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No evidence for mosaic pathogenic copy number variations in cardiac tissue from patients with congenital heart malformations.

Winberg, Johanna ; Berggren, Håkan ; Malm, Torsten LU ; Johansson, Sune LU ; Johansson, Jens LU ; Nilsson, Boris ; Liedén, Agne ; Nordenskjöld, Agneta ; Gustavsson, Peter and Nordgren, Ann (2015) In European Journal of Medical Genetics 58(3). p.129-133
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate if pathogenic copy number variations (CNVs) are present in mosaic form in patients with congenital heart malformations. We have collected cardiac tissue and blood samples from 23 patients with congenital heart malformations that underwent cardiac surgery and screened for mosaic gene dose alterations restricted to cardiac tissue using array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH). We did not find evidence of CNVs in mosaic form after array CGH analysis. Pathogenic CNVs that were present in both cardiac tissue and blood were detected in 2/23 patients (9%), and in addition we found several constitutional CNVs of unclear clinical significance. This is the first study investigating mosaicism for... (More)
The aim of this study was to investigate if pathogenic copy number variations (CNVs) are present in mosaic form in patients with congenital heart malformations. We have collected cardiac tissue and blood samples from 23 patients with congenital heart malformations that underwent cardiac surgery and screened for mosaic gene dose alterations restricted to cardiac tissue using array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH). We did not find evidence of CNVs in mosaic form after array CGH analysis. Pathogenic CNVs that were present in both cardiac tissue and blood were detected in 2/23 patients (9%), and in addition we found several constitutional CNVs of unclear clinical significance. This is the first study investigating mosaicism for CNVs in heart tissue compared to peripheral blood and the results do not indicate that pathogenic mosaic copy number changes are common in patients with heart malformations. Importantly, in line with previous studies, our results show that constitutional pathogenic CNVs are important factors contributing to congenital heart malformations. (Less)
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European Journal of Medical Genetics
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Elsevier
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10.1016/j.ejmg.2015.01.003
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  author       = {{Winberg, Johanna and Berggren, Håkan and Malm, Torsten and Johansson, Sune and Johansson, Jens and Nilsson, Boris and Liedén, Agne and Nordenskjöld, Agneta and Gustavsson, Peter and Nordgren, Ann}},
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  title        = {{No evidence for mosaic pathogenic copy number variations in cardiac tissue from patients with congenital heart malformations.}},
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