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Analysis of HOXB1 gene in a cohort of patients with sporadic ventricular septal defect

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Ventricular septal defect (VSD) including outlet VSD of double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and perimembranous VSD are among the most common congenital heart diseases found at birth. HOXB1 encodes a homeodomain transcription factor essential for normal cardiac outflow tract development. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible genetic effect of sequence variations in HOXB1 on VSD. The coding regions and splice junctions of the HOXB1 gene were sequenced in 57 unrelated VSD patients. As a result, a homozygous c.74_82dup (p.Pro28delinsHisSerAlaPro) variant was identified in one individual with DORV. We also identified five previously reported polymorphisms (rs35114525, rs12946855, rs14534040, rs12939811, and rs7207109) in 18 patients (12 DORV and 6 perimembranous VSD). Our study did not show any pathogenic alterations in the coding region of HOXB1 among patients with VSD. To our knowledge this is the first study investigating the role of HOXB1 in nonsyndromic VSD, which provide more insight on the etiology of this disease.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by “AFM-Telethon” (MNH-Decrypt) and “ANR” (ANR-13-BSV2-0003) grants. A.P. received a PhD fellowship by the AFSMa (Association Française des Syndromes de Marfan et Apparentés). CARREG (http://carreg.fr/en/) is supported by the Fondation cœur et artères and the Association pour la Recherche en Cardiologie du Fœtus à l’Adulte (ARCFA).

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  2. Amélie Pinard and Nathalie Eudes have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Aix Marseille Université, INSERM U1251, MMG, Marseille, France

    Amélie Pinard, Nathalie Eudes, Julia Mitchell, Maude Grelet, Gwenaelle Collod-Béroud & Stéphane Zaffran

  2. Service de Chirurgie des Cardiopathies Congénitales, Hôpital Cardiologique Louis Pradel, Avenue du Doyen Lépine, 69394, Lyon, France

    Julia Mitchell

  3. Centre de Référence Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes (M3C), Unité Médico-Chirurgicale de Cardiologie Congénitale et Pédiatrique, AP-HP, Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, France

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  4. Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

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AP, NE, MG, JM, and JO performed the experiments. GC-B supervised the genetic and statistical analysis and drafted parts of the manuscript. FB and DB coordinated the CARREG protocol and validated the diagnosis of patients. SZ coordinate the genetic investigation and wrote the manuscript.

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The study subjects included seventy-seven patients from the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital. This study was approved by the Committee for the Protection of Persons (Comité de Protection des Personnes (CPP) Paris, France No. 2009-164).

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Pinard, A., Eudes, N., Mitchell, J. et al. Analysis of HOXB1 gene in a cohort of patients with sporadic ventricular septal defect. Mol Biol Rep 45, 1507–1513 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-018-4212-x

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