Title
Phenotypic expansion in KIF1A-related dominant disorders: A description of novel variants and review of published cases
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Montenegro-Garreaud X.
Hansen A.W.
Khayat M.M.
Chander V.
Grochowski C.M.
Jiang Y.
Li H.
Mitani T.
Kessler E.
Jayaseelan J.
Shen H.
Gezdirici A.
Pehlivan D.
Meng Q.
Rosenfeld J.A.
Jhangiani S.N.
Madan-Khetarpal S.
Scott D.A.
Trubnykova M.
Gingras M.C.
Muzny D.M.
Posey J.E.
Liu P.
Lupski J.R.
Gibbs R.A.
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Abstract
KIF1A is a molecular motor for membrane-bound cargo important to the development and survival of sensory neurons. KIF1A dysfunction has been associated with several Mendelian disorders with a spectrum of overlapping phenotypes, ranging from spastic paraplegia to intellectual disability. We present a novel pathogenic in-frame deletion in the KIF1A molecular motor domain inherited by two affected siblings from an unaffected mother with apparent germline mosaicism. We identified eight additional cases with heterozygous, pathogenic KIF1A variants ascertained from a local data lake. Our data provide evidence for the expansion of KIF1A-associated phenotypes to include hip subluxation and dystonia as well as phenotypes observed in only a single case: gelastic cataplexy, coxa valga, and double collecting system. We review the literature and suggest that KIF1A dysfunction is better understood as a single neuromuscular disorder with variable involvement of other organ systems than a set of discrete disorders converging at a single locus.
Start page
2094
End page
2104
Volume
41
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Genética, Herencia
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85092158304
PubMed ID
Source
Human Mutation
ISSN of the container
10597794
Sponsor(s)
We thank Fritz Sedlazeck, Medhat Mahmoud, and Moez Dawood for their insight with regard to data analysis. We thank the patients and their families for participating in this study. This study was supported in part by grants UM1 HG008898 from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Common Disease Genetics and UM1 HG006542 from the NHGRI/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to the Baylor Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics. A. W. H. was supported in part by NIH T32 GM08307‐26 and the Cullen Foundation. T. M. is supported by the Uehara Memorial Foundation. J. E. P. was supported by NHGRI K08 HG008986. D. P. was supported by the Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Neuromuscular Disease partnered by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), American Brain Foundation (ABF), and Muscle Study Group (MSG), and the International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF grant #3701‐1).
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