The landscape of genetic variation in dilated cardiomyopathy as surveyed by clinical DNA sequencing

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Purpose:Dilated cardiomyopathy is characterized by substantial locus, allelic, and clinical heterogeneity that necessitates testing of many genes across clinically overlapping diseases. Few studies have sequenced sufficient individuals; thus, the contributions of individual genes and the pathogenic variant spectrum are still poorly defined. We analyzed 766 dilated cardiomyopathy patients tested over 5 years in our molecular diagnostics laboratory.Methods:Patients were tested using gene panels of increasing size from 5 to 46 genes, including 121 cases tested with a multiple-cardiomyopathy next-generation panel covering 46 genes. All variants were reassessed using our current clinical-grade scoring system to eliminate false-positive disease associations that afflict many older analyses.Results:Up to 37% of dilated cardiomyopathy cases carry a clinically relevant variant in one of 20 genes, titin (TTN) being the largest contributor (up to 14%). Desmoplakin (DSP), an arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy gene, contributed 2.4%, illustrating the utility of multidisease testing. The clinical sensitivity increased from 10 to 37% as gene panel sizes increased. However, the number of inconclusive cases also increased from 4.6 to 51%.Conclusion:Our data illustrate the utility of broad gene panels for genetically and clinically heterogeneous diseases but also highlight challenges as molecular diagnostics moves toward genome-wide testing. © American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics.

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Pugh, T. J., Kelly, M. A., Gowrisankar, S., Hynes, E., Seidman, M. A., Baxter, S. M., … Funke, B. H. (2014). The landscape of genetic variation in dilated cardiomyopathy as surveyed by clinical DNA sequencing. Genetics in Medicine, 16(8), 601–608. https://doi.org/10.1038/gim.2013.204

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