期刊
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS
卷 58, 期 3, 页码 168-172出版社
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2019-106789
关键词
genetics
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81771645, 81971447]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [2019JJ51006]
- Key Grant of Prevention and Treatment of Birth Defect from Hunan Province [2019SK1012]
- Research Grant of CITIC-Xiangya [YNXM-201912]
This study identified two disease-causative variants in the SYCP2L gene in two patients with premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) through whole-exome sequencing and functional analysis. These findings provide a potential molecular marker for POI and enhance understanding of the genetic basis of female infertility.
Background The genetic causes of the majority of cases of female infertility caused by premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) are unknown. Objective To identify the genetic causes of POI in 110 patients. Methods Whole-exome sequencing was performed on 110 patients with POI, and putative disease-causative variants were validated by Sanger sequencing. Bioinformatic and in vitro functional analyses were performed for functional characterisation of the identified candidate disease-causative variants. Results We identified two homozygous variants (NM_001040274: c.150_151del (p.Ser52Profs*7), c.999A>G (p.Ile333Met)) in SYCP2L in two patients, which had co-segregated with POI in these families. Bioinformatic analysis predicted that the two variants are deleterious, and in vitro functional analysis showed that mutant SYCP2L proteins exhibited mislocalisation and loss of function. Conclusions SYCP2L is a novel gene found to be responsible for human POI. Our findings provide a potential molecular marker for POI and improve the understanding of the genetic basis of female infertility.
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