Integrated allelic, transcriptional, and phenomic dissection of the cardiac effects of titin truncations in health and disease.

ABSTRACT: The recent discovery of heterozygous human mutations that truncate full-length titin (TTN, an abundant structural, sensory, and signaling filament in muscle) as a common cause of end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) promises new prospects for improving heart failure management. However, realization of this opportunity has been hindered by the burden of TTN-truncating variants (TTNtv) in the general population and uncertainty about their consequences in health or disease. To elucidate the effects of TTNtv, we coupled TTN gene sequencing with cardiac phenotyping in 5267 individuals across the spectrum of cardiac physiology and integrated these data with RNA and protein analyses of human heart tissues. We report diversity of TTN isoform expression in the heart, define the relative inclusion

SUBMITTER: Roberts AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4560092 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature