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- Expanding the MTM1 mutational spectrum: novel variants including the first multi-exonic duplication and development of a locus-specific databasePublication . Oliveira, Jorge; Oliveira, Márcia E.; Kress, Wolfram; Taipa, Ricardo; Melo Pires, Manuel; Hilbert, Pascale; Baxter, Peter; Santos, Manuela; Buermans, Henk; den Dunnen, Johan; Santos, RosárioMyotubular myopathy (MIM#310400), the X-linked form of Centronuclear myopathy (CNM) is mainly characterized by neonatal hypotonia and inability to maintain unassisted respiration. The MTM1 gene, responsible for this disease, encodes myotubularin – a lipidic phosphatase involved in vesicle trafficking regulation and maturation. Recently, it was shown that myotubularin interacts with desmin, being a major regulator of intermediate filaments. We report the development of a locus-specific database for MTM1 using the Leiden Open Variation database software (http://www.lovd.nl/MTM1), with data collated for 474 mutations identified in 472 patients (by June 2012). Among the entries are a total of 25 new mutations, including a large deletion encompassing introns 2–15. During database implementation it was noticed that no large duplications had been reported. We tested a group of eight uncharacterized CNM patients for this specific type of mutation, by multiple ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) analysis. A large duplication spanning exons 1–5 was identified in a boy with a mild phenotype, with results pointing toward possible somatic mosaicism. Further characterization revealed that this duplication causes an in-frame deletion at the mRNA level (r.343_444del). Results obtained with a next generation sequencing approach suggested that the duplication extends into the neighboring MAMLD1 gene and subsequent cDNA analysis detected the presence of a MTM1/MAMLD1 fusion transcript. A complex rearrangement involving the duplication of exon 10 has since been reported, with detection also enabled by MLPA analysis. It is thus conceivable that large duplications in MTM1 may account for a number of CNM cases that have remained genetically unresolved.
- Expanding the mutation spectrum of the MTM1 gene: the first multi-exonic duplication and establishment of the MTM1 locus-specific databasePublication . Oliveira, Jorge; Oliveira, Márcia E.; Brekelmans, Roel; Melo-Pires, Manuel; Guimarães, António; den Dunnen, Johan; Santos, Manuela; Santos, RosárioCentronuclear myopathies (CNM) are a group of diseases with variable onset and severity sharing as a distinctive histological feature, a high frequency of muscle fibers with centralized nuclei. Myotubular myopathy (MIM#310400) the X-linked form of CNM is characterized by neonatal hypotonia and inability to maintain unassisted respiration. The MTM1 gene, responsible for this disease, encodes myotubularin, a protein involved in myofiber differentiation and muscle cell architecture. In this work, eight patients were subjected to MTM1 MLPA analysis, selected according to the following criteria: (i) muscle biopsy compatible with CNM and (ii) exclusion of MTM1 point mutations by sequencing. We identified the first gross duplication spanning exons 1–5 (c.-76-?_342+?dup) in a 7 year old boy with progressive tetraparesis, ophtalmoparesis, facial diparesis and independent ambulation, the clinical course being milder than the classical myotubular myopathies. Analysis at the mRNA level revealed both normal transcripts and a mutated isoform lacking exon 6 (r.343_444del), suggesting somatic mosaicism. As suspected, this duplication was not detected in the patient’s mother. Considering the phenotypic expression in the patient, this mutational event most likely occurred de novo during early embryogenesis. We also describe the implementation of a locus-specific database (LSDB) for this gene using the Leiden Open Variation database (LOVD) software. The MTM1-LOVD (http://www.lovd.nl/MTM1) contains 372 mutation entries identified in 370 patients (last accessed March 2011). A total of 223 unique MTM1 mutations are listed in this LSDB, including: 207 point mutations, 15 single or multi-exonic deletions and the large duplication described in the present work. Despite the significant advances in this field during the last decade about one third of the CNM cases remain genetically unresolved. Here we show that gross MTM1 gene duplications may account for a fraction of these cases.