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Clinical Investigation and Reports

Prevalence and Severity of "Benign" Mutations in the ß-Myosin Heavy Chain, Cardiac Troponin T, and -Tropomyosin Genes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Sara L. Van Driest, BA; Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD; Steve R. Ommen, MD; Rameen Shakur, BA, MB; Melissa L. Will, BS; Rick A. Nishimura, MD; A. Jamil Tajik, MD; Bernard J. Gersh, MB, ChB, DPhil

From the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (S.L.V., M.J.A., M.L.W.), Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (M.J.A., S.R.O., R.A.N., A.J.T., B.J.G.), and Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine/Division of Pediatric Cardiology (M.J.A., A.J.T.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. R.S. was a 2001 Churchill Fellow in Cardiology from the University of Cambridge.

Correspondence to Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD, Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory, Guggenheim 501, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905. E-mail ackerman.michael{at}mayo.edu

	Abstract

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Background— Genotype-phenotype correlative studies have implicated 8 particular mutations that cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) as "benign defects," associated with near-normal survival: N232S, G256E, F513C, V606M, R719Q, and L908V of ß-myosin heavy chain (MYH7); S179F of troponin T (TNNT2); and D175N of -tropomyosin (TPM1). Routine genetic screening of HCM patients for specific mutations is anticipated to provide important diagnostic and prognostic information. The frequency and associated phenotype of these mutations in a large, unselected cohort of HCM is unknown.

Methods and Results— A total of 293 unrelated HCM patients were genotyped for the presence of a benign mutation. DNA was obtained after informed consent; specific MHY7, TNNT2, and TPM1 fragments were amplified by polymerase chain reaction; and the mutations were detected by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography and automated DNA sequencing. Only 5 (1.7%) of the 293 patients possessed a benign mutation. Moreover, all 5 subjects with an ascribed benign mutation had already manifested clinically severe expression of HCM, with all 5 requiring surgical myectomy, 3 of the 5 having a family history of sudden cardiac death, and 1 adolescent requiring an orthotopic heart transplant.

Conclusions— These findings demonstrate the rarity of specific mutations in HCM and challenge the notion of mutation-specific clinical outcomes. Fewer than 2% of the subjects harbored a benign mutation, and those patients with a benign mutation experienced a very serious clinical course.

Key Words: hypertrophy • cardiomyopathy • genetics • death, sudden

	Introduction

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) manifests as left ventricular hypertrophy without obvious cause, with myocyte disarray, interstitial fibrosis, and preserved systolic function.^1–4 HCM affects 1 in 500 persons according to echocardiographic criteria.³ The clinical outcomes of HCM range from asymptomatic longevity to chronic, progressive heart failure or premature sudden arrhythmic death. In young persons, HCM remains the most common cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD).⁴

To date, 10 genes encoding components of the cardiac sarcomere have been implicated in HCM.^4–6 The Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mutation Database⁷ lists more than 150 unique mutations scattered throughout these genes. Several genotype-phenotype correlative studies have suggested that specific mutations are associated with a "malignant" clinical course (decreased survival), whereas other mutations cosegregate with families having a "benign" phenotype (see reviews^8,9). Within the ß-myosin heavy chain gene (MYH7), at least 4 mutations have been ascribed as malignant mutations: R403Q, R453C, G716R, and R719W.^8,10,11 In contrast, 6 particular missense mutations in MYH7 (N232S, G256E, F513C, V606M, R719Q, and L908V), as well as the S179F mutation in troponin T (TNNT2) and the D175N mutation in -tropomyosin (TPM1), have been designated as benign mutations with no increased risk of SCD.^{8–10,12–17}

Several studies have reported exceptions to these genotype-phenotype correlations^{12–14,18,19}; however, the veracity with which the genetic substrate predicts the clinical outcome and the frequency of specific mutations are unknown. From a cohort of nearly 300 unrelated individuals with HCM seen at a single tertiary referral center, we sought to determine the frequency of 8 published benign mutations and to examine the clinical course of the individuals harboring these mutations.

	Methods

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Clinical Characterization of Unrelated HCM Cases
Informed written consent was obtained in accordance with the Mayo Foundation Institution Review Board. Between April 1997 and October 2000, 293 unrelated individuals (age 42.5±18.9 years, 137 females) were evaluated at the Mayo Medical Center HCM outpatient clinic in Rochester, Minn, and provided a blood sample for molecular genetic testing. Each of these subjects met the clinical diagnostic criterion for HCM: left ventricular wall thickness >13 mm in the absence of another confounding diagnosis. Relevant data for cohort analysis were extracted from the patients’ clinical records. Positive family history of SCD was defined as having any family member with instantaneous and unexpected death with or without documented ventricular fibrillation within 1 hour after a witnessed collapse in patients who previously were in stable clinical condition, or nocturnal death with no antecedent history of worsening symptoms.

Benign MYH7, TNNT2, and TPM1 Mutation Genotyping
Purgene DNA extraction kits (Gentra, Inc) were used to extract genomic DNA from peripheral blood lymphocytes. Previously published intron/exon-based primers or novel primers were used to amplify exons hosting benign mutations from genomic DNA by the polymerase chain reaction. The 8 exons containing these mutations were amplified: N232S (exon 8), G256E (exon 9), F513C (exon 15), V606M (exon 16), R719Q (exon 19), and L908V (exon 23) in MYH7^13,20; S179F (exon 11) of TNNT2; and D175N (exon 5) of TPM1. Sequence variations were detected by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC; WAVE, Transgenomic).²¹ For samples with an abnormal DHPLC elution profile, the precise sequence anomaly was determined by automated dye terminator cycle-sequencing with an ABI Prism 377.²²

	Results

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Profile of HCM Cohort
Table 1 summarizes the demographics for the 293 unrelated individuals with HCM. Nearly half of the patients (n=133; 45%) were asymptomatic. The mean New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class of the 160 symptomatic patients was 1.9±0.8, with 27 patients being class 3 or 4 at presentation. In addition, two thirds (67.6%) reported no clinically apparent family history of HCM, and three fourths (76.5%) had no family history of SCD.

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   TABLE 1. Demographics of HCM Cohort (n=293)

Benign Mutations
Overall, 5 (1.7%) of 293 patients possessed a previously published benign mutation: 2 with R719Q-MYH7 and 3 with L908V-MYH7 mutations (Figure). No patient had an N232S-MYH7, G256E-MYH7, F513C-MYH7, V606M-MYH7, S179F-TNNT2, or D175N-TPM1 mutation. All 5 individuals harboring a benign mutation have a significant clinical phenotype. All 5 have undergone septal myectomies, and 4 are still undergoing therapy with ß-blockers and calcium channel blockers. Three of the 5 individuals have a positive family history of SCD. In addition, 1 of the patients (case 1, Table 2) received an orthotopic heart transplant as a teenager for end-stage HCM with severe restrictive hemodynamics. Table 2 summarizes the clinical profiles of the 5 patients harboring a benign mutation. The average age at diagnosis was 25 years, with 3 of the 5 cases (cases 1, 2, and 3) being less than 30 years old at diagnosis.

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Benign mutation detection by DHPLC. Depicted are elution profiles for normal samples and MYH7 benign mutations detected in 5 of 293 patients: R719Q (A) and L908V (B).

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   TABLE 2. Clinical Profiles of HCM Patients With Benign Mutation

Case 1
An adolescent white female was identified with the R719Q-MHY7 mutation. She was diagnosed at age 9 years during the evaluation of a murmur. An echocardiogram revealed extreme hypertrophy with a maximal septal thickness of 29 mm and a gradient of 75 mm Hg at rest. Although asymptomatic at diagnosis, she experienced progressive dyspnea, angina, and presyncope unresponsive to pharmacological therapy over the next 2 years. She underwent surgical septal myectomy at age 11 years that resulted in immediate symptom relief. However, progressive dyspnea and congestive heart failure later recurred. Comprehensive echocardiography and hemodynamic catheterization (=68 ms, mean left atrial pressure=20 mm Hg, left ventricular end-diastolic pressure=24 mm Hg) demonstrated severe residual diastolic dysfunction. Orthotopic heart transplantation was performed at age 16 years. There is no documented HCM or SCD in her family.

Case 2
An adolescent white male also harbored the R719Q-MYH7 mutation. He was diagnosed during infancy when he presented with a cardiac murmur and a positive family history of HCM. Because of the severity of obstruction and symptoms of dyspnea, he underwent surgical septal myectomy at age 5 years. He gradually redeveloped outflow obstruction and severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation that necessitated repeat surgical myectomy at age 15 years. In addition, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator was implanted prophylactically at the time of his repeat myectomy, prompted by the SCD of the patient’s 12-year-old brother. This younger brother was also diagnosed with HCM during infancy, and asymmetric hypertrophy and myocyte disarray were confirmed at autopsy. The patient’s father had been diagnosed with HCM at age 18 years and manifested progressive nonobstructive HCM that culminated in his recent death at the age of 46 years of acute pulmonary edema and cardiac arrest. Finally, a paternal-paternal great-uncle and the paternal-paternal great-grandfather died in their early 30s of SCD.

Case 3
A 29-year-old woman was diagnosed with HCM when a murmur was detected in the second trimester of pregnancy. The L908V-MYH7 mutation was identified. She had experienced exertional dyspnea for a number of years but had 1 prior uncomplicated pregnancy and 1 prior miscarriage. Because of severe obstruction at rest (gradient >140 mm Hg), NYHA class 3 symptoms, and potential fetal compromise, a surgical septal myectomy was performed during the 30th week of pregnancy without complications. A normal infant was delivered at 38 weeks of pregnancy. She remains symptom-free 7 years after the surgical myectomy. There is no family history of HCM or SCD.

Case 4
A 43-year-old woman presented for evaluation of known HCM and possessed the L908V-MYH7 mutation. She had been diagnosed 5 years previously when she complained of moderate exertional dyspnea and a family history of HCM. Her symptoms had continually progressed to NYHA class 3 despite appropriate pharmacological therapy. She underwent an uncomplicated surgical septal myectomy for severe midcavitary obstruction (maximum instantaneous gradient 92 mm Hg, left ventricular wall thickness 28 mm). The patient’s mother had received pacemaker therapy elsewhere for symptomatic HCM and later died of complications of a stroke at age 71 years. Her maternal-paternal great-grandfather had unexplained SCD while running at age 45 years.

Case 5
A 44-year-old man was diagnosed with obstructive HCM (resting gradient 40 mm Hg) during evaluation of a cardiac murmur; he had an extensive family history of HCM that spanned 4 generations, with 13 confirmed diagnoses of HCM, including SCD in 2 nephews (ages 16 and 18 years). In addition, 2 siblings died of unexplained causes in early childhood. The patient was found to have the L908V-MYH7 mutation. Despite pharmacological therapy, he continued to experience severe exertional dyspnea and presyncope. A pacemaker was implanted at age 47 years. This initially resulted in symptomatic improvement. However, 18 months later, his symptoms returned, and he underwent surgical septal myectomy without complication.

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In spite of exceptions to previously published genotype-phenotype correlations,^{12–14,18,19} hopes that genetic testing will become a routine clinical test with prognostic value remain.^9,23–26 An HCM gene chip containing known mutations has been reported.²⁷ Previously, we demonstrated that the prevalence of 5 malignant mutations in MYH7 and TNNT was only 1%.²⁸ This type of study design, with large, unselected cohorts of individuals with HCM rather than selected, large families, is necessary to translate the profound molecular breakthroughs of HCM pathogenomics to clinical practice. Specifically, the frequency of specific mutations and the veracity with which the genetic substrate predicts the clinical outcome are necessary to define the feasibility, yield, and precise clinical role of genetic testing for HCM.

Genetic Heterogeneity in HCM
HCM is the final common pathway for many distinct sarcomeric defects. To date, more than 150 mutations scattered throughout 10 different sarcomeric genes have been reported. Unlike monogenic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, in which a single mutation (F508del) causes the majority of cases, an HCM "hot spot" does not exist.²⁹ New mutations are continually discovered, and many families with HCM will have personal disease-causing mutations. This profound heterogeneity is underscored in the present study, in which fewer than 2% of 293 patients possessed 1 of these 8 benign mutations. Within this entire HCM cohort, 35% would be considered to have a benign clinical phenotype thus far (ie, no symptoms, no family history of HCM, and no family history of SCD). Yet, no patient within this benign subset was found to possess one of these benign mutations, which indicates that targeted screening for mutations based on phenotype may not be robust.

These factors hinder the future widespread application of an HCM gene chip. Present-generation diagnostic sequencing chips that host known mutations are technically feasible²⁷ but potentially uninformative for the next family with HCM. A diagnostic genetic test that can comprehensively screen the known HCM-causing genes without an a priori assumption of the mutation’s location is required but is not yet available. Thus, in addition to the complexities introduced by genotype-specific interactions with environmental influences and gene modifiers, significant technological challenges must be surmounted before routine HCM genotyping becomes a clinical reality.

Malignant Versus Benign Mutations
One of the purposes of the Human Genome Project is to enable translation of molecular revelations to the clinical setting for diseases such as HCM by establishing precise and accurate genotype/phenotype relationships. However, it appears that for every genotype/phenotype association, there is an exception. These exceptions constitute a major impediment to the use of routine genotyping alone as a clinical and prognostic tool for the individual patient within the general population.

Initially, these 8 particular mutations appeared to confer a benign clinical phenotype (ie, near-normal life expectancy) based on a limited number of families: 1 large family with G256E,¹² 1 family with F513C,¹⁰ 4 families with V606M,^13,14 1 family with R719Q,¹⁵ and 1 family with L908V¹⁹ in MYH7. The S179F-TNNT2 mutation has been reported in a single family,¹⁶ and 3 families were evaluated for the D175N-TPM1 mutation.¹⁷

Furthermore, several studies have cast doubt on the widespread applicability of these specific genotype-phenotype associations to other families. Previous studies associating the V606M mutation with a low risk of SCD nonetheless included individuals who experienced SCD or premature death.^13,14 In a larger kindred family study, 8 people were affected in 1 family, 4 of whom died of SCD.¹² A more recent study has provided additional examples of V606M associated with a high risk of SCD at a young age, which hinders the interpretation of V606M as a benign mutation.¹⁸ In the present study, none of the 293 patients possessed this particular mutation.

The R719Q-MYH7 mutation represents a distinct missense mutation that occurs at the same codon as a previously ascribed malignant mutation, R719W, which has been reported with a high incidence of premature death through severe arrhythmia or SCD within 4 families.^10,13 Previously, we failed to identify a single patient with R719W.²⁸ In contrast to R719W, R719Q has been associated with near-normal survival.¹⁵ Nevertheless, the 2 patients found to possess this mutation in the present study have not experienced the natural history ascribed to this mutation: one received an orthotopic heart transplant at the age of 16 years, and the other had a brother who died suddenly at the age of 12 years.

The L908V-MYH7 mutation has also been associated with a benign prognosis. However, even in the large kindred family study, there were reports of SCD.¹⁹ In the present study, SCD before age 20 years was encountered.

Mutation-Specific Prognostication
In the present study, genotype-guided prognostication would have been misleading. In fact, 3 of the 5 individuals with benign mutations had family members who succumbed to SCD, and 2 individuals had a family history of SCD before age 20 years. Moreover, the 5 patients found to possess 1 of these benign mutations have not experienced a favorable clinical course. Rather, all 5 patients have required a surgical myectomy, including 1 adolescent female who received an orthotopic heart transplant at 16 years of age for end-stage heart failure. Holistically, these observations weaken the premise that clinical severity and risk for SCD can be associated with any certain mutation. We do not yet have a sufficient understanding of the complex disease entity or entities comprising the diagnosis of HCM necessary to determine which mutation, combinations of mutations, or combinations of mutations and environmental factors portend either an ominous or a favorable clinical outcome.

Study Limitations
Because they were associated with a tertiary referral center known for expertise with myectomy, the present cohort may not be representative of all patients with HCM. Compared with a cohort of 744 patients seen in 3 regional centers, the age at initial evaluation and left ventricular wall thickness are not significantly different. However, the present cohort has a larger representation of patients with outflow tract obstruction (53% versus 22% in regional centers) and myectomy (28% versus 5% in regional centers).³⁰

It is possible that the mutations not detected in the present cohort were missed by DHPLC. However, this is most unlikely. For each of the MYH7 and TPM1 amplicons analyzed, other mutations were identified (unpublished data), which demonstrates the sensitivity of DHPLC to detect variants in these fragments. No mutations were found in TNNT2 exon 11, but the D175N-TNNT2 mutation has been reported in only 1 family, which indicates its rarity.

Importantly, previous studies assigned a mutation as benign on the basis of survival curves that indicated near-normal life expectancy for mutation-positive family members.^{8–10,12–17} However, the focus of the HCM clinic, the clinical database, and the genomics program at our institution is on the individual patient and translation of pathogenomic information to clinical practice. As such, the clinical database does not contain expansive pedigree data, which precludes generation of Kaplan-Meier survival curves for the families represented by the 5 individuals who harbor benign mutations. Nevertheless, documentation of a benign mutation in only 5 of 293 unrelated patients, an orthotopic transplant in 1 patient, SCD in another’s 12-year-old brother and 46-year-old father, and SCD in 2 nephews, aged 16 and 18 years, of a third individual succinctly underscore the present-day challenges and limitations to translating the pathogenomics of HCM to clinical practice for risk stratification.

Finally, the present study did not address the frequency of mutations in the gene encoding myosin binding protein C (MYBPC3), a gene associated with a benign course and delayed onset of hypertrophy.³¹ The present study focused on the prevalence and associated phenotype of specific mutations ascribed as benign, rather than comprehensive mutational analysis of an entire gene. Future studies involving a comprehensive analysis of MYBPC3 should confirm whether its present status as a benign HCM gene is maintained after examination of this large referral population of HCM.

Conclusions
Yesterday’s discoveries regarding the molecular basis for HCM, combined with new insights from genotype-phenotype correlative studies, have provided a framework for tomorrow’s improved understanding of the exact mechanisms that mitigate hypertrophy and SCD. Although it has been suggested that routine screening will identify those individuals who harbor malignant and benign mutations, our evaluation of a tertiary referral population of individual patients with HCM suggests that such a targeted screen will elucidate very few cases.

Currently, prognostication based solely on genotype may be premature and inappropriate. Informing a patient that they have a benign or malignant mutation has profound clinical implications. Therapy, particularly prophylactic therapy with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, should not be dictated for the individual patient based on their specific genetic substrate. Nonetheless, genotyping undoubtedly will play a critical role in identifying family members who harbor a sarcomeric perturbation but have not yet manifested any signs or symptoms indicative of HCM.^28,32

	Acknowledgments

 
Dr Ackerman was supported by a Mayo Foundation Clinic Research award, a Clinical Scientist Development award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (HD42569). Dr Shakur was supported by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, United Kingdom. We are indebted to the patients seen in the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic at Mayo Clinic Rochester for their willingness to participate in this study and to Douglas Kocer, RN, nurse coordinator for the HCM Clinic.

Received August 21, 2002; revision received September 25, 2002; accepted September 26, 2002.

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