Identification of Two Novel Mutations in ABCA4 Gene in a Patient With Stargardt Disease
Abstract
Herein we investigated mutations in the ABCA4 gene in an Iranian patient with Stargardt disease using whole exome sequencing (WES). We evaluated genetic alterations in a 13-year-old Iranian girl with Stargardt disease and her family using WES. The target sequences for the proband and her parents were then amplified through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the obtained products were screened for mutations in ABCA4 gene by Sanger chain terminating dideoxy nucleotide sequencing. Two novel potentially pathogenic mutations in compound heterozygous state (c.2713del p.E905Rfs*27 and c.5172G>A p.W1724X) were identified in ABCA4 gene which may contribute to the proband’s Stargardt disease phenotype. In general, the WES successfully identified novel causal mutations in ABCA4 gene which may be used for genetic counseling, prenatal diagnosis (PND), and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of Stargardt disease.
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2. Molday RS. Insights into the Molecular Properties of ABCA4 and Its Role in the Visual Cycle and Stargardt Disease. Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science. 2015;134:415-431.
3. Zolnikova IV, Strelnikov VV, Skvortsova NA, Tanas AS, Barh D, Rogatina EV, Egorova IV, Levina DV, Demenkova ON, Prikaziuk EG, Ivanova ME. Stargardt disease-associated mutation spectrum of a Russian Federation cohort. European journal of medical genetics. 2017;60(2):140-7.
4. Zhang J, Qi A, Wang X, Pan H, Mo H, Huang J, Li H, Chen Z, Wei M, Wang B. Novel compound heterozygous mutations in ABCA4 in a Chinese pedigree with Stargardt disease. Molecular Vision. 2016;22:1514.
5. Battu R, Verma A, Hariharan R, Krishna S, Kiran R, Jacob J, Ganapathy A, Ramprasad VL, Kumaramanickavel G, Jeyabalan N, Ghosh A. Identification of novel mutations in ABCA4 gene: clinical and genetic analysis of Indian patients with Stargardt disease. BioMed research international. 2015;2015:940864.
6. Lin B, Cai XB, Zheng ZL, Huang XF, Liu XL, Qu J, Jin ZB. Clinical and genetic analyses reveal novel pathogenic ABCA4 mutations in Stargardt disease families. Scientific reports. 2016;6:35414.
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9. Tsybovsky Y, Palczewski K. Expression, purification and structural properties of ABC transporter ABCA4 and its individual domains. Protein expression and purification. 2014;97:50-60.
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14. Cornelis SS, Bax NM, Zernant J, Allikmets R, Fritsche LG, den Dunnen JT, Ajmal M, Hoyng CB, Cremers FP. In silico functional meta‐analysis of 5,962 ABCA4 variants in 3,928 retinal dystrophy cases. Human mutation. 2017;38(4):400-8.
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16. Xin W, Xiao X, Li S, Jia X, Guo X, Zhang Q. Identification of genetic defects in 33 probands with Stargardt disease by WES-based bioinformatics gene panel analysis. PloS one. 2015;10(7):e0132635.
17. Heidari M. A heterozygous STXBP1 gene de novo in mutation in an Iranian child with epileptic encephalopathy: case report. Acta Medica Iranica. 2019;57(8):518-521.
18. Heidari M, Soleyman-Nejad M, Taskhiri MH, Shahpouri J, Isazadeh A, Ahangari R, Mohamadi AR, Ebrahimi M, Karimi H, Bolhassani M, Karimi Z. Identification of Two Novel Mutations in the ATM Gene from Patients with Ataxia-Telangiectasia by Whole Exome Sequencing. Current Genomics. 2019;20(7):531-4.
19. Tanna P, Strauss RW, Fujinami K, Michaelides M. Stargardt disease: clinical features, molecular genetics, animal models and therapeutic options. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2017;101(1):25-30.
20. Fukui T, Yamamoto S, Nakano K, Tsujikawa M, Morimura H, Nishida K, Ohguro N, Fujikado T, Irifune M, Kuniyoshi K, Okada AA. ABCA4 gene mutations in Japanese patients with Stargardt disease and retinitis pigmentosa. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science. 2002;43(9):2819-24.
21. Paloma E, Martínez‐Mir A, Vilageliu L, Gonzàlez‐Duarte R, Balcells S. Spectrum of ABCA4 (ABCR) gene mutations in Spanish patients with autosomal recessive macular dystrophies. Human mutation. 2001;17(6):504-10.
22. Biswas EE. Nucleotide binding domain 1 of the human retinal ABC transporter functions as a general ribonucleotidase. Biochemistry. 2001;40(28):8181-7.
23. Sun H, Smallwood PM, Nathans J. Biochemical defects in ABCR protein variants associated with human retinopathies. Nature genetics. 2000;26(2):242-6.
24. Tsybovsky Y, Wang B, Quazi F, Molday RS, Palczewski K. Posttranslational modifications of the photoreceptor-specific ABC transporter ABCA4. Biochemistry. 2011;50(32):6855-66.
25. Briggs CE, Rucinski D, Rosenfeld PJ, Hirose T, Berson EL, Dryja TP. Mutations in ABCR (ABCA4) in patients with Stargardt macular degeneration or cone-rod degeneration. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science. 2001;42(10):2229-36.
26. Battu R, Verma A, Hariharan R, Krishna S, Kiran R, Jacob J, Ganapathy A, Ramprasad VL, Kumaramanickavel G, Jeyabalan N, Ghosh A. Identification of novel mutations in ABCA4 gene: clinical and genetic analysis of Indian patients with Stargardt disease. BioMed research international. 2015;2015.
27. Cideciyan AV, Swider M, Aleman TS, Tsybovsky Y, Schwartz SB, Windsor EA, Roman AJ, Sumaroka A, Steinberg JD, Jacobson SG, Stone EM. ABCA4 disease progression and a proposed strategy for gene therapy. Human molecular genetics. 2009;18(5):931-41.
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.18502/acta.v61i6.13832 | |
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| Stargardt syndrome ATP binding cassette subfamily a member 4 (ABCA4) gene Retinitis pigmentosa Whole exome sequencing | ||
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Mohebi M, Heidari M, Heidari M. Identification of Two Novel Mutations in ABCA4 Gene in a Patient With Stargardt Disease. Acta Med Iran. 2023;61(6):329-333.
