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Common Coding Variants in Are Associated With the Nav1.8 Late Current and Cardiac Conduction.

TitleCommon Coding Variants in Are Associated With the Nav1.8 Late Current and Cardiac Conduction.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsMacri, V, Brody, JA, Arking, DE, Hucker, WJ, Yin, X, Lin, H, Mills, RW, Sinner, MF, Lubitz, SA, Liu, C-T, Morrison, AC, Alonso, A, Li, N, Fedorov, VV, Janssen, PM, Bis, JC, Heckbert, SR, Dolmatova, EV, Lumley, T, Sitlani, CM, Cupples, AL, Pulit, SL, Newton-Cheh, C, Barnard, J, Smith, JD, Van Wagoner, DR, Chung, MK, Vlahakes, GJ, O'Donnell, CJ, Rotter, JI, Margulies, KB, Morley, MP, Cappola, TP, Benjamin, EJ, Muzny, D, Gibbs, RA, Jackson, RD, Magnani, JW, Herndon, CN, Rich, SS, Psaty, BM, Milan, DJ, Boerwinkle, E, Mohler, PJ, Sotoodehnia, N, Ellinor, PT
JournalCirc Genom Precis Med
Volume11
Issue5
Paginatione001663
Date Published2018 May
ISSN2574-8300
Abstract<p><b>BACKGROUND: </b>Genetic variants at the / locus are strongly associated with electrocardiographic PR and QRS intervals. While is the canonical cardiac sodium channel gene, the role of in cardiac conduction is less well characterized.</p><p><b>METHODS: </b>We sequenced the locus in 3699 European-ancestry individuals to identify variants associated with cardiac conduction, and replicated our findings in 21,000 individuals of European ancestry. We examined association with expression in human atrial tissue. We explored the biophysical effect of variation on channel function using cellular electrophysiology.</p><p><b>RESULTS: </b>We identified 2 intronic single nucleotide polymorphisms in high linkage disequilibrium (  =0.86) with each other to be the strongest signals for PR (rs10428132, β=-4.74, =1.52×10) and QRS intervals (rs6599251, QRS β=-0.73; =1.2×10), respectively. Although these variants were not associated with or expression in human atrial tissue (n=490), they were in high linkage disequilibrium (  ≥0.72) with a common missense variant, rs6795970 (V1073A). In total, we identified 7 missense variants, 4 of which (I962V, P1045T, V1073A, and L1092P) were associated with cardiac conduction. These 4 missense variants cluster in the cytoplasmic linker of the second and third domains of the SCN10A protein and together form 6 common haplotypes. Using cellular electrophysiology, we found that haplotypes associated with shorter PR intervals had a significantly larger percentage of late current compared with wild-type (I962V+V1073A+L1092P, 20.2±3.3%, =0.03, and I962V+V1073A, 22.4±0.8%, =0.0004 versus wild-type 11.7±1.6%), and the haplotype associated with the longest PR interval had a significantly smaller late current percentage (P1045T, 6.4±1.2%, =0.03).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS: </b>Our findings suggest an association between genetic variation in , the late sodium current, and alterations in cardiac conduction.</p>
DOI10.1161/CIRCGEN.116.001663
Alternate JournalCirc Genom Precis Med
PubMed ID29752399
ePub date: 
18/05