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Roadmap to determine the point mutations involved in cardiomyopathy disorder: A Bayesian approach. Gene 2013; 519:34-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.01.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2012] [Revised: 12/31/2012] [Accepted: 01/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bradycardia is a trigger of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with arrhythmia including Brugada syndrome and long QT syndrome. The HCN4 channel controls the heart rate, and its mutations predispose to inherited sick sinus syndrome and long QT syndrome associated with bradycardia. We found a 4 base-insertion at the splice donor site of the HCN4 gene in a patient with idiopathic ventricular tachycardia, which was supposed to generate a truncated channel. To investigate the role of the HCN4 channel in ventricular arrhythmia, we introduced a ventricular action potential of I(f) channel produced by HCN4 in a computer simulation model and found that the I(f) channel generated a leaky outward current during the plateau phase of ventricular action potential. Currents through the I(f) channel were suggested to contribute to the shortening of the action potential duration and the prevention of early after-depolarization in bradycardia. These observations suggested that the HCN4 channel played a preventive role in triggering bradycardia-induced ventricular arrhythmias.
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Ueda K, Nakamura K, Hayashi T, Inagaki N, Takahashi M, Arimura T, Morita H, Higashiuesato Y, Hirano Y, Yasunami M, Takishita S, Yamashina A, Ohe T, Sunamori M, Hiraoka M, Kimura A. Functional characterization of a trafficking-defective HCN4 mutation, D553N, associated with cardiac arrhythmia. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:27194-8. [PMID: 15123648 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m311953200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel 4 gene HCN4 is a pacemaker channel that plays a key role in automaticity of sinus node in the heart, and an HCN4 mutation was reported in a patient with sinus node dysfunction. Expression of HCN4 in the heart is, however, not confined to the sinus node cells but is found in other tissues, including cells of the conduction system. On the other hand, mutations in another cardiac ion channel gene, SCN5A, also cause sinus node dysfunction as well as other cardiac arrhythmias, including long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, idiopathic ventricular fibrillation, and progressive cardiac conduction disturbance. These observations imply that HCN4 abnormalities may be involved in the pathogenesis of various arrhythmias, similar to the SCN5A mutations. In this study, we analyzed patients suffering from sinus node dysfunction, progressive cardiac conduction disease, and idiopathic ventricular fibrillation for mutations in HCN4. A missense mutation, D553N, was found in a patient with sinus node dysfunction who showed recurrent syncope, QT prolongation in electrocardiogram, and polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, torsade de pointes. In vitro functional study of the D553N mutation showed a reduced membranous expression associated with decreased If currents because of a trafficking defect of the HCN4 channel in a dominant-negative manner. These data suggest that the loss of function of HCN4 is associated with sinus nodal dysfunction and that a consequence of pacemaker channel abnormality might underlie clinical features of QT prolongation and polymorphic ventricular tachycardia developed under certain conditions.
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- Kazuo Ueda
- Department of Molecular Pathogenesis, Medical Research Institute and Laboratory of Genome Diversity, School of Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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Hayashi T, Arimura T, Ueda K, Shibata H, Hohda S, Takahashi M, Hori H, Koga Y, Oka N, Imaizumi T, Yasunami M, Kimura A. Identification and functional analysis of a caveolin-3 mutation associated with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 313:178-84. [PMID: 14672715 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.11.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are caused by mutations in 14 and 15 different disease genes, respectively, in a part of the patients and the disease genes for cardiomyopathy overlap in part with that for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD). In this study, we examined an LGMD gene encoding caveolin-3 (CAV3) for mutation in the patients with HCM or DCM. A Thr63Ser mutation was identified in a sibling case of HCM. Because the mutation was found at the residue that is involved in the LGMD-causing mutations, we investigate the functional change due to the Thr63Ser mutation as compared with the LGMD mutations by examining the distribution of GFP-tagged CAV3 proteins. It was observed that the Thr63Ser mutation reduced the cell surface expression of caveolin-3, albeit the change was mild as compared with the LGMD mutations. These observations suggest that HCM is a clinical spectrum of CAV3 mutations.
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- Takeharu Hayashi
- Department of Molecular Pathogenesis, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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Itoh-Satoh M, Hayashi T, Nishi H, Koga Y, Arimura T, Koyanagi T, Takahashi M, Hohda S, Ueda K, Nouchi T, Hiroe M, Marumo F, Imaizumi T, Yasunami M, Kimura A. Titin mutations as the molecular basis for dilated cardiomyopathy. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 291:385-93. [PMID: 11846417 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2002.6448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heterogeneous cardiac disease characterized by ventricular dilatation and systolic dysfunction. Recent genetic studies have revealed that mutations in genes for cardiac sarcomere components lead to DCM. The cardiac sarcomere consists of thick and thin filaments and a giant protein, titin. Because one of the loci of familial DCM was mapped to the region of the titin gene, we searched for titin mutations in the patients and identified four possible disease-associated mutations. Two mutations, Val54Met and Ala743Val, were found in the Z-line region of titin and decreased binding affinities of titin to Z-line proteins T-cap/telethonin and alpha-actinin, respectively, in yeast two-hybrid assays. The other two mutations were found in the cardiac-specific N2-B region of titin and one of them was a nonsense mutation, Glu4053ter, presumably encoding for a truncated nonfunctional molecule. These observations suggest that titin mutations may cause DCM in a subset of the patients.
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- Manatsu Itoh-Satoh
- Department of Molecular Pathogenesis, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 2-3-10 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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Akai J, Makita N, Sakurada H, Shirai N, Ueda K, Kitabatake A, Nakazawa K, Kimura A, Hiraoka M. A novel SCN5A mutation associated with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation without typical ECG findings of Brugada syndrome. FEBS Lett 2000; 479:29-34. [PMID: 10940383 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01875-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Mutations in the human cardiac Na+ channel alpha subunit gene (SCN5A) are responsible for Brugada syndrome, an idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) subgroup characterized by right bundle branch block and ST elevation on an electrocardiogram (ECG). However, the molecular basis of IVF in subgroups lacking these ECG findings has not been elucidated. We performed genetic screenings of Japanese IVF patients and found a novel SCN5A missense mutation (S1710L) in one symptomatic IVF patient that did not exhibit the typical Brugada ECG. Heterologously expressed S1710L channels showed marked acceleration in the current decay together with a large hyperpolarizing shift of steady-state inactivation and depolarizing shift of activation. These findings suggest that SCN5A is one of the responsible genes for IVF patients who do not show typical ECG manifestations of the Brugada syndrome.
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- J Akai
- Etiology and Pathogenesis Research Unit, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
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Muraishi A, Kai H, Adachi K, Nishi H, Imaizumi T. Malalignment of the sarcomeric filaments in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with cardiac myosin heavy chain gene mutation. Heart 1999; 82:625-9. [PMID: 10525522 PMCID: PMC1760777 DOI: 10.1136/hrt.82.5.625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To investigate changes in the alignment of the sarcomeric filaments in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and the effects of cardiac beta myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) mutation on the sarcomeric ultrastructure. DESIGN A retrospective analysis. PATIENTS Endomyocardial biopsy samples were examined by transmission electron microscopy in seven patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and beta-MHC mutation, six with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy but without the mutation, and five controls (with chest pain syndromes). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Alignment of the sarcomeric filaments and the distance between neighbouring thick myosin filaments. RESULTS In controls, cross sections of the sarcomere at the A band showed a highly organised orthohexagonal array with 6 thin actin filaments surrounding one thick myosin filament, whereas in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy the alignment of the sarcomeric filaments was sparse and disrupted. In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with a mutation, the distance between neighbouring thick myosin filaments was greater than in controls (mean (SD) 45.3 (4.7) v 38.5 (3.5) nm, p < 0.05), and the variance of the distance was greater than in controls (8.0 (0.7) v 4.8 (1.0) nm, p < 0.001) or in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without a mutation (6.7 (0.6) nm, p < 0.05). In the latter, the variance of the distance was also greater than in the controls (p < 0.01). A significant correlation was found between the grade of the myocyte hypertrophy and the variance of the distance (r = 0.654; p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS The alignment of the sarcomeric filaments is disrupted in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, particularly when there is beta-MHC mutation.
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- A Muraishi
- The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka 830-0011, Japan
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Takai E, Akita H, Shiga N, Kanazawa K, Yamada S, Terashima M, Matsuda Y, Iwai C, Kawai K, Yokota Y, Yokoyama M. Mutational analysis of the cardiac actin gene in familial and sporadic dilated cardiomyopathy. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1999; 86:325-7. [PMID: 10494087 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19991008)86:4<325::aid-ajmg5>3.0.co;2-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) results in part from genetic disorders. Recently, missense mutations of the cardiac actin gene have been reported to cause DCM. We studied 136 Japanese DCM cases to elucidate how frequently the gene mutations are involved in its pathogenesis. Genomic DNA samples were obtained from 136 DCM cases (107 males, 29 females), containing 30 familial DCM (5 confirmed and 25 suspected). All six exons of the cardiac actin gene were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction, single-strand conformation polymorphism, and sequencing. We detected no mutations of the disease causation previously reported (G867A or A1014G) but two silent mutations (G979C and C1018T) in exon 6 and one point mutation (T1080A) in the 3'-untranslated region. As a result of screening 128 healthy subjects, these novel silent mutations were found to be mere genetic polymorphisms, not responsible for the disease. Although some genetic polymorphisms exist in the cardiac actin gene, mutations of the gene are rarely responsible for DCM, at least in the Japanese patients.
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- E Takai
- First Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Satoh M, Takahashi M, Sakamoto T, Hiroe M, Marumo F, Kimura A. Structural analysis of the titin gene in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: identification of a novel disease gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999; 262:411-7. [PMID: 10462489 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.1221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by ventricular hypertrophy accompanied by myofibrillar disarrays. Molecular genetic analyses have revealed that mutations in 8 different genes cause HCM. Mutations in these disease genes, however, could be found in about half of HCM patients, suggesting that there are other unknown disease gene(s). Because the known disease genes encode sarcomeric proteins expressed in the cardiac muscle, we searched for a disease-associated mutation in the titin gene in 82 HCM patients who had no mutation in the known disease genes. A G to T transversion in codon 740, from CGC to CTC, replacing Arginine with Leucine was found in a patient. This mutation was not found in more than 500 normal chromosomes and increased the binding affinity of titin to alpha-actitin in the yeast two-hybrid assay. These observations suggest that the titin mutation may cause HCM in this patient via altered affinity to alpha-actinin.
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- M Satoh
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan
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Bonne G, Carrier L, Richard P, Hainque B, Schwartz K. Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: from mutations to functional defects. Circ Res 1998; 83:580-93. [PMID: 9742053 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.83.6.580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is characterized by left and/or right ventricular hypertrophy, which is usually asymmetric and involves the interventricular septum. Typical morphological changes include myocyte hypertrophy and disarray surrounding the areas of increased loose connective tissue. Arrhythmias and premature sudden deaths are common. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is familial in the majority of cases and is transmitted as an autosomal-dominant trait. The results of molecular genetics studies have shown that familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a disease of the sarcomere involving mutations in 7 different genes encoding proteins of the myofibrillar apparatus: ss-myosin heavy chain, ventricular myosin essential light chain, ventricular myosin regulatory light chain, cardiac troponin T, cardiac troponin I, alpha-tropomyosin, and cardiac myosin binding protein C. In addition to this locus heterogeneity, there is a wide allelic heterogeneity, since numerous mutations have been found in all these genes. The recent development of animal models and of in vitro analyses have allowed a better understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms associated with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. One can thus tentatively draw the following cascade of events: The mutation leads to a poison polypeptide that would be incorporated into the sarcomere. This would alter the sarcomeric function that would result (1) in an altered cardiac function and then (2) in the alteration of the sarcomeric and myocyte structure. Some mutations induce functional impairment and support the pathogenesis hypothesis of a "hypocontractile" state followed by compensatory hypertrophy. Other mutations induce cardiac hyperfunction and determine a "hypercontractile" state that would directly induce cardiac hypertrophy. The development of other animal models and of other mechanistic studies linking the genetic mutation to functional defects are now key issues in understanding how alterations in the basic contractile unit of the cardiomyocyte alter the phenotype and the function of the heart.
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- G Bonne
- From the INSERM Unit 153, the Service de Biochimie B, and the IFR de Physiologie et Génétique Cardiovasculaire, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Kai H, Muraishi A, Sugiu Y, Nishi H, Seki Y, Kuwahara F, Kimura A, Kato H, Imaizumi T. Expression of proto-oncogenes and gene mutation of sarcomeric proteins in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circ Res 1998; 83:594-601. [PMID: 9742054 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.83.6.594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Several mutations of cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) gene were reported in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Involvement of proto-oncogenes has been shown in the mechanism of experimental cardiac hypertrophy. This study sought to examine the effects of c-H-ras and c-myc expression in the steady-state myocardium on hypertrophic changes and to evaluate the possible interaction between beta-MHC mutation and proto-oncogene expression in HCM. Endomyocardial biopsy was performed in 17 HCM patients (5 beta-MHC mutations and 1 troponin T mutation) and 7 control subjects (no mutation). Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analysis revealed c-H-ras expression in all members of both groups. Cardiomyocyte size was correlated with the expression level of c-H-ras (P<0.001), and c-H-ras expression was upregulated in HCM patients (P<0.01). HCM patients with a beta-MHC mutation had the higher c-H-ras expression than did control subjects or patients without a mutation (P<0.01). c-myc mRNA was expressed in 7 of 17 HCM patients but not in control subjects. Myocyte size was greater in c-myc-positive HCM patients than in control subjects and c-myc-negative HCM patients (P<0.001 and P<0.05, respectively). The proto-oncogene expression did not affect clinical findings, myocardial fibrosis, or disarray. In conclusion, c-H-ras and c-myc expression in the steady-state myocardium may play a role in the hypertrophic mechanism in HCM. It is possible that ss-MHC gene mutation has some effect on the regulation of proto-oncogene expression in HCM.
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- H Kai
- From the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Kurume University and the Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan.
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Ohsuzu F, Katsushika S, Akanuma M, Nakamura H, Harada H, Satoh M, Hiroi S, Kimura A. Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy due to a novel T-to-A transition at codon 624 in the beta-myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) gene possibly related to the sudden death. Int J Cardiol 1997; 62:203-9. [PMID: 9476679 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5273(97)00256-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Many missense mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain have been reported in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). However, the controversy is present whether the mutation accompanying the change of electric charge is related with poorer prognosis. The proband, a 48-year-old female, of the family was diagnosed clinically as HOCM, and a structural analysis of the cardiac beta-MHC gene showed that the proband and her junior daughter had a novel mutation with T to A transition in codon 624 replacing tyrosine with asparagine, which was not present in her husband, elder daughter and son. The proband's husband, son and two daughters were healthy except that the ECG of junior daughter (15-year-old) showed complete right bundle branch block. Proband's mother died suddenly after the delivery of the proband and the proband also collapsed suddenly. The occurrence of sudden death in proband and her mother suggested that HOCM with this novel mutation might be associated with a high risk of sudden death irrespective of the absence of charge alteration.
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- F Ohsuzu
- Department of Medicine I, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan
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Fananapazir L, McAreavey D. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: evaluation and treatment of patients at high risk for sudden death. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 1997; 20:478-501. [PMID: 9058851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06206.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heritable disease characterized by LV hypertrophy with markedly variable clinical, morphological, and genetic manifestations. It is the most common cause of sudden death in otherwise healthy young individuals. HCM patients often have disabling symptoms and are prone to arrhythmias. Frequently, there is associated LV systolic and diastolic dysfunction, LV outflow obstruction, and myocardial ischemia. Over the past decade, progress has been made in identifying patients who are at high risk for sudden death, in elucidating potential mechanisms of sudden death, and in defining therapeutic algorithms that may improve prognosis. It has also been possible to determine the genetic defect in some of the patients and to correlate clinical findings with the molecular defects. An exciting development has been the use of dual chamber pacemaker as an alternative to cardiac surgery to improve symptoms and relieve LV outflow obstruction.
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MESH Headings
- Age Factors
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/diagnosis
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/etiology
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/genetics
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/therapy
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac/etiology
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac/prevention & control
- Electrophysiology/methods
- Humans
- Risk Assessment
- Syncope/diagnosis
- Syncope/etiology
- Tachycardia, Ventricular/diagnosis
- Tachycardia, Ventricular/etiology
- Tachycardia, Ventricular/therapy
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- L Fananapazir
- Cardiology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1650 USA.
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Palmiter KA, Solaro RJ. Molecular mechanisms regulating the myofilament response to Ca2+: implications of mutations causal for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Basic Res Cardiol 1997; 92 Suppl 1:63-74. [PMID: 9202846 DOI: 10.1007/bf00794070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In this chapter we consider a current perception of the molecular mechanisms controlling myofilament activation with emphasis on alterations that may occur in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC). FHC is a sarcomeric disease (100) with an autosomal dominant pattern of heritability (27, 51). There is a substantial body of evidence implicating missense mutations in the beta-MHC gene as causal for the development of this disease. Recently, mutations in genes of two thin filament regulatory proteins, cardiac troponin T(cTnT) and alpha-tropomyosin (alpha-Tm), have also been linked to FHC. The commonality among the functional consequences of these mutations remains an important question. This review discusses how these pathological mutations may impact the activation process by disrupting critical structure function relations in both the thick and thin filaments.
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- K A Palmiter
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago 60612, USA
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Koga Y, Toshima H, Kimura A, Harada H, Koyanagi T, Nishi H, Nakata M, Imaizumi T. Clinical manifestations of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with mutations in the cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain gene or cardiac troponin T gene. J Card Fail 1996; 2:S97-103. [PMID: 8951566 DOI: 10.1016/s1071-9164(96)80064-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Introduction of molecular genetics has improved our understanding of HCM substantially, but has simultaneously raised further important questions. Studies on HCM are revealing a more complex picture than might have been expected on clinical grounds. Further extensive studies are warranted to elucidate the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of HCM, and to establish therapeutic strategies to cure or prevent the development of the disease.
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- Y Koga
- Kurume University Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan
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Motor proteins perform a wide variety of functions in all eukaryotic cells. Recent advances in the structural and mutagenic analysis of the myosin motor has led to insights into how these motors transduce chemical energy into mechanical work. This review focuses on the analysis of the effects of myosin mutations from a variety of organisms on the in vivo and in vitro properties of this ubiquitous motor and illustrates the positions of these mutations on the high-resolution three-dimensional structure of the myosin motor domain.
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- K M Ruppel
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA
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Mutations in several muscle structural proteins (the myosin heavy chain, alpha tropomyosin, cardiac troponin T and myosin binding protein C) result in a genetically dominant heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Biochemical data from studies of mutant myosin suggest a dominant-negative mechanism for inheritance of this disease. The most likely primary defect is sarcomere dysfunction, which is followed by the major clinical symptoms.
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- K L Vikstrom
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0347, USA.
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Arai S, Matsuoka R, Hirayama K, Sakurai H, Tamura M, Ozawa T, Kimura M, Imamura S, Furutani Y, Joh-o K. Missense mutation of the beta-cardiac myosin heavy-chain gene in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1995; 58:267-76. [PMID: 8533830 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320580314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy occurs as an autosomal dominant familial disorder or as a sporadic disease without familial involvement. We describe a missense mutation of the beta-cardiac myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene, a G to T transversion (741 Gly-->Trp) identified by direct sequencing of exon 20 in four individuals affected with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Three individuals with sporadic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, whose parents are clinically and genetically unaffected, had sequence variations of exon 34 of the alpha-cardiac MHC gene (a C to T transversion, 1658 Asp-->Asp, resulting in FokI site polymorphism), of intron 33 of the alpha-cardiac MHC gene (a G to A and an A to T transversion), and also of intron 14 of the beta-cardiac MHC gene (a C to T transversion in a patient with Noonan syndrome). Including our case, 30 missense mutations of the beta-cardiac MHC gene in 49 families have been reported thus far worldwide. Almost all are located in the region of the gene coding for the globular head of the molecule, and only one mutation was found in both Caucasian and Japanese families. Missense mutations of the beta-cardiac MHC gene in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy may therefore differ according to race.
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- S Arai
- Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
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Nishi H, Kimura A, Harada H, Koga Y, Adachi K, Matsuyama K, Koyanagi T, Yasunaga S, Imaizumi T, Toshima H. A myosin missense mutation, not a null allele, causes familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Circulation 1995; 91:2911-5. [PMID: 7796500 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.91.12.2911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by myocardial hypertrophy of unknown etiology. Missense mutations of the cardiac beta-myosin-heavy-chain (beta-MHC) gene that may be responsible for cardiac hypertrophy have been detected in patients with HCM. On the other hand, gross structural abnormalities in the cardiac beta-MHC gene, ie, an alpha/beta hybrid gene and partial deletion of the gene, have also been reported. The direct correlation between gross abnormalities and development of HCM is not well understood. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed the structure of the cardiac beta-MHC gene from patients with HCM by using polymerase chain reaction-DNA conformation polymorphism analysis and found two sequence variations in exons 3 and 22 in one patient. These sequence variations at codon 54 (exon 3; nonsense mutation) and codon 870 (exon 22; Arg-to-His mutation) were identified by direct sequencing and dot-blot hybridization with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes. Relatives of this patient were examined for the mutations. It was revealed that the missense mutation was inherited from the affected father and the nonsense mutation from the unaffected grandmother through the unaffected mother. In addition, the missense mutation was also found in seven other patients from two other unrelated multiplex HCM families. CONCLUSIONS The Arg870His mutation was suggested to cause HCM. In contrast, the gene with the nonsense mutation would encode for a cardiac beta-MHC protein of only 53 amino acid residues, which may be too short to be incorporated into the thick filament assembly of cardiac myosin chains and showed no dominant phenotype of heart disease. This is the first report of a nonsense mutation in the human cardiac beta-MHC gene.
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- H Nishi
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan
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Rayment I, Holden HM, Sellers JR, Fananapazir L, Epstein ND. Structural interpretation of the mutations in the beta-cardiac myosin that have been implicated in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:3864-8. [PMID: 7731997 PMCID: PMC42062 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.9.3864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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In 10-30% of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy kindreds, the disease is caused by > 29 missense mutations in the cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain (MYH7) gene. The amino acid sequence similarity between chicken skeletal muscle and human beta-cardiac myosin and the three-dimensional structure of the chicken skeletal muscle myosin head have provided the opportunity to examine the structural consequences of these naturally occurring mutations in human beta-cardiac myosin. This study demonstrates that the mutations are related to distinct structural and functional domains. Twenty-four are clustered around four specific locations in the myosin head that are (i) associated with the actin binding interface, (ii) around the nucleotide binding site, (iii) adjacent to the region that connects the two reactive cysteine residues, and (iv) in close proximity to the interface of the heavy chain with the essential light chain. The remaining five mutations are in the myosin rod. The locations of these mutations provide insight into the way they impair the functioning of this molecular motor and also into the mechanism of energy transduction.
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- I Rayment
- Institute for Enzyme Research, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705-4098, USA
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Lankford EB, Epstein ND, Fananapazir L, Sweeney HL. Abnormal contractile properties of muscle fibers expressing beta-myosin heavy chain gene mutations in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Clin Invest 1995; 95:1409-14. [PMID: 7883988 PMCID: PMC441484 DOI: 10.1172/jci117795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Missense mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) gene cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). As normal and mutant beta-MHCs are expressed in slow-twitch skeletal muscle of HCM patients, we compared the contractile properties of single slow-twitch muscle fibers from patients with three distinct beta-MHC gene mutations and normal controls. Fibers with the 741Gly-->Arg mutation (near the binding site of essential light chain) demonstrated decreased maximum velocity of shortening (39% of normal) and decreased isometric force generation (42% of normal). Fibers with the 403Arg-->Gln mutation (at the actin interface of myosin) showed lowered force/stiffness ratio (56% of normal) and depressed velocity of shortening (50% of normal). Both the 741Gly-->Arg and 403Arg-->Gln mutation-containing fibers displayed abnormal force-velocity relationships and reduced power output. Fibers with the 256Gly-->Glu mutation (end of ATP-binding pocket) had contractile properties that were indistinguishable from normal. Thus there is variability in the nature and extent of functional impairments in skeletal fibers containing different beta-MHC gene mutations, which may correlate with the severity and penetrance of the disease that results from each mutation. These functional alterations likely constitute the primary stimulus for the cardiac hypertrophy that is characteristic of this disease.
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- E B Lankford
- Cardiovascular Section, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-4283
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- K Schwartz
- Unité de Recherches, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a common and important cause of morbidity and mortality. Many factors can contribute to the development of this disorder, although most commonly the etiology is unexplained. However, recent studies in individuals with idiopathic DCM now reveal a heritable cause in 20-30% of individuals. Diverse modes of inheritance have been demonstrated, encompassing an autosomal dominant type (by far the most common), together with recessive and X-linked forms, and maternal inheritance through mitochondrial DNA. The hereditary forms of DCM (HDCM) predominantly affect the left ventricle, although inherited abnormalities affecting primarily the right ventricle also are described. HDCM may occur as a primary cardiomyopathy, or secondary to inherited systemic metabolic or neuromuscular disorders. The causative genes for primary HDCM of the autosomal dominant and recessive types have not yet been discovered, but the combination of family pedigree analysis and phenotyping by echocardiography, together with new genetic techniques, should now allow their identification. Knowledge of the gene or genes responsible for HDCM would improve diagnostic accuracy, facilitate genetic counseling, advance understanding of pathogenesis, and provide the starting point for new methods of treatment. Because of the frequently heritable nature of DCM, it is of great importance that a diligent search for all potentially affected family members be undertaken.
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- T R McMinn
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/genetics
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Disorders
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15
- Genes, Dominant
- Humans
- Mice
- Myosins/genetics
- Point Mutation
- Prognosis
- Tropomyosin/genetics
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- H Watkins
- Cardiology Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
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al-Mahdawi S, Chamberlain S, Chojnowska L, Michalak E, Nihoyannopoulos P, Ryan M, Kusnierczyk B, French JA, Gilligan DM, Cleland J. The electrocardiogram is a more sensitive indicator than echocardiography of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in families with a mutation in the MYH7 gene. BRITISH HEART JOURNAL 1994; 72:105-11. [PMID: 7848420 PMCID: PMC1025469 DOI: 10.1136/hrt.72.2.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND Mutations in the cardiac beta myosin heavy chain gene causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy have been identified, and to assist both diagnosis and prediction of outcome attempts have been made to correlate phenotype and genotype. Two new mutations in codon 403 of the gene in three unrelated families are described and attention drawn to variable or even absent phenotypic expression in different family members. METHODS AND RESULTS The polymerase chain reaction and heteroduplex analysis on Mutation Detection Enhancement gels were used to search for mutations in the globular head of the beta myosin heavy chain gene in families with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Two mutations were found in exon 13 (codon 403) of the gene. In two unrelated Polish families the mutation resulted in the conversion of arginine to tryptophan (CGG: >TGG). A second mutation, found in a British family, converted the same arginine to leucine (CGG: >CTG). These mutations were detected in family members who had electrocardiographic and echocardiographic features typical of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; however, they were also detected in 7 other adult relatives with an abnormal electrocardiogram but a normal echocardiogram. Two unrelated adult relatives had completely normal clinical findings but carried the gene mutation. CONCLUSIONS Identification of a specific mutation gives no guide to the clinical phenotype. There is considerable variability in the phenotypic expression of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Mutations were detected in adults previously regarded as normal or in whom the diagnosis was questionable. The fact that the clinical significance of the mutation in these people is still unknown emphasises the dilemma facing screening programmes. Isolated, unexplained electrocardiographic abnormalities in first degree relatives in a family with a definitive diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy should be regarded as evidence of a carrier state.
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- S al-Mahdawi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College, London
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Fananapazir L, Epstein ND. Genotype-phenotype correlations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Insights provided by comparisons of kindreds with distinct and identical beta-myosin heavy chain gene mutations. Circulation 1994; 89:22-32. [PMID: 8281650 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.89.1.22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND We have previously described two distinct mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain gene with markedly different clinical presentations and outcome: The 908Leu-->Val mutation was associated with a low disease penetrance and a benign prognosis. In contrast, the 403Arg-->Gln mutation in a Caucasian kindred was associated with a 100% disease penetrance and high incidence of sudden cardiac death. Recently, another mutation, 606Val-->Met, has been reported to be associated with "near normal survival" and offered as evidence for the benign nature of neutral charge substitutions. METHODS AND RESULTS We report (1) a large kindred (245 family members at risk of inheriting the disease gene) with a 256Gly-->Glu mutation characterized by a similar disease penetrance in adults and in children (56% and 60%, respectively) and a cumulative sudden cardiac death rate of only 2% at 50 years of age, (2) a kindred with the 606Val-->Met mutation with four sudden cardiac deaths in eight affected individuals, and (3) a Korean kindred with the 403Arg-->Gln mutation. Although the disease occurred early and was associated with a high prevalence of myocardial ischemia in both of our kindreds with the 403Arg-->Gln mutation, no sudden cardiac death or syncope has occurred in the Korean kindred. Furthermore, in the Caucasian kindred, all patients had nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, but most of the patients in the Korean kindred had left ventricular outflow obstruction. CONCLUSIONS The conclusions are as follows: (1) Although several sudden cardiac deaths are sufficient to establish that a mutation is malignant, study of a large kindred is necessary to be certain that a mutation is benign. To date, only the 908Leu-->Val and the 256Gly-->Glu mutations satisfy this requirement. (2) The 256Gly-->Glu mutation demonstrates that not all mutations that result in a charge change are malignant. (3) Conversely, the 606Val-->Met mutation is malignant in some kindreds; hence, despite the absence of a charge change, minor substitutions in critical regions of beta-myosin heavy chain protein may also have serious consequences. (4) The diverse ethnic origins of the two 403Arg-->Gln kindreds provide evidence suggesting that the identical mutation occurred independently and was associated with different genetic backgrounds. Their distinct phenotypes underline the importance of modifying genes and nongenetic factors.
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- L Fananapazir
- Inherited Cardiac Diseases Section, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. 20892
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Anan R, Greve G, Thierfelder L, Watkins H, McKenna WJ, Solomon S, Vecchio C, Shono H, Nakao S, Tanaka H. Prognostic implications of novel beta cardiac myosin heavy chain gene mutations that cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Clin Invest 1994; 93:280-5. [PMID: 8282798 PMCID: PMC293763 DOI: 10.1172/jci116957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 218] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Three novel beta cardiac myosin heavy chain (MHC) gene missense mutations, Phe513Cys, Gly716Arg, and Arg719Trp, which cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) are described. One mutation in exon 15 (Phe513Cys) does not alter the charge of the encoded amino acid, and affected family members have a near normal life expectancy. The Gly716Arg mutation (exon 19; charge change of +1) causes FHC in three family members, one of whom underwent transplantation for heart failure. The Arg719Trp mutation (exon 19; charge change of -1) was found in four unrelated FHC families with a high incidence of premature death and an average life expectancy in affected individuals of 38 yr. A comparable high frequency of disease-related deaths in four families with the Arg719Trp mutation suggests that this specific gene defect directly accounts for the observed malignant phenotype. Further, the significantly different life expectancies associated with the Arg719Trp vs. Phe513Cys mutation (P < 0.001) support the hypothesis that mutations which alter the charge of the encoded amino acid affect survival more significantly than those that produce a conservative amino acid change.
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- R Anan
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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Dausse E, Komajda M, Fetler L, Dubourg O, Dufour C, Carrier L, Wisnewsky C, Bercovici J, Hengstenberg C, al-Mahdawi S. Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Microsatellite haplotyping and identification of a hot spot for mutations in the beta-myosin heavy chain gene. J Clin Invest 1993; 92:2807-13. [PMID: 8254035 PMCID: PMC288481 DOI: 10.1172/jci116900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disease. The first identified disease gene, located on chromosome 14q11-q12, encodes the beta-myosin heavy chain. We have performed linkage analysis of two French FHC pedigrees, 720 and 730, with two microsatellite markers located in the beta-myosin heavy chain gene (MYO I and MYO II) and with four highly informative markers, recently mapped to chromosome 14q11-q12. Significant linkage was found with MYO I and MYO II in pedigree 720, but results were not conclusive for pedigree 730. Haplotype analysis of the six markers allowed identification of affected individuals and of some unaffected subjects carrying the disease gene. Two novel missense mutations were identified in exon 13 by direct sequencing, 403Arg-->Leu and 403Arg-->Trp in families 720 and 730, respectively. The 403Arg-->Leu mutation was associated with incomplete penetrance, a high incidence of sudden deaths and severe cardiac events, whereas the consequences of the 403Arg-->Trp mutation appeared less severe. Haplotyping of polymorphic markers in close linkage to the beta-myosin heavy chain gene can, thus, provide rapid analysis of non informative pedigrees and rapid detection of carrier status. Our results also indicate that codon 403 of the beta-myosin heavy chain gene is a hot spot for mutations causing FHC.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/genetics
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/metabolism
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/mortality
- Cause of Death
- Child
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14
- DNA, Satellite/analysis
- DNA, Satellite/genetics
- Exons
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Markers
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Lod Score
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Myosins/genetics
- Nucleic Acid Heteroduplexes/genetics
- Pedigree
- Point Mutation
- Recombination, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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- E Dausse
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Médicale, U127, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France
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Bjersing L, Andersson C, Lithner F. Easy detection of mutations in acute intermittent porphyria and hepatocellular carcinoma on paraffin-embedded tissue. J Intern Med 1993; 234:339-40. [PMID: 8394869 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.1993.tb00754.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Keating M. Molecular echocardiography. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993; 22:506-7. [PMID: 8335821 DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(93)90056-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Carrier L, Hengstenberg C, Beckmann JS, Guicheney P, Dufour C, Bercovici J, Dausse E, Berebbi-Bertrand I, Wisnewsky C, Pulvenis D. Mapping of a novel gene for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to chromosome 11. Nat Genet 1993; 4:311-3. [PMID: 8358441 DOI: 10.1038/ng0793-311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is a cardiac disorder transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. FHC has been shown to be genetically heterogeneous with less than 50% of published pedigrees being associated with mutations in the beta myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) gene on chromosome 14q11-q12. A second locus has recently been reported on chromosome 1. We examined the segregation of microsatellite markers in a French pedigree for which the disease is not linked to beta-MHC gene. We found significant linkage of the disease locus to several (CA)n repeats located on chromosome 11 (lod scores between +3.3 and +4.98). The data suggest the localization of the novel FHC gene in a region spanning 17 centiMorgans.
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- L Carrier
- INSERM U127, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France
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Cuda G, Fananapazir L, Zhu WS, Sellers JR, Epstein ND. Skeletal muscle expression and abnormal function of beta-myosin in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Clin Invest 1993; 91:2861-5. [PMID: 8514894 PMCID: PMC443355 DOI: 10.1172/jci116530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an important inherited disease. The phenotype has been linked, in some kindreds, to the beta-myosin heavy chain (beta-MHC) gene. Missense and silent mutations in the beta-MHC gene were used as markers to demonstrate the expression of mutant and normal cardiac beta-MHC gene message in skeletal muscle of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients. Mutant beta-myosin, also shown to be present in skeletal muscle by Western blot analysis, translocated actin filaments slower than normal controls in an in vitro motility assay. Thus, single amino acid changes in beta-myosin result in abnormal actomyosin interactions, confirming the primary role of missense mutations in beta-MHC gene in the etiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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- G Cuda
- Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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