TY - JOUR
T1 - Bivariate genome-wide linkage analysis for traits BMD and AAM
T2 - Effect of menopause on linkage signals
AU - Zhang, Zhi Xin
AU - Lei, Shu Feng
AU - Deng, Fei Yan
AU - Zhang, Feng
AU - Liu, Yong Jun
AU - Recker, Robert R.
AU - Papasian, Christopher J.
AU - Deng, Hong Wen
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by NIH grants P50AR055081, R01 AR050496, R01 AG 026564-01A2, R21 AG 027110-01A1, K01 AR02170-01, R01 AR45349-01, and R01 GM60402-01 A1. The authors thank all the study subjects for volunteering to participate in the study. The genotyping experiment was performed by Marshfield Center for Medical Genetics and supported by NHLBI Mammalian Genotyping Service (Contract HV48141).
PY - 2009/1/20
Y1 - 2009/1/20
N2 - Osteoporosis is an age-related systemic skeletal disease, characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD). Low BMD is closely associated with late age at menarche (AAM). Our previous bivariate genome-wide linkage analyses (GWLAs) between BMD and AAM identified two shared genomic regions in 2584 Caucasian females including both pre- and post-menopausal females. However, menopause often causes dramatic bone loss in post-menopausal females; this may introduce some confounding effects on the bivariate GWLA for BMD and AAM. To address the effect of menopause on the identification of genetic factors shared by BMD and AAM, we segregated the previously studied population of 2584 females into two separate subgroups consisting of 1462 pre-menopause subjects and 1122 post-menopausal subjects, and performed further bivariate GWLAs. The BMD was measured by Hologic Dual-energy X-ray (DXA) scanners (Hologic Inc., Bedford, MA, USA). Based on the genome-wide thresholds corrected for multiple testing, we found more significant genomic regions in the pre-menopausal group than in total group (including pre- and post-menopausal women), e.g., we found 4, 1, and 2 shared by spine BMD and AAM, femoral neck (FNK) BMD and AAM and ultra distal (UD) BMD and AAM, respectively. We did not found any significant linkage signals in the post-menopausal group. Importantly, the linkage signals at all significant regions were much stronger in pre-menopausal group than in the other groups: post-menopausal females and total females. For example, the linkage LOD score for FNK BMD and AAM is as high as 4.88 in pre-menopausal females, but only 0.24 and 0.31 in post-menopausal and total females, respectively. These results suggest that menopause introduces some noise signals into GWLAs when estimating the shared genetic factors by BMD and AAM. Therefore, it is very important to classify female subjects properly according to their menopause stage when performing such studies.
AB - Osteoporosis is an age-related systemic skeletal disease, characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD). Low BMD is closely associated with late age at menarche (AAM). Our previous bivariate genome-wide linkage analyses (GWLAs) between BMD and AAM identified two shared genomic regions in 2584 Caucasian females including both pre- and post-menopausal females. However, menopause often causes dramatic bone loss in post-menopausal females; this may introduce some confounding effects on the bivariate GWLA for BMD and AAM. To address the effect of menopause on the identification of genetic factors shared by BMD and AAM, we segregated the previously studied population of 2584 females into two separate subgroups consisting of 1462 pre-menopause subjects and 1122 post-menopausal subjects, and performed further bivariate GWLAs. The BMD was measured by Hologic Dual-energy X-ray (DXA) scanners (Hologic Inc., Bedford, MA, USA). Based on the genome-wide thresholds corrected for multiple testing, we found more significant genomic regions in the pre-menopausal group than in total group (including pre- and post-menopausal women), e.g., we found 4, 1, and 2 shared by spine BMD and AAM, femoral neck (FNK) BMD and AAM and ultra distal (UD) BMD and AAM, respectively. We did not found any significant linkage signals in the post-menopausal group. Importantly, the linkage signals at all significant regions were much stronger in pre-menopausal group than in the other groups: post-menopausal females and total females. For example, the linkage LOD score for FNK BMD and AAM is as high as 4.88 in pre-menopausal females, but only 0.24 and 0.31 in post-menopausal and total females, respectively. These results suggest that menopause introduces some noise signals into GWLAs when estimating the shared genetic factors by BMD and AAM. Therefore, it is very important to classify female subjects properly according to their menopause stage when performing such studies.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.maturitas.2008.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.maturitas.2008.10.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 19019586
AN - SCOPUS:58849097501
SN - 0378-5122
VL - 62
SP - 16
EP - 20
JO - Maturitas
JF - Maturitas
IS - 1
ER -