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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
24
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-12-3
pubmed:abstractText
Coronary artery disease (CAD), including its most serious complication myocardial infraction (MI), is the leading cause of death in the US and developed countries. We recently discovered that a seven-amino acid deletion in MEF2A, a transcription factor with a high level of expression in the endothelium of coronary arteries, co-segregates with CAD/MI in one family, and it suppresses transcription activation activity of MEF2A by a dominant-negative mechanism. In this study, we used single-strand conformation polymorphism and DNA sequence analyses to identify mutations in MEF2A in 207 independent CAD/MI patients and 191 controls with normal angiograms. We identified three novel mutations in exon 7 of MEF2A in four of 207 CAD/MI patients (1.93%). No mutations were detected in the 191 controls. The mutations identified here include N263S identified in two independent CAD patients, P279L in one patient and his father with the diagnosis of CAD and G283D in one patient. These mutations are clustered within or close to the major transcriptional activation domain of MEF2A. They significantly reduce the transcriptional activation activity of MEF2A and act by a loss-of-function mechanism. The gene carriers with loss-of-function mutations appear to be associated with less severe CAD. These results suggest that CAD/MI can result from a spectrum of MEF2A transcription dysfunctions ranging from loss-of-function to dominant-negative suppression and that a significant percent of the CAD/MI population (1.93%) may carry mutations in MEF2A, although further definition of the prevalence of MEF2A mutations is warranted.
pubmed:grant
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/M01-RR18390-01, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL065630-01, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL065630-02, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL065630-03, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL065630-04, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL066251-01A2, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL066251-02, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL066251-03, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL066251-04, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL073817-01A1, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL65630, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL66251, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/grant/R01 HL73817
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0964-6906
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3181-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Transcription factor MEF2A mutations in patients with coronary artery disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't