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1. Variants in PHF8 cause a spectrum of X-linked neurodevelopmental disorders and facial dysmorphology

Author: Andrew K. Sobering, Laura M. Bryant, Dong Li, Julie McGaughran, Isabelle Maystadt, Stephanie Moortgat, John M. Graham, Jr., Arie van Haeringen, Claudia Ruivenkamp, Roos Cuperus, Julie Vogt, Jenny Morton, Charlotte Brasch-Andersen, Maria Steenhof, Lars Kjærsgaard Hansen, Élodie Adler, Stanislas Lyonnet, Veronique Pingault, Marlin Sandrine, Alban Ziegler, Tyhiesia Donald, Beverly Nelson, Brandon Holt, Oleksandra Petryna, Helen Firth, Kirsty McWalter, Jacob Zyskind, Aida Telegrafi, Jane Juusola, Richard Person, Michael J. Bamshad, Dawn Earl, Anne Chun-Hui Tsai, Katherine R. Yearwood, Elysa Marco, Catherine Nowak, Jessica Douglas, Hakon Hakonarson, and Elizabeth J. Bhoj
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Published: 2023
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2. Variants in PHF8 cause a spectrum of X-linked neurodevelopmental disorders and facial dysmorphology

Author: Andrew K. Sobering, Laura M. Bryant, Dong Li, Julie McGaughran, Isabelle Maystadt, Stephanie Moortgat, John M. Graham, Jr., Arie van Haeringen, Claudia Ruivenkamp, Roos Cuperus, Julie Vogt, Jenny Morton, Charlotte Brasch-Andersen, Maria Steenhof, Lars Kjærsgaard Hansen, Élodie Adler, Stanislas Lyonnet, Veronique Pingault, Marlin Sandrine, Alban Ziegler, Tyhiesia Donald, Beverly Nelson, Brandon Holt, Oleksandra Petryna, Helen Firth, Kirsty McWalter, Jacob Zyskind, Aida Telegrafi, Jane Juusola, Richard Person, Michael J. Bamshad, Dawn Earl, Anne Chun-Hui Tsai, Katherine R. Yearwood, Elysa Marco, Catherine Nowak, Jessica Douglas, Hakon Hakonarson, and Elizabeth J. Bhoj
Subjects: PHF8, X-linked intellectual disability, orofacial clefting, epigenetic gene regulation, histone demethylation, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Summary: Loss-of-function variants in PHD Finger Protein 8 (PHF8) cause Siderius X-linked intellectual disability (ID) syndrome, hereafter called PHF8-XLID. PHF8 is a histone demethylase that is important for epigenetic regulation of gene expression. PHF8-XLID is an under-characterized disorder with only five previous reports describing different PHF8 predicted loss-of-function variants in eight individuals. Features of PHF8-XLID include ID and craniofacial dysmorphology. In this report we present 16 additional individuals with PHF8-XLID from 11 different families of diverse ancestry. We also present five individuals from four different families who have ID and a variant of unknown significance in PHF8 with no other explanatory variant in another gene. All affected individuals exhibited developmental delay and all but two had borderline to severe ID. Of the two who did not have ID, one had dyscalculia and the other had mild learning difficulties. Craniofacial findings such as hypertelorism, microcephaly, elongated face, ptosis, and mild facial asymmetry were found in some affected individuals. Orofacial clefting was seen in three individuals from our cohort, suggesting that this feature is less common than previously reported. Autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which were not previously emphasized in PHF8-XLID, were frequently observed in affected individuals. This series expands the clinical phenotype of this rare ID syndrome caused by loss of PHF8 function.
Published: 2022
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3. Second‐trimester prenatal diagnosis of Nager syndrome with a deletion including SF3B4 detected by chromosomal microarray

Author: Malgorzata Drozniewska, Mark D. Kilby, Julie Vogt, Fiona Togneri, Elizabeth Quinlan‐Jones, Lisa Reali, Stephanie Allen, and Dominic McMullan
Subjects: microarrays, Nager syndrome, prenatal diagnosis, SF3B4 gene, Medicine, Medicine (General), R5-920
Abstract: Abstract Nager syndrome is a rare, complex malformation syndrome, for which there is limited information on prenatal genetic testing. Clinical diagnosis of Nager syndrome, which can be caused by deletions encompassing SF3B4 gene, is possible prenatally. Prenatal chromosomal microarray can aid genotype‐phenotype correlation in pregnancies with structural abnormalities seen on ultrasound.
Published: 2020
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4. De novo and inherited TCF20 pathogenic variants are associated with intellectual disability, dysmorphic features, hypotonia, and neurological impairments with similarities to Smith–Magenis syndrome

Author: Francesco Vetrini, Shane McKee, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Mohnish Suri, Andrea M. Lewis, Kimberly Margaret Nugent, Elizabeth Roeder, Rebecca O. Littlejohn, Sue Holder, Wenmiao Zhu, Joseph T. Alaimo, Brett Graham, Jill M. Harris, James B. Gibson, Matthew Pastore, Kim L. McBride, Makanko Komara, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Aisha Al Shamsi, Elizabeth A. Fanning, Klaas J. Wierenga, Daryl A. Scott, Ziva Ben-Neriah, Vardiella Meiner, Hanoch Cassuto, Orly Elpeleg, J. Lloyd Holder, Lindsay C. Burrage, Laurie H. Seaver, Lionel Van Maldergem, Sonal Mahida, Janet S. Soul, Margaret Marlatt, Ludmila Matyakhina, Julie Vogt, June-Anne Gold, Soo-Mi Park, Vinod Varghese, Anne K. Lampe, Ajith Kumar, Melissa Lees, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Vivienne McConnell, Birgitta Bernhard, Ed Blair, Victoria Harrison, The DDD study, Donna M. Muzny, Richard A. Gibbs, Sarah H. Elsea, Jennifer E. Posey, Weimin Bi, Seema Lalani, Fan Xia, Yaping Yang, Christine M. Eng, James R. Lupski, and Pengfei Liu
Subjects: TCF20, 22q13, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Smith–Magenis syndrome, Haploinsufficiency, Loss-of-function variants, Medicine, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Abstract Background Neurodevelopmental disorders are genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous encompassing developmental delay (DD), intellectual disability (ID), autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), structural brain abnormalities, and neurological manifestations with variants in a large number of genes (hundreds) associated. To date, a few de novo mutations potentially disrupting TCF20 function in patients with ID, ASD, and hypotonia have been reported. TCF20 encodes a transcriptional co-regulator structurally related to RAI1, the dosage-sensitive gene responsible for Smith–Magenis syndrome (deletion/haploinsufficiency) and Potocki–Lupski syndrome (duplication/triplosensitivity). Methods Genome-wide analyses by exome sequencing (ES) and chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) identified individuals with heterozygous, likely damaging, loss-of-function alleles in TCF20. We implemented further molecular and clinical analyses to determine the inheritance of the pathogenic variant alleles and studied the spectrum of phenotypes. Results We report 25 unique inactivating single nucleotide variants/indels (1 missense, 1 canonical splice-site variant, 18 frameshift, and 5 nonsense) and 4 deletions of TCF20. The pathogenic variants were detected in 32 patients and 4 affected parents from 31 unrelated families. Among cases with available parental samples, the variants were de novo in 20 instances and inherited from 4 symptomatic parents in 5, including in one set of monozygotic twins. Two pathogenic loss-of-function variants were recurrent in unrelated families. Patients presented with a phenotype characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia, variable dysmorphic features, movement disorders, and sleep disturbances. Conclusions TCF20 pathogenic variants are associated with a novel syndrome manifesting clinical characteristics similar to those observed in Smith–Magenis syndrome. Together with previously described cases, the clinical entity of TCF20-associated neurodevelopmental disorders (TAND) emerges from a genotype-driven perspective.
Published: 2019
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5. Correction to: De novo and inherited TCF20 pathogenic variants are associated with intellectual disability, dysmorphic features, hypotonia, and neurological impairments with similarities to Smith–Magenis syndrome

Author: Francesco Vetrini, Shane McKee, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Mohnish Suri, Andrea M. Lewis, Kimberly Margaret Nugent, Elizabeth Roeder, Rebecca O. Littlejohn, Sue Holder, Wenmiao Zhu, Joseph T. Alaimo, Brett Graham, Jill M. Harris, James B. Gibson, Matthew Pastore, Kim L. McBride, Makanko Komara, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Aisha Al Shamsi, Elizabeth A. Fanning, Klaas J. Wierenga, Daryl A. Scott, Ziva Ben-Neriah, Vardiella Meiner, Hanoch Cassuto, Orly Elpeleg, J. Lloyd Holder Jr, Lindsay C. Burrage, Laurie H. Seaver, Lionel Van Maldergem, Sonal Mahida, Janet S. Soul, Margaret Marlatt, Ludmila Matyakhina, Julie Vogt, June-Anne Gold, Soo-Mi Park, Vinod Varghese, Anne K. Lampe, Ajith Kumar, Melissa Lees, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Vivienne McConnell, Birgitta Bernhard, Ed Blair, Victoria Harrison, The DDD study, Donna M. Muzny, Richard A. Gibbs, Sarah H. Elsea, Jennifer E. Posey, Weimin Bi, Seema Lalani, Fan Xia, Yaping Yang, Christine M. Eng, James R. Lupski, and Pengfei Liu
Subjects: Medicine, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: It was highlighted that the original article [1] contained a typographical error in the Results section. Subject 17 was incorrectly cited as Subject 1. This Correction article shows the revised statement. The original article has been updated.
Published: 2019
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6. MYT1L mutations cause intellectual disability and variable obesity by dysregulating gene expression and development of the neuroendocrine hypothalamus.

Author: Patricia Blanchet, Martina Bebin, Shaam Bruet, Gregory M Cooper, Michelle L Thompson, Benedicte Duban-Bedu, Benedicte Gerard, Amelie Piton, Sylvie Suckno, Charu Deshpande, Virginia Clowes, Julie Vogt, Peter Turnpenny, Michael P Williamson, Yves Alembik, Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Study Consortium, Deciphering Developmental Disorders Consortium, Eric Glasgow, and Alisdair McNeill
Subjects: Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: Deletions at chromosome 2p25.3 are associated with a syndrome consisting of intellectual disability and obesity. The smallest region of overlap for deletions at 2p25.3 contains PXDN and MYT1L. MYT1L is expressed only within the brain in humans. We hypothesized that single nucleotide variants (SNVs) in MYT1L would cause a phenotype resembling deletion at 2p25.3. To examine this we sought MYT1L SNVs in exome sequencing data from 4, 296 parent-child trios. Further variants were identified through a genematcher-facilitated collaboration. We report 9 patients with MYT1L SNVs (4 loss of function and 5 missense). The phenotype of SNV carriers overlapped with that of 2p25.3 deletion carriers. To identify the transcriptomic consequences of MYT1L loss of function we used CRISPR-Cas9 to create a knockout cell line. Gene Ontology analysis in knockout cells demonstrated altered expression of genes that regulate gene expression and that are localized to the nucleus. These differentially expressed genes were enriched for OMIM disease ontology terms "mental retardation". To study the developmental effects of MYT1L loss of function we created a zebrafish knockdown using morpholinos. Knockdown zebrafish manifested loss of oxytocin expression in the preoptic neuroendocrine area. This study demonstrates that MYT1L variants are associated with syndromic obesity in humans. The mechanism is related to dysregulated expression of neurodevelopmental genes and altered development of the neuroendocrine hypothalamus.
Published: 2017
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7. Author Correction: Novel mutations in PIEZO1 cause an autosomal recessive generalized lymphatic dysplasia with non-immune hydrops fetalis

Author: Elisavet Fotiou, Silvia Martin-Almedina, Michael A. Simpson, Shin Lin, Kristiana Gordon, Glen Brice, Giles Atton, Iona Jeffery, David C. Rees, Cyril Mignot, Julie Vogt, Tessa Homfray, Michael P. Snyder, Stanley G. Rockson, Steve Jeffery, Peter S. Mortimer, Sahar Mansour, and Pia Ostergaard
Subjects: Science
Abstract: This Article contains an error in the last sentence of the ‘Variant analysis suggests they are pathogenic’ section of the Results, which incorrectly reads ‘No truncated PIEZO1 protein products were identified in western blot analysis in GLD1:II.3 and GLD2:II.2 (Fig. 2, Supplementary Fig. 6), suggesting that the truncated protein is not stable and therefore degraded.’ This should read ‘No full-size PIEZO1 protein products were identified in western blot analysis in GLD1:II.3 and GLD2:II.2 (Fig. 2, Supplementary Fig. 6); the three nonsense mutations are predicted to lead to premature termination of the protein, hence it is possible that those truncated proteins will be non-functional or even unstable and degraded.’ The error has not been fixed in the PDF or HTML versions of the Article.
Published: 2019
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8. <scp>PIEZO2</scp> ‐ related distal arthrogryposis type 5: Longitudinal follow‐up of a three‐generation family broadens phenotypic spectrum, complications, and health surveillance recommendations for this patient group

Author: Charlotte A. Sherlaw‐Sturrock, Tracey Willis, Nigel Kiely, Gunnar Houge, and Julie Vogt
Subjects: Genetics, Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2022
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9. The gain of function SCN1A disorder spectrum: novel epilepsy phenotypes and therapeutic implications

Author: Andreas Brunklaus, Tobias Brünger, Tony Feng, Carmen Fons, Anni Lehikoinen, Eleni Panagiotakaki, Mihaela-Adela Vintan, Joseph Symonds, James Andrew, Alexis Arzimanoglou, Sarah Delima, Julie Gallois, Donncha Hanrahan, Gaetan Lesca, Stewart MacLeod, Dragan Marjanovic, Amy McTague, Noemi Nuñez-Enamorado, Eduardo Perez-Palma, M Scott Perry, Karen Pysden, Sophie J Russ-Hall, Ingrid E Scheffer, Krystal Sully, Steffen Syrbe, Ulvi Vaher, Murugan Velayutham, Julie Vogt, Shelly Weiss, Elaine Wirrell, Sameer M Zuberi, Dennis Lal, Rikke S Møller, Massimo Mantegazza, and Sandrine Cestèle
Subjects: Arthrogryposis, Epilepsy, Movement Disorders, gain of function, Migraine with Aura, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Epilepsies, Myoclonic, arthrogryposis, NAV1.1 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel, Phenotype, Gain of Function Mutation, epilepsy, Humans, SCN1A, movement disorder, Neurology (clinical), Spasms, Infantile
Abstract: Brain voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.1 (SCN1A) loss-of-function variants cause the severe epilepsy Dravet syndrome, as well as milder phenotypes associated with genetic epilepsy with febrile seizures plus. Gain of function SCN1A variants are associated with familial hemiplegic migraine type 3. Novel SCN1A-related phenotypes have been described including early infantile developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with movement disorder, and more recently neonatal presentations with arthrogryposis. Here we describe the clinical, genetic and functional evaluation of affected individuals. Thirty-five patients were ascertained via an international collaborative network using a structured clinical questionnaire and from the literature. We performed whole-cell voltage-clamp electrophysiological recordings comparing sodium channels containing wild-type versus variant NaV1.1 subunits. Findings were related to Dravet syndrome and familial hemiplegic migraine type 3 variants. We identified three distinct clinical presentations differing by age at onset and presence of arthrogryposis and/or movement disorder. The most severely affected infants (n = 13) presented with congenital arthrogryposis, neonatal onset epilepsy in the first 3 days of life, tonic seizures and apnoeas, accompanied by a significant movement disorder and profound intellectual disability. Twenty-one patients presented later, between 2 weeks and 3 months of age, with a severe early infantile developmental and epileptic encephalopathy and a movement disorder. One patient presented after 3 months with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy only. Associated SCN1A variants cluster in regions of channel inactivation associated with gain of function, different to Dravet syndrome variants (odds ratio = 17.8; confidence interval = 5.4–69.3; P = 1.3 × 10−7). Functional studies of both epilepsy and familial hemiplegic migraine type 3 variants reveal alterations of gating properties in keeping with neuronal hyperexcitability. While epilepsy variants result in a moderate increase in action current amplitude consistent with mild gain of function, familial hemiplegic migraine type 3 variants induce a larger effect on gating properties, in particular the increase of persistent current, resulting in a large increase of action current amplitude, consistent with stronger gain of function. Clinically, 13 out of 16 (81%) gain of function variants were associated with a reduction in seizures in response to sodium channel blocker treatment (carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine, phenytoin, lamotrigine or lacosamide) without evidence of symptom exacerbation. Our study expands the spectrum of gain of function SCN1A-related epilepsy phenotypes, defines key clinical features, provides novel insights into the underlying disease mechanisms between SCN1A-related epilepsy and familial hemiplegic migraine type 3, and identifies sodium channel blockers as potentially efficacious therapies. Gain of function disease should be considered in early onset epilepsies with a pathogenic SCN1A variant and non-Dravet syndrome phenotype.
Published: 2022
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10. FOXP1 Haploinsufficiency Contributes to the Development of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Author: Katherine E. Pendleton, Andres Hernandez-Garcia, Jennifer M. Lyu, Ian M. Campbell, Chad A. Shaw, Julie Vogt, Frances A. High, Patricia K. Donahoe, Wendy K. Chung, and Daryl A. Scott
Subjects: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: FOXP1 encodes a transcription factor involved in tissue regulation and cell-type-specific functions. Haploinsufficiency of FOXP1 is associated with a neurodevelopmental disorder: autosomal dominant mental retardation with language impairment with or without autistic features. More recently, heterozygous FOXP1 variants have also been shown to cause a variety of structural birth defects including central nervous system (CNS) anomalies, congenital heart defects, congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract, cryptorchidism, and hypospadias. In this report, we present a previously unpublished case of an individual with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) who carries an approximately 3.8 Mb deletion. Based on this deletion, and deletions previously reported in two other individuals with CDH, we define a CDH critical region on chromosome 3p13 that includes FOXP1 and four other protein-coding genes. We also provide detailed clinical descriptions of two previously reported individuals with CDH who carry de novo, pathogenic variants in FOXP1 that are predicted to trigger nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. A subset of individuals with putatively deleterious FOXP4 variants has also been shown to develop CDH. Since FOXP proteins function as homo- or heterodimers and the homologs of FOXP1 and FOXP4 are expressed at the same time points in the embryonic mouse diaphragm, they may function together as a dimer, or in parallel as homodimers, to regulate gene expression during diaphragm development. Not all individuals with heterozygous, loss-of-function changes in FOXP1 develop CDH. Hence, we conclude that FOXP1 acts as a susceptibility factor that contributes to the development of CDH in conjunction with other genetic, epigenetic, environmental, and/or stochastic factors.
Published: 2023
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11. Both Heterozygous and Homozygous Loss‐of‐Function <scp> JPH3 </scp> Variants Are Associated with a Paroxysmal Movement Disorder

Author: Dora Steel, Aikaterini Vezyroglou, Katy Barwick, Martin Smith, Julie Vogt, Frances M. Gibbon, J. Helen Cross, and Manju A. Kurian
Subjects: Neurology, Neurology (clinical)
Published: 2022
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12. Elucidating the molecular mechanisms associated with TARS2-related mitochondrial disease

Author: Kyle Thompson, Xiao-Long Zhou, Flemming Wibrand, Wen-Qiang Zheng, Julie Vogt, Daria Diodato, Lucy Raymond, Anja Ernst, Robert W. Taylor, Emanuele Bellacchio, Rita Horvath, Jakob Ek, Benjamin Munro, Manali Chitre, Dorothy K. Grange, Tue Diemer, Elsebet Østergaard, Courtney E. French, Toni S. Pearson, and Signe Vandal Pedersen
Subjects: Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, Mitochondrial Diseases, Mitochondrial translation, media_common.quotation_subject, Mitochondrial disease, Nonsense, Population, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Epilepsy, 0302 clinical medicine, Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies, Threonine-tRNA Ligase, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Missense mutation, education, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, media_common, RNA, Transfer, Thr, Dystonia, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Mutation, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: TARS2 encodes human mitochondrial threonyl tRNA-synthetase that is responsible for generating mitochondrial Thr-tRNAThr and clearing mischarged Ser-tRNAThr during mitochondrial translation. Pathogenic variants in TARS2 have hitherto been reported in a pair of siblings and an unrelated patient with an early onset mitochondrial encephalomyopathy and a combined respiratory chain enzyme deficiency in muscle. We here report five additional unrelated patients with TARS2-related mitochondrial diseases, expanding the clinical phenotype to also include epilepsy, dystonia, hyperhidrosis and severe hearing impairment. In addition, we document seven novel TARS2 variants—one nonsense variant and six missense variants—that we demonstrate are pathogenic and causal of the disease presentation based on population frequency, homology modeling and functional studies that show the effects of the pathogenic variants on TARS2 stability and/or function.
Published: 2021
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13. Expanding the phenotype of <scp> ASXL3 </scp> ‐related syndrome: A comprehensive description of 45 unpublished individuals with inherited and de novo pathogenic variants in <scp> ASXL3 </scp>

Author: Katherine Bergstrom, Nichola Foulds, Yue Si, Anne Slavotinek, John Dean, Evan Reid, Ruth Armstrong, Charlotte W. Ockeloen, Richard Fisher, Maria J. Guillen Sacoto, Dayna Morel, Fowzan S. Alkuraya, Costa Cinzia, Thomas D. Challman, Samantha A. Schrier Vergano, Francisca Milan Zamora, Naomi Meeks, John Pappas, Katheryn Grand, Abhijit Dixit, Julie S. Cohen, Ddd Study, Marjolein H. Willemsen, Serwet Demirdas, Rachel Harrison, Usha Kini, Bertrand Isidor, Patricia Blanchet, Emily Palen, Arjan Bouman, Jagdeep S. Walia, Ruth Newbury-Ecob, Rachel Rabin, Shadi Albaba, Diana Johnson, Paolo Prontera, Paula Girotto, Ange-Line Bruel, Meena Balasubramanian, Nicola K. Ragge, Schaida Schirwani, Deborah L. Renaud, Christopher Cunniff, John M. Graham, Natalie Dykzeul, Swati Naik, Valerie Slegesky, Hessa F Albassam, Maria Giovanna Tedesco, Sally Ann Lynch, Julie Vogt, Natalie Hauser, Dong Li, Deanna Alexis Carere, and Benjamin Cogné
Subjects: Genetics, Biology, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Hypotonia, Natural history, Neurodevelopmental disorder, Intellectual disability, medicine, Missense mutation, Hypertelorism, medicine.symptom, Genetics (clinical), Sequence (medicine)
Abstract: The study aimed at widening the clinical and genetic spectrum of ASXL3-related syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder, caused by truncating variants in the ASXL3 gene. In this international collaborative study, we have undertaken a detailed clinical and molecular analysis of 45 previously unpublished individuals with ASXL3-related syndrome, as well as a review of all previously published individuals. We have reviewed the rather limited functional characterization of pathogenic variants in ASXL3 and discuss current understanding of the consequences of the different ASXL3 variants. In this comprehensive analysis of ASXL3-related syndrome, we define its natural history and clinical evolution occurring with age. We report familial ASXL3 pathogenic variants, characterize the phenotype in mildly affected individuals and discuss nonpenetrance. We also discuss the role of missense variants in ASXL3. We delineate a variable but consistent phenotype. The most characteristic features are neurodevelopmental delay with consistently limited speech, significant neuro-behavioral issues, hypotonia, and feeding difficulties. Distinctive features include downslanting palpebral fissures, hypertelorism, tubular nose with a prominent nasal bridge, and low-hanging columella. The presented data will inform clinical management of individuals with ASXL3-related syndrome and improve interpretation of new ASXL3 sequence variants.
Published: 2021
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14. A human importin-β-related disorder: Syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm caused by bi-allelic loss-of-function variants in IPO8

Author: Abdulrahman Almesned, Dorien Schepers, Mehran Beiraghi Toosi, Zuhair N. Al-Hassnan, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Erin M. Miller, Hassan Mottaghi Moghaddam Shahri, Maaike Alaerts, Melanie Perik, Desiderio Rodrigues, Aline Verstraeten, Reza Maroofian, Silke Peeters, Cédric H. G. Neutel, Ilse Luyckx, Nicole Revencu, Jenny C. Taylor, Jarl Bastianen, Isabel Pintelon, Henry Houlden, Matteo P. Ferla, Erik Fransen, Kayal Vijayakumar, Lut Van Laer, Anthony R. Dallosso, Mandy Vermont, Isabelle Maystadt, Lotte Van Den Heuvel, Thierry Sluysmans, David Murphy, K. Nicole Weaver, Paria Najarzadeh Torbati, Jotte Rodrigues Bento, Amber Begtrup, Maggie Williams, Ilse Van Gucht, Maaike Bastiaansen, Ashish Chikermane, Gangadhara Bharmappanavara, Alistair T. Pagnamenta, Bart Loeys, Joe Davis Velchev, Julie Evans, Josephina A.N. Meester, Narges Hashemi, Julie Vogt, Pieter-Jan Guns, and Genomics England Res Consortium
Subjects: Adult, Male, 0301 basic medicine, MMP2, Loss of Heterozygosity, Importin, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Biology, Importin 8, Loeys–Dietz syndrome, Thoracic aortic aneurysm, Mice, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center, 0302 clinical medicine, Loss of Function Mutation, Transforming Growth Factor beta, Report, TGF beta signaling pathway, Genetics, medicine, Animals, Humans, Child, Genetics (clinical), Mice, Knockout, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic, Syndrome, beta Karyopherins, medicine.disease, Pedigree, Cell biology, Mice, Inbred C57BL, CTGF, Phenotype, 030104 developmental biology, Child, Preschool, Knockout mouse, Female, Human medicine, Signal Transduction
Abstract: Importin 8, encoded by IPO8, is a ubiquitously expressed member of the importin-beta protein family that translocates cargo molecules such as proteins, RNAs, and ribonucleoprotein complexes into the nucleus in a RanGTP-dependent manner. Current knowledge of the cargoes of importin 8 is limited, but TGF-beta signaling components such as SMAD1-4 have been suggested to be among them. Here, we report that bi-allelic loss-of-function variants in IPO8 cause a syndromic form of thoracic aortic aneurysm(TAA) with clinical overlap with Loeys-Dietz and Shprintzen-Goldberg syndromes. Seven individuals from six unrelated families showed a consistent phenotype with early-onset TAA, motor developmental delay, connective tissue findings, and craniofacial dysmorphic features. A C57BL/6N Ipo8 knockout mouse model recapitulates TAA development from 8-12 weeks onward in both sexes but most prominently shows ascending aorta dilatation with a propensity for dissection in males. Compliance assays suggest augmented passive stiffness of the ascending aorta in male Ipo8(-/-) mice throughout life. Immunohistological investigation of mutant aortic walls reveals elastic fiber disorganization and fragmentation along with a signature of increased TGF-beta signaling, as evidenced by nuclear pSmad2 accumulation. RT-qPCR assays of the aortic wall in male Ipo8(-/-) mice demonstrate decreased Smad6/7 and increased Mmp2 and Ccn2 (Ctgf) expression, reinforcing a role for dysregulation of the TGF-beta signaling pathway in TAA development. Because importin 8 is the most downstream TGF-beta-related effector implicated in TAA pathogenesis so far, it offers opportunities for future mechanistic studies and represents a candidate drug target for TAA.
Published: 2021
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15. Second‐trimester prenatal diagnosis of Nager syndrome with a deletion including SF3B4 detected by chromosomal microarray

Author: Dominic J. McMullan, Stephanie Allen, Julie Vogt, Fiona S. Togneri, E Quinlan-Jones, Lisa Reali, Mark D. Kilby, and Malgorzata Drozniewska
Subjects: Microarray, lcsh:Medicine, Case Report, Prenatal diagnosis, Case Reports, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Bioinformatics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Second trimester, medicine, microarrays, Gene, Genetic testing, lcsh:R5-920, prenatal diagnosis, medicine.diagnostic_test, SF3B4 gene, business.industry, lcsh:R, fungi, food and beverages, General Medicine, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Clinical diagnosis, DNA microarray, lcsh:Medicine (General), business, Nager syndrome
Abstract: Nager syndrome is a rare, complex malformation syndrome, for which there is limited information on prenatal genetic testing. Clinical diagnosis of Nager syndrome, which can be caused by deletions encompassing SF3B4 gene, is possible prenatally. Prenatal chromosomal microarray can aid genotype‐phenotype correlation in pregnancies with structural abnormalities seen on ultrasound.
Published: 2020
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16. Bi-allelic LETM1 variants perturb mitochondrial ion homeostasis leading to a clinical spectrum with predominant nervous system involvement

Author: Rauan Kaiyrzhanov, Sami E.M. Mohammed, Reza Maroofian, Ralf A. Husain, Alessia Catania, Alessandra Torraco, Ahmad Alahmad, Marina Dutra-Clarke, Sabine Grønborg, Annapurna Sudarsanam, Julie Vogt, Filippo Arrigoni, Julia Baptista, Shahzad Haider, René G. Feichtinger, Paolo Bernardi, Alessandra Zulian, Mirjana Gusic, Stephanie Efthymiou, Renkui Bai, Farah Bibi, Alejandro Horga, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, Amanda Lam, Andreea Manole, Diego-Perez Rodriguez, Romina Durigon, Angela Pyle, Buthaina Albash, Carlo Dionisi-Vici, David Murphy, Diego Martinelli, Enrico Bugiardini, Katrina Allis, Costanza Lamperti, Siegfried Reipert, Lotte Risom, Lucia Laugwitz, Michela Di Nottia, Robert McFarland, Laura Vilarinho, Michael Hanna, Holger Prokisch, Johannes A. Mayr, Enrico Silvio Bertini, Daniele Ghezzi, Elsebet Østergaard, Saskia B. Wortmann, Rosalba Carrozzo, Tobias B. Haack, Robert W. Taylor, Antonella Spinazzola, Karin Nowikovsky, and Henry Houlden
Subjects: Mitochondrial Diseases, oxidative phosphorylation, LETM1, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, genetics, mitochondria, mitochondrial diseases, neurodegeneration, neurology, potassium transport, volume homeostasis, Homeostasis, Humans, Membrane Proteins, Mitochondria, Mitochondrial Proteins, Nervous System, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Calcium-Binding Proteins, Genetics (clinical), Metabolic Disorders Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 6], Doenças Genéticas, Settore MED/03 - Genetica Medica, Settore MED/26 - Neurologia, Genetics, Letm1, Neurodegeneration, Neurology, Oxidative Phosphorylation, Potassium Transport, Volume Homeostasis, Wolf-hirschhorn Syndrome
Abstract: Leucine zipper-EF-hand containing transmembrane protein 1 (LETM1) encodes an inner mitochondrial membrane protein with an osmoregulatory function controlling mitochondrial volume and ion homeostasis. The putative association of LETM1 with a human disease was initially suggested in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a disorder that results from de novo monoallelic deletion of chromosome 4p16.3, a region encompassing LETM1. Utilizing exome sequencing and international gene-matching efforts, we have identified 18 affected individuals from 11 unrelated families harboring ultra-rare bi-allelic missense and loss-of-function LETM1 variants and clinical presentations highly suggestive of mitochondrial disease. These manifested as a spectrum of predominantly infantile-onset (14/18, 78%) and variably progressive neurological, metabolic, and dysmorphic symptoms, plus multiple organ dysfunction associated with neurodegeneration. The common features included respiratory chain complex deficiencies (100%), global developmental delay (94%), optic atrophy (83%), sensorineural hearing loss (78%), and cerebellar ataxia (78%) followed by epilepsy (67%), spasticity (53%), and myopathy (50%). Other features included bilateral cataracts (42%), cardiomyopathy (36%), and diabetes (27%). To better understand the pathogenic mechanism of the identified LETM1 variants, we performed biochemical and morphological studies on mitochondrial K+/H+ exchange activity, proteins, and shape in proband-derived fibroblasts and muscles and in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is an important model organism for mitochondrial osmotic regulation. Our results demonstrate that bi-allelic LETM1 variants are associated with defective mitochondrial K+ efflux, swollen mitochondrial matrix structures, and loss of important mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation protein components, thus highlighting the implication of perturbed mitochondrial osmoregulation caused by LETM1 variants in neurological and mitochondrial pathologies. This research was supported using resources of the Core Facility Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research, University of Vienna, a member of the Vienna Life-Science Instruments (VLSI) and the VetCore Facility (Imaging) of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. We acknowledge International Centre for Genomic Medicine in Neuromuscular Diseases. This research was funded in part, by the Wellcome Trust (WT093205MA, WT104033AIA, and the Synaptopathies Strategic Award, 165908). This study was funded by the Medical Research Council (MR/S01165X/1, MR/S005021/1, G0601943), The National Institute for Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre, Rosetrees Trust, Ataxia UK, Multiple System Atrophy Trust, Brain Research United Kingdom, Sparks Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, Muscular Dystrophy United Kingdom (MDUK), Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA USA) and Senior Non-Clinical Fellow ship to A. Spinazzola, (MC_PC_13029). K.N. and S.E.M.M. were supported by the Austrian Science Funds FWF-P29077 and P31471. A. Spinazzola receives support also from The Lily Foun dation and Brain Research UK. R.K. was supported by European Academy of Neurology Research Training Fellowship and Rosetrees Trust PhD Plus award (PhD2022\100042). info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Published: 2022
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17. Biallelic variants in ZNF142 lead to a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder

Author: Maria B. Christensen, Amanda M. Levy, Nazanin A. Mohammadi, Marcello Niceta, Rauan Kaiyrzhanov, Maria Lisa Dentici, Chadi Al Alam, Viola Alesi, Valérie Benoit, Kailash P. Bhatia, Tatjana Bierhals, Christian M. Boßelmann, Julien Buratti, Bert Callewaert, Berten Ceulemans, Perrine Charles, Matthias De Wachter, Mohammadreza Dehghani, Erika D'haenens, Martine Doco‐Fenzy, Michaela Geßner, Cyrielle Gobert, Ulviyya Guliyeva, Tobias B. Haack, Trine B. Hammer, Tilman Heinrich, Maja Hempel, Theresia Herget, Ute Hoffmann, Judit Horvath, Henry Houlden, Boris Keren, Christina Kresge, Candy Kumps, Damien Lederer, Alban Lermine, Francesca Magrinelli, Reza Maroofian, Mohammad Yahya Vahidi Mehrjardi, Mahdiyeh Moudi, Amelie J. Müller, Anna J. Oostra, Beth A. Pletcher, David Ros‐Pardo, Shanika Samarasekera, Marco Tartaglia, Kristof Van Schil, Julie Vogt, Evangeline Wassmer, Juliane Winkelmann, Maha S. Zaki, Michael Zech, Holger Lerche, Francesca Clementina Radio, Paulino Gomez‐Puertas, Rikke S. Møller, and Zeynep Tümer
Subjects: Movement Disorders, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, MUTATIONS, DELETION, disorder, HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY, GENE, neurodevelopmental disorder, language impairement, ZNF142, Phenotype, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Seizures, Intellectual Disability, ONSET, Genetics, Medicine and Health Sciences, Humans, epilepsy, movement disorder, Human medicine, movement, Genetics (clinical), Transcription Factors
Abstract: Biallelic variants of the gene encoding for the zinc-finger protein 142 (ZNF142) have recently been associated with intellectual disability (ID), speech impairment, seizures, and movement disorders in nine individuals from five families. In this study, we obtained phenotype and genotype information of 26 further individuals from 16 families. Among the 27 different ZNF142 variants identified in the total of 35 individuals only four were missense. Missense variants may give a milder phenotype by changing the local structure of ZF motifs as suggested by protein modeling; but this correlation should be validated in larger cohorts and pathogenicity of the missense variants should be investigated with functional studies. Clinical features of the 35 individuals suggest that biallelic ZNF142 variants lead to a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder with mild to moderate ID, varying degrees of delay in language and gross motor development, early onset seizures, hypotonia, behavioral features, movement disorders, and facial dysmorphism. The differences in symptom frequencies observed in the unpublished individuals compared to those of published, and recognition of previously underemphasized facial features are likely to be due to the small sizes of the previous cohorts, which underlines the importance of larger cohorts for the phenotype descriptions of rare genetic disorders.
Published: 2022
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18. Variants in

Author: Andrew K, Sobering, Laura M, Bryant, Dong, Li, Julie, McGaughran, Isabelle, Maystadt, Stephanie, Moortgat, John M, Graham, Arie, van Haeringen, Claudia, Ruivenkamp, Roos, Cuperus, Julie, Vogt, Jenny, Morton, Charlotte, Brasch-Andersen, Maria, Steenhof, Lars Kjærsgaard, Hansen, Élodie, Adler, Stanislas, Lyonnet, Veronique, Pingault, Marlin, Sandrine, Alban, Ziegler, Tyhiesia, Donald, Beverly, Nelson, Brandon, Holt, Oleksandra, Petryna, Helen, Firth, Kirsty, McWalter, Jacob, Zyskind, Aida, Telegrafi, Jane, Juusola, Richard, Person, Michael J, Bamshad, Dawn, Earl, Anne Chun-Hui, Tsai, Katherine R, Yearwood, Elysa, Marco, Catherine, Nowak, Jessica, Douglas, Hakon, Hakonarson, and Elizabeth J, Bhoj
Abstract: Loss-of-function variants in
Published: 2021

19. Missense variants in TAF1 and developmental phenotypes: Challenges of determining pathogenicity

Author: Emma Wakeling, Quan Li, Laurence E. Walsh, Maria J. Guillen Sacoto, Julie Vogt, Jeff L. Waugh, James R. Lupski, Elizabeth E. Palmer, Alan F. Rope, Robert Kleyner, Amalia Mallawaarachchi, Sebastian Lunke, Jennifer E. Posey, Pankaj B. Agrawal, Sebastien Moutton, Laurence Faivre, Zornitza Stark, Prosper Lukusa, Emily Fassi, Gareth Baynam, Gabriela Soares, Antonie D. Kline, Sonja A. de Munnik, Sarah A. Sandaradura, Chunhua Weng, Lucinda Murray, Lisa Ewans, Ganka Douglas, Eyby Leon, Shehla Mohammed, Marcia C. Willing, Elaine Marchi, Nora Alexander, Paul R. Mark, Joris Vermeesch, Lauren Dreyer, Aimé Lumaka, Koenraad Devriendt, Gholson J. Lyon, Helena Ahlfors, Katelyn Payne, Piatek G. Stefan, Jullianne Diaz, Lesley C. Adès, Simona Capponi, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Michael F. Buckley, Amber Begtrup, H. T. Marc Timmers, Tony Roscioli, Mengge Zhao, Ana R. Gonçalves, Hanyin Cheng, Lisa Worgan, Kai Wang, and Jorge Oliveira
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Heart malformation, 030305 genetics & heredity, Biology, medicine.disease, Article, Hypotonia, 03 medical and health sciences, Autism spectrum disorder, Human Phenotype Ontology, Intellectual disability, medicine, Copy-number variation, Allele, medicine.symptom, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: We recently described a new neurodevelopmental syndrome (TAF1/MRXS33 intellectual disability syndrome) (MIM# 300966) caused by pathogenic variants involving the X-linked gene TAF1, which participates in RNA polymerase II transcription. The initial study reported eleven families, and the syndrome was defined as presenting early in life with hypotonia, facial dysmorphia, and developmental delay that evolved into intellectual disability (ID) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We have now identified an additional 27 families through a genotype-first approach. Familial segregation analysis, clinical phenotyping, and bioinformatics were capitalized on to assess potential variant pathogenicity, and molecular modelling was performed for those variants falling within structurally characterized domains of TAF1. A novel phenotypic clustering approach was also applied, in which the phenotypes of affected individuals were classified using 51 standardized Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms. Phenotypes associated with TAF1 variants show considerable pleiotropy and clinical variability, but prominent among previously unreported effects were brain morphological abnormalities, seizures, hearing loss, and heart malformations. Our allelic series broadens the phenotypic spectrum of TAF1/MRXS33 intellectual disability syndrome and the range of TAF1 molecular defects in humans. It also illustrates the challenges for determining the pathogenicity of inherited missense variants, particularly for genes mapping to chromosome X. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Published: 2019
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20. The phenotype of Sotos syndrome in adulthood: A review of 44 individuals

Author: Nayana Lahiri, Katrina Tatton-Brown, Edward Blair, Trevor Cole, Julie Vogt, Emma McCann, Sally Ann Lynch, Anna Zachariou, Shelagh Joss, Jenny Morton, Tazeen Ashraf, Deborah J. Shears, Sahar Mansour, Elizabeth Thompson, Nicole Motton, Alex Henderson, Chey Loveday, Blanca Gener, Katie Riches, Melita Irving, Huw Dorkins, Alan Fryer, Jill Clayton-Smith, David Goudie, Alexandra Murray, Zornitza Stark, Vaughan Keeley, Alison Foster, and Michael Wright
Subjects: Adult, Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Hearing loss, Scoliosis, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Genetics, Humans, Medicine, Child, Genetics (clinical), Muscle contracture, Sotos Syndrome, business.industry, Sotos syndrome, Macrocephaly, Facies, Tall Stature, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Lymphedema, Female, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract: Sotos syndrome is an overgrowth-intellectual disability (OGID) syndrome caused by NSD1 pathogenic variants and characterized by a distinctive facial appearance, an intellectual disability, tall stature and/or macrocephaly. Other associated clinical features include scoliosis, seizures, renal anomalies, and cardiac anomalies. However, many of the published Sotos syndrome clinical descriptions are based on studies of children; the phenotype in adults with Sotos syndrome is not yet well described. Given that it is now 17 years since disruption of NSD1 was shown to cause Sotos syndrome, many of the children first reported are now adults. It is therefore timely to investigate the phenotype of 44 adults with Sotos syndrome and NSD1 pathogenic variants. We have shown that adults with Sotos syndrome display a wide spectrum of intellectual ability with functioning ranging from fully independent to fully dependent. Reproductive rates are low. In our cohort, median height in adult women is +1.9 SD and men +0.5 SD. There is a distinctive facial appearance in adults with a tall, square, prominent chin. Reassuringly, adults with Sotos syndrome are generally healthy with few new medical issues; however, lymphedema, poor dentition, hearing loss, contractures and tremor have developed in a small number of individuals.
Published: 2019
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21. Missense variants in DPYSL5 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with corpus callosum agenesis and cerebellar abnormalities

Author: Stéphane Bézieau, Médéric Jeanne, Anne Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Jason Laufman, William B. Dobyns, Sébastien Küry, Judith Halewa, Elliott H. Sherr, Dominique Bonneau, Julie Vogt, Sophie Blesson, Hélène Demory, Jérôme Honnorat, Helene Cox, Séverine Audebert-Bellanger, Marie Laure Vuillaume, Sylviane Marouillat, Estelle Colin, Avgi Andreou, Emanuela Argilli, Bertrand Isidor, Bernhard Lohkamp, Miroslava Hancarova, Rajesh Khanna, Davit Babikyan, Sarka Bendova, Kimberly A. Aldinger, Aubin Moutal, Saskia M. Maas, Marjon van Slegtenhorst, Annick Toutain, Sylvie Odent, Rose Anne Thépault, Natella Kostandyan, Eleina M. England, Zdenek Sedlacek, Richard Redon, M. Mahdi Motazacker, Frédéric Laumonnier, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Grazia M.S. Mancini, Imagerie et cerveau (iBrain - Inserm U1253 - UNIV Tours ), Université de Tours (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), University of Arizona, Amsterdam UMC - Amsterdam University Medical Center, Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, University of Akron, Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, Charles University [Prague] (CU), Center for Integrative Brain Research, University of Washington [Seattle], University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC), Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (BROAD INSTITUTE), Harvard Medical School [Boston] (HMS)-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston], MitoVasc - Physiopathologie Cardiovasculaire et Mitochondriale (MITOVASC), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers (CHU Poitiers), Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Institut NeuroMyoGène (INMG), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], National Human Genome Research Institute, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, DGOS, Wellcome Trust, Chard-Hutchinson, Xavier, Université de Tours-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU TOURS), Amsterdam UMC, University of California, Physiopathologie Cardiovasculaire et Mitochondriale (MITOVASC), 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), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Clinical Genetics, 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 ), Human Genetics, ANS - Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms, ANS - Complex Trait Genetics, and ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis
Subjects: Models, Molecular, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Hydrolases, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Hippocampal formation, Medical and Health Sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Neurodevelopmental disorder, Tubulin, Models, Neurotrophic factors, Cerebellum, Intellectual disability, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Missense mutation, Aetiology, Child, dendrite branching, Genetics (clinical), de novo missense variants, Pediatric, Genetics & Heredity, DPYSL5, Biological Sciences, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], corpus callosum agenesis, Mental Health, Child, Preschool, Neurological, Female, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Adult, Neurite, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), primary neuronal cultures, Mutation, Missense, Biology, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Rare Diseases, Mediator, Report, Intellectual Disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Preschool, Corpus Callosum Agenesis, brain malformation, Neurosciences, Molecular, medicine.disease, neurodevelopmental disorder, Brain Disorders, 030104 developmental biology, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Mutation, Missense, Agenesis of Corpus Callosum, Neuroscience, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: International audience; The collapsin response mediator protein (CRMP) family proteins are intracellular mediators of neurotrophic factors regulating neurite structure/spine formation and are essential for dendrite patterning and directional axonal pathfinding during brain developmental processes. Among this family, CRMP5/DPYSL5 plays a significant role in neuronal migration, axonal guidance, dendrite outgrowth, and synapse formation by interacting with microtubules. Here, we report the identification of missense mutations in DPYSL5 in nine individuals with brain malformations, including corpus callosum agenesis and/or posterior fossa abnormalities, associated with variable degrees of intellectual disability. A recurrent de novo p.Glu41Lys variant was found in eight unrelated patients, and a p.Gly47Arg variant was identified in one individual from the first family reported with Ritscher-Schinzel syndrome. Functional analyses of the two missense mutations revealed impaired dendritic outgrowth processes in young developing hippocampal primary neuronal cultures. We further demonstrated that these mutations, both located in the same loop on the surface of DPYSL5 monomers and oligomers, reduced the interaction of DPYSL5 with neuronal cytoskeleton-associated proteins MAP2 and βIII-tubulin. Our findings collectively indicate that the p.Glu41Lys and p.Gly47Arg variants impair DPYSL5 function on dendritic outgrowth regulation by preventing the formation of the ternary complex with MAP2 and βIII-tubulin, ultimately leading to abnormal brain development. This study adds DPYSL5 to the list of genes implicated in brain malformation and in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Published: 2021
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22. PURA- Related Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy: Phenotypic and Genotypic Spectrum

Author: Dario Pruna, Theresa Grebe, Felippe Borlot, Michael J. Esser, Juan Pablo Appendino, Katherine L. Helbig, Elisa Ballardini, Casey Brew, Anne-Sophie Denommé-Pichon, Anne Ronan, Laurie A. Demmer, Usha Kini, Marta Somorai, Julie Vogt, Sébastien Moutton, Raffaella Faggioli, Julien Van-Gils, Davide Ognibene, Sara Olivotto, Sabine Grønborg, David Coman, David P. Bick, Guido Rubboli, Orrin Devinsky, Atiya S. Khan, Robyn Whitney, Christine Coubes, Caroline Nava, Karen Keough, SakkuBai R. Naidu, Lucio Giordano, Davide Colavito, Dominic Spadafore, Arnaud Isapof, Walla Al-Hertani, Antonio Vitobello, Andrea V. Andrade, Gaetano Cantalupo, Sandra Whalen, Boudewijn Gunning, Shanawaz Hussain, David Hunt, Nathan Noble, Bertrand Isidor, Beatriz Gamboni, Katrine M Johannesen, Julien Buratti, Stephanie Moortgat, Ida Cursio, Agnese Suppiej, Delphine Héron, Lía Mayorga, William Benko, Rahul Raman Singh, Cyril Mignot, Sotirios Keros, Aurore Garde, Nicola Foulds, Claudia A. L. Ruivenkamp, Elena Gardella, Barbara Scelsa, Fernanda Góes, Laurence Faivre, Richard J. Leventer, Ashley Collier, Farha Tokarz, Thomas Courtin, Klaas J. Wierenga, Xilma R. Ortiz-Gonzalez, Frédéric Tran-Mau-Them, Alejandra Mampel, Lynn Greenhalgh, Ashlea Franques, Amélie Piton, Felicia Varsalone, Marjolaine Willems, Alessandro Orsini, Diana Rodriguez, Clothilde Ormieres, Helen Stewart, Boris Keren, Austin Larson, Cathrine E. Gjerulfsen, Julie S. Cohen, Margot R.F. Reijnders, Mel Anderson, Shailesh Asakar, Rikke S. Møller, Alice Bonuccelli, Alexandra Afenjar, Claudio Graziano, Elaine Wirrell, Simona Damioli, Sangeetha Yoganathan, Devorah Segal, Ingo Helbig, Mindy H. Li, Rob P.W. Rouhl, Sarah Hicks, Allan Bayat, Holly Dubbs, Stefania Bigoni, Kelly Ratke, John Brandsema, Eva H. Brilstra, univOAK, Archive ouverte, The Danish Epilepsy Centre Filadelfia [Dianalund, Denmark], University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Maastricht University [Maastricht], CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Centre de référence Déficiences Intellectuelles de Causes Rares [CHU Pitié-Salpétrière], CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mayo Clinic [Jacksonville], Département de pédiatrie [CHU Nantes], Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Hôpital d'Enfants [CHU Dijon], Hôpital du Bocage, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Equipe GAD (LNC - U1231), 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, Laboratoire de génétique des maladies rares. Pathologie moleculaire, etudes fonctionnelles et banque de données génétiques (LGMR), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-IFR3, Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Department of Pediatrics [Univ California San Diego] (UC San Diego), School of Medicine [Univ California San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC)-University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), and University of Colorado Anschutz [Aurora]
Subjects: Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Socio-culturale, [SDV.GEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Electroencephalography, Epilepsy, Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy, Intellectual disability, medicine, Genetics (clinical), feeding difficulties, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, fungi, medicine.disease, Hypotonia, Epileptic spasms, Neonatal hypotonia, neonatal hypotonia, Epilepsy syndromes, Cohort, epilepsy, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, business
Abstract: Background and ObjectivesPurine-rich element-binding protein A (PURA) gene encodes Pur-α, a conserved protein essential for normal postnatal brain development. Recently, a PURA syndrome characterized by intellectual disability, hypotonia, epilepsy, and dysmorphic features was suggested. The aim of this study was to define and expand the phenotypic spectrum of PURA syndrome by collecting data, including EEG, from a large cohort of affected patients.MethodsData on unpublished and published cases were collected through the PURA Syndrome Foundation and the literature. Data on clinical, genetic, neuroimaging, and neurophysiologic features were obtained.ResultsA cohort of 142 patients was included. Characteristics of the PURA syndrome included neonatal hypotonia, feeding difficulties, and respiratory distress. Sixty percent of the patients developed epilepsy with myoclonic, generalized tonic-clonic, focal seizures, and/or epileptic spasms. EEG showed generalized, multifocal, or focal epileptic abnormalities. Lennox-Gastaut was the most common epilepsy syndrome. Drug refractoriness was common: 33.3% achieved seizure freedom. We found 97 pathogenic variants in PURA without any clear genotype-phenotype associations.DiscussionThe PURA syndrome presents with a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with characteristics recognizable from neonatal age, which should prompt genetic screening. Sixty percent have drug-resistant epilepsy with focal or generalized seizures. We collected more than 90 pathogenic variants without observing overt genotype-phenotype associations.
Published: 2021
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23. Biallelic Mutation of ARHGEF18, Involved in the Determination of Epithelial Apicobasal Polarity, Causes Adult-Onset Retinal Degeneration

Author: Gavin Arno, Keren J. Carss, Sarah Hull, Ceniz Zihni, Anthony G. Robson, Alessia Fiorentino, Alison J. Hardcastle, Graham E. Holder, Michael E. Cheetham, Vincent Plagnol, Anthony T. Moore, F. Lucy Raymond, Karl Matter, Maria S. Balda, Andrew R. Webster, Graeme Black, Georgina Hall, Stuart Ingram, Rachel Gillespie, Forbes Manson, Panagiotis Sergouniotis, Chris Inglehearn, Carmel Toomes, Manir Ali, Martin McKibbin, James Poulter, Kamron Khan, Emma Lord, Andrea Nemeth, Susan Downes, Stephanie Halford, Jing Yu, Stefano Lise, Nikos Ponitkos, Michel Michaelides, Veronica van Heyningen, Timothy Aitman, Hana Alachkar, Sonia Ali, Louise Allen, David Allsup, Gautum Ambegaonkar, Julie Anderson, Richard Antrobus, Ruth Armstrong, Gururaj Arumugakani, Sofie Ashford, William Astle, Antony Attwood, Steve Austin, Chiara Bacchelli, Tamam Bakchoul, Tadbir K. Bariana, Helen Baxendale, David Bennett, Claire Bethune, Shahnaz Bibi, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Marta Bleda, Harm Boggard, Paula Bolton-Maggs, Claire Booth, John R. Bradley, Angie Brady, Matthew Brown, Michael Browning, Christine Bryson, Siobhan Burns, Paul Calleja, Natalie Canham, Jenny Carmichael, Keren Carss, Mark Caulfield, Elizabeth Chalmers, Anita Chandra, Patrick Chinnery, Manali Chitre, Colin Church, Emma Clement, Naomi Clements-Brod, Virginia Clowes, Gerry Coghlan, Peter Collins, Nichola Cooper, Amanda Creaser-Myers, Rosa DaCosta, Louise Daugherty, Sophie Davies, John Davis, Minka De Vries, Patrick Deegan, Sri V.V. Deevi, Charu Deshpande, Lisa Devlin, Eleanor Dewhurst, Rainer Doffinger, Natalie Dormand, Elizabeth Drewe, David Edgar, William Egner, Wendy N. Erber, Marie Erwood, Tamara Everington, Remi Favier, Helen Firth, Debra Fletcher, Frances Flinter, James C. Fox, Amy Frary, Kathleen Freson, Bruce Furie, Abigail Furnell, Daniel Gale, Alice Gardham, Michael Gattens, Neeti Ghali, Pavandeep K. Ghataorhe, Rohit Ghurye, Simon Gibbs, Kimberley Gilmour, Paul Gissen, Sarah Goddard, Keith Gomez, Pavel Gordins, Stefan Gräf, Daniel Greene, Alan Greenhalgh, Andreas Greinacher, Sofia Grigoriadou, Detelina Grozeva, Scott Hackett, Charaka Hadinnapola, Rosie Hague, Matthias Haimel, Csaba Halmagyi, Tracey Hammerton, Daniel Hart, Grant Hayman, Johan W.M. Heemskerk, Robert Henderson, Anke Hensiek, Yvonne Henskens, Archana Herwadkar, Simon Holden, Muriel Holder, Susan Holder, Fengyuan Hu, Aarnoud Huissoon, Marc Humbert, Jane Hurst, Roger James, Stephen Jolles, Dragana Josifova, Rashid Kazmi, David Keeling, Peter Kelleher, Anne M. Kelly, Fiona Kennedy, David Kiely, Nathalie Kingston, Ania Koziell, Deepa Krishnakumar, Taco W. Kuijpers, Dinakantha Kumararatne, Manju Kurian, Michael A. Laffan, Michele P. Lambert, Hana Lango Allen, Allan Lawrie, Sara Lear, Melissa Lees, Claire Lentaigne, Ri Liesner, Rachel Linger, Hilary Longhurst, Lorena Lorenzo, Rajiv Machado, Rob Mackenzie, Robert MacLaren, Eamonn Maher, Jesmeen Maimaris, Sarah Mangles, Ania Manson, Rutendo Mapeta, Hugh S. Markus, Jennifer Martin, Larahmie Masati, Mary Mathias, Vera Matser, Anna Maw, Elizabeth McDermott, Coleen McJannet, Stuart Meacham, Sharon Meehan, Karyn Megy, Sarju Mehta, Carolyn M. Millar, Shahin Moledina, Anthony Moore, Nicholas Morrell, Andrew Mumford, Sai Murng, Elaine Murphy, Sergey Nejentsev, Sadia Noorani, Paquita Nurden, Eric Oksenhendler, Willem H. Ouwehand, Sofia Papadia, Soo-Mi Park, Alasdair Parker, John Pasi, Chris Patch, Joan Paterson, Jeanette Payne, Andrew Peacock, Kathelijne Peerlinck, Christopher J. Penkett, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, David J. Perry, Val Pollock, Gary Polwarth, Mark Ponsford, Waseem Qasim, Isabella Quinti, Stuart Rankin, Julia Rankin, Karola Rehnstrom, Evan Reid, Christopher J. Rhodes, Michael Richards, Sylvia Richardson, Alex Richter, Irene Roberts, Matthew Rondina, Elisabeth Rosser, Catherine Roughley, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Crina Samarghitean, Alba Sanchis-Juan, Richard Sandford, Saikat Santra, Ravishankar Sargur, Sinisa Savic, Sol Schulman, Harald Schulze, Richard Scott, Marie Scully, Suranjith Seneviratne, Carrock Sewell, Olga Shamardina, Debbie Shipley, Ilenia Simeoni, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Kenneth Smith, Aman Sohal, Laura Southgate, Simon Staines, Emily Staples, Hans Stauss, Penelope Stein, Jonathan Stephens, Kathleen Stirrups, Sophie Stock, Jay Suntharalingam, R. Campbell Tait, Kate Talks, Yvonne Tan, Jecko Thachil, James Thaventhiran, Ellen Thomas, Moira Thomas, Dorothy Thompson, Adrian Thrasher, Marc Tischkowitz, Catherine Titterton, Cheng-Hock Toh, Mark Toshner, Carmen Treacy, Richard Trembath, Salih Tuna, Wojciech Turek, Ernest Turro, Chris Van Geet, Marijke Veltman, Julie Vogt, Julie von Ziegenweldt, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Emma Wakeling, Ivy Wanjiku, Timothy Q. Warner, Evangeline Wassmer, Hugh Watkins, Andrew Webster, Steve Welch, Sarah Westbury, John Wharton, Deborah Whitehorn, Martin Wilkins, Lisa Willcocks, Catherine Williamson, Geoffrey Woods, John Wort, Nigel Yeatman, Patrick Yong, Tim Young, Ping Yu, Pediatric surgery, Molecular cell biology and Immunology, Pulmonary medicine, ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis, APH - Quality of Care, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), RS: CARIM - R1.04 - Clinical thrombosis and haemostasis, MUMC+: DA CDL Algemeen (9), and Med Microbiol, Infect Dis & Infect Prev
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Retinal degeneration, Biallelic Mutation, RHOA, PROTEIN, Eye, Medical and Health Sciences, ACTIVATION, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Missense mutation, Exome, Aetiology, Genetics (clinical), Genetics & Heredity, Genetics, biology, Retinal Degeneration, Cell Polarity, MOSAIC EYES, Biological Sciences, Middle Aged, Phenotype, inherited retinal dystrophy, Pedigree, UK Inherited Retinal Disease Consortium, Female, apicobasal polarity, Retinal Dystrophies, Adult, NIHR Bioresource - Rare Diseases Consortium, ARHGEF18, Genotype, Mutation, Missense, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Retina, 03 medical and health sciences, Rare Diseases, retinitis pigmentosa, Report, CRB1, Retinitis pigmentosa, medicine, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Eye Proteins, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Alleles, Human Genome, Neurosciences, Genetic Variation, Membrane Proteins, Epithelial Cells, Retinal, CELL FEATURES, medicine.disease, NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR, p114RhoGEF, 030104 developmental biology, INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS VIEWER, OKO-MEDUZY, chemistry, Mutation, MORPHOGENESIS, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, biology.protein, Missense, rhoA GTP-Binding Protein, Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Genome-Wide Association Study
Abstract: Mutations in more than 250 genes are implicated in inherited retinal dystrophy; the encoded proteins are involved in a broad spectrum of pathways. The presence of unsolved families after highly parallel sequencing strategies suggests that further genes remain to be identified. Whole-exome and -genome sequencing studies employed here in large cohorts of affected individuals revealed biallelic mutations in ARHGEF18 in three such individuals. ARHGEF18 encodes ARHGEF18, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor that activates RHOA, a small GTPase protein that is a key component of tight junctions and adherens junctions. This biological pathway is known to be important for retinal development and function, as mutation of CRB1, encoding another component, causes retinal dystrophy. The retinal structure in individuals with ARHGEF18 mutations resembled that seen in subjects with CRB1 mutations. Five mutations were found on six alleles in the three individuals: c.808A>G (p.Thr270Ala), c.1617+5G>A (p.Asp540Glyfs ∗ 63), c.1996C>T (p.Arg666 ∗ ), c.2632G>T (p.Glu878 ∗ ), and c.2738_2761del (p.Arg913_Glu920del). Functional tests suggest that each disease genotype might retain some ARHGEF18 activity, such that the phenotype described here is not the consequence of nullizygosity. In particular, the p.Thr270Ala missense variant affects a highly conserved residue in the DBL homology domain, which is required for the interaction and activation of RHOA. Previously, knock-out of Arhgef18 in the medaka fish has been shown to cause larval lethality which is preceded by retinal defects that resemble those seen in zebrafish Crumbs complex knock-outs. The findings described here emphasize the peculiar sensitivity of the retina to perturbations of this pathway, which is highlighted as a target for potential therapeutic strategies.
Published: 2017
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24. Genetic and phenotypic spectrum associated with IFIH1 gain‐of‐function

Author: Yanick J. Crow, Dorit Lev, Evangeline Wassmer, Adeline Vanderver, Diedre A Kelly, Annette Bley, Jonas Denecke, Sameer M. Zuberi, Despina Eleftheriou, Callum Wilson, Julie Harvengt, François-Guillaume Debray, Laura Adang, Veronica Saletti, Diane Doummar, Simona Orcesi, Bernt Popp, Fanny Mochel, Ayelet Zerem, Margherita Estienne, Arnaud Wiedemann, Itxaso Marti, Cia Sharpe, Tracy A Briggs, Sehoon Park, Stefan Berg, Lien Van Eyck, Alexandre Belot, Thierry Billette de Villemeur, John H. Livingston, Elisa Fazzi, Marie-Christine Nougues, Lubov Blumkin, Miguel Tomas Vila, Christiane Zweier, Francesco Gavazzi, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Gunilla Drake Af Hagelsrum, François Feillet, Niklas Darin, Luis Seabra, Davide Tonduti, Bénédicte Héron, Elise Brimble, Roberta Battini, Keith Van Haren, Christophe Barrea, Mathieu P Rodero, Belén Pérez-Dueñas, Gayatri Vadlamani, Ilena Oppermann, Diana Rodriguez, Julie Vogt, Virginie Levrat, Russell C. Dale, Delphine Héron, Gillian I. Rice, Jessica Galli, Sun Hur, Nicholas L. Hartog, Cyril Mignot, Valentina De Giorgis, Loveline A Ayuk, European Commission, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC), University of Manchester [Manchester], Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP), Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Institute, Autophagie infection et immunité - Autophagy Infection Immunity (APY), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie - UMR (CIRI), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Chimie et de Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques (LCBPT - UMR 8601), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: Male, Models, Molecular, Interferon-Induced Helicase, IFIH1, Aicardi–Goutières syndrome, Protein Conformation, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], DNA Mutational Analysis, Aicardi-Goutières syndrome, medicine.disease_cause, Variable Expression, Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome, Interferon, Genotype, Type I interferonopathy, Genetics (clinical), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, IFIH1, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, 030305 genetics & heredity, function mutation, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, type I interferonopathy, Phenotype, 3. Good health, Gain of Function Mutation, Female, medicine.drug, Singleton Merten syndrome, MDA5, In silico, Biology, Nervous System Malformations, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Structure-Activity Relationship, Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System, medicine, Humans, Alleles, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, disease, medicine.disease
Abstract: IFIH1 gain-of-function has been reported as a cause of a type I interferonopathy encompassing a spectrum of autoinflammatory phenotypes including Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome and Singleton Merten syndrome. Ascertaining patients through a European and North American collaboration, we set out to describe the molecular, clinical and interferon status of a cohort of individuals with pathogenic heterozygous mutations in IFIH1. We identified 74 individuals from 51 families segregating a total of 27 likely pathogenic mutations in IFIH1. Ten adult individuals, 13.5% of all mutation carriers, were clinically asymptomatic (with seven of these aged over 50 years). All mutations were associated with enhanced type I interferon signaling, including six variants (22%) which were predicted as benign according to multiple in silico pathogenicity programs. The identified mutations cluster close to the ATP binding region of the protein. These data confirm variable expression and nonpenetrance as important characteristics of the IFIH1 genotype, a consistent association with enhanced type I interferon signaling, and a common mutational mechanism involving increased RNA binding affinity or decreased efficiency of ATP hydrolysis and filament disassembly rate. Yanick J. Crow acknowledges The University of Maryland Brain and Tissue Bank of the NIH NeuroBioBank. Yanick J. Crow acknowledges the European Research Council (786142-E-T1IFNs), a state subsidy managed by the National Research Agency (France) under the "Investments for the Future" program bearing the reference ANR-10-IAHU-01 and the MSDAvenir fund (DEVO-DECODE Project). Tracy A. Briggs acknowledges the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR; NIHR Transitional Research Fellowship, TRF-2016-09-002; with the views expressed were those of the author and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health). Adeline L. Vanderver is supported by the Kamens endowed chair for Translational Neurotherapeutics and the Myelin Disorders Bioregistry Project. Adeline L. Vanderver and Laura A. Adang acknowledge the CURE Pennsylvania Frontiers in Leukodystrophy grant and U01HD082806. Laura A. Adang also acknowledges the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number KL2TR001879. Lien Van Eyck received funding from Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).
Published: 2020
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25. A recurrent pathogenic variant in TPM2 reveals further phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity in multiple pterygium syndrome-related disorders

Author: Julie Vogt, Atif Alsaedi, Eamonn R. Maher, Arthur B. McKie, Tracey Willis, N. Kiely, and Alison Male
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Adolescent, Tropomyosin, 030105 genetics & heredity, Biology, TPM2, 03 medical and health sciences, Camptodactyly, Genetic Heterogeneity, Nemaline myopathy, Databases, Genetic, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Exome, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Child, Genetics (clinical), Arthrogryposis, Genetic heterogeneity, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Infant, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Mutation, Skin Abnormalities, Female, Multiple pterygium syndrome, medicine.symptom, Malignant Hyperthermia
Abstract: Multiple pterygium syndrome (MPS) disorders are a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by multiple joint contractures (arthrogryposis), pterygia (joint webbing) and other developmental defects. MPS is most frequently inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion but X-linked and autosomal dominant forms also occur. Advances in genomic technologies have identified many genetic causes of MPS-related disorders and genetic diagnosis requires large targeted next generation sequencing gene panels or genome-wide sequencing approaches. Using the Illumina TruSightOne clinical exome assay, we identified a recurrent heterozygous missense substitution in TPM2 (encoding beta tropomyosin) in three unrelated individuals. This was confirmed to have arisen as a de novo event in the two patients with parental samples. TPM2 mutations have previously been described in association with a variety of dominantly inherited neuromuscular phenotypes including nemaline myopathy, congenital fibre-type disproportion, distal arthrogryposis and trismus pseudocamptodactyly, and in a patient with autosomal recessive Escobar syndrome and a nemaline myopathy. The three cases reported here had overlapping but variable features. Our findings expand the range of TMP2-related phenotypes and indicate that de novo TMP2 mutations should be considered in isolated cases of MPS-related conditions.
Published: 2019

26. PIGT-CDG, a disorder of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor:description of 13 novel patients and expansion of the clinical characteristics

Author: Elena Gardella, Dejan Dukic, Denise Horn, Dragana Josifova, Jenny C. Taylor, Alexej Knaus, Agnieszka Charzewska, Rikke S. Møller, Helle Hjalgrim, Dorota Hoffman-Zacharska, Emma Clement, Rachel Horton, Usha Kini, Jane A. Hurst, Alistair T. Pagnamenta, Line H.G. Larsen, Karine Lascelles, Annika Wollenberg Juul, Allan Bayat, Mina Ryten, Deb K. Pal, Julie Vogt, Peter Krawitz, Ingo Helbig, Yvonne G. Weber, Manuela Pendziwiat, and Ewa Obersztyn
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, Glycosylphosphatidylinositols, Developmental Disabilities, Neonatal onset, Compound heterozygosity, Epilepsy, congenital disorder of glycosylation, Seizures, genotype–phenotype, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor, Child, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics (clinical), Genetic testing, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, computer-assisted facial gestalt analysis, Homozygote, Infant, Newborn, Infant, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Hypotonia, Pedigree, Child, Preschool, Mutation, epilepsy, Female, medicine.symptom, PIGT-CDG, business, Congenital disorder of glycosylation, Acyltransferases
Abstract: Purpose: To provide a detailed electroclinical description and expand the phenotype of PIGT-CDG, to perform genotype-phenotype correlation, and to investigate the onset and severity of the epilepsy associated with the different genetic subtypes of this rare disorder. Furthermore, to use computer-assisted facial gestalt analysis in PIGT-CDG and to the compare findings with other glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor deficiencies. Methods: We evaluated 13 children from eight unrelated families with homozygous or compound heterozygous pathogenic variants in PIGT. Results: All patients had hypotonia, severe developmental delay, and epilepsy. Epilepsy onset ranged from first day of life to two years of age. Severity of the seizure disorder varied from treatable seizures to severe neonatal onset epileptic encephalopathies. The facial gestalt of patients resembled that of previously published PIGT patients as they were closest to the center of the PIGT cluster in the clinical face phenotype space and were distinguishable from other gene-specific phenotypes. Conclusion: We expand our knowledge of PIGT. Our cases reaffirm that the use of genetic testing is essential for diagnosis in this group of disorders. Finally, we show that computer-assisted facial gestalt analysis accurately assigned PIGT cases to the multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome phenotypic series advocating the additional use of next-generation phenotyping technology.
Published: 2019
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27. Heterozygous Variants in KMT2E Cause a Spectrum of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Epilepsy

Author: Anne H. O’Donnell-Luria, Lynn S. Pais, Víctor Faundes, Jordan C. Wood, Abigail Sveden, Victor Luria, Rami Abou Jamra, Andrea Accogli, Kimberly Amburgey, Britt Marie Anderlid, Silvia Azzarello-Burri, Alice A. Basinger, Claudia Bianchini, Lynne M. Bird, Rebecca Buchert, Wilfrid Carre, Sophia Ceulemans, Perrine Charles, Helen Cox, Lisa Culliton, Aurora Currò, Florence Demurger, James J. Dowling, Benedicte Duban-Bedu, Christèle Dubourg, Saga Elise Eiset, Luis F. Escobar, Alessandra Ferrarini, Tobias B. Haack, Mona Hashim, Solveig Heide, Katherine L. Helbig, Ingo Helbig, Raul Heredia, Delphine Héron, Bertrand Isidor, Amy R. Jonasson, Pascal Joset, Boris Keren, Fernando Kok, Hester Y. Kroes, Alinoë Lavillaureix, Xin Lu, Saskia M. Maas, Gustavo H.B. Maegawa, Carlo L.M. Marcelis, Paul R. Mark, Marcelo R. Masruha, Heather M. McLaughlin, Kirsty McWalter, Esther U. Melchinger, Saadet Mercimek-Andrews, Caroline Nava, Manuela Pendziwiat, Richard Person, Gian Paolo Ramelli, Luiza L.P. Ramos, Anita Rauch, Caitlin Reavey, Alessandra Renieri, Angelika Rieß, Amarilis Sanchez-Valle, Shifteh Sattar, Carol Saunders, Niklas Schwarz, Thomas Smol, Myriam Srour, Katharina Steindl, Steffen Syrbe, Jenny C. Taylor, Aida Telegrafi, Isabelle Thiffault, Doris A. Trauner, Helio van der Linden, Silvana van Koningsbruggen, Laurent Villard, Ida Vogel, Julie Vogt, Yvonne G. Weber, Ingrid M. Wentzensen, Elysa Widjaja, Jaroslav Zak, Samantha Baxter, Siddharth Banka, Lance H. Rodan, Jeremy F. McRae, Stephen Clayton, Tomas W. Fitzgerald, Joanna Kaplanis, Elena Prigmore, Diana Rajan, Alejandro Sifrim, Stuart Aitken, Nadia Akawi, Mohsan Alvi, Kirsty Ambridge, Daniel M. Barrett, Tanya Bayzetinova, Philip Jones, Wendy D. Jones, Daniel King, Netravathi Krishnappa, Laura E. Mason, Tarjinder Singh, Adrian R. Tivey, Munaza Ahmed, Uruj Anjum, Hayley Archer, Ruth Armstrong, Jana Awada, Meena Balasubramanian, Diana Baralle, Angela Barnicoat, Paul Batstone, David Baty, Chris Bennett, Jonathan Berg, Birgitta Bernhard, A. Paul Bevan, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Edward Blair, Moira Blyth, David Bohanna, Louise Bourdon, David Bourn, Lisa Bradley, Angela Brady, Simon Brent, Carole Brewer, Kate Brunstrom, David J. Bunyan, John Burn, Natalie Canham, Bruce Castle, Kate Chandler, Elena Chatzimichali, Deirdre Cilliers, Angus Clarke, Susan Clasper, Jill Clayton-Smith, Virginia Clowes, Andrea Coates, Trevor Cole, Irina Colgiu, Amanda Collins, Morag N. Collinson, Fiona Connell, Nicola Cooper, Lara Cresswell, Gareth Cross, Yanick Crow, Mariella D’Alessandro, Tabib Dabir, Rosemarie Davidson, Sally Davies, Dylan de Vries, John Dean, Charu Deshpande, Gemma Devlin, Abhijit Dixit, Angus Dobbie, Alan Donaldson, Dian Donnai, Deirdre Donnelly, Carina Donnelly, Angela Douglas, Sofia Douzgou, Alexis Duncan, Jacqueline Eason, Sian Ellard, Ian Ellis, Frances Elmslie, Karenza Evans, Sarah Everest, Tina Fendick, Richard Fisher, Frances Flinter, Nicola Foulds, Andrew Fry, Alan Fryer, Carol Gardiner, Lorraine Gaunt, Neeti Ghali, Richard Gibbons, Harinder Gill, Judith Goodship, David Goudie, Emma Gray, Andrew Green, Philip Greene, Lynn Greenhalgh, Susan Gribble, Rachel Harrison, Lucy Harrison, Victoria Harrison, Rose Hawkins, Liu He, Stephen Hellens, Alex Henderson, Sarah Hewitt, Lucy Hildyard, Emma Hobson, Simon Holden, Muriel Holder, Susan Holder, Georgina Hollingsworth, Tessa Homfray, Mervyn Humphreys, Jane Hurst, Ben Hutton, Stuart Ingram, Melita Irving, Lily Islam, Andrew Jackson, Joanna Jarvis, Lucy Jenkins, Diana Johnson, Elizabeth Jones, Dragana Josifova, Shelagh Joss, Beckie Kaemba, Sandra Kazembe, Rosemary Kelsell, Bronwyn Kerr, Helen Kingston, Usha Kini, Esther Kinning, Gail Kirby, Claire Kirk, Emma Kivuva, Alison Kraus, Dhavendra Kumar, V. K. Ajith Kumar, Katherine Lachlan, Wayne Lam, Anne Lampe, Caroline Langman, Melissa Lees, Derek Lim, Cheryl Longman, Gordon Lowther, Sally A. Lynch, Alex Magee, Eddy Maher, Alison Male, Sahar Mansour, Karen Marks, Katherine Martin, Una Maye, Emma McCann, Vivienne McConnell, Meriel McEntagart, Ruth McGowan, Kirsten McKay, Shane McKee, Dominic J. McMullan, Susan McNerlan, Catherine McWilliam, Sarju Mehta, Kay Metcalfe, Anna Middleton, Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Emma Miles, Shehla Mohammed, Tara Montgomery, David Moore, Sian Morgan, Jenny Morton, Hood Mugalaasi, Victoria Murday, Helen Murphy, Swati Naik, Andrea Nemeth, Louise Nevitt, Ruth Newbury-Ecob, Andrew Norman, Rosie O’Shea, Caroline Ogilvie, Kai-Ren Ong, Soo-Mi Park, Michael J. Parker, Chirag Patel, Joan Paterson, Stewart Payne, Daniel Perrett, Julie Phipps, Daniela T. Pilz, Martin Pollard, Caroline Pottinger, Joanna Poulton, Norman Pratt, Katrina Prescott, Sue Price, Abigail Pridham, Annie Procter, Hellen Purnell, Oliver Quarrell, Nicola Ragge, Raheleh Rahbari, Josh Randall, Julia Rankin, Lucy Raymond, Debbie Rice, Leema Robert, Eileen Roberts, Jonathan Roberts, Paul Roberts, Gillian Roberts, Alison Ross, Elisabeth Rosser, Anand Saggar, Shalaka Samant, Julian Sampson, Richard Sandford, Ajoy Sarkar, Susann Schweiger, Richard Scott, Ingrid Scurr, Ann Selby, Anneke Seller, Cheryl Sequeira, Nora Shannon, Saba Sharif, Charles Shaw-Smith, Emma Shearing, Debbie Shears, Eamonn Sheridan, Ingrid Simonic, Roldan Singzon, Zara Skitt, Audrey Smith, Kath Smith, Sarah Smithson, Linda Sneddon, Miranda Splitt, Miranda Squires, Fiona Stewart, Helen Stewart, Volker Straub, Mohnish Suri, Vivienne Sutton, Ganesh Jawahar Swaminathan, Elizabeth Sweeney, Kate Tatton-Brown, Cat Taylor, Rohan Taylor, Mark Tein, I. Karen Temple, Jenny Thomson, Marc Tischkowitz, Susan Tomkins, Audrey Torokwa, Becky Treacy, Claire Turner, Peter Turnpenny, Carolyn Tysoe, Anthony Vandersteen, Vinod Varghese, Pradeep Vasudevan, Parthiban Vijayarangakannan, Emma Wakeling, Sarah Wallwark, Jonathon Waters, Astrid Weber, Diana Wellesley, Margo Whiteford, Sara Widaa, Sarah Wilcox, Emily Wilkinson, Denise Williams, Nicola Williams, Louise Wilson, Geoff Woods, Christopher Wragg, Michael Wright, Laura Yates, Michael Yau, Chris Nellåker, Michael Parker, Helen V. Firth, Caroline F. Wright, David R. FitzPatrick, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Matthew E. Hurles, Department of Medicine 1, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Center for Medical Genetics, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTC, CNR), Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Génétique médicale [Centre Hospitalier de Vannes], Centre hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique (Morbihan) (CHBA), Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Centre de Génétique Chromosomique [Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul], 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), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Service de génétique médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois [Lausanne] (CHUV), Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM)-Helmholtz Zentrum München = German Research Center for Environmental Health, Groupe de Recherche Clinique : Déficience Intellectuelle et Autisme (GRC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP ), Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Baylor University-Baylor University, Institute of Medical Genetics, Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich (UZH), Università degli Studi di Camerino = University of Camerino (UNICAM), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), University of Oxford, GeneDx [Gaithersburg, MD, USA], Department of Clinical Genetics (Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam), VU University Medical Center [Amsterdam], Marseille medical genetics - Centre de génétique médicale de Marseille (MMG), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Department of Clinical Genetics, Aarhus University Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute [Cambridge], Institute of Biomedical Engineering [Oxford] (IBME), Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia [Norwich] (UEA), Imperial College London, St Mary's Hospital, East Anglian Medical Genetics Service, Cytogenetics Laboratory, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Regional Genetic Service, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, Genetics, University of Southampton, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children [London] (GOSH), Yorkshire Regional Clinical Genetics Service, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Molecular and Clinical Medicine [Dundee, UK] (School of Medicine), University of Dundee [UK]-Ninewells Hospital & Medical School [Dundee, UK], Department of Clinical Genetics, Oxford Regional Genetics Service, The Churchill hospital, North West Thames Regional Genetics, Northwick Park Hospital, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Wessex Clinical Genetics Service, Wessex clinical genetics service, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Our Lady's hospital for Sick Children, Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Guy's Hospital [London], University Hospitals Leicester, University of Edinburgh, Belfast City Hospital, Ferguson-Smith Centre for Clinical Genetics, Yorkhill Hospitals, Institute of Medical Genetics, Heath Park, Cardiff, The London Clinic, Nottingham City Hospital, Clinical Genetics Department, St Michael's Hospital, Department of Genetic Medicine, Nottingham Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust, Histopathology, St. George's Hospital, Teesside Genetics Unit, James Cook University (JCU), Kansas State University, Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Medical Genetics, HMNC Brain Health, North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Leicester-University Hospitals Leicester, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School [Dundee], Academic Centre on Rare Diseases (ACoRD), University College Dublin [Dublin] (UCD), Oxford Brookes University, Institute of medicinal plant development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Service d'explorations fonctionnelles respiratoires [Lille], Department of Computer Science - Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Department of Clinical Genetics (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust), Division of Medical & Molecular Genetics, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde [Glasgow] (NHSGGC), Department of Clinical Genetics [Churchill Hospital], Churchill Hospital Oxford Centre for Haematology, Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël], Southampton General Hospital, Western General Hospital, Head of the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Birmingham [Birmingham], SW Thames Regional Genetics Service, St Georgeâ™s University of London, London, Institut Cochin (IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016)), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), All Wales Medical Genetics Services, Singleton Hospital, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of North Texas (UNT), Clinical Genetics, Northern Genetics Service, Newcastle University [Newcastle], United Kingdom Met Office [Exeter], Institute of Medical Genetics (University Hospital of Wales), University Hospital of Wales (UHW), West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory and Clinical Genetics Unit, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Genetics, Cell- and Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, University Hospitals Bristol, Marketing (MKT), EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management, Addenbrookes Hospital, West of Scotland Genetics Service (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital), University Hospital Birmingham Queen Elizabeth, Department of Clnical Genetics, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Department of Clinical Genetics, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital [Exeter, UK] (RDEH), Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital [London], School of Computer Science, Bangor University, University Hospital Southampton, Clinical Genetics Unit, St Georges, University of London, Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, Research and Development, Futurelab, Nottingham Regional Genetics Service [Nottingham, UK], Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH)-City Hospital Campus [Nottingham, UK], University of St Andrews [Scotland], Clinical Genetics Service, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - City Hospital Campus, West Midlands Regional Genetics Unit, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, St James's University Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University NHS Trust, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle, Division of Biological Stress Response [Amsterdam, The Netherlands], The Netherlands Cancer Institute [Amsterdam, The Netherlands], Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [Baltimore], Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Department of Genetics, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Molecular Genetics, IWK Health Centre, IWK health centre, North West london hospitals NHS Trust, Department of Clinical Genetics (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow), Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Glasgow), Birmingham women's hospital, Birmingham, Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Badenoch Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, R01 HD091846, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Boston Children’s Hospital Faculty Development Fellowship, UM1HG008900, Broad Center for Mendelian Genomics, Chile’s National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research, DFG WE4896/3-1, German Research Society, WT 100127, Health Innovation Challenge Fund, Comprehensive Clinical Research Network, Skaggs-Oxford Scholarship, 10/H0305/83, Cambridge South REC, REC GEN/284/12, Republic of Ireland, WT098051, Wellcome Sanger Institute, 72160007, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 1DH1813319, Dietmar Hopp Stiftung, National Institute for Health Research, Department of Health & Social Care, Service de neurologie 1 [CHU Pitié-Salpétrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul-GHICL, 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 ), Technische Universität Munchen - Université Technique de Munich [Munich, Allemagne] (TUM)-Helmholtz-Zentrum München (HZM)-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Università degli Studi di Camerino (UNICAM), University of Oxford [Oxford], Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals, SW Thames Regional Genetics Service, St Georgeâ™s University of London, London, University Hospital of Wales, Grenoble Ecole de Management, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, City Hospital Campus [Nottingham, UK]-Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust [UK], ANS - Complex Trait Genetics, Human Genetics, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis, Service de Neurologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], IFR70-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], GHICL-Hôpital Saint Vincent de Paul, 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 Friedrich-Alexander d'Erlangen-Nuremberg, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (APHP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Centre Hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique [Vannes], Technische Universität München [München] (TUM)-Helmholtz-Zentrum München (HZM)-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Service de Génétique et Cytogénétique [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], University of Zürich [Zürich] (UZH), Università di Camerino (UNICAM), Birmingham Women's Hospital Healthcare NHS Trust, University Hospitals of Leicester, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Weizmann Institute of Science, and Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Microcephaly, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Haploinsufficiency, autism, epilepsy, epileptic encephalopathy, global developmental delay, H3K4 methylation, intellectual disability, KMT2E, neurodevelopmental disorder, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, DNA-Binding Proteins, Epilepsy, Female, Humans, Infant, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Pedigree, Phenotype, Young Adult, Genetic Variation, Heterozygote, 0302 clinical medicine, Neurodevelopmental disorder, Intellectual disability, Global developmental delay, Genetics (clinical), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Hypotonia, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, medicine.symptom, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9], 03 medical and health sciences, Report, medicine, Journal Article, Expressivity (genetics), Preschool, 030304 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, business.industry, Macrocephaly, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Autism, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 206572.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) We delineate a KMT2E-related neurodevelopmental disorder on the basis of 38 individuals in 36 families. This study includes 31 distinct heterozygous variants in KMT2E (28 ascertained from Matchmaker Exchange and three previously reported), and four individuals with chromosome 7q22.2-22.23 microdeletions encompassing KMT2E (one previously reported). Almost all variants occurred de novo, and most were truncating. Most affected individuals with protein-truncating variants presented with mild intellectual disability. One-quarter of individuals met criteria for autism. Additional common features include macrocephaly, hypotonia, functional gastrointestinal abnormalities, and a subtle facial gestalt. Epilepsy was present in about one-fifth of individuals with truncating variants and was responsive to treatment with anti-epileptic medications in almost all. More than 70% of the individuals were male, and expressivity was variable by sex; epilepsy was more common in females and autism more common in males. The four individuals with microdeletions encompassing KMT2E generally presented similarly to those with truncating variants, but the degree of developmental delay was greater. The group of four individuals with missense variants in KMT2E presented with the most severe developmental delays. Epilepsy was present in all individuals with missense variants, often manifesting as treatment-resistant infantile epileptic encephalopathy. Microcephaly was also common in this group. Haploinsufficiency versus gain-of-function or dominant-negative effects specific to these missense variants in KMT2E might explain this divergence in phenotype, but requires independent validation. Disruptive variants in KMT2E are an under-recognized cause of neurodevelopmental abnormalities.
Published: 2019
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28. Author Correction: Novel mutations in PIEZO1 cause an autosomal recessive generalized lymphatic dysplasia with non-immune hydrops fetalis

Author: Julie Vogt, Steve Jeffery, Cyril Mignot, Stanley G. Rockson, Glen Brice, Iona Jeffery, Michael Snyder, Sahar Mansour, Peter S. Mortimer, Silvia Martin-Almedina, Pia Ostergaard, Kristiana Gordon, Michael A. Simpson, Shin Lin, Giles Atton, Tessa Homfray, Elisavet Fotiou, and David C. Rees
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Adult, Male, Heterozygote, Adolescent, Science, Hydrops Fetalis, Nonsense mutation, Blotting, Western, General Physics and Astronomy, 02 engineering and technology, Biology, Anemia, Hemolytic, Congenital, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Ion Channels, Immune hydrops fetalis, Craniofacial Abnormalities, 03 medical and health sciences, Western blot, medicine, Humans, Truncated protein, Lymphedema, lcsh:Science, Author Correction, Child, Genetics, Multidisciplinary, medicine.diagnostic_test, Infant, Newborn, General Chemistry, Sequence Analysis, DNA, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Lymphatic system, Dysplasia, Child, Preschool, Mutation, lcsh:Q, Female, 0210 nano-technology, Lymphangiectasis, Intestinal, Lymphoscintigraphy
Abstract: Generalized lymphatic dysplasia (GLD) is a rare form of primary lymphoedema characterized by a uniform, widespread lymphoedema affecting all segments of the body, with systemic involvement such as intestinal and/or pulmonary lymphangiectasia, pleural effusions, chylothoraces and/or pericardial effusions. This may present prenatally as non-immune hydrops. Here we report homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations in PIEZO1, resulting in an autosomal recessive form of GLD with a high incidence of non-immune hydrops fetalis and childhood onset of facial and four limb lymphoedema. Mutations in PIEZO1, which encodes a mechanically activated ion channel, have been reported with autosomal dominant dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis and non-immune hydrops of unknown aetiology. Besides its role in red blood cells, our findings indicate that PIEZO1 is also involved in the development of lymphatic structures.
Published: 2019

29. De novo and inherited TCF20 pathogenic variants are associated with intellectual disability, dysmorphic features, hypotonia, and neurological impairments with similarities to Smith–Magenis syndrome

Author: Yaping Yang, Sarah H. Elsea, Orly Elpeleg, Donna M. Muzny, Vinod Varghese, Hanoch Cassuto, Mohnish Suri, Sue Holder, AK Lampe, Weimin Bi, Wenmiao Zhu, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Shane McKee, Christine M. Eng, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Vardiella Meiner, Aisha Al Shamsi, Kim L. McBride, Melissa Lees, June Anne Gold, Janet S. Soul, Soo Mi Park, Birgitta Bernhard, Sonal Mahida, Klaas J. Wierenga, Daryl A. Scott, Elizabeth Roeder, Kimberly Nugent, Vivienne McConnell, Jill M. Harris, Ed Blair, J. Lloyd Holder, Makanko Komara, Seema R. Lalani, Brett H. Graham, Andrea M. Lewis, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Ziva Ben-Neriah, Elizabeth A. Fanning, Richard A. Gibbs, Pengfei Liu, Lionel Van Maldergem, Fan Xia, Ludmila Matyakhina, James B. Gibson, Victoria Harrison, Julie Vogt, Francesco Vetrini, Rebecca O. Littlejohn, James R. Lupski, Ajith Kumar, Jennifer E. Posey, Margaret Marlatt, Joseph T. Alaimo, Matthew Pastore, Laurie H. Seaver, and Lindsay C. Burrage
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, lcsh:QH426-470, Adolescent, Developmental Disabilities, lcsh:Medicine, Haploinsufficiency, Craniofacial Abnormalities, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, INDEL Mutation, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Deletions, Child, Molecular Biology, Typographical error, Genetics (clinical), TCF20, Loss-of-function variants, Research, lcsh:R, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Infant, Smith–Magenis syndrome, medicine.disease, Research Highlight, 22q13, Hypotonia, 3. Good health, lcsh:Genetics, 030104 developmental biology, Child, Preschool, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Muscle Hypotonia, Molecular Medicine, Female, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Transcription Factors, Clinical psychology
Abstract: Background Neurodevelopmental disorders are genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous encompassing developmental delay (DD), intellectual disability (ID), autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), structural brain abnormalities, and neurological manifestations with variants in a large number of genes (hundreds) associated. To date, a few de novo mutations potentially disrupting TCF20 function in patients with ID, ASD, and hypotonia have been reported. TCF20 encodes a transcriptional co-regulator structurally related to RAI1, the dosage-sensitive gene responsible for Smith–Magenis syndrome (deletion/haploinsufficiency) and Potocki–Lupski syndrome (duplication/triplosensitivity). Methods Genome-wide analyses by exome sequencing (ES) and chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) identified individuals with heterozygous, likely damaging, loss-of-function alleles in TCF20. We implemented further molecular and clinical analyses to determine the inheritance of the pathogenic variant alleles and studied the spectrum of phenotypes. Results We report 25 unique inactivating single nucleotide variants/indels (1 missense, 1 canonical splice-site variant, 18 frameshift, and 5 nonsense) and 4 deletions of TCF20. The pathogenic variants were detected in 32 patients and 4 affected parents from 31 unrelated families. Among cases with available parental samples, the variants were de novo in 20 instances and inherited from 4 symptomatic parents in 5, including in one set of monozygotic twins. Two pathogenic loss-of-function variants were recurrent in unrelated families. Patients presented with a phenotype characterized by developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia, variable dysmorphic features, movement disorders, and sleep disturbances. Conclusions TCF20 pathogenic variants are associated with a novel syndrome manifesting clinical characteristics similar to those observed in Smith–Magenis syndrome. Together with previously described cases, the clinical entity of TCF20-associated neurodevelopmental disorders (TAND) emerges from a genotype-driven perspective. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13073-019-0623-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Published: 2019
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30. Comprehensive Rare Variant Analysis via Whole-Genome Sequencing to Determine the Molecular Pathology of Inherited Retinal Disease

Author: Keren J. Carss, Gavin Arno, Marie Erwood, Jonathan Stephens, Alba Sanchis-Juan, Sarah Hull, Karyn Megy, Detelina Grozeva, Eleanor Dewhurst, Samantha Malka, Vincent Plagnol, Christopher Penkett, Kathleen Stirrups, Roberta Rizzo, Genevieve Wright, Dragana Josifova, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Richard H. Scott, Emma Clement, Louise Allen, Ruth Armstrong, Angela F. Brady, Jenny Carmichael, Manali Chitre, Robert H.H. Henderson, Jane Hurst, Robert E. MacLaren, Elaine Murphy, Joan Paterson, Elisabeth Rosser, Dorothy A. Thompson, Emma Wakeling, Willem H. Ouwehand, Michel Michaelides, Anthony T. Moore, Andrew R. Webster, F. Lucy Raymond, Timothy Aitman, Hana Alachkar, Sonia Ali, David Allsup, Gautum Ambegaonkar, Julie Anderson, Richard Antrobus, Gururaj Arumugakani, Sofie Ashford, William Astle, Antony Attwood, Steve Austin, Chiara Bacchelli, Tamam Bakchoul, Tadbir K. Bariana, Helen Baxendale, David Bennett, Claire Bethune, Shahnaz Bibi, Marta Bleda, Harm Boggard, Paula Bolton-Maggs, Claire Booth, John R. Bradley, Angie Brady, Matthew Brown, Michael Browning, Christine Bryson, Siobhan Burns, Paul Calleja, Natalie Canham, Keren Carss, Mark Caulfield, Elizabeth Chalmers, Anita Chandra, Patrick Chinnery, Colin Church, Naomi Clements-Brod, Virginia Clowes, Gerry Coghlan, Peter Collins, Nichola Cooper, Amanda Creaser-Myers, Rosa DaCosta, Louise Daugherty, Sophie Davies, John Davis, Minka De Vries, Patrick Deegan, Sri V.V. Deevi, Charu Deshpande, Lisa Devlin, Rainer Doffinger, Natalie Dormand, Elizabeth Drewe, David Edgar, William Egner, Wendy N. Erber, Tamara Everington, Remi Favier, Helen Firth, Debra Fletcher, Frances Flinter, James C. Fox, Amy Frary, Kathleen Freson, Bruce Furie, Abigail Furnell, Daniel Gale, Alice Gardham, Michael Gattens, Neeti Ghali, Pavandeep K. Ghataorhe, Rohit Ghurye, Simon Gibbs, Kimberley Gilmour, Paul Gissen, Sarah Goddard, Keith Gomez, Pavel Gordins, Stefan Gräf, Daniel Greene, Alan Greenhalgh, Andreas Greinacher, Sofia Grigoriadou, Scott Hackett, Charaka Hadinnapola, Rosie Hague, Matthias Haimel, Csaba Halmagyi, Tracey Hammerton, Daniel Hart, Grant Hayman, Johan W.M. Heemskerk, Robert Henderson, Anke Hensiek, Yvonne Henskens, Archana Herwadkar, Simon Holden, Muriel Holder, Susan Holder, Fengyuan Hu, Aarnoud Huissoon, Marc Humbert, Roger James, Stephen Jolles, Rashid Kazmi, David Keeling, Peter Kelleher, Anne M. Kelly, Fiona Kennedy, David Kiely, Nathalie Kingston, Ania Koziell, Deepa Krishnakumar, Taco W. Kuijpers, Dinakantha Kumararatne, Manju Kurian, Michael A. Laffan, Michele P. Lambert, Hana Lango Allen, Allan Lawrie, Sara Lear, Melissa Lees, Claire Lentaigne, Ri Liesner, Rachel Linger, Hilary Longhurst, Lorena Lorenzo, Rajiv Machado, Rob Mackenzie, Robert MacLaren, Eamonn Maher, Jesmeen Maimaris, Sarah Mangles, Ania Manson, Rutendo Mapeta, Hugh S. Markus, Jennifer Martin, Larahmie Masati, Mary Mathias, Vera Matser, Anna Maw, Elizabeth McDermott, Coleen McJannet, Stuart Meacham, Sharon Meehan, Sarju Mehta, Carolyn M. Millar, Shahin Moledina, Anthony Moore, Nicholas Morrell, Andrew Mumford, Sai Murng, Sergey Nejentsev, Sadia Noorani, Paquita Nurden, Eric Oksenhendler, Sofia Papadia, Soo-Mi Park, Alasdair Parker, John Pasi, Chris Patch, Jeanette Payne, Andrew Peacock, Kathelijne Peerlinck, Christopher J. Penkett, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, David J. Perry, Val Pollock, Gary Polwarth, Mark Ponsford, Waseem Qasim, Isabella Quinti, Stuart Rankin, Julia Rankin, Karola Rehnstrom, Evan Reid, Christopher J. Rhodes, Michael Richards, Sylvia Richardson, Alex Richter, Irene Roberts, Matthew Rondina, Catherine Roughley, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Crina Samarghitean, Richard Sandford, Saikat Santra, Ravishankar Sargur, Sinisa Savic, Sol Schulman, Harald Schulze, Richard Scott, Marie Scully, Suranjith Seneviratne, Carrock Sewell, Olga Shamardina, Debbie Shipley, Ilenia Simeoni, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Kenneth Smith, Aman Sohal, Laura Southgate, Simon Staines, Emily Staples, Hans Stauss, Penelope Stein, Sophie Stock, Jay Suntharalingam, R. Campbell Tait, Kate Talks, Yvonne Tan, Jecko Thachil, James Thaventhiran, Ellen Thomas, Moira Thomas, Dorothy Thompson, Adrian Thrasher, Marc Tischkowitz, Catherine Titterton, Cheng-Hock Toh, Mark Toshner, Carmen Treacy, Richard Trembath, Salih Tuna, Wojciech Turek, Ernest Turro, Chris Van Geet, Marijke Veltman, Julie Vogt, Julie von Ziegenweldt, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Ivy Wanjiku, Timothy Q. Warner, Evangeline Wassmer, Hugh Watkins, Andrew Webster, Steve Welch, Sarah Westbury, John Wharton, Deborah Whitehorn, Martin Wilkins, Lisa Willcocks, Catherine Williamson, Geoffrey Woods, John Wort, Nigel Yeatman, Patrick Yong, Tim Young, Ping Yu, Pediatric surgery, Molecular cell biology and Immunology, Pulmonary medicine, ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis, APH - Quality of Care, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Rue-Albrecht, K, RS: CARIM - R1.04 - Clinical thrombosis and haemostasis, MUMC+: DA CDL Algemeen (9), Med Microbiol, Infect Dis & Infect Prev, RS: CARIM - R1.03 - Cell biochemistry of thrombosis and haemostasis, Biochemie, Raymond, Lucy [0000-0003-2652-3355], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Vascular Medicine, and Paediatric Infectious Diseases / Rheumatology / Immunology
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, DNA Mutational Analysis, EXOME, PROTEIN, Eye, whole-genome sequence, NIHR-BioResource Rare Diseases Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Choroideremia, ACTIVATION, 0302 clinical medicine, Ethnicity, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Exome, rare sequence variant, Copy-number variation, Aetiology, MUTATION, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Genetics & Heredity, Genetics, Genome, Adaptor Proteins, Biological Sciences, DYSTROPHY, copy-number variants, Female, Human, Common disease-common variant, LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS, Ethnic Groups, Genes, Recessive, Biology, DIAGNOSIS, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Rare Diseases, Retinal Diseases, STARGARDT DISEASE, Clinical Research, REVEALS, Journal Article, medicine, Recessive, Humans, retinal dystrophy, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Alleles, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Whole genome sequencing, Base Sequence, Genome, Human, Human Genome, Signal Transducing, Neurosciences, Genetic Variation, medicine.disease, GENE, Introns, Stargardt disease, Good Health and Well Being, 030104 developmental biology, Genes, Mutation, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, Human genome
Abstract: Inherited retinal disease is a common cause of visual impairment and represents a highly heterogeneous group of conditions. Here, we present findings from a cohort of 722 individuals with inherited retinal disease, who have had whole-genome sequencing (n = 605), whole-exome sequencing (n = 72), or both (n = 45) performed, as part of the NIHR-BioResource Rare Diseases research study. We identified pathogenic variants (single-nucleotide variants, indels, or structural variants) for 404/722 (56%) individuals. Whole-genome sequencing gives unprecedented power to detect three categories of pathogenic variants in particular: structural variants, variants in GC-rich regions, which have significantly improved coverage compared to whole-exome sequencing, and variants in non-coding regulatory regions. In addition to previously reported pathogenic regulatory variants, we have identified a previously unreported pathogenic intronic variant in $\textit{CHM}$ in two males with choroideremia. We have also identified 19 genes not previously known to be associated with inherited retinal disease, which harbor biallelic predicted protein-truncating variants in unsolved cases. Whole-genome sequencing is an increasingly important comprehensive method with which to investigate the genetic causes of inherited retinal disease.
Published: 2017
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31. Loss-of-function mutations in the X-linked biglycan gene cause a severe syndromic form of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections

Author: Luciana Young, Milan Prsa, Kathryn Waitzman, Andrea Superti-Furga, Rami Dhillon, Julie Richer, Martin Lammens, Harry C. Dietz, Aline Verstraeten, Geert Mortier, Geert Vandeweyer, Larry W Markham, Lut Van Laer, Josephina A.N. Meester, Julie Vogt, Simon De Belder, Bart Loeys, Isabel Pintelon, Lana Van Hoorick, Luc M. Beauchesne, Wim Wuyts, Edwin Reyniers, and Sheila Unger
Subjects: Aneurysm, Dissecting/genetics, Aneurysm, Dissecting/metabolism, Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/genetics, Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/metabolism, Biglycan/genetics, Biglycan/metabolism, Cells, Cultured, Female, Genes, X-Linked, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Humans, Male, Mutation, Pedigree, Sequence Analysis, DNA/methods, Signal Transduction, Transforming Growth Factor beta/metabolism, 0301 basic medicine, Marfan syndrome, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, thoracic aortic aneurysm, macromolecular substances, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, medicine.disease_cause, Loeys–Dietz syndrome, Thoracic aortic aneurysm, 03 medical and health sciences, Aortic aneurysm, 0302 clinical medicine, Aneurysm, Transforming Growth Factor beta, medicine, cardiovascular diseases, Original Research Article, Genetics (clinical), Loss function, Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic, business.industry, BGN, Biglycan, Sequence Analysis, DNA, musculoskeletal system, medicine.disease, biglycan, Loeys-Dietz syndrome, carbohydrates (lipids), Aortic Dissection, 030104 developmental biology, cardiovascular system, Human medicine, business, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9]
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 175552.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) PURPOSE: Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD) is typically inherited in an autosomal dominant manner, but rare X-linked families have been described. So far, the only known X-linked gene is FLNA, which is associated with the periventricular nodular heterotopia type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. However, mutations in this gene explain only a small number of X-linked TAAD families. METHODS: We performed targeted resequencing of 368 candidate genes in a cohort of 11 molecularly unexplained Marfan probands. Subsequently, Sanger sequencing of BGN in 360 male and 155 female molecularly unexplained TAAD probands was performed. RESULTS: We found five individuals with loss-of-function mutations in BGN encoding the small leucine-rich proteoglycan biglycan. The clinical phenotype is characterized by early-onset aortic aneurysm and dissection. Other recurrent findings include hypertelorism, pectus deformity, joint hypermobility, contractures, and mild skeletal dysplasia. Fluorescent staining revealed an increase in TGF-beta signaling, evidenced by an increase in nuclear pSMAD2 in the aortic wall. Our results are in line with those of prior reports demonstrating that Bgn-deficient male BALB/cA mice die from aortic rupture. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, BGN gene defects in humans cause an X-linked syndromic form of severe TAAD that is associated with preservation of elastic fibers and increased TGF-beta signaling.Genet Med 19 4, 386-395.
Published: 2017

32. De Novo Mutations in SON Disrupt RNA Splicing of Genes Essential for Brain Development and Metabolism, Causing an Intellectual-Disability Syndrome

Author: Ssang-Taek Lim, Helger G. Yntema, Tara Funari, Alexander P.A. Stegmann, Daniel G. MacArthur, Jung-Hyun Kim, Bert B.A. de Vries, Alyson Krokosky, Joost Nicolai, Sha Tang, Serge Romana, Megan T. Cho, Joris A. Veltman, Berivan Baskin, Vandana Shashi, Clesson Turner, Deepali N. Shinde, Maja Hempel, Franco Laccone, Lisenka E.L.M. Vissers, Richard M. Myers, Grazia M.S. Mancini, Daniëlle G.M. Bosch, Eun-Young Erin Ahn, Tamison Jewett, Ganka Douglas, Margot R.F. Reijnders, Eun Young Park, Axel Neu, Dong-Er Zhang, Joshua K. Stone, Davor Lessel, Connie T.R.M. Stumpel, Helga Rehder, Christopher T. Gordon, Luis Rohena, Laurie B. Owen, Dima El-Khechen, Jana Behunova, Tim M. Strom, Julie Vogt, Andrea H. Seeley, Kirsty McWalter, Nuria C. Bramswig, Margje Sinnema, Marlène Rio, Natalie Hauser, Rebecca L. Belmonte, Servi J. C. Stevens, Kristin Lindstrom, Han G. Brunner, Fanny Kortüm, Kelly Schoch, Amber Begtrup, Kristine K. Bachman, Paula A. Bubulya, Stephanie L. Santoro, Jos M. T. Draaisma, Dagmar Wieczorek, Xu Yao, David L. Stachura, Slavé Petrovski, Gregory R. Wilson, David Traver, Clinical Genetics, Genetica & Celbiologie, MUMC+: DA KG Polikliniek (9), RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine, Klinische Genetica, Klinische Neurowetenschappen, MUMC+: MA Med Staf Spec Neurologie (9), MUMC+: DA KG Lab Centraal Lab (9), MUMC+: DA Pat Cytologie (9), and MUMC+: DA Klinische Genetica (5)
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Developmental Disabilities, Medizin, Haploinsufficiency, Bioinformatics, Sensory disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 12], 0302 clinical medicine, Intellectual disability, FLNA, Genetics(clinical), Eye Abnormalities, Zebrafish, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, Gene knockdown, Genes, Essential, biology, Brain, Syndrome, Disorders of movement Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 3], Pedigree, DNA-Binding Proteins, RNA splicing, Female, Heterozygote, RNA Splicing, Healthcare improvement science Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 18], Minor Histocompatibility Antigens, 03 medical and health sciences, Metabolic Diseases, Intellectual Disability, Report, medicine, Animals, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Gene, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], RNA, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Spine, 030104 developmental biology, Mutation, Head, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 167701.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) The overall understanding of the molecular etiologies of intellectual disability (ID) and developmental delay (DD) is increasing as next-generation sequencing technologies identify genetic variants in individuals with such disorders. However, detailed analyses conclusively confirming these variants, as well as the underlying molecular mechanisms explaining the diseases, are often lacking. Here, we report on an ID syndrome caused by de novo heterozygous loss-of-function (LoF) mutations in SON. The syndrome is characterized by ID and/or DD, malformations of the cerebral cortex, epilepsy, vision problems, musculoskeletal abnormalities, and congenital malformations. Knockdown of son in zebrafish resulted in severe malformation of the spine, brain, and eyes. Importantly, analyses of RNA from affected individuals revealed that genes critical for neuronal migration and cortex organization (TUBG1, FLNA, PNKP, WDR62, PSMD3, and HDAC6) and metabolism (PCK2, PFKL, IDH2, ACY1, and ADA) are significantly downregulated because of the accumulation of mis-spliced transcripts resulting from erroneous SON-mediated RNA splicing. Our data highlight SON as a master regulator governing neurodevelopment and demonstrate the importance of SON-mediated RNA splicing in human development.
Published: 2016
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33. Variants in nuclear factor I genes influence growth and development

Author: Marja W. Wessels, Julie Vogt, Erica H. Gerkes, Manuela Priolo, Ina Schanze, Denny Schanze, Linda J. Richards, Jens Bunt, Raoul C.M. Hennekam, Martin Zenker, Richard M. Gronostajski, Michael Piper, Clinical Genetics, APH - Quality of Care, and General Paediatrics
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, 1P32-P-31 DELETION SYNDROME, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, NFIA HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY, DNA-BINDING, NFIX, Growth, CELL DIFFERENTIATION, 030105 genetics & heredity, Corpus callosum, macrocephaly, Craniofacial Abnormalities, Mice, 03 medical and health sciences, Dysgenesis, Septo-Optic Dysplasia, Gene Duplication, Genetics, medicine, Animals, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION, Megalencephaly, Growth Disorders, Genetics (clinical), Bone Diseases, Developmental, biology, Macrocephaly, SOTOS-LIKE, Syndrome, medicine.disease, NFIB, CORPUS-CALLOSUM, NFIA, nuclear factor one, NFI Transcription Factors, BINDING-PROTEIN, 030104 developmental biology, Mutation, biology.protein, medicine.symptom, Haploinsufficiency, ONE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS
Abstract: The nuclear factor one (NFI) site-specific DNA-binding proteins represent a family of transcription factors that are important for the development of multiple organ systems, including the brain. During brain development in mice, the expression patterns of Nfia, Nfib, and Nfix overlap, and knockout mice for each of these exhibit overlapping brain defects, including megalencephaly, dysgenesis of the corpus callosum, and enlarged ventricles, which implies a common but not redundant function in brain development. In line with these models, human phenotypes caused by haploinsufficiency of NFIA, NFIB, and NFIX display significant overlap, sharing neurodevelopmental deficits, macrocephaly, brain anomalies, and variable somatic overgrowth. Other anomalies may be present depending on the NFI gene involved. The possibility of variants in NFI genes should therefore be considered in individuals with intellectual disability and brain overgrowth, with individual NFI-related conditions being differentiated from one another by additional signs and symptoms. The exception is provided by specific NFIX variants that act in a dominant negative manner, as these cause a recognizable entity with more severe cognitive impairment and marked bone dysplasia, Marshall-Smith syndrome. NFIX duplications are associated with a phenotype opposite to that of haploinsufficiency, characterized by short stature, small head circumference, and delayed bone age. The spectrum of NFI-related disorders will likely be further expanded, as larger cohorts are assessed.
Published: 2019

34. Missense variants in TAF1 and developmental phenotypes: Challenges of determining pathogenicity

Author: Paul R. Mark, Helena Ahlfors, Lisa Ewans, Ganka Douglas, Zornitza Stark, Lucinda Murray, Sebastian Lunke, Emily Fassi, Lauren Dreyer, Aimé Lumaka, Jullianne Diaz, Koenraad Devriendt, Lisa Worgan, Hanyin Cheng, Pankaj B. Agrawal, Laurence Faivre, H. T. Marc Timmers, Julie Vogt, Elizabeth E. Palmer, Kai Wang, Nora Alexander, Michael F. Buckley, Tony Roscioli, Chunhua Weng, Gabriela Soares, Simona Capponi, Antonie D. Kline, Jorge Oliveira, Amali Mallawaarachchi, Ana R. Gonçalves, Gareth Baynam, Eyby Leon, Marcia C. Willing, Shehla Mohammed, Sarah A. Sandaradura, Elaine Marchi, Katelyn Payne, Amber Begtrup, Piatek G. Stefan, Lesley C. Adès, Mengge Zhao, Emma Wakeling, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Sébastien Moutton, Quan Li, Maria J. Guillen Sacoto, Jeff L. Waugh, Jennifer E. Posey, Robert Kleyner, Alan F. Rope, Prosper Lukusa, James R. Lupski, Laurence E. Walsh, Joris Vermeesch, Gholson J. Lyon, and Sonja A. de Munnik
Subjects: Genetics, TAF1, Missense mutation, Biology, Pathogenicity, Phenotype, Genetics (clinical)
Published: 2020
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35. Deep phenotyping of 14 new patients with IQSEC2 variants, including monozygotic twins of discordant phenotype

Author: Josh Willoughby, Jenny Morton, Meena Balasubramanian, Francis H. Sansbury, Julie Vogt, Elizabeth A. Jones, Rory O'Sullivan, Jill Clayton-Smith, Sarah E. Turton, Helen Cox, Nicola S. Cooper, Katherine Lachlan, Julia Rankin, Frances Elmslie, Jessica A. Radley, and Sarah F. Smithson
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Microcephaly, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Germline mosaicism, 030105 genetics & heredity, 03 medical and health sciences, Epilepsy, Intellectual disability, Exome Sequencing, Genetics, medicine, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Child, Genetics (clinical), Alleles, Genetic Association Studies, business.industry, Facies, Genetic Variation, Infant, Twins, Monozygotic, medicine.disease, Hypotonia, 030104 developmental biology, Phenotype, Amino Acid Substitution, Child, Preschool, Autism, Female, medicine.symptom, business, Brachycephaly, Developmental regression
Abstract: Whole-exome sequencing has established IQSEC2 as a neurodevelopmental disability gene. The IQSEC2 variant phenotype includes developmental delay, intellectual disability, epilepsy, hypotonia, autism, developmental regression, microcephaly and stereotypies but is yet to be fully described. Presented here are 14 new patients with IQSEC2 variants. In addition to the established features, we observed: gait ataxia in 7 of 9 (77.8%), drooling in 9 of 14 (64.2%), early feeding difficulties in 7 of 14 (50%), structural brain abnormalities in 6 of 13 (46.2%), brachycephaly in 5 of 14 (35.7%), and scoliosis and paroxysms of laughter each in 4 of 14 (28.6%). We suggest that these are features of the IQSEC2-related disorder. Gastrostomy requirement, plagiocephaly, strabismus and cortical blindness, each seen in 2 of 14 (14.3%), may also be associated. Shared facial features were noted in 8 of 14 patients, and shared hair patterning was identified in 5 of 14 patients. This study further delineates the IQSEC2 phenotypic spectrum and supports the notion of an emerging IQSEC2 syndrome. We draw parallels between the IQSEC2-related disorder and the Angelman-/Rett-/Pitt-Hopkins syndrome group of conditions and recommend the addition of IQSEC2 to epilepsy and developmental delay gene panels. We observed discordant phenotypes in monozygotic twins and apparent gonadal mosaicism, which has implications for recurrence risk counselling in the IQSEC2-related disorder.
Published: 2018

36. Bi-allelic Loss-of-Function CACNA1B Mutations in Progressive Epilepsy-Dyskinesia

Author: Kathleen M. Gorman, Esther Meyer, Detelina Grozeva, Egidio Spinelli, Amy McTague, Alba Sanchis-Juan, Keren J. Carss, Emily Bryant, Adi Reich, Amy L. Schneider, Ronit M. Pressler, Michael A. Simpson, Geoff D. Debelle, Evangeline Wassmer, Jenny Morton, Diana Sieciechowicz, Eric Jan-Kamsteeg, Alex R. Paciorkowski, Mary D. King, J. Helen Cross, Annapurna Poduri, Heather C. Mefford, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Tobias B. Haack, Gary McCullagh, John J. Millichap, Gemma L. Carvill, Jill Clayton-Smith, Eamonn R. Maher, F. Lucy Raymond, Manju A. Kurian, Jeremy F. McRae, Stephen Clayton, Tomas W. Fitzgerald, Joanna Kaplanis, Elena Prigmore, Diana Rajan, Alejandro Sifrim, Stuart Aitken, Nadia Akawi, Mohsan Alvi, Kirsty Ambridge, Daniel M. Barrett, Tanya Bayzetinova, Philip Jones, Wendy D. Jones, Daniel King, Netravathi Krishnappa, Laura E. Mason, Tarjinder Singh, Adrian R. Tivey, Munaza Ahmed, Uruj Anjum, Hayley Archer, Ruth Armstrong, Jana Awada, Meena Balasubramanian, Siddharth Banka, Diana Baralle, Angela Barnicoat, Paul Batstone, David Baty, Chris Bennett, Jonathan Berg, Birgitta Bernhard, A. Paul Bevan, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Edward Blair, Moira Blyth, David Bohanna, Louise Bourdon, David Bourn, Lisa Bradley, Angela Brady, Simon Brent, Carole Brewer, Kate Brunstrom, David J. Bunyan, John Burn, Natalie Canham, Bruce Castle, Kate Chandler, Elena Chatzimichali, Deirdre Cilliers, Angus Clarke, Susan Clasper, Virginia Clowes, Andrea Coates, Trevor Cole, Irina Colgiu, Amanda Collins, Morag N. Collinson, Fiona Connell, Nicola Cooper, Helen Cox, Lara Cresswell, Gareth Cross, Yanick Crow, Mariella D’Alessandro, Tabib Dabir, Rosemarie Davidson, Sally Davies, Dylan de Vries, John Dean, Charu Deshpande, Gemma Devlin, Abhijit Dixit, Angus Dobbie, Alan Donaldson, Dian Donnai, Deirdre Donnelly, Carina Donnelly, Angela Douglas, Sofia Douzgou, Alexis Duncan, Jacqueline Eason, Sian Ellard, Ian Ellis, Frances Elmslie, Karenza Evans, Sarah Everest, Tina Fendick, Richard Fisher, Frances Flinter, Nicola Foulds, Andrew Fry, Alan Fryer, Carol Gardiner, Lorraine Gaunt, Neeti Ghali, Richard Gibbons, Harinder Gill, Judith Goodship, David Goudie, Emma Gray, Andrew Green, Philip Greene, Lynn Greenhalgh, Susan Gribble, Rachel Harrison, Lucy Harrison, Victoria Harrison, Rose Hawkins, Liu He, Stephen Hellens, Alex Henderson, Sarah Hewitt, Lucy Hildyard, Emma Hobson, Simon Holden, Muriel Holder, Susan Holder, Georgina Hollingsworth, Tessa Homfray, Mervyn Humphreys, Jane Hurst, Ben Hutton, Stuart Ingram, Melita Irving, Lily Islam, Andrew Jackson, Joanna Jarvis, Lucy Jenkins, Diana Johnson, Elizabeth Jones, Dragana Josifova, Shelagh Joss, Beckie Kaemba, Sandra Kazembe, Rosemary Kelsell, Bronwyn Kerr, Helen Kingston, Usha Kini, Esther Kinning, Gail Kirby, Claire Kirk, Emma Kivuva, Alison Kraus, Dhavendra Kumar, V. K. Ajith Kumar, Katherine Lachlan, Wayne Lam, Anne Lampe, Caroline Langman, Melissa Lees, Derek Lim, Cheryl Longman, Gordon Lowther, Sally A. Lynch, Alex Magee, Eddy Maher, Alison Male, Sahar Mansour, Karen Marks, Katherine Martin, Una Maye, Emma McCann, Vivienne McConnell, Meriel McEntagart, Ruth McGowan, Kirsten McKay, Shane McKee, Dominic J. McMullan, Susan McNerlan, Catherine McWilliam, Sarju Mehta, Kay Metcalfe, Anna Middleton, Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Emma Miles, Shehla Mohammed, Tara Montgomery, David Moore, Sian Morgan, Hood Mugalaasi, Victoria Murday, Helen Murphy, Swati Naik, Andrea Nemeth, Louise Nevitt, Ruth Newbury-Ecob, Andrew Norman, Rosie O’Shea, Caroline Ogilvie, Kai-Ren Ong, Soo-Mi Park, Michael J. Parker, Chirag Patel, Joan Paterson, Stewart Payne, Daniel Perrett, Julie Phipps, Daniela T. Pilz, Martin Pollard, Caroline Pottinger, Joanna Poulton, Norman Pratt, Katrina Prescott, Sue Price, Abigail Pridham, Annie Procter, Hellen Purnell, Oliver Quarrell, Nicola Ragge, Raheleh Rahbari, Josh Randall, Julia Rankin, Lucy Raymond, Debbie Rice, Leema Robert, Eileen Roberts, Jonathan Roberts, Paul Roberts, Gillian Roberts, Alison Ross, Elisabeth Rosser, Anand Saggar, Shalaka Samant, Julian Sampson, Richard Sandford, Ajoy Sarkar, Susann Schweiger, Richard Scott, Ingrid Scurr, Ann Selby, Anneke Seller, Cheryl Sequeira, Nora Shannon, Saba Sharif, Charles Shaw-Smith, Emma Shearing, Debbie Shears, Eamonn Sheridan, Ingrid Simonic, Roldan Singzon, Zara Skitt, Audrey Smith, Kath Smith, Sarah Smithson, Linda Sneddon, Miranda Splitt, Miranda Squires, Fiona Stewart, Helen Stewart, Volker Straub, Mohnish Suri, Vivienne Sutton, Ganesh Jawahar Swaminathan, Elizabeth Sweeney, Kate Tatton-Brown, Cat Taylor, Rohan Taylor, Mark Tein, I. Karen Temple, Jenny Thomson, Marc Tischkowitz, Susan Tomkins, Audrey Torokwa, Becky Treacy, Claire Turner, Peter Turnpenny, Carolyn Tysoe, Anthony Vandersteen, Vinod Varghese, Pradeep Vasudevan, Parthiban Vijayarangakannan, Julie Vogt, Emma Wakeling, Sarah Wallwark, Jonathon Waters, Astrid Weber, Diana Wellesley, Margo Whiteford, Sara Widaa, Sarah Wilcox, Emily Wilkinson, Denise Williams, Nicola Williams, Louise Wilson, Geoff Woods, Christopher Wragg, Michael Wright, Laura Yates, Michael Yau, Chris Nellåker, Michael Parker, Helen V. Firth, Caroline F. Wright, David R. FitzPatrick, Jeffrey C. Barrett, Matthew E. Hurles, Saeed Al Turki, Carl Anderson, Richard Anney, Dinu Antony, Maria Soler Artigas, Muhammad Ayub, Senduran Balasubramaniam, Inês Barroso, Phil Beales, Jamie Bentham, Shoumo Bhattacharya, Ewan Birney, Douglas Blackwood, Martin Bobrow, Elena Bochukova, Patrick Bolton, Rebecca Bounds, Chris Boustred, Gerome Breen, Mattia Calissano, Keren Carss, Krishna Chatterjee, Lu Chen, Antonio Ciampi, Sebhattin Cirak, Peter Clapham, Gail Clement, Guy Coates, David Collier, Catherine Cosgrove, Tony Cox, Nick Craddock, Lucy Crooks, Sarah Curran, David Curtis, Allan Daly, Aaron Day-Williams, Ian N.M. Day, Thomas Down, Yuanping Du, Ian Dunham, Sarah Edkins, Peter Ellis, David Evans, Sadaf Faroogi, Ghazaleh Fatemifar, David R. Fitzpatrick, Paul Flicek, James Flyod, A. Reghan Foley, Christopher S. Franklin, Marta Futema, Louise Gallagher, Matthias Geihs, Daniel Geschwind, Heather Griffin, Xueqin Guo, Xiaosen Guo, Hugh Gurling, Deborah Hart, Audrey Hendricks, Peter Holmans, Bryan Howie, Liren Huang, Tim Hubbard, Steve E. Humphries, Pirro Hysi, David K. Jackson, Yalda Jamshidi, Tian Jing, Chris Joyce, Jane Kaye, Thomas Keane, Julia Keogh, John Kemp, Karen Kennedy, Anja Kolb-Kokocinski, Genevieve Lachance, Cordelia Langford, Daniel Lawson, Irene Lee, Monkol Lek, Jieqin Liang, Hong Lin, Rui Li, Yingrui Li, Ryan Liu, Jouko Lönnqvist, Margarida Lopes, Valentina Iotchkova, Daniel MacArthur, Jonathan Marchini, John Maslen, Mangino Massimo, Iain Mathieson, Gaëlle Marenne, Peter McGuffin, Andrew McIntosh, Andrew G. McKechanie, Andrew McQuillin, Sarah Metrustry, Hannah Mitchison, Alireza Moayyeri, James Morris, Francesco Muntoni, Kate Northstone, Michael O'Donnovan, Alexandros Onoufriadis, Stephen O'Rahilly, Karim Oualkacha, Michael J. Owen, Aarno Palotie, Kalliope Panoutsopoulou, Victoria Parker, Jeremy R. Parr, Lavinia Paternoster, Tiina Paunio, Felicity Payne, Olli Pietilainen, Vincent Plagnol, Lydia Quaye, Michael A. Quail, Karola Rehnström, Susan Ring, Graham R.S. Ritchie, Nicola Roberts, David B. Savage, Peter Scambler, Stephen Schiffels, Miriam Schmidts, Nadia Schoenmakers, Robert K. Semple, Eva Serra, Sally I. Sharp, So-Youn Shin, David Skuse, Kerrin Small, Lorraine Southam, Olivera Spasic-Boskovic, David St Clair, Jim Stalker, Elizabeth Stevens, Beate St Pourcian, Jianping Sun, Jaana Suvisaari, Ionna Tachmazidou, Martin D. Tobin, Ana Valdes, Margriet Van Kogelenberg, Peter M. Visscher, Louise V. Wain, James T.R. Walters, Guangbiao Wang, Jun Wang, Yu Wang, Kirsten Ward, Elanor Wheeler, Tamieka Whyte, Hywel Williams, Kathleen A. Williamson, Crispian Wilson, Kim Wong, ChangJiang Xu, Jian Yang, Fend Zhang, Pingbo Zhang, Timothy Aitman, Hana Alachkar, Sonia Ali, Louise Allen, David Allsup, Gautum Ambegaonkar, Julie Anderson, Richard Antrobus, Gavin Arno, Gururaj Arumugakani, Sofie Ashford, William Astle, Antony Attwood, Steve Austin, Chiara Bacchelli, Tamam Bakchoul, Tadbir K. Bariana, Helen Baxendale, David Bennett, Claire Bethune, Shahnaz Bibi, Marta Bleda, Harm Boggard, Paula Bolton-Maggs, Claire Booth, John R. Bradley, Angie Brady, Matthew Brown, Michael Browning, Christine Bryson, Siobhan Burns, Paul Calleja, Jenny Carmichael, Mark Caulfield, Elizabeth Chalmers, Anita Chandra, Patrick Chinnery, Manali Chitre, Colin Church, Emma Clement, Naomi Clements-Brod, Gerry Coghlan, Peter Collins, Nichola Cooper, Amanda Creaser-Myers, Rosa DaCosta, Louise Daugherty, Sophie Davies, John Davis, Minka De Vries, Patrick Deegan, Sri V.V. Deevi, Lisa Devlin, Eleanor Dewhurst, Rainer Doffinger, Natalie Dormand, Elizabeth Drewe, David Edgar, William Egner, Wendy N. Erber, Marie Erwood, Tamara Everington, Remi Favier, Helen Firth, Debra Fletcher, James C. Fox, Amy Frary, Kathleen Freson, Bruce Furie, Abigail Furnell, Daniel Gale, Alice Gardham, Michael Gattens, Pavandeep K. Ghataorhe, Rohit Ghurye, Simon Gibbs, Kimberley Gilmour, Paul Gissen, Sarah Goddard, Keith Gomez, Pavel Gordins, Stefan Gräf, Daniel Greene, Alan Greenhalgh, Andreas Greinacher, Sofia Grigoriadou, Scott Hackett, Charaka Hadinnapola, Rosie Hague, Matthias Haimel, Csaba Halmagyi, Tracey Hammerton, Daniel Hart, Grant Hayman, Johan W.M. Heemskerk, Robert Henderson, Anke Hensiek, Yvonne Henskens, Archana Herwadkar, Fengyuan Hu, Aarnoud Huissoon, Marc Humbert, Roger James, Stephen Jolles, Rashid Kazmi, David Keeling, Peter Kelleher, Anne M. Kelly, Fiona Kennedy, David Kiely, Nathalie Kingston, Ania Koziell, Deepa Krishnakumar, Taco W. Kuijpers, Dinakantha Kumararatne, Manju Kurian, Michael A. Laffan, Michele P. Lambert, Hana Lango Allen, Allan Lawrie, Sara Lear, Claire Lentaigne, Ri Liesner, Rachel Linger, Hilary Longhurst, Lorena Lorenzo, Rajiv Machado, Rob Mackenzie, Robert MacLaren, Eamonn Maher, Jesmeen Maimaris, Sarah Mangles, Ania Manson, Rutendo Mapeta, Hugh S. Markus, Jennifer Martin, Larahmie Masati, Mary Mathias, Vera Matser, Anna Maw, Elizabeth McDermott, Coleen McJannet, Stuart Meacham, Sharon Meehan, Karyn Megy, Michel Michaelides, Carolyn M. Millar, Shahin Moledina, Anthony Moore, Nicholas Morrell, Andrew Mumford, Sai Murng, Elaine Murphy, Sergey Nejentsev, Sadia Noorani, Paquita Nurden, Eric Oksenhendler, Willem H. Ouwehand, Sofia Papadia, Alasdair Parker, John Pasi, Chris Patch, Jeanette Payne, Andrew Peacock, Kathelijne Peerlinck, Christopher J. Penkett, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, David J. Perry, Val Pollock, Gary Polwarth, Mark Ponsford, Waseem Qasim, Isabella Quinti, Stuart Rankin, Karola Rehnstrom, Evan Reid, Christopher J. Rhodes, Michael Richards, Sylvia Richardson, Alex Richter, Irene Roberts, Matthew Rondina, Catherine Roughley, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Crina Samarghitean, Saikat Santra, Ravishankar Sargur, Sinisa Savic, Sol Schulman, Harald Schulze, Marie Scully, Suranjith Seneviratne, Carrock Sewell, Olga Shamardina, Debbie Shipley, Ilenia Simeoni, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Kenneth Smith, Aman Sohal, Laura Southgate, Simon Staines, Emily Staples, Hans Stauss, Penelope Stein, Jonathan Stephens, Kathleen Stirrups, Sophie Stock, Jay Suntharalingam, R. Campbell Tait, Kate Talks, Yvonne Tan, Jecko Thachil, James Thaventhiran, Ellen Thomas, Moira Thomas, Dorothy Thompson, Adrian Thrasher, Catherine Titterton, Cheng-Hock Toh, Mark Toshner, Carmen Treacy, Richard Trembath, Salih Tuna, Wojciech Turek, Ernest Turro, Chris Van Geet, Marijke Veltman, Julie von Ziegenweldt, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Ivy Wanjiku, Timothy Q. Warner, Hugh Watkins, Andrew Webster, Steve Welch, Sarah Westbury, John Wharton, Deborah Whitehorn, Martin Wilkins, Lisa Willcocks, Catherine Williamson, Geoffrey Woods, John Wort, Nigel Yeatman, Patrick Yong, Tim Young, Ping Yu, Paediatric Infectious Diseases / Rheumatology / Immunology, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, Pediatric surgery, APH - Aging & Later Life, Molecular cell biology and Immunology, Pulmonary medicine, ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis, and APH - Quality of Care
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Adolescent, Loss of Heterozygosity, Context (language use), Postnatal microcephaly, Neurotransmission, medicine.disease_cause, Bioinformatics, Synaptic Transmission, Loss of heterozygosity, 03 medical and health sciences, Epilepsy, 0302 clinical medicine, Calcium Channels, N-Type, Report, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Child, Genetics (clinical), Mutation, Dyskinesias, business.industry, Infant, medicine.disease, Hypotonia, Pedigree, 030104 developmental biology, Dyskinesia, Child, Preschool, Calcium, Female, medicine.symptom, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: © 2019 American Society of Human Genetics The occurrence of non-epileptic hyperkinetic movements in the context of developmental epileptic encephalopathies is an increasingly recognized phenomenon. Identification of causative mutations provides an important insight into common pathogenic mechanisms that cause both seizures and abnormal motor control. We report bi-allelic loss-of-function CACNA1B variants in six children from three unrelated families whose affected members present with a complex and progressive neurological syndrome. All affected individuals presented with epileptic encephalopathy, severe neurodevelopmental delay (often with regression), and a hyperkinetic movement disorder. Additional neurological features included postnatal microcephaly and hypotonia. Five children died in childhood or adolescence (mean age of death: 9 years), mainly as a result of secondary respiratory complications. CACNA1B encodes the pore-forming subunit of the pre-synaptic neuronal voltage-gated calcium channel Cav2.2/N-type, crucial for SNARE-mediated neurotransmission, particularly in the early postnatal period. Bi-allelic loss-of-function variants in CACNA1B are predicted to cause disruption of Ca2+ influx, leading to impaired synaptic neurotransmission. The resultant effect on neuronal function is likely to be important in the development of involuntary movements and epilepsy. Overall, our findings provide further evidence for the key role of Cav2.2 in normal human neurodevelopment.
Published: 2018
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37. De Novo Truncating Mutations in WASF1 Cause Intellectual Disability with Seizures

Author: Yoko Ito, Keren J. Carss, Sofia T. Duarte, Taila Hartley, Boris Keren, Manju A. Kurian, Isabelle Marey, Perinne Charles, Carla Mendonça, Caroline Nava, Rolph Pfundt, Alba Sanchis-Juan, Hans van Bokhoven, Anthony van Essen, Conny van Ravenswaaij-Arts, Kym M. Boycott, Kristin D. Kernohan, Sarah Dyack, F. Lucy Raymond, Timothy Aitman, David Bennett, Mark Caulfield, Patrick Chinnery, Daniel Gale, Ania Koziell, Taco W. Kuijpers, Michael A. Laffan, Eamonn Maher, Hugh S. Markus, Nicholas W. Morrell, Willem H. Ouwehand, David J. Perry, Irene Roberts, Kenneth G.C. Smith, Adrian Thrasher, Hugh Watkins, Catherine Williamson, Geoffrey Woods, Sofie Ashford, John R. Bradley, Debra Fletcher, Tracey Hammerton, Roger James, Nathalie Kingston, Christopher J. Penkett, Kathleen Stirrups, Marijke Veltman, Tim Young, Matthew Brown, Naomi Clements-Brod, John Davis, Eleanor Dewhurst, Helen Dolling, Marie Erwood, Amy Frary, Rachel Linger, Jennifer M. Martin, Sofia Papadia, Karola Rehnstrom, Hannah Stark, David Allsup, Steve Austin, Tamam Bakchoul, Tadbir K. Bariana, Paula Bolton-Maggs, Elizabeth Chalmers, Janine Collins, Peter Collins, Wendy N. Erber, Tamara Everington, Remi Favier, Kathleen Freson, Bruce Furie, Michael Gattens, Johanna Gebhart, Keith Gomez, Daniel Greene, Andreas Greinacher, Paolo Gresele, Daniel Hart, Johan W.M. Heemskerk, Yvonne Henskens, Rashid Kazmi, David Keeling, Anne M. Kelly, Michele P. Lambert, Claire Lentaigne, Ri Liesner, Mike Makris, Sarah Mangles, Mary Mathias, Carolyn M. Millar, Andrew Mumford, Paquita Nurden, Jeanette Payne, John Pasi, Kathelijne Peerlinck, Shoshana Revel-Vilk, Michael Richards, Matthew Rondina, Catherine Roughley, Sol Schulman, Harald Schulze, Marie Scully, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Matthew Stubbs, R. Campbell Tait, Kate Talks, Jecko Thachil, Cheng-Hock Toh, Ernest Turro, Chris Van Geet, Minka De Vries, Timothy Q. Warner, Henry Watson, Sarah Westbury, Abigail Furnell, Rutendo Mapeta, Paula Rayner-Matthews, Ilenia Simeoni, Simon Staines, Jonathan Stephens, Christopher Watt, Deborah Whitehorn, Antony Attwood, Louise Daugherty, Sri V.V. Deevi, Csaba Halmagyi, Fengyuan Hu, Vera Matser, Stuart Meacham, Karyn Megy, Olga Shamardina, Catherine Titterton, Salih Tuna, Ping Yu, Julie von Ziegenweldt, William Astle, Marta Bleda, Stefan Gräf, Matthias Haimel, Hana Lango-Allen, Sylvia Richardson, Paul Calleja, Stuart Rankin, Wojciech Turek, Julie Anderson, Christine Bryson, Jenny Carmichael, Coleen McJannet, Sophie Stock, Louise Allen, Gautum Ambegaonkar, Ruth Armstrong, Gavin Arno, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Angie Brady, Natalie Canham, Manali Chitre, Emma Clement, Virginia Clowes, Patrick Deegan, Charu Deshpande, Rainer Doffinger, Helen Firth, Frances Flinter, Courtney French, Alice Gardham, Neeti Ghali, Paul Gissen, Detelina Grozeva, Robert Henderson, Anke Hensiek, Simon Holden, Muriel Holder, Susan Holder, Jane Hurst, Dragana Josifova, Deepa Krishnakumar, Melissa Lees, Robert MacLaren, Anna Maw, Sarju Mehta, Michel Michaelides, Anthony Moore, Elaine Murphy, Soo-Mi Park, Alasdair Parker, Chris Patch, Joan Paterson, Julia Rankin, Evan Reid, Elisabeth Rosser, Richard Sandford, Saikat Santra, Richard Scott, Aman Sohal, Penelope Stein, Ellen Thomas, Dorothy Thompson, Marc Tischkowitz, Julie Vogt, Emma Wakeling, Evangeline Wassmer, Andrew Webster, Sonia Ali, Souad Ali, Harm J. Boggard, Colin Church, Gerry Coghlan, Victoria Cookson, Paul A. Corris, Amanda Creaser-Myers, Rosa DaCosta, Natalie Dormand, Mélanie Eyries, Henning Gall, Pavandeep K. Ghataorhe, Stefano Ghio, Ardi Ghofrani, J. Simon R. Gibbs, Barbara Girerd, Alan Greenhalgh, Charaka Hadinnapola, Arjan C. Houweling, Marc Humbert, Anna Huis in’t Veld, Fiona Kennedy, David G. Kiely, Gabor Kovacs, Allan Lawrie, Rob V. Mackenzie Ross, Rajiv Machado, Larahmie Masati, Sharon Meehan, Shahin Moledina, David Montani, Shokri Othman, Andrew J. Peacock, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, Val Pollock, Gary Polwarth, Lavanya Ranganathan, Christopher J. Rhodes, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Gwen Schotte, Debbie Shipley, Florent Soubrier, Laura Southgate, Laura Scelsi, Jay Suntharalingam, Yvonne Tan, Mark Toshner, Carmen M. Treacy, Richard Trembath, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Sara Walker, Ivy Wanjiku, John Wharton, Martin Wilkins, Stephen J. Wort, Katherine Yates, Hana Alachkar, Richard Antrobus, Gururaj Arumugakani, Chiara Bacchelli, Helen Baxendale, Claire Bethune, Shahnaz Bibi, Claire Booth, Michael Browning, Siobhan Burns, Anita Chandra, Nichola Cooper, Sophie Davies, Lisa Devlin, Elizabeth Drewe, David Edgar, William Egner, Rohit Ghurye, Kimberley Gilmour, Sarah Goddard, Pavel Gordins, Sofia Grigoriadou, Scott Hackett, Rosie Hague, Lorraine Harper, Grant Hayman, Archana Herwadkar, Aarnoud Huissoon, Stephen Jolles, Peter Kelleher, Dinakantha Kumararatne, Sara Lear, Hilary Longhurst, Lorena Lorenzo, Jesmeen Maimaris, Ania Manson, Elizabeth McDermott, Sai Murng, Sergey Nejentsev, Sadia Noorani, Eric Oksenhendler, Mark Ponsford, Waseem Qasim, Isabella Quinti, Alex Richter, Crina Samarghitean, Ravishankar Sargur, Sinisa Savic, Suranjith Seneviratne, Carrock Sewell, Emily Staples, Hans Stauss, James Thaventhiran, Moira Thomas, Steve Welch, Lisa Willcocks, Nigel Yeatman, Patrick Yong, Phil Ancliff, Christian Babbs, Mark Layton, Eleni Louka, Simon McGowan, Adam Mead, Noémi Roy, Jenny Chambers, Peter Dixon, Cecelia Estiu, Bill Hague, Hanns-Ulrich Marschall, Michael Simpson, Sam Chong, Ingrid Emmerson, Lionel Ginsberg, David Gosal, Rob Hadden, Rita Horvath, Mohamed Mahdi-Rogers, Adnan Manzur, Andrew Marshall, Emma Matthews, Mark McCarthy, Mary Reilly, Tara Renton, Andrew Rice, Andreas Themistocleous, Tom Vale, Natalie Van Zuydam, Suellen Walker, Liz Ormondroyd, Gavin Hudson, Wei Wei, Patrick Yu Wai Man, James Whitworth, Maryam Afzal, Elizabeth Colby, Moin Saleem, Omid S. Alavijeh, H. Terry Cook, Sally Johnson, Adam P. Levine, Edwin K.S. Wong, Rhea Tan, Alex MacKenzie, Jacek Majewski, Michael Brudno, Dennis Bulman, David Dyment, Freson, Kathleen, Peerlinck, Kathelijne, Van Geet, Christel, Paediatric Infectious Diseases / Rheumatology / Immunology, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, RS: CARIM - R1.04 - Clinical thrombosis and haemostasis, MUMC+: DA CDL Algemeen (9), Med Microbiol, Infect Dis & Infect Prev, Medical Research Council (MRC), Clinical Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research Program (CCNP), APH - Aging & Later Life, Pediatric surgery, Human genetics, ACS - Atherosclerosis & ischemic syndromes, CCA - Cancer biology and immunology, CCA - Cancer Treatment and quality of life, Pulmonary medicine, ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis, APH - Quality of Care, and Molecular cell biology and Immunology
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Care4Rare Canada Consortium, WAVE FAMILY PROTEINS, actin cytoskeleton, PROTEIN, HDE NEU PED, medicine.disease_cause, Whole Exome Sequencing, 0302 clinical medicine, Neurodevelopmental disorder, SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY, Intellectual disability, WAVE1 complex, PLASTICITY, EXCHANGE, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Exome sequencing, Genetics (clinical), seizures, Genetics & Heredity, Genetics, Mutation, WASF1, DENDRITIC SPINES, developmental delay, Female, DISEASE GENE-DISCOVERY, Adult, Heterozygote, GENES, DISORDERS, autism, Biology, ACTIN, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Seizures, Report, Intellectual Disability, Exome Sequencing, medicine, Humans, PROTRUSIONS, recurrent de novo truncating mutations, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], COMPLEX, lamellipodia, neurodevelopmental disorder, Actin remodeling, Heterozygote advantage, NIHR BioResource, 06 Biological Sciences, medicine.disease, Actin cytoskeleton, Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein Family, 030104 developmental biology, WAVE, RETARDATION, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Next-generation sequencing has been invaluable in the elucidation of the genetic etiology of many subtypes of intellectual disability in recent years. Here, using exome sequencing and whole-genome sequencing, we identified three de novo truncating mutations in WAS protein family member 1 (WASF1) in five unrelated individuals with moderate to profound intellectual disability with autistic features and seizures. WASF1, also known as WAVE1, is part of the WAVE complex and acts as a mediator between Rac-GTPase and actin to induce actin polymerization. The three mutations connected by Matchmaker Exchange were c.1516C>T (p.Arg506Ter), which occurs in three unrelated individuals, c.1558C>T (p.Gln520Ter), and c.1482delinsGCCAGG (p.Ile494MetfsTer23). All three variants are predicted to partially or fully disrupt the C-terminal actin-binding WCA domain. Functional studies using fibroblast cells from two affected individuals with the c.1516C>T mutation showed a truncated WASF1 and a defect in actin remodeling. This study provides evidence that de novo heterozygous mutations in WASF1 cause a rare form of intellectual disability. ispartof: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS vol:103 issue:1 pages:144-153 ispartof: location:United States status: published
Published: 2018
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38. Correction to: De novo and inherited TCF20 pathogenic variants are associated with intellectual disability, dysmorphic features, hypotonia, and neurological impairments with similarities to Smith–Magenis syndrome

Author: Kim L. McBride, Soo Mi Park, Richard A. Gibbs, Shane McKee, Melissa Lees, Wenmiao Zhu, Yaping Yang, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Vardiella Meiner, Elizabeth A. Fanning, Victoria Harrison, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Anne K. Lampe, Ed Blair, Sue Holder, Klaas J. Wierenga, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Fan Xia, Sarah H. Elsea, Andrea M. Lewis, Vivienne McConnell, Birgitta Bernhard, Orly Elpeleg, Mohnish Suri, Elizabeth Roeder, Lionel Van Maldergem, J. Lloyd Holder, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Rebecca O. Littlejohn, Sonal Mahida, Aisha Al Shamsi, June Anne Gold, Joseph T. Alaimo, Ziva Ben-Neriah, Jennifer E. Posey, Vinod Varghese, Julie Vogt, Donna M. Muzny, Makanko Komara, Christine M. Eng, Daryl A. Scott, Francesco Vetrini, Brett H. Graham, Seema R. Lalani, Kimberly Nugent, Hanoch Cassuto, Weimin Bi, Jill M. Harris, Pengfei Liu, Matthew Pastore, Ludmila Matyakhina, James B. Gibson, James R. Lupski, Margaret Marlatt, Laurie H. Seaver, Lindsay C. Burrage, and Janet S. Soul
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, lcsh:QH426-470, business.industry, lcsh:R, Correction, lcsh:Medicine, Smith–Magenis syndrome, medicine.disease, Genome, Hypotonia, 3. Good health, 03 medical and health sciences, lcsh:Genetics, 0302 clinical medicine, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Intellectual disability, medicine, Molecular Medicine, medicine.symptom, business, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: It was highlighted that the original article [1] contained a typographical error in the Results section. Subject 17 was incorrectly cited as Subject 1. This Correction article shows the revised statement. The original article has been updated.
Published: 2019
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39. Histone Lysine Methylases and Demethylases in the Landscape of Human Developmental Disorders

Author: Víctor Faundes, William G. Newman, Laura Bernardini, Natalie Canham, Jill Clayton-Smith, Bruno Dallapiccola, Sally J. Davies, Michelle K. Demos, Amy Goldman, Harinder Gill, Rachel Horton, Bronwyn Kerr, Dhavendra Kumar, Anna Lehman, Shane McKee, Jenny Morton, Michael J. Parker, Julia Rankin, Lisa Robertson, I. Karen Temple, Siddharth Banka, Shelin Adam, Christèle du Souich, Alison M. Elliott, Jill Mwenifumbo, Tanya N. Nelson, Clara van Karnebeek, Jan M. Friedman, Jeremy F. McRae, Stephen Clayton, Tomas W. Fitzgerald, Joanna Kaplanis, Elena Prigmore, Diana Rajan, Alejandro Sifrim, Stuart Aitken, Nadia Akawi, Mohsan Alvi, Kirsty Ambridge, Daniel M. Barrett, Tanya Bayzetinova, Philip Jones, Wendy D. Jones, Daniel King, Netravathi Krishnappa, Laura E. Mason, Tarjinder Singh, Adrian R. Tivey, Munaza Ahmed, Uruj Anjum, Hayley Archer, Ruth Armstrong, Jana Awada, Meena Balasubramanian, Diana Baralle, Angela Barnicoat, Paul Batstone, David Baty, Chris Bennett, Jonathan Berg, Birgitta Bernhard, A. Paul Bevan, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Edward Blair, Moira Blyth, David Bohanna, Louise Bourdon, David Bourn, Lisa Bradley, Angela Brady, Simon Brent, Carole Brewer, Kate Brunstrom, David J. Bunyan, John Burn, Bruce Castle, Kate Chandler, Elena Chatzimichali, Deirdre Cilliers, Angus Clarke, Susan Clasper, Virginia Clowes, Andrea Coates, Trevor Cole, Irina Colgiu, Amanda Collins, Morag N. Collinson, Fiona Connell, Nicola Cooper, Helen Cox, Lara Cresswell, Gareth Cross, Yanick Crow, Mariella D’Alessandro, Tabib Dabir, Rosemarie Davidson, Sally Davies, Dylan de Vries, John Dean, Charu Deshpande, Gemma Devlin, Abhijit Dixit, Angus Dobbie, Alan Donaldson, Dian Donnai, Deirdre Donnelly, Carina Donnelly, Angela Douglas, Sofia Douzgou, Alexis Duncan, Jacqueline Eason, Sian Ellard, Ian Ellis, Frances Elmslie, Karenza Evans, Sarah Everest, Tina Fendick, Richard Fisher, Frances Flinter, Nicola Foulds, Andrew Fry, Alan Fryer, Carol Gardiner, Lorraine Gaunt, Neeti Ghali, Richard Gibbons, Judith Goodship, David Goudie, Emma Gray, Andrew Green, Philip Greene, Lynn Greenhalgh, Susan Gribble, Rachel Harrison, Lucy Harrison, Victoria Harrison, Rose Hawkins, Liu He, Stephen Hellens, Alex Henderson, Sarah Hewitt, Lucy Hildyard, Emma Hobson, Simon Holden, Muriel Holder, Susan Holder, Georgina Hollingsworth, Tessa Homfray, Mervyn Humphreys, Jane Hurst, Ben Hutton, Stuart Ingram, Melita Irving, Lily Islam, Andrew Jackson, Joanna Jarvis, Lucy Jenkins, Diana Johnson, Elizabeth Jones, Dragana Josifova, Shelagh Joss, Beckie Kaemba, Sandra Kazembe, Rosemary Kelsell, Helen Kingston, Usha Kini, Esther Kinning, Gail Kirby, Claire Kirk, Emma Kivuva, Alison Kraus, V.K. Ajith Kumar, Katherine Lachlan, Wayne Lam, Anne Lampe, Caroline Langman, Melissa Lees, Derek Lim, Cheryl Longman, Gordon Lowther, Sally A. Lynch, Alex Magee, Eddy Maher, Alison Male, Sahar Mansour, Karen Marks, Katherine Martin, Una Maye, Emma McCann, Vivienne McConnell, Meriel McEntagart, Ruth McGowan, Kirsten McKay, Dominic J. McMullan, Susan McNerlan, Catherine McWilliam, Sarju Mehta, Kay Metcalfe, Anna Middleton, Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Emma Miles, Shehla Mohammed, Tara Montgomery, David Moore, Sian Morgan, Hood Mugalaasi, Victoria Murday, Helen Murphy, Swati Naik, Andrea Nemeth, Louise Nevitt, Ruth Newbury-Ecob, Andrew Norman, Rosie O’Shea, Caroline Ogilvie, Kai-Ren Ong, Soo-Mi Park, Chirag Patel, Joan Paterson, Stewart Payne, Daniel Perrett, Julie Phipps, Daniela T. Pilz, Martin Pollard, Caroline Pottinger, Joanna Poulton, Norman Pratt, Katrina Prescott, Sue Price, Abigail Pridham, Annie Procter, Hellen Purnell, Oliver Quarrell, Nicola Ragge, Raheleh Rahbari, Josh Randall, Lucy Raymond, Debbie Rice, Leema Robert, Eileen Roberts, Jonathan Roberts, Paul Roberts, Gillian Roberts, Alison Ross, Elisabeth Rosser, Anand Saggar, Shalaka Samant, Julian Sampson, Richard Sandford, Ajoy Sarkar, Susann Schweiger, Richard Scott, Ingrid Scurr, Ann Selby, Anneke Seller, Cheryl Sequeira, Nora Shannon, Saba Sharif, Charles Shaw-Smith, Emma Shearing, Debbie Shears, Eamonn Sheridan, Ingrid Simonic, Roldan Singzon, Zara Skitt, Audrey Smith, Kath Smith, Sarah Smithson, Linda Sneddon, Miranda Splitt, Miranda Squires, Fiona Stewart, Helen Stewart, Volker Straub, Mohnish Suri, Vivienne Sutton, Ganesh Jawahar Swaminathan, Elizabeth Sweeney, Kate Tatton-Brown, Cat Taylor, Rohan Taylor, Mark Tein, Jenny Thomson, Marc Tischkowitz, Susan Tomkins, Audrey Torokwa, Becky Treacy, Claire Turner, Peter Turnpenny, Carolyn Tysoe, Anthony Vandersteen, Vinod Varghese, Pradeep Vasudevan, Parthiban Vijayarangakannan, Julie Vogt, Emma Wakeling, Sarah Wallwark, Jonathon Waters, Astrid Weber, Diana Wellesley, Margo Whiteford, Sara Widaa, Sarah Wilcox, Emily Wilkinson, Denise Williams, Nicola Williams, Louise Wilson, Geoff Woods, Christopher Wragg, Michael Wright, Laura Yates, Michael Yau, Chris Nellåker, Michael Parker, Helen V. Firth, Caroline F. Wright, David R. FitzPatrick, Jeffrey C. Barrett, and Matthew E. . Hurles
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, ASH1L, Male, Methyltransferase, Adolescent, Histone lysine methylation, KMT5B, Developmental Disabilities, Haploinsufficiency, Biology, Compound heterozygosity, histone lysine methyltransferase, Chromatin remodeling, chromatin remodeling, 03 medical and health sciences, histone lysine demethylase, Report, Genetics, Humans, Child, Genetics (clinical), Regulation of gene expression, Histone Demethylases, Developmental disorders, KMT2C, KMT2B, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, 030104 developmental biology, Histone, Overgrowth syndrome, Child, Preschool, Mutation, biology.protein, KDM5B, Female
Abstract: Histone lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) and demethylases (KDMs) underpin gene regulation. Here we demonstrate that variants causing haploinsufficiency of KMTs and KDMs are frequently encountered in individuals with developmental disorders. Using a combination of human variation databases and existing animal models, we determine 22 KMTs and KDMs as additional candidates for dominantly inherited developmental disorders. We show that KMTs and KDMs that are associated with, or are candidates for, dominant developmental disorders tend to have a higher level of transcription, longer canonical transcripts, more interactors, and a higher number and more types of post-translational modifications than other KMT and KDMs. We provide evidence to firmly associate KMT2C, ASH1L, and KMT5B haploinsufficiency with dominant developmental disorders. Whereas KMT2C or ASH1L haploinsufficiency results in a predominantly neurodevelopmental phenotype with occasional physical anomalies, KMT5B mutations cause an overgrowth syndrome with intellectual disability. We further expand the phenotypic spectrum of KMT2B-related disorders and show that some individuals can have severe developmental delay without dystonia at least until mid-childhood. Additionally, we describe a recessive histone lysine-methylation defect caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous KDM5B variants and resulting in a recognizable syndrome with developmental delay, facial dysmorphism, and camptodactyly. Collectively, these results emphasize the significance of histone lysine methylation in normal human development and the importance of this process in human developmental disorders. Our results demonstrate that systematic clinically oriented pathway-based analysis of genomic data can accelerate the discovery of rare genetic disorders.
Published: 2017
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40. De novo mutations in EBF3 cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome

Author: Alex Henderson, Vivienne McConnell, Helen Cox, Rita Horvath, Alex Magee, Jonathan H. Williams, Tanya N. Nelson, Mair E. A. Churchill, Andrew Green, James Hagman, Julia Rankin, Mary D. King, Caroline F. Wright, Hannah Sleven, Anna Lehman, Seth J. Welsh, Andrea H. Németh, Jing Yu, Julie Vogt, Penny Clouston, and Linlea Armstrong
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Canada, Ataxia, Adolescent, Developmental Disabilities, Mutant, Mutation, Missense, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, Report, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, Age of Onset, Child, Transcription factor, Genetics (clinical), Mutation, Cerebellar ataxia, Infant, Newborn, Infant, DNA, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Phenotype, United Kingdom, Strabismus, 030104 developmental biology, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Face, Female, medicine.symptom, Transcription Factors
Abstract: Early B cell factor 3 (EBF3) is an atypical transcription factor that is thought to influence the laminar formation of the cerebral cortex. Here, we report that de novo mutations in EBF3 cause a complex neurodevelopmental syndrome. The mutations were identified in two large-scale sequencing projects: the UK Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study and the Canadian Clinical Assessment of the Utility of Sequencing and Evaluation as a Service (CAUSES) study. The core phenotype includes moderate to severe intellectual disability, and many individuals exhibit cerebellar ataxia, subtle facial dysmorphism, strabismus, and vesicoureteric reflux, suggesting that EBF3 has a widespread developmental role. Pathogenic de novo variants identified in EBF3 include multiple loss-of-function and missense mutations. Structural modeling suggested that the missense mutations affect DNA binding. Functional analysis of mutant proteins with missense substitutions revealed reduced transcriptional activities and abilities to form heterodimers with wild-type EBF3. We conclude that EBF3, a transcription factor previously unknown to be associated with human disease, is important for brain and other organ development and warrants further investigation.
Published: 2017

41. RMND1-Related Leukoencephalopathy With Temporal Lobe Cysts and Hearing Loss-Another Mendelian Mimicker of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection

Author: Adeline Vanderver, Geneviève Bernard, Imen Dorboz, Jacek Majewski, Robert McFarland, Daniela Buhas, Daria Diodato, Clara D.M. van Karnebeek, Karen Pysden, Diana Rodriguez, Miriam Bloom, Julie Vogt, Cas Simons, Amy Pizzino, Diego Martinelli, Amy Goldstein, Yi Shiau Ng, Guy Helman, Ahmad Monavari, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Ryan J. Taft, Martine Tétreault, Nicole Ulrick, Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms, and Paediatric Metabolic Diseases
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Hearing loss, Congenital cytomegalovirus infection, Cell Cycle Proteins, 030105 genetics & heredity, Deafness, Meiotic nuclear division, Temporal lobe, Leukoencephalopathy, Cohort Studies, Diagnosis, Differential, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Developmental Neuroscience, Leukoencephalopathies, Medicine, Humans, Child, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Brain Neoplasms, Cysts, Infant, Magnetic resonance imaging, Cystic Change, medicine.disease, Hyperintensity, Temporal Lobe, 3. Good health, Phenotype, Neurology, Child, Preschool, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Mutation, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Background Leukoencephalopathy with temporal lobe cysts may be associated with monogenetic conditions such as Aicardi–Goutieres syndrome or RNASET2 mutations and with congenital infections such as cytomegalovirus. In view of the fact that congenital cytomegalovirus is difficult to confirm outside the neonatal period, excluding a Mendelian disorder is extremely relevant, changing family planning and medical management in affected families. We performed diagnostic testing in individuals with leukoencephalopathy with temporal lobe cysts without a definitive diagnosis of congenital cytomegalovirus infection. Methods We reviewed a large-scale biorepository of patients with unsolved leukodystrophies and identified two individuals with required for meiotic nuclear division 1 ( RMND1 ) mutations and similar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features, including temporal lobe cysts. Ten additional subjects with confirmed RMND1 mutations were identified as part of a separate disease specific cohort. Brain MRIs from all 12 individuals were reviewed for common neuroradiological features. Results MRI features in RMND1 mutations included temporal lobe swelling, with rarefaction and cystic evolution, enlarged tips of the temporal lobes, and multifocal subcortical white matter changes with confluent periatrial T2 signal hyperintensity. A combination of these features was present in ten of the 12 individuals reviewed. Conclusions Despite the small number of reported individuals with RMND1 mutations, a clinically recognizable phenotype of leukoencephalopathy with temporal lobe swelling, rarefaction, and cystic changes has emerged in a subset of individuals. Careful clinical phenotyping, including for lactic acidosis, deafness, and severe muscle involvement seen in RMND1 mutation positive individuals, and MRI pattern recognition will be important in differentiating these patients from children with congenital infections like cytomegalovirus.
Published: 2016

42. Germline mutation in DOK7 associated with fetal akinesia deformation sequence

Author: David Beeson, Susan Maxwell, Eamonn R. Maher, Neil V. Morgan, Tamás Marton, B J Harrison, and Julie Vogt
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Developmental Disabilities, DNA Mutational Analysis, India, Muscle Proteins, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Neuromuscular junction, Consanguinity, Germline mutation, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Child, Germ-Line Mutation, Genetics (clinical), Loss function, Acetylcholine receptor, Mutation, Splice site mutation, Base Sequence, Syndrome, Congenital myasthenic syndrome, medicine.disease, RAPSN, Alternative Splicing, medicine.anatomical_structure, Endocrinology, Female, RNA Splice Sites
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Fetal akinesia deformation sequence syndrome (FADS) is a heterogeneous disorder characterised by fetal akinesia and developmental defects including, in some case, pterygia. Multiple pterygium syndromes (MPS) are traditionally divided into prenatally lethal and non-lethal (such as Escobar) types. Previously, we and others reported that homozygous mutations in the fetal acetylcholine receptor gamma subunit (CHRNG) can cause both lethal and non-lethal MPS, demonstrating that pterygia resulted from fetal akinesia, and that mutations in the acetylcholine receptor subunits CHRNA1, CHRND, and Rapsyn (RAPSN) can also result in a MPS/FADS phenotype. METHODS: We hypothesised that mutations in other acetylcholine receptor related genes may interfere with neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction and so we analysed 14 cases of lethal MPS/FADS without CHRNG, CHRNA1, CHRNB1, CHRND, or RAPSN mutations for mutations in DOK7. RESULTS: A homozygous DOK7 splice site mutation, c.331+1G>T, was identified in a family with three children affected with lethal FADS. Previously DOK7 mutations have been reported to underlie a congenital myaesthenic syndrome with a characteristic "limb girdle" pattern of muscle weakness. CONCLUSION: This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that whereas incomplete loss of DOK7 function may cause congenital myasthenia, more severe loss of function can result in a lethal fetal akinesia phenotype.
Published: 2016

43. Compound heterozygous RMND1 gene variants associated with chronic kidney disease, dilated cardiomyopathy and neurological involvement: a case report

Author: Robert W. Taylor, Emma L. Blakely, Robert McFarland, Langping He, David V. Milford, Nicola K. Ragge, Julie Vogt, Isabel Colmenero, and Asheeta Gupta
Subjects: Cardiomyopathy, Dilated, Male, 0301 basic medicine, Heterozygote, Mitochondrial DNA, Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Mitochondrial Diseases, Mitochondrial disease, Global developmental delay, Case Report, Cell Cycle Proteins, 030105 genetics & heredity, Compound heterozygosity, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Chronic kidney disease, Humans, Medicine, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic, Cell Nucleus, Medicine(all), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), business.industry, Infant, Nuclear Proteins, Dilated cardiomyopathy, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Hypotonia, 3. Good health, Sensorineural hearing loss, Transplantation, 030104 developmental biology, Electron Transport Chain Complex Proteins, RMND1 gene, Mutation, Nervous System Diseases, medicine.symptom, business, Kidney disease
Abstract: Background Nuclear gene mutations are being increasingly recognised as causes of mitochondrial disease. The nuclear gene RMND1 has recently been implicated in mitochondrial disease, but the spectrum of pathogenic variants and associated phenotype for this gene, has not been fully elucidated. Case presentation An 11-month-old boy presented with renal impairment associated with a truncal ataxia, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, hypotonia, delayed visual maturation and global developmental delay. Over a 9-year period, he progressed to chronic kidney disease stage V and developed a dilated cardiomyopathy. Abnormalities in renal and muscle biopsy as well as cytochrome c oxidase activity prompted genetic testing. After exclusion of mitochondrial DNA defects, nuclear genetic studies identified compound heterozygous RMND1 (c.713A>G, p. Asn238Ser and c.565C>T, p.Gln189*) variants. Conclusion We report RMND1 gene variants associated with end stage renal failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, deafness and neurological involvement due to mitochondrial disease. This case expands current knowledge of mitochondrial disease secondary to mutation of the RMND1 gene by further delineating renal manifestations including histopathology. To our knowledge dilated cardiomyopathy has not been reported with renal failure in mitochondrial disease due to mutations of RMND1. The presence of this complication was important in this case as it precluded renal transplantation.
Published: 2016
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44. Mutation Analysis of CHRNA1, CHRNB1, CHRND, and RAPSN Genes in Multiple Pterygium Syndrome/Fetal Akinesia Patients

Author: Hayley Spearman, David Beeson, Neil V. Morgan, Sascha Vermeer, Julie Vogt, Eamonn R. Maher, Judy Cossins, Benjamin J. Harrison, and Lambert Naudin ten Cate
Subjects: Pathology, medicine.medical_specialty, Molecular Sequence Data, Muscle Proteins, Receptors, Nicotinic, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Frameshift mutation, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Report, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Receptors, Cholinergic, Genetics(clinical), Amino Acid Sequence, Child, Genetics (clinical), Loss function, 030304 developmental biology, Arthrogryposis, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Base Sequence, Genetic heterogeneity, Syndrome, Anatomy, medicine.disease, Phenotype, RAPSN, Fetal Diseases, Genetic defects of metabolism [UMCN 5.1], sense organs, Multiple pterygium syndrome, medicine.symptom, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 70779.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Multiple pterygium syndromes (MPS) comprise a group of multiple congenital anomaly disorders characterized by webbing (pterygia) of the neck, elbows, and/or knees and joint contractures (arthrogryposis). MPS are phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous but are traditionally divided into prenatally lethal and nonlethal (Escobar) types. Previously, we and others reported that recessive mutations in the embryonal acetylcholine receptor g subunit (CHRNG) can cause both lethal and nonlethal MPS, thus demonstrating that pterygia resulted from fetal akinesia. We hypothesized that mutations in acetylcholine receptor-related genes might also result in a MPS/fetal akinesia phenotype and so we analyzed 15 cases of lethal MPS/fetal akinesia without CHRNG mutations for mutations in the CHRNA1, CHRNB1, CHRND, and rapsyn (RAPSN) genes. No CHRNA1, CHRNB1, or CHRND mutations were detected, but a homozygous RAPSN frameshift mutation, c.1177-1178delAA, was identified in a family with three children affected with lethal fetal akinesia sequence. Previously, RAPSN mutations have been reported in congenital myasthenia. Functional studies were consistent with the hypothesis that whereas incomplete loss of rapsyn function may cause congenital myasthenia, more severe loss of function can result in a lethal fetal akinesia phenotype.
Published: 2008
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45. Skeletal and bone material phenotype in recessive osteogenesis imperfecta due to a novel homozygous point mutation in TMEM38B

Author: Emma A Webb, Paul Roschger, Nicola Crabtree, Wolfgang Högler, Meena Balasubramanian, Susan E. Stewart, Trevor Cole, Nadja Fratzl-Zelman, Klaus Klaushofer, and Julie Vogt
Subjects: Genetics, Osteogenesis imperfecta, Point mutation, Bone material, medicine, General Medicine, Biology, medicine.disease, Phenotype
Published: 2015
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46. Characterization of Human Disease Phenotypes Associated with Mutations in TREX1, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2B, RNASEH2C, SAMHD1, ADAR, and IFIH1

Author: Marlène Rio, Vincent Laugel, Christine Barnerias, Vijay Aswani, Guillermo Agosta, Rachel Straussberg, Diana Chase, Maja Di Rocco, Mohamed S. Abdel-Hamid, Daniel R. Carvalho, Montse Arellano, Maya Thomas, Yanick J. Crow, Giovanni Crichiutti, Lyvia Dabydeen, Miriam Bloom, Kathryn J. Swoboda, Bertrand Isidor, Kevin J. Murray, Nasaim Khan, Agathe Roubertie, Kathryn Bailey, Johanna Lowenstein Schmidt, Noemi Nunez-Enamorado, Venkateswaran Ramesh, Simona Orcesi, Michael C Fahey, Keng Wee Teik, Ram L. Kumar, Gabriella Forte, Roberta Battini, Alec Aeby, Flore Rozenberg, Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Eileen Baildam, Sam Ackroyd, Magnhild Rasmussen, Doriette Soler, Diana Rodriguez, Marjo S. van der Knaap, Sheela Nampoothiri, Bülent Kara, Ivana Olivieri, Julie Vogt, Julie S. Prendiville, Ghada M H Abdel-Salam, Thierry Billette de Villemeur, Ronen Spiegel, Tommy Stödberg, Rudy Van Coster, Marianne Till, Alberto B. Burlina, Enza Maria Valente, Patrick J. Oades, Gyanranjan P. Sinha, Beverley Anderson, William P Whitehouse, Raymon Vijzelaar, Liesbeth De Waele, Cristina Cereda, Hannah J. Webb, Gillian I. Rice, Geneviève Bernard, Anthony Oojageer, Stefano D'Arrigo, Ming K. Lim, Donncha Hanrahan, Nuno Cordeiro, Adeline Vanderver, Hannah Gornall, Manuel Castro-Gago, Johann te Water Naude, Grace Vassallo, Stavit Allon-Shalev, Belén Pérez-Dueñas, Charles Marques Lourenço, Sameer M. Zuberi, Magalie Barth, Lieven Lagae, Cyril Goizet, Christian de Goede, Tiong Yang Tan, Jenny Morton, Riyana Babul-Hirji, Mark T Mackay, Geoffrey Wallace, Elisabetta Salvatici, Heinz Lauffer, Corinne De Laet, Federica Ricci, Russell C. Dale, Maria Luisa Carpanelli, Catherine Albin, Elisa Fazzi, Michael W. Beresford, Pierre Lebon, Abigail Collins, Roberta La Piana, Amy Pizzino, Edward Blair, Nirmala Rani Gowrinathan, Mohnish Suri, Rima Nabbout, Guy Helman, Luc Régal, Karin Segers, John H. Livingston, Davide Tonduti, Uta Tacke, António Figueiredo, Robyn Whitney, Blanca Gener, John R. Østergaard, David Chitayat, Kalpana Gowrishankar, Tarja Linnankivi, Edwin P. Kirk, Jean-Pierre Lin, Pierre Landrieu, Isabella Moroni, Mary D. King, Colin D. Ferrie, Koenraad Devriendt, Anna Cavallini, Shane McKee, Marika Bianchi, Daphna Marom, Marcin Szynkiewicz, Isabelle Desguerre, Evangeline Wassmer, Kate Chandler, Maha S. Zaki, Inés Denzler, Giada Ariaudo, Marie Laure Moutard, Concepcion Sierra Corcoles, Pediatric surgery, NCA - Brain mechanisms in health and disease, Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam - Brain Mechanisms in Health & Disease, and Other departments
Subjects: Interferon-Induced Helicase, IFIH1, Adenosine Deaminase, Autoimmune diseases, Fenótipo, Disease, Aicardi–Goutieres syndrome, Aicardi-Goutières syndrome, Bilateral striatal necrosis, DEAD-box RNA Helicases, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics (clinical), 0303 health sciences, Doenças auto-imunes do sistema nervoso, 3. Good health, Phenotype, Spastic paraparesis, Biomarker (medicine), Vasculitis, bilateral striatal necrosis, spastic paraparesis, type I interferon, interferon signature, Genotype, Encephalopathy, Ribonuclease H, Alpha interferon, Biology, Nervous System Malformations, Article, SAM Domain and HD Domain-Containing Protein 1, 03 medical and health sciences, Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, Interferon signature, Type I interferon, Exodeoxyribonucleases, Genetic Association Studies, Humans, Interferons, Monomeric GTP-Binding Proteins, Phosphoproteins, Pterins, Mutation, Genetics, medicine, Chilblains, 030304 developmental biology, Aicardi-Goutieres syndromebilateral striatal necrosisspastic paraparesistype I interferoninterferon signature, medicine.disease, Peripheral neuropathy, Immunology, Aicardi–Goutières syndrome, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome is an inflammatory disease occurring due to mutations in any of TREX1, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2B, RNASEH2C, SAMHD1, ADAR or IFIH1. We report on 374 patients from 299 families with mutations in these seven genes. Most patients conformed to one of two fairly stereotyped clinical profiles; either exhibiting an in utero disease-onset (74 patients; 22.8% of all patients where data were available), or a post-natal presentation, usually within the first year of life (223 patients; 68.6%), characterized by a sub-acute encephalopathy and a loss of previously acquired skills. Other clinically distinct phenotypes were also observed; particularly, bilateral striatal necrosis (13 patients; 3.6%) and non-syndromic spastic paraparesis (12 patients; 3.4%). We recorded 69 deaths (19.3% of patients with follow-up data). Of 285 patients for whom data were available, 210 (73.7%) were profoundly disabled, with no useful motor, speech and intellectual function. Chilblains, glaucoma, hypothyroidism, cardiomyopathy, intracerebral vasculitis, peripheral neuropathy, bowel inflammation and systemic lupus erythematosus were seen frequently enough to be confirmed as real associations with the Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome phenotype. We observed a robust relationship between mutations in all seven genes with increased type I interferon activity in cerebrospinal fluid and serum, and the increased expression of interferon-stimulated gene transcripts in peripheral blood. We recorded a positive correlation between the level of cerebrospinal fluid interferon activity assayed within one year of disease presentation and the degree of subsequent disability. Interferon-stimulated gene transcripts remained high in most patients, indicating an ongoing disease process. On the basis of substantial morbidity and mortality, our data highlight the urgent need to define coherent treatment strategies for the phenotypes associated with mutations in the Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome-related genes. Our findings also make it clear that a window of therapeutic opportunity exists relevant to the majority of affected patients and indicate that the assessment of type I interferon activity might serve as a useful biomarker in future clinical trials. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
Published: 2015
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47. B56δ-related protein phosphatase 2A dysfunction identified in patients with intellectual disability

Author: Rita Holdhus, Koen L.I. van Gassen, Marjolein H. Willemsen, Matthew E. Hurles, Vidar M. Steen, Sarju G. Mehta, Alexander Hoischen, Tjitske Kleefstra, Lisenka E.L.M. Vissers, Veerle Janssens, Shane McKee, Margot R.F. Reijnders, Michael Parker, Julie Vogt, Charlotte I. de Bie, Gunnar Houge, David R. FitzPatrick, Evan E. Eichler, Dorien Haesen, Stein Ove Døskeland, Evelien Zonneveld-Huijssoon, Siren Berland, Eli Hayman, Eli Lahat, Michael Wright, Eva H. Brilstra, Nuno Cordeiro, and John Tolmie
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Protein subunit, Mutant, Phosphatase, Mutation, Missense, Other Research Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 0], Research Support, medicine.disease_cause, Protein Structure, Secondary, N.I.H, Corpus Callosum, Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, GSK-3, Internal medicine, medicine, Journal Article, Missense mutation, Humans, Protein Phosphatase 2, Phosphorylation, Non-U.S. Gov't, Child, Medicine(all), Mutation, Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 beta, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], business.industry, Mental Disorders, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Extramural, Infant, General Medicine, Protein phosphatase 2, Middle Aged, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Endocrinology, Amino Acid Substitution, Child, Preschool, Female, Agenesis of Corpus Callosum, business, Research Article, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9]
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 154618.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Here we report inherited dysregulation of protein phosphatase activity as a cause of intellectual disability (ID). De novo missense mutations in 2 subunits of serine/threonine (Ser/Thr) protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) were identified in 16 individuals with mild to severe ID, long-lasting hypotonia, epileptic susceptibility, frontal bossing, mild hypertelorism, and downslanting palpebral fissures. PP2A comprises catalytic (C), scaffolding (A), and regulatory (B) subunits that determine subcellular anchoring, substrate specificity, and physiological function. Ten patients had mutations within a highly conserved acidic loop of the PPP2R5D-encoded B56delta regulatory subunit, with the same E198K mutation present in 6 individuals. Five patients had mutations in the PPP2R1A-encoded scaffolding Aalpha subunit, with the same R182W mutation in 3 individuals. Some Aalpha cases presented with large ventricles, causing macrocephaly and hydrocephalus suspicion, and all cases exhibited partial or complete corpus callosum agenesis. Functional evaluation revealed that mutant A and B subunits were stable and uncoupled from phosphatase activity. Mutant B56delta was A and C binding-deficient, while mutant Aalpha subunits bound B56delta well but were unable to bind C or bound a catalytically impaired C, suggesting a dominant-negative effect where mutant subunits hinder dephosphorylation of B56delta-anchored substrates. Moreover, mutant subunit overexpression resulted in hyperphosphorylation of GSK3beta, a B56delta-regulated substrate. This effect was in line with clinical observations, supporting a correlation between the ID degree and biochemical disturbance.
Published: 2015

48. Germline mutations in RYR1 are associated with foetal akinesia deformation sequence/lethal multiple pterygium syndrome

Author: Jasper J. van der Smagt, Peter G. J. Nikkels, Soo-Mi Park, Julie Vogt, Eamonn R. Maher, Kyra E. Stuurman, Neil V. Morgan, Marjan M. Weiss, Atif Alsaedi, Louise Tee, Hassan Shakeel, Marianna Bugiani, Gijs van Haaften, Arthur B. McKie, Human genetics, Pathology, and NCA - Brain mechanisms in health and disease
Subjects: Genetic Linkage, Myopathy, RYR1 mutations, DNA Mutational Analysis, Locus (genetics), Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Cohort Studies, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Germline mutation, Fetus, Multiple pterygium syndrome, Genetic linkage, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Family, Allele, Foetal akinesia, Muscle, Skeletal, Germ-Line Mutation, Sequence Deletion, Genetics, Genetic heterogeneity, Research, Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel, medicine.disease, musculoskeletal system, Null allele, Lethal Multiple Pterygium Syndrome, Codon, Nonsense, Skin Abnormalities, Neurology (clinical), Malignant Hyperthermia, Microsatellite Repeats
Abstract: Introduction: Foetal akinesia deformation sequence syndrome (FADS) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterised by the combination of foetal akinesia and developmental defects which may include pterygia (joint webbing). Traditionally multiple pterygium syndrome (MPS) has been divided into two forms: prenatally lethal (LMPS) and non-lethal Escobar type (EVMPS) types. Interestingly, FADS, LMPS and EVMPS may be allelic e.g. each of these phenotypes may result from mutations in the foetal acetylcholine receptor gamma subunit gene (CHRNG). Many cases of FADS and MPS do not have a mutation in a known FADS/MPS gene and we undertook molecular genetic studies to identify novel causes of these phenotypes. Results: After mapping a novel locus for FADS/LMPS to chromosome 19, we identified a homozygous null mutation in the RYR1 gene in a consanguineous kindred with recurrent LMPS pregnancies. Resequencing of RYR1 in a cohort of 66 unrelated probands with FADS/LMPS/EVMPS (36 with FADS/LMPS and 30 with EVMPS) revealed two additional homozygous mutations (in frame deletions). The overall frequency of RYR1 mutations in probands with FADS/LMPS was 8.3%. Conclusions: Our findings report, for the first time, a homozygous RYR1 null mutation and expand the range of RYR1-related phenotypes to include early lethal FADS/LMPS. We suggest that RYR1 mutation analysis should be performed in cases of severe FADS/LMPS even in the absence of specific histopathological indicators of RYR1-related disease.
Published: 2014
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49. A microdeletion encompassing PHF21A in an individual with global developmental delay and craniofacial anomalies

Author: Hyung Goo Kim, Lawrence C. Layman, Julie Vogt, Lisa Reali, Il-Keun Kong, and Jonathan D J Labonne
Subjects: Male, Candidate gene, Positional cloning, Craniofacial abnormality, Potocki–Shaffer syndrome, Developmental Disabilities, Chromosome Disorders, Biology, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Histone Deacetylases, Craniofacial Abnormalities, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Deletion mapping, Global developmental delay, Craniofacial, Genetics (clinical), Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11, Chromosome Mapping, Infant, Membrane Proteins, medicine.disease, Face, Female, Chromosome Deletion, Haploinsufficiency, Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary, Gene Deletion
Abstract: In Potocki-Shaffer syndrome (PSS), the full phenotypic spectrum is manifested when deletions are at least 2.1 Mb in size at 11p11.2. The PSS-associated genes EXT2 and ALX4, together with PHF21A, all map to this region flanked by markers D11S1393 and D11S1319. Being proximal to EXT2 and ALX4, a 1.1 Mb region containing 12 annotated genes had been identified by deletion mapping to explain PSS phenotypes except multiple exostoses and parietal foramina. Here, we report a male patient with partial PSS phenotypes including global developmental delay, craniofacial anomalies, minor limb anomalies, and micropenis. Using microarray, qPCR, RT-qPCR, and Western blot analyses, we refined the candidate gene region, which harbors five genes, by excluding two genes, SLC35C1 and CRY2, which resulted in a corroborating role of PHF21A in developmental delay and craniofacial anomalies. This microdeletion contains the least number of genes at 11p11.2 reported to date. Additionally, we also discuss the phenotypes observed in our patient with respect to those of published cases of microdeletions across the Potocki-Shaffer interval.
Published: 2014

50. Deletions in the 3' part of the NFIX gene including a recurrent Alu-mediated deletion of exon 6 and 7 account for previously unexplained cases of Marshall-Smith syndrome

Author: Dorothee Neubauer, Martin Zenker, Marie Ange Delrue, Denny Schanze, Eva Holmberg, Eva Seemanova, Ina Schanze, Peter Meinecke, Anne Dieux-Coeslier, Tomonobu Hasegawa, Rainer Koenig, André Reis, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Adam Shaw, Raoul C.M. Hennekam, Marianne Volleth, Julie Vogt, Gabriele Krueger, ANS - Amsterdam Neuroscience, APH - Amsterdam Public Health, and Human Genetics
Subjects: Adult, Male, Adolescent, DNA Mutational Analysis, Nonsense-mediated decay, Mutant, Gene Expression, Frameshift mutation, Craniofacial Abnormalities, Chromosome Breakpoints, Young Adult, Exon, Marshall–Smith syndrome, Septo-Optic Dysplasia, Alu Elements, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, RNA, Messenger, Child, Gene, Genetics (clinical), Sequence Deletion, Bone Diseases, Developmental, biology, Intron, Facies, Infant, Exons, medicine.disease, NFIX, Molecular biology, digestive system diseases, NFI Transcription Factors, Phenotype, Genetic Loci, Child, Preschool, Mutation, biology.protein, Female
Abstract: Marshall-Smith syndrome (MSS) is a very rare malformation syndrome characterized by typical craniofacial anomalies, abnormal osseous maturation, developmental delay, failure to thrive, and respiratory difficulties. Mutations in the nuclear factor 1/X gene (NFIX) were recently identified as the cause of MSS. In our study cohort of 17 patients with a clinical diagnosis of MSS, conventional sequencing of NFIX revealed frameshift and splice-site mutations in 10 individuals. Using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification analysis, we identified a recurrent deletion of NFIX exon 6 and 7 in five individuals. We demonstrate this recurrent deletion is the product of a recombination between AluY elements located in intron 5 and 7. Two other patients had smaller deletions affecting exon 6. These findings show that MSS is a genetically homogeneous Mendelian disorder. RT-PCR experiments with newly identified NFIX mutations including the recurrent exon 6 and 7 deletion confirmed previous findings indicating that MSS-associated mutant mRNAs are not cleared by nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. Predicted MSS-associated mutant NFIX proteins consistently have a preserved DNA binding and dimerization domain, whereas they grossly vary in their C-terminal portion. This is in line with the hypothesis that MSS-associated mutations encode dysfunctional proteins that act in a dominant negative manner.
Published: 2014

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