Plakophilin-2 c.419C>T and risk of heart failure and arrhythmias in the general population.

ABSTRACT: A rare genetic variant in the desmosomal gene plakophilin-2 (PKP2) c.419C>T(p.(S140F)) has repeatedly been identified in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). Whether this is a disease-causing variant remains highly controversial. We tested this hypothesis using three approaches. Initially, in a prospective study of 10 407 individuals from the general population, including 2688 who developed heart failure or arrhythmias during >14 years of follow-up, PKP2 c.419C>T was identified in 98 individuals (0.94%). PKP2 genotype was not associated with electrocardiographic or echocardiographic changes, or with plasma levels of probrain natriuretic peptide (all P≥0.05). In c.419C>T carriers versus non-carriers, multifactorially adjusted

SUBMITTER: Christensen AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4930081 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature