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Integrated analysis of clinical signs and literature data for the diagnosis and therapy of a previously undescribed 6p21.3 deletion syndrome

2010; Springer Nature; Volume: 19; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/ejhg.2010.172

1476-5438

Marcella Zollino, Fiorella Gurrieri, Daniela Orteschi, Giuseppe Marangi, Vincenzo Leuzzi, Giovanni Neri,

Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies

A de novo 0.3 Mb deletion on 6p21.3 was detected by array-comparative genomic hybridization in a girl with mental retardation, drug-resistant seizures, facial dysmorphisms, gut malrotation and abnormal pancreas segmentation. Consistent with phenotypic manifestations is haploinsufficiency of SYNGAP1, which was recently demonstrated to cause non-syndromic mental retardation, and of the flanking genes CuTA, a likely modulator of the processing and trafficking of secretory proteins in the human brain, and hPHF1, involved in HOX gene silencing. Mutations of both CuTA and hPHF1 were never reported as causative of human diseases. Similarly, the present syndromic condition was not previously described and it can be regarded as a human model confirming the suggested biological properties of the genes included in the deletion interval. In addition, experimental evidence that SYNGAP1 and CuTA are involved in the secretory pathway in neurons, through glutamate and acetylcholinesterase signalling, prompted us to consider modulation of the glutamate pathway as target of a therapeutic strategy for seizure control.