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CLINICAL GENETICS
Volume 104, Issue 4, Pages 461-465Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cge.14362
Keywords
female infertility; oocyte maturation defect; variant
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Whole exome sequencing in an affected individual from a consanguineous family revealed a novel variant in the ZFP36L2 gene, which may cause oocyte maturation defect and further broadened the mutational and phenotypic spectrum of ZFP36L2, suggesting that ZFP36L2 could be a genetic diagnostic marker for individuals with oocyte maturation defect.
Normal oocyte maturation is an important requirement for the success of human reproduction, and defects in this process will lead to female infertility and repeated IVF/ICSI failures. In order to identify genetic factors that are responsible for oocyte maturation defect, we used whole exome sequencing in the affected individual with oocyte maturation defect from a consanguineous family and identified a homozygous variant c.853_861del (p.285_287del) in ZFP36L2. ZFP36L2 is a RNA-binding protein, which regulates maternal mRNA decay and oocyte maturation. In vitro studies showed that the variant caused decreased protein levels of ZFP36L2 in oocytes due to mRNA instability and might lead to the loss of its function to degrade maternal mRNAs. Previous study showed that the pathogenic variants in ZFP36L2 were associated with early embryonic arrest. In contrast, we identified a novel ZFP36L2 variant in the affected individual with oocyte maturation defect, which further broadened the mutational and phenotypic spectrum of ZFP36L2, suggesting that ZFP36L2 might be a genetic diagnostic marker for the affected individuals with oocyte maturation defect.
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