Genetics of Cardiovascular and Neuromuscular Disease

• Sponsor: University of Chicago (Other)
• Overall Status: Recruiting
• CT.gov ID: NCT00138931
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 2,000
• Location: 1

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

We are studying the genetics of human cardiovascular and neuromuscular disease. There are many different genetic regions that have been associated with the development of cardiomyopathy. An equal number of genetic regions have been associated with muscular dystrophy and there is overlap because some of the identical genes, when mutated, produce both cardiomyopathy and muscular dystrophy. We are working to identify genes and gene mutations associated with cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias and muscular dystrophy. We propose to screen these samples for mutations in genes known to be involved in these disorders.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Cardiomyopathy; Arrhythmia; Muscular Dystrophy	Procedure: Blood draw (genetic testing)

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Anticipated Enrollment: 2000 participants
• Observational Model: Family-Based
• Official Title: Genetic Studies of Patients and Their Families With Inherited Cardiovascular and Neuromuscular Diseases.
• Study Start Date: Sep 1, 1996
• Anticipated Primary Completion Date: Jan 1, 2025

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Identification of genetic causes of cardiomyopathy [unlimited]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients of all ages will be considered for the study. In particular, families with more than one affected relative will be sought.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects without a suspected inherited cardiovascular or neuromuscular disorder will be excluded from this study.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	University of Chicago	Chicago	Illinois	United States	60637

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Chicago

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Elizabeth McNally, MD PhD, University of Chicago

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

• Allikian MJ, McNally EM. Processing and assembly of the dystrophin glycoprotein complex. Traffic. 2007 Mar;8(3):177-83. Epub 2007 Jan 26. Review.
• Davis DB, Delmonte AJ, Ly CT, McNally EM. Myoferlin, a candidate gene and potential modifier of muscular dystrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 2000 Jan 22;9(2):217-26.
• de Paula F, Vainzof M, Bernardino AL, McNally E, Kunkel LM, Zatz M. Mutations in the caveolin-3 gene: When are they pathogenic? Am J Med Genet. 2001 Apr 1;99(4):303-7.
• Dellefave L, McNally EM. Sarcomere mutations in cardiomyopathy, noncompaction, and the developing heart. Circulation. 2008 Jun 3;117(22):2847-9. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.781518. Review.
• Dellefave L, McNally EM. The genetics of dilated cardiomyopathy. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2010 May;25(3):198-204. doi: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e328337ba52. Review.
• DeWitt MM, MacLeod HM, Soliven B, McNally EM. Phospholamban R14 deletion results in late-onset, mild, hereditary dilated cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Oct 3;48(7):1396-8. Epub 2006 Sep 12.
• Flanigan KM, Ceco E, Lamar KM, Kaminoh Y, Dunn DM, Mendell JR, King WM, Pestronk A, Florence JM, Mathews KD, Finkel RS, Swoboda KJ, Gappmaier E, Howard MT, Day JW, McDonald C, McNally EM, Weiss RB; United Dystrophinopathy Project. LTBP4 genotype predicts age of ambulatory loss in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Ann Neurol. 2013 Apr;73(4):481-8. doi: 10.1002/ana.23819. Epub 2013 Feb 20.
• Golbus JR, Puckelwartz MJ, Fahrenbach JP, Dellefave-Castillo LM, Wolfgeher D, McNally EM. Population-based variation in cardiomyopathy genes. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012 Aug 1;5(4):391-9. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.112.962928. Epub 2012 Jul 4. Erratum in: Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2012 Oct 1;5(5):e48.
• Heydemann A, Demonbreun A, Hadhazy M, Earley JU, McNally EM. Nuclear sequestration of delta-sarcoglycan disrupts the nuclear localization of lamin A/C and emerin in cardiomyocytes. Hum Mol Genet. 2007 Feb 15;16(4):355-63. Epub 2006 Dec 12.
• Heydemann A, Doherty KR, McNally EM. Genetic modifiers of muscular dystrophy: implications for therapy. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2007 Feb;1772(2):216-28. Epub 2006 Jul 11. Review.
• Heydemann A, McNally EM. Consequences of disrupting the dystrophin-sarcoglycan complex in cardiac and skeletal myopathy. Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2007 Feb;17(2):55-9. Review.
• MacLeod HM, Culley MR, Huber JM, McNally EM. Lamin A/C truncation in dilated cardiomyopathy with conduction disease. BMC Med Genet. 2003 Jul 10;4:4.
• MacLeod HM, McNally EM. A pilot study of a family history risk assessment tool for cardiovascular disease. J Genet Couns. 2008 Oct;17(5):499-507. doi: 10.1007/s10897-008-9174-z. Epub 2008 Sep 13.
• McNally E, Allikian M, Wheeler MT, Mislow JM, Heydemann A. Cytoskeletal defects in cardiomyopathy. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2003 Mar;35(3):231-41. Review.
• McNally EM, Duggan D, Gorospe JR, Bönnemann CG, Fanin M, Pegoraro E, Lidov HG, Noguchi S, Ozawa E, Finkel RS, Cruse RP, Angelini C, Kunkel LM, Hoffman EP. Mutations that disrupt the carboxyl-terminus of gamma-sarcoglycan cause muscular dystrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 1996 Nov;5(11):1841-7.
• McNally EM, Ly CT, Rosenmann H, Mitrani Rosenbaum S, Jiang W, Anderson LV, Soffer D, Argov Z. Splicing mutation in dysferlin produces limb-girdle muscular dystrophy with inflammation. Am J Med Genet. 2000 Apr 10;91(4):305-12.
• McNally EM, Passos-Bueno MR, Bönnemann CG, Vainzof M, de Sá Moreira E, Lidov HG, Othmane KB, Denton PH, Vance JM, Zatz M, Kunkel LM. Mild and severe muscular dystrophy caused by a single gamma-sarcoglycan mutation. Am J Hum Genet. 1996 Nov;59(5):1040-7.
• McNally EM, Patel AR. Cardiac magnetic resonance of left ventricular trabeculation: the new normal. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011 Mar;4(2):84-6. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.110.962472.
• McNally EM, Pytel P. Muscle diseases: the muscular dystrophies. Annu Rev Pathol. 2007;2:87-109. Review.
• McNally EM, Sparano D. Mechanisms and management of the heart in myotonic dystrophy. Heart. 2011 Jul;97(13):1094-100. doi: 10.1136/hrt.2010.214197. Review.
• McNally EM, Towbin JA. Cardiomyopathy in muscular dystrophy workshop. 28-30 September 2003, Tucson, Arizona. Neuromuscul Disord. 2004 Jul;14(7):442-8.
• McNally EM. Beta-myosin heavy chain gene mutations in familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the usual suspect? Circ Res. 2002 Feb 22;90(3):246-7.
• McNally EM. New approaches in the therapy of cardiomyopathy in muscular dystrophy. Annu Rev Med. 2007;58:75-88. Review.
• Messina DN, Speer MC, Pericak-Vance MA, McNally EM. Linkage of familial dilated cardiomyopathy with conduction defect and muscular dystrophy to chromosome 6q23. Am J Hum Genet. 1997 Oct;61(4):909-17.
• Muchir A, van Engelen BG, Lammens M, Mislow JM, McNally E, Schwartz K, Bonne G. Nuclear envelope alterations in fibroblasts from LGMD1B patients carrying nonsense Y259X heterozygous or homozygous mutation in lamin A/C gene. Exp Cell Res. 2003 Dec 10;291(2):352-62.
• Noguchi S, McNally EM, Ben Othmane K, Hagiwara Y, Mizuno Y, Yoshida M, Yamamoto H, Bönnemann CG, Gussoni E, Denton PH, Kyriakides T, Middleton L, Hentati F, Ben Hamida M, Nonaka I, Vance JM, Kunkel LM, Ozawa E. Mutations in the dystrophin-associated protein gamma-sarcoglycan in chromosome 13 muscular dystrophy. Science. 1995 Nov 3;270(5237):819-22.
• Nowak KJ, Walsh P, Jacob RL, Johnsen RD, Peverall J, McNally EM, Wilton SD, Kakulas BA, Laing NG. Severe gamma-sarcoglycanopathy caused by a novel missense mutation and a large deletion. Neuromuscul Disord. 2000 Feb;10(2):100-7.
• Posey AD Jr, Demonbreun A, McNally EM. Ferlin proteins in myoblast fusion and muscle growth. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2011;96:203-30. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385940-2.00008-5. Review.
• Puckelwartz MJ, Depreux FF, McNally EM. Gene expression, chromosome position and lamin A/C mutations. Nucleus. 2011 May-Jun;2(3):162-7. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201101046.
• Puckelwartz MJ, Kessler EJ, Kim G, Dewitt MM, Zhang Y, Earley JU, Depreux FF, Holaska J, Mewborn SK, Pytel P, McNally EM. Nesprin-1 mutations in human and murine cardiomyopathy. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2010 Apr;48(4):600-8. doi: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2009.11.006. Epub 2009 Nov 24.
• Romfh A, McNally EM. Cardiac assessment in duchenne and becker muscular dystrophies. Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2010 Dec;7(4):212-8. doi: 10.1007/s11897-010-0028-2. Review.
• Swaggart KA, Heydemann A, Palmer AA, McNally EM. Distinct genetic regions modify specific muscle groups in muscular dystrophy. Physiol Genomics. 2011 Jan 7;43(1):24-31. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00172.2010. Epub 2010 Oct 19.
• Vainzof M, Anderson LV, McNally EM, Davis DB, Faulkner G, Valle G, Moreira ES, Pavanello RC, Passos-Bueno MR, Zatz M. Dysferlin protein analysis in limb-girdle muscular dystrophies. J Mol Neurosci. 2001 Aug;17(1):71-80.
• van der Kooi AJ, van Meegen M, Ledderhof TM, McNally EM, de Visser M, Bolhuis PA. Genetic localization of a newly recognized autosomal dominant limb-girdle muscular dystrophy with cardiac involvement (LGMD1B) to chromosome 1q11-21. Am J Hum Genet. 1997 Apr;60(4):891-5.
• Wheeler MT, Zarnegar S, McNally EM. Zeta-sarcoglycan, a novel component of the sarcoglycan complex, is reduced in muscular dystrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 Sep 1;11(18):2147-54.

• Responsible Party: University of Chicago
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00138931
• Other Study ID Numbers: 8249
• First Posted: Aug 30, 2005
• Last Update Posted: Aug 24, 2016
• Last Verified: Aug 1, 2016

• Keywords provided by University of Chicago: Cardiomyopathy; Arrhythmia; Muscular Dystrophy
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Muscular Dystrophies; Neuromuscular Diseases; Cardiomyopathies; Arrhythmias, Cardiac

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Aug 24, 2016