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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2020

Rare Variants in Genes Associated With Cardiomyopathy Are Not Common in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Patients With Myocardial Dysfunction.

Emmi Helle, Jaana Pihkala, Riitta Turunen, Hanna Ruotsalainen, Sari Tuupanen, Juha Koskenvuo, Tiina Ojala

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Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Emmi HelleNew Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Jaana PihkalaNew Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Riitta TurunenNew Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Hanna RuotsalainenDepartment of Pediatrics, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland.
Sari TuupanenBlueprint Genetics, Helsinki, Finland.
Juha KoskenvuoBlueprint Genetics, Helsinki, Finland.
Tiina OjalaNew Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Helsinki University Hospital · FIBlueprint Genetics (Finland) · FIBlueprint Medicines (United States) · USKuopio University Hospital · FIUniversity of Helsinki · FI

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myocardial dysfunction is a known risk factor for morbidity and mortality in hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). Variants in some transcription factor and contractility genes, which are known to cause cardiomyopathy, have previously been associated with impaired right ventricular function in some HLHS patients. The care of HLHS patients is resource demanding. Identifying genetic variants associated with myocardial dysfunction would be helpful in tailoring the follow-up and therapeutic strategies. We tested whether a commercial cardiomyopathy gene panel could serve as a diagnostic tool in a Finnish cohort of HLHS patients with impaired right ventricular function to identify potentially pathogenic variants associated with poor prognosis. None of the patients had pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in the studied cardiomyopathy-associated genes. Thus, our approach of performing a cardiomyopathy gene panel to identify pathogenic variants as directly causal or as modifiers for worse outcomes in hypoplastic left heart syndrome is not useful in clinical practice at the moment.

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congenital heart defectsgeneticsheart failurehypoplastic left heart syndromemyocardial dysfunctionprecision medicineright heart failureright ventricle dysfunction

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PMID33194928
PMCPMC7661485
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