A nonsense variant in FBN1 caused autosomal dominant Marfan syndrome in a Chinese family: a case report
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A nonsense variant in FBN1 caused autosomal dominant Marfan syndrome in a Chinese family: a case report Yuping Niu1,2,3, Sexin Huang1,2,3, Zeyu Wang4, Peiwen Xu1,2,3, Lijuan Wang1,2,3, Jie Li1,2,3, Ming Gao1,2,3, Xuan Gao1,2,3* and Yuan Gao1,2,3*
Abstract Background: Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a common autosomal dominant inherited disease, and the occurrence rate is around 0.1–0.2‰. The causative variant of FNB1 gene accounts for approximately 70–80% of all MFS cases. In this study, we found a heterozygous c.3217G > T (p.Glu1073*) nonsense variant in the FBN1 gene. This finding extended the variant spectrum of the FBN1 gene and will provide a solution for patients to bear healthy offspring by preimplantation genetic testing or prenatal diagnosis. Case presentation: The patient was treated due to tachycardia during excitement in a hospital. Echocardiography showed dilatation of the ascending aorta and main pulmonary artery, mitral regurgitation (mild), tricuspid regurgitation (mild), and abnormal left ventricular filling. Electrocardiograph showed sinus rhythm. In addition, flutters of shadows in front of his eyes and vitreous opacity were present in the patient. Genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood samples from members of the family and 100 unrelated controls. Potential variants were screened out by next-generation sequencing and confirmed by MLPA & Sanger sequencing. Real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) was performed to detect the relative mRNA quantitation in the patient. A heterozygous nonsense variant c.3217G > T of the FBN1 gene, which resulted in p. Glu1073Term, was identified in both patients. Only wild type bases were found in the cDNA sequence of the patient. Real-time fluorogenic quantitative PCR results showed that the relative expression level of FBN1 cDNA in the patient was only about 21% compared to that of normal individuals. This variant c.3217G > T of the FBN1 gene introduces a Stop codon in the cb-EGF12 domain. We speculated that a premature translational-termination codon (PTC) was located in the mRNA and the target mRNA was disintegrated through a process known as nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), which led to a significant decrease of the fibrillin-1 protein, eventually causing clinical symptoms in the patient. Conclusions: In this study, we found a heterozygous c.3217G > T (p.Glu1073*) nonsense variant in the FBN1 gene, which eventually led to Marfan syndrome in a Chinese family. Keywords: Marfan syndrome, FBN1 gene, Nonsense variant, Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
* Correspondence: [email protected]; [email protected] 1 Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate cred
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