机构:[1]Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China[2]Yuxi City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yuxi, Yunnan 653100, China[3]Wenshan Institute of Dermatology, Wenshan, Yunnan 663000, China[4]Department of Dermatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, 650032, China昆明医科大学附属第一医院[5]Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae), which has massive genomic decay and dependence on host metabolism. Accumulating evidence showed a crucial role of mitochondria inmetabolism and innate immunity. We hypothesized that the mitochondrial-related antimicrobial/antiviral immune genes MAVS (mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein), MITA (mediator of IRF3 activation) and MFN2 (mitofusin 2) would confer a risk to leprosy. In this study, we performed a case-control study to analyze 11 tag and/or non-synonymous SNPs of the MAVS, MITA and MFN2 genes in 527 leprosy patients and 583 healthy individuals, and directly sequenced the three genes in 80 leprosy patients with a family history from Yunnan, Southwest China. We found no association between these SNPs and leprosy (including its subtypes) based on the frequencies of alleles, genotypes and haplotypes between the cases and controls. There was also no enrichment of potential pathogenic variants of the three genes in leprosy patients. Our results suggested that genetic variants of the MAVS, MITA and MFN2 genes might not affect the susceptibility to leprosy. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China [31271346, 81573034]; Yunnan Province [2014FB177]
第一作者机构:[1]Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & Yunnan Province, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China[5]Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China[*1]Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China.
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Wang Dong,Li Guo-Dong,Zhang Deng-Feng,et al.Genetic variants of the MAVS, MITA and MFN2 genes are not associated with leprosy in Han Chinese from Southwest China[J].INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION.2016,45:105-110.doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2016.08.021.
APA:
Wang, Dong,Li, Guo-Dong,Zhang, Deng-Feng,Xu, Ling,Li, Xiao-An...&Yao, Yong-Gang.(2016).Genetic variants of the MAVS, MITA and MFN2 genes are not associated with leprosy in Han Chinese from Southwest China.INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION,45,
MLA:
Wang, Dong,et al."Genetic variants of the MAVS, MITA and MFN2 genes are not associated with leprosy in Han Chinese from Southwest China".INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 45.(2016):105-110