SynthesisHuman molecular genetics2022
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of gestational diabetes mellitus highlights genetic links with type 2 diabetes.
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- Multi-ancestry, trans-generational GWAS meta-analysis of gestational diabetes and glycaemic traits during pregnancy reveals limited evidence of pregnancy-specific genetic effects.Nature communications · 2026Pooled it
- Multi ancestry genome wide association meta analysis of urinary aMT6s levels.Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
- Cross-ancestry analysis of gestational diabetes mellitus identifies novel loci, drug targets and biological pathways.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Pooled it
- Association between the null polymorphisms of GSTT1 and GSTM1 and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC endocrine disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Identification and Potential Clinical Utility of Common Genetic Variants in Gestational Diabetes among Chinese Pregnant Women.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2025Pooled it
- Association of gastrointestinal microbiome and obesity with gestational diabetes mellitus-an updated globally based review of the high-quality literatures.Nutrition & diabetes · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects.European journal of epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
- DNA methylation risk score for type 2 diabetes is associated with gestational diabetes.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2024Pooled it
- Parental genetically predicted liability for coronary heart disease and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes: a cohort study.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Genome-wide association study meta-analysis supports association between MUC1 and ectopic pregnancy.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023Pooled it
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- Type 2 diabetes prevention across the life course.Nature medicine · 2026Review
- Cohort Profile Update: The Finnish Gestational Diabetes (FinnGeDi) study.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Age at menarche and adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes: triangulating evidence from multivariable and Mendelian randomization analyses.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- GWAS-by-subtraction reveals new genetic architecture and health implications of type 2 diabetes-independent gestational diabetes mellitus.Genome medicine · 2026Article
- Insights into the genetic aetiology of diabetes in Africa.EBioMedicine · 2026Review
- The placental tryptophan pathway across gestation: implications for pregnancy outcomes.Human reproduction update · 2026Review
- Genetic risk score as a predictor of gestational diabetes in Central European Caucasians.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Gestational diabetes: from pathogenesis to therapeutic intervention.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2026Review
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Abstract
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with increased risk of pregnancy complications and adverse perinatal outcomes. GDM often reoccurs and is associated with increased risk of subsequent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (T2D). To improve our understanding of the aetiological factors and molecular processes driving the occurrence of GDM, including the extent to which these overlap with T2D pathophysiology, the GENetics of Diabetes In Pregnancy Consortium assembled genome-wide association studies of diverse ancestry in a total of 5485 women with GDM and 347 856 without GDM. Through multi-ancestry meta-analysis, we identified five loci with genome-wide significant association (P < 5 × 10-8) with GDM, mapping to/near MTNR1B (P = 4.3 × 10-54), TCF7L2 (P = 4.0 × 10-16), CDKAL1 (P = 1.6 × 10-14), CDKN2A-CDKN2B (P = 4.1 × 10-9) and HKDC1 (P = 2.9 × 10-8). Multiple lines of evidence pointed to the shared pathophysiology of GDM and T2D: (i) four of the five GDM loci (not HKDC1) have been previously reported at genome-wide significance for T2D; (ii) significant enrichment for associations with GDM at previously reported T2D loci; (iii) strong genetic correlation between GDM and T2D and (iv) enrichment of GDM associations mapping to genomic annotations in diabetes-relevant tissues and transcription factor binding sites. Mendelian randomization analyses demonstrated significant causal association (5% false discovery rate) of higher body mass index on increased GDM risk. Our results provide support for the hypothesis that GDM and T2D are part of the same underlying pathology but that, as exemplified by the HKDC1 locus, there are genetic determinants of GDM that are specific to glucose regulation in pregnancy.
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