Homozygous STIL mutation causes holoprosencephaly and microcephaly in two siblings.

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Title: Homozygous STIL mutation causes holoprosencephaly and microcephaly in two siblings.
Authors: Charlotte Mouden, Marie de Tayrac, Christèle Dubourg, Sophie Rose, Wilfrid Carré, Houda Hamdi-Rozé, Marie-Claude Babron, Linda Akloul, Bénédicte Héron-Longe, Sylvie Odent, Valérie Dupé, Régis Giet, Véronique David
Source: PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 2, p e0117418 (2015)
Publisher Information: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015.
Publication Year: 2015
Collection: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
Subject Terms: Medicine, Science
More Details: Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a frequent congenital malformation of the brain characterized by impaired forebrain cleavage and midline facial anomalies. Heterozygous mutations in 14 genes have been identified in HPE patients that account for only 30% of HPE cases, suggesting the existence of other HPE genes. Data from homozygosity mapping and whole-exome sequencing in a consanguineous Turkish family were combined to identify a homozygous missense mutation (c.2150G>A; p.Gly717Glu) in STIL, common to the two affected children. STIL has a role in centriole formation and has previously been described in rare cases of microcephaly. Rescue experiments in U2OS cells showed that the STIL p.Gly717Glu mutation was not able to fully restore the centriole duplication failure following depletion of endogenous STIL protein indicating the deleterious role of the mutation. In situ hybridization experiments using chick embryos demonstrated that expression of Stil was in accordance with a function during early patterning of the forebrain. It is only the second time that a STIL homozygous mutation causing a recessive form of HPE was reported. This result also supports the genetic heterogeneity of HPE and increases the panel of genes to be tested for HPE diagnosis.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
ISSN: 1932-6203
Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4319975?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117418
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/64dc7400317b48858eaf50a81f960129
Accession Number: edsdoj.64dc7400317b48858eaf50a81f960129
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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ISSN:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0117418
Published in:PLoS ONE
Language:English