Department of Human Pathology of the Adult and Developmental Age, "Gaetano Barresi" University of Messina, Via Consolare Valeria 1, 98125 Messina, Italy.
Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS, Via Conte Ruggero 73, 94018 Troina, Italy.
Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Dec 17;23(24):16130. doi: 10.3390/ijms232416130.
() gene, located in the short arm of chromosome 11, encodes for BHC80, a component of the Lysine Specific Demethylase 1, Corepressor of REST (LSD1-CoREST) complex. BHC80 is mainly expressed in the human fetal brain and skeletal muscle and acts as a modulator of several neuronal genes during embryogenesis. Data from literature relates variants with Potocki-Shaffer Syndrome (PSS), a contiguous gene deletion disorder caused by the haploinsufficiency of , , and genes. Clinical cardinal features of PSS syndrome are multiple exostoses (due to the involvement), biparietal foramina (due to the involvement), intellectual disability, and craniofacial anomalies (due to the involvement). To date, to the best of our knowledge, a detailed description of -related disorder clinical phenotype is not described in the literature; in fact, only 14 subjects with microdeletion frameshift or nonsense variants concerning only gene have been reported. All reported cases did not present or variants, and their clinical features did not fit with PSS diagnosis. Herein, by using Exome sequencing, and Sanger sequencing of the region of interest, we describe a case of a child with a paternally inherited (mosaicism of 5%) truncating variant of the gene (c.649_650del; p.Gln217ValfsTer6), and discuss the new evidence. In conclusion, these patients showed varied clinical expressions, mainly including the presence of intellectual disability, epilepsy, hypotonia, and dysmorphic features. Our study contributes to describing the genotype-phenotype spectrum of patients with PHF21A-related disorder; however, the limited data in the literature have been unable to provide a precise diagnostic protocol for patients with -related disorder.
该基因位于 11 号染色体短臂上,编码 BHC80,它是赖氨酸特异性去甲基酶 1(LSD1)-REST 共抑制因子(CoREST)复合物的一个组成部分。BHC80 主要在人类胎儿大脑和骨骼肌中表达,在胚胎发生过程中作为几种神经元基因的调节剂。文献中的数据将变体与 Potocki-Shaffer 综合征(PSS)相关联,PSS 是一种连续基因缺失疾病,由 、 和 基因的单倍体不足引起。PSS 综合征的临床主要特征是多发性外生骨疣(由于 的参与)、双顶骨孔(由于 的参与)、智力障碍和颅面异常(由于 的参与)。迄今为止,据我们所知,尚未在文献中详细描述 -相关疾病的临床表型;事实上,仅报道了 14 例涉及仅 基因的微缺失移码或无意义变体的病例。所有报道的病例均未出现 或 变体,其临床特征与 PSS 诊断不符。在此,我们通过使用外显子组测序和感兴趣区域的 Sanger 测序,描述了一例患儿携带父系遗传的(5%嵌合体)截断变体的 基因(c.649_650del;p.Gln217ValfsTer6),并讨论了新的证据。总之,这些患者表现出不同的临床表现,主要包括智力障碍、癫痫、低张力和发育不良特征。我们的研究有助于描述 PHF21A 相关疾病患者的基因型-表型谱;然而,文献中的有限数据尚未为 -相关疾病患者提供精确的诊断方案。