Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
J Lipid Res. 2010 Oct;51(10):2976-84. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M006957. Epub 2010 Jul 2.
Variation in serum cholesterol, free-fatty acids, and triglycerides is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. There is great interest in characterizing the underlying genetic architecture of these risk factors, because they vary greatly within and among human populations and between the sexes. We present results of a genome-wide scan for quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting serum cholesterol, free-fatty acids, and triglycerides in an F(16) advanced intercross line of LG/J and SM/J (Wustl:LG,SM-G16). Half of the population was fed a high-fat diet and half was fed a relatively low-fat diet. Context-dependent genetic (additive and dominance) and epigenetic (imprinting) effects were characterized by partitioning animals into sex, diet, and sex-by-diet cohorts. Here we examine genetic, environmental, and genetic-by-environmental interactions of QTL overlapping previously identified loci associated with CVD risk factors, and we add to the serum lipid QTL landscape by identifying new loci.
血清胆固醇、游离脂肪酸和甘油三酯的变化与心血管疾病 (CVD) 风险因素有关。人们对这些风险因素的潜在遗传结构特征非常感兴趣,因为它们在人类群体内部和群体之间以及性别之间存在很大差异。我们展示了一项针对影响 LG/J 和 SM/J(Wustl:LG,SM-G16)F(16) 近交系系血清胆固醇、游离脂肪酸和甘油三酯的数量性状基因座 (QTL) 的全基因组扫描结果。一半的人群喂食高脂肪饮食,另一半喂食相对低脂肪饮食。通过将动物分为性别、饮食和性别-饮食队列,对遗传(加性和显性)和表观遗传(印迹)效应进行了特征分析。在这里,我们检查了与 CVD 风险因素相关的先前确定的 QTL 重叠的 QTL 的遗传、环境和遗传-环境相互作用,并通过鉴定新的基因座来增加血清脂质 QTL 景观。