De Novo Truncating Mutations in ASXL3 Are Associated with a Novel Clinical Phenotype with Similarities to Bohring-Opitz Syndrome

Overview

Journal Genome Med

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Genetics

Date 2013 Feb 7

PMID 23383720

Citations 79

Authors

Matthew N Bainbridge

Hao Hu

Donna M Muzny

Luciana Musante

James R Lupski

Brett H Graham

Wei Chen

Karen W Gripp

Kim Jenny

Thomas F Wienker

Yaping Yang

V Reid Sutton

Richard A Gibbs

H Hilger Ropers

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Abstract

Background: Molecular diagnostics can resolve locus heterogeneity underlying clinical phenotypes that may otherwise be co-assigned as a specific syndrome based on shared clinical features, and can associate phenotypically diverse diseases to a single locus through allelic affinity. Here we describe an apparently novel syndrome, likely caused by de novo truncating mutations in ASXL3, which shares characteristics with Bohring-Opitz syndrome, a disease associated with de novo truncating mutations in ASXL1.

Methods: We used whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing to interrogate the genomes of four subjects with an undiagnosed syndrome.

Results: Using genome-wide sequencing, we identified heterozygous, de novo truncating mutations in ASXL3, a transcriptional repressor related to ASXL1, in four unrelated probands. We found that these probands shared similar phenotypes, including severe feeding difficulties, failure to thrive, and neurologic abnormalities with significant developmental delay. Further, they showed less phenotypic overlap with patients who had de novo truncating mutations in ASXL1.

Conclusion: We have identified truncating mutations in ASXL3 as the likely cause of a novel syndrome with phenotypic overlap with Bohring-Opitz syndrome.

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