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The genetic regulatory signature of type 2 diabetes in human skeletal muscle.

Nature communications | 2016

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) results from the combined effects of genetic and environmental factors on multiple tissues over time. Of the >100 variants associated with T2D and related traits in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), >90% occur in non-coding regions, suggesting a strong regulatory component to T2D risk. Here to understand how T2D status, metabolic traits and genetic variation influence gene expression, we analyse skeletal muscle biopsies from 271 well-phenotyped Finnish participants with glucose tolerance ranging from normal to newly diagnosed T2D. We perform high-depth strand-specific mRNA-sequencing and dense genotyping. Computational integration of these data with epigenome data, including ATAC-seq on skeletal muscle, and transcriptome data across diverse tissues reveals that the tissue-specific genetic regulatory architecture of skeletal muscle is highly enriched in muscle stretch/super enhancers, including some that overlap T2D GWAS variants. In one such example, T2D risk alleles residing in a muscle stretch/super enhancer are linked to increased expression and alternative splicing of muscle-specific isoforms of ANK1.

Pubmed ID: 27353450 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 DK093757
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 DK072193
  • Agency: NHGRI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: T32 HG000040
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 DK062370
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 DK089256
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P30 DK020572
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: U01 DK105561
  • Agency: NIDDK NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R00 DK099240
  • Agency: Intramural NIH HHS, United States
    Id: ZIA HG000024

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