Kosma Konstantina, Varvagiannis Konstantinos, Mitrakos Anastasios, Tsipi Maria, Traeger-Synodinos Joanne, Tzetis Maria
Department of Medical Genetics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
University Research Institute of Maternal and Child Health & Precision Medicine, Athens, Greece.
Mol Syndromol. 2021 Aug;12(5):321-326. doi: 10.1159/000516635. Epub 2021 Jul 22.
Pathogenic variants underly O'Donnell-Luria-Rodan syndrome, a recently described neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by global developmental delay, variable degrees of intellectual disability, and subtle facial dysmorphism. Less common findings include autism, seizures, gastrointestinal (GI) problems, and abnormal head circumference. Occurrence of mostly truncating variants as well as the similar phenotype observed in individuals with deletions spanning suggest haploinsufficiency of this gene as a common mechanism for the disorder, while a gain-of-function or dominant-negative effect cannot be ruled out for some missense variants. Deletions reported in the literature encompass several additional known or presumed haploinsufficient genes, thus leading to more complex phenotypes. Here, we describe a male with antenatal onset hydronephrosis, hypotonia, global developmental delay, prominent GI symptoms as well as facial dysmorphism. Chromosomal microarray revealed a 239-kb de novo microdeletion spanning and . Clinical presentation of our proband, harboring one of the smallest deletions of the region confirms the core features of this disorder, suggests GI symptoms as a prominent finding in affected individuals while expanding the phenotypic spectrum to abnormalities of the urinary tract.
致病变异是奥唐奈 - 卢里亚 - 罗丹综合征的基础,这是一种最近描述的神经发育障碍,其特征为全面发育迟缓、不同程度的智力残疾以及细微的面部畸形。较少见的表现包括自闭症、癫痫、胃肠道(GI)问题和头围异常。大多数截短变异的出现以及在跨越特定区域缺失的个体中观察到的相似表型表明,该基因的单倍剂量不足是该疾病的常见机制,而对于某些错义变异,不能排除功能获得或显性负效应。文献中报道的缺失包含几个额外的已知或推测的单倍剂量不足基因,从而导致更复杂的表型。在此,我们描述一名男性,其产前出现肾积水、肌张力低下、全面发育迟缓、明显的胃肠道症状以及面部畸形。染色体微阵列显示一个239 kb的新发微缺失,跨越特定区域。我们先证者的临床表现,其携带该区域最小的缺失之一,证实了该疾病的核心特征,表明胃肠道症状是受影响个体的突出表现,同时将表型谱扩展到泌尿系统异常。