Biedziak Barbara, Firlej Ewa, Dąbrowska Justyna, Bogdanowicz Agnieszka, Zadurska Małgorzata, Mostowska Adrianna
Department of Orthodontics and Craniofacial Anomalies, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-812 Poznan, Poland.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 61-781 Poznan, Poland.
J Clin Med. 2022 Oct 15;11(20):6089. doi: 10.3390/jcm11206089.
Non-syndromic tooth agenesis (ns-TA) is one of the most common dental anomalies characterized by the congenital absence of at least one permanent tooth (excluding third molars). Regarding the essential role of genetic factors in ns-TA aetiology, the present study aimed to identify novel pathogenic variants underlying hypodontia and oligodontia. In a group of 65 ns-TA patients and 127 healthy individuals from the genetically homogenous Polish population, the coding sequences of 423 candidate genes were screened using targeted next-generation sequencing. Pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants were identified in 37 (56.92%) patients, including eight nucleotide alternations of genes not previously implicated in ns-TA (, , , , , and ). However, since only single variants were detected, future research is required to confirm and fully understand their role in the aetiology of ns-TA. Additionally, our results support the importance of already known ns-TA candidate genes (, , , , , , , and ) and provide additional evidence that ns-TA might be an oligogenic condition involving the cumulative effect of rare variants in two or more distinct genes.
非综合征性牙齿缺失(ns-TA)是最常见的牙齿发育异常之一,其特征为先天性缺失至少一颗恒牙(不包括第三磨牙)。鉴于遗传因素在ns-TA病因学中的重要作用,本研究旨在鉴定导致少牙症和多牙症的新的致病变异。在一组来自基因同质的波兰人群的65例ns-TA患者和127名健康个体中,使用靶向二代测序技术对423个候选基因的编码序列进行了筛查。在37例(56.92%)患者中鉴定出了致病和可能致病的变异,其中包括8个先前未与ns-TA相关的基因的核苷酸改变(、、、、、和)。然而,由于仅检测到单个变异,未来需要进一步研究以证实并充分了解它们在ns-TA病因学中的作用。此外,我们的结果支持了已知的ns-TA候选基因(、、、、、、、和)的重要性,并提供了额外的证据表明ns-TA可能是一种寡基因疾病,涉及两个或更多不同基因中罕见变异的累积效应。