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Lo E, Blair J, Yamamoto N, Diaz-Miranda MA, Bedoukian E, Gray C, Lawrence A, Dedhia K, Elden LM, Germiller JA, Kazahaya K, Sobol SE, Luo M, Krantz ID, Hartman TR. Recurrent missense variant identified in two unrelated families with MPZL2-related hearing loss, expanding the variant spectrum associated with DFNB111. Am J Med Genet A 2024; 194:e63530. [PMID: 38197511 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63530] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 12/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
Abstract
MPZL2-related hearing loss is a rare form of autosomal recessive hearing loss characterized by progressive, mild sloping to severe sensorineural hearing loss. Thirty-five previously reported patients had biallelic truncating variants in MPZL2, with the exception of one patient with a missense variant of uncertain significance and a truncating variant. Here, we describe the clinical characteristics and genotypes of five patients from four families with confirmed MPZL2-related hearing loss. A rare missense likely pathogenic variant [NM_005797.4(MPZL2):c.280C>T,p.(Arg94Trp)] located in exon 3 was confirmed to be in trans with a recurrent pathogenic truncating variant that segregated with hearing loss in three of the patients from two unrelated families. This is the first recurrent likely pathogenic missense variant identified in MPZL2. Apparently milder or later-onset hearing loss associated with rare missense variants in MPZL2 indicates that some missense variants in this gene may cause a milder phenotype than that resulting from homozygous or compound heterozygous truncating variants. This study, along with the identification of truncating loss of function and missense MPZL2 variants in several diverse populations, suggests that MPZL2-related hearing loss may be more common than previously appreciated and demonstrates the need for MPZL2 inclusion in hearing loss testing panels.
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- Emma Lo
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgical Specialties, National Center for Children's Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Wu D, Yang J, Liu C, Hsieh TC, Marchi E, Blair J, Krawitz P, Weng C, Chung W, Lyon GJ, Krantz ID, Kalish JM, Wang K. GestaltMML: Enhancing Rare Genetic Disease Diagnosis through Multimodal Machine Learning Combining Facial Images and Clinical Texts. ArXiv 2024:arXiv:2312.15320v2. [PMID: 38711434 PMCID: PMC11071539] [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] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
Abstract
Individuals with suspected rare genetic disorders often undergo multiple clinical evaluations, imaging studies, laboratory tests and genetic tests, to find a possible answer over a prolonged period of time. Addressing this "diagnostic odyssey" thus has substantial clinical, psychosocial, and economic benefits. Many rare genetic diseases have distinctive facial features, which can be used by artificial intelligence algorithms to facilitate clinical diagnosis, in prioritizing candidate diseases to be further examined by lab tests or genetic assays, or in helping the phenotype-driven reinterpretation of genome/exome sequencing data. Existing methods using frontal facial photos were built on conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), rely exclusively on facial images, and cannot capture non-facial phenotypic traits and demographic information essential for guiding accurate diagnoses. Here we introduce GestaltMML, a multimodal machine learning (MML) approach solely based on the Transformer architecture. It integrates facial images, demographic information (age, sex, ethnicity), and clinical notes (optionally, a list of Human Phenotype Ontology terms) to improve prediction accuracy. Furthermore, we also evaluated GestaltMML on a diverse range of datasets, including 528 diseases from the GestaltMatcher Database, several in-house datasets of Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS, over-growth syndrome with distinct facial features), Sotos syndrome (overgrowth syndrome with overlapping features with BWS), NAA10-related neurodevelopmental syndrome, Cornelia de Lange syndrome (multiple malformation syndrome), and KBG syndrome (multiple malformation syndrome). Our results suggest that GestaltMML effectively incorporates multiple modalities of data, greatly narrowing candidate genetic diagnoses of rare diseases and may facilitate the reinterpretation of genome/exome sequencing data.
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- Da Wu
- Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, University Hospital Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, University Hospital Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, NY, USA
- Biology PhD Program, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, United States of America
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Wild KT, Conlin L, Blair J, Manfredi M, Hamilton TE, Muir A, Zackai EH, Nace G, Partridge EA, Devine M, Reynolds T, Rintoul NE, Hedrick HL, Spinner N, Krantz ID. Genomic Contributors to Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula: A 12 Year Retrospective Review. J Pediatr 2024; 271:114060. [PMID: 38641166 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114060] [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] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Revised: 04/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate genetic testing utilization and diagnostic yield in infants with esophageal atresia (EA)/tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) over the past 12 years to inform future practices and individualize prognostication and management. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective cohort study was performed for all infants with EA or EA/TEF hospitalized between January 2011 and January 2023 at a quaternary children's hospital. For each infant, demographic information, prenatal and postnatal history, and genetic testing were reviewed. RESULTS There were 212 infants who were classified as follows: 1) complex/syndromic with EA/TEF plus an additional major anatomic anomaly (n = 114, of which 74 met VACTERL criteria); 2) isolated/nonsyndromic EA/TEF (n = 88) and 3) isolated/nonsyndromic EA (n = 10). A range of genetic tests were sent with varying diagnostic rates including karyotype analysis in 12 (all with complex/syndromic phenotypes and all positive), chromosomal microarray analysis in 189 (114 of whom were complex/syndromic with an overall diagnostic rate of 3/189), single gene testing for CHD7 in 18 (4 positive), and exome analysis in 37 complex/syndromic patients (8 positive). CONCLUSIONS EA/TEF with and without additional anomalies is genetically heterogeneous with a broad range of associated phenotypes. While the genetic etiology of EA/TEF with or without VACTERL remains largely unknown, genome wide testing (exome or genome) including copy number analysis is recommended over chromosomal microarray testing. We anticipate that expanded genetic/genomic testing modalities such as RNA sequencing and tissue specific molecular testing are needed in this cohort to improve our understanding of the genomic contributors to EA/TEF.
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- K Taylor Wild
- Division of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Division of Human Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Division of Human Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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Yamamoto N, Balciuniene J, Hartman T, Diaz-Miranda MA, Bedoukian E, Devkota B, Lawrence A, Golenberg N, Patel M, Tare A, Chen R, Schindler E, Choi J, Kaur M, Charles S, Chen J, Fanning EA, Dechene E, Cao K, Jill MR, Rajagopalan R, Bayram Y, Dulik MC, Germiller J, Conlin LK, Krantz ID, Luo M. Comprehensive Gene Panel Testing for Hearing Loss in Children: Understanding Factors Influencing Diagnostic Yield. J Pediatr 2023; 262:113620. [PMID: 37473993 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.113620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To evaluate factors influencing the diagnostic yield of comprehensive gene panel testing (CGPT) for hearing loss (HL) in children and to understand the characteristics of undiagnosed probands. STUDY DESIGN This was a retrospective cohort study of 474 probands with childhood-onset HL who underwent CGPT between 2016 and 2020 at a single center. Main outcomes and measures included the association between clinical variables and diagnostic yield and the genetic and clinical characteristics of undiagnosed probands. RESULTS The overall diagnostic yield was 44% (209/474) with causative variants involving 41 genes. While the diagnostic yield was high in the probands with congenital, bilateral, and severe HL, it was low in those with unilateral, noncongenital, or mild HL; cochlear nerve deficiency; preterm birth; neonatal intensive care unit admittance; certain ancestry; and developmental delay. Follow-up studies on 49 probands with initially inconclusive CGPT results changed the diagnostic status to likely positive or negative outcomes in 39 of them (80%). Reflex to exome sequencing on 128 undiagnosed probands by CGPT revealed diagnostic findings in 8 individuals, 5 of whom had developmental delays. The remaining 255 probands were undiagnosed, with 173 (173/255) having only a single variant in the gene(s) associated with autosomal recessive HL and 28% (48/173) having a matched phenotype. CONCLUSION CGPT efficiently identifies the genetic etiologies of HL in children. CGPT-undiagnosed probands may benefit from follow-up studies or expanded testing.
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- Nobuko Yamamoto
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgical Specialties, National Center for Children's Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Hearing and Balance Research, National Institute of Sensory Organs, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; PerkinElmer Genomics, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
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Yu R, Roseman S, Siegenfeld AP, Nguyen SC, Joyce EF, Liau BB, Krantz ID, Alexander KA, Berger SL. CTCF/cohesin organize the ground state of chromatin-nuclear speckle association. bioRxiv 2023:2023.07.22.550178. [PMID: 37961560 PMCID: PMC10634669 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.22.550178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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The interchromatin space in the cell nucleus contains various membrane-less nuclear bodies. Recent findings indicate that nuclear speckles, comprising a distinct nuclear body, exhibit interactions with certain chromatin regions in a ground state. Key questions are how this ground state of chromatin-nuclear speckle association is established and what are the gene regulatory roles of this layer of nuclear organization. We report here that chromatin structural factors CTCF and cohesin are required for full ground state association between DNA and nuclear speckles. Disruption of ground state DNA-speckle contacts via either CTCF depletion or cohesin depletion had minor effects on basal level expression of speckle-associated genes, however we show strong negative effects on stimulus-dependent induction of speckle-associated genes. We identified a putative speckle targeting motif (STM) within cohesin subunit RAD21 and demonstrated that the STM is required for chromatin-nuclear speckle association. In contrast to reduction of CTCF or RAD21, depletion of the cohesin releasing factor WAPL stabilized cohesin on chromatin and DNA-speckle contacts, resulting in enhanced inducibility of speckle-associated genes. In addition, we observed disruption of chromatin-nuclear speckle association in patient derived cells with Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS), a congenital neurodevelopmental diagnosis involving defective cohesin pathways, thus revealing nuclear speckles as an avenue for therapeutic inquiry. In summary, our findings reveal a mechanism to establish the ground organizational state of chromatin-speckle association, to promote gene inducibility, and with relevance to human disease.
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Kaur M, Blair J, Devkota B, Fortunato S, Clark D, Lawrence A, Kim J, Do W, Semeo B, Katz O, Mehta D, Yamamoto N, Schindler E, Al Rawi Z, Wallace N, Wilde JJ, McCallum J, Liu J, Xu D, Jackson M, Rentas S, Tayoun AA, Zhe Z, Abdul-Rahman O, Allen B, Angula MA, Anyane-Yeboa K, Argente J, Arn PH, Armstrong L, Basel-Salmon L, Baynam G, Bird LM, Bruegger D, Ch'ng GS, Chitayat D, Clark R, Cox GF, Dave U, DeBaere E, Field M, Graham JM, Gripp KW, Greenstein R, Gupta N, Heidenreich R, Hoffman J, Hopkin RJ, Jones KL, Jones MC, Kariminejad A, Kogan J, Lace B, Leroy J, Lynch SA, McDonald M, Meagher K, Mendelsohn N, Micule I, Moeschler J, Nampoothiri S, Ohashi K, Powell CM, Ramanathan S, Raskin S, Roeder E, Rio M, Rope AF, Sangha K, Scheuerle AE, Schneider A, Shalev S, Siu V, Smith R, Stevens C, Tkemaladze T, Toimie J, Toriello H, Turner A, Wheeler PG, White SM, Young T, Loomes KM, Pipan M, Harrington AT, Zackai E, Rajagopalan R, Conlin L, Deardorff MA, McEldrew D, Pie J, Ramos F, Musio A, Kline AD, Izumi K, Raible SE, Krantz ID. Genomic analyses in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and related diagnoses: Novel candidate genes, genotype-phenotype correlations and common mechanisms. Am J Med Genet A 2023; 191:2113-2131. [PMID: 37377026 PMCID: PMC10524367 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
Abstract
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) is a rare, dominantly inherited multisystem developmental disorder characterized by highly variable manifestations of growth and developmental delays, upper limb involvement, hypertrichosis, cardiac, gastrointestinal, craniofacial, and other systemic features. Pathogenic variants in genes encoding cohesin complex structural subunits and regulatory proteins (NIPBL, SMC1A, SMC3, HDAC8, and RAD21) are the major pathogenic contributors to CdLS. Heterozygous or hemizygous variants in the genes encoding these five proteins have been found to be contributory to CdLS, with variants in NIPBL accounting for the majority (>60%) of cases, and the only gene identified to date that results in the severe or classic form of CdLS when mutated. Pathogenic variants in cohesin genes other than NIPBL tend to result in a less severe phenotype. Causative variants in additional genes, such as ANKRD11, EP300, AFF4, TAF1, and BRD4, can cause a CdLS-like phenotype. The common role that these genes, and others, play as critical regulators of developmental transcriptional control has led to the conditions they cause being referred to as disorders of transcriptional regulation (or "DTRs"). Here, we report the results of a comprehensive molecular analysis in a cohort of 716 probands with typical and atypical CdLS in order to delineate the genetic contribution of causative variants in cohesin complex genes as well as novel candidate genes, genotype-phenotype correlations, and the utility of genome sequencing in understanding the mutational landscape in this population.
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- Maninder Kaur
- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Otolaryngology, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Hematologics Inc, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Al Jalila Genomics Center, Al Jalila Children's Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Center for Genomic Discovery, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Genetic Medicine, Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Fullerton Genetics Center, Mission Health, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, Mineola, New York, USA
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- Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- CIBER Fisiopatología de la obesidad y nutrición (CIBEROBN) and IMDEA Food Institute, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nemours Children's Specialty Care, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Hospital, Raphael Recanati Genetics Institute, Petach Tikva, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Petach Tikva, Israel
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- Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies and Genetic Services of Western Australia, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Division of Pediatrics and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Rare Care Centre, Perth Children's Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
- Division of Genetics & Dysmophology, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- The Prenatal Diagnosis and Medical Genetics Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for SickKids, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- R & D MILS International India, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Genetics of Learning Disability Service, Hunter Genetics, Waratah, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Nemours Children's Health, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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- University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and Department of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Division of Dysmorphology & Teratology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
- Division of Genetics & Dysmophology, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Advocate Children's Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA
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- Children's Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Children's Health Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Complex Health Solutions, United Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Children's Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Genetics, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Cochin, India
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- Department of Medical Genetics, BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California, USA
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- Genetika-Centro de aconselhamento e laboratório de genética, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatrics and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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- Genome Medical, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Oculogenetics, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, The Genetics Institute, Emek Medical Center, Afula, Haifa, Israel
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- London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Clinical Genetics Service, Laboratory Medicine Building, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
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- Centre for Clinical Genetics, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
- Division of Genetics, Arnold Palmer Hospital, Orlando, Florida, USA
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- Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Australia
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Research to Prevent Blindness Inc, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Behavioral Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Rehabilitation, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Laboratorio de Genética Clínica y Genómica Funcional, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Unidad de Genética Clínica, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Clínico Universitario "Lozano Blesa", Zaragoza, Spain
- Departamento de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa
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- Greater Baltimore Medical Centre, Harvey Institute of Human Genetics, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Regan-Fendt KE, Rippert AL, Medne L, Skraban CM, DeJesse J, Gray C, Reichert SL, Staropoli NP, Santos FJR, Krantz ID, Murrell JR, Izumi K. Retrospective identification of patients with SRRM2-related neurodevelopmental disorder in a single tertiary children's hospital. Am J Med Genet A 2023. [PMID: 37212523 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63302] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2023] [Revised: 05/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
Abstract
SRRM2-related neurodevelopmental disorder is a recently described genetic diagnosis caused by loss-of-function variants in SRRM2. In order to understand the clinical spectrum of SRRM2-related neurodevelopmental disorder, we performed a retrospective exome data and clinical chart review at a single tertiary children's hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Among approximately 3100 clinical exome sequencing cases performed at CHOP, we identified three patients with SRRM2 loss-of-function pathogenic variants, in addition to one patient previously described in the literature. Common clinical features include developmental delay, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, macrocephaly, hypotonia, gastroesophageal reflux, overweight/obesity, and autism. While developmental disabilities are commonly seen in all individuals with SRRM2 variants, the degree of developmental delay and intellectual disability is variable. Our data suggest that SRRM2-related neurodevelopmental disorder can be identified in 0.3% of individuals with developmental disabilities receiving exome sequencing.
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- Kelly E Regan-Fendt
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Sheppard SE, March ME, Seiler C, Matsuoka LS, Kim SE, Kao C, Rubin AI, Battig MR, Khalek N, Schindewolf E, O'Connor N, Pinto E, Priestley JR, Sanders VR, Niazi R, Ganguly A, Hou C, Slater D, Frieden IJ, Huynh T, Shieh JT, Krantz ID, Guerrero JC, Surrey LF, Biko DM, Laje P, Castelo-Soccio L, Nakano TA, Snyder K, Smith CL, Li D, Dori Y, Hakonarson H. Lymphatic disorders caused by mosaic, activating KRAS variants respond to MEK inhibition. JCI Insight 2023; 8:155888. [PMID: 37154160 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.155888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [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: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Central conducting lymphatic anomaly (CCLA) due to congenital maldevelopment of the lymphatics can result in debilitating and life-threatening disease with limited treatment options. We identified 4 individuals with CCLA, lymphedema, and microcystic lymphatic malformation due to pathogenic, mosaic variants in KRAS. To determine the functional impact of these variants and identify a targeted therapy for these individuals, we used primary human dermal lymphatic endothelial cells (HDLECs) and zebrafish larvae to model the lymphatic dysplasia. Expression of the p.Gly12Asp and p.Gly13Asp variants in HDLECs in a 2‑dimensional (2D) model and 3D organoid model led to increased ERK phosphorylation, demonstrating these variants activate the RAS/MAPK pathway. Expression of activating KRAS variants in the venous and lymphatic endothelium in zebrafish resulted in lymphatic dysplasia and edema similar to the individuals in the study. Treatment with MEK inhibition significantly reduced the phenotypes in both the organoid and the zebrafish model systems. In conclusion, we present the molecular characterization of the observed lymphatic anomalies due to pathogenic, somatic, activating KRAS variants in humans. Our preclinical studies suggest that MEK inhibition should be studied in future clinical trials for CCLA due to activating KRAS pathogenic variants.
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- Zebrafish Core, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment and
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- Jill and Mark Fishman Center for Lymphatic Disorders, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Genetic Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Genetic Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, and
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics
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- Dermatology Section, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Division of Oncology, Cancer Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Jill and Mark Fishman Center for Lymphatic Disorders, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Jill and Mark Fishman Center for Lymphatic Disorders, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Krantz ID. Improved management through a better understanding of mortality risk and causes in inborn errors of metabolism. J Pediatr 2023; 252:2. [PMID: 36521972 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Chen R, Diaz-Miranda MA, Aref-Eshghi E, Hartman TR, Griffith C, Morrison JL, Wheeler PG, Torti E, Richard G, Kenna M, Dechene ET, Spinner NB, Bai R, Conlin LK, Krantz ID, Amr SS, Luo M. Characterization of a possible founder synonymous variant in TECTA in multiple individuals with autosomal recessive hearing loss. Hum Mutat 2022; 43:1837-1843. [PMID: 35870179 DOI: 10.1002/humu.24443] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Synonymous variants have been shown to alter the correct splicing of pre-mRNAs and generate disease-causing transcripts. These variants are not an uncommon etiology of genetic disease; however, they are frequently overlooked during genetic testing in the absence of functional and clinical data. Here, we describe the occurrence of a synonymous variant [NM_005422.4 (TECTA):c.327C>T, p.(Gly109=)] in seven individuals with hearing loss from six unrelated families. The variant is not located near exonic/intronic boundaries but is predicted to impact splicing by activating a cryptic splicing donor site in exon 4 of TECTA. In vitro minigene assays show that the variant disrupts the reading frame of the canonical transcript, which is predicted to cause a premature termination codon 48 amino acids downstream of the variant, leading to nonsense-mediated decay. The variant is present in population databases, predominantly in Latinos of African ancestry, but is rare in other ethnic groups. Our findings suggest that this synonymous variant is likely pathogenic for TECTA-associated autosomal recessive hearing loss and seems to have arisen as a founder variant in this specific Latino subpopulation. This study demonstrates that synonymous variants need careful splicing assessment and support from additional testing methodologies to determine their clinical impact.
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- Robert Chen
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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van der Ende SR, Meyers BS, Capasso JE, Sasongko M, Yonekawa Y, Pihlblad M, Huey J, Bedoukian EC, Krantz ID, Ngo MH, McMaster CR, Levin AV, Robitaille JM. Severe Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy, Congenital Hearing Loss, and Developmental Delay in a Child With Biallelic Variants in FZD4. JAMA Ophthalmol 2022; 140:889-893. [PMID: 35951321 PMCID: PMC9372905 DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2022.2914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Question Are FZD4 variants associated with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) with extraocular features? Findings This case series included a patient with biallelic FZD4 variants with severe FEVR in infancy, congenital hearing loss, and developmental delay. Each parent was carrying 1 of the alleles and manifested mild FEVR; cell-based FZD4 receptor-activation assays determined that FZD4 function was dramatically decreased in the presence of these compound heterozygous variants. Meaning Biallelic variants in FZD4 can result in a severe ocular phenotype with systemic features, which may represent a novel syndrome. Importance Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is a nonsyndromic autosomal dominant retinal disorder commonly caused by variants in the FZD4 gene. This study investigates the potential role beyond ocular abnormalities for FZD4 gene variants in patients with FEVR. Objective To evaluate the role of FZD4 in symptoms beyond those associated with FEVR through a patient with biallelic variants in FZD4. Design, Setting, and Participants This case series included the DNA testing and phenotyping of 1 patient proband and her parents, combined with signaling assays, to determine the association of patient-derived compound heterozygous variants on FZD4 signaling and biologic function. Main Outcomes and Measures FZD4 genes were tested using next-generation sequencing and Sanger sequencing. Cell-based assays measured the effect of the variants on FZD4 signaling. Results The proband presented with absent red reflexes from complete tractional retinal detachments diagnosed at 3 days of age and failed the newborn screening hearing test. Auditory brainstem response at 6 months of age showed bilateral mild to moderate high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. The patient manifested developmental delays in speech and walking. Intravenous fluorescein angiography (IVFA) of the patient’s parents detected stage 1 FEVR. Genetic testing revealed 2 FZD4 variants in the patient, each variant found in 1 parent. Signaling assays confirmed that the presence of both variants was associated with significantly worse signaling activity compared with the heterozygous state. Conclusions and Relevance Results of this case series suggest that extraocular syndromic FEVR was associated with FZD4 variants. The decrease in FZD4 signaling owing to the biallelic nature of the disease resulted in hearing deficits, developmental delays, and a more severe retinal phenotype.
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- Sarah R van der Ende
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Pediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Genetics, Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.,Pediatric Genetics, Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
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- Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,Laboratory of Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.,Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Pediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Genetics, Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
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- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Cuinat S, Nizon M, Isidor B, Stegmann A, van Jaarsveld RH, van Gassen KL, van der Smagt JJ, Volker-Touw CML, Holwerda SJB, Terhal PA, Schuhmann S, Vasileiou G, Khalifa M, Nugud AA, Yasaei H, Ousager LB, Brasch-Andersen C, Deb W, Besnard T, Simon MEH, Amsterdam KHV, Verbeek NE, Matalon D, Dykzeul N, White S, Spiteri E, Devriendt K, Boogaerts A, Willemsen M, Brunner HG, Sinnema M, De Vries BBA, Gerkes EH, Pfundt R, Izumi K, Krantz ID, Xu ZL, Murrell JR, Valenzuela I, Cusco I, Rovira-Moreno E, Yang Y, Bizaoui V, Patat O, Faivre L, Tran-Mau-Them F, Vitobello A, Denommé-Pichon AS, Philippe C, Bezieau S, Cogné B. Loss-of-function variants in SRRM2 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder. Genet Med 2022; 24:1774-1780. [PMID: 35567594 DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.04.011] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Revised: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE SRRM2 encodes the SRm300 protein, a splicing factor of the SR-related protein family characterized by its serine- and arginine-enriched domains. It promotes interactions between messenger RNA and the spliceosome catalytic machinery. This gene, predicted to be highly intolerant to loss of function (LoF) and very conserved through evolution, has not been previously reported in constitutive human disease. METHODS Among the 1000 probands studied with developmental delay and intellectual disability in our database, we found 2 patients with de novo LoF variants in SRRM2. Additional families were identified through GeneMatcher. RESULTS Here, we report on 22 patients with LoF variants in SRRM2 and provide a description of the phenotype. Molecular analysis identified 12 frameshift variants, 8 nonsense variants, and 2 microdeletions of 66 kb and 270 kb. The patients presented with a mild developmental delay, predominant speech delay, autistic or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder features, overfriendliness, generalized hypotonia, overweight, and dysmorphic facial features. Intellectual disability was variable and mild when present. CONCLUSION We established SRRM2 as a gene responsible for a rare neurodevelopmental disease.
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- Silvestre Cuinat
- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France.
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France; Université de Nantes, Inserm UMR 1087 / CNRS UMR 6291, Institut du thorax, Nantes, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France; Université de Nantes, Inserm UMR 1087 / CNRS UMR 6291, Institut du thorax, Nantes, France
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
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- Genetic Department, Dubai Health Authority, Latifa Women and Children Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Genetic Department, Dubai Health Authority, Latifa Women and Children Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Dubai Genetics Center, Pathology and Genetics Department, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Clinical Genetics & Human Genetics, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Department of Clinical Research, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Genetics & Human Genetics, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Department of Clinical Research, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France; Université de Nantes, Inserm UMR 1087 / CNRS UMR 6291, Institut du thorax, Nantes, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France; Université de Nantes, Inserm UMR 1087 / CNRS UMR 6291, Institut du thorax, Nantes, France
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric, Division of Medical Genetics, Stanford University and Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
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- Department of Pediatric, Division of Medical Genetics, Stanford University and Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
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- Department of Pediatric, Division of Medical Genetics, Stanford University and Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
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- Department of Pediatric, Division of Medical Genetics, Stanford University and Health Care, Palo Alto, CA
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- Center for Human Genetics, University Hospital Leuven, KU Leuven, O&N I Herestraat 49, Leuven, Belgium
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- Center for Human Genetics, University Hospital Leuven, KU Leuven, O&N I Herestraat 49, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Barcelona, Spain
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- Clinical Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Centre Hospitalier de l'Estran, Pontorson, France
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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- Centre de référence Anomalies du Développement et Syndromes malformatifs, FHU-TRANSLAD, GAD, CHU Dijon et Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Inserm UMR1231, GAD, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle Innovation en Diagnostic Génomique des Maladies Rares, FHU-TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Inserm UMR1231, GAD, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle Innovation en Diagnostic Génomique des Maladies Rares, FHU-TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Inserm UMR1231, GAD, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle Innovation en Diagnostic Génomique des Maladies Rares, FHU-TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Inserm UMR1231, GAD, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle Innovation en Diagnostic Génomique des Maladies Rares, FHU-TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Inserm UMR1231, GAD, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France; Université de Nantes, Inserm UMR 1087 / CNRS UMR 6291, Institut du thorax, Nantes, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes, Nantes, France; Université de Nantes, Inserm UMR 1087 / CNRS UMR 6291, Institut du thorax, Nantes, France.
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Szigety KM, Crowley TB, Gaiser KB, Chen EY, Priestley JRC, Williams LS, Rangu SA, Wright CM, Adusumalli P, Ahrens-Nicklas RC, Calderon B, Cuddapah SR, Edmondson A, Ficicioglu C, Ganetzky R, Kalish JM, Krantz ID, McDonald-McGinn DM, Medne L, Muraresku C, Pyle LC, Zackai EH, Campbell IM, Sheppard SE. Clinical Effectiveness of Telemedicine-Based Pediatric Genetics Care. Pediatrics 2022; 150:188195. [PMID: 35642503 PMCID: PMC9724118 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2021-054520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Telemedicine may increase access to medical genetics care. However, in the pediatric setting, how telemedicine may affect the diagnostic rate is unknown, partially because of the perceived importance of the dysmorphology physical examination. We studied the clinical effectiveness of telemedicine for patients with suspected or confirmed genetic conditions. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of outpatient encounters before and after the widespread implementation of telemedicine (N = 5854). Visit types, diagnoses, patient demographic characteristics, and laboratory data were acquired from the electronic health record. Patient satisfaction was assessed through survey responses. New molecular diagnosis was the primary end point. RESULTS Patients seen by telemedicine were more likely to report non-Hispanic White ancestry, prefer to speak English, live in zip codes with higher median incomes, and have commercial insurance (all P < .01). Genetic testing was recommended for more patients evaluated by telemedicine than in person (79.5% vs 70.9%; P < .001). Patients seen in person were more likely to have a sample collected, resulting in similar test completion rates (telemedicine, 51.2%; in person, 55.1%; P = .09). There was no significant difference in molecular diagnosis rate between visit modalities (telemedicine, 13.8%; in person, 12.4%; P = .40). CONCLUSIONS Telemedicine and traditional in-person evaluation resulted in similar molecular diagnosis rates. However, improved methodologies for remote sample collection may be required. This study reveals the feasibility of telemedicine in a large academic medical genetics practice and is applicable to other pediatric specialties with perceived importance of physical examination.
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- Katherine M. Szigety
- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States,Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States,Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Pallotta MM, Di Nardo M, Sarogni P, Krantz ID, Musio A. Disease-associated c-MYC downregulation in human disorders of transcriptional regulation. Hum Mol Genet 2022; 31:1599-1609. [PMID: 34849865 PMCID: PMC9122636 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a rare multiorgan developmental disorder caused by pathogenic variants in cohesin genes. It is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous dominant (both autosomal and X-linked) rare disease. Increasing experimental evidence indicates that CdLS is caused by a combination of factors, such as gene expression dysregulation, accumulation of cellular damage and cellular aging, which collectively contribute to the CdLS phenotype. The CdLS phenotype overlaps with a number of related diagnoses such as KBG syndrome and Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome both caused by variants in chromatin-associated factors other than cohesin. The molecular basis underlying these overlapping phenotypes is not clearly defined. Here, we found that cells from individuals with CdLS and CdLS-related diagnoses are characterized by global transcription disturbance and share common dysregulated pathways. Intriguingly, c-MYC (subsequently referred to as MYC) is downregulated in all cell lines and represents a convergent hub lying at the center of dysregulated pathways. Subsequent treatment with estradiol restores MYC expression by modulating cohesin occupancy at its promoter region. In addition, MYC activation leads to modification in expression in hundreds of genes, which in turn reduce the oxidative stress level and genome instability. Together, these results show that MYC plays a pivotal role in the etiopathogenesis of CdLS and CdLS-related diagnoses and represents a potential therapeutic target for these conditions.
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- Maria M Pallotta
- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), National Research Council (CNR), 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), National Research Council (CNR), 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), National Research Council (CNR), 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research (IRGB), National Research Council (CNR), 56124 Pisa, Italy
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Pyle LC, Leonard JMM, Krantz ID. 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: From Chromosomes to Clinical Care: Klinefelter Syndrome. J Pediatr 2022; 243:90. [PMID: 35341558 PMCID: PMC9075034 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Sheppard SE, Krantz ID. 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: Advances in the Recognition and Management of Lymphatic Complications of Noonan Syndrome. J Pediatr 2022; 241:195. [PMID: 35067283 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.11.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- Sarah E Sheppard
- Division of Human Genetics and Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics and Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Priestley JRC, Krantz ID. 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: What's In a Name: Lessons Learned from Atypical Malformation Syndromes. J Pediatr 2022; 241:61. [PMID: 35067288 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.10.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Jessica R C Priestley
- Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Oliver C, Groves L, Hansen BD, Salehi M, Kheradmand S, Carrico CS, Caudill P, Mattingly M, Dorsett D, Chea S, Singh VP, Krantz ID, Huisman S, Deardorff MA, Kline AD. Cornelia de Lange syndrome and the Cohesin complex: Abstracts from the 9th Biennial Scientific and Educational Virtual Symposium 2020. Am J Med Genet A 2021; 188:1005-1014. [PMID: 34877788 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62591] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2021] [Revised: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a spectrum disorder due to variants in genes of the cohesin protein complex. The following abstracts are from the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Scientific and Educational Symposium held virtually in October 2020. Aspects of behavior, including autistic features, impulsivity, adaptive skills, executive function, and anxiety are described. Applied behavioral analysis is a promising approach for autism, and an N-acetylcysteine trial is proposed. Children below 6 years with CdLS have an increased number of and further travel to medical providers, with insurance type comprising a significant barrier. Speech, language, and feeding abilities fall significantly below expectations for age in CdLS. Augmentative alternative communication can yield potential barriers as well as interesting benefits. Developmentally, studies in animal models further elucidate the mechanisms and roles of cohesin: link with mediator transcriptional complex; facilitation of enhancer-promoter communication; regulation of gene expression; allocation of cells to germ layers; and repair of spontaneous DNA damage in placental cells. Genome and RNA sequencing can help identify the molecular cause in the 20% of individuals with suspected CdLS and negative testing. The phenotypes in individuals with variants in the SMC1A gene are distinct, and that with intractable seizures has been further evaluated. AMA CME credits provided by GBMC, Baltimore, MD. All studies approved by an ethics committee.
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- Chris Oliver
- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Master's in Genetic Counseling Training Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Communication Sciences and Disorders, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
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- Milton J. Dance, Jr Head & Neck Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, and the Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, and Prinsenstichting, Purmerend, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Harvey Institute for Human Genetics, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Wild KT, Krantz ID. 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: Molecular Diagnostics Determine Underlying Genetic Etiologies for Well-Described Clinical Syndromes. J Pediatr 2021; 239:49. [PMID: 34794643 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.09.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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- K Taylor Wild
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Krantz ID, Medne L, Weatherly JM, Wild KT, Biswas S, Devkota B, Hartman T, Brunelli L, Fishler KP, Abdul-Rahman O, Euteneuer JC, Hoover D, Dimmock D, Cleary J, Farnaes L, Knight J, Schwarz AJ, Vargas-Shiraishi OM, Wigby K, Zadeh N, Shinawi M, Wambach JA, Baldridge D, Cole FS, Wegner DJ, Urraca N, Holtrop S, Mostafavi R, Mroczkowski HJ, Pivnick EK, Ward JC, Talati A, Brown CW, Belmont JW, Ortega JL, Robinson KD, Brocklehurst WT, Perry DL, Ajay SS, Hagelstrom RT, Bennett M, Rajan V, Taft RJ. Effect of Whole-Genome Sequencing on the Clinical Management of Acutely Ill Infants With Suspected Genetic Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr 2021; 175:1218-1226. [PMID: 34570182 PMCID: PMC8477301 DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.3496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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IMPORTANCE Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) shows promise as a first-line genetic test for acutely ill infants, but widespread adoption and implementation requires evidence of an effect on clinical management. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of WGS on clinical management in a racially and ethnically diverse and geographically distributed population of acutely ill infants in the US. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This randomized, time-delayed clinical trial enrolled participants from September 11, 2017, to April 30, 2019, with an observation period extending to July 2, 2019. The study was conducted at 5 US academic medical centers and affiliated children's hospitals. Participants included infants aged between 0 and 120 days who were admitted to an intensive care unit with a suspected genetic disease. Data were analyzed from January 14 to August 20, 2020. INTERVENTIONS Patients were randomized to receive clinical WGS results 15 days (early) or 60 days (delayed) after enrollment, with the observation period extending to 90 days. Usual care was continued throughout the study. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The main outcome was the difference in the proportion of infants in the early and delayed groups who received a change of management (COM) 60 days after enrollment. Additional outcome measures included WGS diagnostic efficacy, within-group COM at 90 days, length of hospital stay, and mortality. RESULTS A total of 354 infants were randomized to the early (n = 176) or delayed (n = 178) arms. The mean participant age was 15 days (IQR, 7-32 days); 201 participants (56.8%) were boys; 19 (5.4%) were Asian; 47 (13.3%) were Black; 250 (70.6%) were White; and 38 (10.7%) were of other race. At 60 days, twice as many infants in the early group vs the delayed group received a COM (34 of 161 [21.1%; 95% CI, 15.1%-28.2%] vs 17 of 165 [10.3%; 95% CI, 6.1%-16.0%]; P = .009; odds ratio, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.22-4.32) and a molecular diagnosis (55 of 176 [31.0%; 95% CI, 24.5%-38.7%] vs 27 of 178 [15.0%; 95% CI, 10.2%-21.3%]; P < .001). At 90 days, the delayed group showed a doubling of COM (to 45 of 161 [28.0%; 95% CI, 21.2%-35.6%]) and diagnostic efficacy (to 56 of 178 [31.0%; 95% CI, 24.7%-38.8%]). The most frequent COMs across the observation window were subspecialty referrals (39 of 354; 11%), surgery or other invasive procedures (17 of 354; 4%), condition-specific medications (9 of 354; 2%), or other supportive alterations in medication (12 of 354; 3%). No differences in length of stay or survival were observed. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this randomized clinical trial, for acutely ill infants in an intensive care unit, introduction of WGS was associated with a significant increase in focused clinical management compared with usual care. Access to first-line WGS may reduce health care disparities by enabling diagnostic equity. These data support WGS adoption and implementation in this population. TRAIL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03290469.
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- University of California, San Francisco
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Neonatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City
- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha
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- University of Nebraska Medical Center, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Omaha
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- Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California
- Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, San Diego, California
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- Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California
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- Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, San Diego, California
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- Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California
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- Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, San Diego, California
- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
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- Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Division of Newborn Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Division of Newborn Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
- Division of Newborn Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
- St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis
- Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Sanmati Cuddapah
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- The Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Pyle LC, Krantz ID. 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: To Every Season Turner, Turner, Turner. J Pediatr 2021; 235:115. [PMID: 34304758 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Louise C Pyle
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Simi A, Perry J, Schindler E, Oza A, Luo M, Hartman T, Krantz ID, Germiller JA, Kawai K, Kenna M. Audiologic Phenotype and Progression in Pediatric STRC-Related Autosomal Recessive Hearing Loss. Laryngoscope 2021; 131:E2897-E2903. [PMID: 34111299 DOI: 10.1002/lary.29680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 03/03/2021] [Revised: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a common sensory deficit affecting pediatric populations. The majority of pediatric SNHL is genetic in etiology, with over 123 identified nonsyndromic causative genes. One such gene is STRC, which has been identified as the second most frequent autosomal recessive nonsyndromic gene associated with SNHL in multiple populations. The objective of this study was to investigate the phenotypic presentation and incidence of audiologic progression in pediatric patients with STRC-related hearing loss (HL). METHODS Thirty-nine pediatric patients with confirmed HL and biallelic pathogenic STRC mutations were identified at two pediatric hospitals. A retrospective chart review was completed including demographics, medical history, genetic testing results, and audiologic data. HL progression was assessed using air conduction thresholds from pure-tone audiograms and auditory brain stem responses, and masked bone conduction thresholds from pure-tone audiograms. RESULTS Thirty-six patients had homozygous STRC deletions. Three were compound heterozygotes. All patients had bilateral, symmetric SNHL. Baseline HL was mild in 39% of ears, moderate in 52%, and moderate-severe in 3%. Of the 31 patients for which sufficient data were available to evaluate progression, 18 (58%) had some degree of progressive HL. Among these 31 patients assessed for progression, the mean hearing threshold declined by 0.6 dB per year (95% confidence interval: 0.5, 0.8; P < .001). CONCLUSIONS These biallelic STRC patients displayed HL ranging from mild to moderate-severe at baseline and progressing in 58%. The variability of the STRC phenotype and the possibility of audiologic progression should be considered in the clinical management of pediatric STRC-related SNHL. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 3 Laryngoscope, 2021.
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- Andrea Simi
- Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A
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- Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
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- Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,Department of Pathology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,Division of Otolaryngology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
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- Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A
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- Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.,Department of Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A
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Sheppard SE, Krantz ID. 50 Years Ago in TheJournalofPediatrics: Multiple Lentigines Syndrome: Historical Perspective and Contributions of Dr David W. Smith. J Pediatr 2021; 233:211. [PMID: 34030837 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.02.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Sarah E Sheppard
- Division of Human Genetics and Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics and Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Weiss FD, Calderon L, Wang YF, Georgieva R, Guo Y, Cvetesic N, Kaur M, Dharmalingam G, Krantz ID, Lenhard B, Fisher AG, Merkenschlager M. Neuronal genes deregulated in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome respond to removal and re-expression of cohesin. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2919. [PMID: 34006846 PMCID: PMC8131595 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23141-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) is a human developmental disorder caused by mutations that compromise the function of cohesin, a major regulator of 3D genome organization. Cognitive impairment is a universal and as yet unexplained feature of CdLS. We characterize the transcriptional profile of cortical neurons from CdLS patients and find deregulation of hundreds of genes enriched for neuronal functions related to synaptic transmission, signalling processes, learning and behaviour. Inducible proteolytic cleavage of cohesin disrupts 3D genome organization and transcriptional control in post-mitotic cortical mouse neurons, demonstrating that cohesin is continuously required for neuronal gene expression. The genes affected by acute depletion of cohesin belong to similar gene ontology classes and show significant numerical overlap with genes deregulated in CdLS. Interestingly, reconstitution of cohesin function largely rescues altered gene expression, including the expression of genes deregulated in CdLS.
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- Felix D Weiss
- Lymphocyte Development Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Institute of Innate Immunity, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Lymphocyte Development Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
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- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Lymphocyte Development Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Computational Regulatory Genomics Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Lymphocyte Development Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Computational Regulatory Genomics Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Computational Regulatory Genomics Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Lymphocyte Development Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Lymphocyte Development Group, Epigenetics Section, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Osko JD, Porter NJ, Decroos C, Lee MS, Watson PR, Raible SE, Krantz ID, Deardorff MA, Christianson DW. Structural analysis of histone deacetylase 8 mutants associated with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome spectrum disorders. J Struct Biol 2021; 213:107681. [PMID: 33316326 PMCID: PMC7981260 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 12/05/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) and associated spectrum disorders are characterized by one or more congenital anomalies including distinctive facial features, upper limb abnormalities, intellectual disability, and other symptoms. The molecular genetic basis of CdLS is linked to defects in cohesin, a protein complex that functions in sister chromatid cohesion, chromatin organization, and transcriptional regulation. Histone deacetylase 8 (HDAC8) plays an important role in cohesin function by catalyzing the deacetylation of SMC3, which is required for efficient recycling of the cohesin complex. Missense mutations in HDAC8 have been identified in children diagnosed with CdLS spectrum disorders, and here we outline structure-function relationships for four of these mutations. Specifically, we report the 1.50 Å-resolution structure of the I45T HDAC8-suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid complex, the 1.84 Å-resolution structure of E66D/Y306F HDAC8 complexed with a peptide assay substrate, and the 2.40 Å-resolution structure of G320R HDAC8 complexed with the inhibitor M344. Additionally, we present a computationally generated model of D176G HDAC8. These structures illuminate new structure-function relationships for HDAC8 and highlight the importance of long-range interactions in the protein scaffold that can influence catalytic function.
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- Jeremy D Osko
- Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34(th) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34(th) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34(th) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34(th) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, United States
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- Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34(th) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, United States
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States; Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34(th) Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, United States.
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Schindler EA, Gilbert MA, Piccoli DA, Spinner NB, Krantz ID, Loomes KM. Alagille syndrome and risk for hepatocellular carcinoma: Need for increased surveillance in adults with mild liver phenotypes. Am J Med Genet A 2020; 185:719-731. [PMID: 33369123 PMCID: PMC7898517 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Alagille syndrome (ALGS) is a multisystem autosomal dominant developmental disorder caused predominantly by pathogenic variants in JAGGED1 (JAG1), and also by pathogenic variants in NOTCH2 in a much smaller number of individuals. Clinical presentation is highly variable and includes liver, heart, eye, skeleton, and facial abnormalities, with a subset of individuals also presenting with kidney, vascular, and central nervous system phenotypes. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a rare complication of ALGS, though little is known about its incidence or etiology among affected individuals. Previous reports have identified HCC occurrence in both pediatric and adult cases of ALGS. We present a case report of HCC in a 58‐year‐old woman with a pathogenic JAG1 variant and no overt hepatic features of ALGS. Through a comprehensive literature review, we compile all reported pediatric and adult cases, and further highlight one previously reported case of HCC onset in an adult ALGS patient without any hepatic disease features, similar to our own described patient. Our case report and literature review suggest that ALGS‐causing variants could confer risk for developing HCC regardless of phenotypic severity and highlight a need for a cancer screening protocol that would enable early detection and treatment in this at‐risk population.
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- Emma A Schindler
- Division of Human Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Rajagopalan R, Gilbert MA, McEldrew DA, Nassur JA, Loomes KM, Piccoli DA, Krantz ID, Conlin LK, Spinner NB. Genome sequencing increases diagnostic yield in clinically diagnosed Alagille syndrome patients with previously negative test results. Genet Med 2020; 23:323-330. [PMID: 33077891 PMCID: PMC7862053 DOI: 10.1038/s41436-020-00989-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Purpose Detection of all major classes of genomic variants in a single test would decrease cost and increase the efficiency of genomic diagnostics. Genome sequencing (GS) has the potential to provide this level of comprehensive detection. We sought to demonstrate the utility of GS in the molecular diagnosis of 18 patients with clinically defined Alagille syndrome (ALGS), who had a negative or inconclusive result by standard-of-care testing. Methods We performed GS on 16 pathogenic variant-negative probands and two probands with inconclusive results (of 406 ALGS probands) and analyzed the data for sequence, copy-number, and structural variants in JAG1 and NOTCH2. Results GS identified four novel pathogenic alterations including a copy-neutral inversion, a partial deletion, and a promoter variant in JAG1, and a partial NOTCH2 deletion, for an additional diagnostic yield of 0.9%. Furthermore, GS resolved two complex rearrangements, resulting in identification of a pathogenic variant in 97.5% (n = 396/406) of patients after GS. Conclusion GS provided an increased diagnostic yield for individuals with clinically defined ALGS who had prior negative or incomplete genetic testing by other methods. Our results show that GS can detect all major classes of variants and has potential to become a single first-tier diagnostic test for Mendelian disorders.
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- Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan
- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,School of Biomedical Engineering, Health and Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA. .,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Cohen JL, Schrier Vergano SA, Mazzola S, Strong A, Keena B, McDougall C, Ritter A, Li D, Bedoukian EC, Burke LW, Hoffman A, Zurcher V, Krantz ID, Izumi K, Bhoj E, Zackai EH, Deardorff MA. EP300-related Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome: Highlighted rare phenotypic findings and a genotype-phenotype meta-analysis of 74 patients. Am J Med Genet A 2020; 182:2926-2938. [PMID: 33043588 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [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: 04/20/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
Pathogenic variants in the homologous and highly conserved genes-CREBBP and EP300-are causal for Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RSTS). CREBBP and EP300 encode histone acetyltransferases (HAT) that act as transcriptional co-activators, and their haploinsufficiency causes the pathology characteristic of RSTS by interfering with global transcriptional regulation. Though generally a well-characterized syndrome, there is a clear phenotypic spectrum; rare associations have emerged with increasing diagnosis that is critical for comprehensive understanding of this rare syndrome. We present 12 unreported patients with RSTS found to have EP300 variants discovered through gene sequencing and chromosomal microarray. Our cohort highlights rare phenotypic features associated with EP300 variants, including imperforate anus, retained fetal finger pads, and spina bifida occulta. Our findings support the previously noted prevalence of pregnancy-related hypertension/preeclampsia seen with this disease. We additionally performed a meta-analysis on our newly reported 12 patients and 62 of the 90 previously reported patients. We demonstrated no statistically significant correlation between phenotype severity (within the domains of intellectual disability and major organ involvement, as defined in our Methods section) and variant location and type; this is in contrast to the conclusions of some smaller studies and highlights the importance of large patient cohorts in characterization of this rare disease.
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- Jennifer L Cohen
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics and Metabolism, Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk, VA, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Clinical Genetics, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Paul C. Gaffney Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Divisions of General Academic Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Nemours Children's Health System, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Brat GA, Weber GM, Gehlenborg N, Avillach P, Palmer NP, Chiovato L, Cimino J, Waitman LR, Omenn GS, Malovini A, Moore JH, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Tibollo V, Murphy SN, Yi SL, Keller MS, Bellazzi R, Hanauer DA, Serret-Larmande A, Gutierrez-Sacristan A, Holmes JJ, Bell DS, Mandl KD, Follett RW, Klann JG, Murad DA, Scudeller L, Bucalo M, Kirchoff K, Craig J, Obeid J, Jouhet V, Griffier R, Cossin S, Moal B, Patel LP, Bellasi A, Prokosch HU, Kraska D, Sliz P, Tan ALM, Ngiam KY, Zambelli A, Mowery DL, Schiver E, Devkota B, Bradford RL, Daniar M, Daniel C, Benoit V, Bey R, Paris N, Serre P, Orlova N, Dubiel J, Hilka M, Jannot AS, Breant S, Leblanc J, Griffon N, Burgun A, Bernaux M, Sandrin A, Salamanca E, Cormont S, Ganslandt T, Gradinger T, Champ J, Boeker M, Martel P, Esteve L, Gramfort A, Grisel O, Leprovost D, Moreau T, Varoquaux G, Vie JJ, Wassermann D, Mensch A, Caucheteux C, Haverkamp C, Lemaitre G, Bosari S, Krantz ID, South A, Cai T, Kohane IS. International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium. NPJ Digit Med 2020. [PMID: 32864472 DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.13.20059691v5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
We leveraged the largely untapped resource of electronic health record data to address critical clinical and epidemiological questions about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). To do this, we formed an international consortium (4CE) of 96 hospitals across five countries (www.covidclinical.net). Contributors utilized the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) or Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) platforms to map to a common data model. The group focused on temporal changes in key laboratory test values. Harmonized data were analyzed locally and converted to a shared aggregate form for rapid analysis and visualization of regional differences and global commonalities. Data covered 27,584 COVID-19 cases with 187,802 laboratory tests. Case counts and laboratory trajectories were concordant with existing literature. Laboratory tests at the time of diagnosis showed hospital-level differences equivalent to country-level variation across the consortium partners. Despite the limitations of decentralized data generation, we established a framework to capture the trajectory of COVID-19 disease in patients and their response to interventions.
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- Gabriel A Brat
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- IRCCS ICS Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.,Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Informatics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA.,Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- IRCCS ICS Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.,Department of Electrical Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Scientific Direction, IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- BIOMERIS (BIOMedical Research Informatics Solutions), Pavia, Italy
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- Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA
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- Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA
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- Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Informatics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS USA
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- UOC Ricerca, Innovazione e Brand Reputation, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
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- Department of Medical Informatics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Center for Medical Information and Communication Technology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- National University Health Systems, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Oncology, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
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- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Penn Medicine, Data Analytics Center, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, HEGP, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Clinical Research Unit, Saint Antoine Hospital, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, HEGP, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Strategy and Transformation Department, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Heinrich-Lanz-Center for Digital Health, University Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Heinrich-Lanz-Center for Digital Health, University Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- INRIA Sophia-Antipolis-ZENITH Team, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Clinical Research Unit, Paris Saclay, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- SED/SIERRA, Inria Centre de Paris, Paris, France
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- Institute of Digitalization in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Brenner Children's Hospital, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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Brat GA, Weber GM, Gehlenborg N, Avillach P, Palmer NP, Chiovato L, Cimino J, Waitman LR, Omenn GS, Malovini A, Moore JH, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Tibollo V, Murphy SN, Yi SL, Keller MS, Bellazzi R, Hanauer DA, Serret-Larmande A, Gutierrez-Sacristan A, Holmes JJ, Bell DS, Mandl KD, Follett RW, Klann JG, Murad DA, Scudeller L, Bucalo M, Kirchoff K, Craig J, Obeid J, Jouhet V, Griffier R, Cossin S, Moal B, Patel LP, Bellasi A, Prokosch HU, Kraska D, Sliz P, Tan ALM, Ngiam KY, Zambelli A, Mowery DL, Schiver E, Devkota B, Bradford RL, Daniar M, Daniel C, Benoit V, Bey R, Paris N, Serre P, Orlova N, Dubiel J, Hilka M, Jannot AS, Breant S, Leblanc J, Griffon N, Burgun A, Bernaux M, Sandrin A, Salamanca E, Cormont S, Ganslandt T, Gradinger T, Champ J, Boeker M, Martel P, Esteve L, Gramfort A, Grisel O, Leprovost D, Moreau T, Varoquaux G, Vie JJ, Wassermann D, Mensch A, Caucheteux C, Haverkamp C, Lemaitre G, Bosari S, Krantz ID, South A, Cai T, Kohane IS. International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium. NPJ Digit Med 2020; 3:109. [PMID: 32864472 PMCID: PMC7438496 DOI: 10.1038/s41746-020-00308-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
We leveraged the largely untapped resource of electronic health record data to address critical clinical and epidemiological questions about Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). To do this, we formed an international consortium (4CE) of 96 hospitals across five countries (www.covidclinical.net). Contributors utilized the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) or Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) platforms to map to a common data model. The group focused on temporal changes in key laboratory test values. Harmonized data were analyzed locally and converted to a shared aggregate form for rapid analysis and visualization of regional differences and global commonalities. Data covered 27,584 COVID-19 cases with 187,802 laboratory tests. Case counts and laboratory trajectories were concordant with existing literature. Laboratory tests at the time of diagnosis showed hospital-level differences equivalent to country-level variation across the consortium partners. Despite the limitations of decentralized data generation, we established a framework to capture the trajectory of COVID-19 disease in patients and their response to interventions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gabriel A. Brat
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
| | - Griffin M. Weber
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
| | - Nils Gehlenborg
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
| | - Paul Avillach
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
| | - Nathan P. Palmer
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
| | - Luca Chiovato
- IRCCS ICS Maugeri, Pavia, Italy
- Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Informatics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS USA
| | - Gilbert S. Omenn
- Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
| | - Mark S. Keller
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
| | - Riccardo Bellazzi
- IRCCS ICS Maugeri, Pavia, Italy
- Department of Electrical Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Scientific Direction, IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- BIOMERIS (BIOMedical Research Informatics Solutions), Pavia, Italy
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- Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA
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- Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA
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- Biomedical Informatics Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Informatics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS USA
| | - Antonio Bellasi
- UOC Ricerca, Innovazione e Brand Reputation, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
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- Department of Medical Informatics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Center for Medical Information and Communication Technology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
| | - Amelia L. M. Tan
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- National University Health Systems, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Oncology, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
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- Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Penn Medicine, Data Analytics Center, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA USA
| | - Robert L. Bradford
- North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, HEGP, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Clinical Research Unit, Saint Antoine Hospital, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
| | - Nicolas Griffon
- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
| | - Anita Burgun
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, HEGP, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
| | - Melodie Bernaux
- Strategy and Transformation Department, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
| | - Arnaud Sandrin
- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- WIND Department APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- Heinrich-Lanz-Center for Digital Health, University Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Heinrich-Lanz-Center for Digital Health, University Medicine Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- INRIA Sophia-Antipolis—ZENITH Team, LIRMM, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Clinical Research Unit, Paris Saclay, APHP Greater Paris University Hospital, Paris, France
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- SED/SIERRA, Inria Centre de Paris, Paris, France
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- Institute of Digitalization in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- Brenner Children’s Hospital, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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Tolchin D, Yeager JP, Prasad P, Dorrani N, Russi AS, Martinez-Agosto JA, Haseeb A, Angelozzi M, Santen G, Ruivenkamp C, Mercimek-Andrews S, Depienne C, Kuechler A, Mikat B, Ludecke HJ, Bilan F, Le Guyader G, Gilbert-Dussardier B, Keren B, Heide S, Haye D, Van Esch H, Keldermans L, Ortiz D, Lancaster E, Krantz ID, Krock BL, Pechter KB, Arkader A, Medne L, DeChene ET, Calpena E, Melistaccio G, Wilkie AO, Suri M, Foulds N, Begtrup A, Henderson LB, Forster C, Reed P, McDonald MT, McConkie-Rosell A, Thevenon J, Le Tanno P, Coutton C, Tsai AC, Stewart S, Maver A, Gorazd R, Pichon O, Nizon M, Cogné B, Isidor B, Martin-Coignard D, Stoeva R, Lefebvre V, Le Caignec C, Ambrose J, Bleda M, Boardman-Pretty F, Boissiere J, Boustred C, Caulfield M, Chan G, Craig C, Daugherty L, de Burca A, Devereau A, Elgar G, Foulger R, Fowler T, Furió-Tarí P, Hackett J, Halai D, Holman J, Hubbard T, Kasperaviciute D, Kayikci M, Lahnstein L, Lawson K, Leigh S, Leong I, Lopez F, Maleady-Crowe F, Mason J, McDonagh E, Moutsianas L, Mueller M, Need A, Odhams C, Patch C, Perez-Gil D, Polychronopoulos D, Pullinger J, Rahim T, Rendon A, Rogers T, Ryten M, Savage K, Scott R, Siddiq A, Sieghart A, Smedley D, Smith K, Sosinsky A, Spooner W, Stevens H, Stuckey A, Thomas E, Thompson S, Tregidgo C, Tucci A, Walsh E, Watters S, Welland M, Williams E, Witkowska K, Wood S, Zarowiecki M. De Novo SOX6 Variants Cause a Neurodevelopmental Syndrome Associated with ADHD, Craniosynostosis, and Osteochondromas. Am J Hum Genet 2020; 106:830-845. [PMID: 32442410 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
SOX6 belongs to a family of 20 SRY-related HMG-box-containing (SOX) genes that encode transcription factors controlling cell fate and differentiation in many developmental and adult processes. For SOX6, these processes include, but are not limited to, neurogenesis and skeletogenesis. Variants in half of the SOX genes have been shown to cause severe developmental and adult syndromes, referred to as SOXopathies. We here provide evidence that SOX6 variants also cause a SOXopathy. Using clinical and genetic data, we identify 19 individuals harboring various types of SOX6 alterations and exhibiting developmental delay and/or intellectual disability; the individuals are from 17 unrelated families. Additional, inconstant features include attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, mild facial dysmorphism, craniosynostosis, and multiple osteochondromas. All variants are heterozygous. Fourteen are de novo, one is inherited from a mosaic father, and four offspring from two families have a paternally inherited variant. Intragenic microdeletions, balanced structural rearrangements, frameshifts, and nonsense variants are predicted to inactivate the SOX6 variant allele. Four missense variants occur in residues and protein regions highly conserved evolutionarily. These variants are not detected in the gnomAD control cohort, and the amino acid substitutions are predicted to be damaging. Two of these variants are located in the HMG domain and abolish SOX6 transcriptional activity in vitro. No clear genotype-phenotype correlations are found. Taken together, these findings concur that SOX6 haploinsufficiency leads to a neurodevelopmental SOXopathy that often includes ADHD and abnormal skeletal and other features.
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Biswas S, Medne L, Devkota B, Bedoukian E, Berrodin D, Izumi K, Deardorff MA, Tarpinian J, Leonard J, Pyle L, Gray C, Montgomery J, Williams T, Fortunato S, Weatherly J, McEldrew D, Kaur M, Raible SE, Wilkens A, Spinner NB, Skraban C, Krantz ID. A Centralized Approach for Practicing Genomic Medicine. Pediatrics 2020; 145:peds.2019-0855. [PMID: 32102930 PMCID: PMC9921770 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-0855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized the diagnostic process, making broadscale testing affordable and applicable to almost all specialties; however, there remain several challenges in its widespread implementation. Barriers such as lack of infrastructure or expertise within local health systems and complex result interpretation or counseling make it harder for frontline clinicians to incorporate genomic testing in their existing workflow. The general population is more informed and interested in pursuing genetic testing, and this has been coupled with the increasing accessibility of direct-to-consumer testing. As a result of these changes, primary care physicians and nongenetics specialty providers find themselves seeing patients for whom genetic testing would be beneficial but managing genetic test results that are out of their scope of practice. In this report, we present a practical and centralized approach to providing genomic services through an independent, enterprise-wide clinical service model. We present 4 years of clinical experience, with >3400 referrals, toward designing and implementing the clinical service, maximizing resources, identifying barriers, and improving patient care. We provide a framework that can be implemented at other institutions to support and integrate genomic services across the enterprise.
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- Sawona Biswas
- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center, Division of Human Genetics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Mandl KD, Glauser T, Krantz ID, Avillach P, Bartels A, Beggs AH, Biswas S, Bourgeois FT, Corsmo J, Dauber A, Devkota B, Fleisher GR, Heath AP, Helbig I, Hirschhorn JN, Kilbourn J, Kong SW, Kornetsky S, Majzoub JA, Marsolo K, Martin LJ, Nix J, Schwarzhoff A, Stedman J, Strauss A, Sund KL, Taylor DM, White PS, Marsh E, Grimberg A, Hawkes C. The Genomics Research and Innovation Network: creating an interoperable, federated, genomics learning system. Genet Med 2020; 22:371-380. [PMID: 31481752 PMCID: PMC7000325 DOI: 10.1038/s41436-019-0646-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Clinicians and researchers must contextualize a patient's genetic variants against population-based references with detailed phenotyping. We sought to establish globally scalable technology, policy, and procedures for sharing biosamples and associated genomic and phenotypic data on broadly consented cohorts, across sites of care. METHODS Three of the nation's leading children's hospitals launched the Genomic Research and Innovation Network (GRIN), with federated information technology infrastructure, harmonized biobanking protocols, and material transfer agreements. Pilot studies in epilepsy and short stature were completed to design and test the collaboration model. RESULTS Harmonized, broadly consented institutional review board (IRB) protocols were approved and used for biobank enrollment, creating ever-expanding, compatible biobanks. An open source federated query infrastructure was established over genotype-phenotype databases at the three hospitals. Investigators securely access the GRIN platform for prep to research queries, receiving aggregate counts of patients with particular phenotypes or genotypes in each biobank. With proper approvals, de-identified data is exported to a shared analytic workspace. Investigators at all sites enthusiastically collaborated on the pilot studies, resulting in multiple publications. Investigators have also begun to successfully utilize the infrastructure for grant applications. CONCLUSIONS The GRIN collaboration establishes the technology, policy, and procedures for a scalable genomic research network.
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- Kenneth D Mandl
- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Office of Research Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Endocrinology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Research Administration, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Endocrinology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Gilbert MA, Bauer RC, Rajagopalan R, Grochowski CM, Chao G, McEldrew D, Nassur JA, Rand EB, Krock BL, Kamath BM, Krantz ID, Piccoli DA, Loomes KM, Spinner NB. Alagille syndrome mutation update: Comprehensive overview of JAG1 and NOTCH2 mutation frequencies and insight into missense variant classification. Hum Mutat 2019; 40:2197-2220. [PMID: 31343788 PMCID: PMC6899717 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Alagille syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease with a known molecular etiology of dysfunctional Notch signaling caused primarily by pathogenic variants in JAGGED1 (JAG1), but also by variants in NOTCH2. The majority of JAG1 variants result in loss of function, however disease has also been attributed to lesser understood missense variants. Conversely, the majority of NOTCH2 variants are missense, though fewer of these variants have been described. In addition, there is a small group of patients with a clear clinical phenotype in the absence of a pathogenic variant. Here, we catalog our single-center study, which includes 401 probands and 111 affected family members amassed over a 27-year period, to provide updated mutation frequencies in JAG1 and NOTCH2 as well as functional validation of nine missense variants. Combining our cohort of 86 novel JAG1 and three novel NOTCH2 variants with previously published data (totaling 713 variants), we present the most comprehensive pathogenic variant overview for Alagille syndrome. Using this data set, we developed new guidance to help with the classification of JAG1 missense variants. Finally, we report clinically consistent cases for which a molecular etiology has not been identified and discuss the potential for next generation sequencing methodologies in novel variant discovery.
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- Melissa A. Gilbert
- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of PediatricsHospital for Sick Children and the University of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics CenterChildren's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
- Department of PediatricsThe Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvania
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Gilbert MA, Bauer RC, Rajagopalan R, Grochowski CM, Chao G, McEldrew D, Nassur JA, Rand EB, Krock BL, Kamath BM, Krantz ID, Piccoli DA, Loomes KM, Spinner NB. Back Cover, Volume 40, Issue 12. Hum Mutat 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/humu.23956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Melissa A. Gilbert
- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of PediatricsHospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto Toronto Canada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics CenterChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania
- Department of PediatricsThe Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and The Perelman School of MedicineUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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Aldinger KA, Timms AE, Thomson Z, Mirzaa GM, Bennett JT, Rosenberg AB, Roco CM, Hirano M, Abidi F, Haldipur P, Cheng CV, Collins S, Park K, Zeiger J, Overmann LM, Alkuraya FS, Biesecker LG, Braddock SR, Cathey S, Cho MT, Chung BHY, Everman DB, Zarate YA, Jones JR, Schwartz CE, Goldstein A, Hopkin RJ, Krantz ID, Ladda RL, Leppig KA, McGillivray BC, Sell S, Wusik K, Gleeson JG, Nickerson DA, Bamshad MJ, Gerrelli D, Lisgo SN, Seelig G, Ishak GE, Barkovich AJ, Curry CJ, Glass IA, Millen KJ, Doherty D, Dobyns WB. Redefining the Etiologic Landscape of Cerebellar Malformations. Am J Hum Genet 2019; 105:606-615. [PMID: 31474318 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Cerebellar malformations are diverse congenital anomalies frequently associated with developmental disability. Although genetic and prenatal non-genetic causes have been described, no systematic analysis has been performed. Here, we present a large-exome sequencing study of Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM) and cerebellar hypoplasia (CBLH). We performed exome sequencing in 282 individuals from 100 families with DWM or CBLH, and we established a molecular diagnosis in 36 of 100 families, with a significantly higher yield for CBLH (51%) than for DWM (16%). The 41 variants impact 27 neurodevelopmental-disorder-associated genes, thus demonstrating that CBLH and DWM are often features of monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders. Though only seven monogenic causes (19%) were identified in more than one individual, neuroimaging review of 131 additional individuals confirmed cerebellar abnormalities in 23 of 27 genetic disorders (85%). Prenatal risk factors were frequently found among individuals without a genetic diagnosis (30 of 64 individuals [47%]). Single-cell RNA sequencing of prenatal human cerebellar tissue revealed gene enrichment in neuronal and vascular cell types; this suggests that defective vasculogenesis may disrupt cerebellar development. Further, de novo gain-of-function variants in PDGFRB, a tyrosine kinase receptor essential for vascular progenitor signaling, were associated with CBLH, and this discovery links genetic and non-genetic etiologies. Our results suggest that genetic defects impact specific cerebellar cell types and implicate abnormal vascular development as a mechanism for cerebellar malformations. We also confirmed a major contribution for non-genetic prenatal factors in individuals with cerebellar abnormalities, substantially influencing diagnostic evaluation and counseling regarding recurrence risk and prognosis.
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- Kimberly A Aldinger
- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC 29646, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for life, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3BZ, UK
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- Department of Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital Research Center, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia
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- Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892 USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63104, USA
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- Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC 29646, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Section of Genetics and Metabolism, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72202, USA
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- Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; The Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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- The Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA; Departments of Pathology, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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- Genetic Services, Kaiser Permanente Washington, Seattle, WA 98112, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- University College London Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for life, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3BZ, UK
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Departments of Radiology, Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Genetic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, Fresno, CA, 93701, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
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Ahrens-Nicklas RC, Pappas CT, Farman GP, Mayfield RM, Larrinaga TM, Medne L, Ritter A, Krantz ID, Murali C, Lin KY, Berger JH, Yum SW, Carreon CK, Gregorio CC. Disruption of cardiac thin filament assembly arising from a mutation in LMOD2: A novel mechanism of neonatal dilated cardiomyopathy. Sci Adv 2019; 5:eaax2066. [PMID: 31517052 PMCID: PMC6726455 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax2066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
Neonatal heart failure is a rare, poorly-understood presentation of familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Exome sequencing in a neonate with severe DCM revealed a homozygous nonsense variant in leiomodin 2 (LMOD2, p.Trp398*). Leiomodins (Lmods) are actin-binding proteins that regulate actin filament assembly. While disease-causing mutations in smooth (LMOD1) and skeletal (LMOD3) muscle isoforms have been described, the cardiac (LMOD2) isoform has not been previously associated with human disease. Like our patient, Lmod2-null mice have severe early-onset DCM and die before weaning. The infant's explanted heart showed extraordinarily short thin filaments with isolated cardiomyocytes displaying a large reduction in maximum calcium-activated force production. The lack of extracardiac symptoms in Lmod2-null mice, and remarkable morphological and functional similarities between the patient and mouse model informed the decision to pursue cardiac transplantation in the patient. To our knowledge, this is the first report of aberrant cardiac thin filament assembly associated with human cardiomyopathy.
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- Rebecca C. Ahrens-Nicklas
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Sarver Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Sarver Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Sarver Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Sarver Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Sarver Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Kline AD, Krantz ID, Bando M, Shirahige K, Chea S, Sakata T, Rao S, Dorsett D, Singh VP, Gerton JL, Horsfield JA, Calof AL, Katz O, Grados M, Raible S, Barañano K, Lyon G, Musio A, Carrico CS, Clemens DK, Caudill P, Massa V, McGill BE, Dommestrup A, O’Connor J, Haaland RE. Cornelia de Lange syndrome, related disorders, and the Cohesin complex: Abstracts from the 8th biennial scientific and educational symposium 2018. Am J Med Genet A 2019; 179:1080-1090. [PMID: 30874362 PMCID: PMC9987326 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS), due to mutations in genes of the cohesin protein complex, is described as a disorder of transcriptional regulation. Phenotypes in this expanding field include short stature, microcephaly, intellectual disability, variable facial features and organ involvement, resulting in overlapping presentations, including established syndromes and newly described conditions. Individuals with all forms of CdLS have multifaceted complications, including neurodevelopmental, feeding, craniofacial, and communication. Coping mechanisms and management of challenging behaviors in CdLS, disruption of normal behaviors, and how behavior molds the life of the individual within the family is now better understood. Some psychotropic medications are known to be effective for behavior. Other medications, for example, Indomethacin, are being investigated for effects on gene expression, fetal brain tissue, brain morphology and function in Drosophila, mice, and human fibroblasts containing CdLS-related mutations. Developmental studies have clarified the origin of cardiac defects and role of placenta in CdLS. Chromosome architecture and cohesin complex structure are elucidated, leading to a better understanding of regulatory aspects and controls. As examples, when mutations are present, the formation of loop domains by cohesin, facilitating enhancer-promotor interactions, can be eliminated, and embryologically, the nuclear structure of zygotes is disrupted. Several important genes are now known to interact with cohesin, including Brca2. The following abstracts are from the 8th Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Scientific and Educational Symposium, held in June 2018, Minneapolis, MN, before the CdLS Foundation National Meeting, AMA CME credits provided by GBMC, Baltimore, MD. All studies have been approved by an ethics committee.
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- Antonie D. Kline
- Department of Pediatrics, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Harvey Institute for Human Genetics, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Perelman School of Medicine at The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Developmental and Cell Biology, and the Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, California
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- Laboratory of Genome Structure and Function, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Developmental and Cell Biology, and the Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine, California
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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- Child Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
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- Institute for Genetic and Biologic Research, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
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- Communication Sciences and Disorders, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois
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- Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery and Dentistry, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, and Cross Keys Dental Associates, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Milton J. Dance, Jr. Head & Neck Center, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology, Department of Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Research Department, Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation, Avon, Connecticut
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Raible SE, Mehta D, Bettale C, Fiordaliso S, Kaur M, Medne L, Rio M, Haan E, White SM, Cusmano-Ozog K, Nishi E, Guo Y, Wu H, Shi X, Zhao Q, Zhang X, Lei Q, Lu A, He X, Okamoto N, Miyake N, Piccione J, Allen J, Matsumoto N, Pipan M, Krantz ID, Izumi K. Clinical and molecular spectrum of CHOPS syndrome. Am J Med Genet A 2019; 179:1126-1138. [PMID: 31058441 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 12/27/2018] [Revised: 02/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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CHOPS syndrome is a multisystem disorder caused by missense mutations in AFF4. Previously, we reported three individuals whose primary phenotype included cognitive impairment and coarse facies, heart defects, obesity, pulmonary involvement, and short stature. This syndrome overlaps phenotypically with Cornelia de Lange syndrome, but presents distinct differences including facial features, pulmonary involvement, and obesity. Here, we provide clinical descriptions of an additional eight individuals with CHOPS syndrome, as well as neurocognitive analysis of three individuals. All 11 individuals presented with features reminiscent of Cornelia de Lange syndrome such as synophrys, upturned nasal tip, arched eyebrows, and long eyelashes. All 11 individuals had short stature and obesity. Congenital heart disease and pulmonary involvement were common, and those were seen in about 70% of individuals with CHOPS syndrome. Skeletal abnormalities are also common, and those include abnormal shape of vertebral bodies, hypoplastic long bones, and low bone mineral density. Our observation indicates that obesity, pulmonary involvement, skeletal findings are the most notable features distinguishing CHOPS syndrome from Cornelia de Lange syndrome. In fact, two out of eight of our newly identified patients were found to have AFF4 mutations by targeted AFF4 mutational analysis rather than exome sequencing. These phenotypic findings establish CHOPS syndrome as a distinct, clinically recognizable disorder. Additionally, we report three novel missense mutations causative for CHOPS syndrome that lie within the highly conserved, 14 amino acid sequence of the ALF homology domain of the AFF4 gene, emphasizing the critical functional role of this region in human development.
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- Sarah E Raible
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Genetics, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, Paris, France
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- Australia and Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adult Genetics Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Paediatrics, Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Rare Disease Institute, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, The 307 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The 307 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The 307 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The 307 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The 307 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The 307 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The 307 Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Human Genetics, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Center for Pediatric Airway Disorders, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Center for Pediatric Airway Disorders, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pediatrics, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Aref-Eshghi E, Bend EG, Colaiacovo S, Caudle M, Chakrabarti R, Napier M, Brick L, Brady L, Carere DA, Levy MA, Kerkhof J, Stuart A, Saleh M, Beaudet AL, Li C, Kozenko M, Karp N, Prasad C, Siu VM, Tarnopolsky MA, Ainsworth PJ, Lin H, Rodenhiser DI, Krantz ID, Deardorff MA, Schwartz CE, Sadikovic B. Diagnostic Utility of Genome-wide DNA Methylation Testing in Genetically Unsolved Individuals with Suspected Hereditary Conditions. Am J Hum Genet 2019; 104:685-700. [PMID: 30929737 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Conventional genetic testing of individuals with neurodevelopmental presentations and congenital anomalies (ND/CAs), i.e., the analysis of sequence and copy number variants, leaves a substantial proportion of them unexplained. Some of these cases have been shown to result from DNA methylation defects at a single locus (epi-variants), while others can exhibit syndrome-specific DNA methylation changes across multiple loci (epi-signatures). Here, we investigate the clinical diagnostic utility of genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of peripheral blood in unresolved ND/CAs. We generate a computational model enabling concurrent detection of 14 syndromes using DNA methylation data with full accuracy. We demonstrate the ability of this model in resolving 67 individuals with uncertain clinical diagnoses, some of whom had variants of unknown clinical significance (VUS) in the related genes. We show that the provisional diagnoses can be ruled out in many of the case subjects, some of whom are shown by our model to have other diseases initially not considered. By applying this model to a cohort of 965 ND/CA-affected subjects without a previous diagnostic assumption and a separate assessment of rare epi-variants in this cohort, we identify 15 case subjects with syndromic Mendelian disorders, 12 case subjects with imprinting and trinucleotide repeat expansion disorders, as well as 106 case subjects with rare epi-variants, a portion of which involved genes clinically or functionally linked to the subjects' phenotypes. This study demonstrates that genomic DNA methylation analysis can facilitate the molecular diagnosis of unresolved clinical cases and highlights the potential value of epigenomic testing in the routine clinical assessment of ND/CAs.
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Wu C, Devkota B, Evans P, Zhao X, Baker SW, Niazi R, Cao K, Gonzalez MA, Jayaraman P, Conlin LK, Krock BL, Deardorff MA, Spinner NB, Krantz ID, Santani AB, Tayoun ANA, Sarmady M. Rapid and accurate interpretation of clinical exomes using Phenoxome: a computational phenotype-driven approach. Eur J Hum Genet 2019; 27:612-620. [PMID: 30626929 PMCID: PMC6460638 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-018-0328-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Clinical exome sequencing (CES) has become the preferred diagnostic platform for complex pediatric disorders with suspected monogenic etiologies. Despite rapid advancements, the major challenge still resides in identifying the casual variants among the thousands of variants detected during CES testing, and thus establishing a molecular diagnosis. To improve the clinical exome diagnostic efficiency, we developed Phenoxome, a robust phenotype-driven model that adopts a network-based approach to facilitate automated variant prioritization. Phenoxome dissects the phenotypic manifestation of a patient in concert with their genomic profile to filter and then prioritize variants that are likely to affect the function of the gene (potentially pathogenic variants). To validate our method, we have compiled a clinical cohort of 105 positive patient samples that represent a wide range of genetic heterogeneity. Phenoxome identifies the causative variants within the top 5, 10, or 25 candidates in more than 50%, 71%, or 88% of these exomes, respectively. Furthermore, we show that our method is optimized for clinical testing by outperforming the current state-of-art method. We have demonstrated the performance of Phenoxome using a clinical cohort and showed that it enables rapid and accurate interpretation of clinical exomes. Phenoxome is available at https://phenoxome.chop.edu/ .
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- Chao Wu
- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Roberts individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Roberts individualized Medical Genetics Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Cukrov D, Newman TAC, Leask M, Leeke B, Sarogni P, Patimo A, Kline AD, Krantz ID, Horsfield JA, Musio A. Antioxidant treatment ameliorates phenotypic features of SMC1A-mutated Cornelia de Lange syndrome in vitro and in vivo. Hum Mol Genet 2019; 27:3002-3011. [PMID: 29860495 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddy203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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: 03/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a rare disease characterized by cognitive impairment, multisystemic alterations and premature aging. Furthermore, CdLS cells display gene expression dysregulation and genomic instability. Here, we demonstrated that treatment with antioxidant drugs, such as ascorbic acid and riboceine, reduced the level of genomic instability and extended the in vitro lifespan of CdLS cell lines. We also found that antioxidant treatment partially rescued the phenotype of a zebrafish model of CdLS. Gene expression profiling showed that antioxidant drugs caused dysregulation of gene transcription; notably, a number of genes coding for the zinc finger (ZNF)-containing Krueppel-associated box (KRAB) protein domain (KRAB-ZNF) were found to be downregulated. Taken together, these data suggest that antioxidant drugs have the potential to ameliorate the developmental phenotype of CdLS.
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- Dubravka Cukrov
- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
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- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
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- Harvey Institute for Human Genetics, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- The Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, c/o The University of Auckland, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Institute for Genetic and Biomedical Research, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy
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Fountain MD, Oleson DS, Rech ME, Segebrecht L, Hunter JV, McCarthy JM, Lupo PJ, Holtgrewe M, Moran R, Rosenfeld JA, Isidor B, Le Caignec C, Saenz MS, Pedersen RC, Morgan TM, Pfotenhauer JP, Xia F, Bi W, Kang SHL, Patel A, Krantz ID, Raible SE, Smith W, Cristian I, Torti E, Juusola J, Millan F, Wentzensen IM, Person RE, Küry S, Bézieau S, Uguen K, Férec C, Munnich A, van Haelst M, Lichtenbelt KD, van Gassen K, Hagelstrom T, Chawla A, Perry DL, Taft RJ, Jones M, Masser-Frye D, Dyment D, Venkateswaran S, Li C, Escobar LF, Horn D, Spillmann RC, Peña L, Wierzba J, Strom TM, Parenti I, Kaiser FJ, Ehmke N, Schaaf CP. Pathogenic variants in USP7 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with speech delays, altered behavior, and neurologic anomalies. Genet Med 2019; 21:1797-1807. [PMID: 30679821 PMCID: PMC6752677 DOI: 10.1038/s41436-019-0433-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [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: 08/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Haploinsufficiency of USP7, located at chromosome 16p13.2, has recently been reported in seven individuals with neurodevelopmental phenotypes, including developmental delay/intellectual disability (DD/ID), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), seizures, and hypogonadism. Further, USP7 was identified to critically incorporate into the MAGEL2-USP7-TRIM27 (MUST), such that pathogenic variants in USP7 lead to altered endosomal F-actin polymerization and dysregulated protein recycling. METHODS We report 16 newly identified individuals with heterozygous USP7 variants, identified by genome or exome sequencing or by chromosome microarray analysis. Clinical features were evaluated by review of medical records. Additional clinical information was obtained on the seven previously reported individuals to fully elucidate the phenotypic expression associated with USP7 haploinsufficiency. RESULTS The clinical manifestations of these 23 individuals suggest a syndrome characterized by DD/ID, hypotonia, eye anomalies,feeding difficulties, GERD, behavioral anomalies, and ASD, and more specific phenotypes of speech delays including a nonverbal phenotype and abnormal brain magnetic resonance image findings including white matter changes based on neuroradiologic examination. CONCLUSION The consistency of clinical features among all individuals presented regardless of de novo USP7 variant type supports haploinsufficiency as a mechanism for pathogenesis and refines the clinical impact faced by affected individuals and caregivers.
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- Michael D Fountain
- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
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- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.,Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Core Unit Bioinformatics, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, Cleveland Clinic Children's, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes, France.,l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Arnold Palmer Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA
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- CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes, France.,l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
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- CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes, France.,l'institut du thorax, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHRU de Brest, INSERM, Brest, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHRU de Brest, INSERM, Brest, France
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- UMR1163, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut IMAGINE, Paris, France
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory, Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory, Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory, Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego School of Medicine, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego School of Medicine, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.,Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Medical Genetics and Neurodevelopment Center, St Vincent Children's Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Charité-Universtitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of General Nursery, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Section for Functional Genetics, Institute for Human Genetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Section for Functional Genetics, Institute for Human Genetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. .,Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. .,Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany. .,Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. .,Center for Rare Diseases, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
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Dowsett L, Porras AR, Kruszka P, Davis B, Hu T, Honey E, Badoe E, Thong MK, Leon E, Girisha KM, Shukla A, Nayak SS, Shotelersuk V, Megarbane A, Phadke S, Sirisena ND, Dissanayake VHW, Ferreira CR, Kisling MS, Tanpaiboon P, Uwineza A, Mutesa L, Tekendo-Ngongang C, Wonkam A, Fieggen K, Batista LC, Moretti-Ferreira D, Stevenson RE, Prijoles EJ, Everman D, Clarkson K, Worthington J, Kimonis V, Hisama F, Crowe C, Wong P, Johnson K, Clark RD, Bird L, Masser-Frye D, McDonald M, Willems P, Roeder E, Saitta S, Anyane-Yeoba K, Demmer L, Hamajima N, Stark Z, Gillies G, Hudgins L, Dave U, Shalev S, Siu V, Ades A, Dubbs H, Raible S, Kaur M, Salzano E, Jackson L, Deardorff M, Kline A, Summar M, Muenke M, Linguraru MG, Krantz ID. Cornelia de Lange syndrome in diverse populations. Am J Med Genet A 2019; 179:150-158. [PMID: 30614194 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [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: 06/05/2018] [Revised: 10/01/2018] [Accepted: 10/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a dominant multisystemic malformation syndrome due to mutations in five genes-NIPBL, SMC1A, HDAC8, SMC3, and RAD21. The characteristic facial dysmorphisms include microcephaly, arched eyebrows, synophrys, short nose with depressed bridge and anteverted nares, long philtrum, thin lips, micrognathia, and hypertrichosis. Most affected individuals have intellectual disability, growth deficiency, and upper limb anomalies. This study looked at individuals from diverse populations with both clinical and molecularly confirmed diagnoses of CdLS by facial analysis technology. Clinical data and images from 246 individuals with CdLS were obtained from 15 countries. This cohort included 49% female patients and ages ranged from infancy to 37 years. Individuals were grouped into ancestry categories of African descent, Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Caucasian. Across these populations, 14 features showed a statistically significant difference. The most common facial features found in all ancestry groups included synophrys, short nose with anteverted nares, and a long philtrum with thin vermillion of the upper lip. Using facial analysis technology we compared 246 individuals with CdLS to 246 gender/age matched controls and found that sensitivity was equal or greater than 95% for all groups. Specificity was equal or greater than 91%. In conclusion, we present consistent clinical findings from global populations with CdLS while demonstrating how facial analysis technology can be a tool to support accurate diagnoses in the clinical setting. This work, along with prior studies in this arena, will assist in earlier detection, recognition, and treatment of CdLS worldwide.
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- Leah Dowsett
- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,The Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, Hawai'i.,Kapi'olani Medical Specialists, Honolulu, Hawai'i
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- Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- School of Medicine and Dentistry, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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- Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
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- Center of Excellence for Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Human Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Center for Human Genetics, University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Kigali, Rwanda
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- Center for Human Genetics, University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Kigali, Rwanda
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- Division of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Human Genetics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical College, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical College, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California Sand Diego, San Diego, California.,Department of Genetics, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California
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- Department of Genetics, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke Health, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Pediatrics and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Medical Genetics Institute, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Clinical Genetics, Columbia University Medical College, New York, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya City Jouhoku Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Melbourne, Australia
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- Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
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- Haffkine Institute, MILS International India, Mumbai, India
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- Ha'emek Medical Center, The Genetic Institute, Hafia, Israel
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- Medical Genetics Program, London Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada
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- The Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Division of Neonatology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Neurology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,The Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Harvey Institute for Human Genetics, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,The Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Machol K, Rousseau J, Ehresmann S, Garcia T, Nguyen TTM, Spillmann RC, Sullivan JA, Shashi V, Jiang YH, Stong N, Fiala E, Willing M, Pfundt R, Kleefstra T, Cho MT, McLaughlin H, Rosello Piera M, Orellana C, Martínez F, Caro-Llopis A, Monfort S, Roscioli T, Nixon CY, Buckley MF, Turner A, Jones WD, van Hasselt PM, Hofstede FC, van Gassen KL, Brooks AS, van Slegtenhorst MA, Lachlan K, Sebastian J, Madan-Khetarpal S, Sonal D, Sakkubai N, Thevenon J, Faivre L, Maurel A, Petrovski S, Krantz ID, Tarpinian JM, Rosenfeld JA, Lee BH, Campeau PM, Adams DR, Alejandro ME, Allard P, Azamian MS, Bacino CA, Balasubramanyam A, Barseghyan H, Batzli GF, Beggs AH, Behnam B, Bican A, Bick DP, Birch CL, Bonner D, Boone BE, Bostwick BL, Briere LC, Brown DM, Brush M, Burke EA, Burrage LC, Chen S, Clark GD, Coakley TR, Cogan JD, Cooper CM, Cope H, Craigen WJ, D’Souza P, Davids M, Dayal JG, Dell’Angelica EC, Dhar SU, Dillon A, Dipple KM, Donnell-Fink LA, Dorrani N, Dorset DC, Douine ED, Draper DD, Eckstein DJ, Emrick LT, Eng CM, Eskin A, Esteves C, Estwick T, Ferreira C, Fogel BL, Friedman ND, Gahl WA, Glanton E, Godfrey RA, Goldstein DB, Gould SE, Gourdine JPF, Groden CA, Gropman AL, Haendel M, Hamid R, Hanchard NA, Handley LH, Herzog MR, Holm IA, Hom J, Howerton EM, Huang Y, Jacob HJ, Jain M, Jiang YH, Johnston JM, Jones AL, Kohane IS, Krasnewich DM, Krieg EL, Krier JB, Lalani SR, Lau CC, Lazar J, Lee BH, Lee H, Levy SE, Lewis RA, Lincoln SA, Lipson A, Loo SK, Loscalzo J, Maas RL, Macnamara EF, MacRae CA, Maduro VV, Majcherska MM, Malicdan MCV, Mamounas LA, Manolio TA, Markello TC, Marom R, Martínez-Agosto JA, Marwaha S, May T, McConkie-Rosell A, McCormack CE, McCray AT, Might M, Moretti PM, Morimoto M, Mulvihill JJ, Murphy JL, Muzny DM, Nehrebecky ME, Nelson SF, Newberry JS, Newman JH, Nicholas SK, Novacic D, Orange JS, Pallais JC, Palmer CG, Papp JC, Parker NH, Pena LD, Phillips JA, Posey JE, Postlethwait JH, Potocki L, Pusey BN, Reuter CM, Robertson AK, Rodan LH, Rosenfeld JA, Sampson JB, Samson SL, Schoch K, Schroeder MC, Scott DA, Sharma P, Shashi V, Signer R, Silverman EK, Sinsheimer JS, Smith KS, Spillmann RC, Splinter K, Stoler JM, Stong N, Sullivan JA, Sweetser DA, Tifft CJ, Toro C, Tran AA, Urv TK, Valivullah ZM, Vilain E, Vogel TP, Wahl CE, Walley NM, Walsh CA, Ward PA, Waters KM, Westerfield M, Wise AL, Wolfe LA, Worthey EA, Yamamoto S, Yang Y, Yu G, Zastrow DB, Zheng A. Expanding the Spectrum of BAF-Related Disorders: De Novo Variants in SMARCC2 Cause a Syndrome with Intellectual Disability and Developmental Delay. Am J Hum Genet 2019; 104:164-178. [PMID: 30580808 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
SMARCC2 (BAF170) is one of the invariable core subunits of the ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling BAF (BRG1-associated factor) complex and plays a crucial role in embryogenesis and corticogenesis. Pathogenic variants in genes encoding other components of the BAF complex have been associated with intellectual disability syndromes. Despite its significant biological role, variants in SMARCC2 have not been directly associated with human disease previously. Using whole-exome sequencing and a web-based gene-matching program, we identified 15 individuals with variable degrees of neurodevelopmental delay and growth retardation harboring one of 13 heterozygous variants in SMARCC2, most of them novel and proven de novo. The clinical presentation overlaps with intellectual disability syndromes associated with other BAF subunits, such as Coffin-Siris and Nicolaides-Baraitser syndromes and includes prominent speech impairment, hypotonia, feeding difficulties, behavioral abnormalities, and dysmorphic features such as hypertrichosis, thick eyebrows, thin upper lip vermilion, and upturned nose. Nine out of the fifteen individuals harbor variants in the highly conserved SMARCC2 DNA-interacting domains (SANT and SWIRM) and present with a more severe phenotype. Two of these individuals present cardiac abnormalities. Transcriptomic analysis of fibroblasts from affected individuals highlights a group of differentially expressed genes with possible roles in regulation of neuronal development and function, namely H19, SCRG1, RELN, and CACNB4. Our findings suggest a novel SMARCC2-related syndrome that overlaps with neurodevelopmental disorders associated with variants in BAF-complex subunits.
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Baker SW, Murrell JR, Nesbitt AI, Pechter KB, Balciuniene J, Zhao X, Yu Z, Denenberg EH, DeChene ET, Wilkens AB, Bhoj EJ, Guan Q, Dulik MC, Conlin LK, Abou Tayoun AN, Luo M, Wu C, Cao K, Sarmady M, Bedoukian EC, Tarpinian J, Medne L, Skraban CM, Deardorff MA, Krantz ID, Krock BL, Santani AB. Automated Clinical Exome Reanalysis Reveals Novel Diagnoses. J Mol Diagn 2019; 21:38-48. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoldx.2018.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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Salzano E, Raible SE, Kaur M, Wilkens A, Sperti G, Tilton RK, Bettini LR, Rocca A, Cocchi G, Selicorni A, Conlin LK, McEldrew D, Gupta R, Thakur S, Izumi K, Krantz ID. Prenatal profile of Pallister-Killian syndrome: Retrospective analysis of 114 pregnancies, literature review and approach to prenatal diagnosis. Am J Med Genet A 2018; 176:2575-2586. [PMID: 30289601 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.40499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [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: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 06/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is a tissue limited mosaic disorder, characterized by variable degrees of neurodevelopmental delay and intellectual disability, typical craniofacial findings, skin pigmentation anomalies and multiple congenital malformations. The wide phenotypic spectrum of PKS in conjunction with the mosaic distribution of the i(12p) makes PKS an underdiagnosed disorder. Recognition of prenatal findings that should raise a suspicion of PKS is complicated by the fragmentation of data currently available in the literature and challenges in diagnosing a mosaic diagnosis on prenatal testing. Ultrasound anomalies, especially congenital diaphragmatic hernia, congenital heart defects, and rhizomelic limb shortening, have been related to PKS, but they are singularly not specific and are not present in all affected fetuses. We have combined prenatal data from 86 previously published reports and from our cohort of 114 PKS probands (retrospectively reviewed). Summarizing this data we have defined a prenatal growth profile and identified markers of perinatal outcome which collectively provide guidelines for early recognition of the distinctive prenatal profile and consideration of a diagnosis of PKS as well as for management and genetic counseling.
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- E Salzano
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Neonatology Unit, St. Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Della Salute, San Paolo Hospital Medical School, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Neonatology Unit, St. Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Neonatology Unit, St. Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pathology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Fetal Medicine, Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Delhi & Sonepat Genetic and Fetal Medicine Centre, Sonepat, Haryana
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- Department of Genetic & Fetal Medicine, Fortis Hospital, Delhi-NCR & Apollo Hospital, Delhi, India
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Ritter AL, McDougall C, Skraban C, Medne L, Bedoukian EC, Asher SB, Balciuniene J, Campbell CD, Baker SW, Denenberg EH, Mazzola S, Fiordaliso SK, Krantz ID, Kaplan P, Ierardi‐Curto L, Santani AB, Zackai EH, Izumi K. Variable Clinical Manifestations of Xia‐Gibbs syndrome: Findings of Consecutively Identified Cases at a Single Children's Hospital. Am J Med Genet A 2018; 176:1890-1896. [DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.40380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2017] [Revised: 05/31/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Alyssa L. Ritter
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Department of PediatricsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Department of PediatricsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Department of PediatricsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Department of PediatricsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicinePerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Department of PediatricsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of PediatricsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Department of PediatricsPerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia USA
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Sheppard S, Biswas S, Li MH, Jayaraman V, Slack I, Romasko EJ, Sasson A, Brunton J, Rajagopalan R, Sarmady M, Abrudan JL, Jairam S, DeChene ET, Ying X, Choi J, Wilkens A, Raible SE, Scarano MI, Santani A, Pennington JW, Luo M, Conlin LK, Devkota B, Dulik MC, Spinner NB, Krantz ID. Utility and limitations of exome sequencing as a genetic diagnostic tool for children with hearing loss. Genet Med 2018; 20:1663-1676. [PMID: 29907799 PMCID: PMC6295269 DOI: 10.1038/s41436-018-0004-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Hearing loss (HL) is the most common sensory disorder in children. Prompt molecular diagnosis may guide screening and management, especially in syndromic cases when HL is the single presenting feature. Exome sequencing (ES) is an appealing diagnostic tool for HL as the genetic causes are highly heterogeneous. METHODS ES was performed on a prospective cohort of 43 probands with HL. Sequence data were analyzed for primary and secondary findings. Capture and coverage analysis was performed for genes and variants associated with HL. RESULTS The diagnostic rate using ES was 37.2%, compared with 15.8% for the clinical HL panel. Secondary findings were discovered in three patients. For 247 genes associated with HL, 94.7% of the exons were targeted for capture and 81.7% of these exons were covered at 20× or greater. Further analysis of 454 randomly selected HL-associated variants showed that 89% were targeted for capture and 75% were covered at a read depth of at least 20×. CONCLUSION ES has an improved yield compared with clinical testing and may capture diagnoses not initially considered due to subtle clinical phenotypes. Technical challenges were identified, including inadequate capture and coverage of HL genes. Additional considerations of ES include secondary findings, cost, and turnaround time.
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- Sarah Sheppard
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Ariella Sasson
- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Joshua Brunton
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Mahdi Sarmady
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Jenica L Abrudan
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Sowmya Jairam
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
| | - Elizabeth T DeChene
- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Xiahoan Ying
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Jiwon Choi
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Alisha Wilkens
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Sarah E Raible
- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Maria I Scarano
- Division of Genetics, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, NY, USA
| | - Avni Santani
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Jeffrey W Pennington
- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Minjie Luo
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Laura K Conlin
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Batsal Devkota
- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Matthew C Dulik
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Nancy B Spinner
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Ian D Krantz
- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. .,Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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