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PMID
18612324
TITLE
The use of common mitochondrial variants to detect and characterise population structure in the Australian population: implications for genome-wide association studies.
ABSTRACT
There is an increasing recognition of the potential role of variants in mitochondrial DNA and nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins in modifying disease risk. This has led to a rise in the number of mitochondrial association studies being undertaken. The unique inheritance pattern of mitochondria makes mitochondrial DNA variation susceptible to having geographical structure. Such a structure may have a dramatic impact on mitochondrial association studies, particularly in heterogeneous populations. By combining self-reported ancestry data and mitochondrial genotype data for a sample of 3839 individuals from 1037 Australian families, population substructure is tested by looking for evidence of differences in mitochondrial haplogroup and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) frequencies between different ancestral groups in Australia. In addition, the substructure within ancestral groups is tested by comparing the similarity of mates to randomly drawn pairs of individuals from the same ancestral group. It is shown that there are significant differences in the frequency of variants both between European and non-European groups, and within Europe. This agrees with previous studies of European mitochondrial variation. No evidence was found for structure within ancestral groups. These results have implications for future association studies in the Australian population, and other populations of heterogeneous ancestry.
DATE PUBLISHED
2008 Nov
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
aheadofprint 2008/07/09
pubmed 2008/07/10 09:00
medline 2009/07/25 09:00
entrez 2008/07/10 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Byrne EM Byrne Enda M EM Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. enda.byrne@qimr.edu.au
McRae AF McRae Allan F AF
Zhao ZZ Zhao Zhen-Zhen ZZ
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Montgomery GW Montgomery Grant W GW
Visscher PM Visscher Peter M PM
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 16
ISSUE: 11
TITLE: European journal of human genetics : EJHG
ISOABBREVIATION: Eur. J. Hum. Genet.
YEAR: 2008
MONTH: Nov
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1018-4813
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Eur J Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1018-4813
NLMUNIQUEID: 9302235
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Australia
Child
Cognition
DNA, Mitochondrial genetics
Female genetics
Genome, Mitochondrial genetics
Genome-Wide Association Study genetics
Humans genetics
Male genetics
Melanoma genetics
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide genetics
Risk Factors genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
0 DNA, Mitochondrial
OTHER ID's