Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits

Early Growth Genetics Consortium

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1008718

Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits

Early Growth Genetics Consortium

Erasmus University Rotterdam
Quantinuum Research
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Copenhagen
Novo Nordisk Foundation
University of Manchester
University of Eastern Finland
Leipzig University
University of Groningen
University of Bristol
University of Oulu
University of Oxford
RIKEN
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
Pasqual Maragall Foundation
Biomedical Research Networking Center in Epidemiology and Public Health (CiberESP)
University of Pennsylvania
Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
University of Newcastle
University of Turku
Statens Serum Institut
University of Valencia
Jaume I University
University of Gothenburg
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Université de Lille
University of Queensland
Area de Salut de Menorca ib-salut
Fundació Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears
Queen Mary University of London
University of Bergen
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
King's College London
University of Amsterdam
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
University of Cambridge
McMaster University
University of Exeter
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
University of the Basque Country
Biocrues-Bizkaia Health Research Institute
CIBER Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas (CIBERDEM)
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
University of Western Australia
Sorbonne Université
Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Imperial College London
University of Helsinki
National University of Singapore
Children's Memorial Health Institute
Danish Diabetes Academy
Adelaide University
University College London
South Australian Health And Medical Research Institute
Tampere University
CHC
Fimlab Laboratories
Pompeu Fabra University
Stanford University
University of Southern Denmark
World Health Organization
Netherlands Genomics Initiative
University of Milan
Technical University of Munich
Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biodonostia
Subdirección Salud Pública de Gipuzkoa
Broad Institute
Harokopio University
Telethon Kids Institute
University of Melbourne
Hospital del Mar
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

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Abstract

The genetic background of childhood body mass index (BMI), and the extent to which the well-known associations of childhood BMI with adult diseases are explained by shared genetic factors, are largely unknown. We performed a genome-wide association study meta-analysis of BMI in 61,111 children aged between 2 and 10 years. Twenty-five independent loci reached genome-wide significance in the combined discovery and replication analyses. Two of these, located near NEDD4L and SLC45A3, have not previously been reported in relation to either childhood or adult BMI. Positive genetic correlations of childhood BMI with birth weight and adult BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, diastolic blood pressure and type 2 diabetes were detected (R_g ranging from 0.11 to 0.76, P-values <0.002). A negative genetic correlation of childhood BMI with age at menarche was observed. Our results suggest that the biological processes underlying childhood BMI largely, but not completely, overlap with those underlying adult BMI. The well-known observational associations of BMI in childhood with cardio-metabolic diseases in adulthood may reflect partial genetic overlap, but in light of previous evidence, it is also likely that they are explained through phenotypic continuity of BMI from childhood into adulthood.

Original language	English
Article number	e1008718
Journal	PLoS Genetics
Volume	16
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008718
Publication status	Published - 12 Oct 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits

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