BACKGROUND: Approximately one-third of cases of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are caused by genetic mutations. With new sequencing technologies, numerous variants have been associated with this inherited cardiomyopathy, however the prevalence and genotype-phenotype correlations in different ethnic cohorts remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the variants in Chinese DCM patients and correlate them with clinical presentations and prognosis. METHODS AND RESULTS: From September 2013 to December 2016, 70 index patients underwent DNA sequencing for 12 common disease-causing genes with next generation sequencing. Using a bioinformatics filtering process, 12 rare truncating variants (7 nonsense variants, 4 frameshift variants, and 1 splice site variant) and 29 rare missense variants were identified. Of these, 3 patients were double heterozygotes and 10 patients were compound heterozygotes. Overall, 47.1% (33/70) of the index patients had the seputatively pathogenic variants. The majority (33/41, 80.4%) of these variants were located in titin (TTN). More than 80% of the TTN variants (27/33, 81.8%) were distributed in the A band region of the sarcomere. Patients carrying these variants did not have a different phenotype in disease severity, clinical outcome and reversibility of ventricular function compared with non-carriers. CONCLUSIONS: Several new rare variants were identified in a Chinese population in this study, indicating that there are ethnic differences in genetic mutations in DCM patients. TTN remains the major disease-causing gene. Our results could be a reference for future genetic tests in Chinese populations. No specific genotype-phenotype correlations were found, however a prospective large cohort study may be needed to confirm our findings.
BACKGROUND: Approximately one-third of cases of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are caused by genetic mutations. With new sequencing technologies, numerous variants have been associated with this inherited cardiomyopathy, however the prevalence and genotype-phenotype correlations in different ethnic cohorts remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the variants in Chinese DCM patients and correlate them with clinical presentations and prognosis. METHODS AND RESULTS: From September 2013 to December 2016, 70 index patients underwent DNA sequencing for 12 common disease-causing genes with next generation sequencing. Using a bioinformatics filtering process, 12 rare truncating variants (7 nonsense variants, 4 frameshift variants, and 1 splice site variant) and 29 rare missense variants were identified. Of these, 3 patients were double heterozygotes and 10 patients were compound heterozygotes. Overall, 47.1% (33/70) of the index patients had the seputatively pathogenic variants. The majority (33/41, 80.4%) of these variants were located in titin (TTN). More than 80% of the TTN variants (27/33, 81.8%) were distributed in the A band region of the sarcomere. Patients carrying these variants did not have a different phenotype in disease severity, clinical outcome and reversibility of ventricular function compared with non-carriers. CONCLUSIONS: Several new rare variants were identified in a Chinese population in this study, indicating that there are ethnic differences in genetic mutations in DCM patients. TTN remains the major disease-causing gene. Our results could be a reference for future genetic tests in Chinese populations. No specific genotype-phenotype correlations were found, however a prospective large cohort study may be needed to confirm our findings.
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Dilated cardiomyopathy; Genetic mutation; Next generation sequencing
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