PUBLICATION
Functionally compromised CHD7 alleles in patients with isolated GnRH deficiency
- Authors
- Balasubramanian, R., Choi, J.H., Francescatto, L., Willer, J., Horton, E.R., Asimacopoulos, E.P., Stankovic, K.M., Plummer, L., Buck, C.L., Quinton, R., Nebesio, T.D., Mericq, V., Merino, P.M., Meyer, B.F., Monies, D., Gusella, J.F., Al Tassan, N., Katsanis, N., Crowley, W.F.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-141205-4
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111(50): 17953-8 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Francescatto, Ludmila, Katsanis, Nicholas, Willer, Jason
- Keywords
- CHARGE syndrome, CHD7, Kallmann syndrome, idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogondism, missense mutations
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Base Sequence
- CHARGE Syndrome/genetics
- CHARGE Syndrome/pathology
- DNA Helicases/genetics*
- DNA Helicases/metabolism
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics*
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- Deficiency Diseases/genetics*
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone/deficiency*
- Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone/genetics
- Humans
- Kallmann Syndrome/genetics*
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation, Missense/genetics
- Otolithic Membrane/pathology
- Phenotype*
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- PubMed
- 25472840 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Citation
Balasubramanian, R., Choi, J.H., Francescatto, L., Willer, J., Horton, E.R., Asimacopoulos, E.P., Stankovic, K.M., Plummer, L., Buck, C.L., Quinton, R., Nebesio, T.D., Mericq, V., Merino, P.M., Meyer, B.F., Monies, D., Gusella, J.F., Al Tassan, N., Katsanis, N., Crowley, W.F. (2014) Functionally compromised CHD7 alleles in patients with isolated GnRH deficiency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111(50):17953-8.
Abstract
Inactivating mutations in chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 7 (CHD7) cause CHARGE syndrome, a severe multiorgan system disorder of which Isolated gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) deficiency (IGD) is a minor feature. Recent reports have described predominantly missense CHD7 alleles in IGD patients, but it is unclear if these alleles are relevant to causality or overall genetic burden of Kallmann syndrome (KS) and normosmic form of IGD. To address this question, we sequenced CHD7 in 783 well-phenotyped IGD patients lacking full CHARGE features; we identified nonsynonymous rare sequence variants in 5.2% of the IGD cohort (73% missense and 27% splice variants). Functional analyses in zebrafish using a surrogate otolith assay of a representative set of these CHD7 alleles showed that rare sequence variants observed in controls showed no altered function. In contrast, 75% of the IGD-associated alleles were deleterious and resulted in both KS and normosmic IGD. In two families, pathogenic mutations in CHD7 coexisted with mutations in other known IGD genes. Taken together, our data suggest that rare deleterious CHD7 alleles contribute to the mutational burden of patients with both KS and normosmic forms of IGD in the absence of full CHARGE syndrome. These findings (i) implicate a unique role or preferential sensitivity for CHD7 in the ontogeny of GnRH neurons, (ii) reiterate the emerging genetic complexity of this family of IGD disorders, and (iii) demonstrate how the coordinated use of well-phenotyped cohorts, families, and functional studies can inform genetic architecture and provide insights into the developmental biology of cellular systems.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping