Journal
BMC MEDICAL GENETICS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12881-019-0863-2
Keywords
Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome; NSD2 gene; Truncating variants
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Funding
- Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [81602868]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [17411965300, 17XD1402800]
- Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning [20164Y0095]
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Background Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a contiguous gene syndrome caused by partial 4p deletion highly variable in size in individual patients. The core WHS phenotype is defined by the association of growth delay, typical facial characteristics, intellectual disability and seizures. The WHS critical region (WHSCR) has been narrowed down and NSD2 falls within this 200 kb region. Only four patients with NSD2 variants have been documented with phenotypic features in detail. Case presentation Herein, we report the case of a 12-year-old boy with developmental delay. He had dysmorphic facial features including wide-spaced eyes, prominent nasal bridge continuing to forehead, abnormal teething and micrognathia. He also had mild clinodactyly of both hands. Using whole-exome sequencing, we identified a pathogenic mutation in NSD2 [c.4029_4030insAA, p.Glu1344Lysfs*49] isolated from peripheral blood DNA. Sanger confirmation of this variant revealed it as a de novo truncating variant in the family. Conclusion Here, we reported a boy with de novo truncating variant in NSD2 with atypical clinical features comparing with 4p16.3 deletion related WHS. Our finding further supported the pathogenesis of truncating variants in NSD2 and delineated the possible symptom spectrum caused by these variants.
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