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CLEFT PALATE-CRANIOFACIAL JOURNAL
Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages 109-113Publisher
ALLIANCE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP DIVISION ALLEN PRESS
DOI: 10.1597/10-247
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CFNS; coronal craniosynostosis; craniofacial reconstruction; EFNB1 gene; ephrins; missense mutation; telorbitism
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Craniofrontonasal syndrome is mainly characterized by frontonasal dysplasia, telorbitism, a broad nasal root, and frequently a bifid nose and coronal craniosynostosis. Craniofrontonasal syndrome is an X-linked disorder with an unusual pattern of inheritance because heterozygous females are more severely affected than hemizygous males. The craniofrontonasal syndrome-causing gene is EFNB1, localized in the border region of chromosome Xq12 and Xq13.1, encoding for protein ephrin-B1. Here we aim to investigate the underlying genetic defect of a young girl with craniofrontonasal syndrome. The patient underwent surgical correction of her craniofacial deformities. Genetic analysis was carried out by polymerase chain reaction. Products of exon 2 of the EFNB1 gene were sequenced as well as digested with BpmI enzyme. A novel de novo missense mutation 373G>A was identified within the EFNB1 gene, leading to the replacement of glutamic acid at amino acid position 125 with lysine. The replacement of Glu125 with Lys, which lies within the G-H loop, part of the dimerization ligand-receptor interface, is expected to disrupt the interaction between the Eph receptor and ephrin B1 ligand, thus leading to craniofrontonasal syndrome.
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