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A Recurrent Pathogenic Variant in TPM2 Reveals Further Phenotypic and Genetic Heterogeneity in Multiple Pterygium Syndrome-Related Disorders.

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Article

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Authors

Vogt, Julie 
Al-Saedi, Atif 
Willis, Tracey 
Male, Alison 
McKie, Arthur 

Abstract

Multiple pterygium syndrome (MPS) disorders are a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous group of conditions characterised by multiple joint contractures (arthrogryposis), pterygia (joint webbing) and other developmental defects. MPS is most frequently inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion but X-linked and autosomal dominant forms also occur. Advances in genomic technologies have identified many genetic causes of MPS-related disorders and genetic diagnosis requires large targeted next generation sequencing gene panels or genome-wide sequencing approaches. Using the Illumina TruSightOne clinical exome assay we identified a recurrent heterozygous missense substitution in TPM2 (encoding beta tropomyosin) in three unrelated individuals. This was confirmed to have arisen as a de novo event in the two patients with parental samples. TPM2 mutations have previously been described in association with a variety of dominantly inherited neuromuscular phenotypes including nemaline myopathy, congenital fibre-type disproportion, distal arthrogryposis and trismus pseudocamptodactyly, and in a patient with autosomal recessive Escobar syndrome and a nemaline myopathy. The three cases reported here had overlapping but variable features. Our findings expand the range of TMP2-related phenotypes and indicate that de novo TMP2 mutations should be considered in isolated cases of MPS-related conditions. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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TPM2, arthrogryposis, beta tropomyosin, camptodactyly, distal contractures, multiple pterygium syndrome, trismus, Abnormalities, Multiple, Adolescent, Arthrogryposis, Child, Child, Preschool, Databases, Genetic, Exome, Female, Genetic Heterogeneity, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Humans, Infant, Male, Malignant Hyperthermia, Mutation, Phenotype, Skin Abnormalities, Tropomyosin

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Clinical Genetics: an international journal of genetics and molecular medicine

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0009-9163
1399-0004

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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

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Department of Health (via National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)) (NF-SI-0616-10035)