Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Dystrophin Splice Site Mutation |
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Authors: | Dita Obler Bai-Lin Wu Va Lip Elicia Estrella Sally Keck Coral Haggan Marc Semigran Leslie B. Smoot |
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Affiliation: | 1. Division of Cardiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;2. Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;3. Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Abstract: | BackgroundIdiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders, posing significant diagnostic challenges. Genetic etiologies underlie an important subset of DCM, including 20 genes and 5 X-linked disorders to date. We report a family with a rare dystrophin gene alteration, identified after evaluation of asymptomatic children whose extended family history included cardiomyopathy, premature cardiac death, or cardiac transplantation.Methods and ResultsRecord review, clinical evaluations, and DNA samples were obtained from members of a 5-generation pedigree with early onset DCM. Five of 6 affected males experienced death or cardiac transplant in their second or third decades. No affected individuals had skeletal muscle weakness before acute cardiac decompensation. Dystrophin gene analysis of an affected family member revealed sequence alteration at the conserved 5′ splice site of exon 1 of the muscle-specific isoform of dystrophin (IVS1 +1 G>T) and co-segregated with cardiac disease in this family.ConclusionsYoung males presenting with apparent isolated cardiomyopathy or acute myocarditis may harbor dystrophin mutations without overt skeletal muscle pathology. The etiology of familial risk was not evident in this pedigree before retrospective cardiovascular genetics assessment, highlighting ongoing diagnostic challenges and limitations of standardized screening panels (which do not include dystrophin) in patients with “idiopathic” DCM. |
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