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. 2008 Apr;40(4):443-8.
doi: 10.1038/ng.97. Epub 2008 Mar 9.

Hypomorphic mutations in syndromic encephalocele genes are associated with Bardet-Biedl syndrome

Carmen C Leitch  1 , Norann A Zaghloul, Erica E Davis, Corinne Stoetzel, Anna Diaz-Font, Suzanne Rix, Majid Alfadhel, Richard Alan Lewis, Wafaa Eyaid, Eyal Banin, Helene Dollfus, Philip L Beales, Jose L Badano, Nicholas Katsanis
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Hypomorphic mutations in syndromic encephalocele genes are associated with Bardet-Biedl syndrome

Carmen C Leitch et al. Nat Genet. 2008 Apr.

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  • Nat Genet. 2008 Jul;40(7):927. Al-Fadhel, Majid [corrected to Alfadhel, Majid]

Abstract

Meckel-Gruber syndrome (MKS) is a genetically heterogeneous, neonatally lethal malformation and the most common form of syndromic neural tube defect (NTD). To date, several MKS-associated genes have been identified whose protein products affect ciliary function. Here we show that mutations in MKS1, MKS3 and CEP290 (also known as NPHP6) either can cause Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) or may have a potential epistatic effect on mutations in known BBS-associated loci. Five of six families with both MKS1 and BBS mutations manifested seizures, a feature that is not a typical component of either syndrome. Functional studies in zebrafish showed that mks1 is necessary for gastrulation movements and that it interacts genetically with known bbs genes. Similarly, we found two families with missense or splice mutations in MKS3, in one of which the affected individual also bears a homozygous nonsense mutation in CEP290 that is likely to truncate the C terminus of the protein. These data extend the genetic stratification of ciliopathies and suggest that BBS and MKS, although distinct clinically, are allelic forms of the same molecular spectrum.

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