2024
Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy Is a Novel Predictor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Risk
Pasca S, Hong Y, Shi W, Puiu D, Lake N, Lek M, Guallar E, Arking D, Gondek L. Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy Is a Novel Predictor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Risk. Blood 2024, 144: 4054-4054. DOI: 10.1182/blood-2024-210250.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMitochondrial heteroplasmyClonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potentialMtDNA heteroplasmyWhole-exome sequencing dataSomatic mutationsPresence of somatic mutationsExome sequencing dataCancer-associated genesClonal hematopoiesisClonal expansionVariant allele frequencyAssociated with myeloid malignanciesMtDNA variantsMitochondrial DNAPresence of mutationsSequence dataUK Biobank (UKBBiologically significant roleDeleterious mutationsHeteroplasmyChronic lymphocytic leukemia riskAllele frequenciesOncogenic transformationMitochondrial functionMyeloid genes
2022
Mitochondrial DNA variation across 56,434 individuals in gnomAD
Laricchia KM, Lake NJ, Watts NA, Shand M, Haessly A, Gauthier L, Benjamin D, Banks E, Soto J, Garimella K, Emery J, Consortium G, Rehm HL, MacArthur DG, Tiao G, Lek M, Mootha VK, Calvo SE. Mitochondrial DNA variation across 56,434 individuals in gnomAD. Genome Research 2022, 32: gr.276013.121. PMID: 35074858, PMCID: PMC8896463, DOI: 10.1101/gr.276013.121.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMtDNA variantsMitochondrial DNA variationPathogenic mtDNA variantsWhole genome sequencesUnique mtDNA variantsGenome Aggregation DatabasePopulation allele frequenciesAllele frequenciesMtDNA copy numberMitochondrial genomeNuclear sequencesVariant callsDNA variationIndividuals of EuropeanMtDNA genomeAncestral populationsMtDNA moleculesGenomic databasesHeteroplasmic variantsNuclear DNAHomoplasmic variantsMitochondrial originFalse positive variant callsMtDNA copiesMitochondrial haplogroups