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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 89, Issue 5, Pages 634-643Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.10.001
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- Dutch Kidney Foundation [KJPB09.009, IP11.58]
- European Community [241955]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale (FRM) [DEQ20071210558]
- Agence National de la Recherche [RPV11012KK]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [Vidi-91786396]
- Western Norway Regional Health Authority [911466, 911688]
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A subset of ciliopathies, including Sensenbrenner, Jeune, and short-rib polydactyly syndromes are characterized by skeletal anomalies accompanied by multiorgan defects such as chronic renal failure and retinitis pigmentosa. Through exome sequencing we identified compound heterozygous mutations in WDR19 in a Norwegian family with Sensenbrenner syndrome. In a Dutch family with the clinically overlapping Jeune syndrome, a homozygous missense mutation in the same gene was found. Both families displayed a nephronophthisis-like nephropathy. Independently, we also identified compound heterozygous WDR19 mutations by exome sequencing in a Moroccan family with isolated nephronophthisis. WDR19 encodes IFT144, a member of the intraflagellar transport (IFT) complex A that drives retrograde ciliary transport. We show that IFT144 is absent from the cilia of fibroblasts from one of the Sensenbrenner patients and that ciliary abundance and morphology is perturbed, demonstrating the ciliary pathogenesis. Our results suggest that isolated nephronophthisis, Jeune, and Sensenbrenner syndromes are clinically overlapping disorders that can result from a similar molecular cause.
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