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Li Y, Salfelder A, Schwab KO, Grünert SC, Velten T, Lütjohann D, Villavicencio-Lorini P, Matysiak-Scholze U, Zabel B, Köttgen A, Lausch E. Against all odds: blended phenotypes of three single-gene defects. Eur J Hum Genet 2016; 24:1274-9. [PMID: 26813946 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2015] [Revised: 11/21/2015] [Accepted: 12/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Whole-exome sequencing allows for an unbiased and comprehensive mutation screening. Although successfully used to facilitate the diagnosis of single-gene disorders, the genetic cause(s) of a substantial proportion of presumed monogenic diseases remain to be identified. We used whole-exome sequencing to examine offspring from a consanguineous marriage featuring a novel combination of congenital hypothyroidism, hypomagnesemia and hypercholesterolemia. Rather than identifying one causative variant, we report the first instance in which three independent autosomal-recessive single-gene disorders were identified in one patient. Together, the causal variants give rise to a blended and seemingly novel phenotype: we experimentally characterized a novel splice variant in the thyroglobulin gene (c.638+5G>A), resulting in skipping of exon 5, and detected a pathogenic splice variant in the magnesium transporter gene TRPM6 (c.2667+1G>A), causing familial hypomagnesemia. Based on the third variant, a stop variant in ABCG5 (p.(Arg446*)), we established a diagnosis of sitosterolemia, confirmed by elevated blood plant sterol levels and successfully initiated targeted lipid-lowering treatment. We propose that blended phenotypes resulting from several concomitant single-gene disorders in the same patient likely account for a proportion of presumed monogenic disorders of currently unknown cause and contribute to variable genotype-phenotype correlations.
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- Yong Li
- Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University Clinics of Bonn, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Renal Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Shelagh B Coutts
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
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Basel-Vanagaite L, Sarig O, Hershkovitz D, Fuchs-Telem D, Rapaport D, Gat A, Isman G, Shirazi I, Shohat M, Enk CD, Birk E, Kohlhase J, Matysiak-Scholze U, Maya I, Knopf C, Peffekoven A, Hennies HC, Bergman R, Horowitz M, Ishida-Yamamoto A, Sprecher E. RIN2 deficiency results in macrocephaly, alopecia, cutis laxa, and scoliosis: MACS syndrome. Am J Hum Genet 2009; 85:254-63. [PMID: 19631308 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2009] [Revised: 06/26/2009] [Accepted: 07/01/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Inherited disorders of elastic tissue represent a complex and heterogeneous group of diseases, characterized often by sagging skin and occasionally by life-threatening visceral complications. In the present study, we report on an autosomal-recessive disorder that we have termed MACS syndrome (macrocephaly, alopecia, cutis laxa, and scoliosis). The disorder was mapped to chromosome 20p11.21-p11.23, and a homozygous frameshift mutation in RIN2 was found to segregate with the disease phenotype in a large consanguineous kindred. The mutation identified results in decreased expression of RIN2, a ubiquitously expressed protein that interacts with Rab5 and is involved in the regulation of endocytic trafficking. RIN2 deficiency was found to be associated with paucity of dermal microfibrils and deficiency of fibulin-5, which may underlie the abnormal skin phenotype displayed by the patients.
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Böhm J, Buck A, Borozdin W, Mannan AU, Matysiak-Scholze U, Adham I, Schulz-Schaeffer W, Floss T, Wurst W, Kohlhase J, Barrionuevo F. Sall1, sall2, and sall4 are required for neural tube closure in mice. Am J Pathol 2008; 173:1455-63. [PMID: 18818376 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2008.071039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Four homologs to the Drosophila homeotic gene spalt (sal) exist in both humans and mice (SALL1 to SALL4/Sall1 to Sall4, respectively). Mutations in both SALL1 and SALL4 result in the autosomal-dominant developmental disorders Townes-Brocks and Okihiro syndrome, respectively. In contrast, no human diseases have been associated with SALL2 to date, and Sall2-deficient mice have shown no apparent abnormal phenotype. We generated mice deficient in Sall2 and, contrary to previous reports, 11% of our Sall2-deficient mice showed background-specific neural tube defects, suggesting that Sall2 has a role in neurogenesis. To investigate whether Sall4 may compensate for the absence of Sall2, we generated compound Sall2 knockout/Sall4 genetrap mutant mice. In these mutants, the incidence of neural tube defects was significantly increased. Furthermore, we found a similar phenotype in compound Sall1/4 mutant mice, and in vitro studies showed that SALL1, SALL2, and SALL4 all co-localized in the nucleus. We therefore suggest a fundamental and redundant function of the Sall proteins in murine neurulation, with the heterozygous loss of a particular SALL protein also possibly compensated in humans during development.
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- Johann Böhm
- Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Matysiak-Scholze U, Nehls M. The structural integrity of ROR alpha isoforms is mutated in staggerer mice: cerebellar coexpression of ROR alpha1 and ROR alpha4. Genomics 1997; 43:78-84. [PMID: 9226375 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1997.4757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The recessive mouse mutation staggerer (sg) disturbs the normal development of cerebellar Purkinje cells and affects certain functions of the immune system. To identify the causative gene, we constructed high-resolution genetic and physical maps of the staggerer locus on mouse chromosome 9. The transcription unit of the orphan nuclear receptor ROR alpha was identified in the critical interval. Our mutational analysis confirms a recent report that the sg phenotype may be caused by a genomic deletion in the common coding region of the ROR alpha isoforms. Of the four different isoforms of the ROR alpha gene that are generated by a combination of alternative promoter usage and exon splicing that differ in their DNA-binding properties, isoforms ROR alpha1 and ROR alpha4 are specifically coexpressed in the murine cerebellum and human cerebellum. Thus, at least two isoforms of the murine ROR alpha gene are affected by the genomic deletion associated with the staggerer phenotype. Our finding of cerebellum-specific coregulation suggests that distinct sets of target genes regulated by the ROR alpha1 and ROR alpha4 isoforms are required for Purkinje cell development.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cerebellum/cytology
- Cerebellum/growth & development
- Cerebellum/metabolism
- Chromosome Mapping
- DNA Primers/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Neurologic Mutants/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 1
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Purkinje Cells/metabolism
- Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
- Receptor Tyrosine Kinase-like Orphan Receptors
- Receptors, Cell Surface/chemistry
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/chemistry
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/genetics
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Species Specificity
- Trans-Activators/chemistry
- Trans-Activators/genetics
- Trans-Activators/metabolism
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Nehls M, Lüno K, Schorpp M, Pfeifer D, Krause S, Matysiak-Scholze U, Dierbach H, Boehm T. YAC/P1 contigs defining the location of 56 microsatellite markers and several genes across a 3.4-cM interval on mouse chromosome 11. Mamm Genome 1995; 6:321-31. [PMID: 7626882 DOI: 10.1007/bf00364794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The characterization of three YAC/P1 contigs from adjacent segments of the central region of mouse Chromosome (Chr) 11 is described. These contigs are based upon 63 YACs and 40 P1 recombinants. From these clones, 185 end sequences were obtained, of which 147 sequences could be converted into sequence-tagged sites and mapped within the three contigs. Deletions were detected in 16 out of 63 YACs; 19 of 63 YACs were found to be chimeric. No such aberrations were found in P1 recombinants. A total of 22 public and 34 newly developed microsatellite markers were unambiguously localized to and ordered in the contigs. In the cryb1/Nf1 interval of the central contig, several new genes have been identified by exon trapping and precisely localized with respect to known STS markers.
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- M Nehls
- Department of Medicine I, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Nehls M, Lüno K, Schorpp M, Krause S, Matysiak-Scholze U, Prokop CM, Hedrich HJ, Boehm T. A yeast artificial chromosome contig on mouse chromosome 11 encompassing the nu locus. Eur J Immunol 1994; 24:1721-3. [PMID: 8026534 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830240742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Mutations at the nude locus disrupt the homing process of T cell progenitor cells to the thymic rudiment, a key aspect of T cell differentiation. Here, we map the nude locus to a set of overlapping yeast artificial chromosomes (YAC) clones covering a genetic interval of about 0.5 centi Morgan on mouse chromosome 11. These results provide a suitable starting point to molecularly clone the nude gene.
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- M Nehls
- Department of Medicine I, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Midro AT, Panasiuk B, Wołczyński S, Scherer G, Matysiak-Scholze U, Leśniewicz R, Sipowicz I. [Clinical examinations, chromosomal and molecular DNA in patients with Swyer syndrome]. Ginekol Pol 1993; 64:257-62. [PMID: 8365683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Two girls with Swyer syndrome (SS) were described. Diagnosis was established according to clinical data and ultrasound, laparoscope, histopathological, hormonal and cytogenetical examinations. One presents diagnostic possibilities followed advanced methods in genetics. The GTG and RBG high resolution bounding technique and replication analysis of short arms (Xp and Yp) were employed. Normal structure of end segments of X and Y chromosomes was mentioned. Molecular DNA analysis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) did not find any mutation in SRY gene. Normal structure of this gene does not exclude possibility of SS existence. Our data implicates on the other mechanism of these disturbances.
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- A T Midro
- Zakład Genetyki Klinicznej, Białymstoku
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