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. 2019 Jun 10;8(2):132–143. doi: 10.12997/jla.2019.8.2.132

Table 1. The association of systemic lipids-related genotypes with risk of insulin resistance or T2DM.

Instrumental variables Genes or related traits Study subjects Outcomes OR (95% CI) or the effect per SD change (β or z score) p-value References
LDL-C
rs10455872 LPA/↑Lipoprotein(a) EPIC-Norfolk cohort (n=15,044) T2DM OR, 1.03; 95% CI, 0.96–1.10 0.41 Ye et al.17
DIAGRAM consortium (n=63,390)
Genetic risk score from 26 SNPs ↑Lipoprotein(a) DIAGRAM consortium (n=149,821) T2DM β=−0.21 (−0.29, −0.12) 5.0×10−6 Fall et al.37
MAGIC (n=42,854) Fasting insulin β=−0.01 (−0.03, 0.00) 0.13
Fasting glucose β=−0.02 (−0.04, −0.01) 5.6×10−3
rs10455872 LPA/↑Lipoprotein(a) Berlin Aging Study (n=2,012) Fasting insulin β=0.026 (−0.02, 0.07) 0.285 Buchmann et al.20
LIFE-Adult (n=3,281) and LIFE-Heart (n=2,816)
rs17238484 HMGCR/Statin treatment Whitehall II study (n=4,678) T2DM β=1.12 (1.06, 1.18) 0.253 Swerdlow et al.21
Meta-analysis from 43 studies (n=223,463)
Triglyceride
Weighted score from rs2954029, rs714052, rs7557067, rs17216525, rs10889353, rs7679, rs7819412, rs328, rs3135506, rs662799 TRIBI, MLXIPL, APOB, NCAN, CLIP2, PBX4, ANGPTL3, PLTP, XKR6-AMAC1L2, LPL, APOA5/↑Circulating triglycerides Go-DARTs study (n=12,497) Fasting insulin or Fasting glucose z=0.04 (−0.03, 0.11) 0.31 De Silva et al.28
z=0.01 (−0.06, 0.08) 0.74
Genetic risk score from 23 SNPs ↑Circulating triglycerides DIAGRAM consortium (n=149,821) T2DM β=0.13 (0.01, 0.25) 0.04 Fall et al.37
MAGIC (n=42,854) Fasting insulin β=0.03 (0.00, 0.05) 0.03
Fasting glucose β=0.02 (0.00, 0.04) 0.04
HDL-C
Genotype score from rs2575876, rs6494005, and rs3764261 ABCA1, LIPC, and CETP/↑High-density lipoprotein Nagahama Prospective Cohort for Comprehensive Human Bioscience (n=8,365) HOMA-IR Decreased HOMA-IR by quintile of HDL-C 0.056 Tabara et al.35
Genetic risk score from 5 SNPs ↑High-density lipoprotein DIAGRAM consortium (n=149,821) T2DM β=−0.12 (−0.24, −0.01) 0.03 Fall et al.37
MAGIC (n=42,854) Fasting insulin β=−0.01 (−0.03, 0.01) 0.25
Fasting glucose β=−0.01 (−0.05, −0.01) 3.4×10−3
HDL-C lowering allele score from rs146292819, rs1800775, rs708272, rs4986970, rs1800588, rs199759119, and rs138407155 ABCA1, CETP, LCAT, LIPC, and APOA1/↓High-density lipoprotein CCHS, CGPS (n=47,627) No association with T2DM β=0.93 (0.78, 1.11) 0.42 Haase et al.34

T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; SD, standard deviation; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; EPIC, European Prospective Investigation of Cancer; DIAGRAM, Diabetes Genetics Replication and Meta-analysis; SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism; MAGIC, Meta Analyses of Glucose and Insulin-related Traits Consortium; LIFE, Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HOMA-IR, homeostatic model assessment for insulin resistance.