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Consanguinity and rare mutations outside of MCCC genes underlie nonspecific phenotypes of MCCD.

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Purpose

3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency (MCCD) is an autosomal recessive disorder of leucine catabolism that has a highly variable clinical phenotype, ranging from acute metabolic acidosis to nonspecific symptoms such as developmental delay, failure to thrive, hemiparesis, muscular hypotonia, and multiple sclerosis. Implementation of newborn screening for MCCD has resulted in broadening the range of phenotypic expression to include asymptomatic adults. The purpose of this study was to identify factors underlying the varying phenotypes of MCCD.

Methods

We performed exome sequencing on DNA from 33 cases and 108 healthy controls. We examined these data for associations between either MCC mutational status, genetic ancestry, or consanguinity and the absence or presence/specificity of clinical symptoms in MCCD cases.

Results

We determined that individuals with nonspecific clinical phenotypes are highly inbred compared with cases that are asymptomatic and healthy controls. For 5 of these 10 individuals, we discovered a homozygous damaging mutation in a disease gene that is likely to underlie their nonspecific clinical phenotypes previously attributed to MCCD.

Conclusion

Our study shows that nonspecific phenotypes attributed to MCCD are associated with consanguinity and are likely not due to mutations in the MCC enzyme but result from rare homozygous mutations in other disease genes.Genet Med 17 8, 660-667.

SUBMITTER: Shepard PJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422778 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Consanguinity and rare mutations outside of MCCC genes underlie nonspecific phenotypes of MCCD.

Shepard Peter J PJ Barshop Bruce A BA Baumgartner Matthias R MR Hansen John-Bjarne JB Jepsen Kristen K Smith Erin N EN Frazer Kelly A KA

Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 20141106 8

<h4>Purpose</h4>3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency (MCCD) is an autosomal recessive disorder of leucine catabolism that has a highly variable clinical phenotype, ranging from acute metabolic acidosis to nonspecific symptoms such as developmental delay, failure to thrive, hemiparesis, muscular hypotonia, and multiple sclerosis. Implementation of newborn screening for MCCD has resulted in broadening the range of phenotypic expression to include asymptomatic adults. The purpose of this stu ...[more]

PMID: 25356967

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Consanguinity and rare mutations outside of MCCC genes underlie nonspecific phenotypes of MCCD.

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Consanguinity and rare mutations outside of MCCC genes underlie nonspecific phenotypes of MCCD.

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