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Trim28 Haploinsufficiency Triggers Bi-stable Epigenetic Obesity.


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Article

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Authors

Dalgaard, Kevin 
Landgraf, Kathrin 
Heyne, Steffen 
Lempradl, Adelheid 
Longinotto, John 

Abstract

More than one-half billion people are obese, and despite progress in genetic research, much of the heritability of obesity remains enigmatic. Here, we identify a Trim28-dependent network capable of triggering obesity in a non-Mendelian, "on/off" manner. Trim28(+/D9) mutant mice exhibit a bi-modal body-weight distribution, with isogenic animals randomly emerging as either normal or obese and few intermediates. We find that the obese-"on" state is characterized by reduced expression of an imprinted gene network including Nnat, Peg3, Cdkn1c, and Plagl1 and that independent targeting of these alleles recapitulates the stochastic bi-stable disease phenotype. Adipose tissue transcriptome analyses in children indicate that humans too cluster into distinct sub-populations, stratifying according to Trim28 expression, transcriptome organization, and obesity-associated imprinted gene dysregulation. These data provide evidence of discrete polyphenism in mouse and man and thus carry important implications for complex trait genetics, evolution, and medicine.

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This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Cell Press via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.025

Keywords

Adolescent, Animals, Body Mass Index, Child, Child, Preschool, Epigenesis, Genetic, Haploinsufficiency, Humans, Mice, Nuclear Proteins, Nutrition Surveys, Obesity, Polymorphism, Genetic, Repressor Proteins, Thinness, Tripartite Motif-Containing Protein 28

Journal Title

Cell

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Journal ISSN

0092-8674
1097-4172

Volume Title

164

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12012/1)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12012/5)
Wellcome Trust (095515/Z/11/Z)
Medical Research Council (MR/J001597/1)
Wellcome Trust (100574/Z/12/Z)
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_12009)
Medical Research Council (G0600717)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12012/5/B)
Wellcome Trust (095606/Z/11/Z)
Medical Research Council (G0900554)
European Commission (279153)
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_12012)
This work was supported by funding from the Max-Planck Society, ERC (ERC-StG-281641), DFG (SFB992 “MedEp”; SFB 1052 “ObesityMechanisms”), EU_FP7 (NoE ”Epigenesys”; “Beta-JUDO” n° 279153), BMBF (DEEP), MRC (Metabolic Disease Unit - APC, SOR, GSHY, MRC_MC_UU_12012/1), Wellcome Trust (SOR, 095515/Z/11/Z) and the German Research Council (DFG) for the Clinical Research Center "Obesity Mechanisms" CRC1052/1 C05 and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, FKZ, 01EO1001 (Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) Adiposity Diseases)