Journal
MITOCHONDRION
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 380-390Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2010.01.007
Keywords
Hearing loss; Aminoglycosides; 12S rRNA; Variants; Mitochondrial; Chinese
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Funding
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [RO1DC05230, RO1DC07696]
- National Basic Research Priorities Program of China [2004CCA02200]
- Ministry of Public Heath of Zhejiang Province [2006A100]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Zhejiang Province [2007G50G2090026]
- Zhejiang Provincial Program for the Cultivation of High-level Innovative Health
- Ministry of Science and Technology of Wenzhou City [Y20060089]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Y207307]
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In this report, we investigated the frequency and spectrum of mitochondrial 12S rRNA variants in a large cohort of 1642 Han Chinese pediatric subjects with aminoglycoside-induced and nonsyndromic hearing loss. Mutational analysis of 12S rRNA gene in these subjects identified 68 (54 known and 14 novel) variants. The frequencies of known 1555A>G and 1494C>T mutations were 3.96% and 0.18%, respectively, in this cohort with nonsyndromic and aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss. Prevalence of other putative deafness-associated mutation at positions 1095 and 961 were 0.61% and 1.7% in this cohort, respectively. Furthermore, the 745A>G, 792C>T, 801A>G, 839A>G, 856A>G, 1027A>G, 1192C>T, 1192C>A, 1310C>T, 1331A>G, 1374A>G and 1452T>C variants conferred increased sensitivity to ototoxic drugs or nonsyndromic deafness as they were absent in 449 Chinese controls and localized at highly conserved nucleotides of this rRNA. However, other variants appeared to be polymorphisms. Moreover, 65 Chinese subjects carrying the 1555A>G mutation exhibited bilateral and sensorineural hearing loss. A wide range of severity, age-of-onset and audiometric configuration was observed among these subjects. In particular, the sloping and flat-shaped patterns were the common audiograms in individuals carrying the 1555A>G mutation. The phenotypic variability in subjects carrying these 12S rRNA mutations indicated the involvement of nuclear modifier genes, mitochondrial haplotypes, epigenetic and environmental factors in the phenotypic manifestation of these mutations. Therefore, our data demonstrated that mitochondria] 12S rRNA is the hot spot for mutations associated with aminoglycoside ototoxicity. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. and Mitochondria Research Society. All rights reserved.
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