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Mutations in EBF3 disturb transcriptional profiles and cause intellectual disability, ataxia and facial dysmorphism

ABSTRACT: From a GeneMatcher-enabled international collaboration, we identified ten individuals with intellectual disability, speech delay, ataxia and facial dysmorphism carrying a deleterious variant in the EBF3 (Early B-cell Factor 3) gene detected by whole-exome sequencing. Five missense, two nonsense, one 9-bp duplication, and one splice-site variant in EBF3 were found; the mutation occurred de novo in eight individuals, and the missense variant c.625C>T [p.(Arg209Trp)] was inherited by two affected siblings from their healthy mother who is a mosaic. EBF3 belongs to the early B-cell factor family (also known as Olf, COE, or O/E) and encodes a transcription factor involved in neuronal differentiation and maturation. Structural assessment predicts damaging effects of the five amino acid substitutions on DNA-binding of EBF3. Transient expression of EBF3 mutant proteins in HEK 293T cells revealed mislocalization of all but one mutant in the cytoplasm in addition to nuclear localization. By transactivation assays, all EBF3 mutants showed significantly reduced or no ability to activate transcription of the CDKN1A reporter gene, and EBF3 mutant proteins were less tightly associated with chromatin as demonstrated by in situ subcellular fractionation experiments. Finally, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq experiments demonstrate that EBF3 acts as a transcriptional regulator and EBF3 mutant protein had reduced genome-wide DNA binding and gene regulatory activity. Our findings demonstrate that variants that disrupt EBF3-mediated transcriptional regulation cause intellectual disability and developmental delay, and are present in ~0.1% of individuals with unexplained neurodevelopmental disorders.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE90682 | GEO | 2016/11/30

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA355321

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) result from highly penetrant variation in hundreds of different genes, some of which have not yet been identified. Using the MatchMaker Exchange, we assembled a cohort of 27 individuals with rare, protein-altering variation in the transcriptional coregulator gene ZMYM3, located on the X chromosome. Most (n=24) individuals were males, 17 of which have a maternally inherited variant and four of which have de novo variants. Overlapping features included developmental delay, intellectual disability, behavioral abnormalities, and a specific facial gestalt in a subset of males. Variants in almost all individuals (n=26) are missense, including six with variants that have arisen independently at the same codon at least two times. Four unrelated probands were identified with inherited variation at Arg441 (Arg441Trp or Arg441Gln), a site at which variation has been previously seen in NDD-affected siblings, and two individuals have de novo variation at Arg1294 (Arg1294Cys). All variants affect evolutionarily conserved sites, and most are predicted to damage protein structure or function. ZMYM3 is relatively intolerant to variation in the general population, is widely expressed across human tissues, and encodes a component of the KDM1A-RCOR1 chromatin-modifying complex. ChIP-seq experiments on one mutant, Arg1274Trp, indicate dramatically reduced genomic occupancy, supporting a hypomorphic effect. Similarly, RNA-seq comparing mutant cells to reference revealed numerous expression changes. Such changes were not seen in edited cells harboring a likely benign variant, Arg688His. While we are unable to perform statistical evaluations to support a conclusive causative role for variation in ZMYM3 in disease, the totality of the evidence, including 27 affected individuals, recurrent variation affecting at least two codons, overlapping phenotypic features, protein-modeling data, evolutionary constraint, and experimentally-confirmed functional effects strongly support ZMYM3 as a novel NDD gene.

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Mutations in EBF3 disturb transcriptional profiles and cause intellectual disability, ataxia and facial dysmorphism

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