Bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 in patients with idiopathic portal hypertension

De Gottardi, Andrea; Seijo, Susana; Milá, Montserrat; Alvarez, M Isabel; Bruguera, Miquel; Abraldes, Juan G; Bosch, Jaime; García-Pagán, Juan-Carlos (2012). Bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 in patients with idiopathic portal hypertension. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 16(9), pp. 2017-2021. Bucharest (Romania): Wiley 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2011.01496.x

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In idiopathic portal hypertension (IPH) typical vascular lesions are present in the branches of the portal vein or in the perisinusoidal area of the liver. Similar histological alterations have been reported in the pulmonary vasculature of patients with idiopathic pulmonary artery hypertension (IPAH). As IPAH is associated with mutations of the bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 (BMPR2) gene, the aim of this study was to investigate whether this association might also be found in patients with IPH. Twenty-three samples belonging to 21 unrelated caucasian patients with IPH followed in the hepatic haemodynamic laboratory of the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona were included in the study. All patients were studied for the entire open reading frame and splice site of the BMPR2 gene by direct sequencing and multiple ligation probe amplification (MLPA) in order to detect large deletions/duplications. None of the 23 patients had pulmonary artery hypertension. Four patients presented one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in intron 5, four patients had a SNP in exon 12 and a SNP in exon 1 was found in two cases. Two patients had both intron 5 and exon 12 polymorphisms. All SNPs were previously described. Except for these three SNPs, neither mutations nor rearrangements have been identified in the BMPR2 gene in this population. We did not detect mutations or rearrangements in the coding region of the BMPR2 gene in our patients with IPH. These findings suggest that, in contrast to IPAH, mutations in BMPR2 are not involved in the pathogenesis of IPH.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine > Hepatology
UniBE Contributor:	De Gottardi, Andrea
ISSN:	1582-1838
Publisher:	Wiley
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 14:22
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:06
Publisher DOI:	10.1111/j.1582-4934.2011.01496.x
PubMed ID:	22129439
Web of Science ID:	000307951600009
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/7733 (FactScience: 213059)