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Author: Shu, Xiao-Ou ; Kwak, Soo Heon ; Imamura, Minako ; Danesh, John ; Zhao, Wei ; Yasuda, Kazuki ; Kim, Young Jin ; Okada, Yukinori ; Kawamori, Ryuzo ; Tanaka, Yasushi ; Yamauchi, Toshimasa ; Florez, Jose C ; Tam, Claudia H T ; Hirose, Hiroshi ; Frossard, Philippe ; Zheng, Wei ; Burtt, Noël P ; Iwata, Minoru ; Jørgensen, Torben ; Moon, Sanghoon ; Cho, Yoon Shin ; Brandslund, Ivan ; Pedersen, Oluf ; Tusié-Luna, Teresa ; Wang, Xu ; Maegawa, Hiroshi ; Kubo, Michiaki ; Tai, E Shyong ; Long, Jirong ; Moreno-Macías, Hortensia ; Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia ; Tobe, Kazuyuki ; Kim, Bong-Jo ; Watada, Hirotaka ; Jørgensen, Marit E ; Fujita, Hayato ; Jia, Weiping ; Iwasaki, Minaka ; Ma, Ronald C W ; Hosoe, Jun ; Singh, Jai Rup ; Maeda, Shiro ; Hara, Kazuo ; Saleheen, Danish ; Saxena, Richa ; Ito, Chikako ; Hu, Cheng ; Suzuki, Ken ; Witte, Daniel R ; Zhang, Rong ; Sanghera, Dharambir ; Christensen, Cramer ; Park, Kyong Soo ; Rasheed, Asif ; Shojima, Nobuhiro ; Kaku, Kohei ; Grarup, Niels ; Flannick, Jason ; Chan, Juliana C N ; Kadowaki, Takashi ; Mercader, Josep M ; Hansen, Torben ; Takahashi, Atsushi
AbstractGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified more than 80 susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes (T2D), but most of its heritability still remains to be elucidated. In this study, we conducted a meta-analysis of GWAS for T2D in the Japanese population. Combined data from discovery and subsequent validation analyses (23,399 T2D cases and 31,722 controls) identify 7 new loci with genome-wide significance (P<5 × 10−8), rs1116357 near CCDC85A, rs147538848 in FAM60A, rs1575972 near DMRTA1, rs9309245 near ASB3, rs67156297 near ATP8B2, rs7107784 near MIR4686 and rs67839313 near INAFM2. Of these, the association of 4 loci with T2D is replicated in multi-ethnic populations other than Japanese (up to 65,936 T2Ds and 158,030 controls, P<0.007). These results indicate that expansion of single ethnic GWAS is still useful to identify novel susceptibility loci to complex traits not only for ethnicity-specific loci but also for common loci across different ethnicities.