Association between FTO 1st intron tagging variant and telomere length in middle aged females. 3PMFs study
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The FTO gene plays an important role in the determination of body weight and BMI and it has been suspected of being associated with all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, cancer and end stage renal disease, but the causal mechanism of these effects is still unknown. One of the possibilities is the potential association with telomere length. Telomeres are repetitive DNA-sequences located at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes' length of which is reduced in all somatic cells during ageing. Out of the 908 females (3PMFs study), in 783 females both FTO 1st intron tagging polymorphism (G>T, rs17817449) and the relative telomere length were successfully analysed. The relative telomere length was calculated as the ratio of telomere repeats to single-copy gene copies. The frequencies of the FTO genotypes were similar to other populations (GG = 18.3%, GT = 49.1%and TT = 32.6%). We have detected, that the relative telomere length was significantly shorter (P < 0.02, P < 0.01 after adjustment for age, BMI, waist and subcutaneous fat), in carriers of at least one FTO risky (G) allele (0.85 卤 0.39) in comparison to the carriers of the protective TT genotype (0.93 卤 0.48). We have demonstrated that the FTO variant could be associated with the relative telomere length. Whether this represents a causality of association between the FTO variant and the non-communicable diseases needs to be further analysed.

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