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  2. X-linked elliptocytosis with impaired growth is related to mutated AMMECR1

X-linked elliptocytosis with impaired growth is related to mutated AMMECR1

  • Gene. 2017 Mar 30;606:47-52. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2017.01.001.
Lina Basel-Vanagaite 1 Nir Pillar 2 Ofer Isakov 2 Pola Smirin-Yosef 3 Irina Lagovsky 4 Naama Orenstein 5 Mali Salmon-Divon 3 Hannah Tamary 6 Tami Zaft 7 Lily Bazak 7 Joseph Meyerovitch 8 Tal Pelli 2 Shay Botchan 2 Luba Farberov 2 Daphna Weissglas-Volkov 2 Noam Shomron 9
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Raphael Recanati Genetics Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Pediatric Genetics Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel; Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel. Electronic address: basel@post.tau.ac.il.
  • 2 Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • 3 Genomic Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University, Israel.
  • 4 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
  • 5 Raphael Recanati Genetics Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva, Israel; Pediatric Genetics Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel.
  • 6 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Hematology Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel.
  • 7 Raphael Recanati Genetics Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva, Israel.
  • 8 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; The Jesse Z and Sara Lea Shafer Institute for Endocrinology and Diabetes, National Center for Childhood Diabetes, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tikva, Israel.
  • 9 Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: nshomron@post.tau.ac.il.
Abstract

In this study, we report a family with X-linked recessive syndrome caused by mutated AMMECR1 and characterized by elliptocytosis with or without anemia, midface hypoplasia, proportionate short stature and hearing loss. Recently, mutations in AMMECR1 were reported in two maternal half-brothers, presenting with nephrocalcinosis, midface hypoplasia and, in one of the siblings, deafness and elliptocytosis. AMMECR1 gene is localized in the critical region of contiguous deletion syndrome on Xq22.3 implicated in Alport syndrome, mental retardation, midface hypoplasia, and elliptocytosis (AMME complex). Interestingly, alternative splicing of exon 2, the same exon harboring the truncating mutation, was observed in the proband and in his unaffected mother. Alternative splicing of this exon is predicted to lead to an in-frame deletion. We provide further evidence that mutated AMMECR1 gene is responsible for this clinically recognizable X-linked condition with variable expressivity.

Keywords

AMMECR1 gene; Elliptocytosis; Genomics; X-linked.

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