Background: Mutations in the TTN gene are the most common causes of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). The clinical significance of TTN gene variants remains inadequately understood. Methods: Whole-exome sequencing and phenotypic characterisation were performed, and patients were followed up for a median of 44 months. Results: We analyzed the association of the TTN variants with the clinical outcomes in a prospective study of 1,041 patients with sporadic DCM. TTN truncating variants (tTTN) were detected in 120 (11.5%) patients as compared with 2.4/10,000 East Asian populations in the Genome Aggregation Database (GnomAD; p < 0.0001). Pathogenic TTN missense variants were also enriched in DCM as compared with the GnomAD populations (27.6 vs. 5.9%, p < 0.0001). DCM patients with tTTN had a lower left ventricular ejection fraction (28.89 +/- 8.72 vs. 31.81 +/- 9.97, p = 0.002) and a lower frequency of the left bundle branch block (3.3 vs. 11.3%, p = 0.011) than those without or with mutations in other known causal genes (OCG). However, tTTN were not associated with the composite primary endpoint of cardiac death and heart transplantation during the follow-up period [adjusted hazard ratio (HR): 0.912; 95% confidence interval: 0.464-1.793; p = 0.790]. There was also no sex-dependent effect. Concomitant tTTN and pathogenic variants in OCG were present in only eight DCM patients and did not affect the outcome. Conclusion: The phenotype of DCM caused by tTTN, major causes of sporadic DCM, is not distinctly different from those caused by other causal genes for DCM.
基金:
National Key R&D Program of China [SQ2017YFSF090157, 2017YFC0909401]; Natural Science Foundation of China [91439203, 81630010, 91839302]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (HUST) [2015 ZDTD044, 2016JCTD117]; Tongji Hospital Clinical Research Flagship Program [2019CR207, 2019 YBKY019]
第一作者单位:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Tongji Med Coll, Tongji Hosp, Div Cardiol,Dept Internal Med, Wuhan, Peoples R China[2]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Hubei Key Lab Genet & Mol Mech Cardiol Disorders, Wuhan, Peoples R China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Tongji Med Coll, Tongji Hosp, Div Cardiol,Dept Internal Med, Wuhan, Peoples R China[2]Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Hubei Key Lab Genet & Mol Mech Cardiol Disorders, Wuhan, Peoples R China[3]Fudan Univ, Sch Life Sci, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Genet & Dev, Shanghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Xiao Lei,Li Chenze,Sun Yang,et al.Clinical Significance of Variants in the TTN Gene in a Large Cohort of Patients With Sporadic Dilated Cardiomyopathy[J].FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE.2021,8:doi:10.3389/fcvm.2021.657689.
APA:
Xiao, Lei,Li, Chenze,Sun, Yang,Chen, Yanghui,Wei, Haoran...&Wang, Dao Wen.(2021).Clinical Significance of Variants in the TTN Gene in a Large Cohort of Patients With Sporadic Dilated Cardiomyopathy.FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE,8,
MLA:
Xiao, Lei,et al."Clinical Significance of Variants in the TTN Gene in a Large Cohort of Patients With Sporadic Dilated Cardiomyopathy".FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE 8.(2021)