2. Academic Validation
  3. Association of AHSG with alopecia and mental retardation (APMR) syndrome

Association of AHSG with alopecia and mental retardation (APMR) syndrome

  • Hum Genet. 2017 Mar;136(3):287-296. doi: 10.1007/s00439-016-1756-5.
M Reza Sailani 1,  Fereshteh Jahanbani 1,  Jafar Nasiri 2,  Mahdiyeh Behnam 3,  Mansoor Salehi 4 5,  Maryam Sedghi 5,  Majid Hoseinzadeh 5,  Shinichi Takahashi 1,  Amin Zia 1,  Joshua Gruber 1,  Janet Linnea Lynch 1,  Daniel Lam 1,  Juliane Winkelmann 1,  Semira Amirkiai 1,  Baoxu Pang 1,  Shannon Rego 1,  Safoura Mazroui 6,  Jonathan A Bernstein 7,  Michael P Snyder 8
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • 2 Child Growth and Development Research Center, Pediatrics Department, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
  • 3 Medical Genetic Laboratory of Genome, Isfahan, Iran.
  • 4 Division of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
  • 5 Medical Genetics Laboratory, Isfahan University Hospital, Isfahan, Iran.
  • 6 Clinic of Internal Medicine, Department of Cardiology, University Heart Center, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
  • 7 Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • 8 Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. [email protected].
PMID: 28054173 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-016-1756-5
Abstract

Alopecia with mental retardation syndrome (APMR) is a very rare autosomal recessive condition that is associated with total or partial absence of hair from the scalp and other parts of the body as well as variable intellectual disability. Here we present whole-exome sequencing results of a large consanguineous family segregating APMR syndrome with seven affected family members. Our study revealed a novel predicted pathogenic, homozygous missense mutation in the AHSG (OMIM 138680) gene (AHSG: NM_001622:exon7:c.950G>A:p.Arg317His). The variant is predicted to affect a region of the protein required for protein processing and disrupts a phosphorylation motif. In addition, the altered protein migrates with an aberrant size relative to healthy individuals. Consistent with the phenotype, AHSG maps within APMR linkage region 1 (APMR 1) as reported before, and falls within runs of homozygosity (ROH). Previous families with APMR syndrome have been studied through linkage analyses and the linkage resolution did not allow pointing out to a single gene candidate. Our study is the first report to identify a homozygous missense mutation for APMR syndrome through whole-exome sequencing.

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