A recurrent PJA1 variant in trigonocephaly and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
Toshimitsu SuzukiKazuhiro Yamakawa

Abstract

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) often associate with epilepsy or craniofacial malformations. Recent large-scale DNA analyses identified hundreds of candidate genes for NDDs, but a large portion of the cases still remain unexplained. We aimed to identify novel candidate genes for NDDs. We performed exome sequencing of 95 patients with NDDs including 51 with trigonocephaly and subsequent targeted sequencing of additional 463 NDD patients, functional analyses of variant in vitro, and evaluations of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-like phenotypes and seizure-related phenotypes in vivo. We identified de novo truncation variants in nine novel genes; CYP1A1, C14orf119, FLI1, CYB5R4, SEL1L2, RAB11FIP2, ZMYND8, ZNF143, and MSX2. MSX2 variants have been described in patients with cranial malformations, and our present patient with the MSX2 de novo truncation variant showed cranial meningocele and partial epilepsy. MSX2 protein is known to be ubiquitinated by an E3 ubiquitin ligase PJA1, and interestingly we found a PJA1 hemizygous p.Arg376Cys variant recurrently in seven Japanese NDD patients; five with trigonocephaly and one with partial epilepsy, and the variant was absent in 886 Japanese control individuals. Pja1 knock-in mice carr...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
PCR
exome sequencing
chips
Feature Extraction
ubiquitination

Software Mentioned

SAMtools
ANNOVAR
TimeCSI
UCSC Genome Browser
ImageJ
KyPlot
Agilent Feature Extraction
TimeOFCR4
ARRIVE
Genome Analysis Toolkit

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