Functional Analysis of Complex Structural and Splice-Altering Variants in the <i>ARSB</i> Gene Towards the Personalized Antisense-Based Therapy for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI Patients.

ABSTRACT: Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI (MPS VI) is a lysosomal storage disorder associated with biallelic pathogenic variants in the ARSB gene. Herein, we present three patients with biochemical and clinical pictures of MPS VI, for whom routine molecular genetic analysis using Sanger sequencing of ARSB failed to identify one or both causative variants. RNA analysis of patients' samples revealed alterations of the wild-type ARSB mRNA isoform in all cases, and one case required further analysis using whole genome sequencing. As a result, we identified one complex structural variant, which is a 52-kb insertion of the LHFPL2 gene fragment in the ARSB Intron 4, derived from nonallelic homologous recombination and leading to premature transcription termination, a recurr

SUBMITTER: Bychkov I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12267954 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature