کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2811994 1569298 2007 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Mutations in TCF4, Encoding a Class I Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor, Are Responsible for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, a Severe Epileptic Encephalopathy Associated with Autonomic Dysfunction
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی ژنتیک
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Mutations in TCF4, Encoding a Class I Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor, Are Responsible for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, a Severe Epileptic Encephalopathy Associated with Autonomic Dysfunction
چکیده انگلیسی

Pitt-Hopkins syndrome (PHS) is a rare syndromic encephalopathy characterized by daily bouts of hyperventilation and a facial gestalt. We report a 1.8-Mb de novo microdeletion on chromosome 18q21.1, identified by array–comparative genomic hybridization in one patient with PHS. We subsequently identified two de novo heterozygous missense mutations of a conserved amino acid in the basic region of the TCF4 gene in three additional subjects with PHS. These findings demonstrate that TCF4 anomalies are responsible for PHS and provide the first evidence of a human disorder related to class I basic helix-loop-helix transcription-factor defects (also known as “E proteins”). Moreover, our data may shed new light on the normal processes underlying autonomic nervous system development and maintenance of an appropriate ventilatory neuronal circuitry.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: - Volume 80, Issue 5, May 2007, Pages 988–993
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