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De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease

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Zaidi, Samir, Choi, Murim, Wakimoto, Hiroko, Ma, Lijiang, Jiang, Jianming, Overton, John D., Romano-Adesman, Angela, Bjornson, Robert D. +42 more·2013·Nature

Abstract

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most frequent birth defect, affecting 0.8% of live births. Many cases occur sporadically and impair reproductive fitness, suggesting a role for de novo mutations. Here we compare the incidence of de novo mutations in 362 severe CHD cases and 264 controls by analysing exome sequencing of parent-offspring trios. CHD cases show a significant excess of protein-altering de novo mutations in genes expressed in the developing heart, with an odds ratio of 7.5 for damaging (premature termination, frameshift, splice site) mutations. Similar odds ratios are seen across the main classes of severe CHD. We find a marked excess of de novo mutations in genes involved in the production, removal or reading of histone 3 lysine 4 (H3K4) methylation, or ubiquitination of H2BK120, which is required for H3K4 methylation. There are also two de novo mutations in SMAD2, which regulates H3K27 methylation in the embryonic left-right organizer. The combination of both activating (H3K4 methylation) and inactivating (H3K27 methylation) chromatin marks characterizes 'poised' promoters and enhancers, which regulate expression of key developmental genes. These findings implicate de novo point mutations in several hundreds of genes that collectively contribute to approximately 10% of severe CHD.

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Zaidi, S., Choi, M., Wakimoto, H., Ma, L., Jiang, J., Overton, J. D., Romano-Adesman, A., Bjornson, R. D., Breitbart, R. E., Brown, K. K., Carriero, N. J., Cheung, Y. H., Deanfield, J., DePalma, S., Fakhro, K. A., Glessner, J., Hakonarson, H., Italia, M. J., Kaltman, J. R., Kaski, J., Kim, R., Kline, J. K., Lee, T., Leipzig, J., Lopez, A., Mane, S. M., Mitchell, L. E., Newburger, J. W., Parfenov, M., Pe’er, I., Porter, G., Roberts, A. E., Sachidanandam, R., Sanders, S. J., Seiden, H. S., State, M. W., Subramanian, S., Tikhonova, I. R., Wang, W., Warburton, D., White, P. S., Williams, I. A., Zhao, H., Seidman, J. G., Brueckner, M., Chung, W. K., Gelb, B. D., Goldmuntz, E., Seidman, C. E., & Lifton, R. P.
Affiliations
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
  • Yale University (US)
  • Schneider Children's Hospital (US)
  • Boston Children's Hospital (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital (GB)
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology (US)
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
  • Brueckner, Martina
  • Chung, Wendy K.
  • Gelb, Bruce D.
  • Goldmuntz, Elizabeth
  • Seidman, Christine E.
  • Lifton, Richard P.
Venue
Nature
Published
2013-05-12
Volume
498
Issue
7453
Pages
220-223
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2104276565
Cited by
934
References
29
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FWCI
42.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institutes of Health (5t32gm082771-05)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (U01HL098153, U01HL098123, U01HL098162, F30HL123238, UM1HL098166, U01HL098188, U01HL098163, U01HL098147)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (U54HG006504, U01HG006546)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32-GM082771, T32GM007205)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK079310)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P30HD018655)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Congenital heart defects research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Keywords
congenital heart disease, de novo mutations, chromatin modification, H3K4 methylation, H3K27 methylation, Smad2, parent-offspring trios, heart development, poised enhancers, developmental gene regulation
MeSH terms
Adult, Child, Chromatin, DNA Mutational Analysis, Enhancer Elements, Genetic, Female, Heart Diseases, Histones, Humans, Lysine, Male, Methylation, Mutation, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Odds Ratio, Case-Control Studies, Genes, Developmental, Exome

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