智力残疾
桑格测序
外显子组测序
遗传学
剪接位点突变
突变
癫痫
自闭症
遗传异质性
生物
自闭症谱系障碍
医学
表型
外显子
基因
精神科
神经科学
选择性拼接
作者
Anna Rajab,Markus Schuelke,Esther Gill,Angelika Zwirner,F. Seifert,Susanne Morales‐Gonzalez,Ellen Knierim
标识
DOI:10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103083
摘要
Various genetic defects cause autism associated with intellectual disability and epilepsy. Here, we set out to identify the genetic defect in a consanguineous Omani family with three affected children in whom mutations in known candidate genes had been excluded beforehand.For mutation screening, we combined autozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing. Segregation of potential disease variants with the phenotype was verified by Sanger sequencing. A splice-site mutation was confirmed and quantified by qPCR.We found an autosomal recessive splice acceptor mutation in DEAF1 (c.997+4A>C, p.G292Pfs*) in all affected individuals, which led to exon skipping, and reduced the normal full-length mRNA copy number in the patients to 5% of the wild-type level. Besides intellectual disability and autism, two of three affected siblings suffered from severe epilepsy. All patients exhibited dyskinesia of the limbs coinciding with symmetric T2 hyperintensities of the basal ganglia on cranial MRI.A recent report has shown dominant DEAF1 mutations to occur de novo in patients with intellectual disability. Here, we demonstrate that a DEAF1-associated disorder can also be inherited as an autosomal recessive trait with heterozygous individuals being entirely healthy. Our findings expand the clinical and genetic spectrum of DEAF1 mutations to comprise epilepsy and extrapyramidal symptoms.
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