UM, KC, PG and ŁD gathered study cohort and phenotypic data; EWO and MTM supervised 22 cohort construction; AHLS and EP performed genotyping; AHLS, MTS and PK analyzed and 23 interpreted data; AHLS, MTS, PK and PPW wrote the paper; AHLS and PPW and guarantors 24 of this work. All authors contributed to critical revision of the manuscript and approved its 25 publication.
Abstract
27Mitochondria are organelles whose main role is energy production and might influence obesity.
28They are the only organelles with their own genome. Here we have genotyped 435 patients with 29 type 1 diabetes using Illumina Infinium Omni Express Exome-8 v1.4 arrays and performed 30 mitoGWAS on BMI. We have analyzed additive interactions between mitochondrial and 31 nuclear variants in genes known to be associated with mitochondrial functioning 32 (MitoCarta2.0) and confirmed and refined the results on external cohorts -Framingham Heart 33 Study (FHS) and GTEx data. The linear mixed model analysis was performed using the 34 GENESIS package in R/Bioconductor We have found a nominal association between 35 rs28357980 localized to MT-ND2 and BMI (β=-0.69, p=0.056). This was confirmed on 1889 36 patients from FHS cohort (β =-0.312, p=0.047). Next, we have searched for additive 37interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear variants. MT-ND2 variants interacted with 38 variants in SIRT3, ATP5B, CYCS, TFB2M and POLRMT genes. TFB2M is a mitochondrial 39 transcription factor and together with TFAM creates transcription promoter complex for 40 mitochondrial polymerase POLRMT. We have found that the interaction between rs3021088 41 of MT-ND2 gene and rs6701836 in TFB2M has led to BMI decrease (inter_pval=0.0241), while 42 interaction of rs3021088in MT-ND2 and rs41542013 in POLRMT gene led to BMI increase 43 (inter_pval=0.0004). The influence of these interactions on BMI was confirmed on external 44 cohorts. Here, we have shown that variants in mitochondrial genome as well as additive 45 interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear SNPs influence BMI in T1DM and general 46 cohorts.
48Author summary: 49 Obesity is an epidemic of our times. It is known that it results from an imbalance between 50 energy intake and its expenditure, while mitochondria are organelles whose main role is energy 3 51 production. They are the only organelles that contain their own genome. Thus, we have 52 genotyped 435 patients with type 1 diabetes and looked on single mitochondrial variant 53 influence as well as on additive interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear variants which 54 might affect BMI. Our analysis has shown, that rs28357980 localized to MT-ND2 is associated 55 with BMI. Next, we looked whether variants in this gene, which builds complex I of the electron 56 transport chain, might interact with nuclear variants and together they modify obesity risk. We 57 focused mainly on mitochondrial biogenesis and found that interactions between variants in 58 TFB2M (rs6701836) or POLRMT (rs41542013) and MT-ND2 (rs3021088) affect patients 59 BMI. TFB2M is a mit...