Journal
HUMAN MUTATION
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 74-84Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/humu.24294
Keywords
deep intronic variant; low level mosaicism; LZTR1; massively parallel sequencing; MYO18B; NEFH; NF2; SBF1; schwannomatosis; SGSM1; SGSM3; SMARCB1
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- U.S. Army Medical Research Materiel Command through the Neurofibromatosis Research Program [W81XWH-16-1-0105]
- Foundation for Polish Science
- Smart Growth Operational Program [MAB/2018/6]
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Constitutional pathogenic variants in genes LZTR1 or SMARCB1 were identified in a high percentage of familial and sporadic schwannomatosis cases, with additional novel variants and potential predisposing candidate genes revealed through extensive sequencing.
Constitutional LZTR1 or SMARCB1 pathogenic variants (PVs) have been found in similar to 86% of familial and similar to 40% of sporadic schwannomatosis cases. Hence, we performed massively parallel sequencing of the entire LZTR1, SMARCB1, and NF2 genomic loci in 35 individuals with schwannomas negative for constitutional first-hit PVs in the LZTR1/SMARCB1/NF2 coding sequences; however, with 22q deletion and/or a different NF2 PV in each tumor, including six cases with only one tumor available. Furthermore, we verified whether any other LZTR1/SMARCB1/NF2 (likely) PVs could be found in 16 cases carrying a SMARCB1 constitutional variant in the 3 '-untranslated region (3 '-UTR) c.*17C>T, c.*70C>T, or c.*82C>T. As no additional variants were found, functional studies were performed to clarify the effect of these 3 '-UTR variants on the transcript. The 3 '-UTR variants c.*17C>T and c.*82C>T showed pathogenicity by negatively affecting the SMARCB1 transcript level. Two novel deep intronic SMARCB1 variants, c.500+883T>G and c.500+887G>A, resulting in out-of-frame missplicing of intron 4, were identified in two unrelated individuals. Further resequencing of the entire repeat-masked genomics sequences of chromosome 22q in individuals negative for PVs in the SMARCB1/LZTR1/NF2 coding- and noncoding regions revealed five potential schwannomatosis-predisposing candidate genes, that is, MYO18B, NEFH, SGSM1, SGSM3, and SBF1, pending further verification.
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