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@ARTICLE{Fraszczyk:178958,
author = {E. Fraszczyk and A. M. W. Spijkerman and Y. Zhang$^*$ and
S. Brandmaier and F. R. Day and L. Zhou and P. Wackers and
M. E. T. Dollé and V. W. Bloks and X. Gào$^*$ and C.
Gieger and J. Kooner and J. Kriebel and H. S. J. Picavet and
W. Rathmann and B. Schöttker$^*$ and M. Loh and W. M. M.
Verschuren and J. V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk and N. J. Wareham
and J. C. Chambers and K. K. Ong and H. Grallert and H.
Brenner$^*$ and M. Luijten and H. Snieder},
title = {{E}pigenome-wide association study of incident type 2
diabetes: a meta-analysis of five prospective {E}uropean
cohorts.},
journal = {Diabetologia},
volume = {65},
number = {5},
issn = {0012-186X},
address = {Heidelberg},
publisher = {Springer},
reportid = {DKFZ-2022-00374},
pages = {763-776},
year = {2022},
note = {2022 May;65(5):763-776},
abstract = {Type 2 diabetes is a complex metabolic disease with
increasing prevalence worldwide. Improving the prediction of
incident type 2 diabetes using epigenetic markers could help
tailor prevention efforts to those at the highest risk. The
aim of this study was to identify predictive methylation
markers for incident type 2 diabetes by combining
epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) results from five
prospective European cohorts.We conducted a meta-analysis of
EWASs in blood collected 7-10 years prior to type 2
diabetes diagnosis. DNA methylation was measured with
Illumina Infinium Methylation arrays. A total of 1250 cases
and 1950 controls from five longitudinal cohorts were
included: Doetinchem, ESTHER, KORA1, KORA2 and EPIC-Norfolk.
Associations between DNA methylation and incident type 2
diabetes were examined using robust linear regression with
adjustment for potential confounders. Inverse-variance
fixed-effects meta-analysis of cohort-level individual CpG
EWAS estimates was performed using METAL. The methylGSA R
package was used for gene set enrichment analysis.
Confirmation of genome-wide significant CpG sites was
performed in a cohort of Indian Asians (LOLIPOP, UK).The
meta-analysis identified 76 CpG sites that were
differentially methylated in individuals with incident type
2 diabetes compared with control individuals (p values <1.1
× 10-7). Sixty-four out of 76 $(84.2\%)$ CpG sites were
confirmed by directionally consistent effects and p values
<0.05 in an independent cohort of Indian Asians. However, on
adjustment for baseline BMI only four CpG sites remained
genome-wide significant, and addition of the 76 CpG
methylation risk score to a prediction model including
established predictors of type 2 diabetes (age, sex, BMI and
HbA1c) showed no improvement (AUC 0.757 vs 0.753). Gene set
enrichment analysis of the full epigenome-wide results
clearly showed enrichment of processes linked to insulin
signalling, lipid homeostasis and inflammation.By combining
results from five European cohorts, and thus significantly
increasing study sample size, we identified 76 CpG sites
associated with incident type 2 diabetes. Replication of 64
CpGs in an independent cohort of Indian Asians suggests that
the association between DNA methylation levels and incident
type 2 diabetes is robust and independent of ethnicity. Our
data also indicate that BMI partly explains the association
between DNA methylation and incident type 2 diabetes.
Further studies are required to elucidate the underlying
biological mechanisms and to determine potential causal
roles of the differentially methylated CpG sites in type 2
diabetes development.},
keywords = {Biomarkers (Other) / DNA methylation (Other) / Epigenetics
(Other) / Epigenome-wide association studies (Other) /
Meta-analysis (Other) / Prediction (Other) / Prospective
studies (Other) / Type 2 diabetes (Other)},
cin = {C070},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)C070-20160331},
pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:35169870},
doi = {10.1007/s00125-022-05652-2},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/178958},
}