PUBLICATION
Dopachrome tautomerase variants in patients with oculocutaneous albinism
- Authors
- Pennamen, P., Tingaud-Sequeira, A., Gazova, I., Keighren, M., McKie, L., Marlin, S., Gherbi Halem, S., Kaplan, J., Delevoye, C., Lacombe, D., Plaisant, C., Michaud, V., Lasseaux, E., Javerzat, S., Jackson, I., Arveiler, B.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-201027-5
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 23(3): 479-487 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- DCT, albinism, mouse, pigmentation, zebrafish.
- MeSH Terms
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- Albinism, Oculocutaneous*/genetics
- Animals
- Humans
- Intramolecular Oxidoreductases
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mutation
- Zebrafish*
- PubMed
- 33100333 Full text @ Genet. Med.
Citation
Pennamen, P., Tingaud-Sequeira, A., Gazova, I., Keighren, M., McKie, L., Marlin, S., Gherbi Halem, S., Kaplan, J., Delevoye, C., Lacombe, D., Plaisant, C., Michaud, V., Lasseaux, E., Javerzat, S., Jackson, I., Arveiler, B. (2020) Dopachrome tautomerase variants in patients with oculocutaneous albinism. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics. 23(3):479-487.
Abstract
Purpose Albinism is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous condition. Despite analysis of the 20 known genes, ~30% patients remain unsolved. We aimed to identify new genes involved in albinism.
Methods We sequenced a panel of genes with known or predicted involvement in melanogenesis in 230 unsolved albinism patients.
Results We identified variants in the Dopachrome tautomerase (DCT) gene in two patients. One was compound heterozygous for a 14-bp deletion in exon 9 and c.118T>A p.(Cys40Ser). The second was homozygous for c.183C>G p.(Cys61Trp). Both patients had mild hair and skin hypopigmentation, and classical ocular features. CRISPR-Cas9 was used in C57BL/6J mice to create mutations identical to the missense variants carried by the patients, along with one loss-of-function indel. When bred to homozygosity the three mutations revealed hypopigmentation of the coat, milder for Cys40Ser compared with Cys61Trp or the frameshift mutation. Histological analysis identified significant hypopigmentation of the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE) indicating that defective RPE melanogenesis could be associated with eye and vision defects. DCT loss of function in zebrafish embryos elicited hypopigmentation both in melanophores and RPE cells.
Conclusion DCT is the gene for a new type of oculocutaneous albinism that we propose to name OCA8.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping