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Int J Mol Sci
October 2024
Department of Medical Genetics, Clinical Center, Medical School, University of Pécs, 7624 Pécs, Hungary.
Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is a rare congenital craniofacial disorder with variable penetrance and high genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity. It is caused by pathogenic variants in the , , and genes, and its major characteristic features are malar and mandibular hypoplasia, downward slanting of the palpebral fissures, and conductive hearing loss. In this study, five patients (two males and three females, age range from 2 to 29 years) with TCS were tested by Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)-based sequencing and clinically characterized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Mol Neurosci
October 2024
Clinical Genetics Department, Human Genetics and Genome Research Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, 12311, Egypt.
Collagen VI-related dystrophies (COL6-RD) display a wide spectrum of disease severity and genetic variability ranging from mild Bethlem myopathy (BM) to severe Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD) and the intermediate severities in between with dual modes of inheritance, dominant and recessive. In the current study, next-generation sequencing demonstrated potential variants in the genes coding for the three alpha chains of collagen VI (COL6A1, COL6A2, or COL6A3) in a cohort of Egyptian patients with progressive muscle weakness (n = 23). Based on the age of disease onset and the patient clinical course, subjects were diagnosed as follows: 12 with UCMD, 8 with BM, and 3 with intermediate disease form.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Pediatr
October 2024
Service de pneumologie, allergologie, mucoviscidose, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69500 Bron, France; Service d'Épileptologie Clinique, des Troubles du Sommeil et de Neurologie Fonctionnelle de l'Enfant, Hôpital Femme Mère Enfant, Hospices Civils de Lyon, 69500 Bron, France; Unité INSERM U1028 CNRS UMR 5292, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France. Electronic address:
Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare genetic disorder of the autonomic nervous system resulting in decreased brain sensitivity to hypercapnia and hypoxia characterized by a genetic abnormality in the pair-like homeobox 2B (PHOX2B) gene. Most patients have a heterozygous expansion of the polyalanine repeat in exon 3 (PARM), while 10 % of patients have non-PARM (NPARM) mutations that can span the entire gene. The majority of pathogenic variants are de novo, but variants with incomplete penetrance can be identified in the heterozygous state.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHum Mol Genet
November 2024
Eye Research Institute, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, United States.
Mutations in PRPH2 are a relatively common cause of sight-robbing inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs). Peripherin-2 (PRPH2) is a photoreceptor-specific tetraspanin protein that structures the disk rim membranes of rod and cone outer segment (OS) organelles, and is required for OS morphogenesis. PRPH2 is noteworthy for its broad spectrum of disease phenotypes; both inter- and intra-familial heterogeneity have been widely observed and this variability in disease expression and penetrance confounds efforts to understand genotype-phenotype correlations and pathophysiology.
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December 2024
Research Team in Genomics and Molecular Epidemiology of Genetic Diseases, GENOPATH Center, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohammed V of Rabat, Rabat, Morocco.
Background: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies constitute a heterogeneous group of neuromuscular diseases, both clinically and genetically. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy by alpha-sarcoglycan deficiency or LGMD R3 α-sarcoglycan-related is a subtype of the autosomal recessive sarcoglycanopathies caused by variants in the alpha-sarcoglycan gene (SGCA) at 17q21.33.
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