FGF21 outperforms GDF15 as a diagnostic biomarker of mitochondrial disease in children.
Biomarker
Diagnosis
FGF21
GDF15
Mitochondrial disease
Pediatric
Journal
Molecular genetics and metabolism
ISSN: 1096-7206
Titre abrégé: Mol Genet Metab
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9805456
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2022
01 2022
Historique:
received:
10
08
2021
revised:
30
11
2021
accepted:
01
12
2021
pubmed:
8
1
2022
medline:
5
4
2022
entrez:
7
1
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Several studies have shown serum fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) and growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) levels are elevated in patients with mitochondrial disease (MD) where myopathy is a feature. In this study we investigated the utility of FGF21 and GDF15 as biomarkers for MD in a phenotypically and genotypically diverse pediatric cohort with suspected MD against a panel of healthy controls and non-mitochondrial disease controls with some overlapping clinical features. Serum was collected from 56 children with MD, 104 children with non-mitochondrial disease (27 neuromuscular, 26 cardiac, 21 hepatic, 30 renal) and 30 pediatric controls. Serum FGF21 and GDF15 concentrations were measured using ELISA, and their ability to detect MD was determined. Median FGF21 and GDF15 serum concentrations were elevated 17-fold and 3-fold respectively in pediatric MD patients compared to the healthy control group. Non-mitochondrial disease controls had elevated serum GDF15 concentrations while FGF21 concentrations were in the normal range. Elevation of GDF15 in a range of non-mitochondrial pediatric disorders limits its use as a MD biomarker. FGF21 was elevated in MD patients with a spectrum of clinical phenotypes, including those without myopathy. Serum FGF21 had an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.87, indicating good ability to discriminate between pediatric MD and healthy and non-mitochondrial disease controls. Triaging of pediatric MD patients by clinical phenotyping and serum FGF21 testing, followed by massively parallel sequencing, may enable more rapid diagnosis of pediatric MD.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34991945
pii: S1096-7192(21)01174-4
doi: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2021.12.001
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Biomarkers
0
GDF15 protein, human
0
Growth Differentiation Factor 15
0
fibroblast growth factor 21
0
Fibroblast Growth Factors
62031-54-3
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
63-71Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest Lisa G Riley, Michael Nafisinia, Minal J. Menezes, Reta Nambiar, Andrew Williams, Elizabeth Barnes, Arthavan Selvanathan, Kate Lichkus, Drago Bratkovic, Joy Yaplito-Lee, Kaustuv Bhattacharya, Maina Kava, Shanti Balasubramaniam, Carolyn Ellaway and John Christodoulou declare they have no competing interests.