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  • 标题:A novel ZIC3 gene mutation identified in patients with heterotaxy and congenital heart disease
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  • 作者:Shuolin Li ; Sida Liu ; Weicheng Chen
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:12386
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-30204-3
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:Heterotaxy syndrome (HTX) is characterized by left-right (LR) asymmetry disturbances associated with severe heart malformations. However, the exact genetic cause of HTX pathogenesis remains unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the pathogenic mechanism underlying heterotaxy syndrome. Targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) was performed for twenty-two candidate genes correlated with LR axis development in sixty-six HTX patients from unrelated families. Variants were filtered from databases and predicted in silico using prediction programs. A total of twenty-one potential disease-causing variants were identified in seven genes. Next, we used Sanger sequencing to confirm the identified variants in the family pedigree and found a novel hemizygous mutation (c.890G > T, p.C297F) in the ZIC3 gene in a male patient that was inherited from his mother, who was a carrier. The results of functional indicated that this ZIC3 mutation decreases transcriptional activity, affects the affinity of the GLI-binding site and results in aberrant cellular localization in transfected cells. Moreover, morpholino-knockdown experiments in zebrafish demonstrated that zic3 mutant mRNA failed to rescue the abnormal phenotype, suggesting a role for the novel ZIC3 mutation in heterotaxy syndrome.
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