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1. Rare genetic susceptibility variants assessment in autism spectrum disorder: detection rate and practical use

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Thomas Husson, François Lecoquierre, Kevin Cassinari, Camille Charbonnier, Olivier Quenez, Alice Goldenberg, Anne-Marie Guerrot, Anne-Claire Richard, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Anne-Claire Brehin, Maryam Soleimani, Romain Taton, Maud Rotharmel, Antoine Rosier, Pascal Chambon, Nathalie Le Meur, Géraldine Joly-Helas, Pascale Saugier-Veber, Anne Boland, Jean-François Deleuze, Robert Olaso, Thierry Frebourg, Gael Nicolas, Olivier Guillin, and Dominique Campion

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Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
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Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a strong genetic component whose knowledge evolves quickly. Next-generation sequencing is the only effective technology to deal with the high genetic heterogeneity of ASD in a clinical setting. However, rigorous criteria to classify rare genetic variants conferring ASD susceptibility are currently lacking. We have performed whole-exome sequencing to identify both nucleotide variants and copy number variants (CNVs) in 253 ASD patients, including 68 patients with intellectual disability (ID) and 90 diagnosed as Asperger syndrome. Using explicit criteria to classify both susceptibility genes and susceptibility variants we prioritized 217 genes belonging to the following categories: syndromic genes, genes with an excess of de novo protein truncating variants and genes targeted by rare CNVs. We obtained a susceptibility variant detection rate of 19.7% (95% CI: [15–25.2%]). The rate for CNVs was 7.1% (95% CI: [4.3–11%]) and 12.6% (95% CI: [8.8–17.4%]) for nucleotide variants. The highest rate (30.1%, 95% CI: [20.2–43.2%]) was obtained in the ASD + ID subgroup. A strong contributor for at risk nucleotide variants was the recently identified set of genes (n = 81) harboring an excess of de novo protein truncating variants. Since there is currently no evidence that the genes targeted here are necessary and sufficient to cause ASD, we recommend to avoid the term “causative of ASD” when delivering the information about a variant to a family and to use instead the term “genetic susceptibility factor contributing to ASD”.

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2020
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2. De novo heterozygous desmoplakin mutations leading to Naxos-Carvajal disease

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Dagmar I Keller, Dimitri Stepowski, Christian Balmer, Francoise Simon, Joelle Guenthard, Fabrice Bauer, Peter Itin, Nadine David, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, and Véronique Fressart

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arrythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia, autosomal-rezessive, de novo mutations, desmoplakin gene, mutation hot spots, Naxos/Carvajal Syndrome, Medicine
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STUDY/PRINCIPLES: Arrythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia (ARVC/D) is an autosomal-dominantly inherited disease caused by mutations in genes encoding desmosomal proteins and is characterised by fibrofatty replacement occurring predominantly in the right ventricle and can result in sudden cardiac death. Naxos and Carvajal syndrome, autosomal recessive forms of ARVC/D, are characterised by involvement of the right and/or left ventricle in association with palmoplantar keratoderma and woolly hair. The aim of the present study has been to screen for mutations in the desmosomal protein genes of two unrelated patients with Naxos-Carvajal syndrome. METHODS AND RESULTS: Desmosomal protein genes were screened for mutations by polymerase chain reaction as well as direct sequencing approach. In each patient we identified a single heterozygous de novo mutation in the desmoplakin gene DSP, p.Leu583Pro and p.Thr564Ile, leading to severe combined cardiac/dermatological and cardiac/dermatological/dental phenotypes. The DSP missense mutations are localised in the N terminal domain of desmoplakin. CONCLUSION: The identified variations in DSP involve highly conserved residues. Moreover, the variations are de novo mutations and they are localised in critical protein domains that appear to be mutation hot spots. We assume that these heterozygous variations are causal for the mixed Naxos-Carvajal syndrome phenotype in the screened patients.

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2012
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3. The genetic landscape and clinical spectrum of nephronophthisis and related ciliopathies

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Friederike Petzold, Katy Billot, Xiaoyi Chen, Charline Henry, Emilie Filhol, Yoann Martin, Marina Avramescu, Maxime Douillet, Vincent Morinière, Pauline Krug, Cécile Jeanpierre, Kalman Tory, Olivia Boyer, Anita Burgun, Aude Servais, Remi Salomon, Alexandre Benmerah, Laurence Heidet, Nicolas Garcelon, Corinne Antignac, Mohamad Zaidan, Sophie Saunier, Tania Attié-Bitach, Valerie Comier-Daire, Jean-Michel Rozet, Yaacov Frishberg, Brigitte Llanas, Michel Broyer, Nabil Mohsin, Marie-Alice Macher, Nicole Philip, Véronique Baudouin, Damian Brackman, Chantal Loirat, Marina Charbit, Maud Dehennault, Claude Guyot, Pierre Bataille, Mariet Elting, Georges Deschenes, Andrea Gropman, Geneviève Guest, Marie-France Gagnadoux, Philippe Nicoud, Pierre Cochat, Bruno Ranchin, Albert Bensman, Anne-Marie Guerrot, Bertrand Knebelmann, Ilmay Bilge, Danièle Bruno, Stéphane Burtey, Caroline Rousset Rouvière, Valérie Caudwell, Denis Morin, Hélène Dollfus, Anne Maisin, Christian Hamel, Eric Bieth, Sophie Gie, Judith Goodship, Gwenaelle Roussey, Hermine La Selve, Hubert Nivet, Lucie Bessenay, Mathilde Caillez, Jean Bernard Palcoux, Stéphane Benoît, Philippe Dubot, Marc Fila, Fabienne Giuliano, Daouya Iftene, Michele Kessler, Theresa Kwon, Anine Lahoche, Audrey Laurent, Anne-Laure Leclerc, David Milford, Thomas Neuhaus, Sylvie Odent, Philippe Eckart, Dominique Chauveau, Patrick Niaudet, Horacio Repetto, Sophie Taque, Alexandra Bruel, Alexandra Noel-Botte, Emma Allain Launay, Lisa Allard, Dany Anlicheau, Anne-Laure Adra, Arnaud Garnier, Arvind Nagra, Remy Baatard, Justine Bacchetta, Banu Sadikoglu, Christine Barnerias, Anne Barthelemy, Lina Basel, Nader Bassilios, Hedi Ben Maiz, Fatma Ben Moussa, Faïza Benmati, Romain Berthaud, Aurélia Bertholet, Dominique Blanchier, Jean Jacques Boffa, Karim Bouchireb, Ihab Bouhabel, Zakaria Boukerroucha, Guylhène Bourdat-Michel, Odile Boute, Karine Brochard, Roseline Caumes, Siham Chafai Elalaoui, Bernard Chamontin, Marie Caroline Chastang, Christine Pietrement, Christine Richer, Christophe Legendre, Karin Dahan, Fabienne Dalla-Vale, Damien Thibaudin, Maxime Dauvergne, Salandre Davourie, Martin Debeukelaer, Jean Daniel Delbet, Constantinos Deltas, Denis Graber, Nadège Devillars, Boucar Diouf, Martine Doco Fenzy, Jean-Luc André, Dominique Joly, Alan Fryer, Laetitia Albano, Elisabeth Cassuto, Aline Pincon, Ana Medeira, Annabelle Chaussenot, Anne Mensire-Marinier, Francois Bouissou, Stephane Decramer, Armand Bottani, Aurélie Hummel, Alexandre Karras, Avi Katz, Christine Azema, Bénédicte Janbon, Bernard Roussel, Claude Bonniol, Christiophe Mariat, Gérard Champion, Deborah Chantreuil, Nicolas Chassaing, Christiane Mousson, Christine Baudeau, Delphine Hafdar Cuntz, Cyril Mignot, Laurene Dehoux, Didier Lacombe, Thierry Hannedouche, Elodie Mérieau, Emmanuelle Charlin, Eric Gauthier, Florent Plasse, Stanislas Faguer, Fanny Lebas, Florence Demurger, Francesco Emma, François Cartault, Geneviève Dumont, Nathalie Godefroid, Vincent Guigonis, Sophie Hillaire, Jaap Groothoff, Jan Dudley, Noémie Jourde-Chiche, Khalil El Karoui, Saoussen Krid, Krier Coudert, Larbi Bencheick, Laurent Yver, Marie-Pierre Lavocat, Le Monies De Sagazan, Valerie Leroy, Lise Thibaudin, Liz Ingulli, Lorraine Gwanmesia, Lydie Burglen, Marie-Hélène Saïd-Menthon, Marta Carrera, Mathilde Nizon, Catherine Melander, Michel Foulard, Monique Blayo, Jacques Prinseau, Nadine Jay, Nathalie Brun, Nicolas Camille, François Nobili, Olivier Devuyst, Ouafa Ben Brahim, Paloma Parvex, Laurence Perrin Sabourin, Philippe Blanc, Philippe Vanhille, Pierre Galichon, Sophie Pierrepont, Vincent Planquois, Gwenaelle Poussard, Claire Pouteil Noble, Radia Allal, Raphaelle Bernard, Raynaud Mounet, Rémi Cahen, Renaud Touraine, Claire Rigothier, Amélie Ryckewaert, Mathieu Sacquepee, Salima El Chehadeh, Charlotte Samaille, Shuman Haq, Ari Simckes, Stéphanie Lanoiselée, Stephanie Tellier, Jean-François Subra, Sylvie Cloarec, Julie Tenenbam, Thomas Lamy, Valérie Drouin Garraud, Huguette Valette, Vanina Meyssonnier, Rosa Vargas-Poussou, Yves Snajer, Sandrine Durault, Emmanuelle Plaisier, Etienne Berard, Fadi Fakhouri, Ferielle Louillet, Paul Finielz, Michel Fischbach, Bernard Foliguet, Hélène Francois-Pradier, Florentine Garaix, Marion Gerard, Gianfranco Rizzoni, Brigitte Gilbert, Denis Glotz, Astrid Godron Dubrasquet, Jean-Pierre Grünfeld, Guillaume Bollee, Michelle Hall, Sverker Hansson, Damien Haye, Hélène Taffin, Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Maryvonne Hourmand, Hümya Kayserili, Ivan Tack, Marie Line Jacquemont, Jennifer Fabre-Teste, Cliff Kashtan, Kkoen Van Hoeck, Alexandre Klein, Yannick Knefati, Nine Knoers, Martin Konrad, Alain Lachaux, Isabelle Landru, Gilbert Landthaler, Philippe Lang, Patrick Le Pogamp, Tristan Legris, Catherine Didailler, Thierry Lobbedez, Loïc de Parscau, Lucile Pinson, Hervé Maheut, Marc Duval-Arnould, Marlène Rio, Marie-Claire Gubler, Pierre Merville, Guillaume Mestrallet, Maite Meunier, Karine Moreau, Jérôme Harambat, Graeme Morgan, Georges Mourad, Niksic Stuber, Odile Boespflug-Tanguy, Olivier Dunand, Olivier Niel, Nacera Ouali, Paolo Malvezzi, Pauline Abou Jaoude, Solenne Pelletier, Julie Peltier, M.B. Petersen, Philippe Michel, Philippe Rémy, Jean-Baptiste Philit, Valérie Pichault, Thierry Billette de Villemeur, Bernard Boudailliez, Bruno Leheup, Claire Dossier, Djamal-Dine Djeddi, Yves Berland, Bruno Hurault de Ligny, Susan Rigden, Christophe Robino, Annick Rossi, Sabine Sarnacki, Messaoud Saidani, Albane Brodin Sartorius, Elise Schäfer, Sztriha Laszlo, Marie-Christine Thouret, Angélique Thuillier-Lecouf, Howard Trachtman, Claire Trivin, Michel Tsimaratos, Rita Van Damme-Lombaerts, Marjolaine Willems, Michel Youssef, Ariane Zaloszyc, Alexis Zawodnik, and Marie-Julia Ziliotis

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Nephrology
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Nephronophthisis (NPH) is an autosomal-recessive ciliopathy representing one of the most frequent causes of kidney failure in childhood characterized by a broad clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Applied to one of the worldwide largest cohorts of patients with NPH, genetic analysis encompassing targeted and whole exome sequencing identified disease-causing variants in 600 patients from 496 families with a detection rate of 71%. Of 788 pathogenic variants, 40 known ciliopathy genes were identified. However, the majority of patients (53%) bore biallelic pathogenic variants in NPHP1. NPH-causing gene alterations affected all ciliary modules defined by structural and/or functional subdomains. Seventy six percent of these patients had progressed to kidney failure, of which 18% had an infantile form (under five years) and harbored variants affecting the Inversin compartment or intraflagellar transport complex A. Forty eight percent of patients showed a juvenile (5-15 years) and 34% a late-onset disease (over 15 years), the latter mostly carrying variants belonging to the Transition Zone module. Furthermore, while more than 85% of patients with an infantile form presented with extra-kidney manifestations, it only concerned half of juvenile and late onset cases. Eye involvement represented a predominant feature, followed by cerebellar hypoplasia and other brain abnormalities, liver and skeletal defects. The phenotypic variability was in a large part associated with mutation types, genes and corresponding ciliary modules with hypomorphic variants in ciliary genes playing a role in early steps of ciliogenesis associated with juvenile-to-late onset NPH forms. Thus, our data confirm a considerable proportion of late-onset NPH suggesting an underdiagnosis in adult chronic kidney disease.

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2023
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4. Clinical, laboratory and molecular findings and long-term follow-up data in 96 French patients with PMM2-CDG (phosphomannomutase 2-congenital disorder of glycosylation) and review of the literature

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Dominique Martin-Coignard, Olivier Pincemaille, Claire de Barace, Nathalie Boddaert, Michel Polak, Tiffany Pascreau, Nathalie Seta, Christine Francannet, Gilles Morin, Valérie Cormier-Daire, François Labarthe, Manuel Schiff, Alexis Brice, Anaïs Brassier, Arnaud Bruneel, Patrick Edery, Alina Arion, Isabelle Fontan, Brigitte Chabrol, Cyril Gitiaux, Emmanuel de Maistre, Anne de Saint-Martin, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Maud Bidet, Magali Barth, Catherine Bloch, Thierry Dupré, Céline Roda, Nathalie Bednarek, Sandrine Vuillaumier-Barrot, Marie-Chantal Chevalier, Géraldine Viot, François Feillet, Annick Toutain, Sylvie Lamoureux, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Marie Hully, Delphine Borgel, Cyril Mignot, Nathalie Dorison, Bernard Echenne, Agathe Roubertie, Delphine Héron, Roger Buissonnière, Marie-Lorraine Monin, and Pascale de Lonlay

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Male, 0301 basic medicine, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, 03 medical and health sciences, Pericarditis, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, 0302 clinical medicine, Tubulopathy, Hydrops fetalis, Genetics, Humans, Medicine, Hypoalbuminemia, Child, Alleles, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics (clinical), business.industry, Infant, medicine.disease, Hypotonia, Phenotype, 030104 developmental biology, Amino Acid Substitution, Phosphotransferases (Phosphomutases), Inborn error of metabolism, Child, Preschool, Mutation, Female, medicine.symptom, business, Nephrotic syndrome, Congenital disorder of glycosylation, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Follow-Up Studies
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Background Phosphomannomutase 2-congenital disorder of glycosylation (PMM2-CDG) is a multisystem inborn error of metabolism. Objectives To better characterise the natural history of PMM2-CDG. Methods Medical charts of 96 patients with PMM2-CDG (86 families, 41 males, 55 females) were retrospectively reviewed. Data on clinical, laboratory and molecular parameters at diagnosis were analysed. Follow-up data at last examination were reported for 25 patients. Results The patients were born between 1963 and 2011. Diagnosis of PMM2-CDG was made at a mean (SD) age of 6.8 (8.5) years. The presenting signs were mostly neurological (hypotonia, intellectual disability, cerebellar syndrome) and observed in almost all the patients. A total of 38 patients (14 males, 24 females) exhibited, in addition to neurological signs, visceral features including at least one of these: feeding difficulty requiring a nutritional support (n=23), cardiac features (n=20; pericarditis: 14, cardiac malformation: 9, cardiomyopathy: 2), hepato-gastrointestinal features (n=12; chronic diarrhoea: 7, protein-losing enteropathy: 1, ascites: 3, liver failure: 1, portal hypertension: 1), kidney features (n=4; nephrotic syndrome: 2, tubulopathy: 2) and hydrops fetalis (n=1). Twelve patients died at a mean age of 3.8 years (especially from pericarditis and other cardiac issues). Laboratory abnormalities mostly included elevated transaminases and abnormal coagulation parameters. High thyreostimulin levels, hypocholesterolemia, hypoalbuminemia and elevated transaminases were associated with the visceral phenotype. Besides the common Arg141His PMM2 variant harboured by half of the patients, 45 different variants were observed. Conclusions PMM2-CDG clinical phenotype is heterogeneous in terms of clinical course, with no clear division between neurological and visceral presentations.

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2017
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5. TTC12 loss-of-function mutations cause primary Ciliary Dyskinesia and unveil distinct dynein assembly mechanisms in motile cilia versus flagella

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Lucie Thomas, Khaled Bouhouche, Marjorie Whitfield, Guillaume Thouvenin, Andre Coste, Bruno Louis, Claire Szymanski, Emilie Bequignon, Jean-François Papon, Manon Castelli, Michel Lemullois, Xavier Dhalluin, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Guy Montantin, Sylvie Tissier, Philippe Duquesnoy, Bruno Copin, Florence Dastot, Sandrine Couvet, Anne-Laure Barbotin, Catherine Faucon, Isabelle Honore, Bernard Maitre, Nicole Beydon, Aline Tamalet, Nathalie Rives, France Koll, Estelle Escudier, Anne-Marie Tassin, Aminata Touré, Valérie Mitchell, Serge Amselem, Marie Legendre, Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Maladies génétiques d'expression pédiatrique [CHU Trousseau] (Inserm U933), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biogenèse et Fonction de la Structure Centriolaire et Ciliaire (BIOCIL), Département Biologie Cellulaire (BioCell), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Cochin (IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016)), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine (CRSA), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Biomécanique & Appareil Respiratoire (BAR), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service d'ORL [Créteil], Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Créteil (CHIC), IMRB - 'Biomechanics and Respiratory Apparatus' [Créteil] (U955 Inserm - UPEC), Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale (IMRB), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-IFR10-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Hôpital Claude Huriez [Lille], CHU Lille, Service d’ORL et de chirurgie cervico-faciale [CHU Le Kremlin-Bicêtre], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-AP-HP Hôpital Bicêtre (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre), Hôpital Albert Calmette, Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Hôpital Charles Nicolle [Rouen], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), UF de Génétique moléculaire [CHU Trousseau], CHU Trousseau [APHP], Gamétogenèse et Qualité du Gamète - ULR 4308 (GQG), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Lille, CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU), Hôpital Jeanne de Flandres, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Maladies génétiques d'expression pédiatrique (U933), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and CCSD, Accord Elsevier

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Axoneme, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], primary ciliary dyskinesia, 0302 clinical medicine, hemic and lymphatic diseases, Child, Genetics (clinical), Primary ciliary dyskinesia, Cilium, Homozygote, Inner dynein arm, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Cell biology, Pedigree, [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], Flagella, Motile cilium, Sperm Motility, Female, CRISPR-Cas9, Ciliary Motility Disorders, Adult, dynein arm assembly, Dynein, Biology, Flagellum, Article, TTC12, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Infertility, Male, Ciliate, cilia, Dyneins, Proteins, nutritional and metabolic diseases, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, sperm flagella, 030104 developmental biology, Sperm Tail, Mutation, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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International audience; Cilia and flagella are evolutionarily conserved organelles whose motility relies on the outer and inner dynein arm complexes (ODAs and IDAs). Defects in ODAs and IDAs result in primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a disease characterized by recurrent airway infections and male infertility. PCD mutations in assembly factors have been shown to cause a combined ODA-IDA defect, affecting both cilia and flagella. We identified four loss-of-function mutations in TTC12, which encodes a cytoplasmic protein, in four independent families in which affected individuals displayed a peculiar PCD phenotype characterized by the absence of ODAs and IDAs in sperm flagella, contrasting with the absence of only IDAs in respiratory cilia. Analyses of both primary cells from individuals carrying TTC12 mutations and human differentiated airway cells invalidated for TTC12 by a CRISPR-Cas9 approach revealed an IDA defect restricted to a subset of single-headed IDAs that are different in flagella and cilia, whereas TTC12 depletion in the ciliate $Paramecium\ tetraurelia$ recapitulated the sperm phenotype. Overall, our study, which identifies TTC12 as a gene involved in PCD, unveils distinct dynein assembly mechanisms in human motile cilia versus flagella.

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2020
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6. Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Premature Ovarian Failure Unveiling Propionic Aciduria

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Soumeya Bekri, Catherine Nafeh-Bizet, Stéphanie Gobin, Abdellah Tebani, Sarah Grotto, Bénédicte Sudrié-Arnaud, Bernadette Chadefaux-Vekemans, and Valérie Drouin-Garraud

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Adult, Cardiomyopathy, Dilated, 0301 basic medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Propionic Acidemia, Clinical Biochemistry, Cardiomyopathy, Primary Ovarian Insufficiency, 030105 genetics & heredity, Gastroenterology, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, medicine, Humans, Ejection fraction, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Biochemistry (medical), Complete blood count, Dilated cardiomyopathy, medicine.disease, Antral follicle, Premature ovarian failure, Female, Macrocytic anemia, business
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A 28-year-old woman presented with premature ovarian failure (POF).8 She was the eldest of 4 children and her siblings were all healthy. She underwent heart transplantation at 17 years of age following acute cardiac decompensation due to hypokinetic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). At this time, her left ventricle ejection fraction collapsed to 20%, although no arrhythmia or conduction abnormalities were observed, and psychomotor and cognitive functions were normal. She was determined to have idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy for which a genetic/metabolic etiology was not considered at the time. Posttransplantation follow-up was satisfactory, with normal cardiac function. During her most recent presentation with POF, she underwent endocrine function assessment for infertility. Concentrations of serum markers were highly suggestive of diminished ovarian reserve: follicle-stimulating hormone = 20 UI/L [reference interval (RI): 1.7–7.7]; estradiol = 59 pg/mL (RI: 50–230); anti-Mullerian hormone = 1 μg/L (RI: 2.5–6). The antral follicle count was 5, consistent with POF. Additional investigations, including thyroid hormone testing, karyotype, and fragile X study, were normal. Routine biochemistry testing, including plasma ammonia, bicarbonate, and electrolytes, was also unremarkable. A complete blood count revealed mild macrocytic anemia (hemoglobin = 11.1 g/dL, …

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2018
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7. Hypersociability associated with developmental delay, macrocephaly and facial dysmorphism points to CHD3 mutations

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François Lecoquierre, Anne Boland, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Gaël Nicolas, Thierry Frebourg, Juliette Coursimault, Jean-François Deleuze, J. Lechevallier, Anne-Claire Brehin, and Pascale Saugier-Veber

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Male, Hypersociability, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Developmental Disabilities, Craniofacial Abnormalities, Young Adult, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Global developmental delay, Hypertelorism, Social Behavior, Genetics (clinical), business.industry, DNA Helicases, Macrocephaly, Syndrome, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Megalencephaly, Developmental disorder, Autism spectrum disorder, Mutation, Speech delay, medicine.symptom, business, Mi-2 Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex
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CHD3-related syndrome, also known as Snijders Blok-Campeau syndrome, is a rare developmental disorder described in 2018, caused by de novo pathogenic variants in the CHD3 gene. This syndrome is characterized by global developmental delay, speech delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia and behavioral disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Typical dysmorphic features include macrocephaly, hypertelorism, enophthalmia, sparse eyebrows, bulging forehead, midface hypoplasia, prominent nose and pointed chin. To our knowledge, there have been no other clinical descriptions of patients since the initial publication. We report the clinical description of a 21-year-old patient harboring a pathogenic de novo variant in CHD3. We reviewed the clinical features of the 35 previously reported patients. Main features were severe intellectual disability, dysmorphic facies, macrocephaly, cryptorchidism, pectus carinatum, severe ophthalmologic abnormalities and behavioral disorders including ASD, and a frank happy demeanor. Hypersociability, which was a noticeable clinical feature in our case, despite ASD, is an uncommon behavioral feature in syndromic intellectual disabilities. Our report supports hypersociability as a suggestive feature of CHD3-related syndrome along with developmental delay, macrocephaly and a dysmorphic facies.

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2021
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8. Complementarity of electrophoretic, mass spectrometric, and gene sequencing techniques for the diagnosis and characterization of congenital disorders of glycosylation

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Marie-Line Jacquemont, Nathalie Seta, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, François Fenaille, André Mégarbané, Arnaud Bruneel, David Cheillan, Coralie Ruel, Sandrine Vuillaumier-Barrot, Thierry Dupré, Aline Cano, Sophie Cholet, Biochimie Métabolique et Cellulaire, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-AP-HP - Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard [Paris], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sud Reunion, Partenaires INRAE, Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), Institut Jérôme Lejeune, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Service de Pharmacologie et d'Immunoanalyse (SPI), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris Saclay (COmUE), Service de Pharmacologie et Immunoanalyse (SPI), Médicaments et Technologies pour la Santé (MTS), Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)

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0301 basic medicine, Electrophoresis, Male, Glycan, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, Glycosylation, Adolescent, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Clinical Biochemistry, Computational biology, Gene mutation, Biology, Biochemistry, DNA sequencing, Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Capillary electrophoresis, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, Polysaccharides, Humans, Child, Glycomics, Glycoproteins, chemistry.chemical_classification, Mucin, Infant, ms, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Mass spectrometric, 2de, 3. Good health, 030104 developmental biology, chemistry, Transferrin, Child, Preschool, biology.protein, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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International audience; Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are rare autosomal genetic diseases affecting the glycosylation of proteins and lipids. Since CDG-related clinical symptoms are classically extremely variable and nonspecific, a combination of electrophoretic, mass spectrometric, and gene sequencing techniques is often mandatory for obtaining a definitive CDG diagnosis, as well as identifying causative gene mutations and deciphering the underlying biochemical mechanisms. Here, we illustrate the potential of integrating data from capillary electrophoresis of transferrin, two-dimensional electrophoresis of N- and O-glycoproteins, mass spectrometry analyses of total serum N-linked glycans and mucin core1 O-glycosylated apolipoprotein C-III for the determination of various culprit CDG gene mutations. "Step-by-step" diagnosis pathways of four particular and new CDG cases, including MGAT2-CDG, ATP6V0A2-CDG, SLC35A2-CDG, and SLC35A3-CDG, are described as illustrative examples.

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2018
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9. Efficient strategy for the molecular diagnosis of intellectual disability using targeted high-throughput sequencing

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Estelle Colin, Christel Thauvin-Robinet, Bernard Jost, Hélène Dollfus, Marie-Ange Delrue, Dominique Bonneau, Marjolaine Willems, Christine Francannet, Claire Feger, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Patrick Edery, Martine Doco-Fenzy, Laurence Olivier-Faivre, Véronique Geoffroy, Jean-Louis Mandel, Muriel Philipps, Serge Vicaire, Bérénice Doray, Alice Goldenberg, Magalie Barth, Julien Thevenon, Julia Lauer, Didier Lacombe, Gaetan Lesca, David Geneviève, Angélique Quartier, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Yvan Herenger, Serge Lumbroso, Salima El-Chehadeh, Bénédicte Gérard, Mélanie Fradin, Gilles Morin, Jean Muller, Yves Alembik, Sylvie Sukno, Amélie Piton, Nicolas Haumesser, Claire Redin, Bertrand Isidor, Elisabeth Flori, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Pierre Sarda, Alice Masurel-Paulet, Michael Dumas, Stéphanie Le Gras, and Anne Polge

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Adult, Male, Adolescent, DNA Mutational Analysis, autism, Biology, DNA sequencing, Young Adult, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Child, Genetics (clinical), ATRX, causative, Genetic heterogeneity, Infant, Newborn, high-throughput sequencing, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Infant, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Molecular diagnostics, medicine.disease, FMR1, Molecular Diagnostic Techniques, intellectual disability, Child, Preschool, Autism, Cognitive and Behavioural Genetics, Female, CUL4B, mutation
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Background Intellectual disability (ID) is characterised by an extreme genetic heterogeneity. Several hundred genes have been associated to monogenic forms of ID, considerably complicating molecular diagnostics. Trio-exome sequencing was recently proposed as a diagnostic approach, yet remains costly for a general implementation. Methods We report the alternative strategy of targeted high-throughput sequencing of 217 genes in which mutations had been reported in patients with ID or autism as the major clinical concern. We analysed 106 patients with ID of unknown aetiology following array-CGH analysis and other genetic investigations. Ninety per cent of these patients were males, and 75% sporadic cases. Results We identified 26 causative mutations: 16 in X-linked genes (ATRX, CUL4B, DMD, FMR1, HCFC1, IL1RAPL1, IQSEC2, KDM5C, MAOA, MECP2, SLC9A6, SLC16A2, PHF8) and 10 de novo in autosomal-dominant genes (DYRK1A, GRIN1, MED13L, TCF4, RAI1, SHANK3, SLC2A1, SYNGAP1). We also detected four possibly causative mutations (eg, in NLGN3) requiring further investigations. We present detailed reasoning for assigning causality for each mutation, and associated patients’ clinical information. Some genes were hit more than once in our cohort, suggesting they correspond to more frequent ID-associated conditions (KDM5C, MECP2, DYRK1A, TCF4). We highlight some unexpected genotype to phenotype correlations, with causative mutations being identified in genes associated to defined syndromes in patients deviating from the classic phenotype (DMD, TCF4, MECP2). We also bring additional supportive (HCFC1, MED13L) or unsupportive (SHROOM4, SRPX2) evidences for the implication of previous candidate genes or mutations in cognitive disorders. Conclusions With a diagnostic yield of 25% targeted sequencing appears relevant as a first intention test for the diagnosis of ID, but importantly will also contribute to a better understanding regarding the specific contribution of the many genes implicated in ID and autism.

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2014

10. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in lamin A/C mutation carriers with cardiac conduction disorders

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Frédéric Anselme, Ghassan Moubarak, Arnaud Savouré, Bénédicte Godin, Bogdan Borz, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, and Arnaud Gay

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Ventricular tachycardia, Sudden cardiac death, LMNA, Cardiac Conduction System Disease, Heart Conduction System, Physiology (medical), Internal medicine, Cardiac conduction, medicine, Humans, Prospective Studies, Brugada Syndrome, Ejection fraction, Left bundle branch block, business.industry, Arrhythmias, Cardiac, Middle Aged, Lamin Type A, medicine.disease, Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, Defibrillators, Implantable, Death, Sudden, Cardiac, Mutation, Ventricular Fibrillation, Ventricular fibrillation, Tachycardia, Ventricular, cardiovascular system, Cardiology, Female, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business, Follow-Up Studies
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Background Sudden cardiac death is frequent in patients with lamin A/C gene (LMNA) mutations and may be related to ventricular arrhythmias (VA). Objective To evaluate a strategy of prophylactic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantation in LMNA mutation carriers with significant cardiac conduction disorders. Methods Forty-seven consecutive patients (mean age 38 ± 11 years; 26 men) were prospectively enrolled between March 1999 and April 2009. Prophylactic ICD implantation was performed in patients with significant cardiac conduction disorders: patients requiring permanent pacing for bradycardia or already implanted with a pacemaker at the initial presentation, or patients with a PR interval of >0.24 seconds and either complete left bundle branch block or nonsustained ventricular tachycardia. Results Twenty-one (45%) patients had significant conduction disorders and received a prophylactic ICD. Among ICD recipients, no patient died suddenly and 11 (52%) patients required appropriate ICD therapy during a median follow-up of 62 months. Left ventricular ejection fraction was ≥45% in 9 patients at the time of the event. Among the 10 patients without malignant VA, device memory recorded nonsustained ventricular tachycardia in 8 (80%). The presence of significant conduction disorders was the only factor related to the occurrence of malignant VA (hazard ratio 5.20; 95% confidence interval 1.14–23.53; P = .03). Conclusions Life-threatening VAs are common in patients with LMNA mutations and significant cardiac conduction disorders, even if left ventricular ejection fraction is preserved. ICD is an effective treatment and should be considered in this patient population.

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2013
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11. Validation of high-resolution DNA melting analysis for mutation scanning of the CDKL5 gene: Identification of novel mutations

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Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Andre Delahaye, François Rivier, Annick Toutain, Hélène Maurey, Bertrand Diebold, Thierry Bienvenu, Laure Raymond, Julia Metreau, Céline Leroux, Olivier Dulac, Nadia Bahi-Buisson, and Gia Melikishvili

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Male, Genetics, Mutation, Point mutation, DNA Mutational Analysis, CDKL5, Reproducibility of Results, Exons, General Medicine, Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Sensitivity and Specificity, Denaturing high performance liquid chromatography, Exon, medicine, Humans, Coding region, Female, Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, Gene
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Mutations in the cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 gene (CDKL5) have been predominantly described in epileptic encephalopathies of female, including infantile spasms with Rett-like features. Up to now, detection of mutations in this gene was made by laborious, expensive and/or time consuming methods. Here, we decided to validate high-resolution melting analysis (HRMA) for mutation scanning of the CDKL5 gene. Firstly, using a large DNA bank consisting to 34 samples carrying different mutations and polymorphisms, we validated our analytical conditions to analyse the different exons and flanking intronic sequences of the CDKL5 gene by HRMA. Secondly, we screened CDKL5 by both HRMA and denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (dHPLC) in a cohort of 135 patients with early-onset seizures. Our results showed that point mutations and small insertions and deletions can be reliably detected by HRMA. Compared to dHPLC, HRMA profiles are more discriminated, thereby decreasing unnecessary sequencing. In this study, we identified eleven novel sequence variations including four pathogenic mutations (2.96% prevalence). HRMA appears cost-effective, easy to set up, highly sensitive, non-toxic and rapid for mutation screening, ideally suited for large genes with heterogeneous mutations located along the whole coding sequence, such as the CDKL5 gene.

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2013
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12. Novel and recurrent non-truncating mutations of the MITF basic domain: genotypic and phenotypic variations in Waardenburg and Tietz syndromes

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Paul J Young, Michel Goossens, Virginie Bodereau, Robyn V. Jamieson, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Xavier Balguerie, Hélène Dollfus, Isabelle Amstutz-Montadert, Alice Goldenberg, Annick Cabot, Amanda Krause, Pascal Joly, Veronique Pingault, Clarisse Baumann, Luis Nunes, Hongsheng Chen, Sandy Léger, and Valérie Drouin-Garraud

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Adult, Genotype, Short Report, Deafness, Melanocyte, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Waardenburg Syndrome, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, Hypopigmentation, Microphthalmia-Associated Transcription Factor, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, integumentary system, Waardenburg syndrome, Tietz syndrome, Genetic Variation, Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor, medicine.disease, Phenotype, medicine.anatomical_structure, Albinism, Oculocutaneous, Child, Preschool, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, medicine.symptom
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The microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is a basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factor, which regulates melanocyte development and the biosynthetic melanin pathway. A notable relationship has been described between non-truncating mutations of its basic domain and Tietz syndrome, which is characterized by albinoid-like hypopigmentation of the skin and hair, rather than the patchy depigmentation seen in Waardenburg syndrome, and severe hearing loss. Twelve patients with new or recurrent non-truncating mutations of the MITF basic domain from six families were enrolled in this study. We observed a wide range of phenotypes and some unexpected features. All the patients had blue irides and pigmentation abnormalities that ranged from diffuse hypopigmentation to Waardenburg-like patches. In addition, they showed congenital complete hearing loss, diffuse hypopigmentation of the skin, freckling and ocular abnormalities, more frequently than patients with MITF mutations outside the basic domain. In conclusion, the non-truncating mutations of the basic domain do not always lead to Tietz syndrome but rather to a large range of phenotypes. Sun-exposed freckles are interestingly observed more frequently in Asian populations. This variability argues for the possible interaction with modifier loci.

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2012
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13. De novo mutations in the actin genes ACTB and ACTG1 cause Baraitser-Winter syndrome

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Karen W. Gripp, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Alain Verloes, Jean-Pierre Fryns, Michael Marble, Joris A. Veltman, Grazia M.S. Mancini, Christopher T. Sullivan, Susan L. Christian, Marlies Kempers, Joan F. Atkin, Victoria Mok Siu, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, M. Elizabeth Ross, Daniela T. Pilz, Conny M. A. van Ravenswaaij-Arts, Andrew E. Fry, Omar A. Abdul-Rahman, Bregje W.M. van Bon, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Nicolas Chassaing, Brian J. O'Roak, Jay Shendure, Christian Gilissen, Tony Roscioli, S.S. Kholmanskikh, Alexander Hoischen, Han G. Brunner, Bert B.A. de Vries, William B. Dobyns, Małgorzata J.M. Nowaczyk, Sabine Gijsen, Tjitske Kleefstra, Public Health, Clinical Genetics, and Ethical, Legal, Social Issues in Genetics (ELSI)

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Male, Proband, PTOSIS, Developmental Disabilities, medicine.disease_cause, 0302 clinical medicine, Missense mutation, Child, Exome sequencing, Sequence Deletion, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Brain, Syndrome, Phenotype, Coloboma, GROWTH, Female, Adult, Adolescent, DNA Copy Number Variations, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Missense, DNA-SEQUENCING DATA, NOONAN-SYNDROME, Biology, Nervous System Malformations, Article, Genomic disorders and inherited multi-system disorders DCN MP - Plasticity and memory [IGMD 3], 03 medical and health sciences, Intellectual Disability, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, MALFORMATIONS, Amino Acid Sequence, Gene, Actin, 030304 developmental biology, ACTG1, Base Sequence, IDENTIFICATION, GAMMA-ACTIN, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Actins, IRIS COLOBOMA, Genetics and epigenetic pathways of disease DCN MP - Plasticity and memory [NCMLS 6], BETA-ACTIN, PAX9 Transcription Factor, Genetics and epigenetic pathways of disease Genomic disorders and inherited multi-system disorders [NCMLS 6], Sequence Alignment, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, MENTAL-RETARDATION
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Brain malformations are individually rare but collectively common causes of developmental disabilities. Many forms of malformation occur sporadically and are associated with reduced reproductive fitness, pointing to a causative role for de novo mutations. Here, we report a study of Baraitser-Winter syndrome, a well-defined disorder characterized by distinct craniofacial features, ocular colobomata and neuronal migration defect. Using whole-exome sequencing of three proband-parent trios, we identified de novo missense changes in the cytoplasmic actin-encoding genes ACTB and ACTG1 in one and two probands, respectively. Sequencing of both genes in 15 additional affected individuals identified disease-causing mutations in all probands, including two recurrent de novo alterations (ACTB, encoding p.Arg196His, and ACTG1, encoding p.Ser155Phe). Our results confirm that trio-based exome sequencing is a powerful approach to discover genes causing sporadic developmental disorders, emphasize the overlapping roles of cytoplasmic actin proteins in development and suggest that Baraitser-Winter syndrome is the predominant phenotype associated with mutation of these two genes. ispartof: Nature Genetics vol:44 issue:4 pages:440-442 ispartof: location:United States status: published

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2012

14. Molecular screening of ADAMTSL2 gene in 33 patients reveals the genetic heterogeneity of geleophysic dysplasia

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Yanick J. Crow, Gwendoline Pfennig, Miranda Splitt, David Geneviève, Elisabeth Flori, Carine Le Goff, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Deborah Krakow, Andrea Superti-Furga, Jane A. Hurst, Koenraad Devriendt, Clémentine Mahaut, Sally Ann Lynch, Sahar Mansour, Arnold Munnich, Isabelle Pressac-Diebold, Sheila Unger, Nathalie Dagoneau, Martine Le Merrer, Klaske D Lichtenbelt, Denise Williams, Raoul C.M. Hennekam, Heloísa G. dos Santos, Kay D. MacDermot, Angela F. Brady, Valérie Cormier-Daire, André Mégarbané, Stanislas Lyonnet, Slimane Allali, Yasemin Alanay, University of Groningen, Génétique et épigénétique des maladies métaboliques, neurosensorielles et du développement (Inserm U781), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Ankara University School of Medicine [Turkey], North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Genetic Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Heath Science Centre, Department of Medical Genetics, Leuven University Hospital, Leuven, Hôpital Charles Nicolle [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Department of genetics, Strasbourg hospital, Strasbourg, Service de Génétique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Department of Pediatrics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Departement of Clinical Genetics, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University Medical Center [Utrecht], National Center for Medical Genetics, Dublin, SW Thames Regional Genetics Service, St Georgeâ™s University of London, London, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Department of Medical Genetics , Lisboa, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle, Department of Pediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Vaudois, Lausanne, Birmingham women's hospital, Birmingham, Peer, Hal, SW Thames Regional Genetics Service, St George’s University of London, London, Unité de génétique médicale, Université Saint Joseph, Beyrouth, Génétique et épigénétique des maladies métaboliques, neurosensorielles et du développement ( Inserm U781 ), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Genetics Unit, Department of Pediatrics Hacettepe, University School of Medicine, Ankara, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] ( CHRU Montpellier ), Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Department of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth ( USJ ), Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları, ANS - Amsterdam Neuroscience, APH - Amsterdam Public Health, Paediatrics, and Faculteit der Geneeskunde

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Male, Pathology, WEILL-MARCHESANI-SYNDROME, ACROMICRIC DYSPLASIA, Japan, Acromicric dysplasia, Eye Abnormalities, Child, Genetics (clinical), Genetics, Inclusion Bodies, Genetics & Heredity, 0303 health sciences, Extracellular Matrix Proteins, 030305 genetics & heredity, Weill–Marchesani syndrome, 3. Good health, Pedigree, Europe, Connective Tissue, Child, Preschool, Medical genetics, Female, medicine.symptom, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Ear infection, Limb Deformities, Congenital, Dwarfism, Biology, Short stature, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Genetic Heterogeneity, Middle East, Molecular genetics, medicine, Humans, Clinical genetics, Connective tissue disease, 030304 developmental biology, Bone Diseases, Developmental, Genetic heterogeneity, MUTATIONS, Infant, medicine.disease, Dysplasia, Mutation, Skin Abnormalities
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Background Geleophysic dysplasia (GD, OMIM 231050) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterised by short stature, small hands and feet, stiff joints, and thick skin. Patients often present with a progressive cardiac valvular disease which can lead to an early death. In a previous study including six GD families, we have mapped the disease gene on chromosome 9q34.2 and identified mutations in the A Disintegrin And Metalloproteinase with Thrombospondin repeats-like 2 gene (ADAMTSL2). Methods Following this study, we have collected the samples of 30 additional GD families, including 33 patients and identified ADAMTSL2 mutations in 14/33 patients, comprising 13 novel mutations. The absence of mutation in 19 patients prompted us to compare the two groups of GD patients, namely group 1, patients with ADAMTSL2 mutations (n=20, also including the 6 patients from our previous study), and group 2, patients without ADAMTSL2 mutations (n=19). Results The main discriminating features were facial dysmorphism and tip-toe walking, which were almost constantly observed in group 1. No differences were found concerning heart involvement, skin thickness, recurrent respiratory and ear infections, bronchopulmonary insufficiency, laryngo-tracheal stenosis, deafness, and radiographic features. Conclusions It is concluded that GD is a genetically heterogeneous condition. Ongoing studies will hopefully lead to the identification of another disease gene.

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2011
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15. Screening of SLC26A4, FOXI1 and KCNJ10 genes in unilateral hearing impairment with ipsilateral enlarged vestibular aqueduct

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Natalie Loundon, Christine Francannet, Thierry Mom, Magali Niasme-Grare, Delphine Feldmann, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Albert David, Marie-Françoise Thuillier-Obstoy, Hélène Dollfus, Françoise Duriez, Cyril Goizet, Hubert Journel, Hélène Catros, Catherine Calais, Catherine Gohler, Sandrine Marlin, Laurence Jonard, Marie Madeleine Eliot, Rémy Couderc, Françoise Denoyelle, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Erea Noel Garabedian, Crystel Bonnet, Isabelle Rouillon, and Florence Fellmann

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Vestibular aqueduct, Adolescent, Genetic Linkage, Hearing loss, KCNJ10, Audiology, Hearing Loss, Unilateral, Vestibular Aqueduct, Young Adult, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, medicine, Humans, Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying, Child, Pendred syndrome, Polymorphism, Genetic, biology, business.industry, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Membrane Transport Proteins, Forkhead Transcription Factors, General Medicine, Anatomy, medicine.disease, Pedigree, medicine.anatomical_structure, Haplotypes, Otorhinolaryngology, FOXI1, Sulfate Transporters, Child, Preschool, Mutation, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Mondini dysplasia, biology.protein, Female, sense organs, medicine.symptom, Unilateral hearing loss, business, Enlarged vestibular aqueduct
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Objective To investigate the implication of SLC26A4, FOXI and KCNJ10 genes in unilateral hearing impairment associated with ipsilateral inner ear malformation (Enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct and/or Mondini dysplasia). Methods We have gathered 25 patients presenting unilateral hearing impairment and ipsilateral enlarged vestibular aqueduct. For each of the patients, we have analyzed SLC26A4, FOXI1 and KCNJ10 genes sequences. Results The analysis of SLC26A4 revealed only eight heterozygous SLC26A4 sequence variants, three of them being novel (p.Met147Ile, p.Asn538Asn and p.Leu627Arg). None of the patients carried a second mutation on the other allele. Moreover, the SLC26A4 locus was excluded by segregation analysis in two families. No mutations were present in FOXI1 and KCNJ10 genes. Conclusions Together, these data suggest that SLC26A4, FOXI1 and KCNJ10 are not major determinants in unilateral deafness and enlarged vestibular aqueduct compared with their implication in Pendred syndrome and non-syndromic bilateral enlarged vestibular aqueduct.

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2010
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16. Type I hyperprolinemia: genotype/phenotype correlations

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Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Simona Orcesi, Audrey Guilmatre, Caroline Espil-Taris, Lionel Van Maldergem, Luisa Bonafé, Dominique Campion, David Valle, Thierry Frebourg, Vassili Valayannopoulos, Eric Le Galloudec, Patricia Blanchet, Cyril Mignot, Vincent des Portes, Bernard Echenne, Christine Ioos, Claudia Izzi, Hélène Maurey, Gabriella Di Rosa, Solenn Legallic, Jodi D. Hoffman, Alexandra Afenjar, Alice Goldenberg, Gary Steel, Alecia Willis, Agathe Roubertie, Agnès Guët, Génétique médicale et fonctionnelle du cancer et des maladies neuropsychiatriques, Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Estonian Genome and Medicine, University of Tartu, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medical and Surgical Pediatrics, University Hospital, Department of Genetics, CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Laboratoire sur le langage, le cerveau et la cognition (L2C2), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Neuro-Metabolism, CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Regional Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, Università degli Studi di Brescia = University of Brescia (UniBs), Fondation 'Neurological Institute C. Mondino ', Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Beauvais Hospital, AP-HP Hôpital Bicêtre (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre), Raymond-Poincaré Hospital, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve [CHRU Montpellier], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Hôpital Gui de Chauliac [CHU Montpellier], Service de neuropédiatrie, CHU Hôpital, École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Università degli Studi di Brescia [Brescia], Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Hôpital Gui de Chauliac, and Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)

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Adult, Male, Adolescent, Proline, Mutation, Missense, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Proline dehydrogenase, Genotype, Proline Oxidase, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Missense mutation, Allele, Child, Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors, Alleles, Genetic Association Studies, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Proline oxidase, [SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience, Haplotype, Infant, Life Sciences, medicine.disease, Molecular biology, 3. Good health, Case-Control Studies, Child, Preschool, Hyperprolinemia, PRODH, type I hyperprolinemia, 22q11, POX enzymatic activity, Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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International audience; Type I hyperprolinemia (HPI) is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with cognitive and psychiatric troubles, caused by alterations of the Proline Dehydrogenase gene (PRODH) at 22q11. HPI results from PRODH deletion and/or missense mutations reducing proline oxidase (POX) activity. The goals of this study were first to measure in controls the frequency of PRODH variations described in HPI patients, second to assess the functional effect of PRODH mutations on POX activity and finally to establish genotype/enzymatic activity correlations in a new series of HPI patients. 8/14 variants occurred at polymorphic frequency in 114 controls. POX activity was determined for 6 novel mutations and 2 haplotypes. The c.1331G>A, p.G444D allele has a drastic effect whereas the c.23C>T, p.P8L allele and the c.[56C>A; 172G>A], p.[Q19P; A58T] haplotype result in a moderate decrease in activity. Among the 19 HPI patients, 10 had a predicted residual activity A, p.T275N allele, which has no detrimental effect on activity but whose frequency in controls is only 3%. Our results suggest that PRODH mutations lead to a decreased POX activity or affect other biological parameters causing hyperprolinemia.

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2010
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17. Clinical Outcomes of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Patients Carrying an ACVRL1 (ALK1) Mutation

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Florent Soubrier, Benjamin Sztrymf, Azzeddine Yaici, David Montani, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Florence Coulet, Gérald Simonneau, Dermot S. O'Callaghan, Xavier Jaïs, Abílio Reis, Barbara Girerd, David-Alexandre Trégouët, Alain Fraisse, Olivier Sitbon, and Marc Humbert

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Adult, Male, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, Pathology, Adolescent, Activin Receptors, Type II, Hypertension, Pulmonary, Blood Pressure, Pulmonary Artery, Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors, Type II, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Gastroenterology, Young Adult, Age Distribution, Intensive care, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Point Mutation, Pulmonary Wedge Pressure, Registries, Child, Pulmonary wedge pressure, Sequence Deletion, business.industry, Respiratory disease, Infant, ACVRL1, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Survival Analysis, Pulmonary hypertension, BMPR2, Oxygen, Blood pressure, Child, Preschool, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Exercise Test, Female, Vascular Resistance, France, business
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Activin A receptor type II-like kinase-1 (ACVRL1, also known as ALK1) mutation is a cause of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and/or heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).To describe the characteristics of patients with PAH carrying an ACVRL1 mutation.We reviewed clinical, functional, and hemodynamic characteristics of 32 patients with PAH carrying an ACVRL1 mutation, corresponding to 9 patients from the French PAH Network and 23 from literature analysis. These cases were compared with 370 patients from the French PAH Network (93 with a bone morphogenetic protein receptor type 2 [BMPR2] mutation and 277 considered as idiopathic cases without identified mutation). Distribution of mutations in the ACVRL1 gene in patients with PAH was compared with the HHT Mutation Database.At diagnosis, ACVRL1 mutation carriers were significantly younger (21.8 +/- 16.7 yr) than BMPR2 mutation carriers and noncarriers (35.7 +/- 14.9 and 47.6 +/- 16.3 yr, respectively; P0.0001). In seven of the nine patients from the French PAH Network, PAH diagnosis preceded manifestations of HHT. ACVRL1 mutation carriers had better hemodynamic status at diagnosis, but none responded to acute vasodilator challenge and they had shorter survival when compared with other patients with PAH despite similar use of specific therapies. ACVRL1 mutations in exon 10 were more frequently observed in patients with PAH, as compared with what was observed in the HHT Mutation Database (33.3 vs. 5%; P0.0001).ACVRL1 mutation carriers were characterized by a younger age at PAH diagnosis. Despite less severe initial hemodynamics and similar management, these patients had worse prognosis compared with other patients with PAH, suggesting more rapid disease progression.

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2010
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18. IRF6 Screening of Syndromic and a priori Non-Syndromic Cleft Lip and Palate Patients: Identification of a New Type of Minor VWS Sign

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L. Van Maldergem, Bénédicte Bayet, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Nicole Revencu, David Geneviève, Geneviève François, Catheline Vilain, Alice Goldenberg, Romain Vanwijck, Christine Verellen-Dumoulin, Kathleen Claes, A. Gozu, Geneviève Pierquin, P. Makrythanasis, Odile Boute, Joke B. G. M. Verheij, Laurence Desmyter, Miikka Vikkula, Fiona Connell, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, M. Bouma, Sylvie Manouvrier-Hanu, Anne Dieux-Coeslier, Melissa Lees, Marie-Claude Addor, Catherine Vincent-Delorme, Sylvie Odent, U. Mcentagart, Hervé Benateau, A. Sanchez, Michèle Mathieu, Koenraad Devriendt, Yves Sznajer, Geert Mortier, Sascha Vermeer, Michella Ghassibé, Anne Moncla, and Yves Gillerot

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Orthodontics, 0303 health sciences, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, 030305 genetics & heredity, Lower lip, medicine.disease, Dermatology, Revised diagnosis, stomatognathic diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Genetics, Mutation screening, Medicine, IRF6, Van der Woude syndrome, Family history, business, Genetics (clinical), Non syndromic, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract

Van der Woude syndrome (VWS), caused by dominant IRF6 mutation, is the most common cleft syndrome. In 15% of the patients, lip pits are absent and the phenotype mimics isolated clefts. Therefore, we hypothesized that some of the families classified as having non-syndromic inherited cleft lip and palate could have an IRF6 mutation. We screened in total 170 patients with cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P): 75 were syndromic and 95 were a priori part of multiplex non-syndromic families. A mutation was identified in 62.7 and 3.3% of the patients, respectively. In one of the 95 a priori non-syndromic families with an autosomal dominant inheritance (family B), new insights into the family history revealed the presence, at birth, of lower lip pits in two members and the diagnosis was revised as VWS. A novel lower lip sign was observed in one individual in this family. Interestingly, a similar lower lip sign was also observed in one individual from a 2nd family (family A). This consists of 2 nodules below the lower lip on the external side. In a 3rd multiplex family (family C), a de novo mutation was identified in an a priori non-syndromic CL/P patient. Re-examination after mutation screening revealed the presence of a tiny pit-looking lesion on the inner side of the lower lip leading to a revised diagnosis of VWS. On the basis of this data, we conclude that IRF6 should be screened when any doubt rises about the normality of the lower lip and also if a non-syndromic cleft lip patient (with or without cleft palate) has a family history suggestive of autosomal dominant inheritance.

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2010
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19. Two dimensional gel electrophoresis of apolipoprotein C-III and MALDI-TOF MS are complementary techniques for the study of combined defects in N- and mucin type O-glycan biosynthesis

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Arnaud Bruneel, Jean Claude Michalski, Yoann Carre, Aurélie Hesbert, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Willy Morelle, Damien Dupont, Nathalie Seta, Florence Habarou, and Geneviève Durand

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Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, Glycosylation, Apolipoprotein B, biology, Clinical Biochemistry, Mucin, Apolipoprotein C-III, medicine.disease, Proteomics, carbohydrates (lipids), Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization, chemistry.chemical_compound, Biochemistry, chemistry, medicine, biology.protein, lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins), Cutis laxa
Abstract

In the field of diseases related to glycosylation disorders, congenital defects associated with abnormalities in both O- and N-glycosylation of proteins constitute arising novel entities. Defects in subunits of the conserved oligomeric Golgi protein complex have been shown to be involved in an important part of previously unsolved CDG type II combining abnormalities in both mucin type core1 O- and N-glycans; furthermore, recent studies revealed that autosomal recessive cutis laxa type II could also be associated with such combined glycosylation defects. Based on the studies of serum samples from three patients including a case of cutis laxa, we present here evidence that 2-DE of apolipoprotein C-III in combination with MALDI-TOF-MS analysis of serum O- and N-glycans allow the detection and the biochemical characterization of these newly recognized glycosylation disorders.

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2008
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20. Prenatal revelation of NiemannPick disease type C in siblings

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Stéphane Marret, Rubén Moreno, Eric Verspyck, Caroline Lardennois, Annie Laquerrière, and Valérie Drouin-Garraud

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Adult, Polyhydramnios, medicine.medical_specialty, Pathology, Genetic counseling, Hepatosplenomegaly, Prenatal diagnosis, Niemann-Pick C1 Protein, Pregnancy, Prenatal Diagnosis, Humans, Medicine, Fetus, Membrane Glycoproteins, Niemann–Pick disease, type C, business.industry, Obstetrics, Siblings, Infant, Newborn, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Female, medicine.symptom, Carrier Proteins, business, Niemann–Pick disease, Spleen, Hepatomegaly
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Objectives: To report two cases of prenatal Niemann–Pick disease type C in siblings, with different prenatal semiology and postnatal outcome. Case reports: First fetus presented at 22 weeks'gestation with ascites, hepatosplenomegaly, then polyhydramnios. At birth, the infant developed severe cholestasis and died at day 5. His brother presented at 22 weeks'gestation an isolated hepatomegaly with cholestasis at birth showing favourable evolution. In first case, diagnosis of Niemann–Pick disease was confirmed by autopsy findings, biochemical tests on cultured skin fibroblasts and ascites fluid, then by molecular screening of NPC1 gene. Brother's molecular prenatal diagnosis was made at 14 weeks' gestation on cultured trophoblasts. Conclusion: Prenatal screening of this disease is particularly indicated in case of fetal ascites with hypoferritinaemia. Tests on amniotic or ascites fluid cells allow to characterize the biochemical phenotype, leading to search for molecular abnormalities. Despite the same mutation identified in siblings, disease evolution is variable, which underlines complexity of genetic counselling.

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2008
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21. Heterogeneity ofNSD1alterations in 116 patients with Sotos syndrome

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Céline Bonnet, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Thierry Billette de Villemeur, Muriel Holder-Espinasse, Séverine Fehrenbach, Didier Lacombe, Dominique Bonneau, Nicolas Jeanne, Marie-France Portnoï, Joelle Roume, Valérie Malan, Marion Gérard, Christine Coubes, Lydie Burglen, Alexandra Afenjar, Delphine Héron, Clarisse Baumann, Thierry Frebourg, Albert David, and Pascale Saugier-Veber

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Adult, Male, Adolescent, Biology, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Genetic Heterogeneity, Gene duplication, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Child, Genetics (clinical), Sotos syndrome, Genetic heterogeneity, Point mutation, Infant, Newborn, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Macrocephaly, Infant, Nuclear Proteins, Bone age, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Overgrowth syndrome, Histone Methyltransferases, Female, medicine.symptom
Abstract

Sotos syndrome is an overgrowth syndrome characterized by distinctive facial features, learning difficulties, and macrocephaly with frequent pre- and postnatal overgrowth with advanced bone age. Here, we report on our experience in the molecular diagnostic of Sotos syndrome on 116 patients. Using direct sequencing and a quantitative multiplex PCR of short fluorescent fragments (QMPSF)-based assay allowing accurate detection of both total and partial NSD1 deletions, we identified NSD1 abnormalities in 104 patients corresponding to 102 Sotos families (90%). NSD1 point mutations were detected in 80% of the index cases, large deletions removing the NSD1 gene entirely in 14%, and intragenic NSD1 rearrangements in 6%. Among the 69 detected distinct point mutations, 48 were novel. The QMPSF assay detected an exonic duplication and a mosaic partial deletion. QMPSF mapping of the 15 large deletions revealed the heterogeneity of the deletions, which vary in size from 1 to 4.5 Mb. Clinical features of NSD1-positive Sotos patients revealed that the phenotype in patients with nontruncating mutations was less severe that in patients with truncating mutations. This study confirms the heterogeneity of NSD1 alterations in Sotos syndrome and therefore the need to complete sequencing analysis by screening for partial deletions and duplications to ensure an accurate molecular diagnosis of this syndrome.

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2007
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22. Whole mitochondrial genome screening in maternally inherited non-syndromic hearing impairment using a microarray resequencing mitochondrial DNA chip

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Didier Lacombe, Christine Francannet, Thierry Mom, Marianne Lévêque, Delphine Feldmann, Pascal Reynier, Vincent Procaccio, Marie-Madeleine Eliot, Patrizia Amati-Bonneau, Françoise Denoyelle, Hubert Journel, Denis Pierron, Sylvain Baulande, Laurence Jonard, Françoise Duriez, Christine Petit, Erea-Noel Garabedian, Hélène Catros, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Sandrine Marlin, Rémy Couderc, Marie-Françoise Obstoy, Laurence Faivre, Hélène Dollfus, and Christian Duvillard

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Adult, Male, Mitochondrial DNA, Lineage (genetic), Hearing Loss, Sensorineural, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, DNA, Mitochondrial, Genome, Mice, Dogs, Genetics, medicine, Animals, Humans, Point Mutation, Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional, Child, Gene, Genetics (clinical), Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Mutation, Point mutation, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Heteroplasmy, Mitochondria, Pedigree, Rats, Genome, Mitochondrial, Cattle, Female, DNA microarray
Abstract

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have been implicated in non-syndromic hearing loss either as primary or as predisposing factors. As only a part of the mitochondrial genome is usually explored in deafness, its prevalence is probably under-estimated. Among 1350 families with non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss collected through a French collaborative network, we selected 29 large families with a clear maternal lineage and screened them for known mtDNA mutations in 12S rRNA, tRNASer(UCN) and tRNALeu(UUR) genes. When no mutation could be identified, a whole mitochondrial genome screening was performed, using a microarray resequencing chip: the MitoChip version 2.0 developed by Affymetrix Inc. Known mtDNA mutations was found in nine of the 29 families, which are described in the article: five with A1555G, two with the T7511C, one with 7472insC and one with A3243G mutation. In the remaining 20 families, the resequencing Mitochip detected 258 mitochondrial homoplasmic variants and 107 potentially heteroplasmic variants. Controls were made by direct sequencing on selected fragments and showed a high sensibility of the MitoChip but a low specificity, especially for heteroplasmic variations. An original analysis on the basis of species conservation, frequency and phylogenetic investigation was performed to select the more probably pathogenic variants. The entire genome analysis allowed us to identify five additional families with a putatively pathogenic mitochondrial variant: T669C, C1537T, G8078A, G12236A and G15077A. These results indicate that the new MitoChip platform is a rapid and valuable tool for identification of new mtDNA mutations in deafness.

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2007
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23. Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with split hand/foot malformation: a clinical entity with a high frequency of FGFR1 mutations

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Michel Polak, Carine Villanueva, Lacey Plummer, Franziska Phan-Hug, Michael Hauschild, Juliane Léger, Cheng Xu, Yisrael Sidis, Nelly Pitteloud, Taneli Raivio, Hervé Lefebvre, Elka Jacobson-Dickman, Jean-Claude Carel, Moosa Mohammadi, Dov Tiosano, Sylvie Manouvrier, Gerasimos P. Sykiotis, Pierre Bouloux, Jean-Pierre Rey, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Youli Hu, Andrew A. Dwyer, Yang Liu, Andrew Beenken, Nicolas de Roux, Johanna Tommiska, and Marion Gérard

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Proband, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Kallmann syndrome, MAP Kinase Signaling System, Population, Molecular Sequence Data, Limb Deformities, Congenital, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Article, congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Animals, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1, Phosphorylation, education, Genetics (clinical), Conserved Sequence, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, Genetic testing, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Mutation, medicine.diagnostic_test, fibroblast growth factor receptor 1, Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1, FGF receptor substrate 2α, Hypogonadism, 030305 genetics & heredity, Membrane Proteins, Micropenis, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Pedigree, Endocrinology, split hand/foot malformation, Female, Congenital Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism, Hypogonadism/congenital, Hypogonadism/genetics, Limb Deformities, Congenital/genetics, Limb Deformities, Congenital/metabolism, Membrane Proteins/metabolism, Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1/genetics, Receptor, Fibroblast Growth Factor, Type 1/metabolism
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PURPOSE: Congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH) and split hand/foot malformation (SHFM) are two rare genetic conditions. Here we report a clinical entity comprising the two. METHODS: We identified patients with CHH and SHFM through international collaboration. Probands and available family members underwent phenotyping and screening for FGFR1 mutations. The impact of identified mutations was assessed by sequence- and structure-based predictions and/or functional assays. RESULTS: We identified eight probands with CHH with (n = 3; Kallmann syndrome) or without anosmia (n = 5) and SHFM, seven of whom (88%) harbor FGFR1 mutations. Of these seven, one individual is homozygous for p.V429E and six individuals are heterozygous for p.G348R, p.G485R, p.Q594*, p.E670A, p.V688L, or p.L712P. All mutations were predicted by in silico analysis to cause loss of function. Probands with FGFR1 mutations have severe gonadotropin-releasing hormone deficiency (absent puberty and/or cryptorchidism and/or micropenis). SHFM in both hands and feet was observed only in the patient with the homozygous p.V429E mutation; V429 maps to the fibroblast growth factor receptor substrate 2α binding domain of FGFR1, and functional studies of the p.V429E mutation demonstrated that it decreased recruitment and phosphorylation of fibroblast growth factor receptor substrate 2α to FGFR1, thereby resulting in reduced mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling. CONCLUSION: FGFR1 should be prioritized for genetic testing in patients with CHH and SHFM because the likelihood of a mutation increases from 10% in the general CHH population to 88% in these patients.

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2015

24. Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome : Delineation of the spectrum in 42 cases

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Sara Osimani, Andrew E. Fry, Koenraad Devriendt, Débora Romeo Bertola, Marjan M. Nezarati, Han G. Brunner, Grazia M.S. Mancini, Jorge L. Juncos, Pirayeh Eftekhari, Nataliya Di Donato, Marjolijn C.J. Jongmans, Laurence Faivre, Gilles Morin, Małgorzata J.M. Nowaczyk, Didier Lacombe, Zeichi-Seide Roseli, Conny M. A. van Ravenswaaij, Daniela Melis, Julien Masliah-Planchon, William B. Dobyns, Alexander Hoischen, Hatice Koçak Eker, Marlies Kempers, Andreas Rump, Vera Uliana, Victoria Mok Siu, Fabienne Giuliano, Nicole Philip, Beate Albrecht, Omar A Abdul-Raman, Alain Verloes, Mirjam Klaus, Angela E. Lin, Massimiliano Rossi, Albert David, Bregje W.M. van Bon, Jeanette C. Ramer, Ludivine Templin, Séverine Drunat, Yves Sznajer, Vincent Procaccio, Jean-Baptiste Rivière, Mary Ella M Pierpont, Francesca Faravelli, Judith Allanson, Leina Guion Almeida, Daniela T. Pilz, Cristina Rusu, Nicolas Chassaing, Charles Marques Lourenço, Bruce H. Wainer, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Hôpital Robert Debré, Maladies neurodéveloppementales et neurovasculaires (NeuroDiderot (UMR_S_1141 / U1141)), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP), Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Radboud University Medical Centre [Nijmegen, The Netherlands], University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), Universitätsklinikum Essen [Universität Duisburg-Essen] (Uniklinik Essen), Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario [Ottawa, Canada], Hôpital Purpan [Toulouse], CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nantes (CHU Nantes), University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Hôpital Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU), Ospedale Galliera, CHU Dijon, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU Nice), University of São Paulo (USP), Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University [Atlanta, GA], CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], Massachusetts General Hospital [Boston], Erasmus University Medical Center [Rotterdam] (Erasmus MC), Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, University of Western Ontario (UWO), CHU Amiens-Picardie, McMaster University [Hamilton, Ontario], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System, Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), University of Minnesota [MN, USA], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud [CHU - HCL] (CHLS), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc [Bruxelles], University Hospital Groningen, University Hospital of Wales [Cardiff, UK], Seattle Children’s Hospital, Clinical Genetics, UCL - SSS/IREC - Institut de recherche expérimentale et clinique, UCL - (SLuc) Centre de génétique médicale UCL, Ethical, Legal, Social Issues in Genetics (ELSI), and Clinical Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research Program (CCNP)

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Male, Microcephaly, Pathology, Craniofacial abnormality, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Medizin, GYRAL MALFORMATIONS, Craniofacial Abnormalities, FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY, 0302 clinical medicine, Ptosis, Gene Order, Genetics(clinical), Hypertelorism, Non-U.S. Gov't, Child, Genetics (clinical), Arthrogryposis, Dystonia, 0303 health sciences, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Anatomy, 3. Good health, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Female, medicine.symptom, Abnormalities, Multiple, Rare cancers Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 9], Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, APPARENTLY UNDESCRIBED SYNDROME, Adolescent, Lissencephaly, Biology, Research Support, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being, medicine, Genetics, Journal Article, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Preschool, 030304 developmental biology, SHALLOW ORBITS, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], GAMMA-ACTIN, Pachygyria, Facies, medicine.disease, IRIS COLOBOMA, Actins, BETA-ACTIN, Amino Acid Substitution, Genetic Loci, Mutation, FACIAL SYNDROME, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, MENTAL-RETARDATION, GROWTH-RETARDATION
Abstract

International audience; Baraitser-Winter, Fryns-Aftimos and cerebrofrontofacial syndrome types 1 and 3 have recently been associated with heterozygous gain-of-function mutations in one of the two ubiquitous cytoplasmic actin-encoding genes ACTB and ACTG1 that encode beta- and gamma-actins. We present detailed phenotypic descriptions and neuroimaging on 36 patients analyzed by our group and six cases from the literature with a molecularly proven actinopathy (9 ACTG1 and 33 ACTB). The major clinical anomalies are striking dysmorphic facial features with hypertelorism, broad nose with large tip and prominent root, congenital non-myopathic ptosis, ridged metopic suture and arched eyebrows. Iris or retinal coloboma is present in many cases, as is sensorineural deafness. Cleft lip and palate, hallux duplex, congenital heart defects and renal tract anomalies are seen in some cases. Microcephaly may develop with time. Nearly all patients with ACTG1 mutations, and around 60% of those with ACTB mutations have some degree of pachygyria with anteroposterior severity gradient, rarely lissencephaly or neuronal heterotopia. Reduction of shoulder girdle muscle bulk and progressive joint stiffness is common. Early muscular involvement, occasionally with congenital arthrogryposis, may be present. Progressive, severe dystonia was seen in one family. Intellectual disability and epilepsy are variable in severity and largely correlate with CNS anomalies. One patient developed acute lymphocytic leukemia, and another a cutaneous lymphoma, indicating that actinopathies may be cancer-predisposing disorders. Considering the multifaceted role of actins in cell physiology, we hypothesize that some clinical manifestations may be partially mutation specific. Baraitser-Winter cerebrofrontofacial syndrome is our suggested designation for this clinical entity.European Journal of Human Genetics advance online publication, 23 July 2014; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2014.95.

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2015
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25. Molecular characterization of a 14q deletion in a boy with features of Holt-Oram syndrome

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Annick Rossi, Hélène Moirot, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Géraldine Joly-Helas, Pascale Saugier-Veber, Saad Abu Amara, Nathalie Le Meur, Thierry Frebourg, Alice Goldenberg, Stéphane Marret, Pascale Kleinfinger, Bertrand Mace, Gérard Blaysat, and Christine Michel-Adde

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Genetics, medicine.medical_specialty, Holt–Oram syndrome, Genetic heterogeneity, Cytogenetics, Chromosome, Dysostosis, Karyotype, Radial aplasia, Locus (genetics), Biology, medicine.disease, medicine, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract

Holt-Oram syndrome, the major "heart-hand" syndrome is defined by the association of radial defects or triphalangeal thumbs and septal heart defects. The transmission is autosomal dominant and the causative gene has been shown to be TBX5, located on 12q24.1, which encodes a transcription factor. Genetic heterogeneity has been suggested by several reports. We identified a 14(q23.3 approximately 24.2q31.1) deletion in a boy presenting severe bilateral asymmetrical radial aplasia, congenital heart defects, and developmental delay. This deletion, whose size could be estimated to be 9.6-13.7 Mb, was shown to be inherited via his mother's interchromosomal insertion. This is the second report of a chromosome 14 interstitial deletion associated with clinical features of Holt-Oram syndrome. These observations suggest the existence of a new "heart-hand" locus on chromosome 14q.

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2005
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26. Large deletion of theGJB6gene in deaf patients heterozygous for theGJB2gene mutation: Genotypic and phenotypic analysis

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Jacques Leman, Catherine Calais, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Christine Petit, Cédric Le Maréchal, Bétina Montaut, Bruno Delobel, Pierre Chauvin, Patricia Lewin, Sandrine Marlin, Didier Bouccara, Hélène Catros, Marie-Françoise Obstoy, Marie-Madeleine Eliot, Sébastien Schmerber, Hélène Dollfus, Patrice Tran Ba Huy, Jacqueline Vigneron, Delphine Feldmann, Albert David, Erea-Noel Garabedian, Alain Joannard, Françoise Duriez, Rémy Couderc, Cyril Goizet, Olivier Sterkers, Françoise Denoyelle, J. P. Delaunoy, Hubert Journel, Sylvie Odent, Jocelyne Hélias, and Florence Fellmann

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Genetics, Mutation, biology, Hearing loss, Heterozygote advantage, medicine.disease_cause, Phenotype, Gjb2 gene, Genotype, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, medicine, biology.protein, medicine.symptom, Gene, Genetics (clinical), GJB6
Abstract

Recent investigations identified a large deletion of the GJB6 gene in trans to a mutation of GJB2 in deaf patients. We looked for GJB2 mutations and GJB6 deletions in 255 French patients presenting with a phenotype compatible with DFNB1. 32% of the patients had biallelic GJB2 mutations and 6% were a heterozygous for a GJB2 mutation and a GJB6 deletion. Biallelic GJB2 mutations and combined GJB2/GJB6 anomalies were more frequent in profoundly deaf children. Based on these results, we are now assessing GJB6 deletion status in cases of prelingual hearing loss.

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2004
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27. Spectrum of PTCH1 Mutations in French Patients with Gorlin Syndrome

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Didier Lacombe, Nathalie Boutet, Philippe Gorry, Pierre Sarda, Yves-Jean Bignon, Michel Longy, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Centre d'études techniques de l'équipement Ouest (CETE Ouest), Avant création Cerema, Imagerie Moléculaire et Stratégies Théranostiques (IMoST), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020]), Department of Genetics, University Hospital, Unité de Génétique Médicale et Foetopathologie, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Département de pathologie, Institut Bergonié [Bordeaux], UNICANCER-UNICANCER, Service de génétique médicale, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GORRY, Philippe, Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)

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Male, Skin Neoplasms, Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome, basal cell, carcinoma, medicine.disease_cause, Biochemistry, 0302 clinical medicine, Child, Frameshift Mutation, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Autosomal dominant trait, Middle Aged, 3. Good health, Patched-1 Receptor, germline mutation, Codon, Nonsense, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, France, Adult, Patched Receptors, Adolescent, Mutation, Missense, Nevoid basal-cell carcinoma syndrome, Receptors, Cell Surface, Dermatology, Biology, [SDV.GEN.GH] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Frameshift mutation, 03 medical and health sciences, Germline mutation, medicine, Humans, Molecular Biology, 030304 developmental biology, skin disease, Membrane Proteins, PTCH1 Gene, Cell Biology, [SDV.MHEP.DERM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Dermatology, medicine.disease, stomatognathic diseases, PTCH1, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, genetic, [SDV.MHEP.DERM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Dermatology, Gene Deletion
Abstract

Gorlin syndrome or nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by developmental abnormalities and a predisposition to cancers. The responsible gene for this syndrome is the PTCH tumor suppressor gene encoding for the Sonic Hedgehog receptor. We screened for PTCH mutations in 65 French Gorlin syndrome families or sporadic cases for the first time. Nineteen novel mutations and five new polymorphisms were identified in this group of patients. One microdeletion without frameshift underlines the importance of one amino acid for Ptc receptor function. Although no mutation hot-spot was described, we identified a recurrent mutation.

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2003
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28. Mutations in RIT1 cause Noonan syndrome with possible juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia but are not involved in acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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Nehla Ghedira, Nathalie Pouvreau, Yline Capri, Odile Fenneteau, Joelle Roume, Aurélie Caye, Bérénice Doray, Laurence Perrin, Odile Boute, Natacha Fillot, Aurélien Trimouille, Cédric Vignal, Yves Alembik, Patricia Blanchet, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Bertrand Isidor, Marlène Rio, Marion Gérard, Jean-Luc Alessandri, Annick Toutain, Alain Verloes, Albert David, Hélène Cavé, Anne Dieux Coeslier, Clarisse Baumann, Olivier Dulac, Delphine Héron, Sylvie Sauvion, Catherine Vincent-Delorme, Stanislas Lyonnet, Marjorie Willems, Patrice Bouvagnet, and Didier Lacombe

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0301 basic medicine, Proband, Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Cardiomyopathy, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Child, Genetics (clinical), Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, business.industry, Noonan Syndrome, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, medicine.disease, Pedigree, PTPN11, Leukemia, 030104 developmental biology, Phenotype, Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Juvenile, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Child, Preschool, Speech delay, Immunology, Mutation, ras Proteins, Noonan syndrome, Medical genetics, Female, medicine.symptom, business
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Noonan syndrome is a heterogeneous autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations in at least eight genes involved in the RAS/MAPK signaling pathway. Recently, RIT1 (Ras-like without CAAX 1) has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of some patients. We report a series of 44 patients from 30 pedigrees (including nine multiplex families) with mutations in RIT1. These patients display a typical Noonan gestalt and facial phenotype. Among the probands, 8.7% showed postnatal growth retardation, 90% had congenital heart defects, 36% had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (a lower incidence compared with previous report), 50% displayed speech delay and 52% had learning difficulties, but only 22% required special education. None had major skin anomalies. One child died perinatally of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. Compared with the canonical Noonan phenotype linked to PTPN11 mutations, patients with RIT1 mutations appear to be less severely growth retarded and more frequently affected by cardiomyopathy. Based on our experience, we estimate that RIT1 could be the cause of 5% of Noonan syndrome patients. Because mutations found constitutionally in Noonan syndrome are also found in several tumors in adulthood, we evaluated the potential contribution of RIT1 to leukemogenesis in Noonan syndrome. We screened 192 pediatric cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemias (96 B-ALL and 96 T-ALL) and 110 cases of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemias (JMML), but detected no variation in these tumoral samples, suggesting that Noonan patients with germline RIT1 mutations are not at high risk to developing JMML or ALL, and that RIT1 has at most a marginal role in these sporadic malignancies.

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2014

29. High frequency of FGFR1 mutations in patients with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and split hand/foot malformation

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Andrew A. Dwyer, Dov Tiosano, Cheng Xu, Sylvie Manouvrier, Roux Nicolas De, Taneli Raivio, Johanna Tommiska, Pierre Bouloux, Elka Jacobson-Dickman, Gerasimos P. Sykiotis, Marion Gérard, Juliane Leger, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Michel Polak, Carine Villanueva, Yisrael Sidis, Jean-Claude Carel, Nelly Pitteloud, Youli Hu, and Moosa Mohammadi

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Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Split-Hand/Foot Malformation, business.industry, Medicine, In patient, Congenital Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism, business
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2014
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30. Neurological presentation of a congenital disorder of glycosylation CDG-Ia: Implications for diagnosis and genetic counseling

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Valérie Cormier-Daire, Mathilde Belgrand, Alain Hénocq, Gert Matthijs, Jean‐Nicolas Dacher, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Pascale Saugier-Veber, Stephanie Grunewald, Thierry Frebourg, and Nathalie Seta

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Male, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, medicine.medical_specialty, Pathology, Glycosylation, Genetic counseling, Encephalopathy, Genes, Recessive, Genetic Counseling, Biology, chemistry.chemical_compound, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, Cerebellum, Internal medicine, Cisterna Magna, parasitic diseases, medicine, Humans, Age of Onset, Child, Genetics (clinical), Spinocerebellar Degenerations, Fourth Ventricle, Fibroblasts, medicine.disease, Endocrinology, chemistry, Phosphotransferases (Phosphomutases), Female, Cerebellar atrophy, Isoelectric Focusing, Age of onset, Congenital disorder of glycosylation, Phosphomannomutase
Abstract

The congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) constitute a new group of recessively inherited metabolic disorders that are characterized biochemically by defective glycosylation of proteins. Several types have been identified. CDG-Ia, the most frequent type, is a multisystemic disorder affecting the nervous system and numerous organs including liver, kidney, heart, adipose tissue, bone, and genitalia. A phosphomannomutase (PMM) deficiency has been identified in CDG-Ia patients and numerous mutations in the PMM2 gene have been identified in patients with a PMM deficiency. We report on a French family with 3 affected sibs, with an unusual presentation of CDG-Ia, remarkable for 1) the neurological presentation of the disease, and 2) the dissociation between intermediate PMM activity in fibroblasts and a decreased PMM activity in leukocytes. This report shows that the diagnosis of CDG-Ia must be considered in patients with non-regressive early-onset encephalopathy with cerebellar atrophy, and that intermediate values of PMM activity in fibroblasts do not exclude the diagnosis of CDG-Ia.

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2001
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31. Goldenhar syndrome and neuroblastoma: a chance association?

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Annie Laquerrière, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, D Eurin, C Michel-Adde, and Stéphane Marret

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Male, Mesoderm, animal structures, business.industry, Microtia, Adrenal Gland Neoplasms, Infant, Newborn, Dysostosis, Neural crest, Goldenhar syndrome, General Medicine, Anatomy, medicine.disease, Hypoplasia, Neuroblastoma, Fatal Outcome, Goldenhar Syndrome, medicine.anatomical_structure, embryonic structures, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, medicine, Humans, Neural crest cell migration, business
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UNLABELLED Oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia, also called Goldenhar syndrome, includes several anomalies: epibulbar dermoids or lipodermoids, microtia, mandibular hypoplasia, vertebral, skeletal, cardiac and kidney anomalies, among others. Tumours have also been observed in patients with oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia. We report the first case of oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia associated with a neuroblastoma. This tumour consists of cells identical to early migratory neural crest cells in the embryo. Several theories have been proposed regarding the pathogenetic explanation of oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia. Currently, some researchers have suggested a deficiency in mesodermal formation or defective interaction between neural crest and mesoderm as a possible aetiology. CONCLUSION It is suggested that the case reported here is an additional argument for an anomaly in neural crest cell migration or interaction with the mesoderm in the pathogenesis of oculoauriculovertebral dysplasia.

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2007
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32. Clinical assessment of five patients with BRWD3 mutation at Xq21.1 gives further evidence for mild to moderate intellectual disability and macrocephaly

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Janneke H M Schuurs-Hoeijmakers, Thierry Frebourg, Hans van Bokhoven, Sarah Grotto, Pascal Chambon, Séverine Fehrenbach, Helen Puusepp-Benazzouz, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Pascale Saugier-Veber, Nathalie Le Meur, Arjan P.M. de Brouwer, and Katrin Õunap

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Adult, Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Nonsense mutation, DNA Mutational Analysis, Cubitus valgus, Kyphosis, Other Research Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 0], Scoliosis, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Chromosomes, Human, X, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], Base Sequence, business.industry, Macrocephaly, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Megalencephaly, Pedigree, Codon, Nonsense, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Speech delay, medicine.symptom, business, Transcription Factors
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Item does not contain fulltext Truncating mutations of the BRWD3 gene have been reported in two distinct families with in total four patients so far. By using array-CGH, we detected a 74 Kb de novo deletion encompassing exons 11 through 41 of BRWD3 at Xq21.1 in a 20 year old boy presenting with syndromic intellectual disability. In addition, by using exome sequencing, we ascertained a family with a BRWD3 nonsense mutation, p.Tyr1131*, in four males with intellectual disability. We compared the clinical presentation of these five patients to that of the four patients already described in the literature for further delineation of the clinical spectrum in BRWD3-related intellectual disability. The main symptoms are mild to moderate intellectual disability (n = 9/9) with speech delay (n = 8/8), behavioral disturbances (n = 7/8), macrocephaly (n = 7/9), dysmorphic facial features (n = 9/9) including prominent forehead, pointed chin, deep-set eyes, abnormal ears, and broad hands and feet (n = 6/6), and skeletal symptoms (n = 7/7) like pes planus, scoliosis, kyphosis and cubitus valgus.

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2013

33. Congenital cytomegalovirus is the second most frequent cause of bilateral hearing loss in young French children

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Marianne Leruez-Ville, Véronique Avettand-Fenoel, Sandrine Marlin, Christelle Vauloup-Fellous, Martine François, Isabelle Rouillon, Laurence Laccourreye, Françoise Denoyelle, Tiffany Guilleminot, Sophie Grabar, Vincent Couloigner, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, and Natalie Loundon

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Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Neonatal intensive care unit, Hearing loss, Population, Congenital cytomegalovirus infection, Cytomegalovirus, Computed tomography, Audiology, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Hearing screening, Hearing Loss, Bilateral, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, medicine, Prevalence, Humans, Prospective Studies, Antiviral treatment, education, education.field_of_study, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Bilateral hearing loss, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Infant, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Child, Preschool, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Female, France, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract

To estimate the prevalence of congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) among causes of bilateral hearing loss in young French children.Children3 years old with hearing loss were prospectively included at their first visit to a referral center. Cytomegalovirus polymerase chain reaction was performed on dried blood spots from Guthrie cards. Medical records were reviewed.One hundred children with bilateral hearing loss were included at a median age of 15 months; the prevalence of cCMV was 8% (8/100) (95% CI, 2.7%-13.3%) in this population and 15.4% (8/52) in the subpopulation of children with profound bilateral hearing loss. Delayed neurodevelopment and brain abnormalities on computed tomography scan were found more often in children with cCMV than in children with hearing loss without cCMV (P = .027, P = .005). In 6 of 8 cCMV cases, cCMV infection had not been diagnosed before the study.In a comprehensive study of the causes of bilateral hearing loss in young French children, cCMV is the second most frequent cause of hearing loss after connexin mutations. It underlines that a majority of French children with hearing loss and cCMV are not diagnosed early and therefore may not benefit from early intervention including the possibility of neonatal antiviral treatment. These results make the case for promoting systematic cytomegalovirus screening in neonates with confirmed hearing loss identified through neonatal hearing screening.

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2012

34. Complete exon sequencing of all known Usher syndrome genes greatly improves molecular diagnosis

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Jacques Dubin, Christine Francannet, Jacqueline Levilliers, Thierry Mom, Magali Niasme-Grare, J.-P. Hardelin, Françoise Denoyelle, Diana Zelenika, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Didier Lacombe, Sandrine Marlin, Marc Delepine, Patrick Collignon, Alain Duvillard, Christel Thauvin, Sabine Sigaudy, Jacqueline Vigneron, Albert David, Anne Marie Frances, Christophe Vincent, Françoise Duriez, Dominique Weil, Catherine Calais, Marine Parodi, M'hamed Grati, Hélène Dollfus, Delphine Feldmann, Bruno Delobel, Laurence Jonard, Christine Petit, Marie Françoise Thuillier-Obstoy, Bettina Montaut-Verient, Crystel Bonnet, Jean Weissenbach, Aziz El-Amraoui, Georges Challe, Dominique Bonneau, Mark Lathrop, Marie Madeleine Eliot, José-Alain Sahel, Rémy Couderc, CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Collège de France - Chaire Génétique et physiologie cellulaire, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), NIDCD, National Institutes of Health [Bethesda] (NIH), Centre National de Génotypage (CNG), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Centre de Génétique, Service ORL, Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Service d'ORL et chirurgie cervico-faciale, Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie (ORL), Hôtel-Dieu, Maternité Régionale Adolphe Pinard [Nancy], Maternité Régionale Adolphe-Pinard, Centre de Référence des Maladies Neurogénétiques, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM)-PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Service Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie [CHU de Dijon] (ORL [CHU de Dijon]), Service de Génétique Médicale [CHU Clermont-Ferrand], CHU Estaing [Clermont-Ferrand], CHU Clermont-Ferrand-CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Service d'ORL, CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Service d'ophtalmologie [Rouen], Hôpital Charles Nicolle [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Service ORL Pédiatrique, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Département de génétique médicale [Hôpital de la Timone - APHM], Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital intercommunal de Font-Pré, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Institut de la Vision, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Génomique métabolique (UMR 8030), Genoscope - Centre national de séquençage [Evry] (GENOSCOPE), Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne (UEVE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), M.G. was supported by European Commission FP6 Integrated project, EuroHear (LSHG-CT-2004-512063) and C.B. by the French Foundation 'Voir et Entendre'. This work was supported by Fondation R & G Strittmatter (under the aegis of Fondation de France), FAUN Stiftung (Suchert Foundation), ECFP7 TREATRUSH (HEALTH-F2-2010-242013), Foundation Fighting Blindness, LHW-Stiftung, Fondation Orange, The Conny-Maeva Charitable Foundation, Genoscope-CNRG project AP2005, and S'entendre Foundation., Service de génétique et embryologie médicales [CHU Trousseau], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Chaire Génétique et physiologie cellulaire, Service de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire [CHU Trousseau], Hôpital St-Antoine, Service d'ORL et de Chirurgie Cervicofaciale, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Normandie Université (NU)-Hôpital Charles-Nicolle, Hôpital Charles-Nicolle, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Service d'ORL pédiatrique et Chirurgie Cervico-faciale [CHU Trousseau], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and BMC, Ed.

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Usher syndrome, lcsh:Medicine, [SDV.GEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, MESH: Amino Acid Sequence, medicine.disease_cause, MESH: Genotype, Exon, 0302 clinical medicine, Genotype, Genetics(clinical), Pharmacology (medical), Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Medicine(all), Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, Splice site mutation, MESH: Genomics, Exons, Genomics, General Medicine, MESH: Case-Control Studies, Pedigree, 3. Good health, France, Usher Syndromes, MESH: Mutation, MESH: Pedigree, Molecular Sequence Data, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, MESH: Usher Syndromes, Gene, Genotyping, MESH: Genome, Human, 030304 developmental biology, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, MESH: Humans, MESH: Molecular Sequence Data, Genome, Human, Research, lcsh:R, medicine.disease, MESH: France, Case-Control Studies, MESH: Exons, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

Background Usher syndrome (USH) combines sensorineural deafness with blindness. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive mode. Early diagnosis is critical for adapted educational and patient management choices, and for genetic counseling. To date, nine causative genes have been identified for the three clinical subtypes (USH1, USH2 and USH3). Current diagnostic strategies make use of a genotyping microarray that is based on the previously reported mutations. The purpose of this study was to design a more accurate molecular diagnosis tool. Methods We sequenced the 366 coding exons and flanking regions of the nine known USH genes, in 54 USH patients (27 USH1, 21 USH2 and 6 USH3). Results Biallelic mutations were detected in 39 patients (72%) and monoallelic mutations in an additional 10 patients (18.5%). In addition to biallelic mutations in one of the USH genes, presumably pathogenic mutations in another USH gene were detected in seven patients (13%), and another patient carried monoallelic mutations in three different USH genes. Notably, none of the USH3 patients carried detectable mutations in the only known USH3 gene, whereas they all carried mutations in USH2 genes. Most importantly, the currently used microarray would have detected only 30 of the 81 different mutations that we found, of which 39 (48%) were novel. Conclusions Based on these results, complete exon sequencing of the currently known USH genes stands as a definite improvement for molecular diagnosis of this disease, which is of utmost importance in the perspective of gene therapy.

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2011
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35. Identification of 28 novel mutations in the Bardet-Biedl syndrome genes: the burden of private mutations in an extensively heterogeneous disease

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Serge Vicaire, Dominique Bonneau, Pierre Bitoun, Nicholas Katsanis, Sophie Hellé, Alice Goldenberg, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Marie-Claire Vincent, Jean Marc Danse, Vincent Marion, Sabine Sigaudy, Joelle Roume, M. Hamdani, Sylvie Odent, Christine Francannet, Erica E. Davis, Alain Verloes, V. Bennouna-Greene, Jean Muller, Josseline Kaplan, Hélène Dollfus, Virginie Laurier, Jean-Louis Mandel, André Mégarbané, Carmen C. Leitch, Jane Green, Mireille Cossée, Corinne Stoetzel, Nicole Philip, Olivier Poch, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Laboratoire de diagnostic génétique, CHU Strasbourg, Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale (LGM), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Unité de Génétique Médicale, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth (USJ), Génétique et épigénétique des maladies métaboliques, neurosensorielles et du développement (Inserm U781), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Hôpital 20 Août 1953, Service de Génétique et de Diagnostic Prénatal, Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Hôtel-Dieu-CHU Clermont-Ferrand-Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I (UdA), Service de génétique médicale, CHI Poissy-Saint-Germain, Service de Pédiatrie [Jean Verdier], Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Jean Verdier [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Département de génétique médicale [Hôpital de la Timone - APHM], Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Service de Génétique Clinique, Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-hôpital Sud, Department of Genetics, Memorial University of Newfoundland [St. John's], Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University [Durham], Service de génétique [Angers], Université d'Angers (UA)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM)-PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Unité fonctionnelle de génétique clinique, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Chaire Génétique Humaine, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique clinique [Rennes], Université de Rennes (UR)-CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes]-hôpital Sud, Memorial University of Newfoundland = Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve [St. John's, Canada] (MUN), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Collège de France - Chaire Génétique Humaine, De Villemeur, Hervé, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire ( IGBMC ), Université de Strasbourg ( UNISTRA ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Génétique Médicale, Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg]-AVENIR-Inserm, Johns Hopkins University ( JHU ), Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth ( USJ ), Génétique et épigénétique des maladies métaboliques, neurosensorielles et du développement ( Inserm U781 ), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), CHU Rouen-Université de Rouen Normandie ( UNIROUEN ), Normandie Université ( NU ) -Normandie Université ( NU ), Hôtel-Dieu-CHU Clermont-Ferrand-Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I ( UdA ), Université Paris 13 ( UP13 ) -Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-Hôpital Jean Verdier, Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille ( APHM ) - Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] ( TIMONE ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Université de Rennes 1 ( UR1 ), Université de Rennes ( UNIV-RENNES ) -Université de Rennes ( UNIV-RENNES ) -Hôpital Sud, Duke university [Durham], Université d'Angers ( UA ) -CHU Angers, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-Hôpital Robert Debré-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ), Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire ( IGBMC ), and Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )

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BBS2, Adult, Male, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, BBS1, Molecular Sequence Data, [SDV.GEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Gene Frequency, Gene Duplication, [SDV.BDD] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, Gene duplication, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, [ SDV.BDD ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, Genetic Testing, Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, [SDV.BDD]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, Genetics (clinical), Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid, Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Genetic heterogeneity, 030305 genetics & heredity, Decision Trees, Homozygote, Chromosome Mapping, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Middle Aged, Disease gene identification, 3. Good health, Pedigree, BBS12, Female, [ SDV.GEN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Gene Deletion, Microsatellite Repeats
Abstract

International audience; Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), an emblematic disease in the rapidly evolving field of ciliopathies, is characterized by pleiotropic clinical features and extensive genetic heterogeneity. To date, 14 BBS genes have been identified, 3 of which have been found mutated only in a single BBS family each (BBS11/TRIM32, BBS13/MKS1 and BBS14/MKS4/NPHP6). Previous reports of systematic mutation detection in large cohorts of BBS families (n > 90) have dealt only with a single gene, or at most small subsets of the known BBS genes. Here we report extensive analysis of a cohort of 174 BBS families for 12/14 genes, leading to the identification of 28 novel mutations. Two pathogenic mutations in a single gene have been found in 117 families, and a single heterozygous mutation in 17 families (of which 8 involve the BBS1 recurrent mutation, M390R). We confirm that BBS1 and BBS10 are the most frequently mutated genes, followed by BBS12. No mutations have been found in BBS11/TRIM32, the identification of which as a BBS gene only relies on a single missense mutation in a single consanguineous family. While a third variant allele has been observed in a few families, they are in most cases missenses of uncertain pathogenicity, contrasting with the type of mutations observed as two alleles in a single gene. We discuss the various strategies for diagnostic mutation detection, including homozygosity mapping and targeted arrays for the detection of previously reported mutations.

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2010
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36. Mutation update for the CSB/ERCC6 and CSA/ERCC8 genes involved in Cockayne syndrome

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Hélène Dollfus, Victoria Murday, Pierre Sarda, E. Raffo, Patrick Edery, Alain Sarasin, Jacqueline Vigneron, D. Gubser-Mercati, Andrew R. Gennery, Karen Fieggen, Vincent Laugel, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, F. Sauvanaud, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Hubert Journel, Louise Brueton, John Tolmie, Marie-Claire Vincent, Alan R. Lehmann, Delphine Héron, Benoît Funalot, Stanislas Lyonnet, D. Pham, Jean-Marc Egly, Mustafa A. Salih, Sylvie Odent, U. Kristensen, E. Muñoz, Agnès Bloch-Zupan, Heather Fawcett, Edward S. Tobias, J. Sanchez del Pozo, Blanca Gener, Brigitte Chabrol, Lina M. Ramos, M. Durand, Cecile Dalloz, Zornitza Stark, K. Prescott, Laurent Pasquier, Mehrdad Noruzinia, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de diagnostic génétique, CHU Strasbourg, Laboratoire de génétique moléculaire et génomique médicale [CHU Rennes], CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Service de Génétique Médicale [CHU Necker], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Department of Medical Genetics, Hospital de Cruces, Division of Developmental Medicine, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Service de génétique, Centre Hospitalier Le Mans (CH Le Mans), Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Génétique Médicale, Centre hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique (Morbihan) (CHBA)-Hôpital Chubert, Service de Pédiatrie [CHRU Nancy], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Consultation de Génétique, Neurologie Pédiatrique, Hôpital neuchâtelois, Service de Neurologie [CHU Limoges], CHU Limoges, Biomolécules Thérapies anti-tumorales (EA4021), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique (GEIST FR CNRS 3503), Department of Clinical Genetics, Birmingham Women's Hospital, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa [Madrid] (CBMSO), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department Neurology, Hospital Clinic, Department of Pediatrics, Newcastle General Hospital, Division of Pediatric Neurology, King Saud University [Riyadh] (KSU), Department of Hematology, Tarbiat Modares University [Tehran], St James's University Hospital, Pediatric Hospital, Genetic Health Services Victoria, Groote Schuur and Red Cross Children's Hospital, Service de pédiatrie et neurologie pédiatrique, Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE), Unité de Génétique Médicale et Foetopathologie, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Service de Génétique, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Reference Centre for Oral Manifestations of Rare Diseases, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Centre for Genome Damage and Stability, University of Sussex, Génomes et cancer (GC (FRE2939)), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut Gustave Roussy (IGR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire ( IGBMC ), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire et Hormonologie, Hôpital Pontchaillou, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], CH Le Mans, CHU Rouen-Université de Rouen Normandie ( UNIROUEN ), Normandie Université ( NU ) -Normandie Université ( NU ), Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Centre Hospitalier Bretagne Atlantique-Hôpital Chubert, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy ( CHRU Nancy ), Biomolécules Thérapies anti-tumorales ( EA4021 ), Université de Limoges ( UNILIM ) -Génomique, Environnement, Immunité, Santé, Thérapeutique ( GEIST FR CNRS 3503 ), Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa ( CBMSO ), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid ( UAM ) -Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] ( CSIC ), King Saud University [Riyadh] ( KSU ), Tarbiat Modares University, Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille ( APHM ) - Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] ( TIMONE ), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] ( CHRU Montpellier ) -Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Hospices Civils de Lyon ( HCL ), Génomes et cancer ( GC (FRE2939) ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut Gustave Roussy ( IGR ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (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), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), and De Villemeur, Hervé

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Molecular Sequence Data, Prenatal diagnosis, [SDV.GEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Bioinformatics, Cockayne syndrome, 03 medical and health sciences, Structure-Activity Relationship, 0302 clinical medicine, [SDV.BDD] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, Databases, Genetic, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Coding region, Humans, Amino Acid Sequence, [ SDV.BDD ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, Cockayne Syndrome, Poly-ADP-Ribose Binding Proteins, Gene, [SDV.BDD]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, Genetics (clinical), Genetic Association Studies, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Polymorphism, Genetic, DNA Helicases, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, ERCC8, DNA Repair Enzymes, ERCC6, [ SDV.GEN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, Sequence Alignment, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Transcription Factors
Abstract

MMNP; International audience; Cockayne syndrome is an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized principally by neurological and sensory impairment, cachectic dwarfism, and photosensitivity. This rare disease is linked to mutations in the CSB/ERCC6 and CSA/ERCC8 genes encoding proteins involved in the transcription-coupled DNA repair pathway. The clinical spectrum of Cockayne syndrome encompasses a wide range of severity from severe prenatal forms to mild and late-onset presentations. We have reviewed the 45 published mutations in CSA and CSB to date and we report 43 new mutations in these genes together with the corresponding clinical data. Among the 84 reported kindreds, 52 (62%) have mutations in the CSB gene. Many types of mutations are scattered along the whole coding sequence of both genes, but clusters of missense mutations can be recognized and highlight the role of particular motifs in the proteins. Genotype-phenotype correlation hypotheses are considered with regard to these new molecular and clinical data. Additional cases of molecular prenatal diagnosis are reported and the strategy for prenatal testing is discussed. Two web-based locus-specific databases have been created to list all identified variants and to allow the inclusion of future reports (www.umd.be/CSA/ and www.umd.be/CSB/).

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2010
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37. Missense mutations of conserved glycine residues in fibrillin-1 highlight a potential subtype of cb-EGF-like domains

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Aurélie Plancke, Anne-Françoise Roux, Gwenaëlle Collod-Béroud, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Christophe Béroud, David Baux, Mireille Claustres, Patrick Collignon, Nathalie Pallares-Ruiz, Philippe Khau Van Kien, Corinne Baudoin, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Alain Hovnanian, Nicolas Chassaing, Laboratoire de génétique des maladies rares. Pathologie moleculaire, etudes fonctionnelles et banque de données génétiques (LGMR), IFR3, Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Genetics, Centre de Référence Maladies Sensorielles Génétiques, Hôpital Gui de Chauliac [Montpellier], Service de génétique médicale, CHU Toulouse [Toulouse]-Hôpital Purpan [Toulouse], CHU Toulouse [Toulouse], Département de génétique médicale [Hôpital de la Timone - APHM], Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Génétique et épigénétique des maladies métaboliques, neurosensorielles et du développement (Inserm U781), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique, Centre Hospitalier Le Mans (CH Le Mans), Institut de génétique humaine (IGH), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-IFR3, Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Service Génétique Médicale [CHU Toulouse], Institut Fédératif de Biologie (IFB), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)-Pôle Biologie [CHU Toulouse], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse), COLLOD-BEROUD, Gwenaëlle, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Hôpital Gui de Chauliac [CHU Montpellier], and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)

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Male, Models, Molecular, Fibrillin-1, medicine.disease_cause, [SDV.BBM.BM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology, Marfan Syndrome, Missense mutation, Child, Genetics (clinical), chemistry.chemical_classification, Genetics, Alanine, wwwhgvsorg, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, 030305 genetics & heredity, Microfilament Proteins, Middle Aged, Amino acid, [SDV.MHEP.CSC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Cardiology and cardiovascular system, Pedigree, Female, Fibrillin, musculoskeletal diseases, Adult, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, Adolescent, Sequence analysis, Glycine, Mutation, Missense, Biology, [SDV.GEN.GH] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Fibrillins, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, [SDV.MHEP.CSC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Cardiology and cardiovascular system, cb-EGF-like domain, medicine, Humans, Fibrillin 1 (FBN1) gene, Gene, 030304 developmental biology, Aged, Epidermal Growth Factor, fibrillinopathies, [SDV.BBM.BM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Molecular biology, Sequence Analysis, DNA, chemistry, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, OFFICIAL JOURNAL, Calcium
Abstract

In six index cases/families referred for Marfan syndrome (MFS) molecular diagnosis, we identified six novel mutations in the FBN1 gene: c.1753G>C (p.Gly585Arg), c.2456G>A (p.Gly819Glu), c.4981G>A (p.Gly1661Arg), c.5339G>A (p.Gly1780Glu), c.6418G>A (p.Gly2140Arg) and c.6419G>A (p.Gly2140Glu). These variants, predicted to result in Glycine substitutions are located at the third position of a 4 amino acids loop-region of calcium-binding Epidermal Growth Factor-like (cb-EGF) fibrillin-1 domains 5, 9, 24, 25 and 32. Familial segregation studies showing cosegregation with MFS manifestations or de novo inheritance in addition to in silico analyses (conservation, 3D modeling) suggest evidence for a crucial role of the respective Glycine positions. Extending these analyses to all Glycine residue at position 3 of this 4 residues loop in fibrillin-1 cb-EGF with the UMD predictor tool and alignment of 2038 available related sequences strongly support a steric strain that only allows Glycine or even Alanine residues for domain structure maintenance and for the fibrillin functions. Our data compared with those of the literature strongly suggest the existence of a cb-EGF domain subtype with implications for related diseases.

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2009
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38. Transcriptional explorations of CAPN3 identify novel splicing mutations, a large-sized genomic deletion and evidence for messenger RNA decay

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Christophe Pécheux, Christophe Béroud, Rafaëlle Bernard, Isabelle Pénisson-Besnier, Jon Andoni Urtizberea, F. Leturcq, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Françoise Chapon, Nicolas Lévy, Pascal Laforêt, Norma B. Romero, Martin Krahn, Service de Neurologie [CHU Caen], Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-CHU Caen, Normandie Université (NU)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN)-Tumorothèque de Caen Basse-Normandie (TCBN), Laboratoire de génétique des maladies rares. Pathologie moleculaire, etudes fonctionnelles et banque de données génétiques (LGMR), IFR3, Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre de référence des maladies rares neuromusculaires, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers (CHU Angers), PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM)-PRES Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (UNAM), Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 (PhLAM), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-IFR3, and Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Montpellier (UM)

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Adult, Male, Adolescent, Transcription, Genetic, RNA Splicing, RNA Stability, Muscle Proteins, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Exon, 0302 clinical medicine, Transcription (biology), Complementary DNA, Eosinophilia, Genetics, medicine, Humans, RNA, Messenger, Muscular dystrophy, Allele, Gene, Genetics (clinical), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Aged, DNA Primers, Sequence Deletion, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Messenger RNA, Base Sequence, Myositis, Calpain, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Molecular biology, 3. Good health, Muscular Dystrophies, Limb-Girdle, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Mutation, RNA splicing, Female, [INFO.INFO-BI]Computer Science [cs]/Bioinformatics [q-bio.QM], 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

Mutations in the gene encoding calpain-3 (CAPN3) cause autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A (LGMD2A) and idiopathic eosinophilic myositis. Accurate diagnosis and genetic counselling are based on the identification of disease-causing mutations on both alleles of CAPN3 in the patients. In the present study, we used transcriptional analysis as a complementary approach for patients suspected of being affected with LGMD2A, in whom initial denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography genomic mutation screening evidenced no or only one CAPN3 mutation obviously considered as disease causing. This allowed to identify and characterize cDNA deletions. Further genomic analysis allowed to determine the origin of these deletions, either as splicing defects caused by intronic mutations or as an internal multi-exonic deletion. In particular, we report two novel CAPN3 mutations (c.1745 + 4_1745 + 7delAGTG in IVS13 and c.2185-16A>G in IVS20) and a recurrent large-sized genomic deletion including exons 2-8 for which genomic breakpoints have been characterized. In addition, our results indicate nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay as a mechanism for under-expression of CAPN3 associated to some specific variations.

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2007
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39. Involvement of hyperprolinemia in cognitive and psychiatric features of the 22q11 deletion syndrome

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Therese van Amelsvoort, Ann Swillen, Marie Christine Nolen, Florence Thibaut, Cyril Coizet, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Aude Gérard-Desplanches, Michèle Carlier, Thierry Frebourg, Solenn Legallic, Jacqueline Bou, Anne Philippe, Gaëlle Opolczynski, Bernadette Hecketsweiler, Pierre Sarda, Georges-Marie M. Brévière, Emilie Bumsel, Carole Fantini, Alexandra Afenjar, Didier Hannequin, Caroline Demily, G Raux, Gabriella Di Rosa, Dominique Campion, Valérie Layet, Delphine Héron, Marie Lemarchand, Janneke Zinkstok, Michel Petit, Annick Vogels, Giuseppina Pustorino, Nicole Philip, Didier Lacombe, Yves Alembik, Sylvie Manouvrier-Hanu, ANS - Amsterdam Neuroscience, Adult Psychiatry, Laboratoire de Génétique Clinique, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre [Lille]-Université de Lille, Droit et Santé-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Department of Medical and Surgical Pediatrics, University Hospital, Messina, Génétique médicale et fonctionnelle du cancer et des maladies neuropsychiatriques, Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Département de génétique médicale [Hôpital de la Timone - APHM], Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM)- Hôpital de la Timone [CHU - APHM] (TIMONE)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive (LPC), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Mathématiques Jean Leray (LMJL), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de Génétique, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier), Service de génétique médicale, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Department of Medical Genetics, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Unité de Cytogénétique et Génétique Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier du Havre-Hôpital Gustave Flaubert, CHU Trousseau [APHP], Service de neurologie [Rouen], Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), Department of Genetics, University Hospital, centre hospitalier St-Jean-de-Dieu, Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod - Centre de neuroscience cognitive - UMR5229 (ISC-MJ), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM), Unité de Psychiatrie CHU C Nicolle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN), 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), and Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod - Centre de neuroscience cognitive - UMR5229 (CNC)

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Adult, Male, Psychosis, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Proline, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22, Biology, Catechol O-Methyltransferase, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 22q11 Deletion Syndrome, Proline dehydrogenase, Methionine, Risk Factors, DiGeorge syndrome, Intellectual Disability, Genetics, medicine, DiGeorge Syndrome, Proline Oxidase, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, Psychiatry, Molecular Biology, Genetics (clinical), Alleles, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Catechol-O-methyl transferase, Epilepsy, Proline oxidase, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Psychotic Disorders, [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology, Hyperprolinemia, Female, Chromosome Deletion, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

International audience; Microdeletions of the 22q11 region, responsible for the velo-cardio-facial syndrome (VCFS), are associated with an increased risk for psychosis and mental retardation. Recently, it has been shown in a hyperprolinemic mouse model that an interaction between two genes localized in the hemideleted region, proline dehydrogenase (PRODH) and catechol-o-methyl-transferase (COMT), could be involved in this phenotype. Here, we further characterize in eight children the molecular basis of type I hyperprolinemia (HPI), a recessive disorder resulting from reduced activity of proline dehydrogenase (POX). We show that these patients present with mental retardation, epilepsy and, in some cases, psychiatric features. We next report that, among 92 adult or adolescent VCFS subjects, a subset of patients with severe hyperprolinemia has a phenotype distinguishable from that of other VCFS patients and reminiscent of HPI. Forward stepwise multiple regression analysis selected hyperprolinemia, psychosis and COMT genotype as independent variables influencing IQ in the whole VCFS sample. An inverse correlation between plasma proline level and IQ was found. In addition, as predicted from the mouse model, hyperprolinemic VCFS subjects bearing the Met-COMT low activity allele are at risk for psychosis (OR = 2.8, 95% CI = 1.04-7.4). Finally, from the extensive analysis of the PRODH gene coding sequence variations, it is predicted that POX residual activity in the 0-30% range results into HPI, whereas residual activity in the 30-50% range is associated either with normal plasma proline levels or with mild-to-moderate hyperprolinemia.

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2007
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40. Simple detection of genomic microdeletions and microduplications using QMPSF in patients with idiopathic mental retardation

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Thierry Frebourg, Nathalie Drouot, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Annick Rossi, Hélène Moirot, Mario Tosi, Géraldine Joly-Helas, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, Valérie Layet, Céline de La Rochebrochard, Alice Goldenberg, Pascale Saugier-Veber, and Nathalie Le Meur

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Male, Population, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Gene Duplication, Intellectual Disability, Gene duplication, Genetics, medicine, Humans, education, Genetics (clinical), In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Chromosome Aberrations, Gene Rearrangement, education.field_of_study, Sotos syndrome, business.industry, Genome, Human, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Nuclear Proteins, Reproducibility of Results, Karyotype, Gene rearrangement, Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase, Telomere, medicine.disease, Subtelomere, Developmental disorder, Fragile X syndrome, Child, Preschool, Fragile X Syndrome, Histone Methyltransferases, Female, Chromosome Deletion, business, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17
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In contrast to the numerous well-known microdeletion syndromes, only a few microduplications have been described, and this discrepancy may be due in part to methodological bias. In order to facilitate the detection of genomic microdeletions and microduplications, we developed a new assay based on QMPSF (Quantitative Multiplex PCR of Short fluorescent Fragments) able to explore simultaneously 12 candidate loci involved in mental retardation (MR) and known to be the target of genomic rearrangements. We first screened 153 patients with MR and facial dysmorphism associated with malformations, or growth anomalies, or familial history, with cytogenetically normal chromosomes, and the absence of FRAXA mutation and subtelomeric rearrangements. In this series, we found a 5q35 deletion removing the NSD1 gene in a patient with severe epilepsy, profound MR and, retrospectively, craniofacial features of Sotos syndrome. In a second series, we screened 140 patients with MR and behaviour disturbance who did not fulfil the de Vries criteria for subtelomeric rearrangements and who had a normal karyotype and no detectable FRAXA mutation. We detected a 22q11 deletion in a patient with moderate MR, obesity, and facial dysmorphism and a 4 Mb 17p11 duplication in a patient with moderate MR, behaviour disturbance, strabismus, and aspecific facial features. This new QMPSF assay can be gradually upgraded to include additional loci involved in newly recognised microduplication/microdeletion syndromes, and should facilitate wide screenings of patients with idiopathic MR and provide better estimates of the microduplication frequency in the MR population.

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2006

41. SLC26A4 gene is frequently involved in nonsyndromic hearing impairment with enlarged vestibular aqueduct in Caucasian populations

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Sebastien Albert, Pierre Bitoun, Christine Francannet, Françoise Denoyelle, Bruno Delobel, Didier Lacombe, Marie-Madeleine Eliot, Annie Sergent-Allaoui, Hélène Dollfus, Sébastien Schmerber, Alain Joannard, Pierre Chauvin, Muriel Houang, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, N. Loundon, Albert David, Erea-Noel Garabedian, Catherine Calais, Françoise Duriez, Rémy Couderc, Hélène Blons, Delphine Feldmann, Laurence Jonard, Christine Petit, Marie-Françoise Obstoy, Hélène Catros, Sandrine Marlin, Patrice Tran Ba Huy, Jacques Leman, Hubert Journel, CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Génétique des Déficits Sensoriels, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), ESIM - Déterminants Sociaux de la Santé et du Recours aux Soins (DS3), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Département de pédiatrie, CHU Grenoble-Hôpital Michallon, Service d'ORL et de chirurgie cervicale, CHU Grenoble, CHU Saint-Antoine [AP-HP], Centre Rochin, Unité de Génétique Médicale, CHR Vannes, Centre Gabriel Deshayes, Service de génétique médicale, CHU Strasbourg-Hôpital de Hautepierre [Strasbourg], Service d'ORL et chirurgie cervico-faciale, Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie (ORL), Hôtel-Dieu, Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Service d'ORL, chirurgie cervico-faciale [Rouen], Hôpital Charles Nicolle [Rouen], Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-CHU Rouen, Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Service d'ORL, CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Groupe hospitalier Pellegrin, Hôtel-Dieu-CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Service de Pédiatrie [Jean Verdier], Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpital Jean Verdier [AP-HP], Collège de France - Chaire Génétique et physiologie cellulaire, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), Service d'ORL pédiatrique et Chirurgie Cervico-faciale [CHU Trousseau], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de Biochimie et de Biologie Moléculaire [CHU Trousseau], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de médecine nucléaire pédiatrique [CHU Trousseau], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Service d'ORL et de Chirurgie Cervicofaciale, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-CHU Trousseau [APHP], Hôpital Charles Nicolle [Rouen]-CHU Rouen, Chaire Génétique et physiologie cellulaire, Service de génétique et embryologie médicales [CHU Trousseau], Chauvin, Pierre, Neurobiologie des réseaux sensorimoteurs (NRS (U7060)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Neurobiologie des réseaux sensorimoteurs ( NRS (U7060) ), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and Magnani, Christophe

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Male, Pediatrics, Vestibular aqueduct, [SDV.NEU.NB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology, Deafness, Connexins, MESH: Membrane Transport Proteins, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, MESH: Child, Prevalence, Medicine, Nonsyndromic deafness, Child, 030223 otorhinolaryngology, MESH: Cohort Studies, Genetics (clinical), Pendred syndrome, Genetics, Goiter, Homozygote, Syndrome, MESH: European Continental Ancestry Group, MESH: Infant, Connexin 26, medicine.anatomical_structure, Sulfate Transporters, [ SDV.NEU.NB ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology, Child, Preschool, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Female, Sensorineural hearing loss, medicine.symptom, MESH: Homozygote, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, MESH: Mutation, Adolescent, Hearing loss, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural, MESH: Deafness, MESH: Goiter, White People, Vestibular Aqueduct, 03 medical and health sciences, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, Humans, Alleles, MESH: Prevalence, MESH: Adolescent, MESH: Humans, business.industry, MESH: Alleles, MESH: Child, Preschool, [SDV.NEU.NB] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Neurobiology, Infant, Membrane Transport Proteins, Congenital sensorineural hearing impairment, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: Connexins, FOXI1, MESH: Hearing Loss, Sensorineural, [SDV.SPEE] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, Mutation, [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie, sense organs, business, MESH: Female, Enlarged vestibular aqueduct
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Sensorineural hearing loss is the most frequent sensory deficit of childhood and is of genetic origin in up to 75% of cases. It has been shown that mutations of the SLC26A4 (PDS) gene were involved in syndromic deafness characterized by congenital sensorineural hearing impairment and goitre (Pendred's syndrome), as well as in congenital isolated deafness (DFNB4). While the prevalence of SLC26A4 mutations in Pendred's syndrome is clearly established, it remains to be studied in large cohorts of patients with nonsyndromic deafness and detailed clinical informations. In this report, 109 patients from 100 unrelated families, aged from 1 to 32 years (median age: 10 years), with nonsyndromic deafness and enlarged vestibular aqueduct, were genotyped for SLC26A4 using DHPLC molecular screening and sequencing. In all, 91 allelic variants were observed in 100 unrelated families, of which 19 have never been reported. The prevalence of SLC26A4 mutations was 40% (40/100), with biallelic mutation in 24% (24/100), while six families were homozygous. All patients included in this series had documented deafness, associated with EVA and without any evidence of syndromic disease. Among patients with SLC26A4 biallelic mutations, deafness was more severe, fluctuated more than in patients with no mutation. In conclusion, the incidence of SLC26A4 mutations is high in patients with isolated deafness and enlarged vestibular aqueduct and could represent up to 4% of nonsyndromic hearing impairment. SLC26A4 could be the second most frequent gene implicated in nonsyndromic deafness after GJB2, in this Caucasian population.

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2006
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42. Molecular characterization of a 14q deletion in a boy with features of Holt-Oram syndrome

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Nathalie, Le Meur, Alice, Goldenberg, Christine, Michel-Adde, Valérie, Drouin-Garraud, Gérard, Blaysat, Stéphane, Marret, Saad Abu, Amara, Hélène, Moirot, Géraldine, Joly-Hélas, Bertrand, Mace, Pascale, Kleinfinger, Pascale, Saugier-Veber, Thierry, Frébourg, and Annick, Rossi

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Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14, Heart Defects, Congenital, Male, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Syndrome, Chromosome Banding, Fatal Outcome, Karyotyping, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Chromosome Deletion, Hand Deformities, Congenital, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
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Holt-Oram syndrome, the major "heart-hand" syndrome is defined by the association of radial defects or triphalangeal thumbs and septal heart defects. The transmission is autosomal dominant and the causative gene has been shown to be TBX5, located on 12q24.1, which encodes a transcription factor. Genetic heterogeneity has been suggested by several reports. We identified a 14(q23.3 approximately 24.2q31.1) deletion in a boy presenting severe bilateral asymmetrical radial aplasia, congenital heart defects, and developmental delay. This deletion, whose size could be estimated to be 9.6-13.7 Mb, was shown to be inherited via his mother's interchromosomal insertion. This is the second report of a chromosome 14 interstitial deletion associated with clinical features of Holt-Oram syndrome. These observations suggest the existence of a new "heart-hand" locus on chromosome 14q.

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2005

43. Clinical evidence of the nonpathogenic nature of the M34T variant in the connexin 26 gene

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Françoise Denoyelle, Hélène Catros, Marie-Françoise Obstoy, Dominique Weil, Lucien Moati, Natalie Loundon, Rémy Couderc, Claude Ferrec, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Alain Joannard, Bruno Delobel, Sébastien Schmerber, Hubert Journel, Sandrine Marlin, Delphine Feldmann, Christine Petit, Erea-Noel Garabedian, and Jacques Leman

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Genetics, Male, education.field_of_study, Hearing loss, Population, Audiogram, Biology, medicine.disease, Genetic determinism, Connexins, Pedigree, Connexin 26, Genotype, Mutation, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, medicine, Humans, Sensorineural hearing loss, Female, medicine.symptom, Allele, education, Allele frequency, Genetics (clinical)
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Mutations in GJB2 are the most common cause of congenital nonsyndromic hearing loss. The controversial allele variant M34T has been hypothesized to cause autosomal dominant or recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment and some in vitro data has been consistent with this hypothesis. In this report, we present the clinical and genotypic study of 11 families (seven familial forms of nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss (NSSNHL) and four sporadic cases) in which the M34T GJB2 variant has been identified. The M34T mutation did not segregate with the deafness in six of the seven familial forms of NSSNH. Eight persons with normal audiogram presented a heterozygous M34T variation and five normal hearing individuals were composite heterozygous for M34T and another GJB2 mutation. Four normal hearing individuals with a documented audiogram were M34T/35delG and one was M34T/(GJB6-D13S1830)del. Screening a French control population of 116 subjects we have found an M34T allele frequency of 1.72%. This percentage was not significatively different from the prevalence of the M34T allele in the deaf population, which was 2.12%. All these data suggest that the M34T variant is not clinically significant in human and is a frequent polymorphism in France.

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2003

45. ZDHHC8 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism rs175174 is not associated with psychiatric features of the 22q11 Deletion Syndrome or Schizophrenia

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Anne Philippe, Annick Vogels, Thierry Frebourg, Dominique Campion, Florence Thibaut, Emmanuelle Houy-Durand, Pierre Sarda, Nicole Philip, Janneke Zinkstok, Michel Petit, Jacqueline Bou, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Sylvie Manouvrier-Hanue, Therese van Amelsvoort, Solenn Legallic, Delphine Héron, Caroline Demily, Amsterdam Neuroscience, and Adult Psychiatry

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Genetics, Zinc finger, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 22, Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming), Chromosome Mapping, Membrane Proteins, Zinc Fingers, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Gene deletion, Biology, Disease gene identification, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Psychiatry and Mental health, 22q11 Deletion Syndrome, Membrane protein, Acyltransferases, Schizophrenia, Humans, Gene Deletion, Biological Psychiatry, Genetics (clinical)
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2007
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46. GJB2 and GJB6 Mutations

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Hubert Journel, Jean-Louis Delaunoy, Sebastien Albert, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Delphine Feldmann, Sylvie Odent, Hélène Dollfus, Natalie Loundon, Jacqueline Vigneron, Catherine Calais, Clarisse Baumann, Françoise Denoyelle, Marie-Madeleine Eliot, Alain Joannard, Christine Petit, Laurence Faivre, Albert David, Erea-Noel Garabedian, Marie-Françoise Obstoy, Bruno Delobel, Rémy Couderc, Cyril Goizet, Sébastien Schmerber, Jocelyne Hélias, Bettina Montaut, Françoise Duriez, Hélène Catros, Hélène Blons, Cédric Lemarechal, Isabelle Rouillon, Florence Fellmann, Sandrine Marlin, Pierre Chauvin, Patricia Lewin, Jacques Leman, and Dominique Matin-Coignard

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Mild hearing impairment, medicine.medical_specialty, Genotype, Hearing loss, DNA Mutational Analysis, Compound heterozygosity, medicine.disease_cause, Connexins, Internal medicine, Connexin 30, otorhinolaryngologic diseases, medicine, Humans, Prospective Studies, Hearing Disorders, Allele frequency, Genetics, Mutation, biology, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, General Medicine, Connexin 26, Phenotype, Otorhinolaryngology, biology.protein, Surgery, Chromosome Deletion, medicine.symptom, Audiometry, business, GJB6
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Objectives To analyze the clinical features of hearing impairment and to search for correlations with the genotype in patients with DFNB1. Design Case series. Setting Collaborative study in referral centers, institutional practice. Patients A total of 256 hearing-impaired patients selected on the basis of the presence of biallelic mutations in GJB2 or the association of 1 GJB2 mutation with the GJB6 deletion ( GJB6 -D13S1830)del. Main Outcome Measures The prevalence of GJB2 mutations and the GJB6 deletion and audiometric phenotypes related to the most frequent genotypes. Results Twenty-nine different GJB2 mutations were identified. Allelic frequency of 35delG was 69%, and the other common mutations, 313del14, E47X, Q57X, and L90P, accounted for 2.6% to 2.9% of the variants. Concerning GJB6 , ( GJB6 -D13S1830)del accounted for 5% of all mutated alleles and was observed in 25 of 93 compound heterozygous patients. Three novel GJB2 mutations, 355del9, V95M, and 573delCA, were identified. Hearing impairment was frequently less severe in compound heterozygotes 35delG/L90P and 35delG/N206S than in 35delG homozygotes. Moderate or mild hearing impairment was more frequent in patients with 1 or 2 noninactivating mutations than in patients with 2 inactivating mutations. Of 93 patients, hearing loss was stable in 73, progressive in 21, and fluctuant in 2. Progressive hearing loss was more frequent in patients with 1 or 2 noninactivating mutations than in those with 2 inactivating mutations. In 49 families, hearing loss was compared between siblings with similar genotypes, and variability in terms of severity was found in 18 families (37%). Conclusion Genotype may affect deafness severity, but environmental and other genetic factors may also modulate the severity and evolution of GJB2-GJB6 deafness.

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2005
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47. Townes-Brocks syndrome: Detection of a SALL1 mutation hot spot and evidence for a position effect in one patient

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F.G. Ferraz, Alain Fourmaintraux, Nicole Philip, Rima Slim, Stéphane Blanchard, Françoise Denoyelle, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Didier Lacombe, Jean-Edmond Toublanc, Jean-Louis Alessandri, Christine Petit, Elisa Calzolari, and Sandrine Marlin

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Male, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural, Biology, Translocation, Genetic, Frameshift mutation, Anus, Imperforate, Exon, Chromosome 16, medicine, SALL1, Genetics, Townes–Brocks syndrome, Animals, Humans, Abnormalities, Multiple, Ear, External, Frameshift Mutation, Genetics (clinical), DNA Primers, Base Sequence, Chromosome Mapping, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Penetrance, Pedigree, Position effect, Thumb, Codon, Nonsense, Mutation, Female, Haploinsufficiency, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, Transcription Factors
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Townes-Brocks syndrome (TBS) is an autosomal dominant developmental disorder characterized by anal and thumb malformations and by ear anomalies that can affect the three compartments and usually lead to hearing loss. The gene underlying TBS, SALL1, is a human homolog of the Drosophila spalt gene which encodes a transcription factor. A search for SALL1 mutations undertaken in 11 unrelated affected individuals (five familial and six sporadic cases) led to the detection of mutations in nine of them. One nonsense and six different novel frameshift mutations, all located in the second exon, were identified. Together with the previously reported mutations [Kohlhase et al., 1999], they establish that TBS results from haploinsufficiency. The finding of de novo mutations in the sporadic cases is consistent with the proposed complete penetrance of the disease. Moreover, the occurrence of the same 826C>T transition in a CG dimer, in three sporadic cases from the present series and three sporadic cases from the other series [Kohlhase et al., 1999] (i.e., six of the eight mutations identified in sporadic cases), reveals the existence of a mutation hotspot. Six different SALL1 polymorphisms were identified in the course of the present study, three of which are clustered in a particular region of the gene that encodes a stretch of serine residues. Finally, the chromosome 16 breakpoint of a t(5;16)(p15.3;q12.1) translocation carried by a TBS-affected individual was mapped at least 180 kb telomeric to SALL1, thus indicating that a position effect underlies the disease in this individual.

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1999
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48. Gender as a Modifying Factor Influencing Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Phenotype Severity and Mortality: A Nationwide Multiple Databases Cross-Sectional Observational Study.

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Celine Dogan, Marie De Antonio, Dalil Hamroun, Hugo Varet, Marianne Fabbro, Felix Rougier, Khadija Amarof, Marie-Christine Arne Bes, Anne-Laure Bedat-Millet, Anthony Behin, Remi Bellance, Françoise Bouhour, Celia Boutte, François Boyer, Emmanuelle Campana-Salort, Françoise Chapon, Pascal Cintas, Claude Desnuelle, Romain Deschamps, Valerie Drouin-Garraud, Xavier Ferrer, Helene Gervais-Bernard, Karima Ghorab, Pascal Laforet, Armelle Magot, Laurent Magy, Dominique Menard, Marie-Christine Minot, Aleksandra Nadaj-Pakleza, Sybille Pellieux, Yann Pereon, Marguerite Preudhomme, Jean Pouget, Sabrina Sacconi, Guilhem Sole, Tanya Stojkovich, Vincent Tiffreau, Andoni Urtizberea, Christophe Vial, Fabien Zagnoli, Gilbert Caranhac, Claude Bourlier, Gerard Riviere, Alain Geille, Romain K Gherardi, Bruno Eymard, Jack Puymirat, Sandrine Katsahian, and Guillaume Bassez

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Medicine, Science
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Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is one of the most heterogeneous hereditary disease in terms of age of onset, clinical manifestations, and severity, challenging both medical management and clinical trials. The CTG expansion size is the main factor determining the age of onset although no factor can finely predict phenotype and prognosis. Differences between males and females have not been specifically reported. Our aim is to study gender impact on DM1 phenotype and severity.We first performed cross-sectional analysis of main multiorgan clinical parameters in 1409 adult DM1 patients (>18 y) from the DM-Scope nationwide registry and observed different patterns in males and females. Then, we assessed gender impact on social and economic domains using the AFM-Téléthon DM1 survey (n = 970), and morbidity and mortality using the French National Health Service Database (n = 3301).Men more frequently had (1) severe muscular disability with marked myotonia, muscle weakness, cardiac, and respiratory involvement; (2) developmental abnormalities with facial dysmorphism and cognitive impairment inferred from low educational levels and work in specialized environments; and (3) lonely life. Alternatively, women more frequently had cataracts, dysphagia, digestive tract dysfunction, incontinence, thyroid disorder and obesity. Most differences were out of proportion to those observed in the general population. Compared to women, males were more affected in their social and economic life. In addition, they were more frequently hospitalized for cardiac problems, and had a higher mortality rate.Gender is a previously unrecognized factor influencing DM1 clinical profile and severity of the disease, with worse socio-economic consequences of the disease and higher morbidity and mortality in males. Gender should be considered in the design of both stratified medical management and clinical trials.

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2016
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49. Recurrent Rearrangements in Synaptic and Neurodevelopmental Genes and Shared Biologic Pathways in Schizophrenia, Autism, and Mental Retardation

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Solenn Legallic, Audrey Guilmatre, Gael Le Vacon, Catherine Barthélémy, Claude Bendavid, Thierry Frebourg, Christian R. Andres, Eva Germanò, Véronique David, Laurence Faivre, Frédéric Laumonnier, Sylvain Briault, Christèle Dubourg, Antoine Rosier, Gaetano Tortorella, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Pascale Saugier Veber, Alice Goldenberg, Dominique Campion, Géraldine Joly-Helas, Jean-Michel Pinoit, Valérie Layet, A.L. Mosca, Gabriella Di Rosa, Sylvie Odent, Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault, C. Henry, Caterina Impallomeni, Génétique médicale et fonctionnelle du cancer et des maladies neuropsychiatriques, Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Service de génétique [Rouen], CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Unité de Cytogénétique et Génétique Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier du Havre-Hôpital Gustave Flaubert, Centre de Ressources Autisme de Haute Normandie (CRAHN), Centre de Ressources Autisme de Haute Normandie, Imagerie et cerveau (iBrain - Inserm U1253 - UNIV Tours ), Université de Tours (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique clinique [Rennes], Université de Rennes (UR)-CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes]-hôpital Sud, Centre hospitalier spécialisé du Rouvray, Centre Ressources Autisme de Bourgogne (CHU de Dijon) (CRAB), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Department of Medical and Surgical Pediatrics, University Hospital, Messina, Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), AG received a fellowship from Region Haute Normandie and ALM from the Académie Nationale de Médecine. We acknowledge the financial support of the Fondation de France. We acknowledge the support of the collaborative biological resource from the autism foundation (RBCFA) and of the Autism foundation. We acknowledge the technical support of the transcriptomic platform of the OUEST Genopole® (Rennes) and of the Genethon., Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Tours-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de génétique clinique, hôpital Sud, De Villemeur, Hervé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), and Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)

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Male, [SDV.MHEP.PSM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Psychiatrics and mental health, Gene Dosage, [SDV.GEN] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, copy number variations, mental retardation, autism, MESH: Gene Dosage, MESH: Genotype, 0302 clinical medicine, Gene Frequency, MESH: Mental Retardation, Copy-number variation, MESH: In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, [SDV.BDD]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Genetics, 0303 health sciences, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Chromosome Mapping, MESH: Case-Control Studies, 3. Good health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Schizophrenia, Autism spectrum disorder, Female, Psychology, Adult, Psychosis, Adolescent, Genotype, Proline, Neurogenesis, MESH: Autistic Disorder, Context (language use), Schizoaffective disorder, MESH: Psychotic Disorders, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Intellectual Disability, [SDV.BDD] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Development Biology, mental disorders, medicine, MESH: Gene Frequency, Humans, Autistic Disorder, 030304 developmental biology, MESH: Adolescent, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, MESH: Humans, MESH: Proline, MESH: Adult, medicine.disease, MESH: Male, MESH: Schizophrenia, MESH: Neurogenesis, Developmental disorder, MESH: Comparative Genomic Hybridization, Psychotic Disorders, [SDV.MHEP.PSM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Psychiatrics and mental health, Case-Control Studies, MESH: Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Autism, MESH: Chromosome Mapping, MESH: Female, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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International audience; CONTEXT: Results of comparative genomic hybridization studies have suggested that rare copy number variations (CNVs) at numerous loci are involved in the cause of mental retardation, autism spectrum disorders, and schizophrenia. OBJECTIVES: To provide an estimate of the collective frequency of a set of recurrent or overlapping CNVs in 3 different groups of cases compared with healthy control subjects and to assess whether each CNV is present in more than 1 clinical category. DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING: Academic research. PARTICIPANTS: We investigated 28 candidate loci previously identified by comparative genomic hybridization studies for gene dosage alteration in 247 cases with mental retardation, in 260 cases with autism spectrum disorders, in 236 cases with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, and in 236 controls. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Collective and individual frequencies of the analyzed CNVs in cases compared with controls. RESULTS: Recurrent or overlapping CNVs were found in cases at 39.3% of the selected loci. The collective frequency of CNVs at these loci is significantly increased in cases with autism, in cases with schizophrenia, and in cases with mental retardation compared with controls (P < .001, P = .01, and P = .001, respectively, Fisher exact test). Individual significance (P = .02 without correction for multiple testing) was reached for the association between autism and a 350-kilobase deletion located at 22q11 and spanning the PRODH and DGCR6 genes. CONCLUSIONS: Weakly to moderately recurrent CNVs (transmitted or occurring de novo) seem to be causative or contributory factors for these diseases. Most of these CNVs (which contain genes involved in neurotransmission or in synapse formation and maintenance) are present in the 3 pathologic conditions (schizophrenia, autism, and mental retardation), supporting the existence of shared biologic pathways in these neurodevelopmental disorders.

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50. 29 French adult patients with PMM2-congenital disorder of glycosylation: outcome of the classical pediatric phenotype and depiction of a late-onset phenotype

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Delphine Héron, Christel Thauvin, Emmanuel Roze, Cyril Mignot, Pascale de Lonlay, Valérie Drouin-Garraud, Catherine Lenaerts, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Bénédicte Héron, Nathalie Seta, Alice Masurel, Hélène Ogier, Perrine Charles, Marion Gérard, Alexis Brice, Michèle Mayer, Marie-Lorraine Monin, Michèle Mathieu-Dramard, Philippe Khau Van Kien, Aurélia Jacquette, Claire de Barace, Unité fonctionnelle de neurogénétique moléculaire et cellulaire, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Physiopathology and Treatment of Neurodegenerative disorders, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Groupe de recherche clinique 'déficience intellectuelle et autisme', Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IMAGINE - U1163), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service de neurologie pédiatriques et maladies du dévéloppement, CHU Trousseau [APHP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service de génétique, CHU Dijon, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon)-Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Service de pédiatrie, CHU Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-CHU Grenoble-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-CHU Grenoble, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Unité de génétique médicale et cytogénétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes (CHU Nîmes), Service de génétique médicale, CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Unité d'Epileptologie Pédiatrique, Service de Neurologie Pédiatrique et des Maladies Métaboliques, AP-HP Hôpital universitaire Robert-Debré [Paris], Laboratoire de biochimie métabolique et cellulaire, Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard, Service de Génétique [Pitié-Salpêtrière], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP]-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ), Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques ( IMAGINE - U1163 ), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Service de neuropédiatrie [Trousseau], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ) -Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand ( CHU Dijon ), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 ( UJF ) -CHU Grenoble-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 ( UJF ) -CHU Grenoble, Département des maladies du système nerveux, AP-HP, roupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Department of Neurology, Paris, France, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP]-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nîmes ( CHRU Nîmes ), AP-HP, Hôpital Robert Debré, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), and Administateur, HAL Sorbonne Université

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Male, Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, Adolescent, [ SDV.MHEP.PED ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pediatrics, Late onset, [SDV.GEN.GH] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, PMM2-CDG, Cohort Studies, Young Adult, [SDV.MHEP.PED] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pediatrics, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, Internal medicine, Retinitis pigmentosa, medicine, Humans, Genetics(clinical), Pharmacology (medical), Age of Onset, Young adult, [ SDV.GEN.GH ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Cerebellar ataxia, Genetics (clinical), Retrospective Studies, Medicine(all), [SDV.MHEP.PED]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Pediatrics, business.industry, Research, Congenital disorder of glycosylation, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Phenotype, Peripheral neuropathy, Endocrinology, [SDV.GEN.GH]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Human genetics, Phosphotransferases (Phosphomutases), Phosphomannomutase, Female, Cerebellar atrophy, France, medicine.symptom, Age of onset, business
Abstract

International audience; PMM2-CDG (formerly known as CDG Ia) a deficiency in phosphomannomutase, is the most frequent congenital disorder of glycosylation. The phenotype encompasses a wide range of neurological and non-neurological manifestations comprising cerebellar atrophy and intellectual deficiency. The phenotype of the disorder is well characterized in children but the long term course of the disease is unknown and the phenotype of late onset forms has not been comprehensively described. We thus retrospectively collected the clinical, biological and radiological data of 29 French PMM2-CDG patients aged 15 years or more with a proven molecular diagnosis (16 females and 13 males). In addition, thirteen of these patients were reexamined at the time of the study to obtain detailed information. 27 of the 29 patients had a typical PMM2-CDG phenotype, with infantile hypotonia, strabismus, developmental delay followed by intellectual deficiency, epilepsy, retinitis pigmentosa and/or visceral manifestations. The main health problems for these patients as teenagers and in adulthood were primary ovarian insufficiency, growth retardation, coagulation anomalies and thrombotic events, skeletal deformities and osteopenia/ osteoporosis, retinitis pigmentosa, as well as peripheral neuropathy. Three patients had never walked and three lost their ability to walk. The two remaining patients had a late-onset phenotype unreported to date. All patients (n = 29) had stable cerebellar atrophy. Our findings are in line with those of previous adult PMM2-CDG cohorts and points to the need for a multidisciplinary approach to the follow up of PMM2-CDG patients to prevent late complications. Additionally, our findings add weight to the view that PMM2-CDG may be diagnosed in teenage/adult patients with cerebellar atrophy, even in the absence of intellectual deficiency or non-neurological involvement.

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