Nature Communications (May 2020)

Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy

  • James P. Pirruccello,
  • Alexander Bick,
  • Minxian Wang,
  • Mark Chaffin,
  • Samuel Friedman,
  • Jie Yao,
  • Xiuqing Guo,
  • Bharath Ambale Venkatesh,
  • Kent D. Taylor,
  • Wendy S. Post,
  • Stephen Rich,
  • Joao A. C. Lima,
  • Jerome I. Rotter,
  • Anthony Philippakis,
  • Steven A. Lubitz,
  • Patrick T. Ellinor,
  • Amit V. Khera,
  • Sekar Kathiresan,
  • Krishna G. Aragam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15823-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Structural changes to the left ventricle are characteristic of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a disease for which many rare genetic variants are known. Here, Pirruccello et al. report GWAS of seven cardiac MRI measurements in the left ventricle and describe shared loci and polygenic association with DCM.