Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

An integrative cross-omics analysis of DNA methylation sites of glucose and insulin homeostasis

  • Jun Liu,
  • Elena Carnero-Montoro,
  • Jenny van Dongen,
  • Samantha Lent,
  • Ivana Nedeljkovic,
  • Symen Ligthart,
  • Pei-Chien Tsai,
  • Tiphaine C. Martin,
  • Pooja R. Mandaviya,
  • Rick Jansen,
  • Marjolein J. Peters,
  • Liesbeth Duijts,
  • Vincent W. V. Jaddoe,
  • Henning Tiemeier,
  • Janine F. Felix,
  • Gonneke Willemsen,
  • Eco J. C. de Geus,
  • Audrey Y. Chu,
  • Daniel Levy,
  • Shih-Jen Hwang,
  • Jan Bressler,
  • Rahul Gondalia,
  • Elias L. Salfati,
  • Christian Herder,
  • Bertha A. Hidalgo,
  • Toshiko Tanaka,
  • Ann Zenobia Moore,
  • Rozenn N. Lemaitre,
  • Min A Jhun,
  • Jennifer A. Smith,
  • Nona Sotoodehnia,
  • Stefania Bandinelli,
  • Luigi Ferrucci,
  • Donna K. Arnett,
  • Harald Grallert,
  • Themistocles L. Assimes,
  • Lifang Hou,
  • Andrea Baccarelli,
  • Eric A. Whitsel,
  • Ko Willems van Dijk,
  • Najaf Amin,
  • André G. Uitterlinden,
  • Eric J. G. Sijbrands,
  • Oscar H. Franco,
  • Abbas Dehghan,
  • Tim D. Spector,
  • Josée Dupuis,
  • Marie-France Hivert,
  • Jerome I. Rotter,
  • James B. Meigs,
  • James S. Pankow,
  • Joyce B. J. van Meurs,
  • Aaron Isaacs,
  • Dorret I. Boomsma,
  • Jordana T. Bell,
  • Ayşe Demirkan,
  • Cornelia M. van Duijn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10487-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Our understanding of the functional link between differential DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes and obesity remains limited. Here the authors present a blood-based EWAS of fasting glucose and insulin among 4808 non-diabetic Europeans and identify nine CpGs not previously implicated in glucose, insulin homeostasis and diabetes.