Metabolism: clinical and experimental
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This study aimed to determine whether polymorphisms of the adiponectin (ACDC) gene independently contribute to insulin resistance (IR) and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in nonobese, nondiabetic Korean men after adjusting for major environmental factors that influence IR. Among the 7 ACDC single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs;C-11377G, T45G, G276T, H241P, Y111H, G90S, and R221S) prescreened in 48 subjects, we genotyped 333 subjects for SNP45 and SNP276, both of which showed an allele frequency of more than 2%. In Pearson correlation and multiple stepwise regression analyses, we found that waist circumference was the most important influencing factor (beta = .369, P < .001) in homeostasis model assessment (HOMA)-IR, whereas plasma adiponectin was the second most important (beta = -.217, P = .023). ⋯ On the other hand, at position 45, only glucose concentrations were significantly lower in G carriers (P = .005). In the SNP45-SNP276 haplotype test, TT/TT subjects (having T/T at both SNP45 and SNP276) showed significantly lower IR before and after adjusting for waist circumference and adiponectin levels than did other carriers. In conclusion, we suggest that SNP276G>T, rather than SNP45T>G, is more strongly associated (both directly and indirectly) than with several components of metabolic syndrome and CVD risk, including IR, triglyceride concentration, and low-density lipoprotein particle size, in nonobese, nondiabetic men.