Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) caused by rare pathogenic variants in LMNA is a severe hereditary heart disease characterized by lethal arrythmias and progressive heart failure. Here, we describe a human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) line reprogrammed by non-integrative Sendai virus from dermal fibroblasts of a female DCM patient carrying the heterozygous LMNA p. Q493X rare pathogenic variant. The obtained hiPSCs have a normal karyotype, show high expression of pluripotency markers at the mRNA and protein level, and are able to differentiate into derivatives of all three germ layers. Therefore, this newly-generated hiPSC line enables modeling of DCM caused by rare pathogenic variants in LMNA .
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