LOX Mutations Predispose to Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections

Circ Res. 2016 Mar 18;118(6):928-34. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.307130.

Dong-chuan Guo ¹, Ellen S Regalado ¹, Limin Gong ¹, Xueyan Duan ¹, Regie Lyn P Santos-Cortez ¹, Pauline Arnaud ¹, Zhao Ren ¹, Bo Cai ¹, Ellen M Hostetler ¹, Rocio Moran ¹, David Liang ¹, Anthony Estrera ¹, Hazim J Safi ¹, University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics, Suzanne M Leal ¹, Michael J Bamshad ¹, Jay Shendure ¹, Deborah A Nickerson ¹, Guillaume Jondeau ¹, Catherine Boileau ¹, Dianna M Milewicz ²

Affiliations

1 From the Departments of Internal Medicine (D.G., E.S.R., L.G., X.D., Z.R., B.C., E.M.H., D.M.M.) and Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (A.E., H.J.S.), University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Center for Statistical Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (R.L.P.S.-C., S.M.L.); Laboratory for Vascular Translational Science, INSERM U1148, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France (P.A., G.J., C.B.); Centre National de Référence pour le syndrome de Marfan et apparentés, Département de Génétique Moléculaire, AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France (P.A., C.B.); Department of Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH (R.M.); Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, CA (D.L.); and Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle (M.J.B., J.S., D.A.N.).
2 From the Departments of Internal Medicine (D.G., E.S.R., L.G., X.D., Z.R., B.C., E.M.H., D.M.M.) and Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (A.E., H.J.S.), University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Center for Statistical Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (R.L.P.S.-C., S.M.L.); Laboratory for Vascular Translational Science, INSERM U1148, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France (P.A., G.J., C.B.); Centre National de Référence pour le syndrome de Marfan et apparentés, Département de Génétique Moléculaire, AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France (P.A., C.B.); Department of Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH (R.M.); Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, CA (D.L.); and Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle (M.J.B., J.S., D.A.N.). Dianna.M.Milewicz@uth.tmc.edu.

PMID: 26838787 DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.307130

Abstract

Rationale: Mutations in several genes have been identified that are responsible for 25% of families with familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. However, the causative gene remains unknown in 75% of families.

Objectives: To identify the causative mutation in families with autosomal dominant inheritance of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.

Methods and results: Exome Sequencing was used to identify the mutation responsible for a large family with thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. A heterozygous rare variant, c.839G>T (p.Ser280Arg), was identified in LOX, encoding a lysyl oxidase, that segregated with disease in the family. Sanger and exome Sequencing was used to investigate mutations in LOX in an additional 410 probands from unrelated families. Additional LOX rare variants that segregated with disease in families were identified, including c.125G>A (p.Trp42*), c.604G>T (p.Gly202*), c.743C>T (p.Thr248Ile), c.800A>C (p.Gln267Pro), and c.1044T>A (p.Ser348Arg). The altered Amino acids cause haploinsufficiency for LOX or are located at a highly conserved LOX catalytic domain, which is relatively invariant in the population. Expression of the LOX variants p.Ser280Arg and p.Ser348Arg resulted in significantly lower lysyl oxidase activity when compared with the wild-type protein. Individuals with LOX variants had fusiform enlargement of the root and ascending thoracic aorta, leading to ascending aortic dissections.

Conclusions: These data, along with previous studies showing that the deficiency of LOX in mice or inhibition of lysyl oxidases in turkeys and rats causes aortic dissections, support the conclusion that rare genetic variants in LOX predispose to thoracic aortic disease.

Keywords

aortic aneurysm; aortic diseases; exome; mutation.

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