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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS
Volume 55, Issue 12, Pages 727-731Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2012.08.010
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Intellectual disability; Mental retardation; Microcephaly; TRAPPC9; Homozygosity mapping; Splice site mutation; Exon skipping
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- Higher Education Commission of Pakistan through NURP [RD/08/2383]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Autosomal recessive intellectual disability is believed to be particularly prevalent in highly consanguineous populations and genetic isolates and may account for a quarter of all non-syndromic cases. Mutations in more than 50 genes have been reported to be involved in autosomal recessive intellectual disability, including TRAPPC9 (MIM 611966), mutations of which have been identified in six families from different geographical origins. We performed a clinical and molecular genetic study of a consanguineous Pakistani family segregating intellectual disability and microcephaly. SNP-array-based homozygosity mapping revealed suggestive linkage to four genomic regions including one on chromosome 8 that contained TRAPPC9. We detected a homozygous TRAPPC9 splice donor site mutation (c.1024+1G>T) that cosegregated with intellectual disability in the family and led to skipping of exon 3 and exons 3 and 4 in blood-derived patient RNA. We have thus identified a novel splice site mutation leading to exon skipping and premature termination of TRAPPC9 translation. These data further suggest that TRAPPC9 mutations -unlike mutations in the vast majority of the known intellectual disability-associated genese- constitute a more frequent cause of autosomal-recessive cognitive deficits, especially when microcephaly is also present. (C) 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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