1. Family Based Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals the Multifaceted Role of Notch Signaling in Congenital Heart Disease
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Philippe Chetaille, Béatrice Godard, Nara Sobreira, Severine Leclerc, Mark E. Samuels, Florian Wünnemann, Christoph Preuss, Gregor Andelfinger, Melanie Capredon, Philip Awadalla, Maryse Thibeault, Andrea Prince, Paul Khairy, and Hua Ling
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Cancer Research ,Heart malformation ,Genetic Linkage ,Pathogenesis ,Constriction, Pathologic ,Bioinformatics ,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ,Cell Signaling ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Missense mutation ,Exome ,Receptor, Notch1 ,Genetics (clinical) ,Exome sequencing ,Sequence Deletion ,Genetics ,Notch Signaling ,Stenosis ,Receptors, Notch ,Computer-Aided Drug Design ,Heart ,Nonsense Mutation ,Genomics ,Pedigree ,Deletion Mutation ,Codon, Nonsense ,Aortic Valve ,Female ,Anatomy ,Research Article ,Signal Transduction ,Heart Defects, Congenital ,JAG1 ,Drug Research and Development ,lcsh:QH426-470 ,Nonsense mutation ,Notch signaling pathway ,Biology ,Ventricular Outflow Obstruction ,03 medical and health sciences ,Signs and Symptoms ,Diagnostic Medicine ,Humans ,Allele ,Molecular Biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Genetic Association Studies ,Pharmacology ,Genetic heterogeneity ,Genome, Human ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Computational Biology ,Cell Biology ,Genome Analysis ,lcsh:Genetics ,030104 developmental biology ,Drug Design ,Mutation ,Cardiovascular Anatomy - Abstract
Left-ventricular outflow tract obstructions (LVOTO) encompass a wide spectrum of phenotypically heterogeneous heart malformations which frequently cluster in families. We performed family based whole-exome and targeted re-sequencing on 182 individuals from 51 families with multiple affected members. Central to our approach is the family unit which serves as a reference to identify causal genotype-phenotype correlations. Screening a multitude of 10 overlapping phenotypes revealed disease associated and co-segregating variants in 12 families. These rare or novel protein altering mutations cluster predominantly in genes (NOTCH1, ARHGAP31, MAML1, SMARCA4, JARID2, JAG1) along the Notch signaling cascade. This is in line with a significant enrichment (Wilcoxon, p< 0.05) of variants with a higher pathogenicity in the Notch signaling pathway in patients compared to controls. The significant enrichment of novel protein truncating and missense mutations in NOTCH1 highlights the allelic and phenotypic heterogeneity in our pediatric cohort. We identified novel co-segregating pathogenic mutations in NOTCH1 associated with left and right-sided cardiac malformations in three independent families with a total of 15 affected individuals. In summary, our results suggest that a small but highly pathogenic fraction of family specific mutations along the Notch cascade are a common cause of LVOTO., Author Summary Left-ventricular outflow tract obstructions comprise a group of developmental heart disorders that are genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous, with no single gene accounting for the majority of cases. In order to identify mutations contributing to disease, we selected patients from 51 families with a history of congenital cardiac malformations. We interrogated the entire coding sequences of 106 patients and identified a small but highly pathogenic fraction of mutations that are likely to contribute to disease in 12 families (23.5%). Furthermore, we present a strategy for identifying candidate mutations based on familial segregation in a genetically heterogeneous disorder.
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- 2016