[A case of Neonatal generalized atrophic benign epidermolysis bullosa due to variants of COL17A1 gene].

Objective: To diagnose and explore the genetic etiology of a neonate with Hereditary epidermolysis bullosa.
Methods: A neonate who was admitted to Suqian Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University on July 10, 2021 was selected as the study subject. Peripheral blood samples were collected from the child and his parents for the extraction of genomic DNA. And target gene capture and next-generation sequencing were carried out. Candidate variants were verified by Sanger sequencing and pathogenicity analysis.
Results: The child was found to harbor compound heterozygous variants of the COL17A1 gene, namely c.997C>T (p.Q333X) and c.3481dupT (p.Y1161fs*2), which were respectively inherited from his father and mother. Both variants were predicted to be pathogenic.
Conclusion: The child was diagnosed with Generalized atrophic benign epidermolysis bullosa due to the compound heterozygous variants of the COL17A1 gene.