| Title: | LMNA Variants and Risk of Adult-Onset Cardiac Disease |
| Journal: | Journal of the American College of Cardiology |
| Published: | 1 Jul 2022 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35772917/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.04.035 |
Publication 14030
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Genetic variants in LMNA may cause cardiac disease, but population-level contributions of variants to cardiac disease burden are not well-characterized.</p>
OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine the frequency and contribution of rare LMNA variants to cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia risk among ambulatory adults.</p>
METHODS: We included 185,990 UK Biobank participants with whole-exome sequencing. We annotated rare loss-of-function and missense LMNA variants for functional effect using 30 in silico prediction tools. We assigned a predicted functional effect weight to each variant and calculated a score for each carrier. We tested associations between the LMNA score and arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation, bradyarrhythmia, ventricular arrhythmia) or cardiomyopathy outcomes (dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure). We also examined associations for variants located upstream vs downstream of the nuclear localization signal.</p>
RESULTS: Overall, 1,167 (0.63%) participants carried an LMNA variant and 15,079 (8.11%) had an arrhythmia or cardiomyopathy event during a median follow-up of 10.9 years. The LMNA score was associated with arrhythmia or cardiomyopathy (OR: 2.21; P < 0.001) and the association was more significant when restricted to variants upstream of the nuclear localization signal (OR: 5.05; P < 0.001). The incidence rate of arrhythmia or cardiomyopathy was 8.43 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI: 6.73-10.12 per 1,000 person-years) among LMNA variant carriers and 6.38 per 1,000 person-years (95% CI: 6.27-6.50 per 1,000 person-years) among noncarriers. Only 3 (1.2%) of the variants were reported as pathogenic in ClinVar.</p>
CONCLUSIONS: Middle-aged adult carriers of rare missense or loss-of-function LMNA variants are at increased risk for arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy.</p>
9 Keywords
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Cardiomyopathies
- Heart Diseases
- Humans
- Lamin Type A
- Middle Aged
- Nuclear Localization Signals
13 Authors
- Julieta Lazarte
- Sean J Jurgens
- Seung Hoan Choi
- Shaan Khurshid
- Valerie N Morrill
- Lu-Chen Weng
- Victor Nauffal
- James P Pirruccello
- Jennifer L Halford
- Robert A Hegele
- Patrick T Ellinor
- Kathryn L Lunetta
- Steven A Lubitz
1 Application
| Application ID | Title |
|---|---|
| 17488 | Understanding the Genetic Basis of Cardiac Arrhythmias |
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