MECP2 missense mutations outside the canonical MBD and TRD domains in males with intellectual disability

Bianciardi, Laura, Fichera, Marco, Failla, Pinella, Di Marco, Chiara, Grozeva, Detelina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-8415, Mencarelli, Maria Antonietta, Spiga, Ottavia, Mari, Francesca, Meloni, Ilaria, Raymond, Lucy, Renieri, Alessandra, Romano, Corrado and Ariani, Francesca 2015. MECP2 missense mutations outside the canonical MBD and TRD domains in males with intellectual disability. Journal of Human Genetics 61 (2) , pp. 95-101. 10.1038/jhg.2015.118

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Abstract

Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) is a nuclear protein highly expressed in neurons that is involved in transcriptional modulation and chromatin remodeling. Mutations in MECP2 in females are associated with Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder characterized by a normal neonatal period, followed by the arrest of development and regression of acquired skills. Although it was initially thought that MECP2 pathogenic mutations in males were not compatible with life, starting from 1999 about 60 male patients have been identified and their phenotype varies from severe neonatal encephalopathy to mild intellectual disability. Targeted next-generation sequencing of a panel of intellectual disability related genes was performed on two unrelated male patients, and two missense variants in MECP2 were identified (p.Gly185Val and p.Arg167Trp). These variants lie outside the canonical methyl-CpG-binding domain and transcription repression domain domains, where the pathogenicity of missense variants is more difficult to establish. In both families, variants were found in all affected siblings and were inherited from the asymptomatic mother, showing skewed X-chromosome inactivation. We report here the first missense variant located in AT-hook domain 1 and we underline the importance of MECP2 substitutions outside the canonical MeCP2 domains in X-linked intellectual disability.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group: Open Access Hybrid Model Option B
ISSN:	1434-5161
Date of Acceptance:	1 September 2015
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2022 13:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110378

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