Carlos Sánchez-Soriano1, Ewan R Pearson2, Rebecca M Reynolds3. 1. Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. 2. Division of Population Health and Genomics, Ninewells Hospital and School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. 3. Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. r.reynolds@ed.ac.uk.
Abstract
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Low birthweight (BW) is associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. Genome-wide analyses have identified a strong genetic component to this association, with many BW-associated loci also involved in glucose metabolism. We hypothesised that offspring BW and placental weight (PW) are correlated with parental type 2 diabetes risk, reflecting the inheritance of diabetes risk alleles that also influence fetal growth. METHODS: The Walker cohort, a collection of birth records from Dundee, Scotland, from the 1950s and the 1960s was used to test this hypothesis by linking BW and PW measurements to parental health outcomes. Using data from SCI-Diabetes and the national death registry, we obtained health records for over 20,000 Walker parents. We performed Fine-Gray survival analyses of parental type 2 diabetes risk with competing risk of death, and Cox regression analyses of risk of death, independently in the maternal and paternal datasets, modelled by offspring BW and PW. RESULTS: We found significant associations between increased paternal type 2 diabetes risk and reduced offspring BW (subdistribution hazard ratio [SHR] 0.92 [95% CI 0.87, 0.98]) and PW (SHR 0.87 [95% CI 0.81, 0.94]). The association of maternal type 2 diabetes risk with offspring BW or PW was not significant. Lower offspring BW was also associated with increased risk of death in both mothers (HR 0.91 [95% CI 0.89, 0.94]) and fathers (HR 0.95 [95% CI 0.92, 0.98]), and higher offspring PW was associated with increased maternal mortality risk (HR 1.08 [95% CI 1.04, 1.13]) when adjusted for BW. CONCLUSIONS/ INTERPRETATION: We identified associations between offspring BW and reduced paternal type 2 diabetes risk, most likely resulting from the independent effects of common type 2 diabetes susceptibility alleles on fetal growth, as described by the fetal insulin hypothesis. Moreover, we identified novel associations between offspring PW and reduced paternal type 2 diabetes risk, a relationship that might also be caused by the inheritance of diabetes predisposition variants. We found differing associations between offspring BW and PW and parental risk of death. These results provide novel epidemiological support for the use of offspring BW and PW as predictors for future risk of type 2 diabetes and death in mothers and fathers.
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Low birthweight (BW) is associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. Genome-wide analyses have identified a strong genetic component to this association, with many BW-associated loci also involved in glucose metabolism. We hypothesised that offspring BW and placental weight (PW) are correlated with parental type 2 diabetes risk, reflecting the inheritance of diabetes risk alleles that also influence fetal growth. METHODS: The Walker cohort, a collection of birth records from Dundee, Scotland, from the 1950s and the 1960s was used to test this hypothesis by linking BW and PW measurements to parental health outcomes. Using data from SCI-Diabetes and the national death registry, we obtained health records for over 20,000 Walker parents. We performed Fine-Gray survival analyses of parental type 2 diabetes risk with competing risk of death, and Cox regression analyses of risk of death, independently in the maternal and paternal datasets, modelled by offspring BW and PW. RESULTS: We found significant associations between increased paternal type 2 diabetes risk and reduced offspring BW (subdistribution hazard ratio [SHR] 0.92 [95% CI 0.87, 0.98]) and PW (SHR 0.87 [95% CI 0.81, 0.94]). The association of maternal type 2 diabetes risk with offspring BW or PW was not significant. Lower offspring BW was also associated with increased risk of death in both mothers (HR 0.91 [95% CI 0.89, 0.94]) and fathers (HR 0.95 [95% CI 0.92, 0.98]), and higher offspring PW was associated with increased maternal mortality risk (HR 1.08 [95% CI 1.04, 1.13]) when adjusted for BW. CONCLUSIONS/ INTERPRETATION: We identified associations between offspring BW and reduced paternal type 2 diabetes risk, most likely resulting from the independent effects of common type 2 diabetes susceptibility alleles on fetal growth, as described by the fetal insulin hypothesis. Moreover, we identified novel associations between offspring PW and reduced paternal type 2 diabetes risk, a relationship that might also be caused by the inheritance of diabetes predisposition variants. We found differing associations between offspring BW and PW and parental risk of death. These results provide novel epidemiological support for the use of offspring BW and PW as predictors for future risk of type 2 diabetes and death in mothers and fathers.
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