Association between variants in ADIPOQ and adiponectina levels with metabolic features in obese children and adolescents / Associação das variantes no ADIPOQ e concentrações séricas de adiponectina com alterações metabólicas em crianças e adolescentes obesos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Adiponectin, present in high concentrations in blood circulation is produced in adipocytes. Adiponectin regulates insulin sensibility acting in liver and muscle. Plasma adiponectin decreases as adiposity increases and are inversely related to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Variants in the adiponectin encoding gene have been associated with adiponectin levels, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate adiponectin levels, identify variants in the adiponectin gene and determine the relationship between adiponectin levels, genetic variances and anthropometric and metabolic features in obese and non-obese children and adolescents. We found lower adiponectin levels in obese and pubertal individuals. Adiponectin was inversely correlated to adiposity in non-obese. Instead, in obese youngsters, adiponectin levels were negatively associated to insulin resistance and pubertal state. Independent of adiposity, insulin resistance and pubertal stage, lower adiponectin levels (under 10g/mL) were related to lower HDLC, higher triglycerides and higher risk of having metabolic syndrome. We have identified 6 variants in adiponectin gene: SNPs -11391G>A (rs17300539), -11377C>G (rs822387) in promoter region, SNP+45T>G (rs22411766) in exon 2, SNP+349A>G (rs6773957) in intron 2 and SNP Y111H (rs17366743) and G90S mutation in exon 3. We found strong linkage disequilibrium between variant Y111H and -11377C>G SNP and between G90S mutation and -11377C>G and +45T>G SNPs. We detected an association between -11377C>G G allele and higher central adiposity and lower glucose levels. Haplotypes were constructed using the SNPs -11377C>G, +45T>G and +349A>G, and the results showed an association between -11377SNP G allele presence and higher adiposity (GTA vs CTA), whereas the presence of the recessive alleles of SNPs +45T>G and +349A>G was associated to a lower adiposity (GTA vs GGG). Hypertension was more frequent in the presence of +349A>G G allele (CTG vs CTA), whereas the presence of the recessive alleles of SNPs -11377 and +45T>G (CTG vs GGG) was not associated to hypertension. This study suggests that adiponectin levels, in Brazilian children and adolescents, depends on degree of adiposity and pubertal stage and that lower adiponectin concentrations are associated to altered metabolic features and higher cardiovascular risk. Variants in the adiponectin encoding gene can be in linkage disequilibrium with susceptibility regions responsible to higher risk of obesity and metabolic related features

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obesity polymorphism single nucleotide criança child adiponectina polimorfismo de um único nucleotídeo adiponectin adolescente adolescent obesidade

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