Signatures of TSPAN8 variants associated with human metabolic regulation and diseases

Tisham De, Angela Goncalves, Doug Speed, Philippe Froguel, NFBC consortium, Daniel J Gaffney, Michael R Johnson, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Lachlan Jm Coin

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Abstract

Here, with the example of common copy number variation (CNV) in the TSPAN8 gene, we present an important piece of work in the field of CNV detection, that is, CNV association with complex human traits such as 1H NMR metabolomic phenotypes and an example of functional characterization of CNVs among human induced pluripotent stem cells (HipSci). We report TSPAN8 exon 11 (ENSE00003720745) as a pleiotropic locus associated with metabolomic regulation and show that its biology is associated with several metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cancer. Our results further demonstrate the power of multivariate association models over univariate methods and define metabolomic signatures for variants in TSPAN8.

Original languageEnglish
Article number102893
JournaliScience
Volume24
Issue8
Number of pages16
ISSN2589-0042
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Aug 2021

Keywords

  • Biological sciences
  • Cancer systems biology
  • Endocrinology
  • Molecular biology
  • Physiology

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