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ArticleEuropean journal of human genetics : EJHG2018

Deep intronic variation in splicing regulatory element of the ERCC8 gene associated with severe but long-term survival Cockayne syndrome.

Audrey Schalk, Géraldine Greff, Nathalie Drouot, Cathy Obringer, Hélène Dollfus, Vincent Laugel, Jamel Chelly, Nadège Calmels

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Article in European journal of human genetics : EJHG, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Audrey SchalkLaboratoire de Diagnostic Génétique, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace (IGMA), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1 place de l'hôpital, Strasbourg, 67091, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9276-4590
Géraldine GreffLaboratoire de Diagnostic Génétique, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace (IGMA), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1 place de l'hôpital, Strasbourg, 67091, France.
Nathalie DrouotDépartement Médecine translationnelle et neurogénétique, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS U7104, INSERM U964, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, 67400, France.
Cathy ObringerLaboratoire de Génétique Médicale - INSERM U1112, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace (IGMA), Faculté de médecine de Strasbourg, 11 rue Humann, Strasbourg, 67000, France.
Hélène DollfusLaboratoire de Génétique Médicale - INSERM U1112, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace (IGMA), Faculté de médecine de Strasbourg, 11 rue Humann, Strasbourg, 67000, France.
Vincent LaugelLaboratoire de Génétique Médicale - INSERM U1112, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace (IGMA), Faculté de médecine de Strasbourg, 11 rue Humann, Strasbourg, 67000, France.
Jamel ChellyLaboratoire de Diagnostic Génétique, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace (IGMA), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1 place de l'hôpital, Strasbourg, 67091, France.
Nadège CalmelsLaboratoire de Diagnostic Génétique, Institut de Génétique Médicale d'Alsace (IGMA), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1 place de l'hôpital, Strasbourg, 67091, France. nadege.calmels@chru-strasbourg.fr.
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg · FRInserm · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cockayne syndrome is an autosomal recessive multisystem disorder characterized by intellectual disability, microcephaly, severe growth failure, sensory impairment, peripheral neuropathy, and cutaneous sensitivity. This rare disease is linked to disease-causing variations in the ERCC6 (CSB) and ERCC8 (CSA) genes. Various degrees of severity have been described according to age at onset and survival, without any clear genotype-phenotype correlation. All types of nucleotide changes have been observed in CS genes, including splice variations mainly affecting the splice site consensus sequences. We report here the case of two brothers from a consanguineous family presenting a severe but long-term survival phenotype of Cockayne syndrome. We identified in the patients a homozygous deep intronic nucleotide variation causing the insertion of a cryptic exon in the ERCC8 (CSA) transcript, by modifying intronic regulatory elements important for exon definition. The pathogenesis of the nucleotide variant NG_009289.1(NM_000082.3):c.173+1119G>C was validated in vitro with a reporter minigene system. To our knowledge, these are the first Cockayne patients described with this kind of disease-causing variation, though molecular mechanism underlying early onset symptoms and unexpected slow raise of progression of the disease remain to be elucidated.

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MutationRNA Splice SitesCells, CulturedChildCockayne SyndromeDNA Repair EnzymesHumansInfantIntronsMaleTranscription FactorsDNA Repair EnzymesERCC8 protein, humanRNA Splice SitesTranscription Factors

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PMID29422660
PMCPMC5891492
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