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Genetic variation within genes associated with mitochondrial function is significantly associated with later age at onset of Parkinson disease and contributes to disease risk
Genetic variation within genes associated with mitochondrial function is significantly associated with later age at onset of Parkinson disease and contributes to disease risk
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2018
Abstract
Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in the aetiology of monogenic Parkinson’s disease (PD). Yet the role that mitochondrial processes play in the most common form of the disease; sporadic PD, is yet to be fully established. Here we comprehensively assessed the role of mitochondrial function associated genes in sporadic PD by leveraging improvements in the scale and analysis of PD GWAS data with recent advances in our understanding of the genetics of mitochondrial disease. First, we identified that a proportion of the “missing heritability” of the PD can be explained by common variation within genes implicated in mitochondrial disease (primary gene list) and mitochondrial function (secondary gene list). Next we calculated a mitochondrial-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) and showed that cumulative small effect variants within both our primary and secondary gene lists are significantly associated with increased PD risk. Most significantly we further report that the PRS of the secondary mitochondrial gene list was significantly associated with later age at onset. Finally, to identify possible functional genomic associations we implemented Mendelian randomisation, which showed that 14 of these mitochondrial function associated genes showed functional consequence associated with PD risk. Further analysis suggested that the 14 identified genes are not only involved in mitophagy but implicate new mitochondrial processes. Our data suggests that therapeutics targeting mitochondrial bioenergetics and proteostasis pathways distinct from mitophagy could be beneficial to treating the early stage of PD.
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- Title
- Genetic variation within genes associated with mitochondrial function is significantly associated with later age at onset of Parkinson disease and contributes to disease risk
- Authors/Creators
- K.J. Billingsley (Author/Creator)I.A. Barbosa (Author/Creator)S. Bandrés-Ciga (Author/Creator)J.P. Quinn (Author/Creator)V.J. Bubb (Author/Creator)C. Deshpande (Author/Creator)J.A. Botia (Author/Creator)R.H. Reynolds (Author/Creator)M.A. Simpson (Author/Creator)C. Blauwendraat (Author/Creator)Z. Gan-Or (Author/Creator)J.R. Gibbs (Author/Creator)M.A. Nalls (Author/Creator)A. Singleton (Author/Creator)M. Ryten (Author/Creator)S. Kõks (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Genetic variation within genes associated with mitochondrial function is significantly associated with later age at onset of Parkinson disease and contributes to disease risk
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Identifiers
- 991005540447607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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