Genetic Variant of AMD1 Is Associated with Obesity in Urban Indian Children

Rubina Tabassum, Alok Jaiswal, Ganesh Chauhan, Om Prakash Dwivedi, Saurabh Ghosh, Raman K Marwaha, Nikhil Tandon and Dwaipayan Bharadwaj

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 4, 1-9

Abstract: Background: Hyperhomocysteinemia is regarded as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and obesity. Manifestation of these chronic metabolic disorders starts in early life marked by increase in body mass index (BMI). We hypothesized that perturbations in homocysteine metabolism in early life could be a link between childhood obesity and adult metabolic disorders. Thus here we investigated association of common variants from homocysteine metabolism pathway genes with obesity in 3,168 urban Indian children. Methodology/Principal Findings: We genotyped 90 common variants from 18 genes in 1,325 children comprising of 862 normal-weight (NW) and 463 over-weight/obese (OW/OB) children in stage 1. The top signal obtained was replicated in an independent sample set of 1843 children (1,399 NW and 444 OW/OB) in stage 2. Stage 1 association analysis revealed association between seven variants and childhood obesity at P

Date: 2012
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