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BIOMOLECULES
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom13020281
Keywords
osteogenesis imperfecta; collagen type I; genetics; pathogenic variants; phenotype-genotype correlation; classification; hospital records
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This study aimed to genetically stratify a cohort of 675 Dutch OI patients based on their pathogenic variant types and provide an overview of their medical care demands. The results showed that OI patients in the Netherlands have a higher number of hospital admissions, outpatient clinic visits, and medication usage compared to the general population. Patients with COL1A1 or COL1A2 dominant negative missense non-glycine substitution have a lower healthcare need compared to other groups, even lower than patients with COL1A1 or COL1A2 haploinsufficiency.
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable connective tissue disorder that causes bone fragility due to pathogenic variants in genes responsible for the synthesis of type I collagen. Efforts to classify the high clinical variability in OI led to the Sillence classification. However, this classification only partially takes into account extraskeletal manifestations and the high genetic variability. Little is known about the relation between genetic variants and phenotype as of yet. The aim of the study was to create a clinically relevant genetic stratification of a cohort of 675 Dutch OI patients based on their pathogenic variant types and to provide an overview of their respective medical care demands. The clinical records of 675 OI patients were extracted from the Amsterdam UMC Genome Database and matched with the records from Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The patients were categorized based on their harbored pathogenic variant. The information on hospital admissions, outpatient clinic visits, medication, and diagnosis-treatment combinations (DTCs) was compared between the variant groups. OI patients in the Netherlands appear to have a higher number of DTCs, outpatient clinic visits, and hospital admissions when compared to the general Dutch population. Furthermore, medication usage seems higher in the OI cohort in comparison to the general population. The patients with a COL1A1 or COL1A2 dominant negative missense non-glycine substitution appear to have a lower health care need compared to the other groups, and even lower than patients with COL1A1 or COL1A2 haploinsufficiency. It would be useful to include the variant type in addition to the Sillence classification when categorizing a patient's phenotype.
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