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GENETICS IN MEDICINE
卷 23, 期 8, 页码 1474-1483出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41436-021-01158-1
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [320030_179547]
- NIH [R35GM139569]
- Dutch Organization for Health Research and Development (ZON-MW) [917-86-319, 912-12-109]
- Estonian Research Council [PUT355, PRG471]
- Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute
- UZH Clinical Research Priority Program Praeclare
- National Human Genome Research Institute [UM1 HG008900]
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute under the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program
- National Eye Institute
- EU [3HP-HP-FPA ERN-01-2016/739516]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [320030_179547] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
Variants in the NSD2 gene can lead to a milder phenotype overlapping with WHS, characterized by mild developmental delay, prenatal growth retardation, low BMI, and distinct facial features. Patients with missense variants tend to be taller and have more frequent behavioral/psychological issues compared to those with truncating variants.
Purpose Despite a few recent reports of patients harboring truncating variants in NSD2, a gene considered critical for the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) phenotype, the clinical spectrum associated with NSD2 pathogenic variants remains poorly understood. Methods We collected a comprehensive series of 18 unpublished patients carrying heterozygous missense, elongating, or truncating NSD2 variants; compared their clinical data to the typical WHS phenotype after pooling them with ten previously described patients; and assessed the underlying molecular mechanism by structural modeling and measuring methylation activity in vitro. Results The core NSD2-associated phenotype includes mostly mild developmental delay, prenatal-onset growth retardation, low body mass index, and characteristic facial features distinct from WHS. Patients carrying missense variants were significantly taller and had more frequent behavioral/psychological issues compared with those harboring truncating variants. Structural in silico modeling suggested interference with NSD2's folding and function for all missense variants in known structures. In vitro testing showed reduced methylation activity and failure to reconstitute H3K36me2 in NSD2 knockout cells for most missense variants. Conclusion NSD2 loss-of-function variants lead to a distinct, rather mild phenotype partially overlapping with WHS. To avoid confusion for patients, NSD2 deficiency may be named Rauch-Steindl syndrome after the delineators of this phenotype.
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