TY - JOUR
T1 - Identification of genetic variants in CFAP221 as a cause of primary ciliary dyskinesia
AU - Bustamante-Marin, Ximena M.
AU - Shapiro, Adam
AU - Sears, Patrick R.
AU - Charng, Wu Lin
AU - Conrad, Donald F.
AU - Leigh, Margaret W.
AU - Knowles, Michael R.
AU - Ostrowski, Lawrence E.
AU - Zariwala, Maimoona A.
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Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the PCD subjects and family members for their participation, Michele Manion (founder of US PCD Foundation), and the US PCD Foundation, and the investigators and the coordinators of the Genetic Disorders of Muco-ciliary Clearance Consortium, part of the Rare Disease Clinical Research Network. We thank Dr Tony Perdue for assistance with confocal imaging; and Dr S. H. Randell and the UNC Cell culture core for providing human airway cells. The UNC Cell Core Facility is supported by BOUCHE15R0 and P30DK065988 grants. We thank Whitney Wolf, Weining Yin, and Kimberly Burns from UNC for technical assistance and Dr Hong Dang from UNC for bioinformatics assistance. We thank Drs Shrikanth Mane and Francesc Loez-Giraldez and Ms Weilai Dong from Yale Center for Mendelian Genomics for providing whole-exome sequencing and bioinformatics support.
Funding Information:
Funding Funding support for this research was provided to MRK, MWL and MAZ by US NIH/ORDR/NHLBI grant 5U54HL096458; to MRK, LEO, and MAZ by NIH-NHLBI grant R01HL071798; to LEO, MAZ, and MRK by NIH/NHLBI R01HL117836 and to UNC-CH by NIH/NCATS grant UL1 TR000083; to DFC by NIH/NICHD R01HD078641 and NIH/NIMH R01MH101810. WLC is supported by NIH/NIMH T32-MH014677. Whole-exome sequencing was carried out at Yale Center for Mendelian Genomics (UM1HG006504); funded by the NHGRI and the GSP Coordinating Center (U24 HG008956) that contributes to cross-program scientific initiatives logistical and general study coordination. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare disorder that affects the biogenesis or function of motile cilia resulting in chronic airway disease. PCD is genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous, with causative mutations identified in over 40 genes; however, the genetic basis of many cases is unknown. Using whole-exome sequencing, we identified three affected siblings with clinical symptoms of PCD but normal ciliary structure, carrying compound heterozygous loss-of-function variants in CFAP221. Computational analysis suggests that these variants are the most damaging alleles shared by all three siblings. Nasal epithelial cells from one of the subjects demonstrated slightly reduced beat frequency (16.5 Hz vs 17.7 Hz, p = 0.16); however, waveform analysis revealed that the CFAP221 defective cilia beat in an aberrant circular pattern. These results show that genetic variants in CFAP221 cause PCD and that CFAP221 should be considered a candidate gene in cases where PCD is suspected but cilia structure and beat frequency appear normal.
AB - Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare disorder that affects the biogenesis or function of motile cilia resulting in chronic airway disease. PCD is genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous, with causative mutations identified in over 40 genes; however, the genetic basis of many cases is unknown. Using whole-exome sequencing, we identified three affected siblings with clinical symptoms of PCD but normal ciliary structure, carrying compound heterozygous loss-of-function variants in CFAP221. Computational analysis suggests that these variants are the most damaging alleles shared by all three siblings. Nasal epithelial cells from one of the subjects demonstrated slightly reduced beat frequency (16.5 Hz vs 17.7 Hz, p = 0.16); however, waveform analysis revealed that the CFAP221 defective cilia beat in an aberrant circular pattern. These results show that genetic variants in CFAP221 cause PCD and that CFAP221 should be considered a candidate gene in cases where PCD is suspected but cilia structure and beat frequency appear normal.
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U2 - 10.1038/s10038-019-0686-1
DO - 10.1038/s10038-019-0686-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 31636325
AN - SCOPUS:85074203030
SN - 1434-5161
VL - 65
SP - 175
EP - 180
JO - Jinrui idengaku zasshi. The Japanese journal of human genetics
JF - Jinrui idengaku zasshi. The Japanese journal of human genetics
IS - 2
ER -