Genetic Variants in Forkhead Box O1 Associated with Predisposition to Sepsis in a Chinese Han Population

Overview

Journal BMC Infect Dis

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2019 Sep 8

PMID 31492105

Authors

Huijuan Wang

Zhaohui Tong

Jia Li

Kun Xiao

Feifei Ren

Lixin Xie

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Abstract

Background: Genetic variant is one of the causes of sepsis patients' mortality. Now, many studies have identified several SNPs related to sepsis. However, none of these studies were identified in a genome-wide way. We aimed to detect genetic polymorphisms of sepsis patients.

Methods: The blood samples of eight normal controls and ten sepsis patients were collected for whole exome sequencing. Then, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) were selected according to quality score and number of sepsis patients who had this variants. Synonymous mutations were removed. Genes including these remaining variants were used for functional analyses. After analyses, the remaining SNPs and indels were validated in 149 normal controls and 156 sepsis patients. Finally, serum levels of proteins coded by genes including these SNPs were evaluated.

Results: After whole exome sequencing, 97 SNPs and one indel site were left. Then, functional screening was performed. Only seven SNPs were used for further validation. As a result, the rs2721068 in dominant model and rs17446614 in recessive model were associated with sepsis, and the ORs of these two SNPs were 3.24 (95%CI, 1.25, 8.44) and 0.47 (0.026, 0.88), respectively. These two SNPs were both located in Forkhead box O1 (FOXO1) gene. For rs2721068 (T/T, T/C-C/C) and rs17446614 (A/A-A/G, G/G), serum levels of foxo1 in sepsis patients were both significantly lower in normal controls.

Conclusions: We firstly reported that the rs2721068 and rs17446614 were correlated to genetic predisposition to sepsis.

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