TY - JOUR
T1 - Whole-exome sequencing in 415,422 individuals identifies rare variants associated with mitochondrial DNA copy number
AU - Pillalamarri, Vamsee
AU - Shi, Wen
AU - Say, Conrad
AU - Yang, Stephanie
AU - Lane, John
AU - Guallar, Eliseo
AU - Pankratz, Nathan
AU - Arking, Dan E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health under grants R01HL13573 and R01HL144569. V.P. was funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The research utilized the UK Biobank Resource under application number 17731. The authors thank Charles Newcomb for valuable input and technical assistance. D.E.A. and V.P. conceptualized the study, designed the experiments, and edited the manuscript. V.P. conducted the experiments, performed formal statistical analyses, including design, creation and execution of scripts and code, and wrote and edited the manuscript. W.S. C.S. S.Y. and J.L. conducted the experiments, curated data, and provided technical and statistical analysis support. D.E.A. E.G. and N.P. designed experiments, provided research supervision, and edited the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript. The authors declare no competing interests.
Funding Information:
This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health under grants R01HL13573 and R01HL144569 . V.P. was funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund . The research utilized the UK Biobank Resource under application number 17731. The authors thank Charles Newcomb for valuable input and technical assistance.
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PY - 2023/1/12
Y1 - 2023/1/12
N2 - Inter-individual variation in the number of copies of the mitochondrial genome, called mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN), reflects mitochondrial function and has been associated with various aging-related diseases. We examined 415,422 exomes of self-reported White ancestry individuals from the UK Biobank and tested the impact of rare variants, at the level of single variants and through aggregate variant-set tests, on mtDNA-CN. A survey across nine variant sets tested enrichment of putatively causal variants and identified 14 genes at experiment-wide significance and three genes at marginal significance. These included associations at known mtDNA depletion syndrome genes (mtDNA helicase TWNK, p = 1.1 × 10−30; mitochondrial transcription factor TFAM, p = 4.3 × 10−15; mtDNA maintenance exonuclease MGME1, p = 2.0 × 10−6) and the V617F dominant gain-of-function mutation in the tyrosine kinase JAK2 (p = 2.7 × 10−17), associated with myeloproliferative disease. Novel genes included the ATP-dependent protease CLPX (p = 8.4 × 10−9), involved in mitochondrial proteome quality, and the mitochondrial adenylate kinase AK2 (p = 4.7 × 10−8), involved in hematopoiesis. The most significant association was a missense variant in SAMHD1 (p = 4.2 × 10−28), found on a rare, 1.2-Mb shared ancestral haplotype on chromosome 20. SAMHD1 encodes a cytoplasmic host restriction factor involved in viral defense response and the mitochondrial nucleotide salvage pathway, and is associated with Aicardi-Goutières syndrome 5, a childhood encephalopathy and chronic inflammatory response disorder. Rare variants were enriched in Mendelian mtDNA depletion syndrome loci, and these variants implicated core processes in mtDNA replication, nucleoid structure formation, and maintenance. These data indicate that strong-effect mutations from the nuclear genome contribute to the genetic architecture of mtDNA-CN.
AB - Inter-individual variation in the number of copies of the mitochondrial genome, called mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN), reflects mitochondrial function and has been associated with various aging-related diseases. We examined 415,422 exomes of self-reported White ancestry individuals from the UK Biobank and tested the impact of rare variants, at the level of single variants and through aggregate variant-set tests, on mtDNA-CN. A survey across nine variant sets tested enrichment of putatively causal variants and identified 14 genes at experiment-wide significance and three genes at marginal significance. These included associations at known mtDNA depletion syndrome genes (mtDNA helicase TWNK, p = 1.1 × 10−30; mitochondrial transcription factor TFAM, p = 4.3 × 10−15; mtDNA maintenance exonuclease MGME1, p = 2.0 × 10−6) and the V617F dominant gain-of-function mutation in the tyrosine kinase JAK2 (p = 2.7 × 10−17), associated with myeloproliferative disease. Novel genes included the ATP-dependent protease CLPX (p = 8.4 × 10−9), involved in mitochondrial proteome quality, and the mitochondrial adenylate kinase AK2 (p = 4.7 × 10−8), involved in hematopoiesis. The most significant association was a missense variant in SAMHD1 (p = 4.2 × 10−28), found on a rare, 1.2-Mb shared ancestral haplotype on chromosome 20. SAMHD1 encodes a cytoplasmic host restriction factor involved in viral defense response and the mitochondrial nucleotide salvage pathway, and is associated with Aicardi-Goutières syndrome 5, a childhood encephalopathy and chronic inflammatory response disorder. Rare variants were enriched in Mendelian mtDNA depletion syndrome loci, and these variants implicated core processes in mtDNA replication, nucleoid structure formation, and maintenance. These data indicate that strong-effect mutations from the nuclear genome contribute to the genetic architecture of mtDNA-CN.
KW - Mendelian mtDNA depletion syndrome
KW - Mitochondria
KW - exome sequencing
KW - mtDNA copy number
KW - rare haplotype sharing
KW - rare variants
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U2 - 10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100147
DO - 10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100147
M3 - Article
C2 - 36311265
AN - SCOPUS:85140398879
SN - 2666-2477
VL - 4
JO - Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
JF - Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
IS - 1
M1 - 100147
ER -