Intragenic duplication disrupting the reading frame of MFSD8 in Small Swiss Hounds with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis.

Autor: Rietmann SJ; Vetsuisse Faculty, Institute of Genetics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland., Loderstedt S; Department for Small Animals, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany., Matiasek K; Section of Clinical and Comparative Neuropathology, Centre for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany., Kiefer I; Department for Small Animals, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany., Jagannathan V; Vetsuisse Faculty, Institute of Genetics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland., Leeb T; Vetsuisse Faculty, Institute of Genetics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Animal genetics [Anim Genet] 2024 Dec; Vol. 55 (6), pp. 801-809. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 22.
DOI: 10.1111/age.13485
Abstrakt: Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) represents a heterogenous group of lysosomal storage diseases resulting in progressive neurodegeneration. We investigated two Small Swiss Hound littermates that showed progressive ataxia and loss of cognitive functions and vision starting around the age of 12 months. Both dogs had to be euthanized a few months after the onset of disease owing to the severity of their clinical signs. Pathological investigation of one affected dog revealed cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with cytoplasmic accumulation of autofluorescent material in degenerating neurons. The clinical signs in combination with the characteristic histopathology led to a tentative diagnosis of NCL. In the subsequent genetic investigation, the genome of one affected dog was sequenced. This revealed a duplication of 18 819 bp within the MFSD8 gene. The duplication breakpoints were located in intron 3 and exon 12 of the gene and were predicted to disrupt the reading frame. Both affected dogs carried the duplication in a homozygous state and there was perfect cosegregation of the genotypes with the phenotype in a large pedigree, consistent with autosomal recessive inheritance. MFSD8 loss-of-function variants are a known cause of NCL7 in human patients, dogs and other mammalian species. The existing knowledge on MFSD8 together with the experimental data strongly suggests that the identified intragenic MFSD8 duplication caused the disease in the Small Swiss Hounds. These results allow their diagnosis to be refined to NCL7 and enable genetic testing in the breed to avoid further unintentional carrier × carrier matings.
(© 2024 The Author(s). Animal Genetics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Stichting International Foundation for Animal Genetics.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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