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HGG Adv 2023 Oct 12;44:100232. doi: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2023.100232.
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Rare variants in CAPN2 increase risk for isolated hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Blue EE , White JJ , Dush MK , Gordon WW , Wyatt BH , White P , Marvin CT , Helle E , Ojala T , Priest JR , Jenkins MM , Almli LM , Reefhuis J , Pangilinan F , Brody LC , McBride KL , Garg V , Shaw GM , Romitti PA , Nembhard WN , Browne ML , Werler MM , Kay DM , National Birth Defects Prevention Study , University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics , Mital S , Chong JX , Nascone-Yoder NM , Bamshad MJ .


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Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a severe congenital heart defect (CHD) characterized by hypoplasia of the left ventricle and aorta along with stenosis or atresia of the aortic and mitral valves. HLHS represents only ∼4%-8% of all CHDs but accounts for ∼25% of deaths. HLHS is an isolated defect (i.e., iHLHS) in 70% of families, the vast majority of which are simplex. Despite intense investigation, the genetic basis of iHLHS remains largely unknown. We performed exome sequencing on 331 families with iHLHS aggregated from four independent cohorts. A Mendelian-model-based analysis demonstrated that iHLHS was not due to single, large-effect alleles in genes previously reported to underlie iHLHS or CHD in >90% of families in this cohort. Gene-based association testing identified increased risk for iHLHS associated with variation in CAPN2 (p = 1.8 × 10-5), encoding a protein involved in functional adhesion. Functional validation studies in a vertebrate animal model (Xenopus laevis) confirmed CAPN2 is essential for cardiac ventricle morphogenesis and that in vivo loss of calpain function causes hypoplastic ventricle phenotypes and suggest that human CAPN2707C>T and CAPN21112C>T variants, each found in multiple individuals with iHLHS, are hypomorphic alleles. Collectively, our findings show that iHLHS is typically not a Mendelian condition, demonstrate that CAPN2 variants increase risk of iHLHS, and identify a novel pathway involved in HLHS pathogenesis.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: capn2 pam
GO keywords: cardiac ventricle morphogenesis [+]
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gRNAs referenced: capn2 gRNA1 capn2 gRNA2

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Phenotypes: Xla Wt + capn2 CRISPR + GFP (Fig. 3. B, F) [+]

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References [+] :
Barnoy, Calpain and calpastatin in myoblast differentiation and fusion: effects of inhibitors. 1997, Pubmed