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GENETICS IN MEDICINE
Volume 21, Issue 8, Pages 1790-1796Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41436-018-0415-8
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CCD23; VASH1; intellectual disability; NGS; hippocampal neurons
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- German Research Foundation [AB393/2-1, AB393/2-2]
- DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
- European Union's Seventh Framework Program (Gencodys) [241995]
- Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development [917-96-346, 907-00-365]
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Purpose: Identifying and characterizing novel causes of autosomal recessive intellectual disability based on systematic clinical and genetic evaluation, followed by functional experiments. Methods: Clinical examinations, genome-wide positional mapping, and sequencing were followed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blot of the protein SVBP and its interaction partners. We then knocked down the gene in rat primary hippocampal neurons and evaluated the consequences on synapses. Results: We identified a founder, homozygous stop-gain variant in SVBP (c.82C>T; p.[Gln28*]) in four affected individuals from two independent families with intellectual disability, microcephaly, ataxia, and muscular hypotonia. SVBP encodes a small chaperone protein that transports and stabilizes two angiogenesis regulators, VASH1 and VASH2. The altered protein is unstable and nonfunctional since transfected HeLa cells with mutant SVBP did not reveal evidence for immunoreactive SVBP protein fragments and cotransfection with VASH1 showed a severe reduction of VASH1 in medium and cell lysate. Knocking down Svbp in rat primary hippocampal neurons led to a significant decrease in the number of excitatory synapses. Conclusion: SVBP is not only involved in angiogenesis, but also has vital functions in the central nervous system. Biallelic loss-of-function variants in SVBP lead to intellectual disability.
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