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Distinct genetic architectures for syndromic and nonsyndromic congenital heart defects identified by exome sequencing

  • Alejandro Sifrim
  • , Marc-Phillip Hitz
  • , Anna Wilsdon
  • , Jeroen Breckpot
  • , Saeed H Al Turki
  • , Bernard Thienpont
  • , Jeremy McRae
  • , Tomas W Fitzgerald
  • , Tarjinder Singh
  • , Ganesh Jawahar Swaminathan
  • , Elena Prigmore
  • , Diana Rajan
  • , Hashim Abdul-Khaliq
  • , Siddharth Banka
  • , Ulrike M M Bauer
  • , Jamie Bentham
  • , Felix Berger
  • , Shoumo Bhattacharya
  • , Frances Bu'Lock
  • , Natalie Canham
  • Irina-Gabriela Colgiu, Catherine Cosgrove, Helen Cox, Ingo Daehnert, Allan Daly, John Danesh, Alan Fryer, Marc Gewillig, Emma Hobson, Kirstin Hoff, Tessa Homfray, Anne-Karin Kahlert, Ami Ketley, Hans-Heiner Kramer, Katherine Lachlan, Anne Katrin Lampe, Jacoba J Louw, Ashok Kumar Manickara, Dorin Manase, Karen P McCarthy, Kay Metcalfe, Carmel Moore, Ruth Newbury-Ecob, Seham Osman Omer, Willem H Ouwehand, Soo-Mi Park, Michael J Parker, Thomas Pickardt, Martin O Pollard, Bernard Keavney, INTERVAL Study
  • VIB vwz
  • Yorkshire Heart Centre
  • Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
  • Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC)
  • Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal Brompton Hospital
  • Imperial College London
  • Western General Hospital
  • University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
  • Princess Anne Hospital
  • Universitatsklinikum Schleswig Holstein
  • University of Nottingham
  • Saarland University
  • London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
  • St George's Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  • University of Nottingham
  • Queen's Medical Centre
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects, National Register for Congenital Heart Defects, DZHK
  • German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK)
  • Oxford University
  • East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre
  • Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Hospital for Sick Children
  • University of Cambridge
  • King Abdulaziz Medical City
  • King Abdulaziz Cardiac Center
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Abstract

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) have a neonatal incidence of 0.8-1% (refs. 1,2). Despite abundant examples of monogenic CHD in humans and mice, CHD has a low absolute sibling recurrence risk (∼2.7%), suggesting a considerable role for de novo mutations (DNMs) and/or incomplete penetrance. De novo protein-truncating variants (PTVs) have been shown to be enriched among the 10% of 'syndromic' patients with extra-cardiac manifestations. We exome sequenced 1,891 probands, including both syndromic CHD (S-CHD, n = 610) and nonsyndromic CHD (NS-CHD, n = 1,281). In S-CHD, we confirmed a significant enrichment of de novo PTVs but not inherited PTVs in known CHD-associated genes, consistent with recent findings. Conversely, in NS-CHD we observed significant enrichment of PTVs inherited from unaffected parents in CHD-associated genes. We identified three genome-wide significant S-CHD disorders caused by DNMs in CHD4, CDK13 and PRKD1. Our study finds evidence for distinct genetic architectures underlying the low sibling recurrence risk in S-CHD and NS-CHD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1060-5
Number of pages6
JournalNature Genetics
Volume48
Issue number9
Early online date1 Aug 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2016

Keywords

  • Journal Article

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