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Mukhopadhyay, A
Kramer, JM Merkx, G Lugtenberg, D Smeets, DF Oortveld, MAW Blokland, EAW Agrawal, J Schenck, A van Bokhoven, H Huys, E Schoenmakers, EF van Kessel, AG van Nouhuys, CE Cremers, FPM |
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Genetics & Heredity
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Microcephaly, mental retardation and congenital retinal folds along with other systemic features have previously been reported as a separate clinical entity. The sporadic nature of the syndrome and lack of clear inheritance patterns pointed to a genetic heterogeneity. Here, we report a genetic analysis of a female patient with microcephaly, congenital bilateral falciform retinal folds, nystagmus, and mental retardation. Karyotyping revealed a de novo pericentric inversion in chromosome 6 with breakpoints in 6p12.1 and 6q21. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis narrowed down the region around the breakpoints, and the breakpoint at 6q21 was found to disrupt the CDK19 gene. CDK19 was found to be expressed in a diverse range of tissues including fetal eye and fetal brain. Quantitative PCR of the CDK19 transcript from Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines of the patient revealed similar to 50% reduction in the transcript (p = 0.02), suggesting haploinsufficiency of the gene. cdk8, the closest orthologue of human CDK19 in Drosophila has been shown to play a major role in eye development. Conditional knock-down of Drosophila cdk8 in multiple dendrite (md) neurons resulted in 35% reduced dendritic branching and altered morphology of the dendritic arbour, which appeared to be due in part to a loss of small higher order branches. In addition, Cdk8 mutant md neurons showed diminished dendritic fields revealing an important role of the CDK19 orthologue in the developing nervous system of Drosophila. This is the first time the CDK19 gene, a component of the mediator co-activator complex, has been linked to a human disease.
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SPRINGERNEW YORK233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA
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2011-09-20T12:07:06Z
2011-09-20T12:07:06Z 2010 |
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Article
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HUMAN GENETICS
0340-6717 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/13104 |
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English
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