Identification and functional characterization of G6PC2 coding variants influencing glycemic traits define an effector transcript at the G6PC2-ABCB11 locus.

Genome wide association studies (GWAS) for fasting glucose (FG) and insulin (FI) have identified common variant signals which explain 4.8% and 1.2% of trait variance, respectively. It is hypothesized that low-frequency and rare variants could contribute substantially to unexplained genetic variance....

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Main Authors: Anubha Mahajan, Xueling Sim, Hui Jin Ng, Alisa Manning, Manuel A Rivas, Heather M Highland, Adam E Locke, Niels Grarup, Hae Kyung Im, Pablo Cingolani, Jason Flannick, Pierre Fontanillas, Christian Fuchsberger, Kyle J Gaulton, Tanya M Teslovich, N William Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Nicola L Beer, Jana K Rundle, Jette Bork-Jensen, Claes Ladenvall, Christine Blancher, David Buck, Gemma Buck, Noël P Burtt, Stacey Gabriel, Anette P Gjesing, Christopher J Groves, Mette Hollensted, Jeroen R Huyghe, Anne U Jackson, Goo Jun, Johanne Marie Justesen, Massimo Mangino, Jacquelyn Murphy, Matt Neville, Robert Onofrio, Kerrin S Small, Heather M Stringham, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Joseph Trakalo, Goncalo Abecasis, Graeme I Bell, John Blangero, Nancy J Cox, Ravindranath Duggirala, Craig L Hanis, Mark Seielstad, James G Wilson, Cramer Christensen, Ivan Brandslund, Rainer Rauramaa, Gabriela L Surdulescu, Alex S F Doney, Lars Lannfelt, Allan Linneberg, Bo Isomaa, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Marit E Jørgensen, Torben Jørgensen, Johanna Kuusisto, Matti Uusitupa, Veikko Salomaa, Timothy D Spector, Andrew D Morris, Colin N A Palmer, Francis S Collins, Karen L Mohlke, Richard N Bergman, Erik Ingelsson, Lars Lind, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Torben Hansen, Richard M Watanabe, Inga Prokopenko, Josee Dupuis, Fredrik Karpe, Leif Groop, Markku Laakso, Oluf Pedersen, Jose C Florez, Andrew P Morris, David Altshuler, James B Meigs, Michael Boehnke, Mark I McCarthy, Cecilia M Lindgren, Anna L Gloyn, T2D-GENES consortium and GoT2D consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004876