Sixty-five common genetic variants and prediction of type 2 diabetes

UCLEB Consortium, Philippa J Talmud, Jackie A Cooper, Richard W Morris, Frank Dudbridge, Tina Shah, Jorgen Engmann, Caroline Dale, Jon White, Stela McLachlan, Delilah Zabaneh, Andrew Wong, Ken K Ong, Tom Gaunt, Michael V Holmes, Debbie A Lawlor, Marcus Richards, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, Nicholas WarehamClaudia Langenberg, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, S Goya Wannamethee, Mark W J Strachan, Meena Kumari, John C Whittaker, Fotios Drenos, Mika Kivimaki, Aroon D Hingorani, Jacqueline F Price, Steve E Humphries

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We developed a 65 type 2 diabetes (T2D) variant-weighted gene score to examine the impact on T2D risk assessment in a U.K.-based consortium of prospective studies, with subjects initially free from T2D (N = 13,294; 37.3% women; mean age 58.5 [38-99] years). We compared the performance of the gene score with the phenotypically derived Framingham Offspring Study T2D risk model and then the two in combination. Over the median 10 years of follow-up, 804 participants developed T2D. The odds ratio for T2D (top vs. bottom quintiles of gene score) was 2.70 (95% CI 2.12-3.43). With a 10% false-positive rate, the genetic score alone detected 19.9% incident cases, the Framingham risk model 30.7%, and together 37.3%. The respective area under the receiver operator characteristic curves were 0.60 (95% CI 0.58-0.62), 0.75 (95% CI 0.73 to 0.77), and 0.76 (95% CI 0.75 to 0.78). The combined risk score net reclassification improvement (NRI) was 8.1% (5.0 to 11.2; P = 3.31 × 10(-7)). While BMI stratification into tertiles influenced the NRI (BMI ≤24.5 kg/m(2), 27.6% [95% CI 17.7-37.5], P = 4.82 × 10(-8); 24.5-27.5 kg/m(2), 11.6% [95% CI 5.8-17.4], P = 9.88 × 10(-5); >27.5 kg/m(2), 2.6% [95% CI -1.4 to 6.6], P = 0.20), age categories did not. The addition of the gene score to a phenotypic risk model leads to a potentially clinically important improvement in discrimination of incident T2D.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1830-40
Number of pages11
JournalDiabetes
Volume64
Issue number5
Early online date4 Dec 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2015

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