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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Molecular Medicine of Inherited Arrhythmias : Clinical application of genetic analysis

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16209025
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Circulatory organs internal medicine
Research InstitutionShiga University of Medical Science

Principal Investigator

HORIE Minoru  Shiga University of Medical Science, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (90183938)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MATSUURA Hiroshi  Shiga University of Medical Science, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (60238962)
KOMORI Masaru  Shiga University of Medical Science, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (80186824)
AKAO Masaharu  Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, Assistant, 大学院・医学研究科, 助手 (00362509)
Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
Keywordslong QT syndrome / genetic analysis / Brugada syndrome / drug-induced QT prolongation / CPVT / ARVC / mutation / single nucleotide polymorphism
Research Abstract

During last two decades our understanding for inherited types of arrhythmias has been advanced enormously as a result of evolutionary progress in molecular genetics and electrophysiology. Starting from the long QT syndrome (LQTS), genetic variants in genes encoding ion channels and their accessory proteins have been shown to cause a variety of hereditary disorder of heart rhythm such as Brugada syndrome, familial sick sinus syndrome, catecholeminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), and even familial atrial fibrillation. These diseases are now classified under the category as the cardiac ion channelopathy. Among them, the LQTS played a key role as the "Rosetta Stone", because a number of studies on LQTS patients unveiled major mechanisms underlying the ion channelopathy. Scince the year of 1996, we have been conducting genetic test of LOQTS-related genes in patients with hereditary arrhythmias, including LQTS, Brugada syndrome, CPVT, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyo-pathy (ARVC), and other types of arrhythmias associated with inherited heart diseases. In addition, we also examined the patients with secondary LQTS. To date, eight distinct genes responsible for LQTS have been found including those for Andersen (LQT7) and Timothy (LQT8) syndromes on chromosome ; 11q15.5 (KCNQ1 ; LQT1), 7q35-36 (KCNH2 ; LQT2), 3p21 (SCN5A ; LQT3), 4q25-27 (ANKB ; LQT4), 21q22 (KCNE1 ; LQT5), 21q22 (KCNE2 ; LQT6), 17q23 (KCNJ2 ; LQT7) and 12p13.3 (CACN1c ; LQT8). Our cohort now contains more than 300 individuals with LQTS and ~100 with other types of inherited arrhythmias. We also conducted the biophysical functional assay resultant from the mutations in candidate genes, and our results in this cohort have been published in several world-known journals as summarized below.

  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2006 2005 2004

All Journal Article (15 results)

  • [Journal Article] Angiotensin IIpotentiates IKs potassium current via AT1 receptors in guinea-pig atrialmyocytes2006

    • Author(s)
      Zankov DP
    • Journal Title

      Circulation 113

      Pages: 1278-1286

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome. Molecular basis, naturalhistory, and clinical outcome2006

    • Author(s)
      Schwartz PJ
    • Journal Title

      Circulation 113

      Pages: 783-90

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Angiotensin II potentiates IKs potassium current via AT1 receptors in guinea-pig atrial myocytes.2006

    • Author(s)
      Zankov DP, Toyoda F, Ding W-G, Matsuura H, Horie M
    • Journal Title

      Circulation 113

      Pages: 1278-1286

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome. Molecular basis, natural history, and clinical outcome.2006

    • Author(s)
      Schwartz PJ, Spazzolini C, Crotti L, Bathen J, Denjoy I, Schulze-Bahr E, Amlie JP, Timothy K, Shkolnikova M, Berul C, Bitner-Glindzicz M, Toivonen L, Horie M.
    • Journal Title

      Circulation 113

      Pages: 783-790

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Arrhythmogenesis in the short-QT syndrome associated with combined HERG channel gating defects : A Simulation Study2006

    • Author(s)
      Itoh H, Horie M, Ito M, Imoto K
    • Journal Title

      Circulation Journal (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Open-state unblock characterizes acute inhibition of IKs potassium current by amiodarone in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes.2005

    • Author(s)
      Zankov DP
    • Journal Title

      J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 16

      Pages: 314-322

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] High-risk for bradyarrhythmic complications in patients with Brugada syndrome caused by SCN5A gene mutations2005

    • Author(s)
      Makiyama T
    • Journal Title

      J Am Coll Cardiol 46

      Pages: 2100-2106

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Open-state unblock characterizes acute inhibition of IKs potassium current by amiodarone in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes.2005

    • Author(s)
      Zhang L
    • Journal Title

      Circulation 111・21

      Pages: 2720-2726

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cellular and ionic mechanism for drug-induced long QT syndrome and effectiveness of verapamil.2005

    • Author(s)
      Aiba T
    • Journal Title

      J Am Coll Cardiol 45

      Pages: 300-307

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Electrocardiographic features in Andersen-Tawil syndrome patients with KCNJ2 mutations : characteristic T-U-wave patterns predict the KCNJ2 genotype.2005

    • Author(s)
      Zhang L, Benson DW, Tristani-Firouzi M, Ptacek LJ, Tawil R, Schwartz PJ, George AL, Horie M, Andelfinger G, Snow GL, Fu YH, Ackerman MJ, Vincent GM.
    • Journal Title

      Circulation 111

      Pages: 212720-212726

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] High-risk for bradyarrhythmic complications in patients with Brugada syndrome caused by SCN5A gene mutations.2005

    • Author(s)
      Makiyama T, Akao M, Tsuji K, Doi T, Ohno S, Takenaka K, Kobori A, Ninomiya T, Yoshida H, Takano T, Makita N, Yanagisawa F, Higashi Y, Takeyama Y, Kita T, Horie M
    • Journal Title

      Journal of American College of Cardiology 46

      Pages: 2100-2106

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Open-state unblock characterizes acute inhibition of IKs potassium current by amiodarone in guinea-pig ventricular myocytes.2005

    • Author(s)
      Zankov DP, Ding W-G, Matsuura H, Horie M.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 16

      Pages: 314-322

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Cellular and ionic mechanism for drug-induced long QT syndrome and effectiveness of verapamil.2005

    • Author(s)
      Aiba T, Shimizu W, Inagaki M, Noda T, Miyoshi S, Ding W-G, Zankov DP, Toyoda F, Matsuura H, Horie M, Sunagawa K.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of American College of Cardiology 45

      Pages: 300-307

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Mutation site-specific differences in arrhythmic risk and sensitivity to sympathetic stimulation in the LQT1 Form of congenital long QT syndrome2004

    • Author(s)
      Shimizu W, Horie M, Ohno S, Takenaka K, Yamaguchi M, Shimizu M, Washizuka T, Aizawa T, Nakamura K, Ohe T, Aiba T, Miyamoto Y, Yoshimasa Y, Towbin J, Priori S, Kamakura S
    • Journal Title

      Journal of American College of Cardiology 1

      Pages: 117-125

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Additional gene variants reduce effectiveness of Beta-Blockers in the LQT1 form of long QT syndrome2004

    • Author(s)
      Kobori A, Sarai N, Shimizu W, Nakamura Y, Murakami Y, Makiyama T, Ohno S, Takenaka K, Ninomiya T, Fujiwara Y, Matsuoka S, Takano M, Noma A, Kita T, Horie M
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology 15

      Pages: 1-10

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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