Journal: Human Genomics
Article Title: A precision medicine approach to interpret a GATA4 genetic variant in a paediatric patient with congenital heart disease
doi: 10.1186/s40246-025-00907-6
Figure Lengend Snippet: GATA4 VUS genetic variant and stem-cell gene editing. A Protein structure showing the patient mutation in the carboxyl zinc finger domain. B Patient Human Phenotype Ontology terms as described by physician. C CRISPR gene editing efficiency for single nucleotide variant introduction in KOLF2C iPSCs sequencing reads aligned to GATA4_WT and GATA4 VUS amplicon sequence. WT, sequencing reads aligned to WT sequence. Imp WT, imperfect sequencing reads aligned to WT with other mutations. HDR, reads aligned to the VUS sequence. Amb, sequencing reads that align to the GATA4 amplicon that have deleted the target site. D Bar graph showing variant representation in genomic DNA from healthy (WT) and heterozygous GATA4 p.Arg284His (VUS) clones, with clone identity. E Light microscopy images demonstrating normal stem-cell morphology. Scale bar, 100 micron
Article Snippet: Next, cells were permeabilised 15 min in 0.1% Triton-X-100 (Sigma-Aldrich), blocked with Intercept ® Blocking Buffer (LI-COR) for 1 h room temperature, and incubated at 4 °C overnight with rabbit anti-GATA4 antibody (1:400; D3A3M, Cell Signalling Technology).
Techniques: Variant Assay, Mutagenesis, CRISPR, Sequencing, Amplification, Clone Assay, Light Microscopy