Compound heterozygous alterations in intraflagellar transport protein CLUAP1 in a child with a novel Joubert and oral–facial–digital overlap syndrome
Autor: | John B. Wallingford, Chanjae Lee, Molly M. Crenshaw, Ingrid M. Wentzensen, Melissa A. Parisi, Jennifer J. Johnston, Leslie G. Biesecker, Julie C. Sapp, Jeffrey M. Gross |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Genetics Proband education.field_of_study Population General Medicine Biology medicine.disease Compound heterozygosity Ciliopathies 03 medical and health sciences Ciliopathy 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine Intraflagellar transport medicine Hypertelorism medicine.symptom education Exome 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Molecular Case Studies. 3:a001321 |
ISSN: | 2373-2873 2373-2865 |
Popis: | Disruption of normal ciliary function results in a range of diseases collectively referred to as ciliopathies. Here we report a child with a phenotype that overlapped with Joubert, oral–facial–digital, and Pallister–Hall syndromes including brain, limb, and craniofacial anomalies. We performed exome-sequence analysis on a proband and both parents, filtered for putative causative variants, and Sanger-verified variants of interest. Identified variants in CLUAP1 were functionally analyzed in a Xenopus system to determine their effect on ciliary function. Two variants in CLUAP1 were identified through exome-sequence analysis, Chr16:g.3558407T>G, c.338T>G, p.(Met113Arg) and Chr16:g.3570011C>T, c.688C>T, p.(Arg230Ter). These variants were rare in the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) data set of 65,000 individuals (one and two occurrences, respectively). Transfection of mutant CLUAP1 constructs into Xenopus embryos showed reduced protein levels p.(Arg230Ter) and reduced intraflagellar transport p.(Met113Arg). The genetic data show that these variants are present in an affected child, are rare in the population, and result in reduced, but not absent, intraflagellar transport. We conclude that biallelic mutations in CLUAP1 resulted in this novel ciliopathy syndrome in the proband. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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