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Smith CS, Riddell M, Badalato L, Au PYB. Adults with paternal UPD14 causing Kagami-Ogata syndrome: Case report and review of the literature. Am J Med Genet A 2024:e63625. [PMID: 38741340 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63625] [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: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
Abstract
Kagami-Ogata syndrome (KOS) is a clinically recognizable syndrome in the neonatal period. It is characterized by specific skeletal anomalies and facial dysmorphisms. It is typically caused by paternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 14, while epimutations and microdeletions are less commonly reported causes. In the pediatric setting, KOS is a well delineated syndrome. However, there is a dearth of literature describing the natural history of the condition in adults. Herein, we describe a 35-year-old man, the first adult with KOS reported due to paternal uniparental disomy 14, and review reports of KOS in other affected adults. This highlights the variability in neurocognitive phenotypes, the presence of connective tissue abnormalities, and the uncertainties around long-term cancer risk.
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- Christopher S Smith
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Rinaldi B, Bayat A, Zachariassen LG, Sun JH, Ge YH, Zhao D, Bonde K, Madsen LH, Awad IAA, Bagiran D, Sbeih A, Shah SM, El-Sayed S, Lyngby SM, Pedersen MG, Stenum-Berg C, Walker LC, Krey I, Delahaye-Duriez A, Emrick LT, Sully K, Murali CN, Burrage LC, Plaud Gonzalez JA, Parnes M, Friedman J, Isidor B, Lefranc J, Redon S, Heron D, Mignot C, Keren B, Fradin M, Dubourg C, Mercier S, Besnard T, Cogne B, Deb W, Rivier C, Milani D, Bedeschi MF, Di Napoli C, Grilli F, Marchisio P, Koudijs S, Veenma D, Argilli E, Lynch SA, Au PYB, Ayala Valenzuela FE, Brown C, Masser-Frye D, Jones M, Patron Romero L, Li WL, Thorpe E, Hecher L, Johannsen J, Denecke J, McNiven V, Szuto A, Wakeling E, Cruz V, Sency V, Wang H, Piard J, Kortüm F, Herget T, Bierhals T, Condell A, Ben-Zeev B, Kaur S, Christodoulou J, Piton A, Zweier C, Kraus C, Micalizzi A, Trivisano M, Specchio N, Lesca G, Møller RS, Tümer Z, Musgaard M, Gerard B, Lemke JR, Shi YS, Kristensen AS. Gain-of-function and loss-of-function variants in GRIA3 lead to distinct neurodevelopmental phenotypes. Brain 2024; 147:1837-1855. [PMID: 38038360 PMCID: PMC11068105 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awad403] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
Abstract
AMPA (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid) receptors (AMPARs) mediate fast excitatory neurotransmission in the brain. AMPARs form by homo- or heteromeric assembly of subunits encoded by the GRIA1-GRIA4 genes, of which only GRIA3 is X-chromosomal. Increasing numbers of GRIA3 missense variants are reported in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD), but only a few have been examined functionally. Here, we evaluated the impact on AMPAR function of one frameshift and 43 rare missense GRIA3 variants identified in patients with NDD by electrophysiological assays. Thirty-one variants alter receptor function and show loss-of-function or gain-of-function properties, whereas 13 appeared neutral. We collected detailed clinical data from 25 patients (from 23 families) harbouring 17 of these variants. All patients had global developmental impairment, mostly moderate (9/25) or severe (12/25). Twelve patients had seizures, including focal motor (6/12), unknown onset motor (4/12), focal impaired awareness (1/12), (atypical) absence (2/12), myoclonic (5/12) and generalized tonic-clonic (1/12) or atonic (1/12) seizures. The epilepsy syndrome was classified as developmental and epileptic encephalopathy in eight patients, developmental encephalopathy without seizures in 13 patients, and intellectual disability with epilepsy in four patients. Limb muscular hypotonia was reported in 13/25, and hypertonia in 10/25. Movement disorders were reported in 14/25, with hyperekplexia or non-epileptic erratic myoclonus being the most prevalent feature (8/25). Correlating receptor functional phenotype with clinical features revealed clinical features for GRIA3-associated NDDs and distinct NDD phenotypes for loss-of-function and gain-of-function variants. Gain-of-function variants were associated with more severe outcomes: patients were younger at the time of seizure onset (median age: 1 month), hypertonic and more often had movement disorders, including hyperekplexia. Patients with loss-of-function variants were older at the time of seizure onset (median age: 16 months), hypotonic and had sleeping disturbances. Loss-of-function and gain-of-function variants were disease-causing in both sexes but affected males often carried de novo or hemizygous loss-of-function variants inherited from healthy mothers, whereas affected females had mostly de novo heterozygous gain-of-function variants.
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- Berardo Rinaldi
- Medical Genetics Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan 20122, Italy
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
- Department of Epilepsy Genetics and Personalized Medicine, Danish Epilepsy Centre, Dianalund 4293, Denmark
- Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Model Animal Research Center, Department of Neurology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
- Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Organ Development and Regeneration, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Model Animal Research Center, Department of Neurology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa K1H 8M5, Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Unité fonctionnelle de médecine génomique et génétique clinique, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Bondy 93140, France
- NeuroDiderot, UMR 1141, Inserm, Université Paris Cité, Paris 75019, France
- UFR SMBH, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Bobigny 93000, France
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- Division of Neurology and Developmental Neurosciences, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Division of Neurology and Developmental Neurosciences, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Division of Neurology and Developmental Neurosciences, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Division of Neurology and Developmental Neurosciences, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
- Pediatric Movement Disorders Clinic, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes 44000, France
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- Pediatric Neurophysiology Department, CHU de Brest, Brest 29200, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHU de Brest, Brest 29200, France
- Université de Brest, CHU de Brest, UMR 1078, Brest F29200, France
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- APHP Sorbonne Université, Département de Génétique, Hôpital Armand Trousseau and Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris 75013, France
- Centre de Référence Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares, Paris 75013, France
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- APHP Sorbonne Université, Département de Génétique, Hôpital Armand Trousseau and Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris 75013, France
- Centre de Référence Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares, Paris 75013, France
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- Genetic Department, APHP, Sorbonne Université, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris 75013, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Sud, CHU de Rennes, Rennes 35200, France
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- Service de Génétique Moléculaire et Génomique, CHU de Rennes, Rennes 35200, France
- Université de Rennes, CNRS, Institut de Genetique et Developpement de Rennes, UMR 6290, Rennes 35200, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes 44000, France
- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l’institut du thorax, Nantes 44000, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes 44000, France
- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l’institut du thorax, Nantes 44000, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes 44000, France
- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l’institut du thorax, Nantes 44000, France
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- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, Service de Génétique Médicale, Nantes 44000, France
- Nantes Université, CHU Nantes, CNRS, INSERM, l’institut du thorax, Nantes 44000, France
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- Department of Paediatrics, Villefranche-sur-Saône Hospital, Villefranche-sur-Saône 69655, France
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- Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan 20122, Italy
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- Medical Genetics Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan 20122, Italy
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- Medical Genetics Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan 20122, Italy
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- Medical Genetics Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan 20122, Italy
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- Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Pediatria Pneumoinfettivologia, Milan 20122, Italy
- University of Milan, Milan 20122, Italy
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- Department of Neurology, ENCORE, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam 3015, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, ENCORE, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam 3015, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
- Department of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Children’s Health Ireland Crumlin, Dublin D12 N512, Ireland
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego School of Medicine, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
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- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego School of Medicine, Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA 92123, USA
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- Facultad de Medicina y Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana 22010, Mexico
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- Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20215, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20215, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20215, Germany
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- Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1E8, Canada
- Fred A Litwin Family Centre in Genetic Medicine, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada
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- Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1E8, Canada
- Department of Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1E8, Canada
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- North East Thames Regional Genetics Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK
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- DDC Clinic Center for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH 44062, USA
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- DDC Clinic Center for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH 44062, USA
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- DDC Clinic Center for Special Needs Children, Middlefield, OH 44062, USA
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- Centre de Génétique Humaine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon 25000, France
- UMR 1231 GAD, Inserm, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon 21000, France
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Brain and Mitochondrial Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- Pediatric Neurology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan 52621, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 4R73+8Q, Israel
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- Brain and Mitochondrial Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Department of Paediatrics, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- Brain and Mitochondrial Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Department of Paediatrics, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
- Discipline of Genetic Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2050, Australia
- Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NewSouth Wales 2050, Australia
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- Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Laboratoire de Diagnostic Génétique, Strasbourg 67000, France
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 91054, Germany
- Department of Human Genetics, Inselspital Bern, University of Bern, Bern 3010, Switzerland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen 91054, Germany
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- Translational Cytogenomics Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome 00165, Italy
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- Neurology, Epilepsy and Movement Disorders, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Full Member of European Reference Network EpiCARE, Rome 00165, Italy
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- Neurology, Epilepsy and Movement Disorders, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Full Member of European Reference Network EpiCARE, Rome 00165, Italy
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Lyon and Claude Bernard Lyon I University, Lyon 69100, France
- Pathophysiology and Genetics of Neuron and Muscle (PNMG), UCBL, CNRS UMR5261 - INSERM U1315, Lyon 69100, France
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- Department of Epilepsy Genetics and Personalized Medicine, Danish Epilepsy Centre, Dianalund 4293, Denmark
- Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230Denmark
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- Kennedy Center, Department of Clinical Genetics, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa K1H 8M5, Canada
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- Laboratoires de diagnostic genetique, Institut de genetique Medicale d'Alsace, Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 67000, France
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- Center for Rare Diseases, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Model Animal Research Center, Department of Neurology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Model Animal for Disease Study, National Resource Center for Mutant Mice, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210032, China
- Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology, Zhuhai 519031, China
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- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
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Vanden Broek K, Ryu JR, Perrier R, Tyndall AV, Childs SJ, Au PYB. SAM domain variants of EPHB4 associated with aberrant signaling are linked to lymphatic-related fetal hydrops and facial dysmorphology. Clin Genet 2024; 105:386-396. [PMID: 38151336 DOI: 10.1111/cge.14467] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
Abstract
Variants in EPHB4 (Ephrin type B receptor 4), a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor, have been identified in individuals with various vascular anomalies including Capillary Malformation-Arteriovenous Malformation syndrome 2 and lymphatic-related (non-immune) fetal hydrops (LRHF). Here, we identify two novel variants in EPHB4 that disrupt the SAM domain in two unrelated individuals. Proband 1 presented within the LRHF phenotypic spectrum with hydrops, and proband 2 presented with large nuchal translucency prenatally that spontaneously resolved in addition to dysmorphic features on exam postnatally. These are the first disease associated variants identified that do not disrupt EPHB4 protein expression or tyrosine-kinase activity. We identify that EPHB4 SAM domain disruptions can lead to aberrant downstream signaling, with a loss of the SAM domain resulting in elevated MAPK signaling in proband 1, and a missense variant within the SAM domain resulting in increased cell proliferation in proband 2. This data highlights that a functional SAM domain is required for proper EPHB4 function and vascular development.
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- Kara Vanden Broek
- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Pijpers JA, Au PYB, Weeke LC, Vein AA, Smit LS, Vilan A, Jacobs E, de Vries LS, Steggerda SJ, Cilio MR, Carapancea E, Cornet MC, Appendino JP, Peeters-Scholte CMPCD. Early recognition of characteristic conventional and amplitude-integrated EEG patterns of seizures in SCN2A and KCNQ3-related epilepsy in neonates. Seizure 2023; 110:212-219. [PMID: 37429183 DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2023.06.016] [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: 02/18/2023] [Revised: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/12/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Early recognition of seizures in neonates secondary to pathogenic variants in potassium or sodium channel coding genes is crucial, as these seizures are often resistant to commonly used anti-seizure medications but respond well to sodium channel blockers. Recently, a characteristic ictal amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram (aEEG) pattern was described in neonates with KCNQ2-related epilepsy. We report a similar aEEG pattern in seizures caused by SCN2A- and KCNQ3-pathogenic variants, as well as conventional EEG (cEEG) descriptions. METHODS International multicentre descriptive study, reporting clinical characteristics, aEEG and cEEG findings of 13 neonates with seizures due to pathogenic SCN2A- and KCNQ3-variants. As a comparison group, aEEGs and cEEGs of neonates with seizures due to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (n = 117) and other confirmed genetic causes affecting channel function (n = 55) were reviewed. RESULTS In 12 out of 13 patients, the aEEG showed a characteristic sequence of brief onset with a decrease, followed by a quick rise, and then postictal amplitude attenuation. This pattern correlated with bilateral EEG onset attenuation, followed by rhythmic discharges ending in several seconds of post-ictal amplitude suppression. Apart from patients with KCNQ2-related epilepsy, none of the patients in the comparison groups had a similar aEEG or cEEG pattern. DISCUSSION Seizures in SCN2A- and KCNQ3-related epilepsy in neonates can usually be recognized by a characteristic ictal aEEG pattern, previously reported only in KCNQ2-related epilepsy, extending this unique feature to other channelopathies. Awareness of this pattern facilitates the prompt initiation of precision treatment with sodium channel blockers even before genetic results are available.
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- Judith A Pijpers
- Departments of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands.
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- Departments of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
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- Departments of Neonatology, Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- Departments of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands
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- Departments of Neonatology, Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands; Departments of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neonatology, Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
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- Departments of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- Departments of Neonatology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- Departments of Neonatology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Departments of Pediatric Neurology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
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- Departments of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Leiden University Medical Center, PO Box 9600, Leiden 2300 RC, the Netherlands
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AlAbdi L, Desbois M, Rusnac DV, Sulaiman RA, Rosenfeld JA, Lalani S, Murdock DR, Burrage LC, Billie Au PY, Towner S, Wilson WG, Wong L, Brunet T, Strobl-Wildemann G, Burton JE, Hoganson G, McWalter K, Begtrup A, Zarate YA, Christensen EL, Opperman KJ, Giles AC, Helaby R, Kania A, Zheng N, Grill B, Alkuraya FS. Loss-of-function variants in MYCBP2 cause neurobehavioural phenotypes and corpus callosum defects. Brain 2023; 146:1373-1387. [PMID: 36200388 PMCID: PMC10319777 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awac364] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2021] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The corpus callosum is a bundle of axon fibres that connects the two hemispheres of the brain. Neurodevelopmental disorders that feature dysgenesis of the corpus callosum as a core phenotype offer a valuable window into pathology derived from abnormal axon development. Here, we describe a cohort of eight patients with a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a range of deficits including corpus callosum abnormalities, developmental delay, intellectual disability, epilepsy and autistic features. Each patient harboured a distinct de novo variant in MYCBP2, a gene encoding an atypical really interesting new gene (RING) ubiquitin ligase and signalling hub with evolutionarily conserved functions in axon development. We used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to introduce disease-associated variants into conserved residues in the Caenorhabditis elegans MYCBP2 orthologue, RPM-1, and evaluated functional outcomes in vivo. Consistent with variable phenotypes in patients with MYCBP2 variants, C. elegans carrying the corresponding human mutations in rpm-1 displayed axonal and behavioural abnormalities including altered habituation. Furthermore, abnormal axonal accumulation of the autophagy marker LGG-1/LC3 occurred in variants that affect RPM-1 ubiquitin ligase activity. Functional genetic outcomes from anatomical, cell biological and behavioural readouts indicate that MYCBP2 variants are likely to result in loss of function. Collectively, our results from multiple human patients and CRISPR gene editing with an in vivo animal model support a direct link between MYCBP2 and a human neurodevelopmental spectrum disorder that we term, MYCBP2-related developmental delay with corpus callosum defects (MDCD).
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- Lama AlAbdi
- Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11362, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Translational Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia
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- Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Pediatric Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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- Pediatric Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Northern California Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA 94611, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany
- Institute of Neurogenomics (ING), Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL 61605, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL 61605, USA
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- Genedx, Inc., 207 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA
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- Genedx, Inc., 207 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA
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- Section of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72202, 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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- Division of Medical Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9, Canada
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- Department of Translational Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia
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- Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, QC H2W 1R7, Canada
- Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
- Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B2, Canada
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C7, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, 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 Pharmacology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
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- Department of Translational Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia
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von Brauchitsch S, Haslinger D, Lindlar S, Thiele H, Bernsen N, Zahnert F, Reif PS, Balcik Y, Au PYB, Josephson CB, Altmüller J, Strzelczyk A, Knake S, Rosenow F, Chiocchetti A, Klein KM. The phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of epilepsy and intellectual disability in adults: Implications for genetic testing. Epilepsia Open 2023. [PMID: 36896643 DOI: 10.1002/epi4.12719] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE The phenotypic and genotypic spectrum of adult patients with epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID) is less clear than in children. We investigated an adult patient cohort to further elucidate this and inform the genetic testing approach. METHODS Fifty-two adult patients (30 male, 22 female) with epilepsy, at least mild ID and no known genetic or acquired cause were included and phenotyped. Variants identified through exome sequencing were evaluated using ACMG criteria. Identified variants were compared with commercially available gene panels. Cluster analysis of two features, age at seizure onset and age at ascertainment of cognitive deficits, was performed. RESULTS Median age was 27 years (range 20-57 years) with median seizure onset at 3 years and median ascertainment of cognitive deficits at 1 year. Likely pathogenic/pathogenic variants were identified in 16/52 patients (31%) including 14 (27%) single nucleotide variants and 2 (4%) copy number variants. Simulated yield of commercial gene panels varied between 13% in small (≤144 genes) and 27% in large panels (≥1478 genes). Cluster analysis (optimal number 3 clusters) identified a cluster with early seizure onset and early developmental delay (developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, n = 26), a cluster with early developmental delay but late seizure onset (ID with epilepsy, n = 16) and a third cluster with late ascertainment of cognitive deficits and variable seizure onset (n = 7). The smaller gene panels particularly missed the genes identified in the cluster with early ascertainment of cognitive deficits and later onset of epilepsy (0/4) as opposed to the cluster with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (7/10). SIGNIFICANCE Our data indicates that adult patients with epilepsy and ID represent a heterogeneous cohort that includes grown-up patients with DEE but also patients with primary ID and later onset of epilepsy. To maximize diagnostic yield in this cohort either large gene panels or exome sequencing should be used.
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- Sophie von Brauchitsch
- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center Hessen, Department of Neurology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Centre for Health Informatics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada
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- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Core Facility Genomics, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Epilepsy Center Hessen, Department of Neurology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Calgary, Canada
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Pavinato L, Delle Vedove A, Carli D, Ferrero M, Carestiato S, Howe JL, Agolini E, Coviello DA, van de Laar I, Au PYB, Di Gregorio E, Fabbiani A, Croci S, Mencarelli MA, Bruno LP, Renieri A, Veltra D, Sofocleous C, Faivre L, Mazel B, Safraou H, Denommé-Pichon AS, van Slegtenhorst MA, Giesbertz N, van Jaarsveld RH, Childers A, Rogers RC, Novelli A, De Rubeis S, Buxbaum JD, Scherer SW, Ferrero GB, Wirth B, Brusco A. CAPRIN1 haploinsufficiency causes a neurodevelopmental disorder with language impairment, ADHD and ASD. Brain 2023; 146:534-548. [PMID: 35979925 PMCID: PMC10169411 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awac278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
We describe an autosomal dominant disorder associated with loss-of-function variants in the Cell cycle associated protein 1 (CAPRIN1; MIM*601178). CAPRIN1 encodes a ubiquitous protein that regulates the transport and translation of neuronal mRNAs critical for synaptic plasticity, as well as mRNAs encoding proteins important for cell proliferation and migration in multiple cell types. We identified 12 cases with loss-of-function CAPRIN1 variants, and a neurodevelopmental phenotype characterized by language impairment/speech delay (100%), intellectual disability (83%), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (82%) and autism spectrum disorder (67%). Affected individuals also had respiratory problems (50%), limb/skeletal anomalies (50%), developmental delay (42%) feeding difficulties (33%), seizures (33%) and ophthalmologic problems (33%). In patient-derived lymphoblasts and fibroblasts, we showed a monoallelic expression of the wild-type allele, and a reduction of the transcript and protein compatible with a half dose. To further study pathogenic mechanisms, we generated sCAPRIN1+/- human induced pluripotent stem cells via CRISPR-Cas9 mutagenesis and differentiated them into neuronal progenitor cells and cortical neurons. CAPRIN1 loss caused reduced neuronal processes, overall disruption of the neuronal organization and an increased neuronal degeneration. We also observed an alteration of mRNA translation in CAPRIN1+/- neurons, compatible with its suggested function as translational inhibitor. CAPRIN1+/- neurons also showed an impaired calcium signalling and increased oxidative stress, two mechanisms that may directly affect neuronal networks development, maintenance and function. According to what was previously observed in the mouse model, measurements of activity in CAPRIN1+/- neurons via micro-electrode arrays indicated lower spike rates and bursts, with an overall reduced activity. In conclusion, we demonstrate that CAPRIN1 haploinsufficiency causes a novel autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder and identify morphological and functional alterations associated with this disorder in human neuronal models.
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- Lisa Pavinato
- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.,Institute of Human Genetics, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Center for Rare Diseases Cologne, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Center for Rare Diseases Cologne, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.,Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.,Pediatric Onco-Hematology, Stem Cell Transplantation and Cell Therapy Division, Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Città Della Salute e Della Scienza di Torino, 10126 Turin, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.,Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Piedmont, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta, 10154 Turin, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy
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- The Centre for Applied Genomics, Genetics and Genome Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Human Genetics, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, 16147 Genoa, Italy
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- Clinical Genetics, Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Medical Genetics Unit, Città della Salute e della Scienza University Hospital, 10126 Turin, Italy
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- Medical Genetics Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, 53100 Siena, Italy.,Medical Genetics, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.,Med Biotech Hub and Competence Center, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Medical Genetics, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.,Med Biotech Hub and Competence Center, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Medical Genetics, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.,Med Biotech Hub and Competence Center, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Medical Genetics Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, 53100 Siena, Italy.,Medical Genetics, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy.,Med Biotech Hub and Competence Center, Department of Medical Biotechnologies, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'Aghia Sophia' Children's Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 'Aghia Sophia' Children's Hospital, 11527 Athens, Greece
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- Centre de référence Anomalies du Développement et Syndromes Malformatifs, Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon, 21079 Dijon, France.,UMR1231 GAD, Inserm-Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, 21078 Dijon, France
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- Centre de référence Anomalies du Développement et Syndromes Malformatifs, Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon, 21079 Dijon, France
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- UMR1231 GAD, Inserm-Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, 21078 Dijon, France.,Unité Fonctionnelle Innovation en Diagnostic génomique des maladies rares, FHU TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, 21000 Dijon, France
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- UMR1231 GAD, Inserm-Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, 21078 Dijon, France.,Unité Fonctionnelle Innovation en Diagnostic génomique des maladies rares, FHU TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, 21000 Dijon, France
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- Clinical Genetics, Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, IRCCS, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy
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- Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.,The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.,Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.,The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.,Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.,McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Center for Rare Diseases Cologne, University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.,Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.,Medical Genetics Unit, Città della Salute e della Scienza University Hospital, 10126 Turin, Italy
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Plumereau Q, Ebdalla A, Poulin H, Appendino JP, Scantlebury MH, Au PYB, Chahine M. De novo Y1460C missense variant in Na V1.1 impedes the pore region and results in epileptic encephalopathy. Sci Rep 2022; 12:17182. [PMID: 36229510 PMCID: PMC9561119 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22208-x] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. SCN1A encodes NaV1.1, a neuronal voltage-gated Na+ channel that is highly expressed throughout the central nervous system. NaV1.1 is localized within the axon initial segment where it plays a critical role in the initiation and propagation of action potentials and neuronal firing, predominantly in γ-amino-butyric-acid (GABA)ergic neurons of the hippocampus. The objective of this study was to characterize a de novo missense variant of uncertain significance in the SCN1A gene of a proband presented with febrile status epilepticus characterized by generalized tonic clonic movements associated with ictal emesis and an abnormal breathing pattern. Screening a gene panel revealed a heterozygous missense variant of uncertain significance in the SCN1A gene, designated c.4379A>G, p.(Tyr1460Cys). The NaV1.1 wild-type (WT) and mutant channel reproduced in vivo and were transfected in HEK 293 cells. Na+ currents were recorded using the whole-cell configuration of the patch-clamp technique. This NaV1.1 variant (Tyr1460Cys) failed to express functional Na+ currents when expressed in HEK293 cells, most probably due to a pore defect of the channel given that the cell surface expression of the channel was normal. Currents generated after co-transfection with functional WT channels exhibited biophysical properties comparable to those of WT channels, which was mainly due to the functional WT channels at the cell surface. The NaV1.1 variant failed to express functional Na+ currents, most probably due to pore impairment and exhibited a well-established loss of function mechanism. The present study highlights the added-value of functional testing for understanding the pathophysiology and potential treatment decisions for patients with undiagnosed developmental epileptic encephalopathy.
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- Quentin Plumereau
- grid.23856.3a0000 0004 1936 8390CERVO Brain Research Center, 2601, de la Canardière, Quebec City, QC G1J 2G3 Canada
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- grid.22072.350000 0004 1936 7697Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB Canada
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- grid.23856.3a0000 0004 1936 8390CERVO Brain Research Center, 2601, de la Canardière, Quebec City, QC G1J 2G3 Canada
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- grid.22072.350000 0004 1936 7697Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB Canada
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- grid.22072.350000 0004 1936 7697Neurology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB Canada
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- grid.22072.350000 0004 1936 7697Neurology Section, Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB Canada
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- grid.23856.3a0000 0004 1936 8390CERVO Brain Research Center, 2601, de la Canardière, Quebec City, QC G1J 2G3 Canada ,grid.23856.3a0000 0004 1936 8390Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC Canada
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Johannesen KM, Iqbal S, Guazzi M, Mohammadi NA, Pérez-Palma E, Schaefer E, De Saint Martin A, Abiwarde MT, McTague A, Pons R, Piton A, Kurian MA, Ambegaonkar G, Firth H, Sanchis-Juan A, Deprez M, Jansen K, De Waele L, Briltra EH, Verbeek NE, van Kempen M, Fazeli W, Striano P, Zara F, Visser G, Braakman HMH, Haeusler M, Elbracht M, Vaher U, Smol T, Lemke JR, Platzer K, Kennedy J, Klein KM, Au PYB, Smyth K, Kaplan J, Thomas M, Dewenter MK, Dinopoulos A, Campbell AJ, Lal D, Lederer D, Liao VWY, Ahring PK, Møller RS, Gardella E. Structural mapping of GABRB3 variants reveals genotype-phenotype correlations. Genet Med 2022; 24:681-693. [PMID: 34906499 DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2021.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE Pathogenic variants in GABRB3 have been associated with a spectrum of phenotypes from severe developmental disorders and epileptic encephalopathies to milder epilepsy syndromes and mild intellectual disability (ID). In this study, we analyzed a large cohort of individuals with GABRB3 variants to deepen the phenotypic understanding and investigate genotype-phenotype correlations. METHODS Through an international collaboration, we analyzed electro-clinical data of unpublished individuals with variants in GABRB3, and we reviewed previously published cases. All missense variants were mapped onto the 3-dimensional structure of the GABRB3 subunit, and clinical phenotypes associated with the different key structural domains were investigated. RESULTS We characterized 71 individuals with GABRB3 variants, including 22 novel subjects, expressing a wide spectrum of phenotypes. Interestingly, phenotypes correlated with structural locations of the variants. Generalized epilepsy, with a median age at onset of 12 months, and mild-to-moderate ID were associated with variants in the extracellular domain. Focal epilepsy with earlier onset (median: age 4 months) and severe ID were associated with variants in both the pore-lining helical transmembrane domain and the extracellular domain. CONCLUSION These genotype-phenotype correlations will aid the genetic counseling and treatment of individuals affected by GABRB3-related disorders. Future studies may reveal whether functional differences underlie the phenotypic differences.
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- Katrine M Johannesen
- Department of Epilepsy Genetics and Personalized Treatment, The Danish Epilepsy Centre "Filadelfia", Dianalund, Denmark; Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- The Center for the Development of Therapeutics (CDOT), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA; Analytic & Translational Genetics Unit (ATGU), Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, The Danish Epilepsy Centre "Filadelfia", Dianalund, Denmark
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- Department of Epilepsy Genetics and Personalized Treatment, The Danish Epilepsy Centre "Filadelfia", Dianalund, Denmark; Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Centro de Genética y Genómica, Facultad de Medicina Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
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- Molecular Neurosciences, Developmental Neurosciences Programme, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- First Department of Pediatrics, "I Agia Sofia" Children Hospital, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Laboratoire de diagnostic génétique, Hôpital Civil, CHRU de Strasburg, Strasbourg, France
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- Molecular Neurosciences, Developmental Neurosciences Programme, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Paediatric Neurology, Child Development Centre, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- NIHR BioResource, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- CNRS, IPMC, Université Côte d'Azur, Sophia-Antipolis, France
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, University Hospitals KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, University Hospitals KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Development and Regeneration, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Kortrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- IRCCS Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy; Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health, University of Genova, Genova, Italy; Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Neuroscience, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy
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- Stichting Epilepsie Instellingen Nederland (SEIN), Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology, Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Neurology, Academic Center for Epileptology Kempenhaeghe & Maastricht University Medical Center, Heeze, The Netherlands
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- Division of Neuropediatrics and Social Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Children's Clinic of Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia; ERN EpiCARE, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institut de Genetique Medicale, CHU Lille, Universite de Lille, Lille, France
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Clinical Genetics Service, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, St Michael's Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute & Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Department of Medical Genetics, Hotchkiss Brain Institute & Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Department of Community Health Sciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute & Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Nemours A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
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- Precision Medicine/Genetic Testing Stewardship Program, Nemours A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Universitätsmedizin, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz Institut für Humangenetik, Mainz, Germany
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- Third Department of Pediatrics, Attiko University Hospital, University of Athens, Haidari, Greece
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- The Center for the Development of Therapeutics (CDOT), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA; Genomic Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH; Epilepsy Center, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Centre de Génétique Humaine, Institut de Pathologie et de Génétique, Charleroi, Belgium
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- Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Epilepsy Genetics and Personalized Treatment, The Danish Epilepsy Centre "Filadelfia", Dianalund, Denmark; Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Epilepsy Genetics and Personalized Treatment, The Danish Epilepsy Centre "Filadelfia", Dianalund, Denmark; Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Department of Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, The Danish Epilepsy Centre "Filadelfia", Dianalund, Denmark.
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Yang XR, Poulin H, Pouliot V, Plumereau Q, Pablo Appendino J, Billie Au PY, Chahine M. Biophysical characterization of SCN1A and SCN2A variants related to epilepsy. Biophys J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.11.2256] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Maroilley T, Wright NAM, Diao C, MacLaren L, Pfeffer G, Sarna JR, Billie Au PY, Tarailo-Graovac M. Case Report: Biallelic Loss of Function ATM due to Pathogenic Synonymous and Novel Deep Intronic Variant c.1803-270T > G Identified by Genome Sequencing in a Child With Ataxia–Telangiectasia. Front Genet 2022; 13:815210. [PMID: 35145552 PMCID: PMC8822238 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.815210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Ataxia–telangiectasia (AT) is a complex neurodegenerative disease with an increased risk for bone marrow failure and malignancy. AT is caused by biallelic loss of function variants in ATM, which encodes a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase that responds to DNA damage. Herein, we report a child with progressive ataxia, chorea, and genome instability, highly suggestive of AT. The clinical ataxia gene panel identified a maternal heterozygous synonymous variant (NM_000051.3: c.2250G > A), previously described to result in exon 14 skipping. Subsequently, trio genome sequencing led to the identification of a novel deep intronic variant [NG_009830.1(NM_000051.3): c.1803-270T > G] inherited from the father. Transcript analyses revealed that c.1803-270T > G results in aberrant inclusion of 56 base pairs of intron 11. In silico tests predicted a premature stop codon as a consequence, suggesting non-functional ATM; and DNA repair analyses confirmed functional loss of ATM. Our findings highlight the power of genome sequencing, considering deep intronic variants in undiagnosed rare disease patients.
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- Tatiana Maroilley
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Section of Pediatric Hematology-Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children’s Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- *Correspondence: Ping Yee Billie Au, ; Maja Tarailo-Graovac,
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- *Correspondence: Ping Yee Billie Au, ; Maja Tarailo-Graovac,
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Rodan LH, Spillmann RC, Kurata HT, Lamothe SM, Maghera J, Jamra RA, Alkelai A, Antonarakis SE, Atallah I, Bar-Yosef O, Bilan F, Bjorgo K, Blanc X, Van Bogaert P, Bolkier Y, Burrage LC, Christ BU, Granadillo JL, Dickson P, Donald KA, Dubourg C, Eliyahu A, Emrick L, Engleman K, Gonfiantini MV, Good JM, Kalser J, Kloeckner C, Lachmeijer G, Macchiaiolo M, Nicita F, Odent S, O'Heir E, Ortiz-Gonzalez X, Pacio-Miguez M, Palomares-Bralo M, Pena L, Platzer K, Quinodoz M, Ranza E, Rosenfeld JA, Roulet-Perez E, Santani A, Santos-Simarro F, Pode-Shakked B, Skraban C, Slaugh R, Superti-Furga A, Thiffault I, van Jaabrsveld RH, Vincent M, Wang HG, Zacher P, Rush E, Pitt GS, Au PYB, Shashi V. Correction: Phenotypic expansion of CACNA1C-associated disorders to include isolated neurological manifestations. Genet Med 2021; 23:2016. [PMID: 34522029 DOI: 10.1038/s41436-021-01306-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Lance H Rodan
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Pediatric Neurology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- CHU de Poitiers, Service de Génétique, EA3808 NEUVACOD, Poitiers, France
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Medigenome, Swiss Institute of Genomic Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
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- Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, SA, South Africa
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, SA, South Africa
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- Service de Génétique Moléculaire et Génomique, CHU, Rennes, France
- University of Rennes, CNRS, IGDR, UMR 6290, Rennes, France
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- The Danek Gertner Insitute of Human Genetics, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
- Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
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- Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Pediatric Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Pediatric Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Rare Diseases and Medical Genetic Unit, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Service de Génétique Clinique, Centre de référence "Maladies Rares" Anomalies du développement CLAD-Ouest, Hôpital SUD, Échirolles, France
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Mendelian Genomics and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, CIBERER, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, CIBERER, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Medigenome, Swiss Institute of Genomic Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, 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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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, CIBERER, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Institute of Rare Diseases, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHU Nantes, France; Inserm, CNRS, Univ Nantes, l'institut du thorax, Nantes, France
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Saxon Epilepsy Center Kleinwachau, Radeberg, Germany
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- The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
- Department of Pediatrics University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA.
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Rodan LH, Spillmann RC, Kurata HT, Lamothe SM, Maghera J, Jamra RA, Alkelai A, Antonarakis SE, Atallah I, Bar-Yosef O, Bilan F, Bjorgo K, Blanc X, Van Bogaert P, Bolkier Y, Burrage LC, Christ BU, Granadillo JL, Dickson P, Donald KA, Dubourg C, Eliyahu A, Emrick L, Engleman K, Gonfiantini MV, Good JM, Kalser J, Kloeckner C, Lachmeijer G, Macchiaiolo M, Nicita F, Odent S, O'Heir E, Ortiz-Gonzalez X, Pacio-Miguez M, Palomares-Bralo M, Pena L, Platzer K, Quinodoz M, Ranza E, Rosenfeld JA, Roulet-Perez E, Santani A, Santos-Simarro F, Pode-Shakked B, Skraban C, Slaugh R, Superti-Furga A, Thiffault I, van Jaabrsveld RH, Vincent M, Wang HG, Zacher P, Rush E, Pitt GS, Au PYB, Shashi V. Phenotypic expansion of CACNA1C-associated disorders to include isolated neurological manifestations. Genet Med 2021; 23:1922-1932. [PMID: 34163037 PMCID: PMC8488020 DOI: 10.1038/s41436-021-01232-8] [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] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE CACNA1C encodes the alpha-1-subunit of a voltage-dependent L-type calcium channel expressed in human heart and brain. Heterozygous variants in CACNA1C have previously been reported in association with Timothy syndrome and long QT syndrome. Several case reports have suggested that CACNA1C variation may also be associated with a primarily neurological phenotype. METHODS We describe 25 individuals from 22 families with heterozygous variants in CACNA1C, who present with predominantly neurological manifestations. RESULTS Fourteen individuals have de novo, nontruncating variants and present variably with developmental delays, intellectual disability, autism, hypotonia, ataxia, and epilepsy. Functional studies of a subgroup of missense variants via patch clamp experiments demonstrated differential effects on channel function in vitro, including loss of function (p.Leu1408Val), neutral effect (p.Leu614Arg), and gain of function (p.Leu657Phe, p.Leu614Pro). The remaining 11 individuals from eight families have truncating variants in CACNA1C. The majority of these individuals have expressive language deficits, and half have autism. CONCLUSION We expand the phenotype associated with CACNA1C variants to include neurodevelopmental abnormalities and epilepsy, in the absence of classic features of Timothy syndrome or long QT syndrome.
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- Lance H Rodan
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Genetic Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Pediatric Neurology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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- CHU de Poitiers, Service de Génétique, EA3808 NEUVACOD, Poitiers, France
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Medigenome, Swiss Institute of Genomic Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
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- Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, SA, South Africa
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, SA, South Africa
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- Service de Génétique Moléculaire et Génomique, CHU, Rennes, France
- University of Rennes, CNRS, IGDR, UMR 6290, Rennes, France
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- The Danek Gertner Insitute of Human Genetics, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
- Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
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- Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Pediatric Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Pediatric Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Rare Diseases and Medical Genetic Unit, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neuromuscular and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Service de Génétique Clinique, Centre de référence "Maladies Rares" Anomalies du développement CLAD-Ouest, Hôpital SUD, Échirolles, France
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- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Mendelian Genomics and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, CIBERER, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, CIBERER, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Medigenome, Swiss Institute of Genomic Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Division of Genomic Diagnostics, 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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- Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular (INGEMM), Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ, CIBERER, ISCIII, Madrid, Spain
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- Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Institute of Rare Diseases, Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hahsomer, Israel
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHU Nantes, France; Inserm, CNRS, Univ Nantes, l'institut du thorax, Nantes, France
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Saxon Epilepsy Center Kleinwachau, Radeberg, Germany
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- The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA
- Department of Pediatrics University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Department of Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA.
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Cherian C, Appendino JP, Ashtiani S, Federico P, Molnar CP, Kerr M, Khan A, Au PYB, Klein KM. The phenotypic spectrum of KCNT1: a new family with variable epilepsy syndromes including mild focal epilepsy. J Neurol 2021; 269:2162-2171. [PMID: 34537872 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-021-10808-y] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Pathogenic variants in KCNT1 have been associated with severe forms of epilepsy, typically sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy or epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures. To show that pathogenic variants in KCNT1 can be associated with mild extra-frontal epilepsy, we report a KCNT1 family with a wide spectrum of phenotypes ranging from developmental and epileptic encephalopathy to mild focal epilepsy without cognitive regression and not consistent with sleep-related hypermotor epilepsy. METHODS A large Canadian family of Caucasian descent including 9 affected family members was recruited. Family members were phenotyped by direct interview and review of existing medical records. Clinical epilepsy gene panel analysis and exome sequencing were performed. RESULTS Phenotypic information was available for five family members of which two had developmental and epileptic encephalopathy and three had normal development and focal epilepsy with presumed extra-frontal onset. All three had predominantly nocturnal seizures that did not show hyperkinetic features. All three reported clusters of seizures at night with a feeling of being unable to breathe associated with gasping for air, choking and/or repetitive swallowing possibly suggesting insular or opercular involvement. Genetic analysis identified a heterozygous KCNT1 c.2882G > A, p.Arg961His variant that was predicted to be deleterious. DISCUSSION This family demonstrates that the phenotypic spectrum associated with KCNT1 pathogenic variants is broader than previously assumed. Our findings indicate that variants in KCNT1 can be associated with mild focal epilepsy and should not be excluded during variant interpretation in such patients based solely on gene-disease validity.
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- Christina Cherian
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, 1403 29 Street NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 2T9, Canada
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, Alberta Children's Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, 1403 29 Street NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 2T9, Canada.,Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Department of Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Seaman Family MR Research Centre, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cumming School of Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, 1403 29 Street NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 2T9, Canada. .,Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. .,Cumming School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. .,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. .,Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. .,Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Department of Neurology, Center of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. .,Center for Personalized Translational Epilepsy Research (CePTER), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Alharatani R, Ververi A, Beleza-Meireles A, Ji W, Mis E, Patterson QT, Griffin JN, Bhujel N, Chang CA, Dixit A, Konstantino M, Healy C, Hannan S, Neo N, Cash A, Li D, Bhoj E, Zackai EH, Cleaver R, Baralle D, McEntagart M, Newbury-Ecob R, Scott R, Hurst JA, Au PYB, Hosey MT, Khokha M, Marciano DK, Lakhani SA, Liu KJ. Novel truncating mutations in CTNND1 cause a dominant craniofacial and cardiac syndrome. Hum Mol Genet 2021; 29:1900-1921. [PMID: 32196547 PMCID: PMC7372553 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2020] [Revised: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
CTNND1 encodes the p120-catenin (p120) protein, which has a wide range of functions, including the maintenance of cell–cell junctions, regulation of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition and transcriptional signalling. Due to advances in next-generation sequencing, CTNND1 has been implicated in human diseases including cleft palate and blepharocheilodontic (BCD) syndrome albeit only recently. In this study, we identify eight novel protein-truncating variants, six de novo, in 13 participants from nine families presenting with craniofacial dysmorphisms including cleft palate and hypodontia, as well as congenital cardiac anomalies, limb dysmorphologies and neurodevelopmental disorders. Using conditional deletions in mice as well as CRISPR/Cas9 approaches to target CTNND1 in Xenopus, we identified a subset of phenotypes that can be linked to p120-catenin in epithelial integrity and turnover, and additional phenotypes that suggest mesenchymal roles of CTNND1. We propose that CTNND1 variants have a wider developmental role than previously described and that variations in this gene underlie not only cleft palate and BCD but may be expanded to a broader velocardiofacial-like syndrome.
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- Reham Alharatani
- Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.,Paediatric Dentistry, Centre of Oral, Clinical and Translational Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE5 9RS, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK
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- Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.,Department of Clinical Genetics, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 9RT, UK
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- Pediatric Genomics Discovery Program, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Pediatric Genomics Discovery Program, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8856, USA
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- Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.,Pediatric Genomics Discovery Program, Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- South Thames Cleft Service, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK
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- Pediatric Genomics Discovery Program, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK
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- Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK
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- Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.,Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- South Thames Cleft Service, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 7EH, UK
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- Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Peninsula Clinical Genetics Service, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK
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- Human Development and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, St George's Hospital, London SW17 0RE, UK
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- Clinical Genetics, University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol BS2 8EG, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Paediatric Dentistry, Centre of Oral, Clinical and Translational Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE5 9RS, UK
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- Pediatric Genomics Discovery Program, Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8856, USA
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- Pediatric Genomics Discovery Program, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK
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Parenti I, Lehalle D, Nava C, Torti E, Leitão E, Person R, Mizuguchi T, Matsumoto N, Kato M, Nakamura K, de Man SA, Cope H, Shashi V, Friedman J, Joset P, Steindl K, Rauch A, Muffels I, van Hasselt PM, Petit F, Smol T, Le Guyader G, Bilan F, Sorlin A, Vitobello A, Philippe C, van de Laar IMBH, van Slegtenhorst MA, Campeau PM, Au PYB, Nakashima M, Saitsu H, Yamamoto T, Nomura Y, Louie RJ, Lyons MJ, Dobson A, Plomp AS, Motazacker MM, Kaiser FJ, Timberlake AT, Fuchs SA, Depienne C, Mignot C. Missense and truncating variants in CHD5 in a dominant neurodevelopmental disorder with intellectual disability, behavioral disturbances, and epilepsy. Hum Genet 2021; 140:1109-1120. [PMID: 33944996 PMCID: PMC8197709 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-021-02283-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Located in the critical 1p36 microdeletion region, the chromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 5 (CHD5) gene encodes a subunit of the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylation (NuRD) complex required for neuronal development. Pathogenic variants in six of nine chromodomain (CHD) genes cause autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorders, while CHD5-related disorders are still unknown. Thanks to GeneMatcher and international collaborations, we assembled a cohort of 16 unrelated individuals harboring heterozygous CHD5 variants, all identified by exome sequencing. Twelve patients had de novo CHD5 variants, including ten missense and two splice site variants. Three familial cases had nonsense or missense variants segregating with speech delay, learning disabilities, and/or craniosynostosis. One patient carried a frameshift variant of unknown inheritance due to unavailability of the father. The most common clinical features included language deficits (81%), behavioral symptoms (69%), intellectual disability (64%), epilepsy (62%), and motor delay (56%). Epilepsy types were variable, with West syndrome observed in three patients, generalized tonic-clonic seizures in two, and other subtypes observed in one individual each. Our findings suggest that, in line with other CHD-related disorders, heterozygous CHD5 variants are associated with a variable neurodevelopmental syndrome that includes intellectual disability with speech delay, epilepsy, and behavioral problems as main features.
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- Ilaria Parenti
- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Département de Génétique, Centre de Référence Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière and Hôpital Trousseau, APHP, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Institut du Cerveau (ICM), UMR S 1127, Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Human Genetics, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan
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- Department of Human Genetics, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, 142-8666, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, 990-9585, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, Rady Children's Hospital, UCSD, San Diego and Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Zurich, Schlieren, 8952, Zurich, Switzerland
- Rare Disease Initiative Zurich, Clinical Research Priority Program for Rare Diseases University of Zurich, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Zurich, Schlieren, 8952, Zurich, Switzerland
- Rare Disease Initiative Zurich, Clinical Research Priority Program for Rare Diseases University of Zurich, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Zurich, Schlieren, 8952, Zurich, Switzerland
- Rare Disease Initiative Zurich, Clinical Research Priority Program for Rare Diseases University of Zurich, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institut de Génétique Médicale, CHRU Lille, Université de Lille, Lille, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
- EA3808 NEUVACOD, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- Service de Génétique Médicale, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
- EA3808 NEUVACOD, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle d'Innovation Diagnostique des Maladies Rares, FHU-TRANSLAD, France Hospitalo-Universitaire Médecine Translationnelle et Anomalies du Développement (TRANSLAD), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon Bourgogne, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France
- INSERM-Université de Bourgogne UMR1231 GAD « Génétique Des Anomalies du Développement », FHU-TRANSLAD, UFR Des Sciences de Santé, Dijon, France
- Centre de Référence Maladies Rares «Anomalies du Développement et Syndromes Malformatifs », Centre de Génétique, FHU-TRANSLAD, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle d'Innovation Diagnostique des Maladies Rares, FHU-TRANSLAD, France Hospitalo-Universitaire Médecine Translationnelle et Anomalies du Développement (TRANSLAD), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon Bourgogne, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France
- INSERM-Université de Bourgogne UMR1231 GAD « Génétique Des Anomalies du Développement », FHU-TRANSLAD, UFR Des Sciences de Santé, Dijon, France
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- Unité Fonctionnelle d'Innovation Diagnostique des Maladies Rares, FHU-TRANSLAD, France Hospitalo-Universitaire Médecine Translationnelle et Anomalies du Développement (TRANSLAD), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon Bourgogne, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, Dijon, France
- INSERM-Université de Bourgogne UMR1231 GAD « Génétique Des Anomalies du Développement », FHU-TRANSLAD, UFR Des Sciences de Santé, Dijon, France
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
- Sainte-Justine Hospital, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine and School of Medicine, Hirosaki, 036-8562, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Hirosaki National Hospital, Hirosaki, 036-8545, Japan
- Aomori City Health Center, Aomori, 030-0962, Japan
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- Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC, 29646, USA
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Genome Diagnostics, Department of Clinical Genetics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
- Institut du Cerveau (ICM), UMR S 1127, Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France.
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- Département de Génétique, Centre de Référence Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière and Hôpital Trousseau, APHP, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
- Institut du Cerveau (ICM), UMR S 1127, Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Sorbonne Université, 75013, Paris, France.
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Sheppard SE, Campbell IM, Harr MH, Gold N, Li D, Bjornsson HT, Cohen JS, Fahrner JA, Fatemi A, Harris JR, Nowak C, Stevens CA, Grand K, Au M, Graham JM, Sanchez-Lara PA, Campo MD, Jones MC, Abdul-Rahman O, Alkuraya FS, Bassetti JA, Bergstrom K, Bhoj E, Dugan S, Kaplan JD, Derar N, Gripp KW, Hauser N, Innes AM, Keena B, Kodra N, Miller R, Nelson B, Nowaczyk MJ, Rahbeeni Z, Ben-Shachar S, Shieh JT, Slavotinek A, Sobering AK, Abbott MA, Allain DC, Amlie-Wolf L, Au PYB, Bedoukian E, Beek G, Barry J, Berg J, Bernstein JA, Cytrynbaum C, Chung BHY, Donoghue S, Dorrani N, Eaton A, Flores-Daboub JA, Dubbs H, Felix CA, Fong CT, Fung JLF, Gangaram B, Goldstein A, Greenberg R, Ha TK, Hersh J, Izumi K, Kallish S, Kravets E, Kwok PY, Jobling RK, Knight Johnson AE, Kushner J, Lee BH, Levin B, Lindstrom K, Manickam K, Mardach R, McCormick E, McLeod DR, Mentch FD, Minks K, Muraresku C, Nelson SF, Porazzi P, Pichurin PN, Powell-Hamilton NN, Powis Z, Ritter A, Rogers C, Rohena L, Ronspies C, Schroeder A, Stark Z, Starr L, Stoler J, Suwannarat P, Velinov M, Weksberg R, Wilnai Y, Zadeh N, Zand DJ, Falk MJ, Hakonarson H, Zackai EH, Quintero-Rivera F. Expanding the genotypic and phenotypic spectrum in a diverse cohort of 104 individuals with Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome. Am J Med Genet A 2021; 185:1649-1665. [PMID: 33783954 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [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: 09/28/2020] [Revised: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WSS) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by monoallelic variants in KMT2A and characterized by intellectual disability and hypertrichosis. We performed a retrospective, multicenter, observational study of 104 individuals with WSS from five continents to characterize the clinical and molecular spectrum of WSS in diverse populations, to identify physical features that may be more prevalent in White versus Black Indigenous People of Color individuals, to delineate genotype-phenotype correlations, to define developmental milestones, to describe the syndrome through adulthood, and to examine clinicians' differential diagnoses. Sixty-nine of the 82 variants (84%) observed in the study were not previously reported in the literature. Common clinical features identified in the cohort included: developmental delay or intellectual disability (97%), constipation (63.8%), failure to thrive (67.7%), feeding difficulties (66.3%), hypertrichosis cubiti (57%), short stature (57.8%), and vertebral anomalies (46.9%). The median ages at walking and first words were 20 months and 18 months, respectively. Hypotonia was associated with loss of function (LoF) variants, and seizures were associated with non-LoF variants. This study identifies genotype-phenotype correlations as well as race-facial feature associations in an ethnically diverse cohort, and accurately defines developmental trajectories, medical comorbidities, and long-term outcomes in individuals with WSS.
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- Sarah E Sheppard
- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Mass General Hospital for Children, Division of Medical Genetics and Metabolism and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Landspitali University Hospital, Iceland
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- Division of Neurogenetics and Hugo W. Moser Research Institute, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Ali Fatemi
- Division of Neurogenetics and Hugo W. Moser Research Institute, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Jacqueline R Harris
- Division of Neurogenetics and Hugo W. Moser Research Institute, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
| | - Catherine Nowak
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, The Feingold Center for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Cathy A Stevens
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
| | - Katheryn Grand
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Margaret Au
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - John M Graham
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Pedro A Sanchez-Lara
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Miguel Del Campo
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California, USA
| | - Marilyn C Jones
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California, USA
| | - Omar Abdul-Rahman
- Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - Fowzan S Alkuraya
- Department of Translational Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Jennifer A Bassetti
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA
| | - Katherine Bergstrom
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA
| | - Elizabeth Bhoj
- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Sarah Dugan
- Division of Medical Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
| | - Julie D Kaplan
- Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - Nada Derar
- Department of Medical Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Karen W Gripp
- Division of Medical Genetics, Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
| | - Natalie Hauser
- Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
| | - A Micheil Innes
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
| | - Beth Keena
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Neslida Kodra
- Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
| | - Rebecca Miller
- Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
| | - Beverly Nelson
- Department of Clinical Skills, St. George's University, True Blue, Grenada
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- Department of Medical Genomics, Center for Genomic Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Shay Ben-Shachar
- Genetic Institute, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
| | - Joseph T Shieh
- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Anne Slavotinek
- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Andrew K Sobering
- Department of Biochemistry, St. George's University, True Blue, Grenada
| | - Mary-Alice Abbott
- Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Dawn C Allain
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - Louise Amlie-Wolf
- Division of Medical Genetics, Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
| | - Ping Yee Billie Au
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
| | - Emma Bedoukian
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Geoffrey Beek
- Children's Hospital of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
| | - James Barry
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Long School of Medicine-UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Janet Berg
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Long School of Medicine-UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
| | - Cheryl Cytrynbaum
- Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics and Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
| | - Brian Hon-Yin Chung
- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Hong Kong Children's Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong SAR
| | - Sarah Donoghue
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Naghmeh Dorrani
- Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, USA.,UCLA Clinical Genomics Center, University of California Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, USA
| | - Alison Eaton
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| | | | - Holly Dubbs
- Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Carolyn A Felix
- Division of Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Chin-To Fong
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
| | - Jasmine Lee Fong Fung
- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Hong Kong Children's Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong SAR
| | - Balram Gangaram
- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Amy Goldstein
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Rotem Greenberg
- Genetic Institute, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
| | - Thoa K Ha
- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Joseph Hersh
- Weisskopf Child Evaluation Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
| | - Kosuke Izumi
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Staci Kallish
- Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Elijah Kravets
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
| | - Pui-Yan Kwok
- Division of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
| | - Rebekah K Jobling
- Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics and Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
| | | | - Jessica Kushner
- Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
| | - Bo Hoon Lee
- Department of Neurology, Division of Child Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
| | - Brooke Levin
- MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper University Health Care, Camden, New Jersey, USA
| | | | - Kandamurugu Manickam
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Internal Medicine, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - Rebecca Mardach
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California, USA
| | - Elizabeth McCormick
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - D Ross McLeod
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
| | - Frank D Mentch
- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Kelly Minks
- Department of Neurology, Division of Child Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
| | - Colleen Muraresku
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Stanley F Nelson
- UCLA Clinical Genomics Center, University of California Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, USA.,Department of Human Genetics, Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy University of California Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, USA
| | - Patrizia Porazzi
- Department of Cancer Biology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Pavel N Pichurin
- Clinical Genomics Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
| | - Nina N Powell-Hamilton
- Division of Medical Genetics, Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
| | - Zoe Powis
- Quest Diagnostics Kalamzoo, Kalamzoo, Michigan, USA
| | - Alyssa Ritter
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Caleb Rogers
- Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
| | - Luis Rohena
- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Long School of Medicine-UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
| | - Carey Ronspies
- Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - Audrey Schroeder
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
| | - Zornitza Stark
- Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.,Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
| | - Lois Starr
- Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| | - Joan Stoler
- Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Pim Suwannarat
- Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, Rockville, Maryland, USA
| | - Milen Velinov
- NYS Institute for Basic Research in developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, New York, USA
| | - Rosanna Weksberg
- Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics and Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
| | - Yael Wilnai
- Genetic Institute, Sourasky Medical Center, Te-Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
| | - Neda Zadeh
- Genetics Center and CHOC Children's Hospital, Orange, California, USA
| | - Dina J Zand
- Rare Disease Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
| | - Marni J Falk
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Hakon Hakonarson
- Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Elaine H Zackai
- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - Fabiola Quintero-Rivera
- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Hong Kong Children's Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong SAR.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, USA
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Hanly C, Shah H, Au PYB, Murias K. Description of neurodevelopmental phenotypes associated with 10 genetic neurodevelopmental disorders: A scoping review. Clin Genet 2021; 99:335-346. [PMID: 33179249 DOI: 10.1111/cge.13882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [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: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are a heterogeneous group of conditions including intellectual disability, global developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Advances in genetic diagnostic technology have led to the identification of a number of NDD-associated genes, but reports of cognitive and developmental outcomes in affected individuals have been variable. The objective of this scoping review is to synthesize available information pertaining to the developmental outcomes of individuals with pathogenic variants in ten emerging recurrent NDD-associated genes identified from large scale sequencing studies; ADNP, ANKRD11, ARID1B, CHD2, CHD8, CTNNB1, DDX3X, DYRK1A, SCN2A, and SYNGAP1. After a comprehensive search, 260 articles were selected that reported on neurodevelopmental measures or diagnoses. We identify the spectrum of developmental outcomes for each genetic NDD, including prevalence of intellectual disability, frequency of co-morbid NDDs such as ADHD and autism, and commonly reported medical issues that can help inform diagnosis and treatment. There are significant gaps in our understanding of the natural history of these conditions. Future research focusing on barriers to assessment, the development of modified assessment tools appropriate for long-term outcomes in genetic NDD, and collection of longitudinal data will increase understanding of prognosis in these conditions and inform evaluations of treatment.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ciara Hanly
- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Departments of Pediatrics and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Au PYB, Huang L, Broley S, Gallagher L, Creede E, Lahey D, Ordorica S, Mina K, Boycott KM, Baynam G, Dyment DA. Two females with mutations in USP9X highlight the variable expressivity of the intellectual disability syndrome. Eur J Med Genet 2017; 60:359-364. [PMID: 28377321 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2017.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 06/26/2016] [Revised: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 03/31/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
The genetic causes of intellectual disability (ID) are heterogeneous and include both chromosomal and monogenic etiologies. The X-chromosome is known to contain many ID-related genes and males show a marked predominance for intellectual disability. Here we report two females with syndromic intellectual disability. The first individual was relatively mild in her presentation with mild-moderate intellectual disability, hydronephrosis and altered pigmentation along the lines of Blaschko without additional congenital anomalies. A second female presented shortly after birth with dysmorphic facial features, post-axial polydactyly and, on follow-up assessment, demonstrated moderate intellectual disability. Chromosomal studies for Individual 1 identified an X-chromosome deletion due to a de novo pericentric inversion; the inversion breakpoint was associated with deletion of the 5'UTR of the USP9X, a gene which has been implicated in a syndromic intellectual disability affecting females. The second individual had a de novo frameshift mutation detected by whole-exome sequencing that was predicted to be deleterious, NM_001039590.2 (USP9X): c.4104_4105del (p.(Arg1368Serfs*2)). Haploinsufficiency of USP9X in females has been associated with ID and congenital malformations that include heart defects, scoliosis, dental abnormalities, anal atresia, polydactyly, Dandy Walker malformation and hypoplastic corpus callosum. The extent of the congenital malformations observed in Individual 1 was less striking than Individual 2 and other individuals previously reported in the literature, and suggests that USP9X mutations in females can have a wider spectrum of presentation than previously appreciated.
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Affiliation(s)
- P Y B Au
- Department of Medical Genetics, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia Women and Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
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- Genetic Services of Western Australia, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Subiaco, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Diagnostic Genomics, PathWest, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, WA, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada; Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Genetic Services of Western Australia, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Subiaco, Australia; School of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia; Office of Population Health Genomics, Public Health Division, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, East Perth, Australia; Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Subiaco, Australia; Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies, Subiaco, Australia; School of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada; Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
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