Case#: Perrault_2012_Patient_FIV3, male, 17 years of age at time of study, Saudi Arabian national origin
CasePresentingHPOs: HP:0003593 (Infantile onset), HP:0000639 (Nystagmus), HP:0000729 (Autistic behavior), HP:0001250 (Seizure), HP:0008499 (High hypermetropia), HP:0001123 (Visual field defect), HP:0007663 (Reduced visual acuity), HP:0000550 (Undetectable electroretinogram), HP:0010230 (Cone-shaped epiphyses of the phalanges of the hand), HP:0000556 (Retinal dystrophy)
CaseHPOFreeText: Acetylated alpha-tubulin staining in cultured fibroblasts showed an absence of primary cilia in a high number of cells from this patient. IFT140 protein localization along the ciliary axoneme was unaffected, however, two components of the anterograde transport IFT-B complex, IFT88 and IFT46, were aberrantly localized. They were evenly distributed along the cilium instead of primarily localized at the base and the tip of the cilium, suggesting an alteration in retrograde ciliary transport.
CaseNotHPOs: HP:0004322 (Short stature), HP:0000765 (Abnormal thorax morphology), HP:0000929 (Abnormal skull morphology), HP:0040064 (Abnormality of limbs), HP:0001410 (Decreased liver function), HP:0012211 (Abnormal renal physiology), HP:0003272 (Abnormal hip bone morphology)
CaseNotHPOFreeText: N/A
CasePreviousTesting: N/A
CaseMethod1: Ciliome resequencing of a customized target enrichment library (consisting of 1,666 genes)
CaseMethod2: Sanger sequencing of the 29 coding exons of IFT140
CaseGenotypingMethod: The patient was genotyped by ciliome resequencing of a customized target enrichment library (consisting of 1,666 genes), confirmed by Sanger sequencing of the 29 coding exons of IFT140
Variant: Affected individuals harbor the NM_014714.4(IFT140):c.1990G>A (p.Glu664Lys) variant in a homozygous state.
ClinVar: 31679
gnomAD: The NM_014714.4(IFT140):c.1990G>A (p.Glu664Lys) variant is present in gnomAD at a frequency of 0.00004031 in the African / African-American population (1/24806, with no homozygotes) https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/variant/16-1614075-C-T
VariantEvidence: Exogenous expression of the FLAG-tagged p.Glu664Lys variant in the RPE1 (retinal pigment epithelial) cell line revealed an inability to co-localize with gamma-tubulin, indicating a relatively severe defect in localization to the basal body in most cells, relative to other suspected pathogenic missense variants and the wild-type control (Figure 3A).
CaseAddInfo: The proband's parents are reportedly consanguineous (first cousins).
CasePMIDs: N/A