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Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is an inherited retinal disorder, which is primarily characterized by abnormal development of retinal vasculature. In this study, we reported a subject presenting the clinical features of FEVR as well as microcephaly. Screening of the KIF11 gene in this patient revealed a novel heterozygous protein-truncating variant (c.2717del, p.(L906*), NM_004523.3). Segregation analysis in the unaffected parents using Sanger sequencing suggested the variant to be present in a mosaic state in the unaffected mother. KIF11 exon 19 which harbors the variant was amplified from the proband and her father, as well as three different tissues of the mother, followed by amplicon-based deep sequencing. This analysis revealed that the variant is present in different tissues of the mother at various rates, i.e. in blood (16.9%), saliva (20.7%), or skin biopsy-derived fibroblast cells (6.6%). These data demonstrate the importance of deep sequencing in unaffected parents upon detection of a genetic defect in isolated cases to detect possible mosaicisms, enabling a more reliable recurrence risk assessment and thereby improve genetic counseling.
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We gratefully acknowledge the subjects that participated in this study. We would like to thank Dr. Kornelia Neveling and Ronny Derks from the Genomics Technology Center of Radboudumc for assistance with ion semiconductor sequencing, Michael Kwint for assistance with analysis of the ion semiconductor sequencing data, Dr. Alexander Hoischen for helpful discussions on mosaicisms, Dr. Wendy van Zelst-Stams for skin biopsy taking, and Saskia van der Velde-Visser for cell culture assistance.
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This study was financially supported by a Radboudumc PhD Grant to Dyah W. Karjosukarso.
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Karjosukarso, D.W., Cremers, F.P.M., van Nouhuys, C.E. et al. Detection and quantification of a KIF11 mosaicism in a subject presenting familial exudative vitreoretinopathy with microcephaly. Eur J Hum Genet 26, 1819–1823 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-018-0243-y
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