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Variation in genes necessary for normal functioning and development of β-cells, e.g., NEUROD1, which encodes a transcription factor for the insulin gene and is important in β-cell development, causes maturity-onset diabetes of the young. Some studies have reported an association between a nonsynonymous Ala45Thr (+182G→A) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in NEUROD1 and type 1 diabetes, but this result has not been consistently found. To clarify this, we genotyped Ala45Thr in 2,434 type 1 diabetic families of European descent and Caucasian ethnicity from five different countries. Taking the allele frequency of 36% for Thr45 and an odds ratio (OR) of 1.2, this sample provided >99% power to detect an association (P < 0.05). We could not confirm the association (P = 0.77). No evidence of population heterogeneity in the lack of association of Thr45 with type 1 diabetes was observed. To evaluate the possibility that another NEUROD1 variant was associated with type 1 diabetes, we resequenced the gene in 32 U.K. affected individuals and identified and genotyped all common SNPs (minor allele frequency >10%; n = 5) in 786 families. We report no evidence of association of these common variants in NEUROD1 and type 1 diabetes in these samples.

Original publication

DOI

10.2337/diabetes.53.4.1158

Type

Journal article

Journal

Diabetes

Publisher

American Diabetes Association

Publication Date

01/04/2004

Volume

53

Pages

1158 - 1161