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OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort

Background and aim: Metabolomic studies have shown that circulating amino acid levels are altered in the context of obesity. The branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs, namely leucine, isoleucine and valine) have been the most studied because of their consistent positive association with adiposity and th...

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Autores principales: Maltais-Payette, Ina, Vijay, Jinchu, Grunberg, Elin, Tchernof, Andre
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7209556/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvaa046.981
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author Maltais-Payette, Ina
Vijay, Jinchu
Grunberg, Elin
Tchernof, Andre
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Vijay, Jinchu
Grunberg, Elin
Tchernof, Andre
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description Background and aim: Metabolomic studies have shown that circulating amino acid levels are altered in the context of obesity. The branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs, namely leucine, isoleucine and valine) have been the most studied because of their consistent positive association with adiposity and their ability to prospectively predict type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (1). Circulating glutamate has been much less investigated, but some have shown that its specific association with central fat accumulation was stronger than that of BCAAs (2). This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between circulating glutamate and abdominal obesity and the impact of genetic factors on this association. Methods: In the TwinsUK cohort, we selected individuals for whom both metabolomics and DXA trunk fat measurements were available (n=4 665). We used linear regression to assess the correlation between glutamate level and trunk fat. Those with a trunk fat mass greater than 15 kg were considered abdominally obese. We compared the odds of presenting abdominal obesity in each circulating glutamate quintile with logistic regression models. Monozygotic twin pairs discordant for trunk fat were selected to identify analyte differences driven by non-genetic factors. All analyses were also performed with BCAAs for comparison. Results: Circulating glutamate was positively and significantly associated with trunk fat (β: 0.28, 95%CI: 0.26-0.31). Individuals in the highest circulating glutamate quintile had a more than 8-fold higher risk of being characterized by abdominal obesity compared to those in the lowest quintile (OR: 8.44, 95%CI: 6.17-11.55). In the 54 monozygotic twin pairs discordant for trunk fat, the heavier twin had significantly higher glutamate level compared to the leaner co-twin (p-value: 4.05e-07). In all these analyses, the results for glutamate were more significant than with any of the BCAAs. Conclusion: There is a positive relationship between circulating glutamate and trunk fat that is partially independent of genetic background. This often-overlooked metabolite might represent an interesting biomarker of abdominal obesity. References: (1) Newgard (2017). Metabolomics and Metabolic Diseases: Where Do We Stand? Cell Metab, 25(1), 43-56, (2) Kimberly et al. (2017). Metabolite profiling identifies anandamide as a biomarker of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. JCI Insight, 2(9).
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spelling pubmed-72095562020-05-13 OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort Maltais-Payette, Ina Vijay, Jinchu Grunberg, Elin Tchernof, Andre J Endocr Soc Adipose Tissue, Appetite, and Obesity Background and aim: Metabolomic studies have shown that circulating amino acid levels are altered in the context of obesity. The branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs, namely leucine, isoleucine and valine) have been the most studied because of their consistent positive association with adiposity and their ability to prospectively predict type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (1). Circulating glutamate has been much less investigated, but some have shown that its specific association with central fat accumulation was stronger than that of BCAAs (2). This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between circulating glutamate and abdominal obesity and the impact of genetic factors on this association. Methods: In the TwinsUK cohort, we selected individuals for whom both metabolomics and DXA trunk fat measurements were available (n=4 665). We used linear regression to assess the correlation between glutamate level and trunk fat. Those with a trunk fat mass greater than 15 kg were considered abdominally obese. We compared the odds of presenting abdominal obesity in each circulating glutamate quintile with logistic regression models. Monozygotic twin pairs discordant for trunk fat were selected to identify analyte differences driven by non-genetic factors. All analyses were also performed with BCAAs for comparison. Results: Circulating glutamate was positively and significantly associated with trunk fat (β: 0.28, 95%CI: 0.26-0.31). Individuals in the highest circulating glutamate quintile had a more than 8-fold higher risk of being characterized by abdominal obesity compared to those in the lowest quintile (OR: 8.44, 95%CI: 6.17-11.55). In the 54 monozygotic twin pairs discordant for trunk fat, the heavier twin had significantly higher glutamate level compared to the leaner co-twin (p-value: 4.05e-07). In all these analyses, the results for glutamate were more significant than with any of the BCAAs. Conclusion: There is a positive relationship between circulating glutamate and trunk fat that is partially independent of genetic background. This often-overlooked metabolite might represent an interesting biomarker of abdominal obesity. References: (1) Newgard (2017). Metabolomics and Metabolic Diseases: Where Do We Stand? Cell Metab, 25(1), 43-56, (2) Kimberly et al. (2017). Metabolite profiling identifies anandamide as a biomarker of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. JCI Insight, 2(9). Oxford University Press 2020-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7209556/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvaa046.981 Text en © Endocrine Society 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Adipose Tissue, Appetite, and Obesity
Maltais-Payette, Ina
Vijay, Jinchu
Grunberg, Elin
Tchernof, Andre
OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort
title OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort
title_full OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort
title_fullStr OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort
title_full_unstemmed OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort
title_short OR33-05 Amino Acid Signature of Abdominal Obesity in the TwinsUK Cohort
title_sort or33-05 amino acid signature of abdominal obesity in the twinsuk cohort
topic Adipose Tissue, Appetite, and Obesity
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7209556/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvaa046.981
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