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Severe microcephaly v2.247 ARCN1 Ivone Leong changed review comment from: Comment on publications: PMID:27476655. OMIM description of the patients, "exhibited rhizomelic short stature (4/4) as well as microcephaly (3/4), micrognathia (4/4), laxity of the small joints (3/4), and developmental delay (4/4). Other variable features included posterior cataract (1/4), cleft palate (1/4), ventricular septal defect (1/4), cryptorchidism (1/2), seizures (1/4), and autism (1/4)."

Additional publications. PMID: 31075182 describes a 5th case with de novo loss-of-function variant in ARCN1. Head circumference at birth (prematurely after 33 + 3 weeks of pregnancy) was 27.3 cm (<3rd percentile). The publication says the patient presented with microcephaly; however, I cannot find any recent head circumference measurements (child is 23 months old). From the paper "we report a de novo loss-of-function mutation in the delta-COP subunit of COPI, associated with microcephaly, retrognathia, muscular hypotonia, short stature, rhizomelic shortening, and transiently hypoglycosylation during febrile infections."

PMID: 33154040; to: Comment on publications: PMID:27476655. OMIM description of the patients, "exhibited rhizomelic short stature (4/4) as well as microcephaly (3/4), micrognathia (4/4), laxity of the small joints (3/4), and developmental delay (4/4). Other variable features included posterior cataract (1/4), cleft palate (1/4), ventricular septal defect (1/4), cryptorchidism (1/2), seizures (1/4), and autism (1/4)."

Additional publications. PMID: 31075182 describes a 5th case with de novo loss-of-function variant in ARCN1. Head circumference at birth (prematurely after 33 + 3 weeks of pregnancy) was 27.3 cm (<3rd percentile). The publication says the patient presented with microcephaly; however, I cannot find any recent head circumference measurements (child is 23 months old). From the paper "we report a de novo loss-of-function mutation in the delta-COP subunit of COPI, associated with microcephaly, retrognathia, muscular hypotonia, short stature, rhizomelic shortening, and transiently hypoglycosylation during febrile infections."

PMID: 33154040 describes another case. "3.5-yr-old Caucasian/Peruvian/Native American boy with microcephaly, severe global developmental delay, and multiple congenital abnormalities. At birth he was documented to have a small ventricular septal defect (which was closed by 3 wk), a patent foramen ovale, rhizomelic shortening of extremities on clinical examination, pectus carinatum, and underdeveloped genitalia including severe penoscrotal hypospadias and cryptorchidism." OFC at birth was just above 10th centile, at 3.5 yr OFC is below 3rd centile but no actual measurements were given. Microarrays identified a 95-kb loss at 12q23.2 including exons 1–4 of the NUP37 gene and exons 1–9 of the PARPBP gene, which were deemed nondiagnostic (neither parents had this deletion). A heterozygous variant was also found in HSPG2 (c.9893 C > T, p. Pro3298Leu). Biallelic variants in this gene is associated with skeletal disorders that did not fit the patient's phenotype and as the patient is heterozygous for a variant in HSPG2 it was deemed that this variant was not causative. WGS identified a de novo splice variant in ARCN1. mRNA studies showed that the variant caused retention of part of an intron in the transcript. The authors deemed the ARCN1 variant as the causative variant in this patient.
Severe microcephaly v2.247 ARCN1 Ivone Leong Added comment: Comment on publications: PMID:27476655. OMIM description of the patients, "exhibited rhizomelic short stature (4/4) as well as microcephaly (3/4), micrognathia (4/4), laxity of the small joints (3/4), and developmental delay (4/4). Other variable features included posterior cataract (1/4), cleft palate (1/4), ventricular septal defect (1/4), cryptorchidism (1/2), seizures (1/4), and autism (1/4)."

Additional publications. PMID: 31075182 describes a 5th case with de novo loss-of-function variant in ARCN1. Head circumference at birth (prematurely after 33 + 3 weeks of pregnancy) was 27.3 cm (<3rd percentile). The publication says the patient presented with microcephaly; however, I cannot find any recent head circumference measurements (child is 23 months old). From the paper "we report a de novo loss-of-function mutation in the delta-COP subunit of COPI, associated with microcephaly, retrognathia, muscular hypotonia, short stature, rhizomelic shortening, and transiently hypoglycosylation during febrile infections."

PMID: 33154040
Severe microcephaly v2.194 MCM7 Arina Puzriakova gene: MCM7 was added
gene: MCM7 was added to Severe microcephaly. Sources: Literature
Mode of inheritance for gene: MCM7 was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Publications for gene: MCM7 were set to 33654309; 34059554
Phenotypes for gene: MCM7 were set to Meier-Gorlin syndrome; Microcephaly; Intellectual disability
Review for gene: MCM7 was set to AMBER
Added comment: MCM7 is a component of the MCM complex, a DNA helicase which is essential for DNA replication. Other components have been linked to disease with phenotypes including microcephaly and ID. Currently, MCM7 is not associated with any phenotype in OMIM or G2P.

- PMID: 33654309 (2021) - Two unrelated individuals with different compound het variants in MCM7 but disparate clinical features. One patient had typical Meier-Gorlin syndrome (including growth retardation, microcephaly, congenital lung emphysema, absent breast development, microtia, facial dysmorphism) whereas the second case had a multi-system disorder with neonatal progeroid appearance, lipodystrophy and adrenal insufficiency. While small at birth, the second patient did not demonstrate reduced stature or microcephaly at age 14.5 years. Both individuals had normal neurodevelopment.
Functional studies using patient-derived fibroblasts demonstrate that the identified MCM7 variants were deleterious at either transcript or protein levels and through interfering with MCM complex formation, impact efficiency of S phase progression.

- PMID: 34059554 (2021) - Homozygous missense variant identified in three affected individuals from a consanguineous family with severe primary microcephaly, severe ID and behavioural abnormalities. Knockdown of Mcm7 in mouse neuroblastoma cells lead to reduced cell viability and proliferation with increased apoptosis, which were rescued by overexpression of wild-type but not mutant MCM7.
Sources: Literature
Severe microcephaly v2.18 TUBGCP2 Arina Puzriakova gene: TUBGCP2 was added
gene: TUBGCP2 was added to Severe microcephaly. Sources: Literature
for-review tags were added to gene: TUBGCP2.
Mode of inheritance for gene: TUBGCP2 was set to BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Publications for gene: TUBGCP2 were set to 31630790
Phenotypes for gene: TUBGCP2 were set to Pachygyria, microcephaly, developmental delay, and dysmorphic facies, with or without seizures, 618737
Review for gene: TUBGCP2 was set to GREEN
Added comment: Associated with phenotype in OMIM, and a probable gene for Microcephaly and Lissencephaly Spectrum Disorders in G2P.

PMID: 31630790 (2019) - Five patients from four families with biallelic variants in the TUBGCP2 gene. Affected individuals shared phenotypic features that included progressive severe microcephaly (4/4, Z score: -4.0 to -9.0), developmental delay (5/5, mild-severe), seizures (4/5). All patients exhibited lissencephaly-spectrum phenotypes with varying degrees of cortical malformations on brain imaging including pachygyria and subcortical band heterotopia.

All variants segregated with disease in each family. Analysis of fibroblasts derived from one patient with a splice site variant revealed several abnormal transcripts, predicted to result in LoF. No further functional studies of other variants or patient cells were performed.
Sources: Literature
Severe microcephaly v1.62 CRIPT Louise Daugherty reviewed gene: CRIPT: Rating: AMBER; Mode of pathogenicity: ; Publications: ; Phenotypes: ; Mode of inheritance:
Severe microcephaly v1.61 CRIPT Louise Daugherty Source NHS GMS was added to CRIPT.
Severe microcephaly CRIPT Rebecca Foulger classified CRIPT as amber
Severe microcephaly CRIPT Rebecca Foulger commented on CRIPT
Severe microcephaly CRIPT Rebecca Foulger classified CRIPT as amber
Severe microcephaly CRIPT Rebecca Foulger added CRIPT to panel
Severe microcephaly CRIPT Rebecca Foulger reviewed CRIPT