Relations of Mitochondrial Genetic Variation and Function with Atrial Fibrillation

线粒体遗传变异和功能与心房颤动的关系

• 批准号: 9883834
• 负责人: Jessica L Fetterman
• 金额: $ 15.16万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9883834
• 关键词: Adherence; Affect; Aging; Amino Acids; Animal Model; Applications Grants; Atrial Fibrillation; Bioinformatics; Biological Assay; Biology; Biometry; Blood Vessels; Boston; Calcium; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular system; Cells; Clinical; Complex; DNA Damage; DNA Sequence Alteration; Data; Development; Diet; Elderly; Environment; Epidemiology; Framingham Heart Study; Future; Genetic; Genetic Variation; Genomics; Heart; Heart Atrium; Impairment; Individual; Inherited; Learning; Life Style; Link; Measures; Mediating; Mentors; Metabolic; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial DNA; Mutation; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Nuclear; Oxidative Phosphorylation; Oxidative Stress; Participant; Patients; Peptides; Pharmacologic Substance; Phenotype; Physiology; Play; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Production; Proteins; RNA Folding; Research; Research Personnel; Risk Factors; Role; Sampling; Signal Transduction; Signaling Molecule; Structure; Teacher Professional Development; Testing; Time; Tissues; Training; Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine; Translational Research; Universities; Variant; age related; biobank; cardiometabolism; cardiovascular disorder risk; cell type; cohort; comorbidity; drug development; genetic epidemiology; genetic risk factor; genetic variant; genome sequencing; improved; induced pluripotent stem cell; insight; medical schools; mitochondrial DNA mutation; mitochondrial metabolism; multidisciplinary; new therapeutic target; novel; pre-doctoral; precision medicine; prevent; programs; protein function; sex; success; targeted treatment; trait; whole genome

Project Abstract The proposed study brings together the applicant's training in mitochondrial physiology and cardiovascular diseases with additional training in bioinformatics, biostatistics, and genetic epidemiology. To this end, a multidisciplinary team of investigators has been assembled to aid the applicant in her training and studies. Further, participation in the programs offered by the Boston University School of Medicine's Faculty Development and Diversity office under the directorship of one of the applicant's primary co-mentors will help her in her professional development and in transitioning to independence. The mechanisms underlying the association of advancing age with atrial fibrillation (AF) are unclear. Declines in mitochondrial function have long been appreciated to play a role in aging but whether alterations in mitochondrial genetics and function underlie age-related AF has not been thoroughly evaluated. The greater sensitivity afforded by whole genome sequencing provides novel opportunities to evaluate specific alterations in mtDNA and AF. We hypothesize that the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations with advancing age corresponds with a decline in mitochondrial function that promotes the development of AF. For Aim 1, the applicant will describe the mitochondrial genetic diversity within a multiethnic population of >65,000 participants within the NHLBI's Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) using bioinformatics annotations and functional predictions of mtDNA mutations (PolyPhen-2, PredictSNP, MFold). We will assess the relations of mtDNA mutations and copy number with advancing age and AF in TOPMed (Aim 2). In Aim 3, oxidative phosphorylation complex activities will be measured in TOPMed biobanked samples from sex- and comorbidity-matched participants with and without the variants associated with AF from Aim 2 (N=150/group), using immunocapture, spectrophotometric assays. A greater understanding of the contribution of mtDNA mutations in AF will provide insights that could be utilized in precision medicine to identify individuals for specific pharmaceutical targets and lifestyle changes aimed at altering mitochondrial metabolism and downstream signaling processes. The additional training and protected time afforded by the K01 will aid the applicant in making her transition to an independent investigator studying the intersections of mtDNA, mitochondrial physiology, and cardiovascular disease.

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