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A new titinopathy: Childhood-juvenile onset Emery-Dreifuss-like phenotype without cardiomyopathy.


ABSTRACT: To identify the genetic defects present in 3 families with muscular dystrophy, contractures, and calpain 3 deficiency.We performed targeted exome sequencing on one patient presenting a deficiency in calpain 3 on Western blot but for which mutations in the gene had been excluded. The identification of a homozygous truncating mutation in the M-line part of titin prompted us to sequence this region in 2 additional patients presenting similar clinical and biochemical characteristics.The 3 patients shared similar features: coexistence of limb-girdle weakness and early-onset diffuse joint contractures without cardiomyopathy. The biopsies showed rimmed vacuoles, a dystrophic pattern, and secondary reduction in calpain 3. We identified a novel homozygous mutation in the exon Mex3 of the TTN gene in the first patient. At protein level, this mutation introduces a stop codon at the level of Mex3. Interestingly, we identified truncating mutations in both alleles in the same region of the TTN gene in patients from 2 additional families. Molecular protein analyses confirm loss of the C-ter part of titin.Our study broadens the phenotype of titinopathies with the report of a new clinical entity with prominent contractures and no cardiac abnormality and where the recessive mutations lead to truncation of the M-line titin and secondary calpain 3 deficiency.

SUBMITTER: De Cid R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4691685 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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<h4>Objective</h4>To identify the genetic defects present in 3 families with muscular dystrophy, contractures, and calpain 3 deficiency.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed targeted exome sequencing on one patient presenting a deficiency in calpain 3 on Western blot but for which mutations in the gene had been excluded. The identification of a homozygous truncating mutation in the M-line part of titin prompted us to sequence this region in 2 additional patients presenting similar clinical and biochemica  ...[more]

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