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- Title
High Prevalence of a Monogenic Cause in Han Chinese Diagnosed With Type 1 Diabetes, Partly Driven by Nonsyndromic Recessive Mutations.
- Authors
Meihang Li; Sihua Wang; Kuanfeng Xu; Yang Chen; Qi Fu; Yong Gu; Yun Shi; Mei Zhang; Min Sun; Heng Chen; Xiuqun Han; Yangxi Li; Zhoukai Tang; Lejing Cai; Zhiqiang Li; Yongyong Shi; Tao Yang; Polychronakos, Constantin; Li, Meihang; Wang, Sihua
- Abstract
It is estimated that ∼1% of European ancestry patients clinically diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) actually have monogenic forms of the disease. Because of the much lower incidence of true T1D in East Asians, we hypothesized that the percentage would be much higher. To test this, we sequenced the exome of 82 Chinese Han patients clinically diagnosed with T1D but negative for three autoantibodies. Analysis focused on established or proposed monogenic diabetes genes. We found credible mutations in 18 of the 82 autoantibody-negative patients (22%). All mutations had consensus pathogenicity support by five algorithms. As in Europeans, the most common gene was HNF1A (MODY3), in 6 of 18 cases. Surprisingly, almost as frequent were diallelic mutations in WFS1, known to cause Wolfram syndrome but also described in nonsyndromic cases. Fasting C-peptide varied widely and was not predictive. Given the 27.4% autoantibody negativity in Chinese and 22% mutation rate, we estimate that ∼6% of Chinese with a clinical T1D diagnosis have monogenic diabetes. Our findings support universal sequencing of autoantibody-negative cases as standard of care in East Asian patients with a clinical T1D diagnosis. Nonsyndromic diabetes with WSF1 mutations is not rare in Chinese. Its response to alternative treatments should be investigated.
- Subjects
CHINA; TYPE 1 diabetes; EAST Asians; CHINESE people; RESEARCH; GENETIC mutation; SEQUENCE analysis; RESEARCH methodology; EVALUATION research; MEDICAL cooperation; COMPARATIVE studies; GENES; DISEASE susceptibility; DISEASE prevalence; MEMBRANE proteins
- Publication
Diabetes, 2020, Vol 69, Issue 1, p121
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2337/db19-0510