%0 Journal Article
%T Genetic analysis of the GLUT10 glucose transporter (SLC2A10) polymorphisms in Caucasian American type 2 diabetes
%A Jennifer L Bento
%A Donald W Bowden
%A Josyf C Mychaleckyj
%A Shohei Hirakawa
%A Stephen S Rich
%A Barry I Freedman
%A Fernando Segade
%J BMC Medical Genetics
%D 2005
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2350-6-42
%X Twenty SNPs including 4 coding, 10 intronic and 6 5' and 3' to the coding sequence were genotyped across a 100 kb region containing the SLC2A10 gene in DNAs from 300 T2DM cases and 310 controls using the Sequenom MassArray Genotyping System. Allelic association was evaluated, and linkage disequilibrium (LD) and haplotype structure of SLC2A10 were also determined to assess whether any specific haplotypes were associated with T2DM.Of these variants, fifteen had heterozygosities greater than 0.80 and were analyzed further for association with T2DM. No evidence of significant association was observed for any variant with T2DM (all P ¡Ý 0.05), including Ala206Thr (rs2235491) which was previously reported to be associated with fasting insulin. Linkage disequilibrium analysis suggests that the SLC2A10 gene is contained in a single haplotype block of 14 kb. Haplotype association analysis with T2DM did not reveal any significant differences between haplotype frequencies in T2DM cases and controls.From our findings, we can conclude that sequence variants in or near GLUT10 are unlikely to contribute significantly to T2DM in Caucasian Americans.Multiple genetic studies have been carried out that link human chromosome 20q13.1-13.2 to type 2 diabetes (T2DM) [1-5]. This linkage evidence has led investigators to search for T2DM susceptibility genes in this genomic region. Our laboratory has carried out analysis of specific genes [6-8] and developed high resolution physical maps of the region [9-11]. In an association analysis of genetic markers Price et al. [12] identified three regions of T2DM susceptibility. Among the genes mapped to the linkage disequilibrium regions, a novel facilitative glucose transporter (GLUT) was identified and designated GLUT10 (gene symbol SLC2A10) [6,13]. The gene spans 28 kb of genomic sequence, is split into 5 exons and 4 introns [6,13] and is expressed mainly in heart, liver, lung, skeletal muscle, pancreas, placenta, thyroid, and adipose tissue [6,13
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