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Arthritis Research & Therapy
Published in: Arthritis Research & Therapy 1/2018

Open Access 01-12-2018 | Research article

Next-generation sequencing profiling of mitochondrial genomes in gout

Authors: Chia-Chun Tseng, Chung-Jen Chen, Jeng-Hsien Yen, Hsi-Yuan Huang, Jan-Gowth Chang, Shun-Jen Chang, Wei-Ting Liao

Published in: Arthritis Research & Therapy | Issue 1/2018

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Abstract

Background

Accumulating evidence implicates mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) alleles, which are independent of the nuclear genome, in disease, especially in human metabolic diseases. However, this area of investigation has lagged behind in researching the nuclear alleles in complex traits, for example, in gout.

Methods

Next-generation sequencing was utilized to investigate the relationship between mtDNA alleles and phenotypic variations in 52 male patients with gout and 104 age-matched male non-gout controls from the Taiwan Biobank whole-genome sequencing samples. Differences from a reference sequence (GRCh38) were identified. The sequence kernel association test (SKAT) was applied to identify gout-associated alleles in mitochondrial genes. The tools Polymorphism Phenotyping, Sorting Intolerant From Tolerant (SIFT), Predict the pathology of Mutations (PMUT), Human Mitochondrial Genome Database (mtDB), Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform (MAFFT), and Mammalian Mitochondrial tRNA Genes (Mamit-tRNA) were used to evaluate pathogenicity of alleles. Validation of selected alleles by quantitative polymerase chain reaction of single nucleotide polymorphisms (qPCR SNPs) was also performed.

Results

We identified 456 alleles in patients with gout and 640 alleles in non-gout controls with 274 alleles shared by both. Mitochondrial genes were associated with gout, with MT-CO3, MT-TA, MT-TC, and MT-TT containing potentially pathogenic gout-associated alleles and displaying evidence of gene-gene interactions. All heteroplasmy levels of potentially pathogenic alleles exceeded metabolic thresholds for pathogenicity. Validation assays confirmed the next-generation sequencing results of selected alleles. Among them, potentially pathogenic MT-CO3 alleles correlated with high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels (P = 0.034).

Conclusion

This study provided two scientific insights. First, this was the most extensive mitochondrial genomic profiling associated with gout. Second, our results supported the roles of mitochondria in gout and HDL, and this comprehensive analysis framework can be applied to other diseases in which mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated.
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Metadata
Title
Next-generation sequencing profiling of mitochondrial genomes in gout
Authors
Chia-Chun Tseng
Chung-Jen Chen
Jeng-Hsien Yen
Hsi-Yuan Huang
Jan-Gowth Chang
Shun-Jen Chang
Wei-Ting Liao
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Arthritis Research & Therapy / Issue 1/2018
Electronic ISSN: 1478-6362
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-018-1637-5

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