1. Identification and Characterization of a Novel Recurrent ERCC6 Variant in Patients with a Severe Form of Cockayne Syndrome B
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Khouloud Zayoud, Najoua Miladi, Ilhem Turki, Clément Crochemore, Nadège Calmels, Cathy Obringer, Vincent Laugel, Ichraf Kraoua, Sami Bouchoucha, Miria Ricchetti, Asma Chikhaoui, Houda Yacoub-Youssef, Sinda Zarrouk, Dorra Najjar, Laboratoire de Génomique Biomédicale et Oncogénétique - Biomedical Genomics and Oncogenetics Laboratory (LR11IPT05), Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM)-Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte [Université de Carthage], Université de Carthage - University of Carthage, Institut national de neurologie Mongi-Ben Hamida [Tunis], Service de biochimie et de génétique moléculaire [CHU Cochin], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Cochin [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale (LGM), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Béchir Hamza Children's Hospital, Cellules Souches et Développement / Stem Cells and Development, Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM), This work was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (LR20IPT/05), the 'Programmes Transversaux de Recherche' project (PTR_Rejuvenage 2017–2019), the 'Projet Collaboratif Interne (PCI_Ageing 2019_2021), the 'MOBIDOC-753 (2017–2020) fellowship for PhD students, and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) CS_AGE., ANR-19-CE14-0042,CS_AGE,Défauts des mitochondries et des protéases dans les cellules du syndrome progéroïde de Cockayne et pendant des processus associés au vieillissement(2019), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale, Inserm, UMR1112, Institut de Génétique Médicale D’Alsace, Université de Strasbourg, 67000, Strasbourg, France, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Crochemore, Clément, and Défauts des mitochondries et des protéases dans les cellules du syndrome progéroïde de Cockayne et pendant des processus associés au vieillissement - - CS_AGE2019 - ANR-19-CE14-0042 - AAPG2019 - VALID
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Cockayne syndrome ,ERCC6 ,accelerated aging ,neurodegeneration ,DNA repair disorder ,Genetic counseling ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Biology ,[SDV.GEN.GH] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics ,QH426-470 ,03 medical and health sciences ,Exon ,symbols.namesake ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Genetics ,[SDV.NEU] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,Genetics (clinical) ,030304 developmental biology ,Sanger sequencing ,0303 health sciences ,[SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,ERCC8 ,[SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics ,Mutation (genetic algorithm) ,symbols ,[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology ,Nucleotide excision repair - Abstract
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a rare disease caused by mutations in ERCC6/CSB or ERCC8/CSA. We report here the clinical, genetic, and functional analyses of three unrelated patients mutated in ERCC6/CSB with a severe phenotype. After clinical examination, two patients were investigated via next generation sequencing, targeting seventeen Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) genes. All three patients harbored a novel, c.3156dup, homozygous mutation located in exon 18 of ERCC6/CSB that affects the C-terminal region of the protein. Sanger sequencing confirmed the mutation and the parental segregation in the three families, and Western blots showed a lack of the full-length protein. NER functional impairment was shown by reduced recovery of RNA synthesis with proficient unscheduled DNA synthesis after UV-C radiations in patient-derived fibroblasts. Despite sharing the same mutation, the clinical spectrum was heterogeneous among the three patients, and only two patients displayed clinical photosensitivity. This novel ERCC6 variant in Tunisian patients suggests a founder effect and has implications for setting-up prenatal diagnosis/genetic counselling in North Africa, where this disease is largely undiagnosed. This study reveals one of the rare cases of CS clinical heterogeneity despite the same mutation. Moreover, the occurrence of an identical homozygous mutation, which either results in clinical photosensitivity or does not, strongly suggests that this classic CS symptom relies on multiple factors.
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- 2021
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