Journal
CLINICAL GENETICS
Volume 99, Issue 3, Pages 430-436Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cge.13895
Keywords
ACTG2 gene; chronic intestinal pseudo‐ obstruction (CIPO); megacystis‐ microcolon‐ intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome (MMIHS); three‐ dimensional molecular modeling
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- Fondazione ONLUS Alessandra Bono
- Italian Ministry of Health
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This study identified variants in the ACTG2 gene in 11 patients, with four carrying novel missense variants and four carrying variants affecting arginine residues, with de novo occurrence confirmed in six families.
The 3D molecular modeling of ACTG2 variants in patients provides further insights into the effects on enteric muscle contraction, improving understanding of visceral myopathies and implications for genetic counseling in severe disorders related to intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
Variants in the ACTG2 gene, encoding a protein crucial for correct enteric muscle contraction, have been found in patients affected with chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, either congenital or late-onset visceral myopathy, and megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome. Here we report about ten pediatric and one adult patients, from nine families, carrying ACTG2 variants: four show novel still unpublished missense variants, including one that is apparently transmitted according to a recessive mode of inheritance. Four of the remaining five probands carry variants affecting arginine residues, that have already been associated with a severe phenotype. A de novo occurrence of the variants could be confirmed in six of these families. Since a genotype-phenotype correlation is affected by extrinsic factors, such as, diagnosis delay, quality of clinical management, and intra-familial variability, we have undertaken 3D molecular modeling to get further insights into the effects of the variants here described. The present findings and further ACTG2 testing of patients presenting with intestinal pseudo-obstruction, will improve our understanding of visceral myopathies, including implications in the prognosis and genetic counseling of this set of severe disorders.
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