Long-Range Gene Regulation Links Genomic Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Risk Regions to HHEX, SOX4, and IRX3
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Engströmd,e,3, M. Eva Alonsof, Elisa de la Calle Mustienesg, José Luis Gómez Skarmetag, Maria J. Tavaresg, Fernando Casaresg, Miguel Manzanaresf, Veronica van Heyningenh, Anders Molveni,j, Pål R. Njølstada,b, Francesco Argentonc, Boris Lenhardd,e,4, and Thomas S. Beckere,2,5 aDepartment of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway; bPediatrics, Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021 Bergen, Norway; cDipartimento di Biologia, Universita’ degli Studi di Padova, I-35121 Padua, Italy; dComputational Biology Unit, Bergen Center for Computational Science, University of Bergen, N-5008 Bergen, Norway; eSars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, N-5008 Bergen, Norway; fFundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, E-28029 Madrid, Spain; gCentro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla 41013, Spain; hMedical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom; iThe Gade Institute, University of Bergen, N-5020, Bergen, Norway; and jDepartment of Pathology, Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021 Bergen, Norway Communicated by Michael S. Levine, University of California, Berkeley, CA, November 10, 2009 (received for review January 15, 2009) Genome-wide association studies identified noncoding SNPs asso- regions, namely the HHEX-IDE, CDKAL1, and FTO LD blocks, ciated with type 2 diabetes and obesity in linkage disequilibrium which harbor SNPs recently demonstrated by genome-wide as- (LD) blocks encompassing HHEX-IDE and introns of CDKAL1 and sociation studies to be significantly associated with risk for T2D FTO [Sladek R, et al. (2007) Nature 445:881–885; Steinthorsdottir and obesity (Table 1). We demonstrate that comparative genomic V, et al. (2007) Nat. Genet 39:770–775; Frayling TM, et al. (2007) analysis of risk regions can quickly confirm or disqualify a can- Science 316:889–894]. We show that these LD blocks contain highly didate disease gene by showing that it is HHEX, SOX4, and IRX3 conserved noncoding elements and overlap with the genomic reg- that likely underlie T2D and obesity in the three loci analyzed in ulatory blocks of the transcription factor genes HHEX, SOX4, and this study. We show that expression patterns driven by HCNEs IRX3. We report that human highly conserved noncoding elements within the risk regions can rapidly be assessed through trans- in LD with the risk SNPs drive expression in endoderm or pancreas in genesis in the zebrafish or in the mouse to identify the organ transgenic mice and zebrafish. Both HHEX and SOX4 have recently system or cell type affected by a common disease. We further been implicated in pancreas development and the regulation of demonstrate by knockdown of the zebrafish orthologue of IRX3, insulin secretion, but IRX3 had no prior association with pancreatic irx3a, that this transcription factor is involved in a conserved function or development. Knockdown of its orthologue in zebra- pathway that specifies pancreatic islet cell identities. fish, irx3a, increased the number of pancreatic ghrelin-producing epsilon cells and decreased the number of insulin-producing β-cells Results and glucagon-producing α-cells, thereby suggesting a direct link of Risk SNPs Identify Regions Regulating HHEX and SOX4. For the pancreatic IRX3 function to both obesity and type 2 diabetes. HHEX-IDE region, the associated SNPs lie in a 295-kb block of LD that includes three genes, HHEX, KIF1 and IDE, encoding a hb9 | hlxb9 | nkx2.2 | pancreatic islet development | pancreatic peptides transcriptional regulator involved in pancreatic development (13), a kinesin interacting factor, and an insulin-degrading enzyme, enome-wide association studies of SNPs are a powerful tool respectively (14). The risk allele has been associated with de- GENETICS Gin the genetic analysis of common diseases. Several studies creased pancreatic β-cell function (15). Throughout vertebrates, have shown significant associations of individual SNPs and hap- HHEX is in conserved synteny with the neighboring EXOC6 gene. lotypes with type 2 diabetes (T2D) (1–5) and obesity (6, 7). With The HHEX conserved synteny block overlaps with a small part of few exceptions, the identified SNPs fall into noncoding regions, the risk allele–containing LD block. This part of the LD block either intronic or intergenic, suggesting a regulatory effect of the contains the SNPs with the highest association scores, as well as the disease-associated haplotypes. Regulatory elements controlling HHEX gene (Fig. 1A and Table 1). In contrast, KIF1 and IDE are developmental expression of transcription factors often coincide located outside the conserved synteny block, strongly suggesting with highly conserved noncoding elements (HCNEs) (8–10). We have recently shown that vertebrate genomes contain functional segments termed genomic regulatory blocks (GRBs), Author contributions: A.R., E.M., D.F., P.N., Ø.D., P.G.E., M.M., A.M., P.R.N., F.A., B.L., and T.S.B. designed research; A.R., E.M., D.F., P.N., Ø.D., P.G.E., M.E.A., E.d.l.C.-M., J.-L.G.-S., M. which are chromosomal domains that control the expression of J.T., F.C., B.L., and T.S.B. performed research; A.R., E.M., D.F., P.R.N., Ø.D., P.E., M.E.A., J.-L.