Abstract
Abstract
Background
Recent large-scale sequencing efforts have shed light on the genetic contribution to the etiology of congenital heart defects (CHD); however, the relative impact of genetics on clinical outcomes remains less understood. Outcomes analyses using genetics are complicated by the intrinsic severity of the CHD lesion and interactions with conditionally dependent clinical variables.
Methods
Bayesian Networks were applied to describe the intertwined relationships between clinical variables, demography, and genetics in a cohort of children with single ventricle CHD.
Results
As isolated variables, a damaging genetic variant in a gene related to abnormal heart morphology and prolonged ventilator support following stage I palliative surgery increase the probability of having a low Mental Developmental Index (MDI) score at 14 months of age by 1.9- and 5.8-fold, respectively. However, in combination, these variables act synergistically to further increase the probability of a low MDI score by 10-fold. The absence of a damaging variant in a known syndromic CHD gene and a shorter post-operative ventilator support increase the probability of a normal MDI score 1.7- and 2.4-fold, respectively, but in combination increase the probability of a good outcome by 59-fold.
Conclusions
Our analyses suggest a modest genetic contribution to neurodevelopmental outcomes as isolated variables, similar to known clinical predictors. By contrast, genetic, demographic, and clinical variables interact synergistically to markedly impact clinical outcomes. These findings underscore the importance of capturing and quantifying the impact of damaging genomic variants in the context of multiple, conditionally dependent variables, such as pre- and post-operative factors, and demography.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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