Trancriptomics and Lipidomics of Epicardial Ectopic Fat (GENTLE)

Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM)

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes

Treatments: Other: Blood sampling; Procedure: Subcutaneous adipose tissue biopsy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06590415

RCAPHM24_0060

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cohort studies have shown that patients with obesity associated with metabolic abnormalities (metabolically unhealthy obesity) have an accumulation of ectopic fat deposits (EDF) linked to subcutaneous adipose tissue dysfunction. Although it is accepted that the storage capacity of subcutaneous adipose tissue is genetically determined, the genetic factors predisposing to adipose tissue distribution abnormalities remain poorly understood.

The Angiosafe T2D cohort consists of 7200 highly phenotyped type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients. In 297 patients from this cohort (ancillary study), investigators assessed epicardial fat volume (EFV) using an artificial intelligence algorithm. In 42 of these patients, designated as early T2DM/DGE, an accumulation of epicardial fat and diabetes occurring before the age of 40 were observed, clinically approaching the clinical presentation of genetic lipodystrophy, although subcutaneous adipose tissue persisted in their case.

This study will focus on a case-control study nested within the pre-existing cohort of T2D patients (Angiosafe T2D), and more specifically within this cohort on a subgroup of 42 patients with early-onset diabetes and an abnormal distribution of adipose tissue caracterized by ectopic fat accumulation. In order to understand the severe metabolic phenotype observed in this group of 42 patients, investigators propose to perform a multiomic analysis combining clinico-biological, exomic, transcriptomic and lipidomic data.

This study will compare the rate of patients with at least one rare (<1% general population) potentially pathogenic genetic variant in a coding region of the genetic lipodystrophy genes by whole exome sequencing in 42 early-onset T2DM and a high epicardial fat volume patients versus 42 patients without early-onset T2DM and/or high epicardial fat volume (control group).

Enrollment: 84 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for T2D/DGE patient:

• Adult patient of legal age included in the Angiosafe T2D multicenter study, having consented to the use of the data collected for research purposes.
• Patient who has signed the GENTLE informed consent form.
• Patient not objecting to re-use of data and samples collected in the Angiosafe T2D study
• Patient with type 2 diabetes according to ADA recommendations
• Age at diagnosis of diabetes less than or equal to 40 years and epicardial fat volume greater than 72 mL*.
• Patient beneficiary or affiliated to a social security scheme

Inclusion Criteria for control patient:

• Adult patient of legal age included in the Angiosafe T2D multicenter study, having consented to the use of the data collected for research purposes.
• Patient who has signed the GENTLE informed consent form.
• Patient not objecting to re-use of data and samples collected in the Angiosafe T2D study
• Patient with type 2 diabetes according to ADA recommendations
• Age at diagnosis of diabetes greater than 40 and/or epicardial fat volume less than 72 mL
• Patient beneficiary or affiliated to a social security scheme

Exclusion Criteria:

• Type 1 diabetic patient
• Patient with monogenic diabetes
• Patient with diabetes secondary to pancreatic disease
• Pregnant or breast-feeding women, patients under guardianship, deprived of liberty.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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84 participants in 2 patient groups

T2D/DGE patients

Experimental group

Description:

Diagnostic age of diabètes mellitus less than or equal to 40 years and epicardial fat volume greater than 72 mL.

Treatment:

Procedure: Subcutaneous adipose tissue biopsy

Other: Blood sampling

Control patients

Active Comparator group

Description:

Age at diagnosis of diabetes greater than 40 and/or epicardial fat volume less than 72 mL.

Treatment:

Procedure: Subcutaneous adipose tissue biopsy

Other: Blood sampling