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ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2022

Post-mortem genetic investigation in sudden cardiac death victims: complete exon sequencing of forty genes using next-generation sequencing.

Jennifer Fadoni, Agostinho Santos, Laura Cainé

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Article in International journal of legal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jennifer FadoniDepartment of Public Health, Forensic Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal. Jennifer.fadoni@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7593-1059
Agostinho SantosDepartment of Public Health, Forensic Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal.
Laura CainéDepartment of Public Health, Forensic Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal.
National Legal Medicine Institute · PTFernando Pessoa University · PT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in young people is predominantly caused by genetic causes as cardiomyopathies. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common genetic cardiovascular disease and is responsible for the major proportion of SCD in the young. The purpose of this study was to identify the genetic variants present in young SCD victims with HCM characteristics. From the Portuguese records of autopsies performed at the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, North Delegation, 16 young (16-50 years) SCD victims whose death was suspected to be a manifestation of HCM were selected. Using next-generation sequencing, the coding regions of 40 genes associated with HCM, candidates, or strongly related to HCM-phenocopies were investigated. The victims included in this study were all males, with a mean age of 33.4 ± 11.7 years, left ventricle mean thickness of 21.5 ± 6.28 mm, and the majority of deaths occurred during sleep (36%). A pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant was identified in six out of 16 (37.5%) victims, in the most common HCM genes (MYBPC3 and MYH7). Our results indicate that molecular autopsy of SCD victims contributes to a more precise identification of a cause of death, and this can be used in the prevention of SCD cases through family screening of first relatives who may carry the same pathogenic variant.

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Cardiomyopathy, HypertrophicDeath, Sudden, CardiacAdolescentAdultAutopsyExonsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung AdultGenetic heart diseaseHypertrophic cardiomyopathyMolecular autopsyNext-generation sequencingNGSSudden cardiac death

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PMID34984526
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