Am J Med Genet A
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik, Berlin, Germany.
Published: July 2024
Pathogenic variants in TRIO, encoding the guanine nucleotide exchange factor, are associated with two distinct neurodevelopmental delay phenotypes: gain-of-function missense mutations within the spectrin repeats are causative for a severe developmental delay with macrocephaly (MIM: 618825), whereas loss-of-function missense variants in the GEF1 domain and truncating variants throughout the gene lead to a milder developmental delay and microcephaly (MIM: 617061). In three affected family members with mild intellectual disability/NDD and microcephaly, we detected a novel heterozygous TRIO variant at the last coding base of exon 31 (NM_007118.4:c.4716G>A). RNA analysis from patient-derived lymphoblastoid cells confirmed aberrant splicing resulting in the skipping of exon 31 (r.4615_4716del), leading to an in-frame deletion in the first Pleckstrin homology subdomain of the GEF1 domain: p.(Thr1539_Lys1572del). To test for a distinct gestalt, facial characteristics of the family members and 41 previously published TRIO cases were systematically evaluated via GestaltMatcher. Computational analysis of the facial gestalt suggests a distinguishable facial TRIO-phenotype not outlined in the existing literature.
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