FTO variant is not associated with osteoarthritis in the Chinese Han population: replication study for a genome-wide association study identified risk loci.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Osteoarthritis is the most prevalent form of arthritis worldwide and is the major cause of pain and loss of function in elderly people. A signal of the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene had been reported in a genome-wide association study of osteoarthritis. The FTO polymorphism (rs8044769) might exert its effect on osteoarthritis through obesity, because it was reported as a body mass index-associated single-nucleotide polymorphism. And replication studies showed inconsistent results for this association. Our present study is to check the association of rs8044769 with osteoarthritis and body mass index in Chinese Han population.

Methods

A case-control association study was conducted by using 890 osteoarthritis cases and 844 controls in Chinese Han populat

SUBMITTER: Dai J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879643 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature