Phenotypic expansion of the BPTF-related neurodevelopmental disorder with dysmorphic facies and distal limb anomalies

Kevin E. Glinton, Anna C.E. Hurst, Kevin M. Bowling, Ingrid Cristian, Devon Haynes, Dusit Adstamongkonkul, Oskar Schnappauf, David B. Beck, Carole Brewer, Aditi Shah Parikh, Deepali N. Shinde, Alan Donaldson, Ariel Brautbar, Saskia Koene, Arie van Haeringen, Amélie Piton, Yline Capri, Margherita Furlan, Elena Gardella, Rikke Steensbjerre MøllerIrma van de Beek, Linda Zuurbier, Phillis Lakeman, Allan Bayat, Julian Martinez, Rebecca Signer, Pernille M. Torring, Morten Buch Engelund, Karen W. Gripp, Louise Amlie-Wolf, Lindsay B. Henderson, Alina T. Midro, Eugeniusz Tarasów, Beata Stasiewicz-Jarocka, Diana Moskal-Jasinska, Paul Vos, Felix Boschann, Corinna Stoltenburg, Oliver Puk, Inger Lise Mero, Kristine Lossius, Cyril Mignot, Boris Keren, Johanna C. Acosta Guio, Ignacio Briceño, Alberto Gomez, Yaping Yang, Pawel Stankiewicz

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Abstract

Neurodevelopmental disorder with dysmorphic facies and distal limb anomalies (NEDDFL), defined primarily by developmental delay/intellectual disability, speech delay, postnatal microcephaly, and dysmorphic features, is a syndrome resulting from heterozygous variants in the dosage-sensitive bromodomain PHD finger chromatin remodeler transcription factor BPTF gene. To date, only 11 individuals with NEDDFL due to de novo BPTF variants have been described. To expand the NEDDFL phenotypic spectrum, we describe the clinical features in 25 novel individuals with 20 distinct, clinically relevant variants in BPTF, including four individuals with inherited changes in BPTF. In addition to the previously described features, individuals in this cohort exhibited mild brain abnormalities, seizures, scoliosis, and a variety of ophthalmologic complications. These results further support the broad and multi-faceted complications due to haploinsufficiency of BPTF.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1366-1378
Number of pages13
JournalAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A
Volume185
Issue number5
Early online date2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2021

Keywords

  • chromatin remodeling
  • epilepsy
  • microcephaly

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