Valentina Grampa, Marion Delous, Mohamad Zaidan, Gweltas Odye, Sophie Thomas, Nadia Elkhartoufi, Emilie Filhol, Olivier Niel, Flora Silbermann, Corinne Lebreton, Sophie Collardeau-Frachon, Isabelle Rouvet, Jean-Luc Alessandri, Louise Devisme, Anne Dieux-Coeslier, Marie-Pierre Cordier, Yline Capri, Suonavy Khung-Savatovsky, Sabine Sigaudy, Rémi Salomon, Corinne Antignac, Marie-Claire Gubler, Alexandre Benmerah, Fabiola Terzi, Tania Attié-Bitach, Cécile Jeanpierre, Sophie Saunier
Ciliopathies are a group of genetic multi-systemic disorders related to dysfunction of the primary cilium, a sensory organelle present at the cell surface that regulates key signaling pathways during development and tissue homeostasis. In order to identify novel genes whose mutations would cause severe developmental ciliopathies, >500 patients/fetuses were analyzed by a targeted high throughput sequencing approach allowing exome sequencing of >1200 ciliary genes. NEK8/NPHP9 mutations were identified in five cases with severe overlapping phenotypes including renal cystic dysplasia/hypodysplasia, situs inversus, cardiopathy with hypertrophic septum and bile duct paucity...
March 2016: PLoS Genetics