Table 1 Clinical features and variants found in the 13 individuals of the cohort.

From: Haploinsufficiency of ARFGEF1 is associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, and epilepsy with variable expressivity

 

Individual 1

Individual 2

Individual 3

Individual 4

Individual 5

Individual 6

Individual 7

Individual 8

Individual 9

Individual 10

Individual 11

Individual 12

Individual 13

Total

Age on follow-up

6 years old

10 years old

14 years old

11 years old

5 years old

3 months old

9 years old

11 years old

10 years old

13 years old

11 years old

32 years old

10 years old

 

Gender

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

F

M

M

M

M

9 M/1 F

Motor delay

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

+

+

+

+

12/13

Speech delay

+

+

+

+

-

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

12/13

Degree of delay

Severe

Moderate

Severe

Severe

-

Mild

Severe

Mild

Severe

Mild

Severe

Mild

Severe

 

Behavioral problems

+

+

-

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

12/13

Type of disorder

Psychomotor agitation

Autism spectrum disorders

 

Aggressivity, temper tantrums

Hyperactivity, aggressivity, obsessive compulsive behaviors

ADHD

Temper tantrums, anger bursts, severe psychomotor agitation, distractibility, attention disorders, enuresis, encopresis

Autism disorders, anxiety, aggressivity

Anxiety, attention disorders,

Autism spectrum disorder, hyperactivity

Attention disorder

Aggressive behavior, alcohol addiction

Oppositional defiant disorder, aggressivity, ADHD

 

Intellectual disability (ID)

+

+

-

+

-

+

+

+

+

+

-

+

-

10/13

Degree of ID

Moderate

Mild

Intellectual functions at the lower limit

Moderate

-

Mild

Moderate

Mild

Mild

Moderate

-

Mild

Mild

 

Neurological features

Cerebellar ataxia

-

Impaired fine motor skills, slight balance disorder, left laryngeal paralysis; limitation of abduction of the left eye with strabismus

-

Hypotonia

-

Impaired fine and gross motor skills, balance disorders, dysarthria

Impaired fine motor skills mild cerebellar ataxia, dysarthria

Action tremor

-

Impaired fine motor skills

-

-

7/13

Neurosensory disorders

-

-

-

-

-

Hyperopia and high astigmatism

-

Hyperopia

Hyperopia, astigmatism

-

Astigmatism, hyperopia

Strabismus

Mild unilateral hearing impairment

6/13

MRI findings

Thin corpus callosum

Mild myelination delay

Occipital meningocele, disrupted superior cerebellar vermis, bilateral asymmetrical nodular heterotopias

-

-

-

Pineal cyst, low-set cerebellar tonsils

Subcortical white matter T2 signal hyperintensity congruent with myelination delay

Subcortical white matter T2 signal hyperintensity congruent with myelination delay

UN

UN

UN

Type 1 Arnold–Chiari malformation

6/13

Feature

Individual 1

Individual 2

Individual 3

Individual 4

Individual 5

Individual 6

Individual 7

Individual 8

Individual 9

Individual 10

Individual 11

Individual 12

Individual 13

Total

Dysmorphic features

Wide mouth, high forehead, low-set ears

Frontal bossing, triangular face, facial hypertrichosis, pointed frontal hairline, thick eyebrows, short philtrum, protruding incisor teeth, generalized hirsutism, long face, wide mouth, low-set large ears

-

-

-

UN

Hypotonic long face, wide mouth, large ears, bulbous nose tip

High forehead, large ears

High forehead, bulbous nose tip

Brachycephaly, long and thin fingers, plagiocephaly, low-set large ears

Long and thin fingers, large ears

Small and low-set ears, long and thin fingers

-

8/13

Epilepsy

-

-

Focal motor seizures

Febrile seizures, generalized tonic–clonic seizures, atonic seizures, myoclonic and absence seizures; drug-resistant epilepsy

Generalized tonic–clonic seizures, febrile seizures, myoclonic, atonic; drug-resistant epilepsy

Generalized tonic–clonic

Generalized tonic–clonic seizures, febrile seizures, myoclonic, atonic

-

-

-

-

-

Absence seizures

6/13

Exome sequencing strategy

Trio

Trio

Trio

Trio

Trio

Solo

Trio

Solo

Solo

Trio

Trio

Solo

Duo (mother)

 

GrCh37/Hg19 genomic variants

chr8:g.68170369C>T

chr8:g.68112696G>A

chr8:g.68139835T>C

chr8:g.68172127del

chr8:68169969

chr8: 68152451

chr8:g.68200211delT

chr8:g.68178422G>A

chr8:g.68178422G>A

chr8:g.68139728G>A

chr8:g.68139728G>A

chr8:g.68138302G>A

chr8:68170366G>A

 

cDNA variants

NM_006421.4:c.2392G>A

NM_006421.4:c.5320C>T

NM_006421.4:c.3592–2A>G

NM_006421.4:c.2158del

NM_006421: c.C2524T

NM_006421.4: c.2923_2924dup

NM_006421.4:c.1006delA

NM_006421.4:c.1942C>T

NM_006421.4:c.1942C>T

NM_006421.4:c.3697C>T

NM_006421.4:c.3697C>T

NM_006421.4:c.4033C>T

NM_006421.5c.2395C>T

 

Amino acid variants

p.(Asp798Asn)

p.(Arg1774*)

p.?

p.(Leu720Serfs*24)

p.(Gln842*)

p.(Cys976Phefs*6)

p.(Met336Trpfs*2)

p.(Gln648*)

p.(Gln648*)

p.(Gln1233*)

p.(Gln1233*)

p.(Arg1345*)

p.(Arg799*)

 

Familial segregation

De novo

De novo

De novo

De novo

De novo

De novo

Paternally inherited

Paternally inherited

Paternally inherited

Paternally inherited

Paternally inherited

UN

Not inherited from mother, paternal sample unavailable

 
  1. ADHD attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder, cDNA complementary DNA, MRImagnetic resonance image, UN unavailable data.