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BMC MEDICAL GENETICS
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12881-020-01042-w
Keywords
MECP2; Intellectual disability (ID); Rett syndrome; Whole-exome sequencing (WES); de novo mutation (DNM)
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- Chinese Ministry of Health Project [201302002]
- Intramural Research Program of NIDCR/NIH
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Background To date, at least 746 genes have been identified to cause intellectual disability (ID). Among them, mutations in the Methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene are the leading cause of Rett syndrome and associated ID. Methods Considering the large number of ID-associated genes, we applied trio-based whole-exome sequencing (trio-WES) and in silico analysis for genetic diagnosis of 294 children with ID. Results Three de novo heterozygous mutations [NM_004992.3: c.502C > T, p.(Arg168*), c.916C > T, p.(Arg306Cys), and c.879C > G, p.(Ile293Met)] in MECP2 were identified in three unrelated girls. The first two mutations were detected in two patients who were diagnosed as typical Rett syndrome, X-linked ID and psychomotor retardation. The third mutation (c.879C > G), a previously unreported, was found in a 6-year-old girl with ID, microcephaly, severe underweight and psychomotor retardation. Particularly, this extremely rare de novo mutation (DNM) is located in the transcriptional repression domain (TRD) of MECP2, where at least 62 different causal mutations are identified. Conclusions We identified three DNMs in MECP2 in a cohort of 294 individuals with ID. The novel c.879C > G mutation, as a likely pathogenic allele, may become a risk factor associated with X-linked ID, microcephaly and psychomotor retardation.
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