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The genetic architecture of Plakophilin 2 cardiomyopathy

Dries, AM; Kirillova, A; Reuter, CM; Garcia, J; Zouk, H; Hawley, M; Murray, B; ... Parikh, VN; + view all (2021) The genetic architecture of Plakophilin 2 cardiomyopathy. Genetics in Medicine 10.1038/s41436-021-01233-7. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

PURPOSE: The genetic architecture of Plakophilin 2 (PKP2) cardiomyopathy can inform our understanding of its variant pathogenicity and protein function. METHODS: We assess the gene-wide and regional association of truncating and missense variants in PKP2 with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) specifically. A discovery data set compares genetic testing requisitions to gnomAD. Validation is performed in a rigorously phenotyped definite ARVC cohort and non-ACM individuals in the Geisinger MyCode cohort. RESULTS: The etiologic fraction (EF) of ACM-related diagnoses from truncating variants in PKP2 is significant (0.85 [0.80,0.88], p < 2 × 10-16), increases for ARVC specifically (EF = 0.96 [0.94,0.97], p < 2 × 10-16), and is highest in definite ARVC versus non-ACM individuals (EF = 1.00 [1.00,1.00], p < 2 × 10-16). Regions of missense variation enriched for ACM probands include known functional domains and the C-terminus, which was not previously known to contain a functional domain. No regional enrichment was identified for truncating variants. CONCLUSION: This multicohort evaluation of the genetic architecture of PKP2 demonstrates the specificity of PKP2 truncating variants for ARVC within the ACM disease spectrum. We identify the PKP2 C-terminus as a potential functional domain and find that truncating variants likely cause disease irrespective of transcript position.

Type: Article
Title: The genetic architecture of Plakophilin 2 cardiomyopathy
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41436-021-01233-7
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-021-01233-7
Language: English
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UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Clinical Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10130007
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