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Cell ; 154(3): 518-29, 2013 Aug 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23911319

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Genes disrupted in schizophrenia may be revealed by de novo mutations in affected persons from otherwise healthy families. Furthermore, during normal brain development, genes are expressed in patterns specific to developmental stage and neuroanatomical structure. We identified de novo mutations in persons with schizophrenia and then mapped the responsible genes onto transcriptome profiles of normal human brain tissues from age 13 weeks gestation to adulthood. In the dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex during fetal development, genes harboring damaging de novo mutations in schizophrenia formed a network significantly enriched for transcriptional coexpression and protein interaction. The 50 genes in the network function in neuronal migration, synaptic transmission, signaling, transcriptional regulation, and transport. These results suggest that disruptions of fetal prefrontal cortical neurogenesis are critical to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. These results also support the feasibility of integrating genomic and transcriptome analyses to map critical neurodevelopmental processes in time and space in the brain.


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Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Mutação , Córtex Pré-Frontal/embriologia , Mapas de Interação de Proteínas , Esquizofrenia/genética , Esquizofrenia/metabolismo , Encéfalo/embriologia , Encéfalo/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Bases de Dados Genéticas , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Neurogênese , Córtex Pré-Frontal/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Córtex Pré-Frontal/metabolismo , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia , Transcrição Gênica , Transcriptoma
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J Med Genet ; 59(8): 759-767, 2022 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34321325

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the yield of genetic diagnoses using chromosomal microarray (CMA) and trio whole exome sequencing (WES), separately and combined, among patients with cryptogenic cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS: Trio WES of patients with prior CMA analysis for cryptogenic CP, defined as disabling, non-progressive motor symptoms beginning before the age of 3 years without known cause. RESULTS: Given both CMA analysis and trio WES, clinically significant genetic findings were identified for 58% of patients (26 of 45). Diagnoses were eight large CNVs detected by CMA and 18 point mutations detected by trio WES. None had more than one severe mutation. Approximately half of events (14 of 26) were de novo. Yield was significantly higher in patients with CP with comorbidities (69%, 22 of 32) than in those with pure motor CP (31%, 4 of 13; p=0.02). Among patients with genetic diagnoses, CNVs were more frequent than point mutations among patients with congenital anomalies (OR 7.8, 95% CI 1.2 to 52.4) or major dysmorphic features (OR 10.5, 95% CI 1.4 to 73.7). Clinically significant mutations were identified in 18 different genes: 14 with known involvement in CP-related disorders and 4 responsible for other neurodevelopmental conditions. Three possible new candidate genes for CP were ARGEF10, RTF1 and TAOK3. CONCLUSIONS: Cryptogenic CP is genetically highly heterogeneous. Genomic analysis has a high yield and is warranted in all these patients. Trio WES has higher yield than CMA, except in patients with congenital anomalies or major dysmorphic features, but these methods are complementary. Patients with negative results with one approach should also be tested by the other.


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Paralisia Cerebral , Paralisia Cerebral/diagnóstico , Paralisia Cerebral/genética , Pré-Escolar , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA , Humanos , Análise em Microsséries , Mutação/genética , Sequenciamento do Exoma/métodos
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 117(33): 20070-20076, 2020 08 18.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32747562

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The genetic characterization of a common phenotype for an entire population reveals both the causes of that phenotype for that place and the power of family-based, population-wide genomic analysis for gene and mutation discovery. We characterized the genetics of hearing loss throughout the Palestinian population, enrolling 2,198 participants from 491 families from all parts of the West Bank and Gaza. In Palestinian families with no prior history of hearing loss, we estimate that 56% of hearing loss is genetic and 44% is not genetic. For the great majority (87%) of families with inherited hearing loss, panel-based genomic DNA sequencing, followed by segregation analysis of large kindreds and transcriptional analysis of participant RNA, enabled identification of the causal genes and mutations, including at distant noncoding sites. Genetic heterogeneity of hearing loss was striking with respect to both genes and alleles: The 337 solved families harbored 143 different mutations in 48 different genes. For one in four solved families, a transcription-altering mutation was the responsible allele. Many of these mutations were cryptic, either exonic alterations of splice enhancers or silencers or deeply intronic events. Experimentally calibrated in silico analysis of transcriptional effects yielded inferences of high confidence for effects on splicing even of mutations in genes not expressed in accessible tissue. Most (58%) of all hearing loss in the population was attributable to consanguinity. Given the ongoing decline in consanguineous marriage, inherited hearing loss will likely be much rarer in the next generation.


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Perda Auditiva/congênito , Perda Auditiva/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Alelos , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Consanguinidade , Éxons , Feminino , Genômica , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Oriente Médio , Mutação , Linhagem , Adulto Jovem
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J Allergy Clin Immunol ; 149(1): 327-339, 2022 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33864888

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BACKGROUND: Most patients with childhood-onset immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, and enteropathy have no genetic diagnosis for their illness. These patients may undergo empirical immunosuppressive treatment with highly variable outcomes. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the genetic basis of disease in patients referred with Immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked-like (IPEX-like) disease, but with no mutation in FOXP3; then to assess consequences of genetic diagnoses for clinical management. METHODS: Genomic DNA was sequenced using a panel of 462 genes implicated in inborn errors of immunity. Candidate mutations were characterized by genomic, transcriptional, and (for some) protein analysis. RESULTS: Of 123 patients with FOXP3-negative IPEX-like disease, 48 (39%) carried damaging germline mutations in 1 of the following 27 genes: AIRE, BACH2, BCL11B, CARD11, CARD14, CTLA4, IRF2BP2, ITCH, JAK1, KMT2D, LRBA, MYO5B, NFKB1, NLRC4, POLA1, POMP, RAG1, SH2D1A, SKIV2L, STAT1, STAT3, TNFAIP3, TNFRSF6/FAS, TNRSF13B/TACI, TOM1, TTC37, and XIAP. Many of these genes had not been previously associated with an IPEX-like diagnosis. For 42 of the 48 patients with genetic diagnoses, knowing the critical gene could have altered therapeutic management, including recommendations for targeted treatments and for or against hematopoietic cell transplantation. CONCLUSIONS: Many childhood disorders now bundled as "IPEX-like" disease are caused by individually rare, severe mutations in immune regulation genes. Most genetic diagnoses of these conditions yield clinically actionable findings. Barriers are lack of testing or lack of repeat testing if older technologies failed to provide a diagnosis.


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Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/congênito , Diarreia/genética , Doenças Genéticas Ligadas ao Cromossomo X/genética , Doenças do Sistema Imunitário/congênito , Adolescente , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/diagnóstico , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/genética , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 1/terapia , Diarreia/diagnóstico , Diarreia/terapia , Feminino , Expressão Gênica , Doenças Genéticas Ligadas ao Cromossomo X/diagnóstico , Doenças Genéticas Ligadas ao Cromossomo X/terapia , Transplante de Células-Tronco Hematopoéticas , Humanos , Doenças do Sistema Imunitário/diagnóstico , Doenças do Sistema Imunitário/genética , Doenças do Sistema Imunitário/terapia , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Masculino , Mutação
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J Med Genet ; 58(12): 850-852, 2021 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33060287

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Current clinical approaches for mutation discovery are based on short sequence reads (100-300 bp) of exons and flanking splice sites targeted by multigene panels or whole exomes. Short-read sequencing is highly accurate for detection of single nucleotide variants, small indels and simple copy number differences but is of limited use for identifying complex insertions and deletions and other structural rearrangements. We used CRISPR-Cas9 to excise complete BRCA1 and BRCA2 genomic regions from lymphoblast cells of patients with breast cancer, then sequenced these regions with long reads (>10 000 bp) to fully characterise all non-coding regions for structural variation. In a family severely affected with early-onset bilateral breast cancer and with negative (normal) results by gene panel and exome sequencing, we identified an intronic SINE-VNTR-Alu retrotransposon insertion that led to the creation of a pseudoexon in the BRCA1 message and introduced a premature truncation. This combination of CRISPR-Cas9 excision and long-read sequencing reveals a class of complex, damaging and otherwise cryptic mutations that may be particularly frequent in tumour suppressor genes replete with intronic repeats.


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Proteína BRCA1/genética , Sistemas CRISPR-Cas , Genes Supressores de Tumor , Mutação , Análise de Sequência de DNA/métodos , Proteína BRCA2/genética , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Éxons/genética , Saúde da Família , Feminino , Mutação em Linhagem Germinativa , Humanos , Íntrons/genética , Mutagênese Insercional , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , Sequências Reguladoras de Ácido Nucleico/genética , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Retroelementos/genética
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 116(52): 26798-26807, 2019 Dec 26.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31843900

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Mutations responsible for inherited disease may act by disrupting normal transcriptional splicing. Such mutations can be difficult to detect, and their effects difficult to characterize, because many lie deep within exons or introns where they may alter splice enhancers or silencers or introduce new splice acceptors or donors. Multiple mutation-specific and genome-wide approaches have been developed to evaluate these classes of mutations. We introduce a complementary experimental approach, cBROCA, which yields qualitative and quantitative assessments of the effects of genomic mutations on transcriptional splicing of tumor suppressor genes. cBROCA analysis is undertaken by deriving complementary DNA (cDNA) from puromycin-treated patient lymphoblasts, hybridizing the cDNA to the BROCA panel of tumor suppressor genes, and then multiplex sequencing to very high coverage. At each splice junction suggested by split sequencing reads, read depths of test and control samples are compared. Significant Z scores indicate altered transcripts, over and above naturally occurring minor transcripts, and comparisons of read depths indicate relative abundances of mutant and normal transcripts. BROCA analysis of genomic DNA suggested 120 rare mutations from 150 families with cancers of the breast, ovary, uterus, or colon, in >600 informative genotyped relatives. cBROCA analysis of their transcripts revealed a wide variety of consequences of abnormal splicing in tumor suppressor genes, including whole or partial exon skipping, exonification of intronic sequence, loss or gain of exonic and intronic splicing enhancers and silencers, complete intron retention, hypomorphic alleles, and combinations of these alterations. Combined with pedigree analysis, cBROCA sequencing contributes to understanding the clinical consequences of rare inherited mutations.

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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 116(18): 9008-9013, 2019 04 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30975761

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Survival from malignant mesothelioma, particularly pleural mesothelioma, is very poor. For patients with breast, ovarian, or prostate cancers, overall survival is associated with increased sensitivity to platinum chemotherapy due to loss-of-function mutations in DNA repair genes. The goal of this project was to evaluate, in patients with malignant mesothelioma, the relationship between inherited loss-of-function mutations in DNA repair and other tumor suppressor genes and overall survival following platinum chemotherapy. Patients with histologically confirmed malignant mesothelioma were evaluated for inherited mutations in tumor suppressor genes. Survival was evaluated with respect to genotype and site of mesothelioma. Among 385 patients treated with platinum chemotherapy, median overall survival was significantly longer for patients with loss-of-function mutations in any of the targeted genes compared with patients with no such mutation (P = 0.0006). The effect of genotype was highly significant for patients with pleural mesothelioma (median survival 7.9 y versus 2.4 y, P = 0.0012), but not for patients with peritoneal mesothelioma (median survival 8.2 y versus 5.4 y, P = 0.47). Effect of patient genotype on overall survival, measured at 3 y, remained independently significant after adjusting for gender and age at diagnosis, two other known prognostic factors. Patients with pleural mesothelioma with inherited mutations in DNA repair and other tumor suppressor genes appear to particularly benefit from platinum chemotherapy compared with patients without inherited mutations. These patients may also benefit from other DNA repair targeted therapies such as poly-ADP ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors.


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Mesotelioma/genética , Mesotelioma/mortalidade , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Reparo do DNA/genética , Feminino , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Mutação em Linhagem Germinativa , Humanos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias Pulmonares/genética , Neoplasias Pulmonares/mortalidade , Masculino , Mesotelioma/tratamento farmacológico , Mesotelioma Maligno , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Platina/uso terapêutico , Neoplasias Pleurais/genética , Neoplasias Pleurais/mortalidade , Análise de Sobrevida , Proteínas Supressoras de Tumor/genética , Ubiquitina Tiolesterase/genética , Adulto Jovem
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Hum Mol Genet ; 28(1): 133-142, 2019 01 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30247636

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Severe thrombocytopenia, characterized by dysplastic megakaryocytes and intracranial bleeding, was diagnosed in six individuals from a consanguineous kindred. Three of the individuals were successfully treated by bone marrow transplant. Whole-exome sequencing and homozygosity mapping of multiple family members, coupled with whole-genome sequencing to reveal shared non-coding variants, revealed one potentially functional variant segregating with thrombocytopenia under a recessive model: GALE p.R51W (c.C151T, NM_001127621). The mutation is extremely rare (allele frequency = 2.5 × 10-05), and the likelihood of the observed co-segregation occurring by chance is 1.2 × 10-06. GALE encodes UDP-galactose-4-epimerase, an enzyme of galactose metabolism and glycosylation responsible for two reversible reactions: interconversion of UDP-galactose with UDP-glucose and interconversion of UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine with UDP-N-acetylglucosamine. The mutation alters an amino acid residue that is conserved from yeast to humans. The variant protein has both significantly lower enzymatic activity for both interconversion reactions and highly significant thermal instability. Proper glycosylation is critical to normal hematopoiesis, in particular to megakaryocyte and platelet development, as reflected in the presence of thrombocytopenia in the context of congenital disorders of glycosylation. Mutations in GALE have not previously been associated with thrombocytopenia. Our results suggest that GALE p.R51W is inadequate for normal glycosylation and thereby may impair megakaryocyte and platelet development. If other mutations in GALE are shown to have similar consequences, this gene may be proven to play a critical role in hematopoiesis.


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Galactosemias/genética , Trombocitopenia/genética , UDPglucose 4-Epimerase/genética , Adulto , Alelos , Feminino , Galactose/metabolismo , Frequência do Gene/genética , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Linhagem , UDPglucose 4-Epimerase/metabolismo , Sequenciamento do Exoma
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N Engl J Med ; 379(11): 1042-1049, 2018 09 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30207912

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The causes of ovarian dysgenesis remain incompletely understood. Two sisters with XX ovarian dysgenesis carried compound heterozygous truncating mutations in the BRCA2 gene that led to reduced BRCA2 protein levels and an impaired response to DNA damage, which resulted in chromosomal breakage and the failure of RAD51 to be recruited to double-stranded DNA breaks. The sisters also had microcephaly, and one sister was in long-term remission from leukemia, which had been diagnosed when she was 5 years old. Drosophila mutants that were null for an orthologue of BRCA2 were sterile, and gonadal dysgenesis was present in both sexes. These results revealed a new role for BRCA2 and highlight the importance to ovarian development of genes that are critical for recombination during meiosis. (Funded by the Israel Science Foundation and others.).


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Proteína BRCA2/deficiência , Quebra Cromossômica , Reparo do DNA , Genes BRCA2 , Disgenesia Gonadal/genética , Ovário/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Adolescente , Animais , Proteína BRCA2/fisiologia , Quebra Cromossômica/efeitos dos fármacos , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Drosophila melanogaster , Feminino , Humanos , Hipogonadismo/genética , Masculino , Microcefalia/genética , Mitomicina/farmacologia , Modelos Animais , Ovário/fisiologia , Linhagem , Irmãos , Adulto Jovem
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Blood ; 134(2): 186-198, 2019 07 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31010849

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Myeloid neoplasms, including myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), are genetically heterogeneous disorders driven by clonal acquisition of somatic mutations in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HPCs). The order of premalignant mutations and their impact on HPC self-renewal and differentiation remain poorly understood. We show that episomal reprogramming of MDS patient samples generates induced pluripotent stem cells from single premalignant cells with a partial complement of mutations, directly informing the temporal order of mutations in the individual patient. Reprogramming preferentially captured early subclones with fewer mutations, which were rare among single patient cells. To evaluate the functional impact of clonal evolution in individual patients, we differentiated isogenic MDS induced pluripotent stem cells harboring up to 4 successive clonal abnormalities recapitulating a progressive decrease in hematopoietic differentiation potential. SF3B1, in concert with epigenetic mutations, perturbed mitochondrial function leading to accumulation of damaged mitochondria during disease progression, resulting in apoptosis and ineffective erythropoiesis. Reprogramming also informed the order of premalignant mutations in patients with complex karyotype and identified 5q deletion as an early cytogenetic anomaly. The loss of chromosome 5q cooperated with TP53 mutations to perturb genome stability, promoting acquisition of structural and karyotypic abnormalities. Reprogramming thus enables molecular and functional interrogation of preleukemic clonal evolution, identifying mitochondrial function and chromosome stability as key pathways affected by acquisition of somatic mutations in MDS.


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Reprogramação Celular , Evolução Clonal/genética , Células-Tronco Hematopoéticas/patologia , Síndromes Mielodisplásicas/genética , Células-Tronco Pluripotentes/patologia , Humanos
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 115(7): 1558-1563, 2018 02 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29386386

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RING1 is an E3-ubiquitin ligase that is involved in epigenetic control of transcription during development. It is a component of the polycomb repressive complex 1, and its role in that complex is to ubiquitylate histone H2A. In a 13-year-old girl with syndromic neurodevelopmental disabilities, we identified a de novo mutation, RING1 p.R95Q, which alters a conserved arginine residue in the catalytic RING domain. In vitro assays demonstrated that the mutant RING1 retains capacity to catalyze ubiquitin chain formation, but is defective in its ability to ubiquitylate histone H2A in nucleosomes. Consistent with this in vitro effect, cells of the patient showed decreased monoubiquitylation of histone H2A. We modeled the mutant RING1 in Caenorhabditis elegans by editing the comparable amino acid change into spat-3, the suggested RING1 ortholog. Animals with either the missense mutation or complete knockout of spat-3 were defective in monoubiquitylation of histone H2A and had defects in neuronal migration and axon guidance. Relevant to our patient, animals heterozygous for either the missense or knockout allele also showed neuronal defects. Our results support three conclusions: mutation of RING1 is the likely cause of a human neurodevelopmental syndrome, mutation of RING1 can disrupt histone H2A ubiquitylation without disrupting RING1 catalytic activity, and the comparable mutation in C. elegans spat-3 both recapitulates the effects on histone H2A ubiquitylation and leads to neurodevelopmental abnormalities. This role for RING1 adds to our understanding of the importance of aberrant epigenetic effects as causes of human neurodevelopmental disorders.


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Caenorhabditis elegans/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Epigênese Genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Mutação , Transtornos do Neurodesenvolvimento/genética , Complexo Repressor Polycomb 1/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Histonas/genética , Histonas/metabolismo , Humanos , Transtornos do Neurodesenvolvimento/patologia , Nucleossomos/metabolismo , Ubiquitina/metabolismo , Ubiquitina-Proteína Ligases/metabolismo , Ubiquitinação
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Neurogenetics ; 21(4): 259-267, 2020 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32462292

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Deficiency of the endoplasmic reticulum transmembrane protein ARV1 leads to epileptic encephalopathy in humans and in mice. ARV1 is highly conserved, but its function in human cells is unknown. Studies of yeast arv1 null mutants indicate that it is involved in a number of biochemical processes including the synthesis of sphingolipids and glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI), a glycolipid anchor that is attached to the C-termini of many membrane bound proteins. GPI anchors are post-translational modifications, enabling proteins to travel from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) through the Golgi and to attach to plasma membranes. We identified a homozygous pathogenic mutation in ARV1, p.Gly189Arg, in two brothers with infantile encephalopathy, and characterized the biochemical defect caused by this mutation. In addition to reduced expression of ARV1 transcript and protein in patients' fibroblasts, complementation tests in yeast showed that the ARV1 p.Gly189Arg mutation leads to deficient maturation of Gas1, a GPI-anchored protein, but does not affect sphingolipid synthesis. Our results suggest, that similar to mutations in other proteins in the GPI-anchoring pathway, including PIGM, PIGA, and PIGQ, ARV1 p.Gly189Arg causes a GPI anchoring defect and leads to early onset epileptic encephalopathy.


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Encefalopatias/genética , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Glicosilfosfatidilinositóis/biossíntese , Deficiência Intelectual/genética , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Convulsões/genética , Adolescente , Criança , Retículo Endoplasmático/metabolismo , Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Teste de Complementação Genética , Complexo de Golgi/metabolismo , Homozigoto , Humanos , Lipídeos/química , Masculino , Manosiltransferases/genética , Mutação , Linhagem , Domínios Proteicos , Temperatura
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Clin Genet ; 98(4): 353-364, 2020 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33111345

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Mutations in more than 150 genes are responsible for inherited hearing loss, with thousands of different, severe causal alleles that vary among populations. The Israeli Jewish population includes communities of diverse geographic origins, revealing a wide range of deafness-associated variants and enabling clinical characterization of the associated phenotypes. Our goal was to identify the genetic causes of inherited hearing loss in this population, and to determine relationships among genotype, phenotype, and ethnicity. Genomic DNA samples from informative relatives of 88 multiplex families, all of self-identified Jewish ancestry, with either non-syndromic or syndromic hearing loss, were sequenced for known and candidate deafness genes using the HEar-Seq gene panel. The genetic causes of hearing loss were identified for 60% of the families. One gene was encountered for the first time in human hearing loss: ATOH1 (Atonal), a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor responsible for autosomal dominant progressive hearing loss in a five-generation family. Our results show that genomic sequencing with a gene panel dedicated to hearing loss is effective for genetic diagnoses in a diverse population. Comprehensive sequencing enables well-informed genetic counseling and clinical management by medical geneticists, otolaryngologists, audiologists, and speech therapists and can be integrated into newborn screening for deafness.


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Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos/genética , Surdez/genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Perda Auditiva/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Surdez/epidemiologia , Surdez/patologia , Feminino , Estudos de Associação Genética , Perda Auditiva/epidemiologia , Perda Auditiva/patologia , Humanos , Israel/epidemiologia , Judeus/genética , Masculino , Linhagem , Adulto Jovem
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Blood ; 130(7): 875-880, 2017 08 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28559357

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We report 5 individuals in 3 unrelated families with severe thrombocytopenia progressing to trilineage bone marrow failure (BMF). Four of the children received hematopoietic stem cell transplants and all showed poor graft function with persistent severe cytopenias even after repeated transplants with different donors. Exome and targeted sequencing identified mutations in the gene encoding thrombopoietin (THPO): THPO R99W, homozygous in affected children in 2 families, and THPO R157X, homozygous in the affected child in the third family. Both mutations result in a lack of THPO in the patients' serum. For the 2 surviving patients, improvement in trilineage hematopoiesis was achieved following treatment with a THPO receptor agonist. These studies demonstrate that biallelic loss-of-function mutations in THPO cause BMF, which is unresponsive to transplant due to a hematopoietic cell-extrinsic mechanism. These studies provide further support for the critical role of the MPL-THPO pathway in hematopoiesis and highlight the importance of accurate genetic diagnosis to inform treatment decisions for BMF.


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Transplante de Medula Óssea , Medula Óssea/patologia , Mutação/genética , Trombopoetina/genética , Sequência de Bases , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Linhagem , Receptores Fc/uso terapêutico , Proteínas Recombinantes de Fusão/uso terapêutico , Trombopoetina/uso terapêutico , Resultado do Tratamento
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J Med Genet ; 55(9): 599-606, 2018 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29764912

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OBJECTIVE: To identify the genetic basis of a childhood-onset syndrome of variable severity characterised by progressive spinocerebellar ataxia, mental retardation, psychotic episodes and cerebellar atrophy. METHODS: Identification of the underlying mutations by whole exome and whole genome sequencing. Consequences were examined in patients' cells and in yeast. RESULTS: Two brothers from a consanguineous Palestinian family presented with progressive spinocerebellar ataxia, mental retardation and psychotic episodes. Serial brain imaging showed severe progressive cerebellar atrophy. Whole exome sequencing revealed a novel mutation: pitrilysin metallopeptidase 1 (PITRM1) c.2795C>T, p.T931M, homozygous in the affected children and resulting in 95% reduction in PITRM1 protein. Whole genome sequencing revealed a chromosome X structural rearrangement that also segregated with the disease. Independently, two siblings from a second Palestinian family presented with similar, somewhat milder symptoms and the same PITRM1 mutation on a shared haplotype. PITRM1T931M carrier frequency was 0.027 (3/110) in the village of the first family evaluated, and 0/300 among Palestinians from other locales. PITRM1 is a mitochondrial matrix enzyme that degrades 10-65 amino acid oligopeptides, including the mitochondrial fraction of amyloid-beta peptide. Analysis of peptide cleavage activity by the PITRM1T931M protein revealed a significant decrease in the degradation capacity specifically of peptides ≥40 amino acids. CONCLUSION: PITRM1T931M results in childhood-onset recessive cerebellar pathology. Severity of PITRM1-related disease may be affected by the degree of impairment in cleavage of mitochondrial long peptides. Disruption and deletion of X linked regulatory segments may also contribute to severity.


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Doenças Cerebelares/genética , Cerebelo/patologia , Mutação com Perda de Função , Metaloendopeptidases/genética , Adolescente , Idade de Início , Árabes/genética , Atrofia , Doenças Cerebelares/enzimologia , Cerebelo/enzimologia , Criança , Humanos , Masculino , Mitocôndrias/enzimologia , Proteínas Mitocondriais/genética , Linhagem , Sequenciamento do Exoma , Sequenciamento Completo do Genoma , Adulto Jovem
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Genet Med ; 20(10): 1175-1185, 2018 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29469822

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PURPOSE: To characterize the molecular genetics of autosomal recessive Noonan syndrome. METHODS: Families underwent phenotyping for features of Noonan syndrome in children and their parents. Two multiplex families underwent linkage analysis. Exome, genome, or multigene panel sequencing was used to identify variants. The molecular consequences of observed splice variants were evaluated by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS: Twelve families with a total of 23 affected children with features of Noonan syndrome were evaluated. The phenotypic range included mildly affected patients, but it was lethal in some, with cardiac disease and leukemia. All of the parents were unaffected. Linkage analysis using a recessive model supported a candidate region in chromosome 22q11, which includes LZTR1, previously shown to harbor mutations in patients with Noonan syndrome inherited in a dominant pattern. Sequencing analyses of 21 live-born patients and a stillbirth identified biallelic pathogenic variants in LZTR1, including putative loss-of-function, missense, and canonical and noncanonical splicing variants in the affected children, with heterozygous, clinically unaffected parents and heterozygous or normal genotypes in unaffected siblings. CONCLUSION: These clinical and genetic data confirm the existence of a form of Noonan syndrome that is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and identify biallelic mutations in LZTR1.


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Predisposição Genética para Doença , Síndrome de Noonan/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Adolescente , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Exoma/genética , Feminino , Ligação Genética , Genótipo , Heterozigoto , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Mutação , Síndrome de Noonan/patologia , Linhagem , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , Splicing de RNA/genética , Irmãos
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Int J Cancer ; 141(4): 750-756, 2017 08 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28486781

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Breast cancer among Palestinian women has lower incidence than in Europe or North America, yet is very frequently familial. We studied genetic causes of this familial clustering in a consecutive hospital-based series of 875 Palestinian patients with invasive breast cancer, including 453 women with diagnosis by age 40, or with breast or ovarian cancer in a mother, sister, grandmother or aunt ("discovery series"); and 422 women diagnosed after age 40 and with negative family history ("older-onset sporadic patient series"). Genomic DNA from women in the discovery series was sequenced for all known breast cancer genes, revealing a pathogenic mutation in 13% (61/453) of patients. These mutations were screened in all patients and in 300 Palestinian female controls, revealing 1.0% (4/422) carriers among older, nonfamilial patients and two carriers among controls. The mutational spectrum was highly heterogeneous, including pathogenic mutations in 11 different genes: BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53, ATM, CHEK2, BARD1, BRIP1, PALB2, MRE11A, PTEN and XRCC2. BRCA1 carriers were significantly more likely than other patients to have triple negative tumors (p = 0.03). The single most frequent mutation was TP53 p.R181C, which was significantly enriched in the discovery series compared to controls (p = 0.01) and was responsible for 15% of breast cancers among young onset or familial patients. TP53 p.R181C predisposed specifically to breast cancer with incomplete penetrance, and not to other Li-Fraumeni cancers. Palestinian women with young onset or familial breast cancer and their families would benefit from genetic analysis and counseling.


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Árabes/genética , Neoplasias da Mama/genética , Mutação de Sentido Incorreto , Análise de Sequência de DNA/métodos , Proteína Supressora de Tumor p53/genética , Adulto , Idade de Início , Idoso , Neoplasias da Mama/patologia , Feminino , Estudos de Associação Genética , Heterogeneidade Genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 111(51): 18285-90, 2014 Dec 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25422467

RESUMO

Essential tremor is one of the most frequent movement disorders of humans and can be associated with substantial disability. Some but not all persons with essential tremor develop signs of Parkinson disease, and the relationship between the conditions has not been clear. In a six-generation consanguineous Turkish kindred with both essential tremor and Parkinson disease, we carried out whole exome sequencing and pedigree analysis, identifying HTRA2 p.G399S as the allele likely responsible for both conditions. Essential tremor was present in persons either heterozygous or homozygous for this allele. Homozygosity was associated with earlier age at onset of tremor (P < 0.0001), more severe postural tremor (P < 0.0001), and more severe kinetic tremor (P = 0.0019). Homozygotes, but not heterozygotes, developed Parkinson signs in the middle age. Among population controls from the same Anatolian region as the family, frequency of HTRA2 p.G399S was 0.0027, slightly lower than other populations. HTRA2 encodes a mitochondrial serine protease. Loss of function of HtrA2 was previously shown to lead to parkinsonian features in motor neuron degeneration (mnd2) mice. HTRA2 p.G399S was previously shown to lead to mitochondrial dysfunction, altered mitochondrial morphology, and decreased protease activity, but epidemiologic studies of an association between HTRA2 and Parkinson disease yielded conflicting results. Our results suggest that in some families, HTRA2 p.G399S is responsible for hereditary essential tremor and that homozygotes for this allele develop Parkinson disease. This hypothesis has implications for understanding the pathogenesis of essential tremor and its relationship to Parkinson disease.


Assuntos
Tremor Essencial/genética , Mitocôndrias/enzimologia , Proteínas Mitocondriais/genética , Doença de Parkinson/genética , Serina Endopeptidases/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Criança , Feminino , Serina Peptidase 2 de Requerimento de Alta Temperatura A , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Linhagem , Adulto Jovem
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