TY - JOUR
T1 - Total body fat and abdominal visceral fat response to exercise training in the HERITAGE Family Study
T2 - Evidence for major locus but no multifactorial effects
AU - Rice, T.
AU - Hong, Y.
AU - Pérusse, L.
AU - Després, J. P.
AU - Gagnon, J.
AU - Leon, A. S.
AU - Skinner, J. S.
AU - Wilmore, J. H.
AU - Bouchard, C.
AU - Rao, D. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Division of Biostatistics and Departments of Genetics and Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; Physical Activity Sciences Laboratory and Lipid Research Center, Laval University, Qudbec, Ontario, Canada; School of Kinesiology and Leisure Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Division of Kinesiology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and Department of Health and Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Submitted December 7, 1998; accepted Apri127, 1999. Supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Grants No. HL45670 (C.B.), HL47323 (A.S.L), HL47317 (D.C.R.), HL47327 (J.S.S.), and HL47321 (J.H.W), and in part by the Medical Research Council of Canada-Roche Canada Donald B. Brown Research Chair on Obesity (C.B.) and the Henry L. Taylor Professorship in Exercise Science and Health Enhancement (A.L.). Address reprint requests to T. Rice, PhD, Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, Box 8086, 660 S Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63110. Copyright © 1999 by W.B. Saunders Company 0026-0495/99/4810-0016510.00/0
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The familial etiology of the response in total fat mass (FM) and abdominal visceral fat (AVF) to 20 weeks of exercise training was investigated in families participating in the HERITAGE Family Study. AVF (measured by computed tomographic scanning) add FM (measured by underwater weighing techniques) were assessed at baseline (in a sedentary state) and after 20 weeks of exercise training. The response AVF (AVF(Δ)) and response FM (FM(Δ)) were computed as the simple delta values (posttraining - baseline) and adjusted for the effects of sex, generation, and a polynomial in age using multiple regression analysis. To index the AVF response independently of the response in FM and the initial level of visceral fat, the AVF(Δ) was also adjusted for age and baseline AVF (AVF(B)) and FM(Δ). Familial correlation analysis was used to investigate the multifactorial familial effects (polygenic and/or familial environmental), and segregation analysis was used to search for major gene effects. For the age-adjusted AVF(Δ), a putative recessive locus accounting for 18% of the variance (q2 = 1%) was detected. Adjusting AVF(Δ) for AVF(B) and FM(Δ) slightly increased the percentage of variance accounted for (to 26%, q2 = 3%) but did not radically alter the pattern of the parameter estimates. For FM(Δ), a putative dominant locus accounting for 31% of the variance (q2 = 49%) was noted. In conclusion, the results were consistent across methods in suggesting that there is little evidence of a multifactorial heritability for either AVF(Δ) or FM(Δ). Rather, the familial etiology of the response to exercise training appears to be primarily due to putative major genes (a recessive locus for AVF(Δ) and a dominant locus for FM(Δ)). In addition, a pleiotropic/oligogenic system urderlying these variables was inferred. That is, the putative loci for FM(Δ) and/or AVF(B) also may impact the AVF(Δ), with an additional independent major locus effect on AVF(Δ) after the former influences have been removed.
AB - The familial etiology of the response in total fat mass (FM) and abdominal visceral fat (AVF) to 20 weeks of exercise training was investigated in families participating in the HERITAGE Family Study. AVF (measured by computed tomographic scanning) add FM (measured by underwater weighing techniques) were assessed at baseline (in a sedentary state) and after 20 weeks of exercise training. The response AVF (AVF(Δ)) and response FM (FM(Δ)) were computed as the simple delta values (posttraining - baseline) and adjusted for the effects of sex, generation, and a polynomial in age using multiple regression analysis. To index the AVF response independently of the response in FM and the initial level of visceral fat, the AVF(Δ) was also adjusted for age and baseline AVF (AVF(B)) and FM(Δ). Familial correlation analysis was used to investigate the multifactorial familial effects (polygenic and/or familial environmental), and segregation analysis was used to search for major gene effects. For the age-adjusted AVF(Δ), a putative recessive locus accounting for 18% of the variance (q2 = 1%) was detected. Adjusting AVF(Δ) for AVF(B) and FM(Δ) slightly increased the percentage of variance accounted for (to 26%, q2 = 3%) but did not radically alter the pattern of the parameter estimates. For FM(Δ), a putative dominant locus accounting for 31% of the variance (q2 = 49%) was noted. In conclusion, the results were consistent across methods in suggesting that there is little evidence of a multifactorial heritability for either AVF(Δ) or FM(Δ). Rather, the familial etiology of the response to exercise training appears to be primarily due to putative major genes (a recessive locus for AVF(Δ) and a dominant locus for FM(Δ)). In addition, a pleiotropic/oligogenic system urderlying these variables was inferred. That is, the putative loci for FM(Δ) and/or AVF(B) also may impact the AVF(Δ), with an additional independent major locus effect on AVF(Δ) after the former influences have been removed.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0026-0495(99)90268-8
DO - 10.1016/S0026-0495(99)90268-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 10535391
AN - SCOPUS:13044257707
SN - 0026-0495
VL - 48
SP - 1278
EP - 1286
JO - Metabolism: clinical and experimental
JF - Metabolism: clinical and experimental
IS - 10
ER -