Elena Moldovan, Claudia Bănescu, Manuela Cucerea, Valeriu Moldovan, Liliana Gozar, Lucian Pușcașiu
Acta medica Okayama 2023 AugCongenital heart disease is the most common malformative pathology in newborns, with a worldwide incidence at 0.4-5%. We investigated the possible relationship between variations in nucleotide sequences and specific cardiac malformations in the GATA-binding factor 4 (GATA4) exon 1 region by using Sanger sequencing. Forty-four newborns from a third-level neonatal intensive care unit who were diagnosed with nonsyndromic, ductal-dependent congenital heart disease (i.e., transposition of the great arteries or ductal-dependent coarctation of the aorta) were enrolled. Their DNA was extracted using commercial methods and tested using the multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) technique. The Sanger sequencing for GATA4 exon 1 in the newborns' DNA identified rs61277615, rs73203482, and rs35813172 variants not reported in the ClinVar archive of human variations in newborns previously diagnosed with transposition of the great arteries (n=5) and coarctation of the aorta (n=1). The identification of these novel variants in newborns with transposition of the great arteries or ductal-dependent coarctation of the aorta may be the first step in determining the variants' contribution to the occurrence of congenital heart disease. However, these results may be inconclusive, since the observed variants within GATA4 gene were not previously reported.
Elena Moldovan, Claudia Bănescu, Manuela Cucerea, Valeriu Moldovan, Liliana Gozar, Lucian Pușcașiu. GATA4 rs61277615, rs73203482, and rs35813172 in Newborns with Transposition of the Great Arteries. Acta medica Okayama. 2023 Aug;77(4):365-370
PMID: 37635136
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