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A Method to Study the C924T Polymorphism of the Thromboxane A2 Receptor Gene
Published on: April 1, 2019
Molecular characterization and clinical investigation of patients with heritable thoracic aortic aneurysm and
Hang Yang1, Huayan Shen1, Guoyan Zhu1
1State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease, Beijing Key Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics of Cardiovascular Diseases, Diagnostic Laboratory Service, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Objectives:
Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection has a genetic predisposition and a variety of clinical manifestations. This study aimed to investigate the clinical and molecular characterizations of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection and further explore the relationship between the genotype and phenotype, as well as their postoperative outcomes.
Methods:
A total of 1095 individuals with thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection admitted to our hospital between 2013 and 2022 were included. Next-generation sequencing and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification were performed, and mosaicism analysis was additionally implemented to identify the genetic causes.
Results:
A total of 376 causative variants were identified in 83.5% of patients with syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection and 18.7% of patients with nonsyndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection, including 8 copy number variations and 2 mosaic variants. Patients in the "pathogenic" and "variant of uncertain significance" groups had younger ages of aortic events and higher aortic reintervention risks compared with genetically negative cases. In addition, patients with FBN1 haploinsufficiency variants had shorter reintervention-free survival than those with FBN1 dominant negative variants.
Conclusions:
Our data expanded the genetic spectrum of heritable thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection and indicated that copy number variations and mosaic variants contributed to a small proportion of the disease-causing alterations. Moreover, positive genetic results might have a possible predictive value for aortic event severity and postoperative risk stratification.
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