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Hepatocyte nuclear factor (HNF)-4α is part of a transcription factor network that is key for the development and function of the β-cell. Rare mutations in the HNF4α gene cause maturity-onset diabetes of the young. A number of type 2 diabetes linkage studies have found evidence of linkage to 20q12-13.1 where the HNF4α gene is located. Two recent studies have found an association between four common variants of the alternative P2 promoter region and type 2 diabetes. These variants are in strong linkage disequilibrium, and the minor alleles define one common risk haplotype. In both studies, the risk haplotype explained a large proportion of the evidence of linkage to 20q12-13.1. We aimed to assess this haplotype in a U.K. Caucasian study of 5,256 subjects. We typed two single nucleotide polymorphisms tagging the risk haplotype (rs4810424 and rs2144908) and found evidence of association in both case-control and family-based studies; rs4810424 marginally demonstrated the stronger association with an overall estimated odds ratio of 1.15 (95% CI 1.02-1.33) (P = 0.02). The effect of the P2 haplotype on type 2 diabetes risk is less than in the initial studies, probably reflecting that these studies used 20q12-13.1-linked cases. In conclusion, we have replicated the association of the HNF4α P2 promoter haplotype with type 2 diabetes in a U.K. Caucasian population where there is no evidence of linkage to 20q.
Author(s): Weedon MN, Owen KR, Shields B, Hitman G, Walker M, McCarthy MI, Love-Gregory LD, Permutt MA, Hattersley AT, Frayling TM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Diabetes
Year: 2004
Volume: 53
Issue: 11
Pages: 3002-3006
ISSN (print): 0012-1797
ISSN (electronic): 1939-327X
Publisher: American Diabetes Association
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/diabetes.53.11.3002
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.53.11.3002
PubMed id: 15504983
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