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Truncation and micro-deletion of EVC accompanied by a novel EFCAB | 31167
Pediatrics & Therapeutics

Pediatrics & Therapeutics
Open Access

ISSN: 2161-0665

+44 1478 350008

Truncation and micro-deletion of EVC accompanied by a novel EFCAB7 missense mutation in Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome with a typical congenital heart defect


4th International Conference on Pediatrics & Pediatric Emergency Medicine

March 29-31, 2016 Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Tran Quynh Nhu Nguyen, Makiko Saitoh, Huu Tung Trinh, Nguyen Minh Thien Doan, Yoko Mizuno, Masafumi Seki, Yusuke Sato, Seishi Ogawa and Masashi Mizuguchi

The University of Tokyo, Japan
Ho Chi Minh City Children��?s Hospital 2, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University, Vietnam
Kyoto University, Japan

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Pediat Therapeut

Abstract :

Ellis-van Creveld syndrome (EvC) is aciliopathy with cardiac anomalies, disproportionate short stature, polydactyly, dystrophic nails and oral defects. Approximately 60% of EvC patients have severe congenital heart defects (CHD), of which more than half are atrio-ventricular septal defect and common atrium. In this study, we report one EvC Vietnamese family with an atypical CHD phenotype, short chordalis. A 32-month-old boy had a novel heterozygous EVC mutation (c.1717C>G-p. S572X) in exon 12, inherited from his father whose phenotype was milder than his son��?s. Of note, the mother without an EvC phenotype showed a lower expression of EVC mRNA compared with controls. SNP array analysis revealed that the patient and mother had a heterozygous 16kb deletion in EVC, ranging from intron 9 to intron 11. As the patient and the father had an atypical CHD, we screened EFCAB7 and IQCE as the candidate for modifiers of EvC phenotype. EFCAB7 and IQCE are ciliary proteins, which positively regulate the Hh pathway and anchor the EVC-EVC2 complex in a signaling micro-domain at the base of cilia. Anovel missense mutation c.1171T>C-p.Y391H in EFCAB7 was found in the patient and the father. This mutation located in a possible binding site of EFCAB7 and EVC2 and may have modified the EvC phenotype in this family. Our findings suggested the physiological role of EFCAB7 in cardiac development.

Biography :

Tran Quynh Nhu Nguyen graduated from University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam in 2007. Since 2008, she has worked as cardiologist in Children’s Hospital 2, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. She has completed Master course from School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan in March 2015 and at present continues PhD course in the same university.

Email: qnhu13@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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