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Exploring the Epigenetic Regulatory Role of m6A-Associated SNPs in Type 2 Diabetes Pathogenesis
Miao Chen1,2, Weimin Lin1, Jianru Yi1,2
1State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.
Purpose:
Genetic factors in type 2 diabetes (T2D) pathogenesis have been widely explored by the genome-wide association studies (GWAS), identifying a great amount of susceptibility loci. With the development of high-resolution sequencing, the N(6)-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification has been proved to be affected by genetic variation. In this study, we identified the T2D-associated m6A-SNPs from T2D GWAS data and explored the underlying mechanism of the pathogenesis of T2D.
Methods:
We examined the association of m6A-SNPs with T2D among large-scale T2D GWAS summary statistics and further performed multi-omics integrated analysis to explore the potential role of the identified m6A-SNPs in T2D pathogenesis.
Results:
Among the 15,124 T2D-associated m6A-SNPs, 71 of them reach the genome-wide significant threshold (5.0e-05). The leading SNP rs4993986 (C>G), which is located near the m6A modification site at the 3' end of the HLA-DQB1 transcript, is expected to participate in the pathogenesis of T2D by influencing m6A modification to regulate the HLA-DQB1 expression.
Conclusion:
The current study has suggested a potential correlation between m6A-SNPs and T2D pathogenesis and also provided new insights into the pathogenic mechanism of the T2D susceptibility loci identified by GWAS.
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