Disruptive de novo mutations of DYRK1A lead to a syndromic form of autism and ID
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2016
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van Bon, B.W.M.
Coe, B.P.
Bernier, R.
Green, C.
Gerdts, J.
Witherspoon, K.
Kleefstra, T.
Willemsen, M.H.
Kumar, R.
Bosco, P.
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Molecular Psychiatry, 2016; 21(1):126-132
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B W M van Bon, B P Coe, R Bernier, C Green, J Gerdts, K Witherspoon, T Kleefstra, M H Willemsen, R Kumar, P Bosco, M Fichera, D Li, D Amaral, F Cristofoli, H Peeters, E Haan, C Romano, H C Mefford, I Scheffer, J Gecz, B B A de Vries and E E Eichler
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Dual-specificity tyrosine-(Y)-phosphorylation-regulated kinase 1 A (DYRK1A) maps to the Down syndrome critical region; copy number increase of this gene is thought to have a major role in the neurocognitive deficits associated with Trisomy 21. Truncation of DYRK1A in patients with developmental delay (DD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests a different pathology associated with loss-of-function mutations. To understand the phenotypic spectrum associated with DYRK1A mutations, we resequenced the gene in 7162 ASD/DD patients (2446 previously reported) and 2169 unaffected siblings and performed a detailed phenotypic assessment on nine patients. Comparison of our data and published cases with 8696 controls identified a significant enrichment of DYRK1A truncating mutations (P=0.00851) and an excess of de novo mutations (P=2.53 × 10(-10)) among ASD/intellectual disability (ID) patients. Phenotypic comparison of all novel (n=5) and recontacted (n=3) cases with previous case reports, including larger CNV and translocation events (n=7), identified a syndromal disorder among the 15 patients. It was characterized by ID, ASD, microcephaly, intrauterine growth retardation, febrile seizures in infancy, impaired speech, stereotypic behavior, hypertonia and a specific facial gestalt. We conclude that mutations in DYRK1A define a syndromic form of ASD and ID with neurodevelopmental defects consistent with murine and Drosophila knockout models.
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Molecular Psychiatry advance online publication 24 February 2015
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