From a family of 16 diabetic patients with typical maternal inheritance, we investigated a 69-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes. The proband showed no major deletions in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Direct sequencing revealed 7 missense and 5 ribosomal RNA homoplasmic nucleotide substitutions when compared with the Cambridge Sequence and its recent revision. When compared with the control cybrid cells, the proband cybrid cells showed 6 nucleotide substitutions. Among these, 14577 T/C, which turned out to be 98.9% heteroplasmic, is a new missense substitution in the NADH dehydrogenase 6 gene. We also observed 2 other patients with 14577 T/C substitution from another group of 252 unrelated diabetic patients, whereas no individual from a group of 529 control subjects had 14577 T/C substitution. Furthermore, these 6 substitutions were in linkage disequilibrium. Mitochondrial respiratory chain complex I activity and O2 consumption rates of the proband cybrid cells, which were obtained by the fusion of mtDNA-deleted (rho0) HeLa cells and mtDNA from the proband, showed 64.5 and 61.5% reductions, respectively, compared with control cybrid cells. The present study strongly indicates that the new mtDNA mutation at 14577 T/C is probably a major pathogenic mutation for type 2 diabetes in this family.
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July 01 2000
A new mitochondrial DNA mutation at 14577 T/C is probably a major pathogenic mutation for maternally inherited type 2 diabetes.
M Tawata;
M Tawata
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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J I Hayashi;
J I Hayashi
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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K Isobe;
K Isobe
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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E Ohkubo;
E Ohkubo
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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M Ohtaka;
M Ohtaka
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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J Chen;
J Chen
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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K Aida;
K Aida
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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T Onaya
T Onaya
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University, Tamaho, Japan. [email protected]
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M Tawata, J I Hayashi, K Isobe, E Ohkubo, M Ohtaka, J Chen, K Aida, T Onaya; A new mitochondrial DNA mutation at 14577 T/C is probably a major pathogenic mutation for maternally inherited type 2 diabetes.. Diabetes 1 July 2000; 49 (7): 1269–1272. https://doi.org/10.2337/diabetes.49.7.1269
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