Genome sequencing reveals a novel genetic mechanism underlying dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency: A novel missense variant c.1700GA and a large intragenic inversion in DPYD spanning intron 8 to intron 12

Precision medicine
Rare Mendelian disorders
Genome sequencing
Authors

Van Kuilenburg, André B.P.

Tarailo-Graovac, Maja

Meijer, Judith

Drögemöller, Britt

Vockley, Jerry

Maurer, Dirk

et al.

Published

2018

Doi

Abstract

Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) deficiency is associated with a variable clinical presentation. A family with three DPD-deficient patients presented with unusual clinical phenotypes including pregnancy-induced symptoms, transient visual impairment, severe developmental delay, cortical blindness, and delayed myelination in the brain. DPYD Sanger sequencing showed heterozygosity for the c.1905+1G>A mutation and a novel missense variant c.1700G>A (p.G567E). The recombinantly expressed p.G567E DPD variant showed increased temperature lability probably caused by structural rearrangements within the DPD protein. Genome sequencing of the affected son established compound heterozygosity for the c.1700G>A and an imperfect 115,731 bp inversion with breakpoints at chr1: 98,113,121 (intron 8) and chr1: 97,997,390 (intron 12) of the DPYD associated with a 4 bp deletion (chr1: 97,997,386_97,997,389del). Whole exome and mitochondrial DNA analyses for the mother and daughter did not reveal additional mutated genes of significance. Thus, an inversion in DPYD should be considered in patients with an inconclusive genotype or unusual clinical phenotype.

Citation

Van Kuilenburg, André B.P., Tarailo-Graovac, Maja, Meijer, Judith, Drogemoller, Britt, Vockley, Jerry, Maurer, Dirk, Dobritzsch, Doreen, Ross, Colin J., Wasserman, Wyeth, Meinsma, Rutger, Zoetekouw, Lida, Van Karnebeek, Clara D.M., “Genome sequencing reveals a novel genetic mechanism underlying dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency: A novel missense variant c.1700GA and a large intragenic inversion in DPYD spanning intron 8 to intron 12,” Human Mutation 39, 7(2018): 947-953, doi: 10.1002/humu.23538

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