Abou Hassan Ossama K, Fahed Akl C, Batrawi Manal, Arabi Mariam, Refaat Marwan M, DePalma Steven R, Seidman J G, Seidman Christine E, Bitar Fadi F, Nemer Georges M
1] Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon [2] Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
1] Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA [2] Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Sci Rep. 2015 Mar 6;5:8848. doi: 10.1038/srep08848.
NKX2-5 mutations are associated with different forms of congenital heart disease. Despite the knowledge gained from molecular and animal studies, genotype-phenotype correlations in humans are limited by the lack of large cohorts and the incomplete assessment of family members. We hypothesized that studying the role of NKX2-5 in inbred populations with homogeneous genetic backgrounds and high consanguinity rates such as Lebanon could help closing this gap. We sequenced NKX2-5 in 188 index CHD cases (25 with ASD). Five variants (three segregated in families) were detected in eleven families including the previously documented p.R25C variant, which was found in seven patients from different families, and in one healthy individual. In 3/5 familial dominant ASD cases, we identified an NKX2-5 mutation. In addition to the heterogeneity of NKX2-5 mutations, a diversity of phenotypes occurred within the families with predominant ASD and AV block. We did in fact identify a large prevalence of Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) in families with truncating mutations, and two patients with coronary sinus disease. NKX2-5 is thus responsible for dominant familial ASD even in consanguineous populations, and a wide genetic and phenotypic diversity is characteristic of NKX2-5 mutations in the Lebanese population.
NKX2 - 5突变与不同形式的先天性心脏病相关。尽管从分子和动物研究中获得了一些知识,但由于缺乏大规模队列研究以及对家庭成员评估不完整,人类中基因型 - 表型的相关性受到限制。我们推测,研究NKX2 - 5在黎巴嫩这样具有同质遗传背景和高近亲结婚率的近亲繁殖人群中的作用,可能有助于填补这一空白。我们对188例先天性心脏病索引病例(25例患有房间隔缺损)的NKX2 - 5进行了测序。在11个家庭中检测到5个变异(3个在家族中分离),包括先前记录的p.R25C变异,该变异在来自不同家庭的7名患者以及1名健康个体中被发现。在3/5例家族性显性房间隔缺损病例中,我们鉴定出一个NKX2 - 5突变。除了NKX2 - 5突变的异质性外,在以房间隔缺损和房室传导阻滞为主的家庭中还出现了多种表型。事实上,我们确实在具有截短突变的家庭中发现了较高的心脏性猝死(SCD)发生率,以及两名患有冠状静脉窦疾病的患者。因此,即使在近亲繁殖人群中,NKX2 - 5也与显性家族性房间隔缺损有关,并且广泛的遗传和表型多样性是黎巴嫩人群中NKX2 - 5突变的特征。