Replication of FTO Gene associated with lean mass in a Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies.

Sarcopenia is characterized by low skeletal muscle, a complex trait with high heritability. With the dramatically increasing prevalence of obesity, obesity and sarcopenia occur simultaneously, a condition known as sarcopenic obesity. Fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene is a candidate gene of obesity. To identify associations between lean mass and FTO gene, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of lean mass index (LMI) in 2207 unrelated Caucasian subjects and replicated major findings in two replication samples including 6,004 unrelated Caucasian and 38,292 unrelated Caucasian. We found 29 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in FTO significantly associated with sarcopenia (combined p-values ranging from 5.92 × 10-12 to 1.69 × 10-9). Potential biological functions of SNPs were analyzed by HaploReg v4.1, RegulomeDB, GTEx, IMPC and STRING. Our results provide suggestive evidence that FTO gene is associated with lean mass.

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Shu Ran, Zi-Xuan Jiang, Xiao He, Yu Liu, Yu-Xue Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yu-Fang Pei, Meng Zhang, Rong Hai, Gui-Shan Gu, Bao-Lin Liu, Qing Tian, Yong-Hong Zhang, Jing-Yu Wang, Hong-Wen Deng. Replication of FTO Gene associated with lean mass in a Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies. Scientific reports. 2020 Mar 19;10(1):5057

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