Unfavorable switching of skewed X chromosome inactivation leads to Menkes disease in a female infant

Menkes disease is an X-linked disorder of copper metabolism caused by mutations in the ATP7A gene, and female carriers are usually asymptomatic. We describe a 7-month-old female patient with severe intellectual disability, epilepsy, and low levels of serum copper and ceruloplasmin. While heterozygou...

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Veröffentlicht in:Scientific reports 2024-01, Vol.14 (1), p.440-440, Article 440
Hauptverfasser: Matsumoto, Ayumi, Kano, Shintaro, Kobayashi, Natsumi, Matsuki, Mitsuru, Furukawa, Rieko, Yamagishi, Hirokazu, Yoshinari, Hiroki, Nakata, Waka, Wakabayashi, Hiroko, Tsuda, Hidetoshi, Watanabe, Kazuhisa, Takahashi, Hironori, Yamagata, Takanori, Matsumura, Takayoshi, Osaka, Hitoshi, Mori, Harushi, Iwamoto, Sadahiko
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Zusammenfassung:Menkes disease is an X-linked disorder of copper metabolism caused by mutations in the ATP7A gene, and female carriers are usually asymptomatic. We describe a 7-month-old female patient with severe intellectual disability, epilepsy, and low levels of serum copper and ceruloplasmin. While heterozygous deletion of exons 16 and 17 of the ATP7A gene was detected in the proband, her mother, and her grandmother, only the proband suffered from Menkes disease clinically. Intriguingly, X chromosome inactivation (XCI) analysis demonstrated that the grandmother and the mother showed skewing of XCI toward the allele with the ATP7A deletion and that the proband had extremely skewed XCI toward the normal allele, resulting in exclusive expression of the pathogenic ATP7A mRNA transcripts. Expression bias analysis and recombination mapping of the X chromosome by the combination of whole genome and RNA sequencing demonstrated that meiotic recombination occurred at Xp21-p22 and Xq26-q28. Assuming that a genetic factor on the X chromosome enhanced or suppressed XCI of its allele, the factor must be on either of the two distal regions derived from her grandfather. Although we were unable to fully uncover the molecular mechanism, we concluded that unfavorable switching of skewed XCI caused Menkes disease in the proband.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-50668-2