Soumia Brakta, Quansheng Du, Lynn P Chorich, Zoe A Hawkins, Megan E Sullivan, Eun Kyung Ko, Hyung-Goo Kim, James Knight, Hugh S Taylor, Michael Friez, John A Phillips, Lawrence C Layman
The molecular basis of mullerian aplasia, also known as Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster Hauser (MRKH) or congenital absence of the uterus and vagina, is largely unknown. We applied a multifaceted genetic approach to studying the pathogenesis of MRKH including exome sequencing of trios and duos, genome sequencing of families, qPCR, RT-PCR, and Sanger sequencing to detect intragenic deletions, insertions, splice variants, single nucleotide variants, and rearrangements in 132 persons with MRKH. We identified two heterozygous variants in ZNHIT3 localized to a commonly involved CNV region at chromosome 17q12 in two different families with MRKH...
April 8, 2024: Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology