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An Electrochemiluminescence-Based Assay for MeCP2 Protein Variants

The ECLIA is a versatile method which is able to quantify endogenous and recombinant protein amounts in a 96-well format. To demonstrate ECLIA efficiency, ...

Medical University of Vienna (MUV)

We report a family in which two siblings presented with an apparent dysmorphic syndrome, including hypotelorism, blepharophimosis, slight ptosis, epicanthal folds, microstomia and dysmorphic ears. One sibling had a cleft palate. Initially, blepharophimosis, ptosis, and epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES) was suspected; however, mutation of the FOXL2 gene was not detected. Moreover, the patients' father and paternal grandmother had experienced recurrent episodes of unilateral brachial neuritis and were diagnosed to have hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy (HNA). HNA is a rare, inherited form of brachial neuritis whose phenotypic spectrum may include hypotelorism, cleft palate and other minor dysmorphisms. HNA maps to chromosome 17q25 and is associated with mutations in the SEPT9 gene. After confirming a heterozygous SEPT9 mutation (R88W) in the father and his mother, it became apparent that the dysmorphic features in the children were part of HNA and that previous complaints of the daughter, erroneously diagnosed as pronatio dolorosa and then epiphysiolysis of the capitellum humeri, were in fact a first neuralgic pain attack. Both children were shown to have inherited the paternal SEPT9 mutation. Wider recognition of HNA as a syndromic disorder may facilitate its diagnosis in affected young persons who may not yet have manifested episodes of brachial neuritis.

Dysmorphic syndrome of hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy associated with a SEPT9 gene mutation--a family study.

We report on three hydropic fetuses of 17, 22 and 25 gestational weeks from three distinct families presenting with Desbuquois dysplasia type 1. All fetuses showed brachymelia and characteristic dysmorphic features. X-ray studies revealed δ-shaped extraphalangeal bones and disease-specific prominence of the lesser trochanter, varying in severity with fetal age. Early lethal manifestation of the disorder was reflected in lung hypoplasia and in early death of similarly affected siblings in cases 1 and 2. All families were German Caucasians by descent. Sequence analysis of the CANT1 gene revealed two frameshift mutations, c.228_229insC and c.277_278delCT, in homozygous and compound heterozygous configuration, respectively, and a homozygously novel missense mutation, c.336C>A (p.D112E), located within a highly conserved region of exon 2. Haplotype analyses by high-resolution single-nucleotide polymorphism array showed that the haplotype associated with c.228_229insC may be traced to a single founder in the German population.

Desbuquois dysplasia type I and fetal hydrops due to novel mutations in the CANT1 gene.

Hereditary spastic paraplegia type-IV (HSP4) is the most common of the autosomal-dominant HSPs. Though urinary dysfunction is a frequent phenotypic feature, long-term pollakisuria as the initial manifestation of HSP4 has not been reported.

Franco Laccone

Institute of Medical Genetics,
Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics,
Institute of Medical Genetics, Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics

Medical University of Vienna (MUV)

An Electrochemiluminescence-Based Assay for MeCP2 Protein Variants

Franco Laccone

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Medical University of Vienna (MUV)

An Electrochemiluminescence-Based Assay for MeCP2 Protein Variants

Institute of Medical Genetics,
Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics,
Institute of Medical Genetics, Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics