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A SPIDR homozygous nonsense pathogenic variant in isolated primary ovarian insufficiency with chromosomal instability

Journal

CLINICAL GENETICS
Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 242-246

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cge.14080

Keywords

chromosomal instability; DNA repair; mitomycin C; mutation; primary ovarian insufficiency; sister chromatid exchange; SPIDR

Funding

  1. Agence de Biomedecine [PFS12-002]
  2. Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris-APHP, University Paris-Saclay

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POI is a public health issue affecting 1% of young women, with associations to genes involved in meiosis/DNA repair. A novel homozygous nonsense variant in the SPIDR gene identified in this study suggests its causal role in chromosomal instability and POI, expanding knowledge on SPIDR function and implications for patient management.
Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), affecting 1% of women under 40 years is a public health problem. Genes involved in meiosis/DNA repair were recently shown to be the leading family of associated causal genes, some of them also cause tumors/cancers. Here, using targeted next-generation sequencing in an Indian POI patient with primary amenorrhea and streak ovaries, we identified a novel homozygous nonsense variant in exon 7 of SPIDR (KIAA0146) c.814C > T, R272*, predicted to lead a nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. SPIDR was recently identified by in vitro assays as an auxiliary protein interacting with RAD51 and BLM, two major proteins involved in genome stability. Consistent with alteration of the RAD51 pathway, we observed a strong increase in mitomycin C-induced DNA breaks and aberrant metaphases in the patient's cells compared to a control. However, sister chromatid exchanges were normal in contrast to the sharp increase characteristic of the BLM pathway. This is the first evidence of chromosomal instability associated with a SPIDR molecular defect, which supports the role of SPIDR in double-stranded DNA damage repair in vivo in humans and its causal role in POI. Our study increases knowledge on the SPIDR function and has broad implications in the management of such patients.

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