S. Torekov, Lise Wegner, Gitte Andersen, Arne L. Nielsen, Anders Albrechtsen, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Signe S. Rasmussen, Jesper O. Clausen, Annelli Sandbæk, Torsten Lauritzen, Lars Hansen, Torben Jørgensen, Oluf Pedersen, Torben Hansen
Diabetes Jan 2008, 57 (1) 95-101; DOI: 10.2337/db07-0910

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Low Physical Activity Accentuates the Effect of the FTO rs9939609 Polymorphism on Body Fat Accumulation
Camilla H. Andreasen, Kirstine L. Stender-Petersen, Mette S. Mogensen, Signe S. Torekov, Lise Wegner, Gitte Andersen, Arne L. Nielsen, Anders Albrechtsen, Knut Borch-Johnsen, Signe S. Rasmussen, Jesper O. Clausen, Annelli Sandbæk, Torsten Lauritzen, Lars Hansen, Torben Jørgensen, Oluf Pedersen, Torben Hansen
Diabetes Jan 2008, 57 (1) 95-101; DOI: 10.2337/db07-0910
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