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Vitamin D is known to modulate the immune system, and its administration has been associated with reduced risk of type 1 diabetes. Vitamin D acts via its receptor (VDR). Four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the VDR gene have been commonly studied, and evidence of association with type 1 diabetes has been reported previously. We sequenced the VDR gene region and developed its SNP map. Here we analyzed association of the 98 VDR SNPs in up to 3,763 type 1 diabetic families. First, we genotyped all 98 SNPs in a minimum of 458 U.K. families with two affected offspring. We further tested eight SNPs, including four SNPs associated with P < 0.05 in the first set and the four commonly studied SNPs, in up to 3,305 additional families from the U.K., Finland, Norway, Romania, and U.S. We only found weak evidence of association (P = 0.02-0.05) of the rs4303288, rs12721366, and rs2544043 SNPs. We then tested these three SNPs in an independent set of 1,587 patients and 1,827 control subjects from the U.K. and found no evidence of association. Overall, our results indicate that common sequence variation in the VDR gene has no major effect in type 1 diabetes in the populations tested.

Original publication

DOI

10.2337/diabetes.53.10.2709

Type

Journal article

Journal

Diabetes

Publication Date

10/2004

Volume

53

Pages

2709 - 2712

Keywords

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Genetic Variation, Humans, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Receptors, Calcitriol, United Kingdom