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NEUROLOGY-GENETICS
Volume 1, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000033
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- Intramural Research Grant for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders of NCNP [23-5, 25-5, 26-8]
- Research on Applying Health Technology from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare [H23-Jitsuyouka (Nanbyou)-Ippan-008]
- Research on rare and intractable diseases from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare [H26-Itaku(Nan)-Ippan-081]
- MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) [S141101]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26293214] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Objective: To determine the genetic variants in patients with dystroglycanopathy (DGP) and assess the pathogenicity of these variants. Methods: A total of 20 patients with DGP were identified by immunohistochemistry or Western blot analysis. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) was performed using patient samples. The pathogenicity of the variants identified was evaluated on the basis of the phenotypic recovery in a knockout (KO) haploid human cell line by transfection with mutated POMGNT2 cDNA and on the basis of the in vitro enzymatic activity of mutated proteins. Results: WES identified homozygous and compound heterozygous missense variants in POMGNT2 in 3 patients with the milder limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) and intellectual disability without brain malformation. The 2 identified variants were located in the putative glycosyltransferase domain of POMGNT2, which affected its enzymatic activity. Mutated POMGNT2 cDNAs failed to rescue the phenotype of POMGNT2-KO cells. Conclusions: Novel variants in POMGNT2 are associated with milder forms of LGMD. The findings of this study expand the clinical and pathologic spectrum of DGP associated with POMGNT2 variants from the severest Walker-Warburg syndrome to the mildest LGMD phenotypes. The simple method to verify pathogenesis of variants may allow researchers to evaluate any variants present in all of the known causative genes and the variants in novel candidate genes to detect DGPs, particularly without using patients' specimens.
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