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Genetic and environmental risk factors in congenital heart disease functionally converge in protein networks driving heart development.

ABSTRACT: Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in ?1% of newborns. CHD arises from many distinct etiologies, ranging from genetic or genomic variation to exposure to teratogens, which elicit diverse cell and molecular responses during cardiac development. To systematically explore the relationships between CHD risk factors and responses, we compiled and integrated comprehensive datasets from studies of CHD in humans and model organisms. We examined two alternative models of potential functional relationships between genes in these datasets: direct convergence, in which CHD risk factors significantly and directly impact the same genes and molecules and functional convergence, in which risk factors significantly impact different molecules that participate in a discrete heart development network. We observed no evidence for direct convergence. In contrast, we show that CHD risk factors functionally converge in protein networks driving the development of specific anatomical structures (e.g., outflow tract, ventricular septum, and atrial septum) that are malformed by CHD. This integrative analysis of CHD risk factors and responses suggests a complex pattern of functional interactions between genomic variation and environmental exposures that modulate critical biological systems during heart development.

SUBMITTER: Lage K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3435181 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Genetic and environmental risk factors in congenital heart disease functionally converge in protein networks driving heart development.

Lage Kasper K Greenway Steven C SC Rosenfeld Jill A JA Wakimoto Hiroko H Gorham Joshua M JM Segrè Ayellet V AV Roberts Amy E AE Smoot Leslie B LB Pu William T WT Pereira Alexandre C AC Mesquita Sonia M SM Tommerup Niels N Brunak Søren S Ballif Blake C BC Shaffer Lisa G LG Donahoe Patricia K PK Daly Mark J MJ Seidman Jonathan G JG Seidman Christine E CE Larsen Lars A LA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120816 35

Congenital heart disease (CHD) occurs in ∼1% of newborns. CHD arises from many distinct etiologies, ranging from genetic or genomic variation to exposure to teratogens, which elicit diverse cell and molecular responses during cardiac development. To systematically explore the relationships between CHD risk factors and responses, we compiled and integrated comprehensive datasets from studies of CHD in humans and model organisms. We examined two alternative models of potential functional relations ...[more]

PMID: 22904188

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Project description:Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common life-threatening congenital anomaly. CHD occurs due to defects in cardiovascular development, and the majority of CHDs are caused by a multifactorial inheritance mechanism, which refers to the interaction between genetic and environmental factors. During embryogenesis, the cardiovascular system is derived from at least four distinct cell lineages: the first heart field, second heart field, cardiac neural crest, and proepicardial organ. Understanding the genes involved in each lineage is essential to uncover the genomic architecture of CHD. Therefore, we provide an overview of recent research progress using animal models and mutation analyses to better understand the molecular mechanisms and pathways linking cardiovascular development and CHD. For example, we highlight our recent work on genes encoding three isoforms of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP3R1, 2, and 3) that regulate various vital and developmental processes, which have genetic redundancy during cardiovascular development. Specifically, IP3R1 and 2 have redundant roles in the atrioventricular cushion derived from the first heart field lineage, whereas IP3R1 and 3 exhibit redundancy in the right ventricle and the outflow tract derived from the second heart field lineage, respectively. Moreover, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is highly associated with CHD involving the outflow tract, characterized by defects of the cardiac neural crest lineage. However, our studies have shown that TBX1, a major genetic determinant of 22q11DS, was not expressed in the cardiac neural crest but rather in the second heart field, suggesting the importance of the cellular interaction between the cardiac neural crest and the second heart field. Comprehensive genetic analysis using the Japanese genome bank of CHD and mouse models revealed that a molecular regulatory network involving GATA6, FOXC1/2, TBX1, SEMA3C, and FGF8 was essential for reciprocal signaling between the cardiac neural crest and the second heart field during cardiovascular development. Elucidation of the genomic architecture of CHD using induced pluripotent stem cells and next-generation sequencing technology, in addition to genetically modified animal models and human mutation analyses, would facilitate the development of regenerative medicine and/or preventive medicine for CHD in the near future.

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Genetic and environmental risk factors in congenital heart disease functionally converge in protein networks driving heart development.

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Genetic and environmental risk factors in congenital heart disease functionally converge in protein networks driving heart development.

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