DNA was extracted from whole blood using the MaxiPrep Kit (QIAGEN, Sollentuna, Sweden). SNPs were genotyped using a Sequenom massARRAY platform or TaqMan allelic discrimination assay with an ABI Prism 7900 sequence detection system (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA). The success rate of genotyping was > 90%. Replication genotyping of 6% of the samples showed > 98% concordance. All SNPs were in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE), except for rs11920090 and rs6467136, which significantly deviated in women who did not develop diabetes postpartum (p < 0.01), and were eventually excluded from the analysis. We analysed 12 SNPs previously shown to be associated with measures of insulin secretion [11 (link), 12 (link), 14 (link)], and 4 SNPs previously shown to be associated with measures of insulin resistance in GWAS [10 (link), 11 (link), 13 ], for association with disposition index and HOMA-IR, respectively, in women with previous GDM. We also analysed 70 (2 out of 72 were excluded for not being in HWE) SNPs, previously associated with diabetes in GWAS [11 (link), 15 (link), 18 (link)], for association with diabetes postpartum.
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