Detection and Characterization of a De Novo Alu Retrotransposition Event Causing NKX2-1-Related Disorder

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society(2023)

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BackgroundHeterozygous NKX2-1 loss-of-function variants cause combinations of hyperkinetic movement disorders (MDs, particularly childhood-onset chorea), pulmonary dysfunction, and hypothyroidism. Mobile element insertions (MEIs) are potential disease-causing structural variants whose detection in routine diagnostics remains challenging. ObjectiveTo establish the molecular diagnosis of two first-degree relatives with clinically suspected NKX2-1-related disorder who had negative NKX2-1 Sanger (SS), whole-exome (WES), and whole-genome (WGS) sequencing. MethodsThe proband's WES was analyzed for MEIs. A candidate MEI in NKX2-1 underwent optimized SS after plasmid cloning. Functional studies exploring NKX2-1 haploinsufficiency at RNA and protein levels were performed. ResultsA 347-bp AluYa5 insertion with a 65-bp poly-A tail followed by a 16-bp duplication of the pre-insertion wild-type sequence in exon 3 of NKX2-1 (ENST00000354822.7:c.556_557insAlu541_556dup) segregated with the disease phenotype. ConclusionsWe identified a de novo exonic AluYa5 insertion causing NKX2-1-related disorder in SS/WES/WGS-negative cases, suggesting that MEI analysis of short-read sequencing data or targeted long-read sequencing could unmask the molecular diagnosis of unsolved MD cases. (c) 2022 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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brain-lung-thyroid syndrome,chorea,dystonia,mobile element insertion,thyroid transcription factor-1
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