Oral-facial-digital type VI syndrome (OFDVI) is a rare phenotype of Joubert syndrome (JS). Recently, C5orf42 was suggested as the major OFDVI gene, being mutated in 9 of 11 families (82 %). We sequenced C5orf42 in 313 JS probands and identified mutations in 28 (8.9 %), most with a phenotype of pure JS. Only 2 out of 17 OFDVI patients (11.7 %) were mutated. A comparison of mutated vs. non-mutated OFDVI patients showed that preaxial and mesoaxial polydactyly, hypothalamic hamartoma and other congenital defects may predict C5orf42 mutations, while tongue hamartomas are more common in negative patients.
Oral-facial-digital syndrome type VI: is C5orf42 really the major gene? / Romani, Marta; Mancini, Francesca; Micalizzi, Alessia; Poretti, Andrea; Miccinilli, Elide; Accorsi, Patrizia; Avola, Emanuela; Bertini, Enrico; Borgatti, Renato; Romaniello, Romina; Ceylaner, Serdar; Coppola, Giangennaro; D’Arrigo, Stefano; Giordano, Lucio; Janecke, Andreas R.; Lituania, Mario; Ludwig, Kathrin; Martorell, Loreto; Mazza, Tommaso; Odent, Sylvie; Pinelli, Lorenzo; Poo, Pilar; Santucci, Margherita; Signorini, Sabrina; Simonati, Alessandro; Spiegel, Ronen; Stanzial, Franco; Steinlin, Maja; Tabarki, Brahim; Wolf, Nicole I.; Zibordi, Federica; Boltshauser, Eugen; Valente, Enza Maria. - In: HUMAN GENETICS. - ISSN 0340-6717. - STAMPA. - 134:1(2015), pp. 123-126. [10.1007/s00439-014-1508-3]
Oral-facial-digital syndrome type VI: is C5orf42 really the major gene?
SANTUCCI, MARGHERITA;VALENTE, ENZA MARIA
2015
Abstract
Oral-facial-digital type VI syndrome (OFDVI) is a rare phenotype of Joubert syndrome (JS). Recently, C5orf42 was suggested as the major OFDVI gene, being mutated in 9 of 11 families (82 %). We sequenced C5orf42 in 313 JS probands and identified mutations in 28 (8.9 %), most with a phenotype of pure JS. Only 2 out of 17 OFDVI patients (11.7 %) were mutated. A comparison of mutated vs. non-mutated OFDVI patients showed that preaxial and mesoaxial polydactyly, hypothalamic hamartoma and other congenital defects may predict C5orf42 mutations, while tongue hamartomas are more common in negative patients.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
