Abstract
Primary lymphoedema is a genetic disorder with numerous phenotypic subgroups. The most common form is the non-syndromic Meige disease, which is primarily of pubertal or later onset, with oedema clinically indistinguishable from that found in the lymphoedema-distichiasis syndrome. There are also other very rare forms of lymphoedema such as yellow nail syndrome and lymphoedema with ptosis, which are clinically similar to Meige disease. The only causative genes so far identified for the non-congenital primary lymphoedemas are the transcription factor FOXC2, where mutations are known to produce lymphoedema with distichiasis, and SOX18 in the very rare condition hypotrichosis-lymphoedema-telangiectasia. This study has examined FOXC2 gene by sequence analysis in 23 affected individuals with Meige disease. A novel truncating mutation (c.563-584del) was identified in one family and found to segregate with the disease in eight affected relatives over three generations. This deletion creates a frameshift that predicts a premature stop at nucleotide 599 and truncating the normal protein by 38%. Although the affected patient initially selected for mutation screening from this family had lymphoedema without distichiasis, all but one of his ...Continue Reading
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