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A cross-sectional analysis of 200 heart transplant recipients, combining in-depth phenotyping and risk factor assessment (cardiac MRI, coronary angiogram with OCT, cardiorespiratory exercise tests, exogenic factors like nutrition, smoking, lipid profile) with short-read whole-genome sequencing to elucidate the interplay of established PRS from the literature and exogenic risk factors with respect to HTx outcomes will be carried out. Besides that, a long-read whole-genome sequencing of 100 newly transplanted recipients and their corresponding donors and extend latest bioinformatics methods developed by the study to analyze long-read data will be performed. This will enable a comprehensive and integrated analysis of structural variants, polygenic risk, high-penetrance variant genotypes, immunogenetic (major and minor histocompatibility), and individual lifestyle risk factors in a unique donor-recipient cohort, elucidating the extent of within-cohort variability and cross-correlations between the considered potential risk factors and an exploratory analysis of the utility of genetic risk scores in light of the study results will be carried out.


Clinical Trial Description

Background: Heart transplantation (HTx) is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage heart failure who remain symptomatic despite optimal medical therapy. Even with best-practice follow-up care, one out of eight HTx patients eventually die of ischemic cardiomyopathy and recurrent acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Classical risk factors like the recipient indication for heart transplantation explain a fraction of adverse outcomes, but no conventional risk factor alone satisfactorily predicts the probability of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) or recurrent AMI in HTx patients; in addition, the underlying pathomechanisms are poorly understood. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an improved understanding of the factors contributing to recurrent myocardial ischemia in HTx patients. Recent large-scale studies of the genetic architecture of coronary artery disease in the general population indicate that polygenic risk scores (PRS) explain more disease risk than any single non-genetic risk factor, but, due to a lack of longitudinal follow-up studies with deep phenotyping, PRS have not yet been widely adopted in clinical practice. Furthermore, current genetic studies are based on microarrays or short-read sequencing, severely limiting their ability to characterize the effect of complex or structural genetic variation, in the whole human genome as well as in key loci of potential importance for HTx outcomes, affecting, e.g., lipid metabolism (e.g. LPA) and immunogenetic compatibility (e.g. the major histocompatibility complex). In summary, there is presently no study leveraging the improved ability to resolve human genomes with long-read sequencing technologies in a deeply phenotyped cohort for an improved understanding of recurring myocardial ischemia. Study design and aims: In an innovative three-component study design, comprehensive phenotyping with the latest long-read sequencing technology and algorithmic advances in computational genomics to elucidate the interplay of genetic and non-genetic risk factors of myocardial ischemia in HTx patients at unprecedented resolution and pave the way towards detailed risk stratification and tailored treatment, will be combined Significance and translational potential: By enabling the integrated analysis of structural variants, high-penetrance complex variants, and high-resolution immunogenetics, long-read sequencing will enable improved genetic models of the development of ischemia in HTx patients and contribute to an improved understanding of underlying pathomechanisms. Based on this, the investigators will be able to propose schemes to incorporate integrated risk scores in future clinical trials for personalized treatment stratification. ;


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NCT number NCT06012162
Study type Observational
Source Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf
Contact Daniel Oehler, MD
Phone +492118118800
Email Daniel.oehler@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase
Start date January 2024
Completion date January 2028

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