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ArticleAmerican journal of medical genetics. Part A2025

Long-Term Health Outcomes of Individuals With Pseudodeficiency Alleles in IDUA May Inform Newborn Screening Practices for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I.

Lauren O Grady, Emilie S Zoltick, Hana Zouk, Wei He, Emma Perez, Lorne Clarke, Jessica Gold, Alanna Strong, Inderneel Sahai, Julie Yeo and 3 more

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Lauren O GradyDivision of Medical Genetics and Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6721-4191
Emilie S ZoltickDepartment of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Hana ZoukDepartment of Pathology, Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine, Mass General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Wei HeDivision of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Emma PerezBrigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Lorne ClarkeDepartment of Medical Genetics and the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-0512-7281
Jessica GoldDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York, USA.
Alanna StrongDivision of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Inderneel SahaiDivision of Medical Genetics and Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Julie YeoDivision of Medical Genetics and Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Robert C GreenMass General Brigham, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Amel KaraaDivision of Medical Genetics and Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5781-9824
Nina B GoldDivision of Medical Genetics and Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

The North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC)U54NS078059 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI HAAS, RICHARD H · 2011 to 2023
$17.5M
Genome Sequence-Based Screening for Childhood Risk and Newborn IllnessU19HD077671 · NICHD · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BEGGS, ALAN H., GREEN, ROBERT C. · 2013 to 2018
$6.1M
Implementation of Whole Genome Sequencing as Screening in a Diverse Cohort of Healthy InfantsU01TR003201 · NCATS · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI GREEN, ROBERT C., HOLM, INGRID ADELE · 2021 to 2024
$5.1M
Genome-first approach to treatable genetic conditions in adultsK08HG012811 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Nina Beth Gold · 2023 to 2026
$883k
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 5U54NS078059-09National Institutes of Health (NIH) HD077671National Institutes of Health (NIH) NCT01694940National Institutes of Health (NIH) TR003201NCATS NIH HHS U01 TR003201NHGRI NIH HHS K08 HG012811NHGRI NIH HHS K08HG012811NICHD NIH HHS U19 HD077671NINDS NIH HHS U54 NS078059Sanofi Lysosomal Storage Disease fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I), a lysosomal disorder caused by variants in IDUA, was added to the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel for newborn screening in 2016. Positive screening results for MPS I are commonly due to variants known as "pseudodeficiency alleles," which decrease in vitro alpha-L-iduronidase enzyme activity but are thought to provide sufficient in vivo activity. Despite the historic assumption that these variants are biologically benign, the possibility that they could give rise to complex, multigenic, or attenuated phenotypes has not been systemically evaluated in adults. We completed a retrospective matched cohort study using a hospital-based biorepository with data from 65,309 participants, we identified 1803 individuals harboring homozygous IDUA pseudodeficiency alleles. Using electronic medical records (EMR), we compared the prevalence of features of MPS I in participants with homozygous pseudodeficiency alleles to a cohort of matched control participants. We found no clinically relevant significant differences between cases and controls nor genotype-phenotype associations across four alleles. These findings provide empiric support that adults with homozygous IDUA pseudodeficiency alleles are unlikely to develop mild symptoms of disease compared with controls. This study provides a proof-of-concept model for other nonclassical disease variants related to other inherited metabolic disorders, which is necessary as newborn screening expands.

Indexed as

IduronidaseMucopolysaccharidosis INeonatal ScreeningAdolescentAdultAllelesChildChild, PreschoolFemaleGenetic Association StudiesGenotypeHomozygoteHumansInfant, NewbornMalePhenotypeIDUA protein, humanIduronidasebiobanksIDUAinherited metabolic diseasemucopolysaccharidosis type Inewborn screeningpseudodeficiency alleles

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PMID39559959
PMCPMC11885009

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