DESCRIPTION:

List of positional candidate genes after correcting for multiple testing and controlling the false discovery rate from genome wide association studies (GWAS) retrieved from the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/). The disease/trait examined in this study, as reported by the authors, was Waist circumference. The EFO term waist circumference was annotated to this set after curation by NHGRI-EBI. Intergenic SNPS were mapped to both the upstream and downstream gene. P-value uploaded. This gene set was generated using gwas2gs v. 0.1.8 and the GWAS Catalog v. 1.0.1.

LABEL:

GWAS: waist circumference

SCORE TYPE:

P-Value

DATE ADDED:

2017-05-02

DATE UPDATED:

2024-04-25

SPECIES:

AUTHORS:

NL Heard-Costa, MC Zillikens, KL Monda, A Johansson, TB Harris, M Fu, T Haritunians, MF Feitosa, T Aspelund, G Eiriksdottir, M Garcia, LJ Launer, AV Smith, BD Mitchell, PF McArdle, AR Shuldiner, SJ Bielinski, E Boerwinkle, F Brancati, EW Demerath, JS Pankow, AM Arnold, YD Chen, NL Glazer, B McKnight, BM Psaty, JI Rotter, N Amin, H Campbell, U Gyllensten, C Pattaro, PP Pramstaller, I Rudan, M Struchalin, V Vitart, X Gao, A Kraja, MA Province, Q Zhang, LD Atwood, J Dupuis, JN Hirschhorn, CE Jaquish, CJ O'Donnell, RS Vasan, CC White, YS Aulchenko, K Estrada, A Hofman, F Rivadeneira, AG Uitterlinden, JC Witteman, BA Oostra, RC Kaplan, V Gudnason, JR O'Connell, IB Borecki, CM van Duijn, LA Cupples, CS Fox, KE North

TITLE:

NRXN3 is a novel locus for waist circumference: a genome-wide association study from the CHARGE Consortium.

JOURNAL:

PLoS genetics Jun 2009, Vol 5, pp. e1000539

ABSTRACT:

Central abdominal fat is a strong risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To identify common variants influencing central abdominal fat, we conducted a two-stage genome-wide association analysis for waist circumference (WC). In total, three loci reached genome-wide significance. In stage 1, 31,373 individuals of Caucasian descent from eight cohort studies confirmed the role of FTO and MC4R and identified one novel locus associated with WC in the neurexin 3 gene [NRXN3 (rs10146997, p = 6.4x10(-7))]. The association with NRXN3 was confirmed in stage 2 by combining stage 1 results with those from 38,641 participants in the GIANT consortium (p = 0.009 in GIANT only, p = 5.3x10(-8) for combined analysis, n = 70,014). Mean WC increase per copy of the G allele was 0.0498 z-score units (0.65 cm). This SNP was also associated with body mass index (BMI) [p = 7.4x10(-6), 0.024 z-score units (0.10 kg/m(2)) per copy of the G allele] and the risk of obesity (odds ratio 1.13, 95% CI 1.07-1.19; p = 3.2x10(-5) per copy of the G allele). The NRXN3 gene has been previously implicated in addiction and reward behavior, lending further evidence that common forms of obesity may be a central nervous system-mediated disorder. Our findings establish that common variants in NRXN3 are associated with WC, BMI, and obesity. PUBMED: 19557197
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