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Automatically associated channels: K2P , TASK3

Title: Novel approach identifies SNPs in SLC2A10 and KCNK9 with evidence for parent-of-origin effect on body mass index.

Authors: Clive J Hoggart, Giulia Venturini, Massimo Mangino, Felicia Gomez, Giulia Ascari, Jing Hua Zhao, Alexander Teumer, Thomas W Winkler, Natalia Tšernikova, Jian'an Luan, Evelin Mihailov, Georg B Ehret, Weihua Zhang, David Lamparter, Tõnu Esko, Aurelien Mace, Sina Rüeger, Pierre-Yves Bochud, Matteo Barcella, Yves Dauvilliers, Beben Benyamin, David M Evans, Caroline Hayward, Mary F Lopez, Lude Franke, Alessia Russo, Iris M Heid, Erika Salvi, Sailaja Vendantam, Dan E Arking, Eric Boerwinkle, John C Chambers, Giovanni Fiorito, Harald Grallert, Simonetta Guarrera, Georg Homuth, Jennifer E Huffman, David Porteous, , Darius Moradpour, Alex Iranzo, Johannes Hebebrand, John P Kemp, Gert J Lammers, Vincent Aubert, Markus H Heim, Nicholas G Martin, Grant W Montgomery, Rosa Peraita-Adrados, Joan Santamaría, Francesco Negro, Carsten O Schmidt, Robert A Scott, Tim D Spector, Konstantin Strauch, Henry Völzke, Nicholas J Wareham, Wei Yuan, Jordana T Bell, Aravinda Chakravarti, Jaspal S Kooner, Annette Peters, Giuseppe Matullo, Henri Wallaschofski, John B Whitfield, Fred Paccaud, Peter Vollenweider, Sven Bergmann, Jacques S Beckmann, Mehdi Tafti, Nicholas D Hastie, Daniele Cusi, Murielle Bochud, Timothy M Frayling, Andres Metspalu, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, André Scherag, George Davey Smith, Ingrid B Borecki, Valentin Rousson, Joel N Hirschhorn, Carlo Rivolta, Ruth J F Loos, Zoltán Kutalik

Journal, date & volume: PLoS Genet., 2014 Jul , 10, e1004508

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25078964

Abstract
The phenotypic effect of some single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) depends on their parental origin. We present a novel approach to detect parent-of-origin effects (POEs) in genome-wide genotype data of unrelated individuals. The method exploits increased phenotypic variance in the heterozygous genotype group relative to the homozygous groups. We applied the method to >56,000 unrelated individuals to search for POEs influencing body mass index (BMI). Six lead SNPs were carried forward for replication in five family-based studies (of ∼4,000 trios). Two SNPs replicated: the paternal rs2471083-C allele (located near the imprinted KCNK9 gene) and the paternal rs3091869-T allele (located near the SLC2A10 gene) increased BMI equally (beta = 0.11 (SD), P<0.0027) compared to the respective maternal alleles. Real-time PCR experiments of lymphoblastoid cell lines from the CEPH families showed that expression of both genes was dependent on parental origin of the SNPs alleles (P<0.01). Our scheme opens new opportunities to exploit GWAS data of unrelated individuals to identify POEs and demonstrates that they play an important role in adult obesity.