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A novel KCNQ4 mutation and a private IMMP2L-DOCK4 duplication segregating with nonsyndromic hearing loss in a Brazilian family.


ABSTRACT: Here we describe a novel missense variant in the KCNQ4 gene and a private duplication at 7q31.1 partially involving two genes (IMMP2L and DOCK4). Both mutations segregated with nonsyndromic hearing loss in a family with three affected individuals. Initially, we identified the duplication in a screening of 132 unrelated cases of hearing loss with a multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification panel of genes that are candidates to have a role in hearing, including IMMP2L. Mapping of the duplication by array-CGH revealed that the duplication also encompassed the 3'-end of DOCK4. Subsequently, whole-exome sequencing identified the breakpoint of the rearrangement, thereby confirming the existence of a fusion IMMP2L-DOCK4 gene. Transcription products of the fusion gene were identified, indicating that they escaped nonsense-mediated messenger RNA decay. A missense substitution (c.701A>T) in KCNQ4 (a gene at the DFNA2A locus) was also identified by whole-exome sequencing. Because the substitution is predicted to be probably damaging and KCNQ4 has been implicated in hearing loss, this mutation might explain the deafness in the affected individuals, although a hypothetical effect of the product of the fusion gene on hearing cannot be completely ruled out.

SUBMITTER: Uehara DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785540 | biostudies-other | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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