Case#:A 70‐year‐old woman, previously healthy with a left ventricular ejection fraction presented with DCM

DiseaseAssertion:dilated cardiomyopathy and a 4-month history of progressive heart failure

FamilyInfo:"Family history was negative for IDC or heart failure (Figure 3), although an uncle (II‐3) reportedly had an enlarged heart, and three other relatives (II‐1, II‐2, and III‐4) had cardiac related deaths confirmed by death certificate. The proband’s father (II‐1) died of myocardial failure and pulmonary edema; her mother (II‐2) died of pulmonary embolism; and her sister (III‐4) died suddenly of coronary artery disease in her 60s. Her daughter, the proband’s niece (IV‐3), had a history of palpitations and lower extremity swelling, intermittent numbness, and blanching of the fingers at age 49. Her echocardiogram was normal. Her ECG showed nonspecific ST‐T wave changes and left anterior hemiblock."

ParentalTesting:no parental testing reported because both parents were deceased. The two offsprings that were reported were tested and carried both variants.

CasePresentingHPOs:HP:0001644, HP:0001635, HP:0002875, HP:0012378

CaseHPOFreeText:symptoms of progressive dyspnea on exertion and fatigue that began 2–3 months prior to her presentation. Also, she had an unrelenting progression of symptoms and was hospitalized with advanced NYHA Class IV heart failure 6 weeks later. Lastly, she received a heart transplant.

CaseNotHPOs:not reported

CaseNotHPOFreeText:no myocarditis or infiltrative process and no histological evidence of hemochromatosis,

CasePreviousTesting:Oligonucleotide hybridization‐based DNA sequencing was conducted in the proband for a panel of 19 DCM genes ( Table 1 )

Genotyping Method:Oligonucleotide hybridization‐based DNA sequencing and genomic DNA was extracted from whole blood and was sequenced in our laboratory in both directions to detect and/or confirm nucleotide variants in TNNT2 in the proband and the proband’s relatives using an Applied Biosystems 3130XL capillary sequencer

FunctionalAnalysis:R139H (Figure 4): Functional studies in porcine cardiac skinned fibers reconstituted with the mutant R139H troponin T protein showed decreased Ca2+ sensitivity at pH 7, characteristic of DCM.

Variant:416G>A (R139H) in exon 10 and 690–6G>A in intron 13.

ClinVar:not found

CAID:CA004513

gnomAD:not found

AdditionalInfo:not reported