PUBLICATION
Systems genetics analysis identifies calcium-signaling defects as novel cause of congenital heart disease
- Authors
- Izarzugaza, J.M.G., Ellesøe, S.G., Doganli, C., Ehlers, N.S., Dalgaard, M.D., Audain, E., Dombrowsky, G., Banasik, K., Sifrim, A., Wilsdon, A., Thienpont, B., Breckpot, J., Gewillig, M., Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects, Germany, Brook, J.D., Hitz, M.P., Larsen, L.A., Brunak, S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-200830-4
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Genome Medicine 12: 76 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Doganli, Canan, Thienpont, Bernard
- Keywords
- Calcium signaling, Congenital heart disease, Developmental biology, Genetics, Systems biology, Whole exome sequencing
- MeSH Terms
-
- Calcium/metabolism*
- Registries
- Protein Interaction Mapping
- Animals
- Databases, Genetic
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
- Systems Biology/methods*
- Protein Interaction Maps
- Heart Defects, Congenital/genetics*
- Heart Defects, Congenital/metabolism*
- Computational Biology/methods
- Denmark
- Genetic Variation
- Zebrafish
- Alleles
- Calcium Signaling*
- Humans
- Genetic Association Studies/methods
- Exome Sequencing
- Male
- PubMed
- 32859249 Full text @ Genome Med.
Citation
Izarzugaza, J.M.G., Ellesøe, S.G., Doganli, C., Ehlers, N.S., Dalgaard, M.D., Audain, E., Dombrowsky, G., Banasik, K., Sifrim, A., Wilsdon, A., Thienpont, B., Breckpot, J., Gewillig, M., Competence Network for Congenital Heart Defects, Germany, Brook, J.D., Hitz, M.P., Larsen, L.A., Brunak, S. (2020) Systems genetics analysis identifies calcium-signaling defects as novel cause of congenital heart disease. Genome Medicine. 12:76.
Abstract
Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in almost 1% of newborn children and is considered a multifactorial disorder. CHD may segregate in families due to significant contribution of genetic factors in the disease etiology. The aim of the study was to identify pathophysiological mechanisms in families segregating CHD.
Methods We used whole exome sequencing to identify rare genetic variants in ninety consenting participants from 32 Danish families with recurrent CHD. We applied a systems biology approach to identify developmental mechanisms influenced by accumulation of rare variants. We used an independent cohort of 714 CHD cases and 4922 controls for replication and performed functional investigations using zebrafish as in vivo model.
Results We identified 1785 genes, in which rare alleles were shared between affected individuals within a family. These genes were enriched for known cardiac developmental genes, and 218 of these genes were mutated in more than one family. Our analysis revealed a functional cluster, enriched for proteins with a known participation in calcium signaling. Replication in an independent cohort confirmed increased mutation burden of calcium-signaling genes in CHD patients. Functional investigation of zebrafish orthologues of ITPR1, PLCB2, and ADCY2 verified a role in cardiac development and suggests a combinatorial effect of inactivation of these genes.
Conclusions The study identifies abnormal calcium signaling as a novel pathophysiological mechanism in human CHD and confirms the complex genetic architecture underlying CHD.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping