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1. The diagnostic rate of inherited metabolic disorders by exome sequencing in a cohort of 547 individuals with developmental disorders

Author: Julian Delanne, Ange-Line Bruel, Frédéric Huet, Sébastien Moutton, Sophie Nambot, Margot Grisval, Nada Houcinat, Paul Kuentz, Arthur Sorlin, Patrick Callier, Nolwenn Jean-Marcais, Anne-Laure Mosca-Boidron, Frédéric Tran Mau-Them, Anne-Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Antonio Vitobello, Daphné Lehalle, Salima El Chehadeh, Christine Francannet, Marine Lebrun, Laetitia Lambert, Marie-Line Jacquemont, Marion Gerard-Blanluet, Jean-Luc Alessandri, Marjolaine Willems, Julien Thevenon, Mondher Chouchane, Véronique Darmency, Clémence Fatus-Fauconnier, Sébastien Gay, Marie Bournez, Alice Masurel, Vanessa Leguy, Yannis Duffourd, Christophe Philippe, François Feillet, Laurence Faivre, and Christel Thauvin-Robinet
Subjects: Inherited metabolic disorders, Exome sequencing, Intellectual disability, Developmental delay, Genotype first, Medicine (General), R5-920, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
Abstract: Considering that some Inherited Metabolic Disorders (IMDs) can be diagnosed in patients with no distinctive clinical features of IMDs, we aimed to evaluate the power of exome sequencing (ES) to diagnose IMDs within a cohort of 547 patients with unspecific developmental disorders (DD). IMDs were diagnosed in 12% of individuals with causative diagnosis (177/547). There are clear benefits of using ES in DD to diagnose IMD, particularly in cases where biochemical studies are unavailable. Synopsis: Exome sequencing and diagnostic rate of Inherited Metabolic Disorders in individuals with developmental disorders.
Published: 2021
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2. Integrative approach to interpret DYRK1A variants, leading to a frequent neurodevelopmental disorder

Author: Marjolaine Willems, Benjamin Durand, Boris Keren, Kristina Pilekær Sørensen, Rosanna Weksberg, Magalie Barth, Christina Fagerberg, Cyril Mignot, Laurence Perrin, Lucas Bronicki, Nathalie Drouot, Imene Boujelbene, Marc Abramowicz, Maria Kibaek, Bertrand Isidor, Thierry Bienvenu, Mathilde Nizon, Perrine Charles, Laurent Pasquier, Yann Herault, Marie Christine Birling, Bruno Delobel, Michel Guipponi, Lydie Burglen, Mélanie Fradin, Anne Sophie Denommé, Florence Demurger, Benjamin Cogné, Sébastien Moutton, Allan Bayat, Frederic Tran Mau Them, Christèle Dubourg, Alice Goldenberg, Christine Francannet, Jean-Louis Mandel, Laurence Faivre, Jérémie Courraud, Anne Marie Guerrot, Julia Metreau, Loréline Genschik, Bénédicte Demeer, Marie Vincent, Mathilde Renaud, Julien Thevenon, Sandrine Passemard, Christine Coubes, Amélie Piton, David Geneviève, Maria del Mar Muniz Moreno, Bénédicte Gérard, Estelle Colin, Valérie Layet, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Salima El Chehadeh, Katrine M Johannesen, Julie D. Thompson, Cathrine Elisabeth Tronhjem, Pascale Saugier, Elise Schaefer, Eric Chater-Diehl, Séverine Drunat, Rikke S. Møller, Paul Kuentz, Claire Feger, Albert David, Antonio Vitobello, Marlène Rio, Khaoula Khachnaoui, Joane Svane, Stéphane Auvin, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The Hospital for sick children [Toronto] (SickKids), Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), unité de recherche de l'institut du thorax UMR1087 UMR6291 (ITX), Université de Nantes - UFR de Médecine et des Techniques Médicales (UFR MEDECINE), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg (HUS), Hôpital Universitaire de Genève, Children's hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute [Ottawa, canada] (CHEO), CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Sorbonne Université (SU), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - 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Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence de Biomédecine, Fondation APLM, Fondation Maladies Rares and Fondation Jérome Lejeune, univOAK, Archive ouverte, Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Matériaux et nanosciences d'Alsace (FMNGE), and Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [INFO.INFO-AI] Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], DYRK1A, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], [SDV.GEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Biology, [INFO.INFO-AI]Computer Science [cs]/Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI], Mice, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Neurodevelopmental disorder, Intellectual Disability, medicine, Animals, Humans, Missense mutation, Kinase activity, Gene, Genetics (clinical), Cellular localization, 030304 developmental biology, Genetics, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Human genetics, 3. Good health, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Microcephaly
Abstract: Purpose: DYRK1A syndrome is among the most frequent monogenic forms of intellectual disability (ID). We refined the molecular and clinical description of this disorder and developed tools to improve interpretation of missense variants, which remains a major challenge in human genetics. Methods: We reported clinical and molecular data for 50 individuals with ID harboring DYRK1A variants and developed (1) a specific DYRK1A clinical score; (2) amino acid conservation data generated from 100 DYRK1A sequences across different taxa; (3) in vitro overexpression assays to study level, cellular localization, and kinase activity of DYRK1A mutant proteins; and (4) a specific blood DNA methylation signature. Results: This integrative approach was successful to reclassify several variants as pathogenic. However, we questioned the involvement of some others, such as p.Thr588Asn, still reported as likely pathogenic, and showed it does not cause an obvious phenotype in mice. Conclusion: Our study demonstrated the need for caution when interpreting variants in DYRK1A, even those occurring de novo. The tools developed will be useful to interpret accurately the variants identified in the future in this gene. Graphic abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
Published: 2021
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3. Widening of the genetic and clinical spectrum of Lamb-Shaffer syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder due to SOX5 haploinsufficiency

Author: Ashley N. Sigafoos, Salima El Chehadeh, Marcia C. Willing, Ela Akay, Florian Cherik, Anne-Marie E. Goyette, Vinodh Narayanan, Diane Masser-Frye, Catherine Karimov, Rhonda E. Schnur, Rebekah Bressi, Rhys H. Thomas, Gary D. Clark, Tina Barbaro-Dieber, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Carlos A. Bacino, Maria J. Guillen Sacoto, Laura Russell, Kristin Lindstrom, Caroline Schluth-Bolard, Xia Wang, Yvonne Hilhorst-Hofstee, Marcelo Vargas, Zehua Zhu, Ash Zawerton, Boris Keren, Mariëtte J.V. Hoffer, Isabelle Marey, Alice Poisson, Daphné Lehalle, Maries Joseph, Gaetan Lesca, Simon Zwolinski, Laurence Perrin, Rhoda Akilapa, Emilia K. Bijlsma, Christel Depienne, Amélie Piton, Claire G. Salter, Lucie Dupuis, Daryl A. Scott, Jolien S. Klein Wassink-Ruiter, Benjamin Cogné, Mathilde Nizon, Richard Chang, Kirsty McWalter, Myriam Srour, Perrine Charles, Anne-Claude Tabet, Natalie Canham, Sylvie Odent, Caroline Nava, Karl J. Clark, Elizabeth J. Bhoj, Jonathan Levy, Keri Ramsey, Yves Alembik, Lucia Ortega, Sophie Dupuis-Girod, Shoji Ichikawa, Christine Francannet, Marta Bertoli, Christèle Dubourg, Eric W. Klee, Ange-Line Bruel, Sebastien Moutton, Emily Fassi, Anthony Vandersteen, Abdul Haseeb, Antonina Wojcik, Patrick R. Blackburn, Lynne M. Bird, Patrick Rump, Véronique Lefebvre, Alma Kuechler, Sophie Nambot, Keren Machol, Cyril Mignot, Andreas Hartmann, Rossana Sanchez Russo, Erica H. Gerkes, Sylvie Jaillard, Roberto Mendoza-Londono, Trevor Cole, Pauline Monin, Cleveland Clinic, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Génétique humaine et fonctions cognitives - Human Genetics and Cognitive Functions (GHFC (UMR_3571 / U-Pasteur_1)), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de génétique [Robert Debré], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Multimodal Et Pluridisciplinaire en imagerie du vivant (CERMEP - imagerie du vivant), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-CHU Grenoble-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-CHU Saint-Etienne-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail (Irset), Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université d'Angers (UA), Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Service de génétique médicale - Unité de génétique clinique [Nantes], Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), unité de recherche de l'institut du thorax UMR1087 UMR6291 (ITX), Université de Nantes - UFR de Médecine et des Techniques Médicales (UFR MEDECINE), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Health Sciences Research [Mayo Clinic] (HSR), Mayo Clinic, This research was funded in part by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and European High-Functioning Autism Network (ANR EUHFAUTISM), the Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the BioPsy labex (to Christel Depienne and C.N.) and the Association Française du Syndrome Gilles de la Tourette (AFSGT) to Christel Depienne. It was also funded by the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute (LRI Chair’s Innovative Research Award to V.L.), and by Harper’s Quest and the LAMSHF Syndrome Research Fund (donations to V.L.) and the Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic. This study makes use of data generated by the DECIPHER community and the Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) Study, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust. The DDD study presents independent research commissioned by the Health Innovation Challenge Fund (grant number HICF-1009-003), a parallel funding partnership between Wellcome and the Department of Health, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute (grant number WT098051). The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of Wellcome or the Department of Health. The study has UK Research Ethics Committee approval (10/H0305/83, granted by the Cambridge South REC, and GEN/284/12 granted by the Republic of Ireland REC). The research team acknowledges the support of the National Institute for Health Research, through the Comprehensive Clinical Research Network., We thank the patients and their families for their participation in this study, and the C4RCD Research Group (Newell Belnap, Amanda Courtright, Ana Claasen, David Craig, Matt Huentelman, Madison LaFleur, Sampathkumar Rangasamy, Ryan Richholt, Isabelle Schrauwen, Ashley L. Siniard, and Szabolics Szelinger) for providing clinical information on patient P18., Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP]-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de Génétique et Cytogénétique [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pasteur [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris], Centre d'Exploration et de Recherche Médicales par Émission de Positons (CERMEP), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-CHU Grenoble-Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-CHU Saint-Etienne-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Subjects: Male, Medizin, Haploinsufficiency, L-SOX5, VARIANTS, 0302 clinical medicine, Neurodevelopmental disorder, Intellectual disability, Missense mutation, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Aetiology, Child, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, Pediatric, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, Pedigree, FAMILY, DNA-Binding Proteins, developmental delay, TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, Phenotype, intellectual disability, Child, Preschool, missense variants, Female, SOXD Transcription Factors, Adult, EXPRESSION, Adolescent, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), Clinical Sciences, Mutation, Missense, autism, Cell fate determination, Biology, LONG FORM, SEQUENCE, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Rare Diseases, Clinical Research, CARTILAGE, Intellectual Disability, medicine, Animals, Humans, Language Development Disorders, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Preschool, Transcription factor, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, MUTATIONS, Human Genome, Infant, medicine.disease, Brain Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Deciphering Developmental Disorder Study, Mutation, Autism, epilepsy, Missense, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, GENERATION
Abstract: International audience; PURPOSE: Lamb-Shaffer syndrome (LAMSHF) is a neurodevelopmental disorder described in just over two dozen patients with heterozygous genetic alterations involving SOX5, a gene encoding a transcription factor regulating cell fate and differentiation in neurogenesis and other discrete developmental processes. The genetic alterations described so far are mainly microdeletions. The present study was aimed at increasing our understanding of LAMSHF, its clinical and genetic spectrum, and the pathophysiological mechanisms involved.METHODS: Clinical and genetic data were collected through GeneMatcher and clinical or genetic networks for 41 novel patients harboring various types of SOX5 alterations. Functional consequences of selected substitutions were investigated.RESULTS: Microdeletions and truncating variants occurred throughout SOX5. In contrast, most missense variants clustered in the pivotal SOX-specific high-mobility-group domain. The latter variants prevented SOX5 from binding DNA and promoting transactivation in vitro, whereas missense variants located outside the high-mobility-group domain did not. Clinical manifestations and severity varied among patients. No clear genotype-phenotype correlations were found, except that missense variants outside the high-mobility-group domain were generally better tolerated.CONCLUSIONS:This study extends the clinical and genetic spectrum associated with LAMSHF and consolidates evidence that SOX5 haploinsufficiency leads to variable degrees of intellectual disability, language delay, and other clinical features.
Published: 2020
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4. Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of ARCN1-related syndrome

Author: Alyssa L. Ritter, Jessica Gold, Hiroshi Hayashi, Amanda M. Ackermann, Stephanie Hanke, Cara Skraban, Sanmati Cuddapah, Elizabeth Bhoj, Dong Li, Yukiko Kuroda, Jessica Wen, Ryojun Takeda, Audrey Bibb, Salima El Chehadeh, Amélie Piton, Jeanine Ohl, Mary K. Kukolich, Keisuke Nagasaki, Kohji Kato, Tomoo Ogi, Tricia Bhatti, Pierre Russo, Bryan Krock, Jill R. Murrell, Jennifer A. Sullivan, Vandana Shashi, Nicholas Stong, Hakon Hakonarson, Kentaro Sawano, Erin Torti, Rebecca Willaert, Yue Si, William Ross Wilcox, Katrine Verena Wirgenes, Kristian Thomassen, Katherine Carlotti, Angelika Erwin, Joanna Lazier, Thorsten Marquardt, Miao He, Andrew C. Edmondson, and Kosuke Izumi
Subjects: Hepatoblastoma, Male, Fetal Growth Retardation, Liver Neoplasms, Micrognathism, Dwarfism, Syndrome, Article, Cataract, Phenotype, Intellectual Disability, Humans, Female, Child, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: PURPOSE: This study aimed to describe the phenotypic and molecular characteristics of ARCN1-related syndrome. METHODS: Patients with ARCN1 variants were identified, and clinician researchers were connected using GeneMatcher and physician referrals. Clinical histories were collected from each patient. RESULTS: In total, we identified 14 cases of ARCN1-related syndrome, (9 pediatrics, and 5 fetal cases from 3 families). The clinical features these newly identified cases were compared to 6 previously reported cases for a total of 20 cases. Intrauterine growth restriction, micrognathia, and short stature were present in all patients. Other common features included prematurity (11/15, 73.3%), developmental delay (10/14, 71.4%), genitourinary malformations in males (6/8, 75%), and microcephaly (12/15, 80%). Novel features of ARCN1-related syndrome included transient liver dysfunction and specific glycosylation abnormalities during illness, giant cell hepatitis, hepatoblastoma, cataracts, and lethal skeletal manifestations. Developmental delay was seen in 73% of patients, but only 3 patients had intellectual disability, which is less common than previously reported. CONCLUSION: ARCN1-related syndrome presents with a wide clinical spectrum ranging from a severe embryonic lethal syndrome to a mild syndrome with intrauterine growth restriction, micrognathia, and short stature without intellectual disability. Patients with ARCN1-related syndrome should be monitored for liver dysfunction during illness, cataracts, and hepatoblastoma. Additional research to further define the phenotypic spectrum and possible genotype–phenotype correlations are required.
Published: 2022

5. MYT1L-associated neurodevelopmental disorder: description of 40 new cases and literature review of clinical and molecular aspects

Author: James W. Wheless, Thierry Frebourg, Robert Olaso, Rosemarie Smith, Kelly Nori, François Lecoquierre, Delphine Héron, Roseline Caumes, Anne Boland, Ange-Line Bruel, Candy Kumps, Gaël Nicolas, Sarah Stewart, Sophie Rondeau, Diane Doummar, Marlène Rio, Giulia Barcia, Anne-Marie Guerrot, Gwenaël Le Guyader, Alexandra Afenjar, Sarah Vergult, Karine Poirier, Juliette Coursimault, Jennifer Morrison, Amy Kritzer, Anne-Sophie Alaix, Rebecca Hernan, Anne-Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Sabine Sigaudy, Christine Coubes, Pascale Saugier-Veber, Francisca Millan Zamora, Austin Larson, Michelle M. Morrow, Christine Poitou, Björn Menten, Mathilde Nizon, Thomas Smol, Elise Schaefer, Bénédicte Gérard, Charles Coutton, Salima El Chehadeh, Fanggeng Zou, Stéphanie Valence, Anita Shanmugham, Wendy K. Chung, Bert Callewaert, Christina Kresge, Arnold Munnich, Beth A. Pletcher, Laurence Faivre, Estelle Colin, Laurence Colleaux, Patricia G Wheeler, Annelies Dheedene, Frédéric Tran Mau-Them, Jean-François Deleuze, Claude Houdayer, Jeanne Amiel, Frédéric Bilan, Marine Tessarech, Bertrand Isidor, Guillaume Jouret, Cyril Mignot, Benjamin Cogné, Shuxi Liu, Boris Keren, Françoise Devillard, Catherine Schramm, Margaret Helm, Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), GeneDx [Gaithersburg, MD, USA], Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers (CHU Poitiers), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Institut de génétique médicale d’Alsace, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Hôpital Trousseau, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), Sorbonne Université (SU), Institute for Advanced Biosciences / Institut pour l'Avancée des Biosciences (Grenoble) (IAB), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Etablissement français du sang - Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (EFS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), CHU Grenoble, Institut Necker Enfants-Malades (INEM - UM 111 (UMR 8253 / U1151)), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Marseille medical genetics - Centre de génétique médicale de Marseille (MMG), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Ghent University Hospital, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), University of Colorado Anschutz [Aurora], University of Tennessee System, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), Rutgers University System (Rutgers), Université de Lille, Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), CHU Montpellier, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Maine Medical Center, Arnold Palmer Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, National Center of Genetics, Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and ANR-10-INBS-0009,France-Génomique,Organisation et montée en puissance d'une Infrastructure Nationale de Génomique(2010)
Subjects: Male, Bioinformatics, Epilepsy, 0302 clinical medicine, Neurodevelopmental disorder, MESH: Child, Intellectual disability, Missense mutation, MESH: Obesity, MESH: Genetic Variation, MESH: Nerve Tissue Proteins, Child, Genetics (clinical), MESH: Genetic Association Studies, MESH: Heterozygote, 0303 health sciences, MESH: Transcription Factors, MESH: Infant, 3. Good health, Phenotype, MESH: Feeding and Eating Disorders, MESH: Young Adult, Child, Preschool, MESH: Epilepsy, Learning disability, Female, medicine.symptom, Adult, Heterozygote, Adolescent, Language delay, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Biology, MESH: Phenotype, MESH: Language Development Disorders, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Language Development Disorders, Obesity, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, MESH: Neurodevelopmental Disorders, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Humans, MESH: Child, Preschool, Genetic Variation, Infant, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, Human genetics, MESH: Male, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Autism, MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Transcription Factors
Abstract: International audience; Pathogenic variants of the myelin transcription factor-1 like (MYT1L) gene include heterozygous missense, truncating variants and 2p25.3 microdeletions and cause a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder (OMIM#616,521). Despite enrichment in de novo mutations in several developmental disorders and autism studies, the data on clinical characteristics and genotype-phenotype correlations are scarce, with only 22 patients with single nucleotide pathogenic variants reported. We aimed to further characterize this disorder at both the clinical and molecular levels by gathering a large series of patients with MYT1L-associated neurodevelopmental disorder. We collected genetic information on 40 unreported patients with likely pathogenic/pathogenic MYT1L variants and performed a comprehensive review of published data (total = 62 patients). We confirm that the main phenotypic features of the MYT1L-related disorder are developmental delay with language delay (95%), intellectual disability (ID, 70%), overweight or obesity (58%), behavioral disorders (98%) and epilepsy (23%). We highlight novel clinical characteristics, such as learning disabilities without ID (30%) and feeding difficulties during infancy (18%). We further describe the varied dysmorphic features (67%) and present the changes in weight over time of 27 patients. We show that patients harboring highly clustered missense variants in the 2-3-ZNF domains are not clinically distinguishable from patients with truncating variants. We provide an updated overview of clinical and genetic data of the MYT1L-associated neurodevelopmental disorder, hence improving diagnosis and clinical management of these patients.
Published: 2022
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6. SLITRK2 variants associated with neurodevelopmental disorders impair excitatory synaptic function and cognition in mice

Author: Salima El Chehadeh, Kyung Ah Han, Dongwook Kim, Gyubin Jang, Somayeh Bakhtiari, Dongseok Lim, Hee Young Kim, Jinhu Kim, Hyeonho Kim, Julia Wynn, Wendy K. Chung, Giuseppina Vitiello, Ioana Cutcutache, Matthew Page, Jozef Gecz, Kelly Harper, Ah-reum Han, Ho Min Kim, Marja Wessels, Allan Bayat, Alberto Fernández Jaén, Angelo Selicorni, Silvia Maitz, Arjan P. M. de Brouwer, Anneke Vulto-van Silfhout, Martin Armstrong, Joseph Symonds, Sébastien Küry, Bertrand Isidor, Benjamin Cogné, Mathilde Nizon, Claire Feger, Jean Muller, Erin Torti, Dorothy K. Grange, Marjolaine Willems, Michael C. Kruer, Jaewon Ko, Amélie Piton, Ji Won Um, MUMC+: DA KG Polikliniek (9), RS: FHML non-thematic output, and Clinical Genetics
Subjects: Mice, Knockout, EXPRESSION, SERVER, Multidisciplinary, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, GENES, MUTATIONS, General Physics and Astronomy, TRKB RECEPTOR, General Chemistry, CULTURED HIPPOCAMPAL, ADHESION, TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL, Hippocampus, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Mice, Cognition, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Synapses, Animals, BRAIN
Abstract: SLITRK2 is a single-pass transmembrane protein expressed at postsynaptic neurons that regulates neurite outgrowth and excitatory synapse maintenance. In the present study, we report on rare variants (one nonsense and six missense variants) in SLITRK2 on the X chromosome identified by exome sequencing in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. Functional studies showed that some variants displayed impaired membrane transport and impaired excitatory synapse-promoting effects. Strikingly, these variations abolished the ability of SLITRK2 wild-type to reduce the levels of the receptor tyrosine kinase TrkB in neurons. Moreover, Slitrk2 conditional knockout mice exhibited impaired long-term memory and abnormal gait, recapitulating a subset of clinical features of patients with SLITRK2 variants. Furthermore, impaired excitatory synapse maintenance induced by hippocampal CA1-specific cKO of Slitrk2 caused abnormalities in spatial reference memory. Collectively, these data suggest that SLITRK2 is involved in X-linked neurodevelopmental disorders that are caused by perturbation of diverse facets of SLITRK2 function.The protein SLITRK2 plays an important role in synaptic communication. This study identifies X-linked SLITRK2 variants that underlie neurodevelopmental disorders by impairing excitatory synapses.
Published: 2022

7. Serpin B1 defect and increased apoptosis of neutrophils in Cohen syndrome neutropenia

Author: Laurence Duplomb, Jean-Noël Bastie, Edward Blair, Julie Riviere, Laurent Delva, Romain Da Costa, Arlette Hammann, Julien Thevenon, Bernard Aral, Jamal Ghoumid, Marie-Anne Gougerot-Pocidalo, Arnaud Lafon, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Alain Schmitt, Patrick Edery, Virginie Carmignac, Julien Guy, Nathalie Droin, Eric Solary, Laurence Faivre, Gaëtan Jego, Laurence Dubrez, Jessica Racine, Salima El Chehadeh-Djebbar, François Girodon, and Claude Capron
Subjects: Adult, Male, Programmed cell death, Neutropenia, Adolescent, Neutrophils, Developmental Disabilities, Down-Regulation, Apoptosis, Fingers, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Intellectual Disability, Drug Discovery, Myopia, Humans, Medicine, Obesity, Child, Serpins, Genetics (clinical), Cohen syndrome, biology, business.industry, Retinal Degeneration, SERPINB1, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, VPS13B, Child, Preschool, Neutrophil elastase, Mutation, Immunology, Microcephaly, biology.protein, Unfolded protein response, Muscle Hypotonia, Molecular Medicine, Female, business, 030215 immunology
Abstract: Cohen syndrome (CS) is a rare genetic disorder due to mutations in VPS13B gene. Among various clinical and biological features, CS patients suffer from inconsistent neutropenia, which is associated with recurrent but minor infections. We demonstrate here that this neutropenia results from an exaggerate rate of neutrophil apoptosis. Besides this increased cell death, which occurs in the absence of any endoplasmic reticulum stress or defect in neutrophil elastase (ELANE) expression or localization, all neutrophil functions appeared to be normal. We showed a disorganization of the Golgi apparatus in CS neutrophils precursors, that correlates with an altered glycosylation of ICAM-1 in these cells, as evidenced by a migration shift of the protein. Furthermore, a striking decrease in the expression of SERPINB1 gene, which encodes a critical component of neutrophil survival, was detected in CS neutrophils. These abnormalities may account for the excessive apoptosis of neutrophils leading to neutropenia in CS. KEY MESSAGES: Cohen syndrome patients' neutrophils display normal morphology and functions. Cohen syndrome patients' neutrophils have an increased rate of spontaneous apoptosis compared to healthy donors' neutrophils. No ER stress or defective ELA2 expression or glycosylation was observed in Cohen syndrome patients' neutrophils. SerpinB1 expression is significantly decreased in Cohen syndrome neutrophils as well as in VPS13B-deficient cells.
Published: 2019
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8. Integrative approach to interpret DYRK1A variants, leading to a frequent neurodevelopmental disorder

Author: Anne-Sophie Denommé, Christine Francannet, Loréline Genschik, Claire Feger, Maria Kibaek, Imene Boujelbene, Paul Kuentz, Michel Guipponi, Marie-Christine Birling, Sébastien Moutton, Allan Bayat, Frederic Tran Mau Them, Mathilde Renaud, Joane Svane, Yann Herault, Sandrine Passemard, Christèle Dubourg, Mélanie Fradin, Marjolaine Willems, Julien Thevenon, Rosanna Weksberg, Bertrand Isidor, David Geneviève, Benjamin Cogné, Magalie Barth, Laurence Faivre, Jérémie Courraud, Boris Keren, Albert David, Laurence Perrin, Anne-Marie Guerrot, Christine Coubes, Thierry Bienvenu, Alice Goldenberg, Bénédicte Gérard, Amélie Piton, Lucas Bronicki, Julia Metreau, Mathilde Nizon, Elise Schaefer, Eric Chater-Diehl, Maria del Mar Muniz Moreno, Bruno Delobel, Katrine M Johannesen, Florence Demurger, Nathalie Drouot, Marie Vincent, Antonio Vitobello, Kristina Pilekær Sørensen, Christina Fagerberg, Cyril Mignot, Estelle Colin, Valérie Layet, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Jean-Louis Mandel, Cathrine Elisabeth Tronhjem, Benjamin Durand, Pascale Saugier, Séverine Drunat, Rikke S. Møller, Perrine Charles, Lydie Burglen, Bénédicte Demeer, Salima El Chehadeh, Marc Abramowicz, Laurent Pasquier, and Julie D. Thompson
Subjects: Genetics, Neurodevelopmental disorder, DYRK1A, Intellectual disability, medicine, Missense mutation, Kinase activity, Biology, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Human genetics, Cellular localization
Abstract: ABBSTRACTDYRK1A-related intellectual disability (ID) is among the most frequent monogenic form of ID. We refined the description of this disorder by reporting clinical and molecular data of forty individuals with ID harboringDYRK1Avariants. We developed a combination of tools to interpret missense variants, which remains a major challenge in human genetics: i) a specificDYRK1Aclinical score, ii) amino acid conservation data generated from one hundred of DYRK1A sequences across different taxa, iii)in vitrooverexpression assays to study level, cellular localization, and kinase activity of DYRK1A mutant proteins, and iv) a specific blood DNA methylation signature. This integrative approach was successful to reclassify several variants as pathogenic. However, we questioned the involvement of some others, such as p.Thr588Asn, yet reported as pathogenic, and showed it does not cause obvious phenotype in mice, emphasizing the need to take care when interpreting variants, even those occurringde novo.
Published: 2021
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9. Developmental and epilepsy spectrum of KCNB1 encephalopathy with long‐term outcome

Author: Rima Nabbout, Patrick Berquin, Sylvie Odent, Mathieu Kuchenbuch, Gwenaël Le Guyader, Marieke F. van Dooren, Jamel Chelly, Edor Kabashi, Melanie Jennesson, Giulia Barcia, Cyril Mignot, Tayeb Sekhara, Alexandra Afenjar, Marlène Rio, Anne Rolland, Claude Besmond, Andrés Rodríguez-Sacristán Cascajo, Gaetano Terrone, Isabelle Marey, Boris Keren, Alice Goldenberg, A.S. Lebre, Heather C Mefford, Gaetan Lesca, Anne de Saint Martin, Susanna Negrin, Nathalie Dorison, Hélène Maurey, Agnès Guët, David Geneviève, Marie Claire Y. de Wit, Jeremy L. Freeman, Pierre Meyer, Thierry Billette de Villemeur, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Katherine B. Howell, Anca Nica, Raphael Levy, Martino Montomoli, Renzo Guerrini, Elena Parrini, Candace T. Myers, Bertrand Isidor, Alice Poisson, Marion Gérard, Salima El Chehadeh, Lynette G. Sadleir, Julien Durigneux, Pascal Vrielynck, Amy L Schneider, Emmanuel Scalais, Laurence Hubert, Sophie Dupont, Vesna Brankovic, Damien Lederer, Hervé Isnard, Delphine Breuillard, Claire Bar, Alberto Danieli, Diane Doummar, Arnold Munnich, CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Unité neurovasculaire et troubles cognitifs (Neuvacod), Université de Poitiers, Institut NeuroMyoGène (INMG), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Strasbourg, Centre for the Diagnosis and management of genetic psychiatric disorders [Bron] (GénoPsy), Centre Hospitalier le Vinatier [Bron], Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image (LTSI), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre d'Investigation Clinique [Rennes] (CIC), Université de Rennes (UR)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU), CHU Amiens-Picardie, Physiologie & médecine expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles [U 1046] (PhyMedExp), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Département de génétique médicale, maladies rares et médecine personnalisée [CHRU Montpellier], Cellules Souches, Plasticité Cellulaire, Médecine Régénératrice et Immunothérapies (IRMB), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), CHU Caen, Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], FP7 Ideas: European Research Council, National Health and Medical Research Council, Health Research Council of New Zealand, ANR‐10-IAHU‐01, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, 602531, Seventh Framework Programme, ANR-10-IAHU-0001,Imagine,Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Imagine(2010), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), ANR‐10IAHU‐01, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Clinical Genetics, Neurology, and Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Adult, Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, Adolescent, autism spectrum disorders, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Encephalopathy, Severe epilepsy, Imaging data, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, Epilepsy, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Shab Potassium Channels, drug-resistant epilepsy, Intellectual disability, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, In patient, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, Child, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Retrospective Studies, Brain Diseases, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, developmental encephalopathy, business.industry, Genetic Variation, Infant, Cognition, Electroencephalography, medicine.disease, potassium channels, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, Treatment Outcome, Neurology, Child, Preschool, Female, Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Objective: We aimed to delineate the phenotypic spectrum and long-term outcome of individuals with KCNB1 encephalopathy. Methods: We collected genetic, clinical, electroencephalographic, and imaging data of individuals with KCNB1 pathogenic variants recruited through an international collaboration, with the support of the family association “KCNB1 France.” Patients were classified as having developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE) or developmental encephalopathy (DE). In addition, we reviewed published cases and provided the longterm outcome in patients older than 12 years from our series and from literature. Results: Our series included 36 patients (21 males, median age = 10 years, range = 1.6 months-34 years). Twenty patients (56%) had DEE with infantile onset seizures (seizure onset = 10 months, range = 10 days-3.5 years), whereas 16 (33%) had DE with late onset epilepsy in 10 (seizure onset = 5 years, range = 18 months-25 years) and without epilepsy in six. Cognitive impairment was more severe in individuals with DEE compared to those with DE. Analysis of 73 individuals with KCNB1 pathogenic variants (36 from our series and 37 published individuals in nine reports) showed developmental delay in all with severe to profound intellectual disability in 67% (n = 41/61) and autistic features in 56% (n = 32/57). Long-term outcome in 22 individuals older than 12 years (14 in our series and eight published individuals) showed poor cognitive, psychiatric, and behavioral outcome. Epilepsy course was variable. Missense variants were associated with more frequent and more severe epilepsy compared to truncating variants. Significance: Our study describes the phenotypic spectrum of KCNB1 encephalopathy, which varies from severe DEE to DE with or without epilepsy. Although cognitive impairment is worse in patients with DEE, long-term outcome is poor for most and missense variants are associated with more severe epilepsy outcome. Further understanding of disease mechanisms should facilitate the development of targeted therapies, much needed to improve the neurodevelopmental prognosis.
Published: 2020
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10. Primrose syndrome: a phenotypic comparison of patients with a ZBTB20 missense variant versus a 3q13.31 microdeletion including ZBTB20

Author: Anne-Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Laetitia Gouas, Martin Chevarin, Marlène Rio, Elodie Gautier, Sonia Bouquillon, Nolwenn Jean-Marçais, Jennifer Fabre-Teste, Dominique Martin, Elise Schaefer, Fabienne Giuliano, Didier Lacombe, Sophie Nambot, Gaëlle Vieville, Sophie Blesson, Paul Kuentz, Christine Francannet, Yannis Duffourd, Aurélien Juven, Alice Masurel, Patrick Callier, Arnold Munnich, Salima El Chehadeh, Sophie Rondeau, Christophe Philippe, Amélie Piton, Fanny Laffargue, Catherine Vincent Delorme, Marie Vincent, Olivier Pichon, Bénédicte Gérard, Anne-Laure Mosca-Boidron, Bertrand Isidor, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Laurence Perrin-Sabourin, Nathalie Marle, Cédric Le Caignec, Laurence Faivre, Hubert Journel, Klaus Dieterich, Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de génétique, CHU Dijon, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Laboratoire de cytogénétique (CHU de Dijon), Génétique des Anomalies du Développement (GAD), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Equipe GAD (LNC - U1231), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut cellule souche et cerveau (U846 Inserm - UCBL1), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP), Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Service de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, DGA Maîtrise de l'information (DGA.MI), Direction générale de l'Armement (DGA), Institut de Génétique Médicale [CHRU Lille], Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre [Lille]-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Service de Génétique Médicale [CHU Clermont-Ferrand], CHU Estaing [Clermont-Ferrand], CHU Clermont-Ferrand-CHU Clermont-Ferrand, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Imagerie Moléculaire et Stratégies Théranostiques (IMoST), Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique médicale - Unité de génétique clinique [Nantes], Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU TOURS), Hôpital l'Archet, Service de Génétique Médicale, Génétique médicale [Centre Hospitalier de Vannes], Centre hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique (Morbihan) (CHBA), Département de génétique [Robert Debré], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Laboratoire de biochimie et génétique moléculaire, CHU Grenoble, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Département de Biochimie et Génétique [Angers], Université d'Angers (UA)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM)-PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), FHU TRANSLAD (CHU de Dijon), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020]), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), Institut cellule souche et cerveau (SBRI), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Groupe d'imagerie neurofonctionnelle (GIN), Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives [Bordeaux] (IMN), and Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
Subjects: Adolescent, Hearing loss, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Mutation, Missense, Nerve Tissue Proteins, [SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer, Bioinformatics, Article, Corpus Callosum, 03 medical and health sciences, Ectopic calcification, Ptosis, Intellectual Disability, Genetics, Medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Child, Ear Diseases, Wasting, Genetics (clinical), Muscle contracture, 0303 health sciences, business.industry, 030305 genetics & heredity, Macrocephaly, Calcinosis, medicine.disease, Primrose syndrome, Muscular Atrophy, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3, medicine.symptom, Chromosome Deletion, business, Transcription Factors
Abstract: International audience; Primrose syndrome is characterized by variable intellectual deficiency, behavior disorders, facial features with macrocephaly, and a progressive phenotype with hearing loss and ectopic calcifications, distal muscle wasting, and contractures. In 2014, ZBTB20 variants were identified as responsible for this syndrome. Indeed, ZBTB20 plays an important role in cognition, memory, learning processes, and has a transcription repressive effect on numerous genes. A more severe phenotype was discussed in patients with missense single nucleotide variants than in those with large deletions. Here, we report on the clinical and molecular results of 14 patients: 6 carrying ZBTB20 missense SNVs, 1 carrying an early truncating indel, and 7 carrying 3q13.31 deletions, recruited through the AnDDI-Rares network. We compared their phenotypes and reviewed the data of the literature, in order to establish more powerful phenotype-genotype correlations. All 57 patients presented mild-to-severe ID and/or a psychomotor delay. Facial features were similar with macrocephaly, prominent forehead, downslanting palpebral fissures, ptosis, and large ears. Hearing loss was far more frequent in patients with missense SNVs (p = 0.002), ectopic calcification, progressive muscular wasting, and contractures were observed only in patients with missense SNVs (p nonsignificant). Corpus callosum dysgenesis (p = 0.00004), hypothyroidism (p = 0.047), and diabetes were also more frequent in this group. However, the median age was 9.4 years in patients with deletions and truncating variant compared with 15.1 years in those with missense SNVs. Longer follow-up will be necessary to determine whether the phenotype of patients with deletions is also progressive.
Published: 2020
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11. Expanding the genetic and phenotypic relevance of KCNB1 variants in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: 27 new patients and overview of the literature

Author: Delphine Breuillard, Isabelle Marey, Claire Bar, Tayeb Sekhara, Candace T. Myers, Diane Doummar, Alice Poisson, Hervé Isnard, Nathalie Dorison, Gwenaël Le Guyader, Arnold Munnich, Alexandra Afenjar, Anne de Saint Martin, Jamel Chelly, Gaetan Lesca, Gaetano Terrone, Rima Nabbout, Jeremy L. Freeman, David Geneviève, Sophie Dupont, Cyril Mignot, Katherine B. Howell, Giulia Barcia, Melanie Jennesson, Patrick Berquin, Sylvie Odent, Boris Keren, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Renzo Guerrini, Emmanuel Scalais, Thierry Billette de Villemeur, Martino Montomoli, Agnès Guët, Pierre Meyer, Anca Nica, Anne-Sophie Lebre, Edor Kabashi, Carla Marini, Amy L Schneider, Marion Gérard, Salima El Chehadeh, Heather C Mefford, Lynette G. Sadleir, Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), American Memorial Hospital, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers (CHU Poitiers), University of Melbourne, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), A Meyer Children's Hospital, Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Caen, Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN), Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod - Centre de neuroscience cognitive - UMR5229 (CNC), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Equipe NEMESIS - Centre de Recherches de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (NEMESIS-CRICM), Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (CRICM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), CHU Amiens-Picardie, Physiologie & médecine expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles [U 1046] (PhyMedExp), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Département de génétique médicale, maladies rares et médecine personnalisée [CHRU Montpellier], Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Hôpital Louis-Mourier, Colombes, France., Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg [Luxembourg] (CHL), Rothschild Foundation Hospital, Paris., University of Washington [Seattle], Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia., A.Meyer Children's Hospital, CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Centre d'Investigation Clinique [Rennes] (CIC), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Section of Pediatrics-Child Neurology Unit, Federico II University, 80131, Naples, Italy, Centre Hospitalier Interrégional Edith Cavell (CHIREC), Service de génétique [Reims], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), CLAD-Ouest, CHU Rennes, France., University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande], Pediatric Neurology & Neurogenetics Unit and Laboratories, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI)-Children's Hospital A. Meyer, Epilepsy Research Centre, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia., Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Epinière = Brain and Spine Institute (ICM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Centre de référence des épilepsies rares [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Unité fonctionnelle d'épilepsie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Service de Neurologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], IFR70-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-IFR70-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Service de Neurologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], H2020 European Research Council, Health Research Council of New Zealand, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Seventh Framework Programme, Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, European Research Council, Bar, C, Barcia, G, Jennesson, M, Le Guyader, G, Schneider, A, Mignot, C, Lesca, G, Breuillard, D, Montomoli, M, Keren, B, Doummar, D, de Villemeur, Tb, Afenjar, A, Marey, I, Gerard, M, Isnard, H, Poisson, A, Dupont, S, Berquin, P, Meyer, P, Genevieve, D, De Saint Martin, A, El Chehadeh, S, Chelly, J, Guët, A, Scalais, E, Dorison, N, Myers, Ct, Mefford, Hc, Howell, Kb, Marini, C, Freeman, Jl, Nica, A, Terrone, G, Sekhara, T, Lebre, A, Odent, S, Sadleir, Lg, Munnich, A, Guerrini, R, Scheffer, Ie, Kabashi, E, Nabbout, R, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Service de Génétique et Cytogénétique [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Paris, France., Centre de Référence déficiences intellectuelles de causes rares, GH Pitie-Salpêtrière-Charles Foix, F-, 75013, Paris, France., Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de génétique médicale, maladies rares et médecine personnalisée [CHRU de Montpellier], Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, C.H.I.R.E.C, Brussels, Belgium., Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Children's Hospital A. Meyer-University of Florence (UNIFI), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod - Centre de neuroscience cognitive - UMR5229 (ISC-MJ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild [Paris], Université de Rennes (UR)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI)-Children's Hospital A. Meyer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Children's Hospital A. Meyer-Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence [Firenze] (UNIFI), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-IFR70-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Service de Neurologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière]
Subjects: Genotype, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Biology, Structure-Activity Relationship, 03 medical and health sciences, Epilepsy, Shab Potassium Channels, KCNB1, Intellectual disability, Genetic variation, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Missense mutation, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, developmental and epileptic encephalopathy, Alleles, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics (clinical), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, 030305 genetics & heredity, Genetic Variation, medicine.disease, Axon initial segment, Phenotype, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, epilepsy, potassium channel
Abstract: International audience; Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE) refer to a heterogeneous group of devastating neurodevelopmental disorders. Variants in KCNB1 have been recently reported in patients with early-onset DEE. KCNB1 encodes the alpha subunit of the delayed-rectifier voltage-dependent potassium channel Kv 2.1. We review the 37 previously reported patients carrying 29 distinct KCNB1 variants and significantly expand the mutational spectrum describing 18 novel variants from 27 unreported patients. Most variants occur de novo and mainly consist of missense variants located on the voltage sensor and the pore domain of Kv 2.1. We also report the first inherited variant (p.Arg583*). KCNB1-related encephalopathies encompass a wide spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders with predominant language difficulties and behavioral impairment. Eighty-five percent of patients developed epilepsies with variable syndromes and prognosis. Truncating variants in the C-terminal domain are associated with a less severe epileptic phenotype. Overall, this report provides an up-to-date review of the mutational and clinical spectrum of KCNB1, strengthening its place as a causal gene in DEEs and emphasizing the need for further functional studies to unravel the underlying mechanisms.
Published: 2020
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12. Excess of de novo variants in genes involved in chromatin remodelling in patients with marfanoid habitus and intellectual disability

Author: Florence Demurger, Christine Binquet, Muriel Holder, Frédéric Tran Mau-Them, Salima El Chehadeh, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Geneviève Baujat, Delphine Héron, Judith St-Onge, Christophe Philippe, Elodie Gautier, Robert Olaso, Rebecca A. Barnard, Paul Kuentz, François Lecoquierre, Stanislas Lyonnet, Gwenaëlle Collod-Béroud, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Isabelle Missotte, Anne Boland, Cyril Goizet, Laurence Perrin, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Sébastien Moutton, Nadine Hanna, Jean-François Deleuze, Audrey Putoux, Guillaume Jondeau, Sylvie Odent, Doris Lechner, Arnold Munnich, Thibaud Jouan, Aurélia Jacquette, Pierre-Simon Jouk, Martin Chevarin, Virginie Carmignac, Elisabetta Lapi, Alice Goldenberg, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Sujatha Jagadeesh, P. Callier, Fatma Daoud, Yannis Duffourd, Frédéric Huet, Nathalie Marle, Charlotte Poe, Gipsy Lopez, Cyril Mignot, Florence Petit, Khadija Amarof, Brian J. O'Roak, Caroline Cabret, Fanny Morice-Picard, Jean Baptiste Rivière, Mirna Assoum, Marie Ange Delrue, Julien Thevenon, Laurence Faivre, David Geneviève, Elisabeth Sarrazin, Ange Line Bruel, Pauline Arnaud, Catherine Boileau, Christine Coubes, Didier Lacombe, Laurence Duplomb, Alice Masurel, Patrick Collignon, Antonio Vitobello, Julien Van-Gils, Bruno Leheup, Nolwenn Jean-Marçais, Equipe GAD (LNC - U1231), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, FHU TRANSLAD (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Rennes], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Centre Hospitalier Le Mans (CH Le Mans), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Hôpital Robert Debré Paris, Hôpital Robert Debré, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), CHU de la Martinique [Fort de France], Hôpital Pierre Zobda-Quitman [CHU de la Martinique], Centre hospitalier territorial Gaston-Bourret [Nouméa], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims), Hémostase et Remodelage Vasculaire Post-Ischémie (HERVI - EA 3801), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), Marseille medical genetics - Centre de génétique médicale de Marseille (MMG), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard [Paris], Centre National de Recherche en Génomique Humaine (CNRGH), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Université Paris-Saclay, and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Subjects: Proband, Male, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], intellectual deficiency, MESH: NFI Transcription Factors, chromatin remodeling, Marfan Syndrome, Craniofacial Abnormalities, MESH: Child, Intellectual disability, MESH: Craniofacial Abnormalities, MESH: Mental Retardation, X-Linked, Exome, Child, de novo variants, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Genetics, MESH: Exome, MESH: Middle Aged, biology, MESH: Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Middle Aged, NFIX, MESH: Young Adult, Female, Adult, MESH: Mutation, Adolescent, Chromatin remodeling, MESH: Intellectual Disability, MESH: Marfan Syndrome, EHMT1, Young Adult, MESH: Whole Exome Sequencing, Intellectual Disability, Exome Sequencing, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, marfanoid habitus, Gene, MESH: Neurodevelopmental Disorders, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Humans, Genetic heterogeneity, MESH: Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, MESH: Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, MESH: Adult, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, medicine.disease, Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly, MESH: Male, NFI Transcription Factors, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Mutation, biology.protein, Mental Retardation, X-Linked, MESH: Female
Abstract: PurposeMarfanoid habitus (MH) combined with intellectual disability (ID) (MHID) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous presentation. The combination of array CGH and targeted sequencing of genes responsible for Marfan or Lujan–Fryns syndrome explain no more than 20% of subjects.MethodsTo further decipher the genetic basis of MHID, we performed exome sequencing on a combination of trio-based (33 subjects) or single probands (31 subjects), of which 61 were sporadic.ResultsWe identified eight genes with de novo variants (DNVs) in at least two unrelated individuals (ARID1B, ATP1A1, DLG4, EHMT1, NFIX, NSD1, NUP205 and ZEB2). Using simulation models, we showed that five genes (DLG4, NFIX, EHMT1, ZEB2 and ATP1A1) met conservative Bonferroni genomewide significance for an excess of the observed de novo point variants. Overall, at least one pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant was identified in 54.7% of subjects (35/64). These variants fell within 27 genes previously associated with Mendelian disorders, including NSD1 and NFIX, which are known to be mutated in overgrowth syndromes.ConclusionWe demonstrated that DNVs were enriched in chromatin remodelling (p=2×10−4) and genes regulated by the fragile X mental retardation protein (p=3×10−8), highlighting overlapping genetic mechanisms between MHID and related neurodevelopmental disorders.
Published: 2019
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13. Genetic abnormalities in a large cohort of Coffin-Siris syndrome patients

Author: Greta Gillies, Kayoko Saito, Lesley M McGregor, Takeshi Mizuguchi, Mathieu Marie-Laure, Takanori Yamagata, Takeo Kato, George McGillivray, Kate Gibson, Ok Hwa Kim, Satoko Miyatake, Gaku Minase, Satomi Mitsuhashi, Mari Matsuo, Yoshiya Hisaeda, Seiji Mizuno, Helen Cox, Annick Toutain, Hitoshi Osaka, David Mowat, Lakshmi Mehta, Patrick Yap, Kougoro Iwanaga, Kimihiko Oishi, Takashi Sato, Rani Sachdev, Kate Pope, Jan Liebelt, Salima El Chehadeh, Atsushi Fujita, Shubha R. Phadke, Ken Saida, Futoshi Sekiguchi, Yoshiteru Azuma, Seema Kapoor, Eriko Koshimizu, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Jeff M. Milunsky, Keisuke Nagasaki, Lorne A. Clarke, Winnie Peitee Ong, Naomi Tsuchida, Richard J. Leventer, Sumito Dateki, Takashi Matsuoka, Bertrand Isidor, Tomoki Kosho, Tiong Yang Tan, Marie Pierre Cordier, Tomonari Awaya, Susan M. White, Junpei Hamada, Yoshikazu Shimoji, Hiroshi Suzumura, Kazuhiro Iwama, Hirofumi Ohashi, Keng Wee Teik, Eri Imagawa, Hiromi Aoi, Yoshinori Tsurusaki, Manisha Goyal, Paul J. Lockhart, Masahiko Kawai, Ghada M H Abdel-Salam, Anju Shukla, David Coman, Kohei Hamanaka, Muzhirah Haniffa, Yasutsugu Chinen, Katta M. Girisha, Atsushi Takata, Naomichi Matsumoto, Massimiliano Rossi, Noriko Miyake, Toshifumi Suzuki, Kenji Shimizu, Chirag Patel, Yuri Uchiyama, and Nerine Gregersen
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Micrognathism, 030105 genetics & heredity, Genetic analysis, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, Intellectual Disability, Genotype, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Copy-number variation, Coffin–Siris syndrome, Genetics (clinical), Genetic Association Studies, Coarse facial features, business.industry, Genetic Variation, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Face, Medical genetics, business, Hand Deformities, Congenital, Neck, Congenital disorder
Abstract: Coffin-Siris syndrome (CSS, MIM#135900) is a congenital disorder characterized by coarse facial features, intellectual disability, and hypoplasia of the fifth digit and nails. Pathogenic variants for CSS have been found in genes encoding proteins in the BAF (BRG1-associated factor) chromatin-remodeling complex. To date, more than 150 CSS patients with pathogenic variants in nine BAF-related genes have been reported. We previously reported 71 patients of whom 39 had pathogenic variants. Since then, we have recruited an additional 182 CSS-suspected patients. We performed comprehensive genetic analysis on these 182 patients and on the previously unresolved 32 patients, targeting pathogenic single nucleotide variants, short insertions/deletions and copy number variations (CNVs). We confirmed 78 pathogenic variations in 78 patients. Pathogenic variations in ARID1B, SMARCB1, SMARCA4, ARID1A, SOX11, SMARCE1, and PHF6 were identified in 48, 8, 7, 6, 4, 1, and 1 patients, respectively. In addition, we found three CNVs including SMARCA2. Of particular note, we found a partial deletion of SMARCB1 in one CSS patient and we thoroughly investigated the resulting abnormal transcripts.
Published: 2019

14. The Immune Signaling Adaptor LAT Contributes to the Neuroanatomical Phenotype of 16p11.2 BP2-BP3 CNVs

Author: Maria Nicla Loviglio, Thomas Arbogast, Aia Elise Jønch, Stephan C. Collins, Konstantin Popadin, Camille S. Bonnet, Giuliana Giannuzzi, Anne M. Maillard, Sébastien Jacquemont, Binnaz Yalcin, Nicholas Katsanis, Christelle Golzio, Alexandre Reymond, Christina Fagerberg, Charlotte Brasch Andersen, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Marie-Ange Delrue, Laurence Faivre, Benoit Arveiler, David Geneviève, Anouck Schneider, Marion Gerard, Joris Andrieux, Salima El Chehadeh, Elise Schaefer, Christel Depienne, Mieke Van Haelst, Eva H. Brilstra, Ellen Van Binsbergen, Jeske van Harssel, Lars T. van der Veken, James F. Gusella, Yiping Shen, Elyse Mitchell, Usha Kini, Lara Hawkes, Carolyn Campbell, Florence Niel Butschi, Marie-Claude Addor, Jacques S. Beckmann, Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Duke University [Durham], Lausanne University Hospital, Centre for Integrative Biology - CBI (Inserm U964 - CNRS UMR7104 - IGBMC), Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU), Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 16p11.2 Consortium: Maria Nicla Loviglio, Aia Elise Jønch, Konstantin Popadin, Giuliana Giannuzzi, Anne M Maillard, Christina Fagerberg, Charlotte Brasch Andersen, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Marie-Ange Delrue, Laurence Faivre, Benoit Arveiler, David Geneviève, Anouck Schneider, Marion Gerard, Joris Andrieux, Salima El Chehadeh, Elise Schaefer, Christel Depienne, Mieke Van Haelst, Eva H Brilstra, Ellen Van Binsbergen, Jeske van Harssel, Lars T van der Veken, James F Gusella, Yiping Shen, Elyse Mitchell, Usha Kini, Lara Hawkes, Carolyn Campbell, Florence Niel Butschi, Marie-Claude Addor, Jacques S Beckmann, Sébastien Jacquemont, Alexandre Reymond., Dupuis, Christine, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Human genetics, and Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, epistasis, Microcephaly, obesity, Embryo, Nonmammalian, Phosphoproteins/physiology, MAPK3, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Chromosome Disorders, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics, zebrafish, Cohort Studies, Microcephaly/genetics, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Chromosome Disorders/genetics, Gene duplication, Genetics(clinical), Child, Zebrafish, Genetics (clinical), Aged, 80 and over, Mice, Knockout, Genetics, ZAP70, Brain, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, head size, Middle Aged, 16p11.2, Phenotype, Chromatin, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], Child, Preschool, Knockout mouse, Female, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16/genetics, Chromosome Deletion, Autistic Disorder/genetics, Signal Transduction, Adult, DNA Copy Number Variations, Adolescent, autism, Biology, Article, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Intellectual Disability, Zebrafish Proteins/genetics, medicine, Humans, Animals, Brain/metabolism, Autistic Disorder, Membrane Proteins/genetics, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Aged, genome architecture, Membrane Proteins, Infant, Zebrafish Proteins, Phosphoproteins, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Intellectual Disability/genetics, Mice, Inbred C57BL, 030104 developmental biology, Zebrafish/embryology, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Embryo, Nonmammalian/metabolism
Abstract: International audience; Copy-number changes in 16p11.2 contribute significantly to neuropsychiatric traits. Besides the 600 kb BP4-BP5 CNV found in 0.5%-1% of individuals with autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia and whose rearrangement causes reciprocal defects in head size and body weight, a second distal 220 kb BP2-BP3 CNV is likewise a potent driver of neuropsychiatric, anatomical, and metabolic pathologies. These two CNVs are engaged in complex reciprocal chromatin looping, intimating a functional relationship between genes in these regions that might be relevant to pathomechanism. We assessed the drivers of the distal 16p11.2 duplication by overexpressing each of the nine encompassed genes in zebrafish. Only overexpression of LAT induced a reduction of brain proliferating cells and concomitant microcephaly. Consistently, suppression of the zebrafish ortholog induced an increase of proliferation and macrocephaly. These phenotypes were not unique to zebrafish; Lat knockout mice show brain volumetric changes. Consistent with the hypothesis that LAT dosage is relevant to the CNV pathology, we observed similar effects upon overexpression of CD247 and ZAP70, encoding members of the LAT signalosome. We also evaluated whether LAT was interacting with KCTD13, MVP, and MAPK3, major driver and modifiers of the proximal 16p11.2 600 kb BP4-BP5 syndromes, respectively. Co-injected embryos exhibited an increased microcephaly, suggesting the presence of genetic interaction. Correspondingly, carriers of 1.7 Mb BP1-BP5 rearrangements that encompass both the BP2-BP3 and BP4-BP5 loci showed more severe phenotypes. Taken together, our results suggest that LAT, besides its well-recognized function in T cell development, is a major contributor of the 16p11.2 220 kb BP2-BP3 CNV-associated neurodevelopmental phenotypes.
Published: 2017
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15. Application of whole-exome sequencing to unravel the molecular basis of undiagnosed syndromic congenital neutropenia with intellectual disability

Author: Jean Donadieu, Delphine Héron, Laurence Faivre, Salima El Chehadeh, Daphné Lehalle, Claire Briandet, Elodie Gautier, Julien Thevenon, Daniel Amram, Thibaud Jouan, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Judith Melki, Laurence Duplomb-Jego, Frédéric Huet, Christine Bellanné-Chantelot, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Ange-Line Bruel, Yannis Duffourd, Lucile Pinson, Isabelle Maystadt, Judith St-Onge, Sophia Julia, Alexandra Gauthier-Vasserot, Paul Kuentz, Institut d'hématologie et d'oncologie pédiatrique [CHU - HCL] (IHOPe), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Génétique des Anomalies du Développement (GAD), IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), CHU Dijon, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Groupe de Recherche Clinique : Déficience Intellectuelle et Autisme (GRC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Service d'hématologie-immunologie-oncologie pédiatrique [CHU Trousseau], CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Immuno-hématologie pédiatrique (MaRIH), Laboratoire de géographie physique : Environnements Quaternaires et Actuels (LGP), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Génétique Humaine, Institut de Pathologie et de Génétique, Université de Namur [Namur] (UNamur), Service de génétique médicale [Montpellier], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Unité fonctionnelle de génétique clinique, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Hôpital Bicêtre, Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Bicêtre, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Toulouse-Purpan, Institut d'hématologie et d'oncologie pédiatrique [CHU - HCL] ( IHOPe ), Hospices Civils de Lyon ( HCL ), Génétique des Anomalies du Développement ( GAD ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Centre de Référence des Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Groupe de Recherche Clinique : Déficience Intellectuelle et Autisme ( GRC ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ), Service d’oncologie hématologie pédiatrique [CHU Trousseau], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Immuno-hématologie pédiatrique ( MaRIH ), Laboratoire de géographie physique ( LGP ), Université Panthéon-Sorbonne ( UP1 ) -Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 ( UPEC UP12 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Université de Namur, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] ( CHRU Montpellier ) -Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-Hôpital Bicêtre, Université de Bourgogne (UB)-IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, Service de pédiatrie (CHU de Dijon), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), and Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Neutropenia, Adolescent, Neonatal onset, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, congenital neutropenia, [ SDV.MHEP ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Congenital Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, Humans, Exome, Child, Congenital Neutropenia, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Retrospective Studies, business.industry, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Infant, Syndrome, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Phenotype, 030104 developmental biology, CHD2, Child, Preschool, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Cohort, Etiology, Female, business, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Biomarkers
Abstract: International audience; Neutropenia can be qualified as congenital when of neonatal onset or when associated with extra-hematopoietic manifestations. Overall, 30% of patients with congenital neutropenia (CN) remain without a molecular diagnosis after a multidisciplinary consultation and tedious diagnostic strategy. In the rare situations when neutropenia is identified and associated with intellectual disability (ID), there are few diagnostic hypotheses to test. This retrospective multicenter study reports on a clinically heterogeneous cohort of 10 unrelated patients with CN associated with ID and no molecular diagnosis prior to whole-exome sequencing (WES). WES provided a diagnostic yield of 40% (4/10). The results suggested that in many cases neutropenia and syndromic manifestations could not be assigned to the same molecular alteration. Three sub-groups of patients were highlighted: (i) severe, symptomatic chronic neutropenia, detected early in life, and related to a known mutation in the CN spectrum (ELANE); (ii) mild to moderate benign intermittent neutropenia, detected later, and associated with mutations in genes implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders (CHD2, HUWE1); and (iii) moderate to severe intermittent neutropenia as a probably undiagnosed feature of a newly reported syndrome (KAT6A). Unlike KAT6A, which seems to be associated with a syndromic form of CN, the other reported mutations may not explain the entire clinical picture. Although targeted gene sequencing can be discussed for the primary diagnosis of severe CN, we suggest that performing WES for the diagnosis of disorders associating CN with ID will not only provide the etiological diagnosis but will also pave the way towards personalized care and follow-up. (C) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., (C) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Published: 2016
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16. Disease-causing variants in TCF4 are a frequent cause of intellectual disability: lessons from large-scale sequencing approaches in diagnosis

Author: Anne Boland, Alain Verloes, Jean-François Deleuze, Amélie Piton, Robert Olaso, Jean-Louis Mandel, Laura Mary, Laurence Faivre, Christine Coubes, Bénédicte Gérard, Elise Schaefer, David Geneviève, Claire Feger, Irina Giurgea, Estelle Colin, Francesca Mattioli, Salima El Chehadeh, Dana Timbolschi, Yline Capri, Jennifer Fabre-Teste, Elsa Nourisson, Elisabeth Flori, Magalie Barth, Laurence Perrin, Claire Redin, Laboratoire de Diagnostic Génétique [CHU Strasbourg], Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-CHU Strasbourg, Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), MitoVasc - Physiopathologie Cardiovasculaire et Mitochondriale (MITOVASC), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de génétique médicale, maladies rares et médecine personnalisée [CHRU Montpellier], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Cellules Souches, Plasticité Cellulaire, Médecine Régénératrice et Immunothérapies (IRMB), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Unité fonctionnelle de génétique clinique, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut de Biologie François JACOB (JACOB), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Maladies génétiques d'expression pédiatrique (U933), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de Génétique, Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (CRICM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Physiopathologie Cardiovasculaire et Mitochondriale (MITOVASC), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Angers (UA), Service de cytogénétique, Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Physiopathologie, conséquences fonctionnelles et neuroprotection des atteintes du cerveau en développement, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-IFR2-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Département de génétique [Robert Debré], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre National de Génotypage, Institut de Génomique, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Service d'hématologie et immunologie, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Physiopathologie des maladies génétiques d'expression pédiatrique (UMRS_933), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Inst MitoVasc, Equipe MitoLab, Université d'Angers (UA), Département de génétique médicale, maladies rares et médecine personnalisée [CHRU de Montpellier], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard [Paris]-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Physiopathologie des maladies génétiques d'expression pédiatrique, and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Intellectual disability, Disease, 030105 genetics & heredity, Bioinformatics, medicine.disease_cause, Transcription Factor 4, MESH: Young adult, MESH: Child, Hyperventilation, 10. No inequality, Child, MESH: Transcription factor 4 / genetics, Genetics (clinical), MESH: Hyperventilation / genetics, Sanger sequencing, Mutation, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, TCF4, 3. Good health, Phenotype, MESH: Facies, Child, Preschool, Cohort, symbols, Female, MESH: Hight-throughput Nucleotide sequencing, Adult, MESH: Mutation, Adolescent, MESH: Phenotype, Article, MESH: Child, preschool, 03 medical and health sciences, symbols.namesake, Young Adult, Genetics, medicine, Humans, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Humans, MESH: Hyperventilation / diagnosis, business.industry, Facies, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: Intellectual Disability / pathology, Human genome, business, Large-Scale Sequencing, MESH: Female
Abstract: IF 3.636 (2017); International audience; High-throughput sequencing (HTS) of human genome coding regions allows the simultaneous screen of a large number of genes, significantly improving the diagnosis of non-syndromic intellectual disabilities (ID). HTS studies permit the redefinition of the phenotypical spectrum of known disease-causing genes, escaping the clinical inclusion bias of gene-by-gene Sanger sequencing. We studied a cohort of 903 patients with ID not reminiscent of a well-known syndrome, using an ID-targeted HTS of several hundred genes and found de novo heterozygous variants in TCF4 (transcription factor 4) in eight novel patients. Piecing together the patients from this study and those from previous large-scale unbiased HTS studies, we estimated the rate of individuals with ID carrying a disease-causing TCF4 mutation to 0.7%. So far, TCF4 molecular abnormalities were known to cause a syndromic form of ID, Pitt–Hopkins syndrome (PTHS), which combines severe ID, developmental delay, absence of speech, behavioral and ventilation disorders, and a distinctive facial gestalt. Therefore, we reevaluated ten patients carrying a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant in TCF4 (eight patients included in this study and two from our previous ID-HTS study) for PTHS criteria defined by Whalen and Marangi. A posteriori, five patients had a score highly evocative of PTHS, three were possibly consistent with this diagnosis, and two had a score below the defined PTHS threshold. In conclusion, these results highlight TCF4 as a frequent cause of moderate to profound ID and broaden the clinical spectrum associated to TCF4 mutations to nonspecific ID.
Published: 2018
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17. Genetic counselling difficulties and ethical implications of incidental findings from array-CGH: a 7-year national survey

Author: Jeanne Amiel, Sophie Julia, Catherine Vincent-Delorme, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Paul Kuentz, Salima El Chehadeh, Stanislas Lyonnet, Bruno Leheup, Elodie Gautier, Odile Boute-Benejean, Nathalie Le Meur, Sandrine Marlin, Irène François, Delphine Héron, Marianne Till, Patrick Edery, Houda Karmous Benailly, Serge Romana, Nicole Philip, Patrick Callier, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Bénédicte Héron, Adeline Vigouroux-Castera, Mathilde Lefebvre, Chantal Missirian, Sylvie Odent, Fanny Morice-Picard, Roseline Caumes, Dominique Martin, Cédric Le Caignec, Nicolas Chassaing, Claire Benneteau, Anne-Laure Mosca-Boidron, Claude Ferrec, Anne-Marie Guerrot, Sylvie Manouvrier-Hanu, Eva Piparas, Damien Sanlaville, Florence Petit, Stéphanie Arpin, Sébastien Moutton, Marie-Pierre Alex-Cordier, Elodie Cretin, Laurence Faivre, Sabine Sigaudy, Tiffany Busa, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Sandra Chantot-Bastaraud, Julien Thevenon, Alexandra Afenjar, Annick Toutain, Boris Keren, Anne Philippe, Valérie Malan, Laetitia Lambert, Sandra Mercier, Elise Schaefer, James Lespinasse, Nathalie Marle, Sylvia Redon, Fabienne Giuliano, Isabelle Mortemousque, Philippe Khau Van Kien, Pierre Bitoun, Alice Goldenberg, Sophie Blesson, and Michèle Marti-Dramard
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, education.field_of_study, Ethical issues, business.industry, Genetic counseling, Population, Retrospective cohort study, 030105 genetics & heredity, medicine.disease, Penetrance, 3. Good health, 03 medical and health sciences, Generalization (learning), Family medicine, Intellectual disability, Medicine, business, education, Genetics (clinical), Comparative genomic hybridization
Abstract: Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is commonly used in diagnosing patients with intellectual disability (ID) with or without congenital malformation. Because aCGH interrogates with the whole genome, there is a risk of being confronted with incidental findings (IF). In order to anticipate the ethical issues of IF with the generalization of new genome-wide analysis technologies, we questioned French clinicians and cytogeneticists about the situations they have faced regarding IF from aCGH. Sixty-five IF were reported. Forty corresponded to autosomal dominant diseases with incomplete penetrance, 7 to autosomal dominant diseases with complete penetrance, 14 to X-linked diseases, and 4 were heterozygotes for autosomal recessive diseases with a high prevalence of heterozygotes in the population. Therapeutic/preventive measures or genetic counselling could be argued for all cases except four. These four IF were intentionally not returned to the patients. Clinicians reported difficulties in returning the results in 29% of the cases, mainly when the question of IF had not been anticipated. Indeed, at the time of the investigation, only 48% of the clinicians used consents mentioning the risk of IF. With the emergence of new technologies, there is a need to report such national experiences; they show the importance of pre-test information on IF.
Published: 2016
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18. De novo mutations in MSL3 cause an X-linked syndrome marked by impaired histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation

Author: Olivier Vanakker, Maria Kirchhoff, Christian Gilissen, Jenny Morton, Ineke van der Burgt, Kelly Radtke, Tugce Aktas, Sarah Vergult, Diana Johnson, Tobias Rumpf, Tony Roscioli, André Reis, Alan Fryer, Salima El Chehadeh, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Ange Line Bruel, Rolph Pfundt, Sander Pajusalu, David Francis, Asifa Akhtar, Iben Bache, Tiong Yang Tan, Vera M. Kalscheuer, Meredith Wilson, Björn Menten, Giuseppe Semplicio, Julien Thevenon, Richard Fisher, Yannis Duffourd, Gerhard Mittler, Witold G. Szymanski, M. Felicia Basilicata, Victoria McKay, Kristin Lindstrom, Han G. Brunner, Katrin Õunap, Jaya Ganesh, Claudia Isabelle Keller Valsecchi, Megan T. Cho, Laurence Faivre, MUMC+: DA Klinische Genetica (5), Klinische Genetica, RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Equipe GAD (LNC - U1231), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), FHU TRANSLAD (CHU de Dijon), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory and Clinical Genetics Unit, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospitals, Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen], Center for Medical Genetics [Ghent], Ghent University Hospital, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud university [Nijmegen], GeneDx [Gaithersburg, MD, USA], Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), Department of Clinical Genetics [Copenhagen], Rigshospitalet [Copenhagen], Copenhagen University Hospital-Copenhagen University Hospital, Institute of Human Genetics [Erlangen, Allemagne], Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Department of Clinical Genetics (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust), Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Institute for Advanced Biosciences / Institut pour l'Avancée des Biosciences (Grenoble) (IAB), and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Etablissement français du sang - Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (EFS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, CHROMATIN, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone, CHROMOSOME, Cohort Studies, Histones, Mice, Genes, X-Linked, MSL complex, Child, Cells, Cultured, Histone Acetyltransferases, Epigenomics, Acetylation, Genetic Diseases, X-Linked, Metabolic Disorders Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 6], Syndrome, Chromatin, Cell biology, DNA-Binding Proteins, DROSOPHILA, Histone, ACETYLTRANSFERASE, Child, Preschool, Female, Adolescent, Mice, Transgenic, Biology, Article, Histone H4, 03 medical and health sciences, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, Genetics, Animals, Humans, CELL-CYCLE, Epigenetics, DEACETYLASE, MOF, MSL3, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], DOSAGE COMPENSATION COMPLEX, Infant, Dosage compensation complex, PROTEIN INTERACTIONS, HEK293 Cells, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Case-Control Studies, Mutation, biology.protein, Histone deacetylase, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, Transcription Factors, Ultra-rare developmental disorders
Abstract: International audience; The etiological spectrum of ultra-rare developmental disorders remains to be fully defined. Chromatin regulatory mechanisms maintain cellular identity and function, where misregulation may lead to developmental defects. Here, we report pathogenic variations in MSL3, which encodes a member of the chromatin-associated male-specific lethal (MSL) complex responsible for bulk histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation (H4K16ac) in flies and mammals. These variants cause an X-linked syndrome affecting both sexes. Clinical features of the syndrome include global developmental delay, progressive gait disturbance, and recognizable facial dysmorphism. MSL3 mutations affect MSL complex assembly and activity, accompanied by a pronounced loss of H4K16ac levels in vivo. Patient-derived cells display global transcriptome alterations of pathways involved in morphogenesis and cell migration. Finally, we use histone deacetylase inhibitors to rebalance acetylation levels, alleviating some of the molecular and cellular phenotypes of patient cells. Taken together, we characterize a syndrome that allowed us to decipher the developmental importance of MSL3 in humans.
Published: 2018
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19. Clinical whole-exome sequencing for the diagnosis of rare disorders with congenital anomalies and/or intellectual disability: substantial interest of prospective annual reanalysis

Author: Judith St-Onge, Antonio Vitobello, Pierre Vabres, Nolwenn Jean-Marçais, Daphné Lehalle, Charlotte Poe, Virginie Carmignac, Ange-Line Bruel, Paul Kuentz, Patrick Callier, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Christophe Philippe, Laurence Faivre, Emilie Tisserant, Salima El Chehadeh-Djebbar, Frédéric Tran Mau-Them, Julien Thevenon, Yannis Duffourd, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Alice Masurel-Paulet, Anne-Laure Mosca-Boidron, Thibaud Jouan, Martin Chevarin, Sophie Nambot, Mathilde Lefebvre, Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), FHU TRANSLAD, Equipe GAD (LNC - U1231), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] ( LNC ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), FHU TRANSLAD (CHU de Dijon), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), and Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, Congenital anomalies, Intellectual disability, Translational research, Clinical WES data, Congenital Abnormalities, 03 medical and health sciences, Rare Diseases, Databases, Genetic, Exome Sequencing, medicine, Humans, Exome, Genetic Testing, [ SDV.GEN.GH ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Genetic testing, Retrospective Studies, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Retrospective cohort study, Sequence Analysis, DNA, medicine.disease, Additional research, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Whole-exome sequencing, Physical therapy, Raw data, business
Abstract: International audience; PurposeCongenital anomalies and intellectual disability (CA/ID) are a major diagnostic challenge in medical genetics—50% of patients still have no molecular diagnosis after a long and stressful diagnostic “odyssey.” Solo clinical whole-exome sequencing (WES) was applied in our genetics center to improve diagnosis in patients with CA/ID.MethodsThis retrospective study examined 416 consecutive tests performed over 3 years to demonstrate the effectiveness of periodically reanalyzing WES data. The raw data from each nonpositive test was reanalyzed at 12 months with the most recent pipeline and in the light of new data in the literature. The results of the reanalysis for patients enrolled in the third year are not yet available.ResultsOf the 416 patients included, data for 156 without a diagnosis were reanalyzed. We obtained 24 (15.4%) additional diagnoses: 12 through the usual diagnostic process (7 new publications, 4 initially misclassified, and 1 copy-number variant), and 12 through translational research by international data sharing. The final yield of positive results was 27.9% through a strict diagnostic approach, and 2.9% through an additional research strategy.ConclusionThis article highlights the effectiveness of periodically combining diagnostic reinterpretation of clinical WES data with translational research involving data sharing for candidate genes.
Published: 2017
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20. Further delineation of the

Author: Marguerite, Miguet, Laurence, Faivre, Jeanne, Amiel, Mathilde, Nizon, Renaud, Touraine, Fabienne, Prieur, Laurent, Pasquier, Mathilde, Lefebvre, Julien, Thevenon, Christèle, Dubourg, Sophie, Julia, Catherine, Sarret, Ganaëlle, Remerand, Christine, Francannet, Fanny, Laffargue, Odile, Boespflug-Tanguy, Albert, David, Bertrand, Isidor, Jacqueline, Vigneron, Bruno, Leheup, Laetitia, Lambert, Christophe, Philippe, Mylène, Béri-Dexheimer, Jean-Marie, Cuisset, Joris, Andrieux, Ghislaine, Plessis, Annick, Toutain, Laurent, Guibaud, Valérie, Cormier-Daire, Marlene, Rio, Jean-Paul, Bonnefont, Bernard, Echenne, Hubert, Journel, Lydie, Burglen, Sandrine, Chantot-Bastaraud, Thierry, Bienvenu, Clarisse, Baumann, Laurence, Perrin, Séverine, Drunat, Pierre-Simon, Jouk, Klaus, Dieterich, Françoise, Devillard, Didier, Lacombe, Nicole, Philip, Sabine, Sigaudy, Anne, Moncla, Chantal, Missirian, Catherine, Badens, Nathalie, Perreton, Christel, Thauvin-Robinet, Réseau, AChro-Puce, Jean-Michel, Pedespan, Caroline, Rooryck, Cyril, Goizet, Catherine, Vincent-Delorme, Bénédicte, Duban-Bedu, Nadia, Bahi-Buisson, Alexandra, Afenjar, Kim, Maincent, Delphine, Héron, Jean-Luc, Alessandri, Dominique, Martin-Coignard, Gaëtan, Lesca, Massimiliano, Rossi, Martine, Raynaud, Patrick, Callier, Anne-Laure, Mosca-Boidron, Nathalie, Marle, Charles, Coutton, Véronique, Satre, Cédric Le, Caignec, Valérie, Malan, Serge, Romana, Boris, Keren, Anne-Claude, Tabet, Valérie, Kremer, Sophie, Scheidecker, Adeline, Vigouroux, Marilyn, Lackmy-Port-Lis, Damien, Sanlaville, Marianne, Till, Maryline, Carneiro, Brigitte, Gilbert-Dussardier, Marjolaine, Willems, Hilde, Van Esch, Vincent Des, Portes, and Salima, El Chehadeh
Subjects: Adult, Male, Chromosomes, Human, X, Epilepsy, Adolescent, Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2, Developmental Disabilities, Hypertension, Pulmonary, Infant, Stereotypic Movement Disorder, Pedigree, Young Adult, Hyperopia, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Intellectual Disability, Mental Retardation, X-Linked, Somatosensory Disorders, Exotropia, Humans, France, Child
Abstract: The Xq28 duplication involving the
Published: 2017

21. Intragenic FMR1 disease-causing variants: a significant mutational mechanism leading to Fragile-X syndrome

Author: Patrick Callier, Angélique Quartier, Matthieu Jung, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Vincent des Portes, Claire Feger, Bernard Jost, Bénédicte Gérard, Stéphanie Le Gras, Daphné Lehalle, Elsa Nourisson, Anne-Sophie Casteleyn, Claire Redin, Julien Thevenon, Anne-Laure Mosca-Boidron, Laurence Faivre, Hélène Poquet, Frédéric Huet, Paul Kuentz, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Véronique Geoffroy, Jean-Louis Mandel, Massimiliano Rossi, Gaetan Lesca, Alice Masurel, Patrick Edery, Benoit Trojak, Salima El Chehadeh, Stéphanie Maury, Jean Muller, Amélie Piton, Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire [CHRU Strasbourg], CHRU Strasbourg, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de cytogénétique (CHU de Dijon), Service de psychiatrie générale et addictologie [CHU de Dijon], French Ministry of Health Fondation Jerome Lejeune Agence de la Biomedecine, CREGEMES Agence Nationale de la Recherche MENESR et Fondation Recherche Medicale Regional Council of Burgundy, ANR-10-IDEX-0002,UNISTRA,UNISTRA(2010), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] ( LNC ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire ( IGBMC ), Université de Strasbourg ( UNISTRA ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and ANR-10-IDEX-0002-02/10-IDEX-0002,UNISTRA,UNISTRA ( 2010 )
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, diagnosis, RNA Splicing, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein, 03 medical and health sciences, Exon, Genetic linkage, placebo-controlled trial, [ SDV.MHEP ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Molecular genetics, Genetics, medicine, Humans, gene, Genetics (clinical), Mutation, intron 10, Siblings, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, FMR1, Human genetics, 3. Good health, Fragile X syndrome, developmental delay, of-the-literature, 030104 developmental biology, intellectual disability, Fragile X Syndrome, mental-retardation, Medical genetics, Female, point mutation, double-blind, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
Abstract: International audience; Fragile-X syndrome (FXS) is a frequent genetic form of intellectual disability (ID). The main recurrent mutagenic mechanism causing FXS is the expansion of a CGG repeat sequence in the 5'-UTR of the FMR1 gene, therefore, routinely tested in ID patients. We report here three FMR1 intragenic pathogenic variants not affecting this sequence, identified using high-throughput sequencing (HTS): a previously reported hemizygous deletion encompassing the last exon of FMR1, too small to be detected by array-CGH and inducing decreased expression of a truncated form of FMRP protein, in three brothers with ID (family 1) and two splice variants in boys with sporadic ID: a de novo variant c.990+1G > A (family 2) and a maternally inherited c.420-8A > G variant (family 3). After clinical reevaluation, the five patients presented features consistent with FXS (mean Hagerman's scores=15). We conducted a systematic review of all rare non-synonymous variants previously reported in FMR1 in ID patients and showed that six of them are convincing pathogenic variants. This study suggests that intragenic FMR1 variants, although much less frequent than CGG expansions, are a significant mutational mechanism leading to FXS and demonstrates the interest of HTS approaches to detect them in ID patients with a negative standard work-up.
Published: 2017
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22. Efficient strategy for the molecular diagnosis of intellectual disability using targeted high-throughput sequencing

Author: Estelle Colin, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Bernard Jost, Hélène Dollfus, Marie-Ange Delrue, Dominique Bonneau, Marjolaine Willems, Christine Francannet, Claire Feger, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Patrick Edery, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Laurence Olivier-Faivre, Véronique Geoffroy, Jean-Louis Mandel, Muriel Philipps, Serge Vicaire, Bérénice Doray, Alice Goldenberg, Magalie Barth, Julien Thevenon, Julia Lauer, Didier Lacombe, Gaetan Lesca, David Geneviève, Angélique Quartier, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Yvan Herenger, Serge Lumbroso, Salima El-Chehadeh, Bénédicte Gérard, Mélanie Fradin, Gilles Morin, Jean Muller, Yves Alembik, Sylvie Sukno, Amélie Piton, Nicolas Haumesser, Claire Redin, Bertrand Isidor, Elisabeth Flori, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Pierre Sarda, Alice Masurel-Paulet, Michael Dumas, Stéphanie Le Gras, and Anne Polge
Subjects: Adult, Male, Adolescent, DNA Mutational Analysis, autism, Biology, DNA sequencing, Young Adult, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Child, Genetics (clinical), ATRX, causative, Genetic heterogeneity, Infant, Newborn, high-throughput sequencing, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Infant, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Molecular diagnostics, medicine.disease, FMR1, Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, intellectual disability, Child, Preschool, Autism, Cognitive and Behavioural Genetics, Female, CUL4B, mutation
Abstract: Background Intellectual disability (ID) is characterised by an extreme genetic heterogeneity. Several hundred genes have been associated to monogenic forms of ID, considerably complicating molecular diagnostics. Trio-exome sequencing was recently proposed as a diagnostic approach, yet remains costly for a general implementation. Methods We report the alternative strategy of targeted high-throughput sequencing of 217 genes in which mutations had been reported in patients with ID or autism as the major clinical concern. We analysed 106 patients with ID of unknown aetiology following array-CGH analysis and other genetic investigations. Ninety per cent of these patients were males, and 75% sporadic cases. Results We identified 26 causative mutations: 16 in X-linked genes (ATRX, CUL4B, DMD, FMR1, HCFC1, IL1RAPL1, IQSEC2, KDM5C, MAOA, MECP2, SLC9A6, SLC16A2, PHF8) and 10 de novo in autosomal-dominant genes (DYRK1A, GRIN1, MED13L, TCF4, RAI1, SHANK3, SLC2A1, SYNGAP1). We also detected four possibly causative mutations (eg, in NLGN3) requiring further investigations. We present detailed reasoning for assigning causality for each mutation, and associated patients’ clinical information. Some genes were hit more than once in our cohort, suggesting they correspond to more frequent ID-associated conditions (KDM5C, MECP2, DYRK1A, TCF4). We highlight some unexpected genotype to phenotype correlations, with causative mutations being identified in genes associated to defined syndromes in patients deviating from the classic phenotype (DMD, TCF4, MECP2). We also bring additional supportive (HCFC1, MED13L) or unsupportive (SHROOM4, SRPX2) evidences for the implication of previous candidate genes or mutations in cognitive disorders. Conclusions With a diagnostic yield of 25% targeted sequencing appears relevant as a first intention test for the diagnosis of ID, but importantly will also contribute to a better understanding regarding the specific contribution of the many genes implicated in ID and autism.
Published: 2014

23. Congenital neutropenia with retinopathy, a new phenotype without intellectual deficiency or obesity secondary toVPS13Bmutations

Author: Julien Thevenon, Judith St-Onge, Bernard Aral, Patrick Callier, Salima El Chehadeh, Pierre Sarda, Christian P. Hamel, Virginie Carmignac, Frédéric Huet, Nathalie Droin, Lucie Gueneau, Laurence Duplomb, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Laurence Faivre, and Nadège Gigot
Subjects: Adult, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Microcephaly, Neutropenia, DNA Mutational Analysis, Vesicular Transport Proteins, medicine.disease_cause, Retinal Diseases, Intellectual Disability, Gene Order, Genetics, medicine, Congenital Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, Humans, Obesity, Congenital Neutropenia, Genetics (clinical), Mutation, Cohen syndrome, business.industry, Facies, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Pedigree, VPS13B, Female, business, Retinopathy
Abstract: Over one hundred VPS13B mutations are reported in Cohen syndrome (CS). Most cases exhibit a homogeneous phenotype that includes intellectual deficiency (ID), microcephaly, facial dysmorphism, slender extremities, truncal obesity, progressive chorioretinal dystrophy, and neutropenia. We report on a patient carrying two VPS13B splicing mutations with an atypical phenotype that included microcephaly, retinopathy, and congenital neutropenia, but neither obesity nor ID. RNA analysis of the IVS34+2T_+3AinsT mutation did not reveal any abnormal splice fragments but mRNA quantification showed a significant decrease in VPS13B expression. RNA sequencing analysis up- and downstream from the IVS57+2T>C mutation showed abnormal splice isoforms. In contrast to patients with typical CS, who express only abnormal VPS13B mRNA and truncated protein, a dose effect of residual normal VPS13B protein possibly explains the incomplete phenotype in the patient. This observation emphasizes that VPS13B analysis should be performed in cases of congenital neutropenia associated with retinopathy, even in the absence of ID, therefore extending the VPS13B phenotype spectrum. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2013
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24. Changing facial phenotype in Cohen syndrome

Author: Bernard Aral, Nadège Gigot, François-Guillaume Debray, Alice Masurel-Paulet, Patrick Rump, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Frédéric Huet, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Marlène Rio, Laurence Duplomb, Patrick Callier, Edward Blair, Anne-Marie Frances, Salima El Chehadeh-Djebbar, Anne Moncla, and Laurence Faivre
Subjects: Male, Microcephaly, Developmental Disabilities, FEATURES, facial phenotype, Vesicular Transport Proteins, Myopia, CRITERIA, HETEROGENEITY, Child, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, Cohen syndrome, Retinal Degeneration, Hypotonia, VPS13B, Phenotype, medicine.anatomical_structure, Child, Preschool, Muscle Hypotonia, Female, medicine.symptom, medicine.medical_specialty, changing phenotype, Genetic counseling, Biology, Article, Fingers, Intellectual Disability, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Obesity, Short philtrum, Auricle, NATURAL-HISTORY, medicine.disease, Dermatology, MUTATIONAL SPECTRUM, GENE, DELETIONS, stomatognathic diseases, Early Diagnosis, Face, Mutation, Square face, VPS13B gene
Abstract: Cohen syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive condition caused by mutations and/or large rearrangements in the VPS13B gene. CS clinical features, including developmental delay, the typical facial gestalt, chorioretinal dystrophy (CRD) and neutropenia, are well described. CS diagnosis is generally raised after school age, when visual disturbances lead to CRD diagnosis and to VPS13B gene testing. This relatively late diagnosis precludes accurate genetic counselling. The aim of this study was to analyse the evolution of CS facial features in the early period of life, particularly before school age (6 years), to find clues for an earlier diagnosis. Photographs of 17 patients with molecularly confirmed CS were analysed, from birth to preschool age. By comparing their facial phenotype when growing, we show that there are no special facial characteristics before 1 year. However, between 2 and 6 years, CS children already share common facial features such as a short neck, a square face with micrognathia and full cheeks, a hypotonic facial appearance, epicanthic folds, long ears with an everted upper part of the auricle and/or a prominent lobe, a relatively short philtrum, a small and open mouth with downturned corners, a thick lower lip and abnormal eye shapes. These early transient facial features evolve to typical CS facial features with aging. These observations emphasize the importance of ophthalmological tests and neutrophil count in children in preschool age presenting with developmental delay, hypotonia and the facial features we described here, for an earlier CS diagnosis.
Published: 2013
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25. Further Evidence for Dlgap2 as Strong Autism Spectrum Disorders/Intellectual Disability Candidate Gene

Author: Helene Poquet, Laurence Faivre, Salima El Chehadeh, Jenny Morton, Dominic McMullan, Susan Hamilton, Himanshu Goel, Bertrand Isidor, Cedric Le Caignec, Joris Andrieux, Bruno Delobel, Eva Pipiras, Anne Claude Tabet, Andree Delahaye, Loic Depontual, Mathilde Lefebvre, Caroline Jacquot, Alice Masurel, Frederic Huet, Jean Michel Pinoit, Vincent Meille, Maud Benetti, Eddy Ponavoy, Jean Christophe Chauvet Gelinier, Benoit Trojak, Bernard Bonin, Christine Juif, Anne Collinet de la Salle, Christel Thauvin Robinet, Nathalie Lagarde, Celine Henry, Nathalie Marle, Patrick Callier, and Anne Laure Mosca Boidron
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Candidate gene, medicine.disease, Glutamatergic postsynaptic density, Penetrance, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, Autism spectrum disorder, mental disorders, Intellectual disability, medicine, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Autism, Specific Learning Disorder, Copy-number variation, Psychiatry, Psychology, General Environmental Science
Abstract: Autism spectrum disorders are classified as neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by diminished social communication and interaction. The core symptoms typically coexist with other medical conditions such as intellectual disability. The involvement of rare copy number variations of varying expressivity and penetrance as risk factors in autism spectrum disorders/intellectual disability phenotypes has been highlighted in large series. The DLGAP2 gene, whose glutamatergic postsynaptic density product may play a role in synaptogenesis and plasticity, has been identified as a novel candidate on the basis of 2 de novo duplications in sporadic non-syndromic autism spectrum disorders/intellectual disability males. It has also been suggested that increased DLGAP2 gene expression may contribute to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Based on these results and after fine phenotyping of another patient with a de novo duplication involving DLGAP2 and presenting with autism spectrum disorder intersecting early-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorder, we gathered an international series of 9 cases (6 families) via international data sharing. Four sporadic males presented with autism spectrum disorders and one had other neurodevelopmental disorders. A family with 4 females displayed intellectual disability (2/4) and specific learning disorder (2/4). This study supports the hypothesis that rare copy number variations encompassing DLGAP2 with incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity could predispose to a broad range of early-onset neurodevelopmental disorders trajectories including autism spectrum disorders/intellectual disability, highlighting the existence of common predisposing factors to these overlapping phenotypic spectrums.
Published: 2017
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26. Dominant variants in the splicing factor PUF60 cause a recognizable syndrome with intellectual disability, heart defects and short stature

Author: Matthieu P. Robert, Salima El Chehadeh, Geert Vandeweyer, Candace Bensignor, Wilhelmina S. Kerstjens-Frederikse, Darina Prchalova, Hélène Dollfus, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Paul Kuentz, Edwin Reyniers, Patrick Calvas, Caroline Bonnet, Marketa Havlovicova, Rodica Isaiko, Vincent Laugel, Nicolas Chassaing, Julien Thevenon, Christian Gilissen, Morgane Straub, Laurence Faivre, Yannis Duffourd, Miroslava Hancarova, Bart Loeys, R. Frank Kooy, Ange-Line Bruel, Rolph Pfundt, Catherine Creuzot-Garcher, Jolien S. Klein Wassink-Ruiter, Zdenek Sedlacek, FHU TRANSLAD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Génétique des Anomalies du Développement ( GAD ), IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC-Université de Bourgogne ( UB ), Service de pédiatrie (CHU de Dijon), Service d'Ophtalmologie (CHU de Dijon), Service de Cardiologie (hôpital général, CHU Dijon), Hôpital général (CHU Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Equipe GAD (LNC - U1231), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CHU Strasbourg, Génétique des Anomalies du Développement (GAD), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, Unité différenciation épidermique et auto-immunité rhumatoïde (UDEAR), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), FHU TRANSLAD (CHU de Dijon), IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Service de Cardiologie, and Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, MESH: Heart Defects, Congenital / physiopathology, Microcephaly, Pathology, MESH: Heart Defects, Congenital / genetics, MESH: Exome / genetics, 030105 genetics & heredity, MESH: RNA Splicing / genetics, Microphthalmia, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, MESH: Child, Exome, MESH: RNA Splicing Factors / genetics, Child, Frameshift Mutation, MESH: High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Coloboma, MESH: Frameshift Mutation, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Microdeletion syndrome, Microcephaly, Verheij syndrome, PUF60, Chemistry, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, DISEASES, Medical genetics, Female, RNA Splicing Factors, medicine.symptom, Chromosome Deletion, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8, MESH: Dwarfism / genetics, Heart Defects, Congenital, medicine.medical_specialty, GENES, Adolescent, RNA Splicing, MESH: Chromosome Deletion, Dwarfism, Biology, MESH: Phenotype, Short stature, Article, PUF60, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Intellectual Disability, [ SDV.MHEP ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Craniofacial, MESH: Adolescent, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], MESH: Humans, MESH: Child, Preschool, medicine.disease, MESH: Repressor Proteins / genetics, MESH: Male, Repressor Proteins, 030104 developmental biology, Endocrinology, MESH: Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8 / genetics, MESH: Dwarfism / physiopathology, MESH: Intellectual Disability / physiopathology, Human medicine, MESH: Intellectual Disability / genetics, Verheij syndrome, MESH: Female, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
Abstract: Item does not contain fulltext Verheij syndrome, also called 8q24.3 microdeletion syndrome, is a rare condition characterized by ante- and postnatal growth retardation, microcephaly, vertebral anomalies, joint laxity/dislocation, developmental delay (DD), cardiac and renal defects and dysmorphic features. Recently, PUF60 (Poly-U Binding Splicing Factor 60 kDa), which encodes a component of the spliceosome, has been discussed as the best candidate gene for the Verheij syndrome phenotype, regarding the cardiac and short stature phenotype. To date, only one patient has been reported with a de novo variant in PUF60 that probably affects function (c.505C>T leading to p.(His169Tyr)) associated with DD, microcephaly, craniofacial and cardiac defects. Additional patients were required to confirm the pathogenesis of this association and further delineate the clinical spectrum. Here we report five patients with de novo heterozygous variants in PUF60 identified using whole exome sequencing. Variants included a splice-site variant (c.24+1G>C), a frameshift variant (p.(Ile136Thrfs*31)), two nonsense variants (p.(Arg448*) and p.(Lys301*)) and a missense change (p.(Val483Ala)). All six patients with a PUF60 variant (the five patients of the present study and the unique reported patient) have the same core facial gestalt as 8q24.3 microdeletions patients, associated with DD. Other findings include feeding difficulties (3/6), cardiac defects (5/6), short stature (5/6), joint laxity and/or dislocation (5/6), vertebral anomalies (3/6), bilateral microphthalmia and irido-retinal coloboma (1/6), bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia (2/6), renal anomalies (2/6) and branchial arch defects (2/6). These results confirm that PUF60 is a major driver for the developmental, craniofacial, skeletal and cardiac phenotypes associated with the 8q24.3 microdeletion.
Published: 2017
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27. 9q33.3q34.11 microdeletion: new contiguous gene syndrome encompassing STXBP1, LMX1B and ENG genes assessed using reverse phenotyping

Author: Laurence Faivre, Marie-Ange Delrue, Nathalie Marle, Fanny Morice-Picard, Pierre-Simon Jouk, Delphine Héron, Alice Goldenberg, Stéphanie Perez-Martin, Julien Thevenon, Frédéric Huet, Véronique Dulieu, Alice Masurel, Patricia Calenda, Patrick Callier, Salima El Chehadeh, Sylvie Manouvrier-Hanu, Sophie Dupuis-Girod, Pascale Saugier-Veber, Gipsy Billy-Lopez, Joris Andrieux, Paul Kuentz, Ghislaine Plessis, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Géraldine Joly-Helas, Sophie Nambot, Mathilde Lefebvre, Charles Coutton, Anne-Laure Mosca-Boidron, Caroline Rooryck, Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Service de Cardiologie, Génétique des Anomalies du Développement ( GAD ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, Laboratoire de cytogénétique (CHU de Dijon), Pôle Rééducation - Réadaptation (Médecine Physique et Réadaptation) (CHU de Dijon), Service de pédiatrie (CHU de Dijon), EDF ( EDF ), Laboratoire de Génétique Clinique, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre [Lille]-Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] ( CHRU Lille ), Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité - Informatique, Mathématiques et Applications [Grenoble] ( TIMC-IMAG ), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 ( UJF ) -Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology ( Grenoble INP ) -IMAG-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université Grenoble Alpes ( UGA ), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] ( CHU ), Institut d'oncologie/développement Albert Bonniot de Grenoble ( INSERM U823 ), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 ( UJF ) -CHU Grenoble-EFS-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Service de génétique médicale, Université de Bordeaux ( UB ) -CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Maladies Rares - Génétique et Métabolisme ( MRGM ), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Hôpital Pellegrin-Service de Génétique Médicale du CHU de Bordeaux, Groupe de Recherche Clinique : Déficience Intellectuelle et Autisme ( GRC ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ), Centre de Référence des Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen-Université de Rouen Normandie ( UNIROUEN ), Normandie Université ( NU ) -Normandie Université ( NU ), Génétique du cancer et des maladies neuropsychiatriques ( GMFC ), Université de Rouen Normandie ( UNIROUEN ), Normandie Université ( NU ) -Normandie Université ( NU ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Service de Génétique, Hospices Civils de Lyon ( HCL ) -Hôpital Louis Pradel [CHU - HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon ( HCL ) -Groupe Hospitalier Est, Regional council of Burgundy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Service de Cardiologie (hôpital général, CHU Dijon), Hôpital général (CHU Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Génétique des Anomalies du Développement (GAD), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, EDF (EDF), Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre [Lille]-Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Dynamiques Cellulaire et Tissulaire - Interdisciplinarité, Modélisation & Microscopie (TIMC-IMAG-DyCTiM2), Techniques de l'Ingénierie Médicale et de la Complexité - Informatique, Mathématiques et Applications, Grenoble - UMR 5525 (TIMC-IMAG), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU), Institut d'oncologie/développement Albert Bonniot de Grenoble (INSERM U823), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-CHU Grenoble-EFS-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Maladies Rares - Génétique et Métabolisme (MRGM), Groupe de Recherche Clinique : Déficience Intellectuelle et Autisme (GRC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Génétique du cancer et des maladies neuropsychiatriques (GMFC), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Hôpital Louis Pradel [CHU - HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Groupe Hospitalier Est, IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Dynamique Cellulaire et Tissulaire- Interdisciplinarité, Modèles & Microscopies (TIMC-IMAG-DyCTiM), and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-EFS-CHU Grenoble-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, [ SDV.MHEP.PED ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pediatrics, Haploinsufficiency, cerebral hypomyelination, west-syndrome, Bioinformatics, Craniofacial Abnormalities, 0302 clinical medicine, Intellectual disability, STXBP1, Child, Genetics (clinical), Nail patella syndrome, Genetics, Endoglin, Syndrome, 3. Good health, developmental delay, Phenotype, intellectual disability, Medical genetics, Female, Chromosome Deletion, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, LIM-Homeodomain Proteins, Biology, Contiguous gene syndrome, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Munc18 Proteins, Genetic linkage, medicine, Humans, de-novo mutations, [SDV.MHEP.PED]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pediatrics, disease, Epilepsy, infantile epileptic encephalopathy, association, deletions, medicine.disease, Human genetics, 030104 developmental biology, nail-patella syndrome, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Transcription Factors
Abstract: International audience; The increasing use of array-CGH in malformation syndromes with intellectual disability could lead to the description of new contiguous gene syndrome by the analysis of the gene content of the microdeletion and reverse phenotyping. Thanks to a national and international call for collaboration by Achropuce and Decipher, we recruited four patients carrying de novo overlapping deletions of chromosome 9q33.3q34.11, including the STXBP1, the LMX1B and the ENG genes. We restrained the selection to these three genes because the effects of their haploinsufficency are well described in the literature and easily recognizable clinically. All deletions were detected by array-CGH and confirmed by FISH. The patients display common clinical features, including intellectual disability with epilepsy, owing to the presence of STXBP1 within the deletion, nail dysplasia and bone malformations, in particular patellar abnormalities attributed to LMX1B deletion, epistaxis and cutaneousmucous telangiectasias explained by ENG haploinsufficiency and common facial dysmorphism. This systematic analysis of the genes comprised in the deletion allowed us to identify genes whose haploinsufficiency is expected to lead to disease manifestations and complications that require personalized follow-up, in particular for renal, eye, ear, vascular and neurological manifestations.
Published: 2016
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28. Insulin response dysregulation explains abnormal fat storage and increased risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 in Cohen Syndrome

Author: David Masson, Jamal Ghoumid, Elodie Gautier, Valérie Deckert, Laurent Lagrost, Virginie Carmignac, Nathalie Marle, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Edward Blair, Laurence Faivre, Thomas Gautier, Gaëtan Jego, Jean-Michel Petit, Patrick Edery, Laurence Duplomb, Marie-Claude Brindisi, Floriane Limoge, Salima El Chehadeh-Djebbar, Génétique des Anomalies du Développement ( GAD ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer (U866) ( LNC ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Biologie Appliquée à la Nutrition et à l'Alimentation de Dijon ( ENSBANA ), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), FHU TRANSLAD, Département de Génétique, Service de Génétique Clinique, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lyon, Centre de Référence Maladies Rares Anomalies du Développement et Syndromes Malformatifs Nord, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille ( CHU de Lille ), Department of Clinical Genetics, Oxford Regional Genetics Service, The Churchill hospital, and the French Ministry of Health (PHRC 2012, A00103-42) and the Regional Council of Burgundy (STIC11).
Subjects: Male, obesity, medicine.medical_treatment, Developmental Disabilities, [ SDV.AEN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition, Vesicular Transport Proteins, Adipose tissue, Myopia, Body Fat Distribution, Insulin, Child, ppar-gamma, Genetics (clinical), Retinal Degeneration, General Medicine, differentiation, Middle Aged, VPS13B, Child, Preschool, [ SCCO.NEUR ] Cognitive science/Neuroscience, Microcephaly, Muscle Hypotonia, Female, Signal Transduction, Adult, Risk, medicine.medical_specialty, alpha, Adolescent, Biology, Models, Biological, adipogenesis, Fingers, resistance, Young Adult, Insulin resistance, Internal medicine, Diabetes mellitus, Intellectual Disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, definition, [ SDV.OT ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Other [q-bio.OT], gene, Molecular Biology, Cohen syndrome, medicine.disease, Obesity, Endocrinology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Mutation, transport, Metabolic syndrome, protein
Abstract: Cohen Syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, with defective glycosylation secondary to mutations in the VPS13B gene, which encodes a protein of the Golgi apparatus. Besides congenital neutropenia, retinopathy and intellectual deficiency, CS patients are faced with truncal obesity. Metabolism investigations showed abnormal glucose tolerance tests and low HDL values in some patients, and these could be risk factors for the development of diabetes mellitus and/or cardiovascular complications. To understand the mechanisms involved in CS fat storage, we used two models of adipogenesis differentiation: (i) SGBS pre-adipocytes with VPS13B invalidation thanks to siRNA delivery and (ii) CS primary fibroblasts. In both models, VPS13B invalidation led to accelerated differentiation into fat cells, which was confirmed by the earlier and increased expression of specific adipogenic genes, consequent to the increased response of cells to insulin stimulation. At the end of the differentiation protocol, these fat cells exhibited decreased AKT2 phosphorylation after insulin stimulation, which suggests insulin resistance. This study, in association with the in-depth analysis of the metabolic status of the patients, thus allowed us to recommend appropriate nutritional education to prevent the occurrence of diabetes mellitus and to put forward recommendations for the follow-up of CS patients, in particular with regard to the development of metabolic syndrome. We also suggest replacing the term obesity by abnormal fat distribution in CS, which should reduce the number of inappropriate diagnoses in patients who are referred only on the basis of intellectual deficiency associated with obesity.
Published: 2015
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29. Infectious and Immunologic Phenotype of MECP2 Duplication Syndrome

Author: Thusari Gomes, Fabian Marc Kaiser, Salima El-Chehadeh, Horst von Bernuth, Bernard Echenne, Maria P. Botella, Karin Hameister, Rainer Rossi, Maria-Isabel Tejada, Volker Wahn, Sophie Julia, Christian Meisel, Nadine Unterwalder, Michael Bauer, Renate Krüger, Xiu Xu, Nicole Philip, Magdalena Budisteanu, Alexandra Afenjar, Dagmar Wieczorek, Hilde Van Esch, Sorina Mihaela Papuc, Ludwig Gortner, Francisco Martínez, Oliver Patat, Mónica Roselló, Uwe Kölsch, Renaud Touraine, Aleksandra Jezela-Stanek, Kirsten Wenner, Annick Toutain, Carmen Orellana, and Aglaia Vignoli
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Genotype, Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2, Immunology, MECP2 duplication syndrome, Medizin, Immunoglobulins, Biology, Infections, primary immunodeficiency, Sepsis, Cohort Studies, Young Adult, methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2), Medical microbiology, Gene Duplication, Gene duplication, medicine, Immunology and Allergy, Humans, Child, Immunodeficiency, Original Research, Immunity, Cellular, Antibody titer, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Immunity, Humoral, Pneumonia, C-Reactive Protein, Phenotype, intellectual disability, Child, Preschool, Primary immunodeficiency, Mental Retardation, X-Linked, Female, Xq28-duplication syndrome, humoral immunodeficiency, Acute-Phase Proteins
Abstract: MECP2 (methyl CpG binding protein 2) duplication causes syndromic intellectual disability. Patients often suffer from life-threatening infections, suggesting an additional immunodeficiency. We describe for the first time the detailed infectious and immunological phenotype of MECP2 duplication syndrome. 17/27 analyzed patients suffered from pneumonia, 5/27 from at least one episode of sepsis. Encapsulated bacteria (S.pneumoniae, H.influenzae) were frequently isolated. T-cell immunity showed no gross abnormalities in 14/14 patients and IFNy-secretion upon ConA-stimulation was not decreased in 6/7 patients. In 6/21 patients IgG2-deficiency was detected – in 4/21 patients accompanied by IgA-deficiency, 10/21 patients showed low antibody titers against pneumococci. Supra-normal IgG1-levels were detected in 11/21 patients and supra-normal IgG3-levels were seen in 8/21 patients – in 6 of the patients as combined elevation of IgG1 and IgG3. Three of the four patients with IgA/IgG2-deficiency developed multiple severe infections. Upon infections pronounced acute-phase responses were common: 7/10 patients showed CRP values above 200 mg/l. Our data for the first time show systematically that increased susceptibility to infections in MECP2 duplication syndrome is associated with IgA/IgG2-deficiency, low antibody titers against pneumococci and elevated acute-phase responses. So patients with MECP2 duplication syndrome and low IgA/IgG2 may benefit from prophylactic substitution of sIgA and IgG. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10875-015-0129-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2015

30. Cohen syndrome is associated with major glycosylation defects

Author: Edward Blair, Eric Solary, Salima El Chehadeh-Djebbar, Gaëtan Jego, Laurent Delva, Nathalie Marle, Julien Thevenon, Laurence Duplomb, André Klein, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Virginie Carmignac, Jean-Claude Michalski, Christophe Philippe, Estelle Lopez, François Girodon, Christine Bellanné-Chantelot, Jean Donadieu, Nadège Gigot, Nathalie Droin, Laurence Faivre, Damien Picot, Sandrine Duvet, François Foulquier, Bernard Aral, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Génétique des Anomalies du Développement ( GAD ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, FHU TRANSLAD, Département de Génétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle - UMR 8576 ( UGSF ), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer (U866) ( LNC ), Université de Bourgogne ( UB ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Biologie Appliquée à la Nutrition et à l'Alimentation de Dijon ( ENSBANA ), Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire, UAM de glycopathologies, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] ( CHRU Lille ), Service de Génétique [CHRU Nancy], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy ( CHRU Nancy ), Nutrition-Génétique et Exposition aux Risques Environnementaux ( NGERE ), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Université de Lorraine ( UL ), Institut Gustave Roussy ( IGR ), Department of Clinical Genetics, Oxford Regional Genetics Service, The Churchill hospital, Laboratoire d'Hématologie, Service d'hématologie-immunologie-oncologie pédiatrique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Service de génétique [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Hématopoïèse normale et pathologique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Institut Gustave Roussy ( IGR ) -Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ), Génétique des Anomalies du Développement (GAD), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle UMR 8576 (UGSF), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer (U866) (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Biologie Appliquée à la Nutrition et à l'Alimentation de Dijon (ENSBANA), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Nutrition-Génétique et Exposition aux Risques Environnementaux (NGERE), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Lorraine (UL), Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR), Service d'hématologie-immunologie-oncologie pédiatrique [CHU Trousseau], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), IFR100 - Structure fédérative de recherche Santé-STIC-Université de Bourgogne (UB), Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle - UMR 8576 (UGSF), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Biologie Appliquée à la Nutrition et à l'Alimentation de Dijon (ENSBANA)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Subjects: Glycan, Glycosylation, Endosome, Developmental Disabilities, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Vesicular Transport Proteins, Golgi Apparatus, Fingers, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, symbols.namesake, 0302 clinical medicine, Antigens, CD, Intellectual Disability, Myopia, Genetics, Humans, Obesity, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, biology, [ SDV ] Life Sciences [q-bio], Retinal Degeneration, Transferrin, General Medicine, Fibroblasts, Brefeldin A, Golgi apparatus, Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1, Cell biology, VPS13B, chemistry, Membrane protein, Biochemistry, Microcephaly, symbols, O-linked glycosylation, biology.protein, Muscle Hypotonia, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, RNA Interference, Cell Adhesion Molecules, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; Cohen syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with multisytemic clinical features due to mutations in the VPS13B gene, which has recently been described encoding a mandatory membrane protein involved in Golgi integrity. As the Golgi complex is the place where glycosylation of newly synthesized proteins occurs, we hypothesized that VPS13B deficiency, responsible of Golgi apparatus disturbance, could lead to glycosylation defects and/or mysfunction of this organelle, and thus be a cause of the main clinical manifestations of CS. The glycosylation status of CS serum proteins showed a very unusual pattern of glycosylation characterized by a significant accumulation of agalactosylated fucosylated structures as well as asialylated fucosylated structures demonstrating a major defect of glycan maturation in CS. However, CS transferrin and α1-AT profiles, two liver-derived proteins, were normal. We also showed that intercellular cell adhesion molecule 1 and LAMP-2, two highly glycosylated cellular proteins, presented an altered migration profile on SDS–PAGE in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from CS patients. RNA interference against VPS13B confirmed these glycosylation defects. Experiments with Brefeldin A demonstrated that intracellular retrograde cell trafficking was normal in CS fibroblasts. Furthermore, early endosomes were almost absent in these cells and lysosomes were abnormally enlarged, suggesting a crucial role of VPS13B in endosomal–lysosomal trafficking. Our work provides evidence that CS is associated to a tissue-specific major defect of glycosylation and endosomal–lysosomal trafficking defect, suggesting that this could be a new key element to decipher the mechanisms of CS physiopathology.
Published: 2014
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31. 3q27.3 microdeletional syndrome: a recognisable clinical entity associating dysmorphic features, marfanoid habitus, intellectual disability and psychosis with mood disorder

Author: Hélène Poquet, Iben Bache, Bruno Vergès, Patrick Callier, Maria Luigia Cavaliere, Stanislas Lyonnet, Jean Paul Girod, Alice Masurel-Paulet, Valérie Malan, Anne Laure Mosca-Boidron, Nathalie Marle, Laurence Faivre, Antonio Novelli, Björn Menten, Julien Thevenon, Bart Loeys, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Salima El Chehadeh, Frédéric Huet, Zeynep Tümer, Jean-Michel Petit, Jean Michel Pinoit, and Francine Mugneret
Subjects: Adult, Male, Psychosis, Candidate gene, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Locus (genetics), Arachnodactyly, Young Adult, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Genetics, Medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Genetics (clinical), Comparative Genomic Hybridization, business.industry, Mood Disorders, Marfanoid, Chromosome Mapping, Facies, Infant, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Mood disorders, Child, Preschool, Bone maturation, Female, Human medicine, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3, Chromosome Deletion, business
Abstract: Background Since the advent of array-CGH, numerous new microdeletional syndromes have been delineated while others remain to be described. Although 3q29 subtelomeric deletion is a well-described syndrome, there is no report on 3q interstitial deletions. Methods We report for the first time seven patients with interstitial deletions at the 3q27.3q28 locus gathered through the Decipher database, and suggest this locus as a new microdeletional syndrome. Results The patients shared a recognisable facial dysmorphism and marfanoid habitus, associated with psychosis and mild to severe intellectual disability (ID). Most of the patients had no delay in gross psychomotor acquisition, but had severe impaired communicative and adaptive skills. Two small regions of overlap were defined. The first one, located on the 3q27.3 locus and common to all patients, was associated with psychotic troubles and mood disorders as well as recognisable facial dysmorphism. This region comprised several candidate genes including SST, considered a candidate for the neuropsychiatric findings because of its implication in interneuronal migration and differentiation processes. A familial case with a smaller deletion allowed us to define a second region of overlap at the 3q27.3q28 locus for marfanoid habitus and severe ID. Indeed, the common morphological findings in the first four patients included skeletal features from the marfanoid spectrum: scoliosis (4/4), long and thin habitus with leanness (average Body Mass Index of 15 (18.5
Published: 2013

32. Further delineation of eye manifestations in homozygous 15q13.3 microdeletions including TRPM1: a differential diagnosis of ceroid lipofuscinosis

Author: Patrick Callier, Salima El Chehadeh, Laurence Faivre, Alice Masurel-Paulet, Frédéric Huet, Isabelle Drumare, Christel Thauvin, Joris Andrieux, Louis Vallée, Jean-Christophe Cuvellier, Julien Thevenon, Philippe Pernes, Jean-Marie Cuisset, Muriel Holder, Sabine Defoort, and Béatrice Bourgois
Subjects: Male, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, genetic structures, alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor, Encephalopathy, TRPM Cation Channels, Chromosome Disorders, Biology, Blindness, Eye, Pupil, Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses, Night Blindness, Seizures, Intellectual Disability, Retinal Dystrophies, Genetics, medicine, Electroretinography, Myopia, Humans, Eye Abnormalities, Child, Genetics (clinical), TRPM1, Genetic Association Studies, Congenital stationary night blindness, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15, Dystrophy, Eye Diseases, Hereditary, Genetic Diseases, X-Linked, Optic Nerve, Microdeletion syndrome, medicine.disease, Penetrance, Child, Preschool, Female, sense organs, Differential diagnosis, Chromosome Deletion
Abstract: The 15q13.3 heterozygous microdeletion is a fairly common microdeletion syndrome with marked clinical variability and incomplete penetrance. The average size of the deletion, which comprises six genes including CHRNA7, is 1.5 Mb. CHRNA7 has been identified as the gene responsible for the neurological phenotype in this microdeletion syndrome. Only seven patients with a homozygous microdeletion that includes at least CHRNA7, and is inherited from both parents have been described in the literature. The aim of this study was to further describe the distinctive eye manifestations from the analysis in the three French patients diagnosed with the classical 1.5 Mb homozygous microdeletion. Patients' ages ranged from 30 months to 9 years, and included one sib pair. They all displayed a remarkably severe identifiable clinical phenotype that included congenital blindness and convulsive encephalopathy with inconstant abnormal movements. The ophthalmological examination revealed a lack of eye tracking, optic nerve pallor, an immature response with increased latencies with no response to the checkerboard stimulations at the visual evoked potential examination, and a distinctive retina dystrophy with a negative electroretinogram in which the “b” wave was smaller than the “a” wave after a dark adapted pupil and bright flash in all patients. Clear genotype–phenotype correlations emerged, showing that this eye phenotype was secondary to homozygous deletion of TRPM1, the gene responsible for autosomal recessive congenital stationary night blindness. The main differential diagnosis is ceroid lipofuscinosis. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2013

33. Expanding the clinical phenotype of patients with a ZDHHC9 mutation

Author: Sophie Chancenotte, Vincent Desportes, Marlène Bonnet, Salima El Chehadeh, Véronique Darmency-Stamboul, Fabienne Levy, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Nicolas Lebrun, Jamel Chelly, Laurence Faivre, Hao Hu, Vera M. Kalscheuer, Alice Masurel-Paulet, Jean-Michel Pinoit, Julien Thevenon, Frédéric Huet, and Marie Ruffier-Bourdet
Subjects: Adult, Male, Adolescent, X-linked intellectual disability, Genetic counseling, Nonsense mutation, Neuropsychological Tests, Bioinformatics, Young Adult, Fatal Outcome, Genes, X-Linked, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, HRAS, Child, Genetics (clinical), Massive parallel sequencing, Acrocyanosis, business.industry, Brain, Facies, medicine.disease, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Pedigree, Phenotype, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Mutation, business, Acyltransferases
Abstract: In 2007, 250 families with X-linked intellectual disability (XLID) were screened for mutations in genes on the X-chromosome, and in 4 of these families, mutations in the ZDHHC9 gene were identified. The ID was either isolated or associated with a marfanoid habitus. ZDHHC9 encodes a palmitoyl transferase that catalyzes the posttranslational modification of NRAS and HRAS. Since this first description, no additional patient with a ZDHHC9 mutation has been reported in the literature. Here, we describe a large family in which we identified a novel pathogenic ZDHHC9 nonsense mutation (p.Arg298*) by parallel sequencing of all X-chromosome exons. The mutation cosegregated with the clinical phenotype in this family. An 18-year-old patient and his 40-year-old maternal uncle were evaluated. Clinical examination showed normal growth parameters, lingual fasciculation, limited extension of the elbows and metacarpophalangeal joints, and acrocyanosis. There was neither facial dysmorphism nor marfanoid habitus. Brain MRI detected a dysplastic corpus callosum. Neuropsychological testing showed mild intellectual disability. They both displayed generalized anxiety disorder, and the younger patient also suffered from significant behavior impairment that required attention or treatment. Speech evaluation detected satisfactory spoken language since both were able to provide information and to understand conversations of everyday life. Occupational therapy examination showed impaired visual-spatial and visual-motor performance with poor drawing/graphic skills. These manifestations are not specific enough to guide ZDHHC9 screening in patients with ID, and emphasize the value of next generation sequencing for making a molecular diagnosis and genetic counseling in families with XLID. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2013

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1. The diagnostic rate of inherited metabolic disorders by exome sequencing in a cohort of 547 individuals with developmental disorders

2. Integrative approach to interpret DYRK1A variants, leading to a frequent neurodevelopmental disorder

3. Widening of the genetic and clinical spectrum of Lamb-Shaffer syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder due to SOX5 haploinsufficiency

4. Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of ARCN1-related syndrome

5. MYT1L-associated neurodevelopmental disorder: description of 40 new cases and literature review of clinical and molecular aspects

6. SLITRK2 variants associated with neurodevelopmental disorders impair excitatory synaptic function and cognition in mice

7. Serpin B1 defect and increased apoptosis of neutrophils in Cohen syndrome neutropenia

8. Integrative approach to interpret DYRK1A variants, leading to a frequent neurodevelopmental disorder

9. Developmental and epilepsy spectrum of KCNB1 encephalopathy with long‐term outcome

10. Primrose syndrome: a phenotypic comparison of patients with a ZBTB20 missense variant versus a 3q13.31 microdeletion including ZBTB20

11. Expanding the genetic and phenotypic relevance of KCNB1 variants in developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: 27 new patients and overview of the literature

12. Excess of de novo variants in genes involved in chromatin remodelling in patients with marfanoid habitus and intellectual disability

13. Genetic abnormalities in a large cohort of Coffin-Siris syndrome patients

14. The Immune Signaling Adaptor LAT Contributes to the Neuroanatomical Phenotype of 16p11.2 BP2-BP3 CNVs

15. Application of whole-exome sequencing to unravel the molecular basis of undiagnosed syndromic congenital neutropenia with intellectual disability

16. Disease-causing variants in TCF4 are a frequent cause of intellectual disability: lessons from large-scale sequencing approaches in diagnosis

17. Genetic counselling difficulties and ethical implications of incidental findings from array-CGH: a 7-year national survey

18. De novo mutations in MSL3 cause an X-linked syndrome marked by impaired histone H4 lysine 16 acetylation

19. Clinical whole-exome sequencing for the diagnosis of rare disorders with congenital anomalies and/or intellectual disability: substantial interest of prospective annual reanalysis

20. Further delineation of the

21. Intragenic FMR1 disease-causing variants: a significant mutational mechanism leading to Fragile-X syndrome

22. Efficient strategy for the molecular diagnosis of intellectual disability using targeted high-throughput sequencing

23. Congenital neutropenia with retinopathy, a new phenotype without intellectual deficiency or obesity secondary toVPS13Bmutations

24. Changing facial phenotype in Cohen syndrome

25. Further Evidence for Dlgap2 as Strong Autism Spectrum Disorders/Intellectual Disability Candidate Gene

26. Dominant variants in the splicing factor PUF60 cause a recognizable syndrome with intellectual disability, heart defects and short stature

27. 9q33.3q34.11 microdeletion: new contiguous gene syndrome encompassing STXBP1, LMX1B and ENG genes assessed using reverse phenotyping

28. Insulin response dysregulation explains abnormal fat storage and increased risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 in Cohen Syndrome

29. Infectious and Immunologic Phenotype of MECP2 Duplication Syndrome

30. Cohen syndrome is associated with major glycosylation defects

31. 3q27.3 microdeletional syndrome: a recognisable clinical entity associating dysmorphic features, marfanoid habitus, intellectual disability and psychosis with mood disorder

32. Further delineation of eye manifestations in homozygous 15q13.3 microdeletions including TRPM1: a differential diagnosis of ceroid lipofuscinosis

33. Expanding the clinical phenotype of patients with a ZDHHC9 mutation

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