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. 2024 Mar;17(3):e011226.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.123.011226. Epub 2024 Mar 4.

Biallelic Loss of Function Variants in Myocardial Zonula Adherens Protein Gene (MYZAP) Cause a Severe Recessive Form of Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Juan Pablo Ochoa  1   2   3 , Laura Lalaguna  3 , Jesús G Mirelis  1 , Fernando Dominguez  1   2   3 , Esther Gonzalez-Lopez  1   2   3 , Clara Salas  1   2 , Gaston Roustan  1 , Kathryn A McGurk  4   5 , Sean L Zheng  4   5   6 , Paul J R Barton  4   5   6 , James S Ware  4   5   6 , María Victoria Gómez-Gaviro  7   8 , Enrique Lara-Pezzi  2   3 , Pablo Garcia-Pavia  1   2   3   9
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Biallelic Loss of Function Variants in Myocardial Zonula Adherens Protein Gene (MYZAP) Cause a Severe Recessive Form of Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Juan Pablo Ochoa et al. Circ Heart Fail. 2024 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: cardiomyopathies; dilated cardiomyopathy; human genetics; tachycardia, ventricular; whole exome sequencing.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Ochoa is an employee of Health in Code. Dr Ware has consulted for MyoKardia Inc, Foresite Labs, and Pfizer. The other authors reports no conflicts.

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Clinical and functional evaluations performed in the family. A, Family pedigree and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging of the index case (upper) showing LV dilatation (LVEDV=168 mL) and extensive areas of midventricular fibrosis predominantly in the left ventricle. Her affected sister (lower) had similar findings on magnetic resonance imaging (LVEDV=260 mL). B, MYZAP immunostaining in skin samples from affected siblings and unaffected parents. Skin biopsies were immunostained with anti-MYZAP antibody (white). Nuclei were stained with DAPI (blue). Images were acquired with a 20× objective. Magnifications of the selected areas (yellow squares) were acquired with a 40× objective. C, Western blot analysis of MYZAP in HL-1 cells transfected with MYZAP-WT, MYZAP-p.Arg117*, and MYZAP-c.933+1G>A. MYZAP-c.933+1G>A shows significantly lower expression level of MYZAP compared with MYZAP-WT and MYZAP-p.Arg117*. D, Immunofluorescence analysis of localization of MYZAP in transfected HL-1 cells showing that MYZAP-WT and MYZAP-c.933+1G>A are observed predominantly as perinuclear aggregations and in the cytoplasmatic membrane, while MYZAP-p.Arg117* delocalizes being distributed in the cytoplasm but not in any particular structure at cell level. Bar, 20 µm. DAPI indicates 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole; LVEDV, left ventricle end diastolic volume; VINC, vinculin; and WT, wild-type.
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