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Keratoconus is associated with increased copy number of mitochondrial DNA.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate the possible association of oxidative stress with keratoconus (KC), we estimated the changes in relative mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content.

Methods

The study included 119 patients with KC and 208 controls matched for gender, ethnicity, and systemic disease status. We selected controls who were older than the patients since the mtDNA copy number tends to increase with age. The age mean (standard deviation) was 26.4(7.6) and 54.5(14.4) years for the patients and controls, respectively. The relative mtDNA copy number was estimated with the real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) method using ND1 as the mtDNA gene and human globulin (HGB; also known as the cytoglobin gene, CYGB) as the reference single-copy nuclear gene.

Results

The mean relative mtDNA content was significantly higher in patients with KC (1.20±0.45) than in the normal control subjects (1.04±0.36; p = 0.0004). Subjects with high mtDNA content (>1.259, i.e., greater than 75(th) percentile) were at an increased risk of the disease (odds ratio = 2.62, 95% confidence interval = 1.40 to 4.89; p =0.0025).

Conclusions

Increased mtDNA content in patients with KC may indicate mitochondrial respiratory chain defects and thus mitochondrial-abnormality involvement.

SUBMITTER: Abu-Amero KK

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4153421 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Keratoconus is associated with increased copy number of mitochondrial DNA.

Abu-Amero Khaled K KK Kondkar Altaf A AA Azad Taif Anwar TA Sultan Tahira T Kalantan Hatem H Al-Muammar Abdulrahman M AM

Molecular vision 20140827

<h4>Purpose</h4>To investigate the possible association of oxidative stress with keratoconus (KC), we estimated the changes in relative mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content.<h4>Methods</h4>The study included 119 patients with KC and 208 controls matched for gender, ethnicity, and systemic disease status. We selected controls who were older than the patients since the mtDNA copy number tends to increase with age. The age mean (standard deviation) was 26.4(7.6) and 54.5(14.4) years for the patients a ...[more]

PMID: 25221426

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Keratoconus is associated with increased copy number of mitochondrial DNA.

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Keratoconus is associated with increased copy number of mitochondrial DNA.

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