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Rare and Low-Frequency Variants in RNF213 Confer Susceptibility to Moyamoya Syndrome Associated with Hyperthyroidism.
World Neurosurgery 2019 July
BACKGROUND: Moyamoya syndrome (MMS), distinguished from definite moyamoya disease (MMD), is characterized by moyamoya vasculopathy thought to develop secondary to underlying conditions (e.g., hyperthyroidism). Recent studies have shown that a proportion of East Asian (EAS) patients with MMS possess the p.R4810K variant of RNF213 (rs112735431), the foremost susceptibility variant among EAS patients with MMD. We evaluated the association between hyperthyroidism-associated MMS (hMMS) and sequence variants in RNF213.
METHODS: We performed next-generation sequencing of RNF213 in 15 patients with hMMS. Candidate coding variants for the association analysis were defined by allelic frequencies of <1%, based on the p.R4810K frequency in the Japanese population. The association with hMMS was tested using a collapsing method, and 260 unrelated EAS women from the 1000 Genomes Project served as population-based controls.
RESULTS: All patients were female, reflecting female predominance in both moyamoya and hyperthyroid conditions. Five candidate missense variants in RNF213 were identified in 8 of 15 patients (53.3%): p.C118R, p.R4062Q, and p.R4810K as heterozygous; and p.A3468V and p.S3986N as compound heterozygous with p.R4810K. Among 260 EAS female controls, 36 (13.8%) had putatively functional variants. All identified variants were missense variants and were significantly overrepresented among patients compared with EAS controls (permuted P = 0.00010; odds ratio = 7.03; 95% confidence interval, 2.09-24.3).
CONCLUSIONS: Rare and low-frequency missense variants in RNF213 confer susceptibility to both MMD and hMMS. This finding indicates that susceptibility variants in RNF213 may require additional clinical factors with an effect equivalent to hyperthyroidism in order to develop moyamoya vasculopathy.
METHODS: We performed next-generation sequencing of RNF213 in 15 patients with hMMS. Candidate coding variants for the association analysis were defined by allelic frequencies of <1%, based on the p.R4810K frequency in the Japanese population. The association with hMMS was tested using a collapsing method, and 260 unrelated EAS women from the 1000 Genomes Project served as population-based controls.
RESULTS: All patients were female, reflecting female predominance in both moyamoya and hyperthyroid conditions. Five candidate missense variants in RNF213 were identified in 8 of 15 patients (53.3%): p.C118R, p.R4062Q, and p.R4810K as heterozygous; and p.A3468V and p.S3986N as compound heterozygous with p.R4810K. Among 260 EAS female controls, 36 (13.8%) had putatively functional variants. All identified variants were missense variants and were significantly overrepresented among patients compared with EAS controls (permuted P = 0.00010; odds ratio = 7.03; 95% confidence interval, 2.09-24.3).
CONCLUSIONS: Rare and low-frequency missense variants in RNF213 confer susceptibility to both MMD and hMMS. This finding indicates that susceptibility variants in RNF213 may require additional clinical factors with an effect equivalent to hyperthyroidism in order to develop moyamoya vasculopathy.
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