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Background: LMNA is a known causative gene of dilated cardiomyopathy and familial conduction disturbance. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, normally caused by nonsense mutations, is a safeguard process to protect cells from deleterious effects of inappropriate proteins from mutated genes. Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay induced by nonstop codon mutations is rare. We investigated the effect of anLMNA missense mutation identified in 2 families affected by cardiac laminopathy.Methods: Genomic DNA and total RNA were isolated from patients’ peripheral blood lymphocytes or cardiac tissue.LMNA -coding exons were screened by direct sequencing. Complementary DNAs were generated by a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction from total RNA. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction was performed to quantify theLMNA complementary DNA amount by using specific primers for lamins A and C. A minigene splicing reporter experiment was performed to assess the effect of detected variants on RNA splicing. The protein expressions of both isoforms were analyzed by Western blotting.Results: We detected a missense variant c.936 G&gt;C (p. Q312H) at the end of exon 5 ofLMNA by genomic DNA sequencing in 2 unrelated families affected by dilated cardiomyopathy and cardiac conduction disturbance. This variant was previously reported in a French family suffering from muscular dystrophy and cardiac conduction disturbance. Sequencing of complementary DNA demonstrated that the mutated allele was absent. By quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay, we confirmed a 90% reduction inLMNA complementary DNA. The minigene splicing reporter assay demonstrated a splicing error by the variant. Western blot analysis revealed that lamin A and C expressions were reduced far &gt;50%.Conclusions: We report anLMNA missense mutation found in 2 families, which disrupted a normal splicing site, led to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, and resulted in severe cardiac laminopathy.

LMNA Missense Mutation Causes Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay and Severe Dilated Cardiomyopathy