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Keskinen S, Paakkola T, Mattila M, Hietala M, Koillinen H, Laine J, Haanpää MK. Prenatal Coffin-Siris Syndrome: Expanding the Phenotypic and Genotypic Spectrum of the Disease. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2024; 27:181-186. [PMID: 37981638 PMCID: PMC11015708 DOI: 10.1177/10935266231210155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
Abstract
Coffin-Siris syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder with neurological, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal symptoms. Patients with Coffin-Siris syndrome typically have variable degree of developmental delay or intellectual disability, muscular hypotonia, dysmorphic facial features, sparse scalp hair, but otherwise hirsutism and fifth digit nail or distal phalanx hypoplasia or aplasia. Coffin-Siris syndrome is caused by pathogenic variants in 12 different genes including SMARCB1 and ARID1A. Pathogenic SMARCB1 gene variants cause Coffin-Siris syndrome 3 whereas pathogenic ARID1A gene variants cause Coffin-Siris syndrome 2. Here, we present two prenatal Coffin-Siris syndrome cases with autosomal dominant pathogenic variants: SMARCB1 gene c.1066_1067del, p.(Leu356AspfsTer4) variant, and a novel ARID1A gene c.1920+3_1920+6del variant. The prenatal phenotype in Coffin-Siris syndrome has been rarely described. This article widens the phenotypic spectrum of prenatal Coffin-Siris syndrome with severely hypoplastic right ventricle with VSD and truncus arteriosus type III, persisting left superior and inferior caval vein, bilateral olfactory nerve aplasia, and hypoplastic thymus. A detailed clinical description of the patients with ultrasound, MRI, and post mortem pictures of the affected fetuses showing the wide phenotypic spectrum of the disease is presented.
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- Sini Keskinen
- Tyks Laboratories, Genomics, Clinical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Tyks Laboratories, Genomics, Clinical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Northern Finland Laboratory Centre NordLab and Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Pathology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Tyks Laboratories, Genomics, Clinical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Kampmeier A, Leitão E, Parenti I, Beygo J, Depienne C, Bramswig NC, Hsieh TC, Afenjar A, Beck-Wödl S, Grasshoff U, Haack TB, Bijlsma EK, Ruivenkamp C, Lausberg E, Elbracht M, Haanpää MK, Koillinen H, Heinrich U, Rost I, Jamra RA, Popp D, Koch-Hogrebe M, Rostasy K, López-González V, Sanchez-Soler MJ, Macedo C, Schmetz A, Steinborn C, Weidensee S, Lesmann H, Marbach F, Caro P, Schaaf CP, Krawitz P, Wieczorek D, Kaiser FJ, Kuechler A. PHIP-associated Chung-Jansen syndrome: Report of 23 new individuals. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 10:1020609. [PMID: 36726590 PMCID: PMC9886139 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.1020609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
In 2016 and 2018, Chung, Jansen and others described a new syndrome caused by haploinsufficiency of PHIP (pleckstrin homology domain interacting protein, OMIM *612,870) and mainly characterized by developmental delay (DD), learning difficulties/intellectual disability (ID), behavioral abnormalities, facial dysmorphism and obesity (CHUJANS, OMIM #617991). So far, PHIP alterations appear to be a rare cause of DD/ID. "Omics" technologies such as exome sequencing or array analyses have led to the identification of distinct types of alterations of PHIP, including, truncating variants, missense substitutions, splice variants and large deletions encompassing portions of the gene or the entire gene as well as adjacent genomic regions. We collected clinical and genetic data of 23 individuals with PHIP-associated Chung-Jansen syndrome (CHUJANS) from all over Europe. Follow-up investigations (e.g. Sanger sequencing, qPCR or Fluorescence-in-situ-Hybridization) and segregation analysis showed either de novo occurrence or inheritance from an also (mildly) affected parent. In accordance with previously described patients, almost all individuals reported here show developmental delay (22/23), learning disability or ID (22/23), behavioral abnormalities (20/23), weight problems (13/23) and characteristic craniofacial features (i.e. large ears/earlobes, prominent eyebrows, anteverted nares and long philtrum (23/23)). To further investigate the facial gestalt of individuals with CHUJANS, we performed facial analysis using the GestaltMatcher approach. By this, we could establish that PHIP patients are indistinguishable based on the type of PHIP alteration (e.g. missense, loss-of-function, splice site) but show a significant difference to the average face of healthy individuals as well as to individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS, OMIM #176270) or with a CUL4B-alteration (Intellectual developmental disorder, X-linked, syndromic, Cabezas type, OMIM #300354). Our findings expand the mutational and clinical spectrum of CHUJANS. We discuss the molecular and clinical features in comparison to the published individuals. The fact that some variants were inherited from a mildly affected parent further illustrates the variability of the associated phenotype and outlines the importance of a thorough clinical evaluation combined with genetic analyses for accurate diagnosis and counselling.
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- Antje Kampmeier
- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany,*Correspondence: Antje Kampmeier, ; Alma Kuechler,
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Genomische Statistik und Bioinformatik, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Département de génétique et embryologie médicale, Centre de Référence Malformations et maladies congénitales du cervelet et déficiences intellectuelles de causes rares, Hôpital Trousseau, APHP Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Institut für Humangenetik und Genommedizin, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik und Genommedizin, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Clinical Genetics Unit, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland,Department of Genomics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Clinical Genetics Unit, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland,Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Zentrum für Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsdiagnostik Dr. Klein Dr. Rost und Kollegen, Martinsried, Germany
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- Zentrum für Humangenetik und Laboratoriumsdiagnostik Dr. Klein Dr. Rost und Kollegen, Martinsried, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln, Abteilung für Neuropädiatrie, Datteln, Germany
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- Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln, Abteilung für Neuropädiatrie, Datteln, Germany
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- Sección Genética Médica, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain,Sección de Genética Médica, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, IMIB-Arrixaca, CIBERER, Murcia, Spain
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- Sección Genética Médica, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
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- Serviço de Genética, Departamento de Pediatria, Hospital de Santa Maria, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário Lisboa Norte, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- MVZ Mitteldeutscher Praxisverbund Humangenetik, Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Genomische Statistik und Bioinformatik, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany,Center for Rare Diseases, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany,Essener Zentrum für Seltene Erkrankungen (EZSE), Universitätsmedizin Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany,Essener Zentrum für Seltene Erkrankungen (EZSE), Universitätsmedizin Essen, Essen, Germany,*Correspondence: Antje Kampmeier, ; Alma Kuechler,
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Meester JAN, Sukalo M, Schröder KC, Schanze D, Baynam G, Borck G, Bramswig NC, Duman D, Gilbert-Dussardier B, Holder-Espinasse M, Itin P, Johnson DS, Joss S, Koillinen H, McKenzie F, Morton J, Nelle H, Reardon W, Roll C, Salih MA, Savarirayan R, Scurr I, Splitt M, Thompson E, Titheradge H, Travers CP, Van Maldergem L, Whiteford M, Wieczorek D, Vandeweyer G, Trembath R, Van Laer L, Loeys BL, Zenker M, Southgate L, Wuyts W. Elucidating the genetic architecture of Adams-Oliver syndrome in a large European cohort. Hum Mutat 2018; 39:1246-1261. [PMID: 29924900 PMCID: PMC6175364 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2018] [Revised: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
Adams–Oliver syndrome (AOS) is a rare developmental disorder, characterized by scalp aplasia cutis congenita (ACC) and transverse terminal limb defects (TTLD). Autosomal dominant forms of AOS are linked to mutations in ARHGAP31, DLL4, NOTCH1 or RBPJ, while DOCK6 and EOGT underlie autosomal recessive inheritance. Data on the frequency and distribution of mutations in large cohorts are currently limited. The purpose of this study was therefore to comprehensively examine the genetic architecture of AOS in an extensive cohort. Molecular diagnostic screening of 194 AOS/ACC/TTLD probands/families was conducted using next‐generation and/or capillary sequencing analyses. In total, we identified 63 (likely) pathogenic mutations, comprising 56 distinct and 22 novel mutations, providing a molecular diagnosis in 30% of patients. Taken together with previous reports, these findings bring the total number of reported disease variants to 63, with a diagnostic yield of 36% in familial cases. NOTCH1 is the major contributor, underlying 10% of AOS/ACC/TTLD cases, with DLL4 (6%), DOCK6 (6%), ARHGAP31 (3%), EOGT (3%), and RBPJ (2%) representing additional causality in this cohort. We confirm the relevance of genetic screening across the AOS/ACC/TTLD spectrum, highlighting preliminary but important genotype–phenotype correlations. This cohort offers potential for further gene identification to address missing heritability.
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- Josephina A N Meester
- Center of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Genetic Services of Western Australia and the Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Australia.,Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Australia.,School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Institut für Humangenetik, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Division of Pediatric Genetics, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- Guy's Regional Genetics Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Dermatology, Basel University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- West of Scotland Clinical Genetics Service, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Genetic Services of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Subiaco, Australia
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- West Midlands Regional Clinical Genetics Service and Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- MVZ für Pränatalmedizin und Genetik, Nürnberg, Germany
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- Clinical Genetics, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- Abteilung Neonatologie und Pädiatrische Intensivmedizin, Vestische Kinder- und Jugendklinik Datteln, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Datteln, Germany
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, King Khalid University Hospital and College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Bristol Genetics Service, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, St Michael's Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Northern Genetics Service, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, SA Clinical Genetics Service, SA Pathology at the Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia.,School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- West Midlands Regional Clinical Genetics Service and Birmingham Health Partners, Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Division of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
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- West of Scotland Genetic Services, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Center of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Division of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Center of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Center of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Division of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, King's College London, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.,Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Center of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
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Osio D, Rankin J, Koillinen H, Reynolds A, Van Esch H. Interstitial microdeletion of 17q11.2 is associated with hypotonia, fatigue, intellectual disability, and a subtle facial phenotype in three unrelated patients. Am J Med Genet A 2017; 176:209-213. [PMID: 29130599 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.38499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Revised: 08/09/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
Over the past decade chromosomal microarray analysis (array CGH) has allowed the discovery of many novel disease-causing recurrent microdeletion and microduplication syndromes. Here we present three unrelated patients (2F; 1M) from three different countries, with developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia, fatigue, and highly similar dysmorphic facial features. Shared facial features are a broad and wide forehead, similar shape of the eyes with long palpebral fissures, a bulbous tip of the nose and thick lips. Intellectual disabilities range from mild to severe. One female patient and the male patient were investigated in childhood for significant hypotonia thought to be suggestive of a neuromuscular disorder. The two female patients also show excessive fatigue with daytime somnolence. The patients carry overlapping, de novo microdeletions of chromosome 17q11.2, with sizes ranging from 0.97 to 1.18 Mb. The smallest region of overlap (SRO) between the three patients is 863 kb, and contains seven genes, five of which are predicted to exhibit haploinsufficiency (CDK5R1, PSMD11, RHOT1, SUZ12, ZNF207) although none has yet been associated with genetic syndromes. Of these five genes, the brain expressed CDK5R1 gene constitutes a good candidate for the developmental delay, while the RHOT1 gene, involved in mitochondrial trafficking, might underlie the hypotonia and the excessive fatigue.
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- Deborah Osio
- The West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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- Peninsula Clinical Genetics Service, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Central, Helsinki, Finland
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- Bristol Genetics Laboratory, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK
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- Center for Human Genetics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Gambin T, Yuan B, Bi W, Liu P, Rosenfeld JA, Coban-Akdemir Z, Pursley AN, Nagamani SCS, Marom R, Golla S, Dengle L, Petrie HG, Matalon R, Emrick L, Proud MB, Treadwell-Deering D, Chao HT, Koillinen H, Brown C, Urraca N, Mostafavi R, Bernes S, Roeder ER, Nugent KM, Bader PI, Bellus G, Cummings M, Northrup H, Ashfaq M, Westman R, Wildin R, Beck AE, Immken L, Elton L, Varghese S, Buchanan E, Faivre L, Lefebvre M, Schaaf CP, Walkiewicz M, Yang Y, Kang SHL, Lalani SR, Bacino CA, Beaudet AL, Breman AM, Smith JL, Cheung SW, Lupski JR, Patel A, Shaw CA, Stankiewicz P. Identification of novel candidate disease genes from de novo exonic copy number variants. Genome Med 2017; 9:83. [PMID: 28934986 PMCID: PMC5607840 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-017-0472-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Exon-targeted microarrays can detect small (<1000 bp) intragenic copy number variants (CNVs), including those that affect only a single exon. This genome-wide high-sensitivity approach increases the molecular diagnosis for conditions with known disease-associated genes, enables better genotype-phenotype correlations, and facilitates variant allele detection allowing novel disease gene discovery. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed data from 63,127 patients referred for clinical chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) at Baylor Genetics laboratories, including 46,755 individuals tested using exon-targeted arrays, from 2007 to 2017. Small CNVs harboring a single gene or two to five non-disease-associated genes were identified; the genes involved were evaluated for a potential disease association. RESULTS In this clinical population, among rare CNVs involving any single gene reported in 7200 patients (11%), we identified 145 de novo autosomal CNVs (117 losses and 28 intragenic gains), 257 X-linked deletion CNVs in males, and 1049 inherited autosomal CNVs (878 losses and 171 intragenic gains); 111 known disease genes were potentially disrupted by de novo autosomal or X-linked (in males) single-gene CNVs. Ninety-one genes, either recently proposed as candidate disease genes or not yet associated with diseases, were disrupted by 147 single-gene CNVs, including 37 de novo deletions and ten de novo intragenic duplications on autosomes and 100 X-linked CNVs in males. Clinical features in individuals with de novo or X-linked CNVs encompassing at most five genes (224 bp to 1.6 Mb in size) were compared to those in individuals with larger-sized deletions (up to 5 Mb in size) in the internal CMA database or loss-of-function single nucleotide variants (SNVs) detected by clinical or research whole-exome sequencing (WES). This enabled the identification of recently published genes (BPTF, NONO, PSMD12, TANGO2, and TRIP12), novel candidate disease genes (ARGLU1 and STK3), and further confirmation of disease association for two recently proposed disease genes (MEIS2 and PTCHD1). Notably, exon-targeted CMA detected several pathogenic single-exon CNVs missed by clinical WES analyses. CONCLUSIONS Together, these data document the efficacy of exon-targeted CMA for detection of genic and exonic CNVs, complementing and extending WES in clinical diagnostics, and the potential for discovery of novel disease genes by genome-wide assay.
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- Tomasz Gambin
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, 00-665, Poland.,Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, 01-211, Poland
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Pediatric, Section of Child Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Pediatric, Section of Child Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Pediatric, Section of Child Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.,Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, 00029, Finland
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- Genetics Division, Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA.,Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38103, USA
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- Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38103, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, San Antonio, TX, 78207, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, San Antonio, TX, 78207, USA
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- Northeast Indiana Genetic Counseling Center, Wayne, IN, 46804, USA
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- Section of Clinical Genetics & Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY, 14215, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- St. Luke's Children's Hospital, Boise, ID, 83702, USA.,The National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetic Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Child Neurology Consultants of Austin, Austin, TX, 78731, USA
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- THINK Neurology for Kids/Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, The Woodlands, TX, 77380, USA
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- Division of Plastic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Centre de Génétique et Centre de Référence Anomalies du Développement et Syndromes Malformatifs de l'Est, FHU-TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon, Dijon, France
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- Centre de Génétique et Centre de Référence Anomalies du Développement et Syndromes Malformatifs de l'Est, FHU-TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon, Dijon, France
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.,Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA.,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, 77030-3411, USA. .,Baylor Genetics, Houston, TX, 77021, USA.
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Addis L, Ahn JW, Dobson R, Dixit A, Ogilvie CM, Pinto D, Vaags AK, Coon H, Chaste P, Wilson S, Parr JR, Andrieux J, Lenne B, Tumer Z, Leuzzi V, Aubell K, Koillinen H, Curran S, Marshall CR, Scherer SW, Strug LJ, Collier DA, Pal DK. Microdeletions of ELP4 Are Associated with Language Impairment, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Mental Retardation. Hum Mutat 2015; 36:842-50. [PMID: 26010655 DOI: 10.1002/humu.22816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Accepted: 05/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Copy-number variations (CNVs) are important in the aetiology of neurodevelopmental disorders and show broad phenotypic manifestations. We compared the presence of small CNVs disrupting the ELP4-PAX6 locus in 4,092 UK individuals with a range of neurodevelopmental conditions, clinically referred for array comparative genomic hybridization, with WTCCC controls (n = 4,783). The phenotypic analysis was then extended using the DECIPHER database. We followed up association using an autism patient cohort (n = 3,143) compared with six additional control groups (n = 6,469). In the clinical discovery series, we identified eight cases with ELP4 deletions, and one with a partial duplication of ELP4 and PAX6. These cases were referred for neurological phenotypes including language impairment, developmental delay, autism, and epilepsy. Six further cases with a primary diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and similar secondary phenotypes were identified with ELP4 deletions, as well as another six (out of nine) with neurodevelopmental phenotypes from DECIPHER. CNVs at ELP4 were only present in 1/11,252 controls. We found a significant excess of CNVs in discovery cases compared with controls, P = 7.5 × 10(-3) , as well as for autism, P = 2.7 × 10(-3) . Our results suggest that ELP4 deletions are highly likely to be pathogenic, predisposing to a range of neurodevelopmental phenotypes from ASD to language impairment and epilepsy.
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- Laura Addis
- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,Neuroscience Discovery Research, Eli Lilly and Company, Erl Wood, Surrey, UK
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- Department of Cytogenetics, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and NIHR BRC for Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and NIHR BRC for Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Cytogenetics, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Departments of Psychiatry, and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Seaver Autism Center, The Mindich Child Health & Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.,School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Institut de Génétique Médicale, Hopital Jeanne de Flandre, CHRU de Lille, France
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- Centre de Génétique Chromosomique, GHICL, Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul, Lille, France
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- Applied Human Molecular Genetics, Kennedy Center, Department of Clinical Genetics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatrics, Child Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cytogenetics, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,McLaughlin Centre and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Neuroscience Discovery Research, Eli Lilly and Company, Erl Wood, Surrey, UK.,Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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Akinrinade O, Ollila L, Vattulainen S, Tallila J, Gentile M, Salmenperä P, Koillinen H, Kaartinen M, Nieminen MS, Myllykangas S, Alastalo TP, Koskenvuo JW, Heliö T. Genetics and genotype-phenotype correlations in Finnish patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Eur Heart J 2015; 36:2327-37. [PMID: 26084686 PMCID: PMC4561350 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Genetic analysis among patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is becoming an important part of clinical assessment, as it is in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). The genetics of DCM is complex and therefore next-generation sequencing strategies are essential when providing genetic diagnostics. To achieve maximum yield, the diagnostic approach should include comprehensive clinical phenotyping combined with high-quality, high-coverage deep sequencing of DCM-associated genes and clinical variant classification as a basis for defining true yield in genetic testing. Our study has combined a novel sequencing strategy and clinical interpretation to analyse the yield and genotype–phenotype correlations among well-phenotyped Finnish DCM patients. Aims Despite our increased understanding of the genetic basis of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), the clinical utility and yield of clinically meaningful findings of comprehensive next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based genetic diagnostics in DCM has been poorly described. We utilized a high-quality oligonucleotide-selective sequencing (OS-Seq)-based targeted sequencing panel to investigate the genetic landscape of DCM in Finnish population and to evaluate the utility of OS-Seq technology as a novel comprehensive diagnostic tool. Methods and results Using OS-Seq, we targeted and sequenced the coding regions and splice junctions of 101 genes associated with cardiomyopathies in 145 unrelated Finnish patients with DCM. We developed effective bioinformatic variant filtering strategy and implemented strict variant classification scheme to reveal diagnostic yield and genotype–phenotype correlations. Implemented OS-Seq technology provided high coverage of the target region (median coverage 410× and 99.42% of the nucleotides were sequenced at least 15× read depth). Diagnostic yield was 35.2% (familial 47.6% and sporadic 25.6%, P = 0.004) when both pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants are considered as disease causing. Of these, 20 (53%) were titin (TTN) truncations (non-sense and frameshift) affecting all TTN transcripts. TTN truncations accounted for 20.6% and 14.6% of the familial and sporadic DCM cases, respectively. Conclusion Panel-based, high-quality NGS enables high diagnostic yield especially in the familial form of DCM, and bioinformatic variant filtering is a reliable step in the process of interpretation of genomic data in a clinical setting.
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- Oyediran Akinrinade
- Children's Hospital, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Heart and Lung Center HUCH, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Children's Hospital, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Genetics, University Hospital Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Heart and Lung Center HUCH, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Heart and Lung Center HUCH, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Blueprint Genetics, Helsinki, Finland
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- Children's Hospital, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Blueprint Genetics, Helsinki, Finland
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- Blueprint Genetics, Helsinki, Finland Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, HUS Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00290, Finland
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- Heart and Lung Center HUCH, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Pegelow M, Koillinen H, Magnusson M, Fransson I, Unneberg P, Kere J, Karsten A, Peyrard-Janvid M. Association and Mutation Analyses of the IRF6 Gene in Families with Nonsyndromic and Syndromic Cleft Lip and/or Cleft Palate. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2014; 51:49-55. [DOI: 10.1597/11-220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Objectives (1) To detect interferon regulatory factor 6 gene ( IRF6) mutations in newly recruited Van der Woude syndrome (VWS) and popliteal pterygium syndrome (PPS) families. (2) To test for association, in nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or cleft palate (NSCL/P) and in VWS/PPS families, the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs642961, from the IRF6 enhancer AP-2α region, alone or as haplotype with rs2235371, a coding SNP (Val274Ile). Design IRF6 mutation screening was performed by direct sequencing and genotyping of rs642961 and rs2235371 by TaqMan technology. Patients Seventy-one Swedish NSCL/P families, 24 Finnish cleft palate (CP) families, and 24 VWS/PPS families (seven newly recruited) were studied. Results Allelic and genotypic frequencies in each phenotype were compared to those of the controls, and no significant difference could be observed. IRF6 gene mutation was detected in six of the seven new VWS/PPS families. Association analysis of the entire VWS/PPS sample set revealed the A allele from rs642961 to be a risk allele. Significant association was detected in the Swedish CP subset of our NSCL/P collection where the G-C haplotype for rs642961-rs2235371 were at risk ( P= .013). Conclusions Our results do not support the previously reported association between the A allele of rs642961 and the NSCL phenotype. However, in the VWS/PPS families, the A allele was a risk allele and was, in a large majority (>80%), transmitted on the same chromosome as the IRF6 mutation.
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- M. Pegelow
- Department of Dental Medicine, Division of Orthodontics, Unit of Jaw Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; on the Stockholm Craniofacial Team, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden; and at the Department of Orthodontics in Eskilstuna, Folktandvården, Sörmland, Sweden
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- Neuropediatric Unit, Rehabilitative Services, Department of Health Care and Social Services, City of Turku, Finland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetics Unit, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetics Unit, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Medical Genetics, Biomedicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Dental Medicine, Division of Orthodontics, Unit of Jaw Orthopedics, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; and on the Stockholm Craniofacial Team, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden
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- Molecular Genetics Unit, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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Peltonen S, Pöyhönen M, Koillinen H, Valanne L, Peltonen J. [How to recognize neurofibromatosis?]. Duodecim 2014; 130:619-625. [PMID: 24724460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Neurofibromatosis 1 is a hereditary symptom predisposing to cancer, affecting some 1,500 Finnish people. This systemic disease is most commonly detected through cutaneous findings. Although the cutaneous symptoms are harmless, they impair the patients' quality of life. The disease is, however, insidious, as the complications often become manifested from unexpected organ systems. For example cancers originally from nervous systems and severe bone lesions require rapid diagnosis and treatment. The healthcare personnel should thus be aware of the diagnosis of NF syndrome, and the patients should have sufficient knowledge of their disease.
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Rorick NK, Kinoshita A, Weirather JL, Peyrard-Janvid M, de Lima RLLF, Dunnwald M, Shanske AL, Moretti-Ferreira D, Koillinen H, Kere J, Mansilla MA, Murray JC, Goudy SL, Schutte BC. Genomic strategy identifies a missense mutation in WD-repeat domain 65 (WDR65) in an individual with Van der Woude syndrome. Am J Med Genet A 2011; 155A:1314-21. [PMID: 21574244 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2010] [Accepted: 01/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Genetic variation in the transcription factor interferon regulatory factor 6 (IRF6) causes and contributes risk for oral clefting disorders. We hypothesized that genes regulated by IRF6 are also involved in oral clefting disorders. We used five criteria to identify potential IRF6 target genes; differential gene expression in skin taken from wild-type and Irf6-deficient murine embryos, localization to the Van der Woude syndrome 2 (VWS2) locus at 1p36-1p32, overlapping expression with Irf6, presence of a conserved predicted-binding site in the promoter region, and a mutant murine phenotype that was similar to the Irf6 mutant mouse. Previously, we observed altered expression for 573 genes; 13 were located in the murine region syntenic to the VWS2 locus. Two of these genes, Wdr65 and Stratifin, met 4 of 5 criteria. Wdr65 was a novel gene that encoded a predicted protein of 1,250 amino acids with two WD domains. As potential targets for Irf6 regulation, we hypothesized that disease-causing mutations will be found in WDR65 and Stratifin in individuals with VWS or VWS-like syndromes. We identified a potentially etiologic missense mutation in WDR65 in a person with VWS who does not have an exonic mutation in IRF6. The expression and mutation data were consistent with the hypothesis that WDR65 was a novel gene involved in oral clefting.
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Penttinen M, Koillinen H, Niinikoski H, Mäkitie O, Hietala M. Genitopatellar syndrome in an adolescent female with severe osteoporosis and endocrine abnormalities. Am J Med Genet A 2009; 149A:451-5. [DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Koillinen H, Jääskeläinen S, Koski K. [Mitochondrial disorder underlying headache symptoms]. Duodecim 2009; 125:297-300. [PMID: 19341043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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MERRF (myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers) is a rare mitochondrial disorder affecting the function of several distinct organs. Diagnosis of the syndrome has conventionally been made on the basis of the patient's myoclonic epilepsy and the so-called ragged red fibers observed in the patient's muscle biopsy. The diagnosis is confirmed by mutation analysis. Symptoms and findings vary from patient to patient even within one family. A strain-associated headache episode and bout of nausea with deficiency symptoms occurs as the most severe symptom in the young boy of our case report.
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- Hannele Koillinen
- TYKS:n lastenklinikka, perinnöllisyyspoliklinikka, PL 52, 20521 Turku
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Peyrard-Janvid M, Pegelow M, Koillinen H, Larsson C, Fransson I, Rautio J, Hukki J, Larson O, Karsten ALA, Kere J. Novel and de novo mutations of the IRF6 gene detected in patients with Van der Woude or popliteal pterygium syndrome. Eur J Hum Genet 2008; 13:1261-7. [PMID: 16160700 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The interferon regulatory factor 6 gene (IRF6) has been identified as the major Van der Woude (VWS) syndrome and popliteal pterygium (PPS) syndrome gene with mutations in the majority of the kindreds. We have studied altogether 17 kindreds from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Thailand and Singapore, and report here 10 mutations, six of them previously unseen. In two kindreds, we could document de novo mutations, both of them changing a codon for a glutamine residue to a stop. No mutation could be detected in the four VWS kindreds from Finland, suggesting a founder effect for a mutation in an atypical noncoding position. Our findings demonstrate that several distinct mutations occur in the Swedish population, and confirm the general notion of a broad spectrum of IRF6 mutations underlying the VWS/PPS phenotypes.
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Koillinen H, Lahermo P, Rautio J, Hukki J, Peyrard-Janvid M, Kere J. A genome-wide scan of non-syndromic cleft palate only (CPO) in Finnish multiplex families. J Med Genet 2006; 42:177-84. [PMID: 15689458 PMCID: PMC1735976 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2004.019646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Linnankivi T, Lundbom N, Autti T, Häkkinen AM, Koillinen H, Kuusi T, Lönnqvist T, Sainio K, Valanne L, Aärimaa T, Pihko H. Five new cases of a recently described leukoencephalopathy with high brain lactate. Neurology 2005; 63:688-92. [PMID: 15326244 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000134658.35601.41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A new leukoencephalopathy with brainstem and spinal cord involvement and high brain lactate was recently defined. The authors describe five new patients with this entity. METHODS Brain MRI was performed in all patients and spinal MRI and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) in four patients. Laboratory examinations ruled out classic leukodystrophies. RESULTS MRI showed signal abnormalities in the periventricular and deep white matter, in the pyramidal tracts, mesencephalic trigeminal tracts, in the cerebellar connections, and in dorsal columns of the spinal cord. MRS showed decreased N-acetylaspartate and increased lactate in the white matter of all patients. In one patient choline-containing compounds were elevated. A slowly progressive sensory ataxia and tremor manifested at the age of 3 to 16 years and distal spasticity in adolescence. One 13-year-old patient was asymptomatic. CONCLUSIONS A slowly progressive sensory ataxia is a typical feature in this new leukodystrophy. MRS favors a primary axonal degeneration.
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- T Linnankivi
- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Stenbäckinkatu 11, FIN-00290 Helsinki, Finland.
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Koillinen H, Ollikainen V, Rautio J, Hukki J, Kere J. Linkage and linkage disequilibrium searched for between non-syndromic cleft palate and four candidate loci. J Med Genet 2003; 40:464-8. [PMID: 12807970 PMCID: PMC1735498 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.40.6.464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Melkoniemi M, Koillinen H, Männikkö M, Warman ML, Pihlajamaa T, Kääriäinen H, Rautio J, Hukki J, Stofko JA, Cisneros GJ, Krakow D, Cohn DH, Kere J, Ala-Kokko L. Collagen XI sequence variations in nonsyndromic cleft palate, Robin sequence and micrognathia. Eur J Hum Genet 2003; 11:265-70. [PMID: 12673280 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Cleft palate is a common birth defect, but its etiopathogenesis is mostly unknown. Several studies have shown that cleft palate has a strong genetic component. Robin sequence consists of three of the following four findings: micrognathia, glossoptosis, obstructive apnea, and cleft palate. While cleft palate is mainly nonsyndromic, about 80 percent of Robin sequence cases are associated with syndromes. Mutations in genes coding for cartilage collagens II and XI, COL2A1, COL11A1 and COL11A2, have been shown to cause chondrodysplasias that are commonly associated with Robin sequence, micrognathia or cleft palate. We therefore analyzed a cohort of 24 patients with nonsyndromic Robin sequence, 17 with nonsyndromic cleft palate and 21 with nonsyndromic micrognathia for mutations in COL11A2. A total of 23 Robin sequence patients were also analyzed for mutations in COL2A1 and COL11A1. We detected two disease-associated mutations in patients with Robin sequence, an Arg to stop codon mutation in COL11A2 and a splicing mutation in COL11A1. Two putatively disease-associated sequence variations were found in COL11A1 in Robin sequence patients, one in COL11A2 in a patient with micrognathia and one in COL2A1 in two patients with Robin sequence. The results showed that sequence variations in these genes can play a role in the etiology of Robin sequence, cleft palate and micrognathia but are not common causes of these phenotypes.
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- Miia Melkoniemi
- Collagen Research Unit, Biocenter and Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oulu, Finland
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Koillinen H, Wong FK, Rautio J, Ollikainen V, Karsten A, Larson O, Teh BT, Huggare J, Lahermo P, Larsson C, Kere J. Mapping of the second locus for the Van der Woude syndrome to chromosome 1p34. Eur J Hum Genet 2001; 9:747-52. [PMID: 11781685 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2001] [Revised: 07/12/2001] [Accepted: 07/31/2001] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The Van der Woude syndrome (VWS) is a dominantly inherited developmental disorder characterized by pits and/or sinuses of the lower lip, cleft lip and/or cleft palate. It is the most common cleft syndrome. VWS has shown remarkable genetic homogeneity in all populations, and so far, all families reported have been linked to 1q32-q41. A large Finnish pedigree with VWS was recently found to be unlinked to 1q32-q41. In order to map the disease locus in this family, a genome wide linkage scan was performed. A maximum lod score of 3.18 was obtained with the marker D1S2797, thus assigning the disease locus to chromosomal region 1p34. By analyses of meiotic recombinants an approximately 30 cM region of shared haplotypes was identified. The results confirm the heterogeneity of the VWS syndrome, and they place the second disease locus in 1p34. This finding has a special interest because the phenotype in VWS closely resembles the phenotype in non-syndromic forms of cleft lip and palate.
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- H Koillinen
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Wong FK, Koillinen H, Rautio J, Teh BT, Ranta R, Karsten A, Larson O, Linder-Aronson S, Huggare J, Larsson C, Kere J. Genetic heterogeneity and exclusion of a modifying locus at 17p11.2-p11.1 in Finnish families with van der Woude syndrome. J Med Genet 2001; 38:198-202. [PMID: 11303516 PMCID: PMC1734824 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.38.3.198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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