Journal
CELLS
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cells10061488
Keywords
PAH; BMP signalling; genetics; immunity
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- Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [PI 18/01233]
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This study identified genetic defects in patients with CTD-PAH, with disease-associated variants observed in 9 patients, including pathogenic variants in genes such as TBX4, ABCC8, KCNA5, and GDF2/BMP9. These findings suggest that genetic factors may play a role in Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PVD) in CTD patients.
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a severe complication of Connective Tissue Disease (CTD), with remarkable morbidity and mortality. However, the molecular and genetic basis of CTD-PAH remains incompletely understood. This study aimed to screen for genetic defects in a cohort of patients with CTD-PAH, using a PAH-specific panel of 35 genes. During recruitment, 79 patients were studied, including 59 Systemic Sclerosis patients (SSc) and 69 females. Disease-associated variants were observed in nine patients: 4 pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in 4 different genes (TBX4, ABCC8, KCNA5 and GDF2/BMP9) and 5 Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS) in 4 genes (ABCC8, NOTCH3, TOPBP1 and CTCFL). One patient with mixed CTD had a frameshift pathogenic variant in TBX4. Two patients with SSc-PAH carried variants in ABCC8. A patient diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) presented a pathogenic nonsense variant in GDF2/BMP9. Another patient with SSc-PAH presented a pathogenic variant in KCNA5. Four patients with SSc-PAH carried a VUS in NOTCH1, CTCFL, CTCFL and TOPBP1, respectively. These findings suggest that genetic factors may contribute to Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PVD) in CTD patients.
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