Prevalence of cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain gene mutations in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy [Erratum in: J Mol Med. vol 83, pg 837, 2005]

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Title:	Prevalence of cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain gene mutations in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy [Erratum in: J Mol Med. vol 83, pg 837, 2005]
Creators Name:	Perrot, A. and Schmidt-Traub, H. and Hoffmann, B. and Prager, M. and Bit-Avragim, N. and Rudenko, R. and Usupbaeva, D. and Kabaeva, Z. and Imanov, B. and Mirrakhimov, M. and Dietz, R. and Wycisk, A. and Tendera, M. and Geszner, R. and Osterziel, K.
Abstract:	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a frequent, autosomal-dominant cardiac disease and manifests predominantly as left ventricular hypertrophy. Mutations in the cardiac beta-myosin heavy chain gene (MYH7) are responsible for the disease in about 30% of cases where mutations were identified. We clinically evaluated a large group of 147 consecutive HCM patients from three cardiology centers in Germany, Poland, and Kyrgyzstan according to the same protocol. The DNA of the patients was systematically analyzed in the whole coding region of the MYH7 gene using PCR, single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis, and automated sequencing. Eleven different missense mutations (including seven novel ones) in 11 unrelated patients were identified, showing a mutation frequency of 7.5% in the study population. We further examined the families of five patients (three of German, one of Polish, and one of Kyrgyz origin) with 32 individuals in total. We observed a clear, age-dependent penetrance with onset of disease symptoms in the fourth decade of life. Genotype-phenotype correlations were different for each mutation, whereas the majority was associated with an intermediate/malign phenotype. In conclusion, we report a systematic molecular screening of the complete MYH7 gene in a large group of consecutive HCM patients, leading to a genetic diagnosis in 38 individuals. Information about the genotype in an individual from one family could be very useful for the clinician, especially when dealing with healthy relatives in doubt of their risk about developing HCM. The increasing application of genetic screening and the increasing knowledge about genotype-phenotype correlations will hopefully lead to an improved clinical management of HCM patients.
Keywords:	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Beta-myosin heavy chain gene, Genotype–phenotype correlations
Source:	Journal of Molecular Medicine
ISSN:	0946-2716
Publisher:	Springer
Volume:	83
Page Range:	468-477
Date:	1 January 2005
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00109-005-0635-7
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