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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A
卷 164, 期 2, 页码 338-345出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.36224
关键词
microdeletion syndrome; del 14q22; 1-q22; 3; Frias syndrome; BMP4 gene
资金
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness) of Spain
- Consejeria de Sanidad del Gobierno del Principado de Asturias. Spain
In 2005, we reported on a family as having Frias syndrome (OMIM: 609640), with four affected members displaying a pattern of congenital defects nearly identical to those observed in a mother and son described by Frias [Frias et al. (1975). Birth Defects Orig Artic Ser 11:30-33]. These defects included growth deficiency, facial anomalies, and hand and foot alterations. We had the opportunity to study this family again due to the birth of another affected girl, who presented with similar facial characteristics to those of her elder half-sister and the rest of affected relatives, which consisted of mild exophthalmia, bilateral palpebral ptosis, downslanting palpebral fissures, and hypertelorism. We performed array-CGH, which identified an identical interstitial deletion of chromosome 14q22.1-q22.3 in the mother and two daughters. The deletion is 4.06Mb in length and includes the BMP4 gene, a member of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family of secreted proteins. A review of the literature showed that deletions or mutations of this gene underlie congenital defects affecting brain, eye, teeth, and digit development. Although the clinical manifestations of the current family correlate with the defects observed in patients having either 14q22-q23 deletions or mutations of BMP4, they show a milder phenotype. In order to understand the clinical variability, we evaluated the already known functional characteristics of the BMP gene members. This gene family plays an important role during early embryogenesis, and the complex synergistic functions and redundancies of the BMPs led us to conclude that haploinsufficiency of BMP4 is likely to be responsible for the clinical expression of Frias syndrome. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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