PUBLICATION
Functional variants in TBX2 are associated with a syndromic cardiovascular and skeletal developmental disorder
- Authors
- Liu, N., Schoch, K., Luo, X., Pena, L.D.M., Bhavana, V.H., Kukolich, M.K., Stringer, S., Powis, Z., Radtke, K., Mroske, C., Deak, K.L., McDonald, M.T., McConkie-Rosell, A., Markert, M.L., Kranz, P.G., Stong, N., Need, A.C., Bick, D., Amaral, M.D., Worthey, E.A., Levy, S., Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), Wangler, M.F., Bellen, H.J., Shashi, V., Yamamoto, S.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190313-11
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Human molecular genetics 27: 2454-2465 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Adult
- Animals
- Cardiovascular Abnormalities/genetics
- Cardiovascular Abnormalities/physiopathology
- Cardiovascular System/physiopathology
- Child
- Craniofacial Abnormalities/genetics
- Craniofacial Abnormalities/physiopathology
- Developmental Disabilities/genetics*
- Developmental Disabilities/physiopathology
- DiGeorge Syndrome/genetics*
- DiGeorge Syndrome/physiopathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
- Haploinsufficiency/genetics
- Heart Defects, Congenital/genetics
- Heart Defects, Congenital/physiopathology
- Humans
- Mice
- Pedigree
- Pregnancy
- T-Box Domain Proteins/genetics*
- Young Adult
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 29726930 Full text @ Hum. Mol. Genet.
Citation
Liu, N., Schoch, K., Luo, X., Pena, L.D.M., Bhavana, V.H., Kukolich, M.K., Stringer, S., Powis, Z., Radtke, K., Mroske, C., Deak, K.L., McDonald, M.T., McConkie-Rosell, A., Markert, M.L., Kranz, P.G., Stong, N., Need, A.C., Bick, D., Amaral, M.D., Worthey, E.A., Levy, S., Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), Wangler, M.F., Bellen, H.J., Shashi, V., Yamamoto, S. (2018) Functional variants in TBX2 are associated with a syndromic cardiovascular and skeletal developmental disorder. Human molecular genetics. 27:2454-2465.
Abstract
The 17 genes of the T-box family are transcriptional regulators that are involved in all stages of embryonic development, including craniofacial, brain, heart, skeleton and immune system. Malformation syndromes have been linked to many of the T-box genes. For example, haploinsufficiency of TBX1 is responsible for many structural malformations in DiGeorge syndrome caused by a chromosome 22q11.2 deletion. We report four individuals with an overlapping spectrum of craniofacial dysmorphisms, cardiac anomalies, skeletal malformations, immune deficiency, endocrine abnormalities and developmental impairments, reminiscent of DiGeorge syndrome, who are heterozygotes for TBX2 variants. The p.R20Q variant is shared by three affected family members in an autosomal dominant manner; the fourth unrelated individual has a de novo p.R305H mutation. Bioinformatics analyses indicate that these variants are rare and predict them to be damaging. In vitro transcriptional assays in cultured cells show that both variants result in reduced transcriptional repressor activity of TBX2. We also show that the variants result in reduced protein levels of TBX2. Heterologous over-expression studies in Drosophila demonstrate that both p.R20Q and p.R305H function as partial loss-of-function alleles. Hence, these and other data suggest that TBX2 is a novel candidate gene for a new multisystem malformation disorder.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping