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BMC NEPHROLOGY
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BIOMED CENTRAL LTD
DOI: 10.1186/s12882-018-0906-5
Keywords
Digenic inheritance; Modifier gene; Familial hematuria; Renal cysts; Collagen IV; FSGS; Thin Basement Membrane Nephiopathy (TBMN); Kidney disease; Laminin alpha 5; Alport syndrome; Synaptopodin; Metalloproteinase
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- Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation [NEW INFRASTRUCTURE/STRATEGIC/0308/24]
- European Regional Development Fund
- Republic of Cyprus
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Background: About 40-50% of patients with familial micioscopic hematuria (FMH) caused by thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN) inherit heterozygous mutations in collagen IV genes (COL4A3, COL4A4) On long follow up, the full phenotypic spectrum of these patients varies a lot, ranging from isolated MH or MH plus low grade proteinuria to chronic renal failure of variable degree, including end stage lenal disease (ESRD) Methods: Here, we performed Whole Exorne Sequencing (WES) in patients of six families, presenting with autosomal dominant FMH, with or without progression to piotemuria and loss of renal function, all previously found negative for severe collagen IV mutations. Hierarchical filtering of the WES data was performed, followed by mutation prediction analysis, Sanger sequencing and genetic segregation analysis. Results: In one family with four patients, we found evidence for the contiibution of two co inherited variants in two crucial genes expressed in the glomerular basement membrane (GBM); LAMA5-p.Pro1243Leu and COL4A5-p. Asp654Tyr Mutations in COLZAS cause classical X-linked Alport Syndrome, while lare mutations in the LAMA5 have been reported in patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. The phenotypic spectrum of the patients includes hematuria, piotemuria, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, loss of kidney function and renal cortical cysts. Conclusions: A modifier role of LAMA5 on the background of a hypomoiphic Alport syndrome causing mutation is a possible explanation of our findings. Digenic iheritance is another scenario, following the concept that mutations at both loci more accurately explain the spectrum of symptoms, but further investigation is needed under this concept. This is the thud report linking a LAMA5 variant with human renal disease and expanding the spectrum of genes involved in glomerular pathologies accompanied by familial hematurias. The cystic phenotype overlaps with that of a mouse model, which carried a Lama5 hypomorphic mutation that caused severely i educed Lama5 protein levels and produced kidney cysts.
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