Linking Clinical Parameters and Genotype in Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
Linking Clinical Parameters and Genotype in Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
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将扩张型心肌病的临床参数和基因型联系起来。
DOI:
10.1161/circheartfailure.118.005459
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2018
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Churko,JaredM
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Churko,JaredM
Circ Heart Fail. 2018; 11: e005459. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE. 118.005459 November 2018 2 domain perturbations, 11 changes in mRNA splicing, 12 and protein functional changes13 contribute to in disease pathogenesis. This information will be critical to identify molecular mechanisms leading to DCM and to design targeted drug therapies to treat distinct genetic subclasses of DCM pathology. The genetic basis of DCM/hypokinetic non-DCM also has important clinical implications. Receipt of genetic results is a reminder to think about the patient’s family in addition to the individual presenting for care in clinic. 14 If there is no clear explanation for why cardiomyopathy developed, a detailed family history should be obtained, and first-degree relatives should be screened to evaluate for familial disease. 15 Although the genetic cause of DCM is diverse and incompletely resolved and the yield of clinical genetic testing is currently relatively modest (a genetic cause can be detected≈ 20% of the time), 15, 16 identifying a pathogenic mutation in a patient provides unique and valuable information to guide management of the patient and their family. Atrisk relatives can be definitively identified and followed appropriately. Relatives not at risk can be reassured. Affected individuals can be given more precise prognostic forecasts, and more aggressive therapy can be steered towards those predicted to have more aggressive disease, based on genetic substrate. The work of Verdonschot et al1 highlight that adding genetic information, in addition to clinical parameters, may better predict reverse remodeling of the LV than clinical parameters alone. Linking the degree of disease burden to variants (and properly defining variants of unknown significance) is still necessary. Efforts in linking disease burden to variants will ultimately lead to improvements in patient care and in our understanding of cardiomyopathies.