EBioMedicine · 2025
Linking obesity-associated genotype to child language development: the role of early-life neurology-related proteomics and brain myelination.
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Huang Jian, Che Jinyi, Kee Michelle Z L, Tan Ai Peng, Law Evelyn C, Silveira Patricia Pelufo, Pokhvisneva Irina, Patel Sachin, Godfrey Keith M, Daniel Lourdes Mary, Tan Kok Hian, Chong Yap Seng, Chan Shiao-Yng, Eriksson Johan G, Wang Dennis, Huang Jonathan Yinhao
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BACKGROUND: The association between childhood obesity and language development may be confounded by socio-environmental factors and attributed to comorbid pathways.
METHODS: In a longitudinal Singaporean mother-offspring cohort, we leveraged trans-ancestry polygenic predictions of body mass index (BMI) to interrogate the causal effects of early-life BMI on child language development and its effects on molecular and neuroimaging measures. Leveraging large genome-wide association studies, we examined whether the link between obesity and language development is causal or due to a shared genetic basis.
FINDINGS: We found an inverse association between polygenic risk for obesity, which is less susceptible to confounding, and language ability assessed at age 9. Our findings suggested a shared genetic basis between obesity and language development rather than a causal effect of obesity on language development. Interrogating early-life mechanisms including neurology-related proteomics and language-related white matter microstructure, we found that EFNA4 and VWC2 expressions were associated with language ability as well as fractional anisotropy of language-related white matter tracts, suggesting a role in brain myelination. Additionally, the expression of the EPH-Ephrin signalling pathway in the hippocampus might contribute to language development. Polygenic risk for obesity was nominally associated with EFNA4 and VWC2 expression. However, we did not find support for mediating mechanisms via these proteins.
INTERPRETATION: This study demonstrates the potential of examining early-life proteomics in conjunction with deep genotyping and phenotyping and provides biological insights into the shared genomic links between obesity and language development.
FUNDING: Singapore National Research Foundation and Agency for Science, Technology and Research.
METHODS: In a longitudinal Singaporean mother-offspring cohort, we leveraged trans-ancestry polygenic predictions of body mass index (BMI) to interrogate the causal effects of early-life BMI on child language development and its effects on molecular and neuroimaging measures. Leveraging large genome-wide association studies, we examined whether the link between obesity and language development is causal or due to a shared genetic basis.
FINDINGS: We found an inverse association between polygenic risk for obesity, which is less susceptible to confounding, and language ability assessed at age 9. Our findings suggested a shared genetic basis between obesity and language development rather than a causal effect of obesity on language development. Interrogating early-life mechanisms including neurology-related proteomics and language-related white matter microstructure, we found that EFNA4 and VWC2 expressions were associated with language ability as well as fractional anisotropy of language-related white matter tracts, suggesting a role in brain myelination. Additionally, the expression of the EPH-Ephrin signalling pathway in the hippocampus might contribute to language development. Polygenic risk for obesity was nominally associated with EFNA4 and VWC2 expression. However, we did not find support for mediating mechanisms via these proteins.
INTERPRETATION: This study demonstrates the potential of examining early-life proteomics in conjunction with deep genotyping and phenotyping and provides biological insights into the shared genomic links between obesity and language development.
FUNDING: Singapore National Research Foundation and Agency for Science, Technology and Research.