Title
GWAS for quantitative resistance phenotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals resistance genes and regulatory regions
Date Issued
01 December 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Farhat M.R.
Freschi L.
Ioerger T.
Snyder M.
Meehan C.J.
de Jong B.
Rigouts L.
Sloutsky A.
Kaur D.
Sunyaev S.
van Soolingen D.
Shendure J.
Sacchettini J.
Murray M.
Publisher(s)
Nature Publishing Group
Abstract
Drug resistance diagnostics that rely on the detection of resistance-related mutations could expedite patient care and TB eradication. We perform minimum inhibitory concentration testing for 12 anti-TB drugs together with Illumina whole-genome sequencing on 1452 clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates. We evaluate genome-wide associations between mutations in MTB genes or non-coding regions and resistance, followed by validation in an independent data set of 792 patient isolates. We confirm associations at 13 non-canonical loci, with two involving non-coding regions. Promoter mutations are measured to have smaller average effects on resistance than gene body mutations. We estimate the heritability of the resistance phenotype to 11 anti-TB drugs and identify a lower than expected contribution from known resistance genes. This study highlights the complexity of the genomic mechanisms associated with the MTB resistance phenotype, including the relatively large number of potentially causal loci, and emphasizes the contribution of the non-coding portion of the genome.
Volume
10
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistema respiratorio BiologĆ­a celular, MicrobiologĆ­a
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85065713256
PubMed ID
Source
Nature Communications
Sponsor(s)
Funding text We acknowledge the TB patients and their providers who provided the samples for this study and without which it would not have been possible. We acknowledge the ReseqTB team (Drs. Marco Schito and Matthew Esmundo for providing us with data that allowed the validation of our GWAS hits). This study was supported by a biomedical research grant from the American Lung Association (PI MF, RG-270912-N), a K01 award from the BD2K initiative (PI MF, ES026835), and an NIAID U19 CETR grant (P.I. M.M., AI109755), the Belgian Science Policy (Belspo) (L.R., C.J.M.).
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