Li M, Fischer J, Safwat S, Shoman W, Chazli YE, Alter S, Has C, Abdalla E. Lipoid proteinosis: Novel ECM1 pathogenic variants and intrafamilial variability in four unrelated Arab families.
Pediatr Dermatol 2023;
40:113-119. [PMID:
36670503 DOI:
10.1111/pde.15105]
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES
Lipoid proteinosis (LP) is a rare autosomal recessive multisystem disorder that is caused by loss-of-function pathogenic variants in the extracellular matrix protein-1 (ECM1) gene. The typical clinical manifestations of LP include hoarseness of voice, beaded papules on the eyelids, infiltration and scarring of the skin and mucosa, as well as neuropsychological abnormalities. Currently, more than 70 pathogenic variants have been reported, including nonsense, missense, splice site, deletion and insertion pathogenic variants, and more than half of them occurred in exons 6 and 7.
METHODS
Clinical evaluation and Sanger sequencing were performed on eight patients from four unrelated Arab families.
RESULTS
We identified two novel ECM1 variants, one nonsense pathogenic variant in exon 6 (c.579G>A, p.Trp193*) and a deletion of three nucleotides (c.1390_1392del, p.Glu464del) in exon 9, and two previously reported frameshift variants; c.692_693delAG, in exon 6 and c.11dupC in exon 1.
CONCLUSIONS
Although all patients had characteristic manifestations of lipoid proteinosis, we observed intrafamilial phenotypic variability. Our data expand the pathogenic variant spectrum of ECM1 and also supports the fact that exon 6 is one of the most common hot spots of pathological variants in ECM1.
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