1. Identification of Novel Wsf1 Mutations in a Sicilian Child with Wolfram Syndrome
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Concetta Baiamonte, Walter Arancio, Antonina Coppola, Maria Pitrone, Giuseppe Pizzolanti, Renata Lorini, Aless, Laura Tomasello, Carla Giordano, ro Ciresi, Pizzolanti, G, Tomasello, L, Coppola, A, Pitrone, M, Baiamonte, C, Ciresi, A, Lorini, R, Arancio, W, and Giordano, C
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Genetics ,Proband ,Mutation ,Wolfram syndrome ,business.industry ,Diabetes ,WFS1 ,medicine.disease_cause ,medicine.disease ,Penetrance ,Settore MED/13 - Endocrinologia ,Atrophy ,DIDMOAD ,Diabetes mellitus ,Mutation testing ,Medicine ,Allele ,business - Abstract
Wolfram Syndrome (WS) is a rare hereditary disease with autosomal recessive inheritance with incomplete penetrance. It is characterized by diabetes mellitus associated with progressive optic atrophy. The diagnosis is essentially clinical and mutation analysis is used to confirm the diagnosis. In the present study we describe the clinical and molecular features of a diabetic child carrying two novel WFS1 mutations. The Sicilian proband and his non-affected family were studied. Ophthalmologic examination included: visual acuity determination and funduscopy, optical coherent tomography, retinal fluorangiography, perimetry and electroretinogram. Molecular methods: automatic sequencing of PCR amplified WFS1 gene fragments and qRT-PCR analysis of WFS1 transcripts. 3 WSF1 mutations have been identified in the proband. One allele carries 2 paternally inherited mutations (c.1332 C>G and c.1631C>G) in exon-8, never annotated before, in heterozygosis with one “de novo” classic mutation (c.505 G>A) in exon-5. In addition, we report an unexpected molecular feature: higher WFS1 mRNA levels in the proband compared to the father.
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- 2014
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