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It is unclear if somatic second-hit mutations also cause the formation of AVMs and nasal telangiectasias in HHT. To investigate the genetic mechanism of AVM formation in HHT, we evaluated multiple affected tissues from fourteen individuals. DNA was extracted from fresh\/frozen tissue of 15 nasal telangiectasia, 4 dermal telangiectasia, and 9 normal control tissue biopsies, from nine unrelated individuals with HHT. DNA from six formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) AVM tissues (brain, lung, liver, and gallbladder) from five individuals was evaluated. A 736 vascular malformation and cancer gene next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel was used to evaluate these tissues down to 1% somatic mosaicism. Somatic second-hit mutations were identified in three in four AVM biopsies (75%) or half of the FFPE (50%) samples, including the loss of heterozygosity in ENG in one brain AVM sample, in which the germline mutation occurred in a different allele than a nearby somatic mutation (both are loss-of-function mutations). Eight of nine (88.9%) patients in whom telangiectasia tissues were evaluated had a somatic mutation ranging from 0.68 to 1.96% in the same gene with the germline mutation. Six of fifteen (40%) nasal and two of four (50%) dermal telangiectasia had a detectable somatic second hit. Additional low-level somatic mutations in other genes were identified in several telangiectasias. 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