title: Quantitative trait loci for impaired glucose tolerance in nondiabetic SM/J and A/J mice.
abstract: The SMXA-5 recombinant inbred strain, which was established from nondiabetic parental SM/J and A/J mice, develops diabetic phenotypes such as impaired glucose tolerance. The combination of diabetogenic genes in the SM/J and A/J genomes impairs glucose tolerance in SMXA-5 mice. Using (SM/J x SMXA-5)F2 mice fed a high-fat diet, we previously detected a diabetogenic locus, T2dm2sa, on chromosome (Chr) 2. The A/J allele at this locus is diabetogenic. The SM.A-T2dm2sa congenic mouse, in which the Chr 2 region of A/J including T2dm2sa was introgressed into SM/J, showed obviously impaired glucose tolerance. These results indicate that SM.A-T2dm2sa mice develop diabetogenic traits due to T2dm2sa with the A/J allele and unknown diabetogenic loci with the SM/J allele. The aim of this study was to dissect these unknown loci, using quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis in the (A/J x SM.A-T2dm2sa) F2 intercross fed a high-fat diet. The results revealed a highly significant QTL, T2dm4sa, for glucose tolerance on Chr 6 and a significant QTL, T2dm5sa, for glucose tolerance on Chr 11. These loci with the SM/J allele were diabetogenic. The diabetogenic effect of T2dm4sa or T2dm5sa was verified by the impairment of glucose tolerance in the A/J-6(SM) or A/J-11(SM) consomic strain, in which Chr 6 or Chr 11 of SM/J is introgressed into A/J, respectively. These results demonstrate that diabetogenic loci exist in the genomes of nondiabetic A/J and SM/J mice and suggest that T2dm2sa with the A/J allele and T2dm4sa and/or T2dm5sa with the SM/J allele elicit impaired glucose tolerance in SM.A-T2dm2sa mice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
authors.forename: Natsuko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hada
authors.forename: Misato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujiyoshi
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuga
authors.forename: Masahiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: Shizufumi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ebihara
authors.forename: Tamio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: Fumihiko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Horio
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000818:Animals; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D033481:Chromosomes, Mammalian / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006720:Homozygote; D008126:Lod Score; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose