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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Helen GriffinORCiD, Dr Ana TopfORCiD, Dr Elise Glen, Dr John O'Sullivan, Professor Sir John BurnORCiD, Professor Heather Cordell, Professor Bernard Keavney, Professor Judith Goodship
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Background Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is common in individuals with hemizygous deletions of chromosome 22q11.2 that remove the cardiac transcription factor TBX1. Objective To assess the contribution of common and rare TBX1 genetic variants to TOF. Design Rare TBX1 variants were sought by resequencing coding exons and splice-site boundaries. Common TBX1 variants were investigated by genotyping 20 haplotype-tagging SNPs capturing all the common variations present at the locus. Association analysis was performed using the program UNPHASED. Patients TBX1 exons were sequenced in 93 patients with non-syndromic TOF. Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis was performed in 356 patients with TOF, their parents and healthy controls. Results Three novel variants not present in 1000 chromosomes from healthy ethnically matched controls were identified. One of these variants, an in-frame 57 base-pair deletion in the third exon which removed 19 evolutionarily conserved residues, decreased transcriptional activity by 40% in a dual luciferase assay (p=0.008). Protein expression studies demonstrated that this mutation affected TBX1 protein stability. After correction for multiple comparisons, no significant associations between common genetic variants and TOF susceptibility were found. Conclusion This study demonstrates that rare TBX1 variants with functional consequences are present in a small proportion of non-syndromic TOF.
Author(s): Griffin HR, Topf A, Glen E, Zweier C, Stuart AG, Parsons J, Peart I, Deanfield J, O'Sullivan J, Rauch A, Scambler P, Burn J, Cordell HJ, Keavney B, Goodship JA
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Heart
Year: 2010
Volume: 96
Issue: 20
Pages: 1651-1655
Print publication date: 01/10/2010
ISSN (print): 1355-6037
ISSN (electronic): 1468-201X
Publisher: BMJ Group
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2010.200121
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.200121
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