| Title: | Penetrance and expressivity of mitochondrial variants in a large clinically unselected population |
| Journal: | Human Molecular Genetics |
| Published: | 21 Nov 2023 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37988592/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddad194 |
| URL: | https://academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/hmg/ddad194/53669426/ddad194.pdf |
Publication 8279
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Abstract
Whole genome sequencing (WGS) from large clinically unselected cohorts provides a unique opportunity to assess the penetrance and expressivity of rare and/or known pathogenic mitochondrial variants in population. Using WGS from 179 862 clinically unselected individuals from the UK Biobank, we performed extensive single and rare variant aggregation association analyses of 15 881 mtDNA variants and 73 known pathogenic variants with 15 mitochondrial disease-relevant phenotypes. We identified 12 homoplasmic and one heteroplasmic variant (m.3243A>G) with genome-wide significant associations in our clinically unselected cohort. Heteroplasmic m.3243A>G (MAF = 0.0002, a known pathogenic variant) was associated with diabetes, deafness and heart failure and 12 homoplasmic variants increased aspartate aminotransferase levels including three low-frequency variants (MAF ~0.002 and beta~0.3 SD). Most pathogenic mitochondrial disease variants (n = 66/74) were rare in the population (<1:9000). Aggregated or single variant analysis of pathogenic variants showed low penetrance in unselected settings for the relevant phenotypes, except m.3243A>G. Multi-system disease risk and penetrance of diabetes, deafness and heart failure greatly increased with m.3243A>G level ≥ 10%. The odds ratio of these traits increased from 5.61, 12.3 and 10.1 to 25.1, 55.0 and 39.5, respectively. Diabetes risk with m.3243A>G was further influenced by type 2 diabetes genetic risk. Our study of mitochondrial variation in a large-unselected population identified novel associations and demonstrated that pathogenic mitochondrial variants have lower penetrance in clinically unselected settings. m.3243A>G was an exception at higher heteroplasmy showing a significant impact on health making it a good candidate for incidental reporting.</p>
10 Authors
- Stuart J Cannon
- Timothy Hall
- Gareth Hawkes
- Kevin Colclough
- Roisin M Boggan
- Caroline F Wright
- Sarah J Pickett
- Andrew T Hattersley
- Michael N Weedon
- Kashyap A Patel
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