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Mittelstraß, K. ; Ried, J.S. ; Yu, Z. ; Krumsiek, J. ; Gieger, C. ; Prehn, C. ; Römisch-Margl, W. ; Polonikov, A.* ; Peters, A. ; Theis, F.J. ; Meitinger, T. ; Kronenberg, F.* ; Weidinger, S.* ; Wichmann, H.-E. ; Suhre, K.* ; Wang-Sattler, R. ; Adamski, J. ; Illig, T.

Discovery of sexual dimorphisms in metabolic and genetic biomarkers.

PLoS Genet. 7:e1002215 (2011)
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Metabolomic profiling and the integration of whole-genome genetic association data has proven to be a powerful tool to comprehensively explore gene regulatory networks and to investigate the effects of genetic variation at the molecular level. Serum metabolite concentrations allow a direct readout of biological processes, and association of specific metabolomic signatures with complex diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders has been shown. There are well-known correlations between sex and the incidence, prevalence, age of onset, symptoms, and severity of a disease, as well as the reaction to drugs. However, most of the studies published so far did not consider the role of sexual dimorphism and did not analyse their data stratified by gender. This study investigated sex-specific differences of serum metabolite concentrations and their underlying genetic determination. For discovery and replication we used more than 3,300 independent individuals from KORA F3 and F4 with metabolite measurements of 131 metabolites, including amino acids, phosphatidylcholines, sphingomyelins, acylcarnitines, and C6-sugars. A linear regression approach revealed significant concentration differences between males and females for 102 out of 131 metabolites (p-values<3.8×10(-4); Bonferroni-corrected threshold). Sex-specific genome-wide association studies (GWAS) showed genome-wide significant differences in beta-estimates for SNPs in the CPS1 locus (carbamoyl-phosphate synthase 1, significance level: p<3.8×10(-10); Bonferroni-corrected threshold) for glycine. We showed that the metabolite profiles of males and females are significantly different and, furthermore, that specific genetic variants in metabolism-related genes depict sexual dimorphism. Our study provides new important insights into sex-specific differences of cell regulatory processes and underscores that studies should consider sex-specific effects in design and interpretation.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
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Sprache englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr 2011
HGF-Berichtsjahr 2011
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1553-7390
e-ISSN 1553-7404
Zeitschrift PLoS Genetics
Quellenangaben Band: 7, Heft: 8, Seiten: , Artikelnummer: e1002215 Supplement: ,
Verlag Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
POF Topic(s)
30501 - Systemic Analysis of Genetic and Environmental Factors that Impact Health
30505 - New Technologies for Biomedical Discoveries
30201 - Metabolic Health
30202 - Environmental Health
30503 - Chronic Diseases of the Lung and Allergies
Forschungsfeld(er)
Genetics and Epidemiology
Enabling and Novel Technologies
PSP-Element(e) G-504200-003
G-504100-001
G-503700-004
G-505600-001
G-504000-001
G-500700-001
G-503900-001
G-504090-001
PubMed ID 21852955
Scopus ID 80052314547
Erfassungsdatum 2011-09-08