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Published on: October 9, 2014
A novel COL11A1 mutation affecting splicing in a patient with Stickler syndrome
Tomohiro Kohmoto1, Takuya Naruto2, Haruka Kobayashi1
1Department of Human Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan; Student Lab, Faculty of Medicine, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan.
Abstract:
Stickler syndrome is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous collagenopathy characterized by ocular, auditory, skeletal and orofacial abnormalities, commonly occurring as an autosomal dominant trait. We conducted target resequencing to analyze candidate genes associated with known clinical phenotypes from a 4-year-old girl with Stickler syndrome. We detected a novel heterozygous intronic mutation (NM_001854.3:c.3168+5G>A) in COL11A1 that may impair splicing, which was suggested by in silico prediction and a minigene assay.
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