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Date publication

février 2021

Journal

American journal of human genetics

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr FAIVRE Laurence , Pr PHILIPPE Christophe


Tous les auteurs :
Radio FC, Pang K, Ciolfi A, Levy MA, Hernández-García A, Pedace L, Pantaleoni F, Liu Z, de Boer E, Jackson A, Bruselles A, McConkey H, Stellacci E, Lo Cicero S, Motta M, Carrozzo R, Dentici ML, McWalter K, Desai M, Monaghan KG, Telegrafi A, Philippe C, Vitobello A, Au M, Grand K, Sanchez-Lara PA, Baez J, Lindstrom K, Kulch P, Sebastian J, Madan-Khetarpal S, Roadhouse C, MacKenzie JJ, Monteleone B, Saunders CJ, Jean Cuevas JK, Cross L, Zhou D, Hartley T, Sawyer SL, Monteiro FP, Secches TV, Kok F, Schultz-Rogers LE, Macke EL, Morava E, Klee EW, Kemppainen J, Iascone M, Selicorni A, Tenconi R, Amor DJ, Pais L, Gallacher L, Turnpenny PD, Stals K, Ellard S, Cabet S, Lesca G, Pascal J, Steindl K, Ravid S, Weiss K, Castle AMR, Carter MT, Kalsner L, de Vries BBA, van Bon BW, Wevers MR, Pfundt R, Stegmann APA, Kerr B, Kingston HM, Chandler KE, Sheehan W, Elias AF, Shinde DN, Towne MC, Robin NH, Goodloe D, Vanderver A, Sherbini O, Bluske K, Hagelstrom RT, Zanus C, Faletra F, Musante L, Kurtz-Nelson EC, Earl RK, Anderlid BM, Morin G, van Slegtenhorst M, Diderich KEM, Brooks AS, Gribnau J, Boers RG, Finestra TR, Carter LB, Rauch A, Gasparini P, Boycott KM, Barakat TS, Graham JM, Faivre L, Banka S, Wang T, Eichler EE, Priolo M, Dallapiccola B, Vissers LELM, Sadikovic B, Scott DA, Holder JL, Tartaglia M

Résumé

Deletion 1p36 (del1p36) syndrome is the most common human disorder resulting from a terminal autosomal deletion. This condition is molecularly and clinically heterogeneous. Deletions involving two non-overlapping regions, known as the distal (telomeric) and proximal (centromeric) critical regions, are sufficient to cause the majority of the recurrent clinical features, although with different facial features and dysmorphisms. SPEN encodes a transcriptional repressor commonly deleted in proximal del1p36 syndrome and is located centromeric to the proximal 1p36 critical region. Here, we used clinical data from 34 individuals with truncating variants in SPEN to define a neurodevelopmental disorder presenting with features that overlap considerably with those of proximal del1p36 syndrome. The clinical profile of this disease includes developmental delay/intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, aggressive behavior, attention deficit disorder, hypotonia, brain and spine anomalies, congenital heart defects, high/narrow palate, facial dysmorphisms, and obesity/increased BMI, especially in females. SPEN also emerges as a relevant gene for del1p36 syndrome by co-expression analyses. Finally, we show that haploinsufficiency of SPEN is associated with a distinctive DNA methylation episignature of the X chromosome in affected females, providing further evidence of a specific contribution of the protein to the epigenetic control of this chromosome, and a paradigm of an X chromosome-specific episignature that classifies syndromic traits. We conclude that SPEN is required for multiple developmental processes and SPEN haploinsufficiency is a major contributor to a disorder associated with deletions centromeric to the previously established 1p36 critical regions.

Mots clés

1p36, DNA methylome analysis, SPEN, X chromosome, distal 1p36 deletion syndrome, episignature, genotype-phenotype correlations, neurodevelopmental disorder, obesity, proximal 1p36 deletion syndrome

Référence

Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Feb 9;: