Higher maternal adiposity reduces offspring birthweight if associated with a metabolically favourable profile
dc.contributor.author | Thompson, WD | |
dc.contributor.author | Beaumont, RN | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuang, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Warrington, NM | |
dc.contributor.author | Ji, Y | |
dc.contributor.author | Tyrrell, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Wood, AR | |
dc.contributor.author | Scholtens, DM | |
dc.contributor.author | Knight, BA | |
dc.contributor.author | Evans, DM | |
dc.contributor.author | Lowe, WL | |
dc.contributor.author | Santorelli, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Azad, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Mason, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Hattersley, AT | |
dc.contributor.author | Frayling, TM | |
dc.contributor.author | Yaghootkar, H | |
dc.contributor.author | Borges, MC | |
dc.contributor.author | Lawlor, DA | |
dc.contributor.author | Freathy, RM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-28T07:35:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-09-20 | |
dc.description.abstract | Aims/hypothesis Higher maternal BMI during pregnancy is associated with higher offspring birthweight, but it is not known whether this is solely the result of adverse metabolic consequences of higher maternal adiposity, such as maternal insulin resistance and fetal exposure to higher glucose levels, or whether there is any effect of raised adiposity through non-metabolic (e.g. mechanical) factors. We aimed to use genetic variants known to predispose to higher adiposity, coupled with a favourable metabolic profile, in a Mendelian randomisation (MR) study comparing the effect of maternal ‘metabolically favourable adiposity’ on offspring birthweight with the effect of maternal general adiposity (as indexed by BMI). Methods To test the causal effects of maternal metabolically favourable adiposity or general adiposity on offspring birthweight, we performed two-sample MR. We used variants identified in large, published genetic-association studies as being associated with either higher adiposity and a favourable metabolic profile, or higher BMI (n = 442,278 and n = 322,154 for metabolically favourable adiposity and BMI, respectively). We then extracted data on the metabolically favourable adiposity and BMI variants from a large, published genetic-association study of maternal genotype and offspring birthweight controlling for fetal genetic effects (n = 406,063 with maternal and/or fetal genotype effect estimates). We used several sensitivity analyses to test the reliability of the results. As secondary analyses, we used data from four cohorts (total n = 9323 mother–child pairs) to test the effects of maternal metabolically favourable adiposity or BMI on maternal gestational glucose, anthropometric components of birthweight and cord-blood biomarkers. Results Higher maternal adiposity with a favourable metabolic profile was associated with lower offspring birthweight (−94 [95% CI −150, −38] g per 1 SD [6.5%] higher maternal metabolically favourable adiposity, p = 0.001). By contrast, higher maternal BMI was associated with higher offspring birthweight (35 [95% CI 16, 53] g per 1 SD [4 kg/m2] higher maternal BMI, p = 0.0002). Sensitivity analyses were broadly consistent with the main results. There was evidence of outlier SNPs for both exposures; their removal slightly strengthened the metabolically favourable adiposity estimate and made no difference to the BMI estimate. Our secondary analyses found evidence to suggest that a higher maternal metabolically favourable adiposity decreases pregnancy fasting glucose levels while a higher maternal BMI increases them. The effects on neonatal anthropometric traits were consistent with the overall effect on birthweight but the smaller sample sizes for these analyses meant that the effects were imprecisely estimated. We also found evidence to suggest that higher maternal metabolically favourable adiposity decreases cord-blood leptin while higher maternal BMI increases it. Conclusions/interpretation Our results show that higher adiposity in mothers does not necessarily lead to higher offspring birthweight. Higher maternal adiposity can lead to lower offspring birthweight if accompanied by a favourable metabolic profile. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Union FP7 | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | British Heart Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Medical Research Council (MRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Bristol | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 20 September 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00125-021-05570-9 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | R01 DK10324 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 669545 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | CS/16/4/32482 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | AA/18/7/34219 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 217065/Z/19/Z | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/127254 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://portals.broadinstitute.org/collaboration/giant/index.php/GIANT_consortium_data_files | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://walker05.u.hpc.mssm.edu | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Adiposity | en_GB |
dc.subject | ALSPAC | en_GB |
dc.subject | BiB | en_GB |
dc.subject | BMI | en_GB |
dc.subject | EFSOCH | en_GB |
dc.subject | Glucose | en_GB |
dc.subject | HAPO | en_GB |
dc.subject | Insulin | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mendelian randomisation | en_GB |
dc.subject | UKB | en_GB |
dc.title | Higher maternal adiposity reduces offspring birthweight if associated with a metabolically favourable profile | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-28T07:35:25Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0012-186X | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The data for the genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of BMI are available at https://portals.broadinstitute.org/collaboration/giant/index.php/GIANT_consortium_data_files. The data for the GWAS of body fat percentage are available at https://walker05.u.hpc.mssm.edu. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Diabetologia | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-07-14 | |
exeter.funder | ::Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
exeter.funder | ::Medical Research Council (MRC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-09-20 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-09-28T07:31:30Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-09-28T07:35:38Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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