Abstracts tagged "mitochondria and uric acid"

Abstract Number: 3075 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mitochondrial Genetic Variation, Copy Number and Susceptibility to Gout in the New Zealand Polynesian Population
Tony R. Merriman¹, James Boocock², Nicola Dalbeth³, Lisa K. Stamp⁴, Eli A. Stahl⁵, Hyon K. Choi⁶, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith⁷ and Anna Gosling⁸, ¹Biochemistry Dept, PO Box 56, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ²University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ³University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁴University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand, ⁵Divisions of Rheumatology and Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁶Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁷Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, ⁸Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Background/Purpose: Mitochondria play a central role in induction of an NLRP3 inflammatory response essential for gouty pathology. Mitochondria are in part self-encoding, possessing a 16.5…