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1. 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. 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Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Les Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg (HUS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Matériaux et Nanosciences Grand-Est (MNGE), 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)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-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)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Réseau nanophotonique et optique, 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)-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

2. RLIM Is a Candidate Dosage-Sensitive Gene for Individuals with Varying Duplications of Xq13, Intellectual Disability, and Distinct Facial Features

Author: Cédric Le Caignec, Fiona Haslam McKenzie, Jozef Gecz, Erik C. Thorland, Michelle Ward, Sharron Townshend, Chris Troedson, Marybeth Hummel, Andre E. Minoche, Raman Kumar, Elizabeth E. Palmer, Rebecca Macintosh, Joris Andrieux, Mark J. Cowley, Olivier Pichon, Edwin P. Kirk, Anja Ravine, Bénédicte Demeer, Dale Wright, Marie Shaw, Ann M. E. Bye, Nicola Foulds, Lucinda Murray, Melanie Leffler, Rani Sachdev, Cassandra K. Runke, Renee Carroll, Bertrand Isidor, Urwah Nawaz, Michael Field, and Salam Hadah Albarazi
Subjects: Male, Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters, Heterozygote, Adolescent, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Gene Dosage, Mutation, Missense, Mothers, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Locus (genetics), Biology, Young Adult, X Chromosome Inactivation, Report, Intellectual Disability, Chromosome Duplication, Intellectual disability, Gene duplication, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Missense mutation, Child, Gene, Skewed X-inactivation, Genetics (clinical), X chromosome, Hemizygote, Symporters, Australia, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Pedigree, Child, Preschool, Face, Female
Abstract: Interpretation of the significance of maternally inherited X chromosome variants in males with neurocognitive phenotypes continues to present a challenge to clinical geneticists and diagnostic laboratories. Here we report 14 males from 9 families with duplications at the Xq13.2-q13.3 locus with a common facial phenotype, intellectual disability (ID), distinctive behavioral features, and a seizure disorder in two cases. All tested carrier mothers had normal intelligence. The duplication arose de novo in three mothers where grandparental testing was possible. In one family the duplication segregated with ID across three generations. RLIM is the only gene common to our duplications. However, flanking genes duplicated in some but not all the affected individuals included the brain-expressed genes NEXMIF, SLC16A2, and the long non-coding RNA gene FTX. The contribution of the RLIM-flanking genes to the phenotypes of individuals with different size duplications has not been fully resolved. Missense variants in RLIM have recently been identified to cause X-linked ID in males, with heterozygous females typically having normal intelligence and highly skewed X chromosome inactivation. We detected consistent and significant increase of RLIM mRNA and protein levels in cells derived from seven affected males from five families with the duplication. Subsequent analysis of MDM2, one of the targets of the RLIM E3 ligase activity, showed consistent downregulation in cells from the affected males. All the carrier mothers displayed normal RLIM mRNA levels and had highly skewed X chromosome inactivation. We propose that duplications at Xq13.2-13.3 including RLIM cause a recognizable but mild neurocognitive phenotype in hemizygous males.
Published: 2020

3. 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

4. Maternal transmission ratio distortion of GNAS loss‐of‐function mutations

Author: Arnaud Molin, Nicolas Gruchy, Sylvie Paulien, Hervé Mittre, Sophie Naudion, Justine Bacchetta, Nicolas Richard, Laurence Faivre, Marion Gérard, Elise Schaefer, Sylvie Odent, Sarah Snanoudj, Marie-Laure Kottler, Bénédicte Demeer, Nadia Coudray, Cindy Colson, Alice Goldenberg, Service de Génétique [CHU Caen], CHU Caen, Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU), Biologie, génétique et thérapies ostéoarticulaires et respiratoires (BIOTARGEN), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Œstrogènes, reproduction, cancer (OeReCa), Service de Génétique Clinique [Hautepierre Strasbourg], Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Service de néphrologie, rhumatologie et dermatologie pédiatriques [Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-Hôpital Mère Enfant, 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 ), Service de Génétique Médicale du CHU de Bordeaux, Unité de génétique médicale et oncogénétique [CHU Amiens Picardie], CHU Amiens-Picardie, 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), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-CHU Caen, and Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, TRANSMISSION RATIO DISTORTION, Offspring, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Parenteral transmission, Population, PSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, GNAS, 0302 clinical medicine, Genotype, medicine, GNAS complex locus, Chromogranins, GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gs, Humans, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Allele, education, Child, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Retrospective Studies, Genetics, Mutation, education.field_of_study, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, biology, POH, MUTATIONS, PPHP, PHP1A, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, biology.protein, Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, Female, Maternal Inheritance
Abstract: International audience; Pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1A (PHP1A) and pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (PPHP) are two rare autosomal dominant disorders caused by loss-of-function mutations in the imprinted Guanine Nucleotide Binding Protein, Alpha Stimulating Activity (GNAS) gene, coding Gs α. PHP1A is caused by mutations in the maternal allele and results in Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy (AHO) and hormonal resistance, mainly to the parathormone (PTH), whereas PPHP, with AHO features and no hormonal resistance, is linked to mutations in the paternal allele. This study sought to investigate parental transmission of GNAS mutations. We conducted a retrospective study in a population of 204 families with 361 patients harboring GNAS mutations. To prevent ascertainment bias toward a higher proportion of affected children due to the way in which data were collected, we excluded from transmission analysis all probands in the ascertained sibships. After bias correction, the distribution ratio of the mutated alleles was calculated from the observed genotypes of the offspring of nuclear families and was compared to the expected ratio of 50% according to Mendelian inheritance (one-sample Z-test). Sex ratio, phenotype of the transmitting parent, and transmission depending on the severity of the mutation were also analyzed. Transmission analysis was performed in 114 nuclear families and included 250 descendants. The fertility rates were similar between male and female patients. We showed an excess of transmission from mother to offspring of mutated alleles (59%, p = .022), which was greater when the mutations were severe (61.7%, p = .023). Similarly, an excess of transmission was found when the mother had a PHP1A phenotype (64.7%, p = .036). By contrast, a Mendelian distribution was observed when the mutations were paternally inherited. Higher numbers of females within the carriers, but not in noncarriers, were also observed. The mother-specific transmission ratio distortion (TRD) and the sex-ratio imbalance associated to PHP1A point to a role of Gs α in oocyte biology or embryogenesis, with implications for genetic counseling. © 2019 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
Published: 2019

5. Prenatal diagnosis of femoral facial syndrome: Three case reports and literature review

Author: Céline Klein, Catherine Gondry-Jouet, J. Gondry, Gilles Morin, Philippe Naepels, Bénédicte Demeer, Guillaume Jedraszak, Marion Luisin, J. Chevreau, Anne Dieux-Coeslier, and Michèle Mathieu-Dramard
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Cleft Lip, Prenatal diagnosis, 030105 genetics & heredity, Ultrasonography, Prenatal, 03 medical and health sciences, Fetus, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, Prenatal Diagnosis, Retrognathia, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Femur, Exome, Genetics (clinical), Comparative Genomic Hybridization, 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine, Pierre Robin Syndrome, business.industry, Infant, Newborn, Karyotype, Anatomy, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Hypoplasia, Diabetes, Gestational, Agenesis, Female, Abnormality, business, Comparative genomic hybridization
Abstract: Facial femoral syndrome (FFS) is a rare congenital abnormality, also known as femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies syndrome, characterized by variable degrees of femoral hypoplasia, associated with specific facial features. Other organ malformations are sometimes present. Most cases are sporadic, but rare family observations suggest genetic origin. However, no chromosomal or genetic abnormalities have ever been incriminated. We conducted a comprehensive literature review and added three new unreported observations. Through these 92 cases, authors aimed to determine sonographic signs that should direct towards diagnosis, and discuss potential genetic etiology. Diagnosis was suspected prenatally in 27.2% of cases, and maternal diabetes was found in 42.4% of patients. When fetal karyotype was available, it was normal in 97.1% of cases, but genomic variations of unknown significance were discovered in all three cases in which array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) techniques were applied. Femoral affection defining FFS was hypoplasia in 78.3% of cases, agenesis in 12%, and both in 9.8%. Affection was bilateral in 84.8% of cases. Retrognathia was present in 65.2% of cases, cleft lip and/or palate in 63%, and other organ malformations in 53.3%. Intellectual development was normal in 79.2% of cases. Better prenatal recognition of this pathology, notably frequently associated malformations, should lead to a more precise estimation of functional prognosis. It seems likely that today's tendency to systematically employ array-CGH and exome/genome sequencing methods to investigate malformative sequences will allow the identification of a causal genetic abnormality in the near future.
Published: 2017

6. Author response for 'Fetal phenotype of Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome caused by CREBBP mutations'

Author: Tania Attié-Bitach, Bénédicte Demeer, Didier Lacombe, Patricia Fergelot M.D., Sandra Whalen, Benoit Arveiler, Jérôme Toutain, Sophie Naudion, Julien Van-Gils, Marie Gonzales, Gwenaelle Lancelot, Bérénice Doray, Sophie Blesson, Laurence Taine, and Jelena Martinovic
Subjects: Genetics, Fetus, Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome, business.industry, medicine, medicine.disease, business, Phenotype
Published: 2018

7. Fetal phenotype of Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome caused by CREBBP mutations

Author: Julien Van-Gils, Jérôme Toutain, Marie Gonzales, Laurence Taine, Sophie Blesson, Sophie Naudion, Benoit Arveiler, Tania Attié-Bitach, Jelena Martinovic, Didier Lacombe, Gwenaelle Lancelot, Bérénice Doray, Bénédicte Demeer, Sandra Whalen, and Patricia Fergelot
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, Genetic counseling, Gene Dosage, Prenatal diagnosis, Autopsy, 030105 genetics & heredity, 03 medical and health sciences, Exome Sequencing, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Cerebellar hypoplasia, Fetal Death, Genetics (clinical), Genetic Association Studies, Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome, Fetus, Pregnancy, Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome, business.industry, medicine.disease, CREB-Binding Protein, Developmental disorder, 030104 developmental biology, Phenotype, Mutation, Female, business
Abstract: Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RSTS; OMIM 180849) is an autosomal dominant developmental disorder characterized by facial dysmorphism, broad thumbs and halluces associated with intellectual disability. RSTS is caused by alterations in CREBBP (about 60%) and EP300 genes (8%). RSTS is often diagnosed at birth or during early childhood but generally not suspected during antenatal period. We report nine cases of well-documented fetal RSTS. Two cases were examined after death in utero at 18 and 35 weeks of gestation and seven cases after identification of ultrasound abnormalities and termination of pregnancy. On prenatal sonography, a large gallbladder was detected in two cases, and brain malformations were noted in four cases, especially cerebellar hypoplasia. However, the diagnosis of RSTS has not been suggested during pregnancy. Fetal autopsy showed that all fetuses had large thumbs and/or suggestive facial dysmorphism. A CREBBP gene anomaly was identified in all cases. Alterations were similar to those found in typical RSTS children. This report will contribute to a better knowledge of the fetal phenotype to consider the hypothesis of RSTS during pregnancy. Genotyping allows reassuring genetic counseling.
Published: 2018

8. Unmasking familial CPX by WES and identification of novel clinical signs

Author: Geneviève François, Raphaël Helaers, Bénédicte Bayet, Bénédicte Demeer, Nicole Revencu, Bernard Devauchelle, Miikka Vikkula, UCL - SSS/DDUV - Institut de Duve, UCL - SSS/DDUV/GEHU - Génétique, UCL - SSS/IREC/SLUC - Pôle St.-Luc, UCL - (SLuc) Service de chirurgie plastique, UCL - (SLuc) Centre de génétique médicale UCL, and UCL - (SLuc) Service de pédiatrie générale
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Proband, Adult, Male, Candidate gene, TBX22, Adolescent, Choanal atresia, 030105 genetics & heredity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, 03 medical and health sciences, CHARGE syndrome, Young Adult, Genes, X-Linked, Exome Sequencing, Genetics, Medicine, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Child, Ankyloglossia, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Non-syndromic CLP, business.industry, medicine.disease, Pedigree, Hypodontia, stomatognathic diseases, medicine.anatomical_structure, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Mutation, WES, Pierre-Robin sequence, Female, Hard palate, CHARGE Syndrome, business, Reverse phenotyping, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Mutations in the T-Box transcription factor gene TBX22 are found in X-linked Cleft Palate with or without Ankyloglossia syndrome (CPX syndrome). In addition to X-linked inheritance, ankyloglossia, present in the majority of CPX patients, is an important diagnostic marker, but it is frequently missed or unreported, as it is a "minor" feature. Other described anomalies include cleft lip, micro and/or hypodontia, and features of CHARGE syndrome. We conducted whole exome sequencing (WES) on 22 individuals from 17 "a priori" non-syndromic cleft lip and/or cleft palate (CL/P) families. We filtered the data for heterozygous pathogenic variants within a set of predefined candidate genes. Two canonical splice-site mutations were found in TBX22. Detailed re-phenotyping of the two probands and their families unravelled orofacial features previously not associated with the CPX phenotypic spectrum: choanal atresia, Pierre-Robin sequence, and overgrowths on the posterior edge of the hard palate, on each side of the palatal midline. This study emphasizes the importance of WES analysis in familial CLP cases, combined with deep (reverse) phenotyping in "a priori" non-syndromic clefts.
Published: 2018

9. Chromosomal rearrangements in the 11p15 imprinted region: 17 new 11p15.5 duplications with associated phenotypes and putative functional consequences

Author: Pierre Sarda, Claudine Heinrichs, Lionel Van Maldergem, Caroline Michot, Frédéric Brioude, Véronique Trifard, Sylvie Rossignol, Bénédicte Demeer, Salah Azzi, Eloise Giabicani, Sandra Chantot-Bastaraud, Marilyn Lackmy-Port Lys, Ron S. Newfield, Irène Netchine, Madeleine D. Harbison, Boris Keren, Jean-Pierre Siffroi, Solveig Heide, Yves Le Bouc, Groupe de Recherche Clinique : Déficience Intellectuelle et Autisme (GRC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Service de génétique et embryologie médicales [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), Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière (CRICM), 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), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [New York] (MSSM), Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CR Saint-Antoine), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Saint-Antoine [AP-HP], Axe 3 : organisation structurale multiéchelle des matériaux (SPCTS-AXE3), Science des Procédés Céramiques et de Traitements de Surface (SPCTS), Institut des Procédés Appliqués aux Matériaux (IPAM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle (ENSCI)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Institut des Procédés Appliqués aux Matériaux (IPAM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle (ENSCI)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Service de génétique médicale, CHU Amiens-Picardie, Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Service de Génétique, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Sorbonne Université (SU), Service d'explorations fonctionnelles [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)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (UMRS893), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], 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), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle (ENSCI)-Institut des Procédés Appliqués aux Matériaux (IPAM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle (ENSCI)-Institut des Procédés Appliqués aux Matériaux (IPAM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université Libre de Bruxelles [Bruxelles] (ULB), Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - UFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, Centromere, Cnv, Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome, Biology, Molecular Imprinting, 03 medical and health sciences, Imprinting Disorder, Insulin-Like Growth Factor II, Gene Duplication, parasitic diseases, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Epigenetics, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p57, Genetics (clinical), Chromosome Aberrations, [SDV.MHEP.PED]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pediatrics, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, Silver–Russell syndrome, Beckwith-wiedemann Syndrome, 11p15 Duplication, Telomere, [SDV.MHEP.EM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Endocrinology and metabolism, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Silver Russell Syndrome, Silver-Russell Syndrome, 030104 developmental biology, Cytogenetic Analysis, Mutation, Female, Genomic imprinting
Abstract: BackgroundThe 11p15 region contains two clusters of imprinted genes. Opposite genetic and epigenetic anomalies of this region result in two distinct growth disturbance syndromes: Beckwith-Wiedemann (BWS) and Silver-Russell syndromes (SRS). Cytogenetic rearrangements within this region represent less than 3% of SRS and BWS cases. Among these, 11p15 duplications were infrequently reported and interpretation of their pathogenic effects is complex.ObjectivesTo report cytogenetic and methylation analyses in a cohort of patients with SRS/BWS carrying 11p15 duplications and establish genotype/phenotype correlations.MethodsFrom a cohort of patients with SRS/BWS with an abnormal methylation profile (using ASMM-RTQ-PCR), we used SNP-arrays to identify and map the 11p15 duplications. We report 19 new patients with SRS (n=9) and BWS (n=10) carrying de novo or familial 11p15 duplications, which completely or partially span either both telomeric and centromeric domains or only one domain.ResultsLarge duplications involving one complete domain or both domains are associated with either SRS or BWS, depending on the parental origin of the duplication. Genotype-phenotype correlation studies of partial duplications within the telomeric domain demonstrate the prominent role of IGF2, rather than H19, in the control of growth. Furthermore, it highlights the role of CDKN1C within the centromeric domain and suggests that the expected overexpression of KCNQ1OT1 from the paternal allele (in partial paternal duplications, excluding CDKN1C) does not affect the expression of CDKN1C.ConclusionsThe phenotype associated with 11p15 duplications depends on the size, genetic content, parental inheritance and imprinting status. Identification of these rare duplications is crucial for genetic counselling.
Published: 2018

10. Postzygotic inactivating mutations of RHOA cause a mosaic neuroectodermal syndrome

Author: M. Elizabeth Ross, Philippine Garret, Jean Benoît Courcet, Guillaume Captier, Francesca Faravelli, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Veronica A. Kinsler, Bernard Devauchelle, Bénédicte Demeer, David Geneviève, S.S. Kholmanskikh, Odile Boute, Christel Thauvin, Satyamaanasa Polubothu, Paul Kuentz, Julien Thevenon, Esther Carmi, Arnaud Lafon, William B. Dobyns, Yannis Duffourd, Geneviève Bernard, Judith St-Onge, Laurence Faivre, Jean Baptiste Rivière, Arthur Sorlin, Pierre Vabres, Catherine Gondry-Jouet, Alain Bron, Didier Bessis, V. Carmignac, Laurent Guibaud, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), 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), 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), Weill Cornell Medicine, CHU Amiens-Picardie, McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier (CHU Montpellier ), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille (CHU de Lille), Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l'Alimentation [Dijon] (CSGA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Dermatology Office, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Montreal Children’s Hospital, University College of London [London] (UCL), This work was funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (grant no. ANR-13-PDOC-0029 to J.-B.R.), the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique National 2010 (grant no. NCT01950975 to P.V.), the NIH (grant no. HD067244 to M.E.R.) and the Societe Francaise de Dermatologie. G.B. has received a Research Scholar Junior 1 (2012-2016) salary award from the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec en Sante and the New Investigator salary award (2017-2022) from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (no. MOP-G-287547, file no. 24805)., ProdInra, Migration, 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, and 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
Subjects: RHOA, Zygote, Skin Pigmentation, Disease, Article, Leukoencephalopathy, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics, medicine, Humans, [SDV.MHEP.OS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Sensory Organs, 030304 developmental biology, Hypopigmentation, 0303 health sciences, [SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology, biology, Extramural, Mosaicism, Neurocutaneous Syndromes, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, [SDV.MHEP.OS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Sensory Organs, Mutation, Etiology, Cancer research, biology.protein, medicine.symptom, rhoA GTP-Binding Protein, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, [SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology
Abstract: Hypopigmentation along Blaschko’s lines is a hallmark of a poorly defined group of mosaic syndromes whose genetic causes are unknown. Here we show that postzygotic inactivating mutations of RHOA cause a neuroectodermal syndrome combining linear hypopigmentation, alopecia, apparently asymptomatic leukoencephalopathy, and facial, ocular, dental, and acral anomalies. Our findings pave the way towards elucidating the etiology of pigmentary mosaicism and highlight the role of RHOA in human development and disease., Editorial summary Postzygotic inactivating mutations in RHOA cause a mosaic neuroectodermal syndrome characterized by linear hypopigmentation, leukoencephalopathy, and craniofacial anomalies, highlighting the role of RHOA in human development and disease.
Published: 2016

11. A patient with Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome, biliary cirrhosis and successful liver transplantation

Author: Christophe Chardot, Antonio Mellos, Djamal-Dine Djeddi, Bénédicte Demeer, Muriel Girard, Jean Gondry, Marie-Pierre Moizard, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Florence Lacaille, Henri Sevestre, Audrey Vanrenterghem, and Guillaume Jedraszak
Subjects: Heart Defects, Congenital, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Biopsy, Biliary cirrhosis, medicine.medical_treatment, Liver transplantation, Gastroenterology, Gigantism, Organomegaly, Biliary disease, Liver disease, Glypicans, Intellectual Disability, Internal medicine, Genetics, Humans, Medicine, Genetics (clinical), Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary, business.industry, Infant, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Genetic Diseases, X-Linked, Simpson–Golabi–Behmel syndrome, medicine.disease, Liver regeneration, Liver Transplantation, Phenotype, Treatment Outcome, Endocrinology, Liver, Overgrowth syndrome, Mutation, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract: Simpson–Golabi–Behmel syndrome type 1 (SGBS1) -OMIM 312870- is a rare X-linked inherited overgrowth syndrome caused by a loss of function mutation in the GPC3 gene. Affected patients present a variable phenotype with pre- and post-natal macrosomia, distinctive facial dysmophism, organomegaly, and multiple congenital anomalies. Intellectual disability is not constant. About 10% of patients have an increased risk of developing embryonic tumors in early childhood. Only one case of biliary disease has been described so far. GPC3 is localized on Xq26. It encodes for glypican 3, a heparan sulfate proteoglycan, which among its different known roles, negatively regulates liver regeneration and hepatocyte proliferation. This report concerns a male with a SGBS1, carrier of a GPC3 pathogenic mutation, and neonatal liver disease, who developed an early biliary cirrhosis. Together with the associated risk of cancer and developmental delay, liver transplantation was discussed and then successfully performed at the age of 19 months. A hypothesis on the role of GPC3 in the patient's liver disease is also proposed. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2013

12. Phenotypic Spectrum of Simpson-Golabi-Behmel Syndrome in a Series of 42 Cases With a Mutation in GPC 3 and Review of the Literature

Author: Laurence Faivre, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Fabiana Viana Ramos, Delphine Héron, Bénédicte Demeer, Dominique Gaillard, Edouard Cottereau, Sylvie Odent, Lydie Burglen, Jenneke van den Ende, Sylvie Rossignol, Odile Boute, Nicole Philip, Albert David, Marylin Lackmy‐Port Lis, Jeanne Amiel, Eric Bieth, Adeline Jacquinet, Marie-Françoise Frouté, Dominique Bonneau, Robert Robertson, Alice Goldenberg, Pierre Sarda, Isabelle Mortemousque, Annick Toutain, Alain Verloes, Marie-Pierre Moizard, Patricia Blanchet, Michèle Mathieu, Geneviève Baujat, Lucile Pinson, Sabine Sigaudy, Isabelle Maystadt, Ilham Ratbi, Didier Lacombe, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Lionel Van Maldergem, and Marjolaine Willems
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Genetic heterogeneity, Point mutation, 030305 genetics & heredity, Macrocephaly, Simpson–Golabi–Behmel syndrome, Biology, medicine.disease, Organomegaly, 3. Good health, Gigantism, 03 medical and health sciences, Gene duplication, Intellectual disability, medicine, medicine.symptom, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome (SGBS) is a rare X-linked multiple congenital abnormality/intellectual disability syndrome characterized by pre- and post-natal overgrowth, distinctive craniofacial features, macrocephaly, variable congenital malformations, organomegaly, increased risk of tumor and mild/moderate intellectual deficiency. In 1996, Glypican 3 (GPC3) was identified as the major gene causing SGBS but the mutation detection rate was only 28-70%, suggesting either genetic heterogeneity or that some patients could have alternative diagnoses. This was particularly suggested by some reports of atypical cases with more severe prognoses. In the family reported by Golabi and Rosen, a duplication of GPC4 was recently identified, suggesting that GPC4 could be the second gene for SGBS but no point mutations within GPC4 have yet been reported. In the genetics laboratory in Tours Hospital, GPC3 molecular testing over more than a decade has detected pathogenic mutations in only 8.7% of individuals with SGBS. In addition, GPC4 mutations have not been identified thus raising the question of frequent misdiagnosis. In order to better delineate the phenotypic spectrum of SGBS caused by GPC3 mutations, and to try to define specific clinical criteria for GPC3 molecular testing, we reviewed the clinical features of all male cases with a GPC3 mutation identified in the two molecular laboratories providing this test in France (Tours and Paris). We present here the results of the analysis of 42 patients belonging to 31 families and including five fetuses and three deceased neonates.
Published: 2013

13. A novel microdeletion syndrome at 9q21.13 characterised by mental retardation, speech delay, epilepsy and characteristic facial features

Author: Göran Annerén, Cédric Le Caignec, Joris Andrieux, Henri Copin, Donald R. Love, Ingrid Simonic, Helen V. Firth, Ghislaine Plessis, Juliet Taylor, Salim Aftimos, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Adelheid Wiemer-Kruel, Bénédicte Demeer, Elise Boudry-Labis, Joris Vermeesch, Alice M. George, Juergen Kohlhase, Ann-Charlotte Thuresson, and Bertrand Isidor
Subjects: Male, Adolescent, Genetic syndromes, Developmental Disabilities, Karyotype, TRPM Cation Channels, Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Language Development Disorders, Hypertelorism, Child, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics (clinical), Philtrum, business.industry, Serine Endopeptidases, Breakpoint, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Infant, Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 2, Proteins, General Medicine, Microdeletion syndrome, Microarray Analysis, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Neoplasm Proteins, Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor), medicine.anatomical_structure, Child, Preschool, Speech delay, Female, Proprotein Convertases, Chromosome Deletion, medicine.symptom, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9, business, Electron Probe Microanalysis
Abstract: The increased use of array-CGH and SNP-arrays for genetic diagnosis has led to the identification of new microdeletion/microduplication syndromes and enabled genotype-phenotype correlations to be made. In this study, nine patients with 9q21 deletions were investigated and compared with four previously Decipher reported patients. Genotype-phenotype comparisons of 13 patients revealed several common major characteristics including significant developmental delay, epilepsy, neuro-behavioural disorders and recognizable facial features including hypertelorism, feature-less philtrum, and a thin upper lip. The molecular investigation identified deletions with different breakpoints and of variable lengths, but the 750 kb smallest overlapping deleted region includes four genes. Among these genes, RORB is a strong candidate for a neurological phenotype. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of 9q21 microdeletions and our observations strongly suggest that these deletions are responsible for a new genetic syndrome characterised by mental retardation with speech delay, epilepsy, autistic behaviour and moderate facial dysmorphy.
Published: 2013

14. Mutations inWNT10Aare frequently involved in oligodontia associated with minor signs of ectodermal dysplasia

Author: Encarna Guillén-Navarro, Sabine Sigaudy, Christine Coubes, Ghislaine Plessis, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Marc Abramowicz, Philippe Jonveaux, Catherine Vincent-Delorme, Frédéric Vaysse, Isabelle Bailleul-Forestier, Estelle Colin, V. Gaston, Nicolas Chassaing, Didier Lacombe, Bénédicte Demeer, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Patrick Calvas, Julie Plaisancié, Hélène Dollfus, Eric Bieth, Alain Verloes, and Laurence Faivre
Subjects: Male, Ectodermal dysplasia, Genotype, Molecular Sequence Data, medicine.disease_cause, Compound heterozygosity, Ectodermal Dysplasia, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics (clinical), Anodontia, Mutation, EDARADD, Edar Receptor, Genetic heterogeneity, business.industry, medicine.disease, Wnt Proteins, Hypodontia, Phenotype, Female, Ectodysplasin A, business, Sequence Alignment
Abstract: Ectodermal dysplasias (ED) are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of hereditary disorders that have in common abnormal development of ectodermal derivatives. Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (HED) is characterized by abnormal development of eccrine sweat glands, hair, and teeth. The X-linked form of the disease, caused by mutations in the EDA gene, represents the majority of patients with the hypohidrotic form. Autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive forms are occasionally seen, and result from mutations in at least three genes (WNT10A, EDAR, or more rarely EDARADD). We have screened for mutations in EDAR (commonly involved in the hypohidrotic form) and WNT10A (involved in a wide spectrum of ED and in isolated hypodontia) in a cohort of 36 patients referred for EDA molecular screening, which failed to identify any mutation. We identified eight EDAR mutations in five patients (two with homozygous mutations, one with compound heterozygous mutations, and two with heterozygous mutation), four of which were novel variants. We identified 28 WNT10A mutations in 16 patients (5 with homozygous mutations, 7 with compound heterozygous mutations, and 4 with heterozygous mutations), seven of which were novel variants. Our study allows a more precise definition of the phenotypic spectrum associated with EDAR and WNT10A mutations and underlines the importance of the implication of WNT10A among patients with ED. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Published: 2013

15. Split-hand/foot malformation with long-bone deficiency and BHLHA9 duplication: Two cases and expansion of the phenotype to radial agenesis

Author: Bénédicte Demeer, Florence Petit, Sylvie Manouvrier-Hanu, Henri Copin, Elise Boudry-Labis, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Joris Andrieux, Fabienne Escande, and Louis-Michel Collet
Subjects: Male, Candidate gene, Ectrodactyly, Long bone, Limb Deformities, Congenital, Biology, Split-Hand/Foot Malformation, Gene Duplication, Gene duplication, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Tibia, Genetics (clinical), Recombination, Genetic, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Infant, General Medicine, Anatomy, medicine.disease, Phenotype, medicine.anatomical_structure, Child, Preschool, Agenesis, Female, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
Abstract: Split-hand/foot malformation (SHFM) with long-bone deficiency (SHFLD, MIM#119100) is a rare condition characterised by SHFM associated with long-bone malformation usually involving the tibia. Previous published data reported several unrelated patients with 17p13.3 duplication and SHFLD. Recently, BHLHA9 has been proposed to be the major candidate gene responsible for this limb malformation. Here we report two new patients affected with ectrodactyly harbouring a 17p13.3 duplication detected by array-CGH. Both duplications contain 3 genes including BHLHA9 and are inherited from an unaffected parent. One of the patients presents a complete radial agenesis, expanding the phenotype of SHFLD3.
Published: 2013

16. ALDH1A3 Mutations Cause Recessive Anophthalmia and Microphthalmia

Author: Sylvie Gerber, Eduardo Silva, Valérie Serre, Jean-Michel Rozet, Stanislas Lyonnet, Sylvain Hanein, Bénédicte Demeer, Ghislaine Plessis, P Calvas, Lionel Bretillon, Lucas Fares-Taie, Christine Bole, Nicola K. Ragge, Jill Clayton-Smith, Xavier Gérard, Arnold Munnich, Clarisse Baumann, Margaux Serey, Patrick Nitschke, Josseline Kaplan, Nicolas Chassaing, Kaplan, Josseline, and Rozet, Jean-Michel
Subjects: Male, Genetic Linkage, Retinoic acid, Genes, Recessive, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Microphthalmia, chemistry.chemical_compound, symbols.namesake, Chromosome Segregation, Report, medicine, Genetics, Food and Nutrition, Humans, Microphthalmos, Missense mutation, Genetics(clinical), Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Sanger sequencing, Mutation, Anophthalmia, Homozygote, Anophthalmos, Exons, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase, Disease gene identification, medicine.disease, Aldehyde Oxidoreductases, Molecular biology, Introns, eye diseases, Pedigree, HEK293 Cells, chemistry, Alimentation et Nutrition, symbols, Female, Mutant Proteins, sense organs
Abstract: Anophthalmia and microphthalmia (A/M) are early-eye-development anomalies resulting in absent or small ocular globes, respectively. A/M anomalies occur in syndromic or nonsyndromic forms. They are genetically heterogeneous, some mutations in some genes being responsible for both anophthalmia and microphthalmia. Using a combination of homozygosity mapping, exome sequencing, and Sanger sequencing, we identified homozygosity for one splice-site and two missense mutations in the gene encoding the A3 isoform of the aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1A3) in three consanguineous families segregating A/M with occasional orbital cystic, neurological, and cardiac anomalies. ALDH1A3 is a key enzyme in the formation of a retinoic acid gradient along the dorso-ventral axis during early eye development. Transitory expression of mutant ALDH1A3 open reading frames showed that both missense mutations reduce the accumulation of the enzyme, potentially leading to altered retinoic acid synthesis. Although the role of retinoic acid signaling in eye development is well established, our findings provide genetic evidence of a direct link between retinoic-acid-synthesis dysfunction and early-eye-development anomalies in humans.
Published: 2013
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17. Incomplete penetrance of biallelic ALDH1A3 mutations

Author: Sylvie Gerber, Dominique Bremond-Gignac, V. Gaston, Bénédicte Demeer, Jean-Michel Rozet, Lucas Fares-Taie, Alain Verloes, Nicolas Chassaing, Patrick Calvas, Julie Plaisancié, 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), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Service de génétique médicale, CHU Amiens-Picardie, Service de génétique médicale [Toulouse], CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Hôpital Purpan [Toulouse], CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris], Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), and Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, MESH: Eye / pathology, 030105 genetics & heredity, medicine.disease_cause, Eye, Microphthalmia, MESH: Genotype, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, MESH: Child, Microphthalmos, Child, Genetics (clinical), MESH: Anophthalmos / pathology, MESH: Genetic Association Studies, Genetics, MESH: Microphthalmos / pathology, Mutation, MESH: Anophthalmos / genetics, General Medicine, Phenotype, Penetrance, Aldehyde Oxidoreductases, MESH: Aldehyde Oxidoreductases / genetics, 3. Good health, Pedigree, Female, MESH: Mutation, Genotype, MESH: Pedigree, Genetic counseling, MESH: Tretinoin / metabolism, Tretinoin, Biology, MESH: Phenotype, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, Humans, Anophthalmia, ALDH1A3, Gene, Genetic Association Studies, Incomplete penetrance, MESH: Humans, Genetic heterogeneity, Eye development, Anophthalmos, medicine.disease, MESH: Microphthalmos / genetics, eye diseases, 030104 developmental biology, MESH: Eye / growth & development, MESH: Female
Abstract: International audience; The formation of a properly shaped eye is a complex developmental event that requires the coordination of many induction processes and differentiation pathways. Microphthalmia and anophthalmia (MA) represent the most severe defects that can affect the ocular globe during embryonic development. When genetic, these ocular disorders exhibit large genetic heterogeneity and extreme variable expressivity. Around 20 monogenic diseases are known to be associated with MA as main phenotype and the penetrance of mutations is usually full in the patients. Some of these genes encode proteins involved in the vitamin A pathway, tightly regulated during eye development. One of those retinoic acid synthesis genes is ALDH1A3 and biallelic mutations in that gene have been recently found to lead to MA phenotype in patients. Interestingly, we report here the lack of ocular defect in a girl carrying the same homozygous mutation in the ALDH1A3 gene than the affected members of her family. Thus, this report brings new information for the phenotype-genotype correlation of ALDH1A3 mutations and raises important questions, especially in terms of genetic counselling given to the patients and their families. Furthermore, these data contribute to the more general understanding that we have for the complex genetic inheritance of these MA phenotypes.
Published: 2016

18. Quelle prise en charge pour les hommes asymptomatiques, porteurs d’une mutation du gène BRCA1 ou 2 ? Résultat d’une enquête de pratique auprès des centres d’oncogénétique français

Author: Gilles Morin, Claire Gillaux, Michèle Mathieu, Jean Gondry, Bénédicte Demeer, Iglika Brachot-Simeonova, and Raffaèle Fauvet
Subjects: Gynecology, Cancer Research, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Physical examination, Hematology, General Medicine, Guideline, medicine.disease, Asymptomatic, Prostate-specific antigen, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Oncology, Pancreatic cancer, Mutation (genetic algorithm), medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract: The aim of this survey of practice was to define, in the absence of guideline, the management in France of asymptomatic men bearing a mutation of BRCA1 or 2 genes. A questionnaire was addressed to 90 oncogenetics centers. We obtained the answers of 34 practitioners working in 58 centers. Among the responders, 85.3% offered a systematic genetic test in all cases to determine the risk of transmission to the children and to offer a personal follow-up in 79.4 % of cases. This screening was directed towards prostate cancer, breast cancer and pancreatic cancer in respectively 94.1, 67.6 and 47.1% of cases. The screening of prostate cancer was mainly proposed to men bearing a BRCA2 mutation and from the age of 40 years. It was based on clinical examination and testing of prostate specific antigen. The screening of breast cancer was mainly proposed to men bearing a BRCA2 mutation and based on clinical examination and self-palpation without stating a started age. The screening of pancreatic cancer was mainly proposed to men with familial history of pancreatic cancer and from the age of 40 years. It was based on tomography and MRI. For the majority of answerers, the general practitioner was the best to perform all these screenings. These experts' opinions can help to establish guidelines for the global management of asymptomatic men carriers of BRCA1 or 2 mutations.
Published: 2012

19. Clinical and molecular characterization of the 20q11.2 microdeletion syndrome: six new patients

Author: Ik K. Temple, Damien Sanlaville, Guillaume Jedraszak, Nicola Foulds, Una Maye, Joris Andrieux, Gilles Morin, Aline Receveur, Meredith Wilson, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Astrid Weber, John A. Crolla, Marie‐Pierre Alex‐Cordier, Amanda Clarkson, Henri Copin, Ruth Armstrong, Lisa Ewans, and Bénédicte Demeer
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 20, Biology, Frontal Bossing, Chromosome Breakpoints, Young Adult, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Child, Genetics (clinical), Genetic Association Studies, Craniofacial dysmorphism, Chromosome Aberrations, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Enophthalmos, Chromosome, Facies, Infant, Syndrome, Microdeletion syndrome, medicine.disease, Dermatology, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Karyotyping, Female, medicine.symptom, Chromosome Deletion, Comparative genomic hybridization
Abstract: Interstitial microdeletions of 20q chromosome are rare, only 17 patients have been reported in the literature to date. Among them, only six carried a proximal 20q11.21-q11.23 deletion, with a size ranging from 2.6 to 6.8 Mb. The existence of a 20q11.2 microdeletion syndrome has been proposed, based on five previously reported cases that displayed anomalies of the extremities, intellectual disability, feeding difficulties, craniofacial dysmorphism and variable malformations. To further characterize this syndrome, we report on six new patients with 20q11.2 microdeletions diagnosed by whole-genome array-based comparative genomic hybridization. These patient reports more precisely refined the phenotype and narrowed the minimal critical region involved in this syndrome. Careful clinical assessment confirms the distinctive clinical phenotype. The craniofacial dysmorphism consists of high forehead, frontal bossing, enophthalmos, and midface hypoplasia. We have identified a 1.62 megabase minimal critical region involved in this syndrome encompassing three genes - GDF5, EPB41L1, andSAMHD1– which are strong candidates for different aspects of the phenotype. These results support that 20q11.2 microdeletion syndrome is a new contiguous gene deletion syndrome with a recognizable phenotype.
Published: 2014

20. Duplication 16p13.3 and the CREBBP gene: confirmation of the phenotype

Author: Aline Receveur, Bruno Delobel, Sophie Julia, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Kerstin Sjörs, Ann C. Thuresson, Florence Petit, Bénédicte Demeer, Sandrine Lanco dosen, Gilles Morin, Ghislaine Plessis, Joris Andrieux, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Helen V. Firth, Koenraad Devriendt, and Cédric Le Caignec
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Biology, Ptosis, Gene duplication, Intellectual disability, Chromosome Duplication, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Strabismus, Child, Genetics (clinical), Genetic Association Studies, Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome, Facies, Infant, Karyotype, General Medicine, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Dermatology, CREB-Binding Protein, Palpebral fissure, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Female, medicine.symptom, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, Comparative genomic hybridization
Abstract: The introduction of molecular karyotyping technologies into the diagnostic work-up of patients with congenital disorders permitted the identification and delineation of novel microdeletion and microduplication syndromes. Interstitial 16p13.3 duplication, encompassing the CREBBP gene, which is mutated or deleted in the Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome, have been proposed to cause a recognisable syndrome with variable intellectual disability, normal growth, mild facial dysmorphism, mild anomalies of the extremities, and occasional findings such as developmental defects of the heart, genitalia, palate or the eyes. We here report the phenotypic and genotypic delineation of 9 patients carrying a submicroscopic 16p13.3 duplication, including the smallest 16p13.3 duplication reported so far. Careful clinical assessment confirms the distinctive clinical phenotype and also defines frequent associated features : marked speech problems, frequent ocular region involvement with upslanting of the eyes, narrow palpebral fissures, ptosis and strabismus, frequent proximal implantation of thumbs, cleft palate/bifid uvula and inguinal hernia. It also confirms that CREBBP is the critical gene involved in the duplication 16p13.3 syndrome.
Published: 2012

21. ARX polyalanine expansions are highly implicated in familial cases of mental retardation with infantile epilepsy and/or hand dystonia

Author: Bruno Delobel, Bruno Leheup, Jean-François Lemaitre, Jean-Michel Pinoit, Karine Poirier, Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Christophe Philippe, Sophie Julia, Bénédicte Demeer, Jamel Chelly, Anne de Saint-Martin, Mireille Cossée, Heifa Hichri, Jean-Louis Mandel, Didier Devys, Vincent Laugel, Laurence Faivre, and Valérie Biancalana
Subjects: Adult, Male, Adolescent, Molecular Sequence Data, PARTINGTON SYNDROME, Locus (genetics), Infantile epilepsy, Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Child, Genetics (clinical), Dystonia, Homeodomain Proteins, DNA Repeat Expansion, Base Sequence, business.industry, Chromosome Mapping, West Syndrome, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Pedigree, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, business, Peptides, Microsatellite Repeats, Transcription Factors
Abstract: Mutations in the ARX gene cause both nonsyndromic and several forms of syndromic mental retardation (MR). Two polyalanine (polyA) expansions of ARX are recurrent mutations. The most common one, the c.428_451dup, is associated with a wide spectrum of phenotypes, ranging from the most severe West syndrome to Partington syndrome (MR and hand dystonia), and even nonsyndromic X-linked mental retardation (NS-XLMR). Studies of patients not selected for specific clinical signs showed that the c.428_451dup is relatively frequent in families harboring X-linked MR (7.5%), but less common in familial cases compatible with X-linked NR (1%), and very rare in sporadic cases (0.1%). The c.333_334ins(GCG)7 expansion is less frequent and mainly associated with West syndrome. We screened for both ARX polyA expansions in 98 unrelated patients selected for the presence of NR associated with different types of epilepsy and/or with hand dystonia. We also studied two families with an initial diagnosis of NS-XLMR, one of which was identified as showing linkage to the ARX locus. The c.428_451dup was identified in three patients and the c.333_334ins(GCG)7 in one; all of the patients were from families with two affected brothers. We also found the c.428_451dup in the family linked to ARX, and clinical re-evaluation showed subtle, previously undetected signs. Our study illustrates that ARX polyA expansions are primarily associated with syndromic MR and shows a higher yield (18% in our cohort) when these mutations are screened in familial cases of MR with epilepsy and/or dystonia. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Published: 2011

22. Mirror extreme BMI phenotypes associated with gene dosage at the chromosome 16p11.2 locus

Author: Stephen W. Scherer, Mònica Gratacòs, Kari Stefansson, Muriel Holder, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Lukas Forer, Katharina M. Roetzer, Josette Lucas, Claudia Schurmann, Satu Kaksonen, Armand Valsesia, Carina Wallgren-Pettersson, Barbara Leube, Alexandra I. F. Blakemore, Alexandre Moerman, Marco Belfiore, Anne Faudet, Dominique Gaillard, Roberto Ravazzolo, Dominique Bonneau, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Yongguo Yu, Louis Vallée, Bénédicte Demeer, Sophie Visvikis-Siest, Frédérique Béna, Brigitte H. W. Faas, Benoit Arveiler, Georg Homuth, Charles Coutton, Bénédicte de Fréminville, Giorgio Gimelli, Xavier Estivill, Richard I. Fisher, Stefania Gimelli, Wendy Roberts, Jacques S. Beckmann, Emilie Landais, Orah S. Platt, Robin G. Walters, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Alexandre Reymond, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Solenn Legallic, James F. Gusella, Peter Vollenweider, Gian Paolo Ramelli, Tõnu Esko, Boris Keren, Nine V A M Knoers, Fanny Morice-Picard, Dominique Campion, Odile Boute, Evica Rajcan-Separovic, Rolph Pfundt, Nathalie Bednarek, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Suzanne M E Lewis, Gérard Didelot, Mylène Beri, Engilbert Sigurdsson, Véronique Satre, Audrey Labalme, Carola Tengstrom, Florian Kronenberg, Florence Petit, Simon Zwolinksi, Philippe Froguel, Paul Elliott, Dorothée Cailley, Christian R. Marshall, Bruno Leheup, Klaus Dieterich, Janina S. Ried, Sylvie Jaillard, Armand Bottani, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Elisabetta Lapi, Jean-Christophe Cuvellier, Robert M. Witwicki, Gérard Waeber, Christèle Dubourg, Marion Gérard, Lachlan J. M. Coin, Magalie Barth, Anita Kloss-Brandstätter, Vincent Mooser, Cristóbal Richart, Giuseppe Merla, Bénédicte Duban-Bedu, Yiping Shen, Ants Kurg, Audrey Guilmatre, Juliane Hoyer, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Mafalda Mucciolo, Bai-Lin Wu, Alessandra Ferrarini, Séverine Drunat, Yves Alembik, Páll Magnússon, Han G. Brunner, Maria Antonietta Mencarelli, Dominique Descamps, R. Frank Kooy, Azzedine Aboura, Valérie Layet, Sven Bergmann, Thomas Meitinger, Peter M. Kroisel, Nathalie Van der Aa, Olivier Guillin, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Zoltán Kutalik, Elisabeth Flori, Laurent Pasquier, André Reis, Noam D. Beckmann, Bertrand Isidor, Delphine Héron, Philippe Jonveaux, Sergi Villatoro Gomez, Ann Nordgren, José Manuel Fernández-Real, Florence Fellmann, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, Laurence Faivre, Dimitri J. Stavropoulos, Katrin Männik, Christian Gieger, Evald Saemundsen, Agnès Guichet, Jean-Marie Cuisset, R. Touraine, Laura Bernardini, Marie-Ange Delrue, Alessandra Renieri, Omar Gustafsson, Flore Zufferey, David A. Koolen, Massimiliano Rossi, Jacqueline Chrast, Ghislaine Plessis, Faida Walha, Joris Andrieux, Ellen van Binsbergen, Albert David, Catherine Vincent-Delorme, Cédric Le Caignec, Jean Chiesa, Ndeye Coumba Ndiaye, Geraldine Joly Helas, Damien Sanlaville, Anita Rauch, Louise Harewood, Mark I. McCarthy, Bridget A. Fernandez, Sébastien Jacquemont, Hreinn Stefansson, Anneke T. Vulto-van Silfhout, Zdenek Jaros, Matthias Nauck, Hans J. Grabe, Sonia Bouquillon, Mieke M. van Haelst, Andres Metspalu, Loyse Hippolyte, Patrick Callier, Bert B.A. de Vries, Francisco J. Tinahones, Nicole de Leeuw, Julia S. El-Sayed Moustafa, Claudine Rieubland, Kay D. MacDermot, Vittoria Disciglio, Henry Völzke, Caroline Rooryck, Bettina Blaumeiser, Danielle Martinet, Marie-Claude Addor, Bruno Delobel, Jacquemont, S, Reymond, A, Zufferey, F, Harewood, L, Walters, Rg, Kutalik, Z, Martinet, D, Shen, Y, Valsesia, A, Beckmann, Nd, Thorleifsson, G, Belfiore, M, Bouquillon, S, Campion, D, de Leeuw, N, de Vries, Bb, Esko, T, Fernandez, Ba, Fernández-Aranda, F, Fernández-Real, Jm, Gratacòs, M, Guilmatre, A, Hoyer, J, Jarvelin, Mr, Kooy, Rf, Kurg, A, Le Caignec, C, Männik, K, Platt, O, Sanlaville, D, Van Haelst, Mm, Villatoro Gomez, S, Walha, F, Wu, Bl, Yu, Y, Aboura, A, Addor, Mc, Alembik, Y, Antonarakis, Se, Arveiler, B, Barth, M, Bednarek, N, Béna, F, Bergmann, S, Beri, M, Bernardini, L, Blaumeiser, B, Bonneau, D, Bottani, A, Boute, O, Brunner, Hg, Cailley, D, Callier, P, Chiesa, J, Chrast, J, Coin, L, Coutton, C, Cuisset, Jm, Cuvellier, Jc, David, A, de Freminville, B, Delobel, B, Delrue, Ma, Demeer, B, Descamps, D, Didelot, G, Dieterich, K, Disciglio, V, Doco-Fenzy, M, Drunat, S, Duban-Bedu, B, Dubourg, C, El-Sayed Moustafa, J, Elliott, P, Faas, Bh, Faivre, L, Faudet, A, Fellmann, F, Ferrarini, A, Fisher, R, Flori, E, Forer, L, Gaillard, D, Gerard, M, Gieger, C, Gimelli, S, Gimelli, G, Grabe, Hj, Guichet, A, Guillin, O, Hartikainen, Al, Heron, D, Hippolyte, L, Holder, M, Homuth, G, Isidor, B, Jaillard, S, Jaros, Z, Jiménez-Murcia, S, Helas, Gj, Jonveaux, P, Kaksonen, S, Keren, B, Kloss-Brandstätter, A, Knoers, Nv, Koolen, Da, Kroisel, Pm, Kronenberg, F, Labalme, A, Landais, E, Lapi, E, Layet, V, Legallic, S, Leheup, B, Leube, B, Lewis, S, Lucas, J, Macdermot, Kd, Magnusson, P, Marshall, C, Mathieu-Dramard, M, Mccarthy, Mi, Meitinger, T, Mencarelli, Ma, Merla, G, Moerman, A, Mooser, V, Morice-Picard, F, Mucciolo, M, Nauck, M, Ndiaye, Nc, Nordgren, A, Pasquier, L, Petit, F, Pfundt, R, Plessis, G, Rajcan-Separovic, E, Ramelli, Gp, Rauch, A, Ravazzolo, R, Reis, A, Renieri, A, Richart, C, Ried, J, Rieubland, C, Roberts, W, Roetzer, Km, Rooryck, C, Rossi, M, Saemundsen, E, Satre, V, Schurmann, C, Sigurdsson, E, Stavropoulos, Dj, Stefansson, H, Tengström, C, Thorsteinsdóttir, U, Tinahones, Fj, Touraine, R, Vallée, L, van Binsbergen, E, Van der Aa, N, Vincent-Delorme, C, Visvikis-Siest, S, Vollenweider, P, Völzke, H, Vulto-van Silfhout, At, Waeber, G, Wallgren-Pettersson, C, Witwicki, Rm, Zwolinksi, S, Andrieux, J, Estivill, X, Gusella, Jf, Gustafsson, O, Metspalu, A, Scherer, Sw, Stefansson, K, Blakemore, Ai, Beckmann, J, Froguel, P, Faculteit Medische Wetenschappen/UMCG, Service de génétique médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois [Lausanne] (CHUV), Center for Integrative Genomics - Institute of Bioinformatics, Génopode (CIG), Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [Lausanne] (SIB), Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL)-Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, Department of Medical Genetics, Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston], Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, deCODE Genetics, deCODE genetics [Reykjavik], Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre [Lille]-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Génétique médicale et fonctionnelle du cancer et des maladies neuropsychiatriques, Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Estonian Genome and Medicine, University of Tartu, Department of human genetics, Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen]-Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences-Institute for Genetic and Metabolic Disorders, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Disciplines of Genetics and Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve [St. John's, Canada] (MUN), Department of Psychiatry (IDIBELL), CIBERobn Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición-University Hospital of Bellvitge, Section of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University Hospital of Girona-Biomedical Research Institute 'Dr Josep Trueta'-CIBERobn Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG-UPF), CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Institute of Human Genetics [Erlangen, Allemagne], Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Department of child and adolescent health, University of Oulu-Institute of Health Sciences and Biocenter Oulu-National Institute for Health and Welfare [Helsinki], Antwerp University Hospital [Edegem] (UZA), CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de cytogénétique constitutionnelle, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL)-CHU de Lyon-Centre Neuroscience et Recherche, University Medical Center [Utrecht], Institutes of Biomedical Science, Fudan University [Shanghai]-Children's Hospital, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Département de génétique, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Service de cytogénétique, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Génétique médicale, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Maladies Rares - Génétique et Métabolisme (MRGM), Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Hôpital Pellegrin-Service de Génétique Médicale du CHU de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Service de 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), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël], Service de Génétique [CHRU Nancy], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Mendel Laboratory, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza [San Giovanni Rotondo] (IRCCS), Service de Génétique clinique, Laboratoire de cytogénétique (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Laboratoire de Cytogénétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes), Département de génétique et procréation, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-CHU Grenoble-faculté de médecine-pharmacie, AGeing and IMagery (AGIM), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de biochimie et génétique moléculaire, CHU Grenoble, Service de Neuropédiatrie, Hôpital Roger Salengro [Lille]-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Service de génétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne [CHU Saint-Etienne] (CHU ST-E), Centre de Génétique Chromosomique, Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul-Groupement des Hôpitaux de l'Institut Catholique de Lille (GHICL), Université catholique de Lille (UCL)-Université catholique de Lille (UCL), CHU Amiens-Picardie, Centre Hospitalier de Béthune (CH Béthune), GHT de l'Artois, Service de Génétique Clinique, Department of Biotechnology, Università degli Studi di Siena = University of Siena (UNISI)-Medical Genetics, Service de Génétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims)-Hôpital Maison Blanche-IFR 53, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Human Genetics [Nijmegen], Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen], Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center - Academisch Medisch Centrum [Amsterdam] (AMC), University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA)-Heart Failure Research Center (HFRC), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Institute of human genetics, International Centre for Life, Division of genetic epidemiology, HMNC Brain Health-Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology-Innsbruck Medical University = Medizinische Universität Innsbruck (IMU), Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oulu-Institute of Clinical Medicine, Laboratorio di citogenetica, G. Gaslini Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universität Greifswald - University of Greifswald, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Abteilung für Kinder und Jugendheilkunde, Landesklinikum Waldviertel Zwettl, Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), The Habilitation Unit of Folkhalsan, Medical University Graz, Medical Genetics Unit, Children's Hospital Anna Meyer, Unité de Cytogénétique et Génétique Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier du Havre-Hôpital Gustave Flaubert, Service de Médecine Infantile III et Génétique Clinique [CHRU Nancy], Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology, Heinrich-Heine University Hospital Duesseldorf, Child and Family Research Institute-University of British Columbia (UBC), North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Northwick Park & St Marks Hospital, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Landspitali University Hospital, Program in Genetics and Genomic Biology, Hospital for Sick Children-University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), University of Oxford, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [Oxford], Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM)-Helmholtz Zentrum München = German Research Center for Environmental Health, Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline R&D, GlaxoSmithKline, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Génétique cardiovasculaire (GC), Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1 (UHP), Molecular Medicine and Surgery department, Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], Service de Génétique [CHU Caen], Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-CHU Caen, Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN), Department of Pathology, Division of pediatrics, Ospedale San Giovanni, Institute of Medical Genetics, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Department of pediatrics and CEBR, Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa (UniGe)-G. Gaslini Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, Universitat Rovira i Virgili-University Hospital Juan XXIII-Instituto Salud Carlos III-Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Division of Human Genetics, Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital-University of Bern, Autism Research Unit, The Hospital for sick children [Toronto] (SickKids)-University of Toronto, State Diagnostic, Counseling Center, University of Iceland [Reykjavik], Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Genetic Services, Rinnekoti Research Foundation, Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Instituto Salud Carlos III-Clinic Hospital of Virgen de la Victoria-Ciber Fisiopatologia y Nutricion (CIBEROBN), Centre de Maladies Rares, Anomalies du Développement Nord de France-CH Arras - CHRU Lille, Institute for Community Medicine, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics [Helsinki], Haartman Institute [Helsinki], Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki-Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki, The Centre for Applied Genomics, Toronto, The Hospital for sick children [Toronto] (SickKids)-University of Toronto-Department of Molecular Genetics-McLaughlin Centre, Institut de biologie de Lille - UMS 3702 (IBL), Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), This work was supported by the Leenaards Foundation Prize (SJ, DM and AR), the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation (AR), the Telethon Action Suisse Foundation (AR), the Swiss National Science Foundation (AR, JSB, SB and SEA), a SNSF Sinergia grant (SJ, DM, SB, JSB and AR), the European Commission anEUploidy Integrated Project grant 037627 (AR, SB, XE, HGB and SEA), the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (AV), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SB, ZK), an Imperial College Dept of Medicine PhD studentship (JSe-SM), the Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research (PE), the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council (AIFB and PF), the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)-FIS, the German Mental Retardation Network funded through a grant of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (NGFNplus 01GS08160) to A Reis and European Union-FEDER (PI081714, PS09/01778), SAF2008-02278 (XE, MG, FFA), the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (NVA, RFK), the Dutch Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZONMW grant 917-86-319) and Hersenstichting Nederland (BBAdV), grant 81000346 from the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (YGY), the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, Autism Speaks and NIH grant GM061354 (JFG), and the OENB grant 13059 (AK-B). YS holds a Young Investigator Award from the Children's Tumor Foundation and Catalyst Award from Harvard Medical School, and BLW, a Fudan Scholar Research Award from Fudan University, a grant from Chinese National '973' project on Population and Health (2010CB529601) and a grant from Science and Technology Council of Shanghai (09JC1402400). ERS and SL, recipients of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar award, acknowledge the CIHR MOP 74502 operational grant. EGCUT received support from the EU Centre of Excellence in Genomics and FP7 grants #201413 and #245536, from Estonian Government SF0180142s08, SF0180026s09 and SF0180027s10 (AM, KM, AK). The Helmholtz Zentrum Munich and the State of Bavaria financed KORA, also supported by the German National Genome Research Network (NGFN-2 and NGFNPlus: 01GS0823), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the Munich Center of Health Sciences (MC Health, LMUinnovativ). CIBEROBN and CIBERESP are initiatives of ISCIII (Spain). SWS holds the GlaxoSmithKline-Canadian Institutes of Health (CIHR) Chair in Genetics, Genomics at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children and is supported by Genome Canada and the McLaughlin Centre. deCODE was funded in part by NIH grant MH071425 (KS), EU grant HEALTH-2007-2.2.1-10-223423 (Project PsychCNV) and EU grant IMI-JU-NewMeds., Centre de génomique intégrative, Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Memorial University of Newfoundland [St. John's], Friedrich Alexander University [Erlangen-Nürnberg], Service d'ORL et de Chirurgie Cervicofaciale, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Weizmann Institute of Science, IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nîmes (CHRU Nîmes), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hôpital Roger Salengro-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), CHU Saint-Etienne-Hôpital nord, Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul-GHICL, Centre hospitalier de Béthune, Università degli Studi di Siena (UNISI)-Medical Genetics, Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-IFR140-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Innsbruck Medical University [Austria] (IMU)-HMNC Brain Health-Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (ASCR), University of Oxford [Oxford], Technische Universität München [München] (TUM)-Helmholtz-Zentrum München (HZM)-German Research Center for Environmental Health, University of Zürich [Zürich] (UZH), Universita degli studi di Genova -G. Gaslini Institute, University of Toronto-The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki-Faculty of Medecine [Helsinki], University of Helsinki-University of Helsinki, University of Toronto-The Hospital for Sick Children-Department of Molecular Genetics-McLaughlin Centre, Institut de biologie de Lille - IBL (IBLI), Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies-Institut Pasteur de Lille, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Human genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), De Villemeur, Hervé, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland., Other departments, Reymond, Alexandre, Antonarakis, Stylianos, Sloan Bena, Frédérique, Bottani, Armand, Callier, Patrick, Gimelli, Stefania, Merla, Giuseppe, Vollenweider, Peter, Université de Lausanne (UNIL)-Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM)-Helmholtz-Zentrum München (HZM)-German Research Center for Environmental Health, CHU Caen, Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), University of Toronto-The Hospital for sick children [Toronto] (SickKids)-Department of Molecular Genetics-McLaughlin Centre, Université de Lille-Institut Pasteur de Lille, and Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Male, Aging, Transcription, Genetic, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Body Height, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, Child, Child, Preschool, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, Cohort Studies, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Developmental Disabilities, Energy Metabolism, Europe, Female, Gene Dosage, Gene Duplication, Gene Expression Profiling, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Head, Heterozygote, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Mental Disorders, Middle Aged, Mutation, North America, Obesity, Phenotype, RNA, Messenger, Sequence Deletion, Thinness, Young Adult, Physiology, RNA, Messenger/analysis/genetics, Genome-wide association study, HIDDEN-MARKOV MODEL, 0302 clinical medicine, Sequence Deletion/genetics, ddc:576.5, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Body Height/genetics, Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics, [SDV.MHEP.EM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Endocrinology and metabolism, 3. Good health, population characteristics, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16/genetics, Human, Locus (genetics), Gene Duplication/genetics, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetic, education, SNP GENOTYPING DATA, Thinness/genetics, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Pair 16, Case-control study, nutritional and metabolic diseases, social sciences, medicine.disease, DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION, Human medicine, Body mass index, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Messenger, Obesity/genetics, FAILURE-TO-THRIVE, [SDV.GEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Head/anatomy & histology, METABOLIC SYNDROME, [SDV.MHEP.EM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Endocrinology and metabolism, 2. Zero hunger, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR, Failure to thrive, medicine.symptom, Underweight, Transcription, geographic locations, Mutation/genetics, Population, Biology, Chromosomes, 150 000 MR Techniques in Brain Function, medicine, Preschool, 030304 developmental biology, COPY NUMBER VARIATION, Mental Disorders/genetics, Energy Metabolism/genetics, RELATIVE QUANTIFICATION, Gene Dosage/genetics, Newborn, BODY-MASS INDEX, CIRCULAR BINARY SEGMENTATION, RNA, Genetics and epigenetic pathways of disease Genomic disorders and inherited multi-system disorders [NCMLS 6], human activities, Developmental Disabilities/genetics
Abstract: To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field. Both obesity and being underweight have been associated with increased mortality. Underweight, defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≤ 18.5 kg per m(2) in adults and ≤ -2 standard deviations from the mean in children, is the main sign of a series of heterogeneous clinical conditions including failure to thrive, feeding and eating disorder and/or anorexia nervosa. In contrast to obesity, few genetic variants underlying these clinical conditions have been reported. We previously showed that hemizygosity of a ∼600-kilobase (kb) region on the short arm of chromosome 16 causes a highly penetrant form of obesity that is often associated with hyperphagia and intellectual disabilities. Here we show that the corresponding reciprocal duplication is associated with being underweight. We identified 138 duplication carriers (including 132 novel cases and 108 unrelated carriers) from individuals clinically referred for developmental or intellectual disabilities (DD/ID) or psychiatric disorders, or recruited from population-based cohorts. These carriers show significantly reduced postnatal weight and BMI. Half of the boys younger than five years are underweight with a probable diagnosis of failure to thrive, whereas adult duplication carriers have an 8.3-fold increased risk of being clinically underweight. We observe a trend towards increased severity in males, as well as a depletion of male carriers among non-medically ascertained cases. These features are associated with an unusually high frequency of selective and restrictive eating behaviours and a significant reduction in head circumference. Each of the observed phenotypes is the converse of one reported in carriers of deletions at this locus. The phenotypes correlate with changes in transcript levels for genes mapping within the duplication but not in flanking regions. The reciprocal impact of these 16p11.2 copy-number variants indicates that severe obesity and being underweight could have mirror aetiologies, possibly through contrasting effects on energy balance. Leenaards Foundation Jerome Lejeune Foundation Telethon Action Suisse Foundation Swiss National Science Foundation European Commission 037627 QLG1-CT-2000-01643 Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Imperial College Department of Medicine Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust National Institute for Health Research Wellcome Trust Medical Research Council Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)-FIS German Mental Retardation Network German Federal Ministry of Education and Research NGFNplus 01GS08160 European Union PI081714 PS09/01778 201413 245536 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/223423 Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders Dutch Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZON-MW) 917-86-319 Hersenstichting Nederland (B.B.A.d.V.) Chinese National Natural Science Foundation 81000346 Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Autism Speaks NIH GM061354 MH071425 Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OENB) 13059 Children's Tumor Foundation Harvard Medical School Fudan University Chinese National '973' project on Population and Health 2010CB529601 Science and Technology Council of Shanghai 09JC1402400 Michael Smith Foundation for Health CIHR MOP 74502 Estonian Government SF0180142s08 SF0180026s09 SF0180027s10 Helmholtz Zentrum Munich State of Bavaria German National Genome Research Network 01GS0823 German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Munich Center of Health Sciences (MC Health, LMUinnovativ) Genome Canada McLaughlin Centre Academy of Finland 104781 120315 129269 1114194 University Hospital Oulu Biocenter University of Oulu, Finland 75617 NHLBI 5R01HL087679-02 1RL1MH083268-01 NIH/NIMH 5R01MH63706:02 ENGAGE project Medical Research Council, UK G0500539 G0600705 Academy of Finland Biocentrum Helsinki SAF2008-02278 HEALTH-F4-2007-201413
Published: 2011

23. Exonic microdeletions in the X-linked PQBP1 gene in mentally retarded patients: a pathogenic mutation and in-frame deletions of uncertain effect

Author: Geoffrey Woods, Deepika Singh, Bernard Echenne, Sonja Finck, Manuela Antin, Mireille Cossée, Bénédicte Demeer, Jean-Louis Mandel, Vera M. Kalscheuer, Kelly Springell, Louis Vallee, Hélène Dollfus, Sridevi Hegde, B.K. Thelma, Patricia Blanchet, Olivier Hagens, Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I, Chaire Génétique Humaine, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), and Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Adult, Male, Proband, Microcephaly, Adolescent, Molecular Sequence Data, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Short stature, Frameshift mutation, 03 medical and health sciences, Exon, 0302 clinical medicine, Intellectual Disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Family history, Child, Frameshift Mutation, Genetics (clinical), X chromosome, Sequence Deletion, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Base Sequence, Nuclear Proteins, [SDV.BBM.BM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology, Exons, medicine.disease, Pedigree, DNA-Binding Proteins, Child, Preschool, Female, medicine.symptom, Carrier Proteins, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; Mutations in PQBP1 were recently identified in families with syndromic and non-syndromic X-linked mental retardation (XLMR). Clinical features frequently associated with MR were microcephaly and/or short stature. The predominant mutations detected so far affect a stretch of six AG dinucleotides in the polar-amino-acid-rich domain (PRD), causing frameshifts in the fourth coding exon. We searched for PQBP1 exon 4 frameshifts in 57 mentally retarded males in whom initial referral description indicated at least one of the following criteria: microcephaly, short stature, spastic paraplegia or family history compatible with XLMR, and in 772 mentally retarded males not selected for specific clinical features or family history. We identified a novel frameshift mutation (23 bp deletion) in two half-brothers with specific clinical features, and performed prenatal diagnosis in this family. We also found two different 21 bp in-frame deletions (c.334-354del(21 bp) and c.393-413del(21 bp)) in four unrelated probands from various ethnic origins, each deleting one of five copies of an imperfect seven amino-acid repeat. Although such deletions have not been detected in 1180 X chromosomes from European controls, the c. 334-354del(21 bp) was subsequently found in two of 477 Xs from Indian controls. We conclude that pathogenic frameshift mutations in PQBP1 are rare in mentally retarded patients lacking specific associated signs and that the 21 bp in-frame deletions may be non-pathogenic, or alternatively could act subtly on PQBP1 function. This touches upon a common dilemma in XLMR, that is, how to distinguish between mutations and variants that may be non-pathogenic or represent risk factors for cognitive impairment.
Published: 2006

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