Characterization of the human nebulette gene: a polymorphism in an actin-binding motif is associated with nonfamilial idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy |
| |
Authors: | Takuro Arimura Takeyuki Nakamura Shitoshi Hiroi Manatsu Satoh Megumi Takahashi Nobuhisa Ohbuchi Kazuo Ueda Tatsuhito Nouchi Noriko Yamaguchi Jun Akai Akira Matsumori Sigetake Sasayama Akinori Kimura |
| |
Affiliation: | Department of Molecular Pathogenesis, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan. |
| |
Abstract: | Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) is characterized by a thin-walled heart with systolic dysfunction of unknown etiology. Because abnormalities in genes for cytoskeletal proteins related to Z-disc function have recently been reported to cause IDC, genomic organization of the gene for nebulette, a novel actin-binding Z-disc protein, was determined and its sequence variations were searched for in Japanese patients with IDC and healthy controls. The nebulette gene consists of 28 exons, and four sequence variations leading to amino acid replacement (Gln187His, Met351Val, Asn654Lys, and Thr728Ala) were identified in the patients. These variations were also found in the healthy controls and hence they were polymorphisms and not disease-specific mutations. Frequencies of Gln187His, Met351Val, and Thr728Ala variants were similar in the patients and controls. However, the frequency of homozygotes for Lys at codon 654, a variant at a relatively conserved residue in an actinbinding motif, was significantly increased in nonfamilial IDC patients (n=106) as compared with healthy control subjects (n=331) (7.54% vs 1.21%, OR=6.25, P=0.002, 95% CI=1.92-20.29), while this association was not found in familial IDC patients (n=24). These observations suggest that the nebulette polymorphism in the actin-binding motif was a novel genetic marker of susceptibility to nonfamilial IDC. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 PubMed SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|