Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-19-2014
Publication Title
BioMed Central Genetics
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
Low vitamin D status has been shown to be a risk factor for several metabolic traits such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The biological actions of 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D, are mediated through the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which heterodimerizes with retinoid X receptor, gamma (RXRG). Hence, we examined the potential interactions between the tagging polymorphisms in the VDR (22 tag SNPs) and RXRG (23 tag SNPs) genes on metabolic outcomes such as body mass index, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio (WHR), high- and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterols, serum triglycerides, systolic and diastolic blood pressures and glycated haemoglobin in the 1958 British Birth Cohort (1958BC, up to n = 5,231). We used Multifactor- dimensionality reduction (MDR) program as a non-parametric test to examine for potential interactions between the VDR and RXRG gene polymorphisms in the 1958BC. We used the data from Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC66, up to n = 5,316) and Twins UK (up to n = 3,943) to replicate our initial findings from 1958BC.
DOI
10.1186/1471-2156-15-37
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Vimaleswaran, Karani S.; Cavadino, Alana; Berry, Diane J.; Mangino, Massimo; Andrews, Peter; and Moore, Jason H., "Interaction Between Allelic Variations in Vitamin D Receptor and Retinoid X Receptor Genes on Metabolic Traits" (2014). Dartmouth Scholarship. 595.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/595
