Importance of muscle biopsy to establish pathogenicity of DMD missense and splice variants.
Becker muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Missense variants
Muscle biopsy
Splice variants
mRNA studies
Journal
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD
ISSN: 1873-2364
Titre abrégé: Neuromuscul Disord
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9111470
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2019
12 2019
Historique:
received:
24
01
2019
revised:
29
07
2019
accepted:
22
09
2019
pubmed:
11
11
2019
medline:
10
7
2020
entrez:
11
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A precise genetic diagnosis of a dystrophinopathy has far-reaching implications for affected boys and their families. We present three boys with DMD single nucleotide variants associated with Becker muscular dystrophy presenting with myalgia, reduced exercise capacity, neurodevelopmental symptoms and elevated creatine kinase. The DMD variants were difficult to classify: AIII:1 a synonymous variant in exon 13 c.1602G>A, p.Lys534Lys; BIII:1 an essential splice-site variant in intron 33 c.4674+1G>A, and CII:1 a missense mutation within the cysteine-rich domain, exon 66 c.9619T>C, p.Cys3207Arg. Complementary DNA (cDNA) analysis using muscle-derived mRNA established splice-altering effects of variants for AIII:1 and BIII:1, and normal splicing in CII:1. Western blot analysis demonstrated mildly to moderately reduced dystrophin levels (17.6 - 36.1% the levels of controls), supporting dystrophinopathy as a probable diagnosis. These three cases highlight the diagnostic utility of muscle biopsy for mRNA studies and western blot to investigate DMD variants of uncertain pathogenicity, by exploring effects on splicing and dystrophin protein levels.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31706698
pii: S0960-8966(19)31133-2
doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2019.09.013
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Blood Proteins
0
DMD circulating plasma factor
0
Creatine Kinase
EC 2.7.3.2
Types de publication
Case Reports
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
913-919Informations de copyright
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