Journal
CIRCULATION-CARDIOVASCULAR GENETICS
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 129-137Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.109.901785
Keywords
LAMP2; HCM; Danon; Alu; (TA)(n) simple repeat; hypertrophy; cardiomyopathy
Funding
- National Institutes of Health
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [2 R01 HL53392-11]
- Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Specimen Repository [1 R01 HL087000-01A1]
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL087000, R01HL053392] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Background-Danon disease is an X-linked dominant disorder characterized by the clinical triad of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, skeletal myopathy, and variable mental retardation. Pathologically, autophagic vacuoles are noted in both skeletal and cardiac muscle. It exhibits an X-linked dominant mode of inheritance, and male carriers are severely affected, whereas female carriers develop milder and later-onset cardiac symptoms. Danon disease has been associated with mutations in the lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein 2 (LAMP2) gene located at Xq24, typically resulting in splicing defects or protein truncation affecting the LAMP2. Because of its rarity, the full spectrum of genetic mutation resulting in Danon disease has not been elucidated. Methods and Results-We analyzed 3 male cases with clinical and pathological findings consistent with Danon disease. Comprehensive mutational analysis failed to yield detectable products for selected LAMP2 exons, and genomic DNA deletion was suspected. Genomic junction fragment polymerase chain reaction analysis in case 1 identified a novel Alu-mediated 34-kb microdeletion encompassing the entire 5'-untranslated region and exon 1 of LAMP2. In case 2 and 3, junctional polymerase chain reaction and Southern blot analyses mapped the breakpoint to an MIRb and (TA)(n) simple repeats present in intron 3, which determined a 64-kb and a 58-kb deletion, respectively, thereby ablating exons 4 to 10. Western blot analysis confirmed the absence of LAMP2 in protein extract from lymphocytes of index case 2. Conclusion-This article is the first report of Danon disease caused by microdeletions at Xq24, which functionally ablate LAMP2. The microdeletion mechanism appears to involve 1 Alu-mediated unequal recombination and 2 chromosomal breakage points involving TA-rich repeat sequences. (Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2010; 3: 129-137.)
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