Novel Variants and Mosaicism in Pompe Disease Identified by Extended Analyses of Patients with an Incomplete DNA Diagnosis.

Novel Variants and Mosaicism in Pompe Disease Identified by Extended Analyses of Patients with an Incomplete DNA Diagnosis.

In 't Groen, Stijn L M;de Faria, Douglas O S;Iuliano, Alessandro;van den Hout, Johanna M P;Douben, Hannie;Dijkhuizen, Trijnie;Cassiman, David;Witters, Peter;Barba Romero, Miguel-Ángel;de Klein, Annelies;Somers-Bolman, Galhana M;Saris, Jasper J;Hoefsloot, Lies H;van der Ploeg, Ans T;Bergsma, Atze J;Pijnappel, W W M Pim;
molecular therapy methods & clinical development 2020 Vol. 17 pp. 337-348
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Abstract

Pompe disease is a metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of the glycogen-hydrolyzing lysosomal enzyme acid α-glucosidase (GAA), which leads to progressive muscle wasting. This autosomal-recessive disorder is the result of disease-associated variants located in the gene. In the present study, we performed extended molecular diagnostic analysis to identify novel disease-associated variants in six suspected Pompe patients from four different families for which conventional diagnostic assays were insufficient. Additional assays, such as a generic-splicing assay, minigene analysis, SNP array analysis, and targeted Sanger sequencing, allowed the identification of an exonic deletion, a promoter deletion, and a novel splicing variant located in the 5' UTR. Furthermore, we describe the diagnostic process for an infantile patient with an atypical phenotype, consisting of left ventricular hypertrophy but no signs of muscle weakness or motor problems. This led to the identification of a genetic mosaicism for a very severe GAA variant caused by a segmental uniparental isodisomy (UPD). With this study, we aim to emphasize the need for additional analyses to detect new disease-associated variants and non-Mendelian genotypes in Pompe disease where conventional DNA diagnostic assays are insufficient.

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