Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

De novo and recessive forms of congenital heart disease have distinct genetic and phenotypic landscapes

  • W. Scott Watkins,
  • E. Javier Hernandez,
  • Sergiusz Wesolowski,
  • Brent W. Bisgrove,
  • Ryan T. Sunderland,
  • Edwin Lin,
  • Gordon Lemmon,
  • Bradley L. Demarest,
  • Thomas A. Miller,
  • Daniel Bernstein,
  • Martina Brueckner,
  • Wendy K. Chung,
  • Bruce D. Gelb,
  • Elizabeth Goldmuntz,
  • Jane W. Newburger,
  • Christine E. Seidman,
  • Yufeng Shen,
  • H. Joseph Yost,
  • Mark Yandell,
  • Martin Tristani-Firouzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12582-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Large whole-exome sequencing studies have suggested that the genetic architecture of syndromic congenital heart disease (CHD) is different from sporadic forms. Here, Watkins et al. estimate the relative contribution of damaging recessive and de novo genotypes to CHD in 2391 trios and find them to be associated with different gene functions.