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Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI

BACKGROUND: The agouti related protein (AGRP) is an endogenous antagonist of the melanocortin 4 receptor and is one of the most potent orexigenic factors. The aim of the present study was to assess the genetic variability of AGRP gene and investigate whether the previously reported SNP rs5030980 and...

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Autores principales: Kalnina, Ineta, Kapa, Ivo, Pirags, Valdis, Ignatovica, Vita, Schiöth, Helgi B, Klovins, Janis
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19602223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-10-63
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author Kalnina, Ineta
Kapa, Ivo
Pirags, Valdis
Ignatovica, Vita
Schiöth, Helgi B
Klovins, Janis
author_facet Kalnina, Ineta
Kapa, Ivo
Pirags, Valdis
Ignatovica, Vita
Schiöth, Helgi B
Klovins, Janis
author_sort Kalnina, Ineta
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description BACKGROUND: The agouti related protein (AGRP) is an endogenous antagonist of the melanocortin 4 receptor and is one of the most potent orexigenic factors. The aim of the present study was to assess the genetic variability of AGRP gene and investigate whether the previously reported SNP rs5030980 and the rs11575892, a SNP that so far has not been studied with respect to obesity is associated with increased body mass index (BMI). METHODS: We determined the complete sequence of the AGRP gene and upstream promoter region in 95 patients with severe obesity (BMI > 35 kg/m(2)). Three polymorphisms were identified: silent mutation c.123G>A (rs34123523) in the second exon, non-synonymous mutation c.199G>A (rs5030980) and c.131-42C>T (rs11575892) located in the second intron. We further screened rs11575892 in a selected group of 1135 and rs5030980 in group of 789 participants from the Genome Database of Latvian Population and Latvian State Research Program Database. RESULTS: The CT heterozygotes of rs11575892 had significantly higher mean BMI value (p = 0.027). After adjustment for age, gender and other significant non-genetic factors (presence of diseases), the BMI levels remained significantly higher in carriers of the rs11575892 T allele (p = 0.001). The adjusted mean BMI value of CC genotype was 27.92 ± 1.01 kg/m(2 )(mean, SE) as compared to 30.97 ± 1.03 kg/m(2 )for the CT genotype. No association was found between rs5030980 and BMI. CONCLUSION: This study presents an association of rare allele of AGRP polymorphism in heterozygous state with increased BMI. The possible functional effects of this polymorphism are unclear but may relate to splicing defects.
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spelling pubmed-27148402009-07-24 Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI Kalnina, Ineta Kapa, Ivo Pirags, Valdis Ignatovica, Vita Schiöth, Helgi B Klovins, Janis BMC Med Genet Research Article BACKGROUND: The agouti related protein (AGRP) is an endogenous antagonist of the melanocortin 4 receptor and is one of the most potent orexigenic factors. The aim of the present study was to assess the genetic variability of AGRP gene and investigate whether the previously reported SNP rs5030980 and the rs11575892, a SNP that so far has not been studied with respect to obesity is associated with increased body mass index (BMI). METHODS: We determined the complete sequence of the AGRP gene and upstream promoter region in 95 patients with severe obesity (BMI > 35 kg/m(2)). Three polymorphisms were identified: silent mutation c.123G>A (rs34123523) in the second exon, non-synonymous mutation c.199G>A (rs5030980) and c.131-42C>T (rs11575892) located in the second intron. We further screened rs11575892 in a selected group of 1135 and rs5030980 in group of 789 participants from the Genome Database of Latvian Population and Latvian State Research Program Database. RESULTS: The CT heterozygotes of rs11575892 had significantly higher mean BMI value (p = 0.027). After adjustment for age, gender and other significant non-genetic factors (presence of diseases), the BMI levels remained significantly higher in carriers of the rs11575892 T allele (p = 0.001). The adjusted mean BMI value of CC genotype was 27.92 ± 1.01 kg/m(2 )(mean, SE) as compared to 30.97 ± 1.03 kg/m(2 )for the CT genotype. No association was found between rs5030980 and BMI. CONCLUSION: This study presents an association of rare allele of AGRP polymorphism in heterozygous state with increased BMI. The possible functional effects of this polymorphism are unclear but may relate to splicing defects. BioMed Central 2009-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2714840/ /pubmed/19602223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-10-63 Text en Copyright © 2009 Kalnina et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kalnina, Ineta
Kapa, Ivo
Pirags, Valdis
Ignatovica, Vita
Schiöth, Helgi B
Klovins, Janis
Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI
title Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI
title_full Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI
title_fullStr Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI
title_full_unstemmed Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI
title_short Association between a rare SNP in the second intron of human Agouti related protein gene and increased BMI
title_sort association between a rare snp in the second intron of human agouti related protein gene and increased bmi
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19602223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-10-63
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