Affiliation:
1. From the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (S.L.V., M.J.A., M.L.W.), Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (M.J.A., S.R.O., R.A.N., A.J.T., B.J.G.), and Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine/Division of Pediatric Cardiology (M.J.A., A.J.T.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. R.S. was a 2001 Churchill Fellow in Cardiology from the University of Cambridge.
Abstract
Background—
Genotype-phenotype correlative studies have implicated 8 particular mutations that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) as “benign defects,” associated with near-normal survival: N232S, G256E, F513C, V606M, R719Q, and L908V of β-myosin heavy chain (
MYH7
); S179F of troponin T (
TNNT2
); and D175N of α-tropomyosin (
TPM1
). Routine genetic screening of HCM patients for specific mutations is anticipated to provide important diagnostic and prognostic information. The frequency and associated phenotype of these mutations in a large, unselected cohort of HCM is unknown.
Methods and Results—
A total of 293 unrelated HCM patients were genotyped for the presence of a benign mutation. DNA was obtained after informed consent; specific
MHY7, TNNT2
, and
TPM1
fragments were amplified by polymerase chain reaction; and the mutations were detected by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography and automated DNA sequencing. Only 5 (1.7%) of the 293 patients possessed a benign mutation. Moreover, all 5 subjects with an ascribed benign mutation had already manifested clinically severe expression of HCM, with all 5 requiring surgical myectomy, 3 of the 5 having a family history of sudden cardiac death, and 1 adolescent requiring an orthotopic heart transplant.
Conclusions—
These findings demonstrate the rarity of specific mutations in HCM and challenge the notion of mutation-specific clinical outcomes. Fewer than 2% of the subjects harbored a benign mutation, and those patients with a benign mutation experienced a very serious clinical course.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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