1. Extensive identification of genes involved in congenital and structural heart disorders and cardiomyopathy.
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Spielmann N, Miller G, Oprea TI, Hsu CW, Fobo G, Frishman G, Montrone C, Haseli Mashhadi H, Mason J, Munoz Fuentes V, Leuchtenberger S, Ruepp A, Wagner M, Westphal DS, Wolf C, Görlach A, Sanz-Moreno A, Cho YL, Teperino R, Brandmaier S, Sharma S, Galter IR, Östereicher MA, Zapf L, Mayer-Kuckuk P, Rozman J, Teboul L, Bunton-Stasyshyn RKA, Cater H, Stewart M, Christou S, Westerberg H, Willett AM, Wotton JM, Roper WB, Christiansen AE, Ward CS, Heaney JD, Reynolds CL, Prochazka J, Bower L, Clary D, Selloum M, Bou About G, Wendling O, Jacobs H, Leblanc S, Meziane H, Sorg T, Audain E, Gilly A, Rayner NW, Hitz MP, Zeggini E, Wolf E, Sedlacek R, Murray SA, Svenson KL, Braun RE, White JK, Kelsey L, Gao X, Shiroishi T, Xu Y, Seong JK, Mammano F, Tocchini-Valentini GP, Beaudet AL, Meehan TF, Parkinson H, Smedley D, Mallon AM, Wells SE, Grallert H, Wurst W, Marschall S, Fuchs H, Brown SDM, Flenniken AM, Nutter LMJ, McKerlie C, Herault Y, Lloyd KCK, Dickinson ME, Gailus-Durner V, and Hrabe de Angelis M
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Clinical presentation of congenital heart disease is heterogeneous, making identification of the disease-causing genes and their genetic pathways and mechanisms of action challenging. By using in vivo electrocardiography, transthoracic echocardiography and microcomputed tomography imaging to screen 3,894 single-gene-null mouse lines for structural and functional cardiac abnormalities, here we identify 705 lines with cardiac arrhythmia, myocardial hypertrophy and/or ventricular dilation. Among these 705 genes, 486 have not been previously associated with cardiac dysfunction in humans, and some of them represent variants of unknown relevance (VUR). Mice with mutations in Casz1, Dnajc18, Pde4dip, Rnf38 or Tmem161b genes show developmental cardiac structural abnormalities, with their human orthologs being categorized as VUR. Using UK Biobank data, we validate the importance of the DNAJC18 gene for cardiac homeostasis by showing that its loss of function is associated with altered left ventricular systolic function. Our results identify hundreds of previously unappreciated genes with potential function in congenital heart disease and suggest causal function of five VUR in congenital heart disease., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
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- 2022
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