Case#: Pedigree I-1; 74-year-old Korean male; admitted for dyspnea (NYHA III), palpitations, and bilateral pitting leg edema over several months

DiseaseAssertion: Idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) with biatrial enlargement, in a family with MYBPC3-related cardiomyopathy

FamilyInfo: Family history of heart disease with two affected daughters (II-2 and II-4), both heterozygous for the same variant and both diagnosed with HCM. Unaffected granddaughter (III-3) tested negative. Both daughters showed asymmetric septal hypertrophy on TTE (18 mm and 17 mm) with mildly dilated LA; daughter II-2 had grade I diastolic dysfunction and mild exertional chest discomfort. CMR confirmed reverse septal curvature hypertrophy consistent with HCM in both daughters, with no LGE in either.⁠

ParentalTesting: Not performed; the proband is the index case in generation I; his parents were not evaluated. Phase established only through the daughters and granddaughter.

CasePresentingHPOs:HP:0002094; HP:0001962; HP:0001677; HP:0001635; HP:0001639; HP:0001698

CaseHPOFreeText: Exertional dyspnea NYHA class III, palpitations, and bilateral leg pitting edema for several months; dyspnea refractory to heart failure medication, with pulmonary venous congestion. ECG and Holter: atrial fibrillation with rare premature ventricular complexes. TTE: RCM with biatrial enlargement and small pericardial effusion. CMR: normal LV chamber size, borderline diffuse LV hypertrophy, very large atria, extensive transmural LGE in the apical wall and mid-myocardial patchy LGE in the ventricular septum. Coronary angiogram normal; no secondary cause of RCM found.⁠

CaseNotHPOs: HP:0000822; HP:0000819; HP:0001658; HP:0001678

CaseNotHPOFreeText: Coronary angiogram normal, so no obstructive coronary disease. No secondary cause of RCM identified; no inflammatory, infiltrative, or systemic disease found. No AV block; the rhythm disturbance was atrial fibrillation.

CasePreviousTesting: Whole exome sequencing (Agilent SureSelect XT Human All Exon v5, Illumina HiSeq2500, GATK. Sanger sequencing of family members showed only the MYBPC3 variant tracked with disease; the other four (KALRN c.1702C>T, KCNH2 c.442C>T, SKI c.30T>G, TTN c.54293T>C) did not correlate with phenotype.⁠

Genotyping Method: WES in the proband, with annotation via dbNSFP and Ensembl VEP; Sanger sequencing confirmed the MYBPC3 frameshift in the proband (I-1), daughters II-2 and II-4, and its absence in granddaughter III-3 (Fig. 3B).⁠

FunctionalAnalysis: None performed. CMR showed extensive LGE in the apical LV, and the authors propose that advanced myocardial fibrosis in end-stage HCM can provoke myocardial atrophy, explaining the relatively normal LV chamber size with a predominantly restrictive phenotype hypothesis.⁠

Variant: MYBPC3 NM_000256.3:c.3313_3314insGG (p.Ala1105Glyfs*85); heterozygous frameshift insertion; absent from gnomAD and the Korean Reference Genome Database.

ClinVar: 1473634

CAID: Not reported.

Gene:MYBPC3

HGNC: HGNC: 7551

PMID: 33803538

gnomAD: Absent per the authors' check of gnomAD as of 8 November 2020, and absent from KRGDB.

AdditionalInfo: Authors conclude the MYBPC3 frameshift is the pathogenic variant, with the same allele producing RCM in the proband and HCM in both daughters; an example of pleiotropy and variable expressivity within one family. The frameshift has previously been reported in Korean HCM. Poor-prognosis features in RCM cited by the authors: male sex, age over 70, high NYHA class, and LA dimension >60 mm.