Affiliation:
1. Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Inflammation Research and Translational Medicine Brunel University London London UK
2. Joseph Banks Laboratories, College of Health and Science University of Lincoln Lincoln, Lincolnshire UK
Abstract
AbstractAimThis study aims to investigate the associations between genetic risk scores (GRS) for favourable and unfavourable adiposity and a wide range of adiposity‐related outcomes across diverse populations.MethodsWe utilised previously identified variants associated with favourable (36 variants) and unfavourable (38 variants) adiposity to create GRS for each adiposity phenotype. We used summary statistics from 39 outcomes generated by the Pan‐UKB genome‐wide association studies Version 0.3, incorporating covariates such as age, sex and principal components in six populations: European (n = 420,531), African (6636), American (980), Central/South Asian (8876), East Asian (2709) and Middle Eastern (1599).ResultsThe favourable adiposity GRS was associated with a healthy metabolic profile, including lower risk of type 2 diabetes, lower liver enzyme levels, lower blood pressure, higher HDL‐cholesterol, lower triglycerides, higher apolipoprotein A, lower apolipoprotein B, higher testosterone, lower calcium and lower insulin‐like growth factor 1 generally consistently across all the populations. In contrast, the unfavourable adiposity GRS was associated with an adverse metabolic profile, including higher risk of type 2 diabetes, higher random glucose levels, higher HbA1c, lower HDL‐cholesterol, higher triglycerides, higher liver enzyme levels, lower testosterone, and higher C‐reactive protein generally consistently across all the populations.ConclusionThe study provides evidence that the genetic scores associated with favourable and unfavourable adiposity have consistent effects on metabolic profiles and disease risk across diverse ethnic groups. These findings deepen our understanding of distinct adiposity subtypes and their impact on metabolic health.
Subject
Endocrinology,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Internal Medicine
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