TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantitative trait mapping in Diversity Outbred mice identifies two genomic regions associated with heart size
AU - Shorter, John R.
AU - Huang, Wei
AU - Beak, Ju Youn
AU - Hua, Kunjie
AU - Gatti, Daniel M.
AU - de Villena, Fernando Pardo Manuel
AU - Pomp, Daniel
AU - Jensen, Brian C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by NIH Grants DK076050 and DK087346 (DP) and the UAI Research Foundation (BCJ). Phenotypes were collected using the Animal Metabolism Phenotyping core facility within UNC’s Nutrition and Obesity Research Center funded by NIH DK056350. We also acknowledge George Wein-stock and The Genome Institute (Washington University) for partial funding of the mouse purchase and husbandry costs for cohort 2 of the DO mice used in these studies. We thank Liyang Zhao and Kuo-Chen Jung for assistance with all mouse experiments, and Brian Bennett and Tangi Smallwood for assistance with the cohort 2 experiments. We thank Martin Ferris for analysis support. Charles Farber is gratefully acknowledged for performing the femur length phenotyping and providing those data for use in these studies.
Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by NIH Grants DK076050 and DK087346 (DP) and the UAI Research Foundation (BCJ). Phenotypes were collected using the Animal Metabolism Phenotyping core facility within UNC?s Nutrition and Obesity Research Center funded by NIH DK056350. We also acknowledge George Weinstock and The Genome Institute (Washington University) for partial funding of the mouse purchase and husbandry costs for cohort 2 of the DO mice used in these studies. We thank Liyang Zhao and Kuo-Chen Jung for assistance with all mouse experiments, and Brian Bennett and Tangi Smallwood for assistance with the cohort 2 experiments. We thank Martin Ferris for analysis support. Charles Farber is gratefully acknowledged for performing the femur length phenotyping and providing those data for use in these studies. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Heart size is an important factor in cardiac health and disease. In particular, increased heart weight is predictive of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in multiple large community-based studies. We use two cohorts of Diversity Outbred (DO) mice to investigate the role of genetics, sex, age, and diet on heart size. DO mice (n = 289) of both sexes from generation 10 were fed a standard chow diet, and analyzed at 12–15 weeks of age. Another cohort of female DO mice (n = 258) from generation 11 were fed either a high-fat, cholesterol-containing (HFC) diet or a low-fat, high-protein diet, and analyzed at 24–25 weeks. We did not observe an effect of diet on body or heart weight in generation 11 mice, although we previously reported an effect on other cardiovascular risk factors, including cholesterol, triglycerides, and insulin. We do observe a significant genetic effect on heart weight in this population. We identified two quantitative trait loci for heart weight, one (Hwtf1) at a genome-wide significance level of p ≤ 0.05 on MMU15 and one (Hwtf2) at a genome-wide suggestive level of p ≤ 0.1 on MMU10, that together explain 13.3% of the phenotypic variance. Hwtf1 contained collagen type XXII alpha 1 chain (Col22a1), and the NZO/HlLtJ and WSB/EiJ haplotypes were associated with larger hearts. This is consistent with heart tissue Col22a1 expression in DO founders and SNP patterns within Hwtf1 for Col22a1. Col22a1 has been previously associated with cardiac fibrosis in mice, suggesting that Col22a1 may be involved in pathological cardiac hypertrophy.
AB - Heart size is an important factor in cardiac health and disease. In particular, increased heart weight is predictive of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in multiple large community-based studies. We use two cohorts of Diversity Outbred (DO) mice to investigate the role of genetics, sex, age, and diet on heart size. DO mice (n = 289) of both sexes from generation 10 were fed a standard chow diet, and analyzed at 12–15 weeks of age. Another cohort of female DO mice (n = 258) from generation 11 were fed either a high-fat, cholesterol-containing (HFC) diet or a low-fat, high-protein diet, and analyzed at 24–25 weeks. We did not observe an effect of diet on body or heart weight in generation 11 mice, although we previously reported an effect on other cardiovascular risk factors, including cholesterol, triglycerides, and insulin. We do observe a significant genetic effect on heart weight in this population. We identified two quantitative trait loci for heart weight, one (Hwtf1) at a genome-wide significance level of p ≤ 0.05 on MMU15 and one (Hwtf2) at a genome-wide suggestive level of p ≤ 0.1 on MMU10, that together explain 13.3% of the phenotypic variance. Hwtf1 contained collagen type XXII alpha 1 chain (Col22a1), and the NZO/HlLtJ and WSB/EiJ haplotypes were associated with larger hearts. This is consistent with heart tissue Col22a1 expression in DO founders and SNP patterns within Hwtf1 for Col22a1. Col22a1 has been previously associated with cardiac fibrosis in mice, suggesting that Col22a1 may be involved in pathological cardiac hypertrophy.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00335-017-9730-7
DO - 10.1007/s00335-017-9730-7
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29279960
AN - SCOPUS:85039038692
SN - 0938-8990
VL - 29
SP - 80
EP - 89
JO - Mammalian Genome
JF - Mammalian Genome
IS - 1-2
ER -