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Phenotypic variability in a seven-generation Swedish family segregating autosomal dominant hearing impairment due to a novel EYA4 frameshift mutation.

Abstract
Linkage to an interval overlapping the DFNA10 locus on chromosome 6q22-23 was found through genome wide linkage analysis in a seven-generation Swedish family segregating postlingual, autosomal dominant nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing impairment. A novel heterozygous frame-shift mutation (c.579_580insTACC, p.(Asp194Tyrfs*52)) in EYA4 was identified that truncates the so-called variable region of the protein. The mutation is predicted to result in haploinsufficiency of the EYA4 product. No evidence for dilated cardiomyopathy was found in the family, contrasting to a previous family with a deletion resulting in a similar truncation in the variable region. A highly variable age of onset was seen in the mutation carriers. For assessment of the aetiology of this variability, clinical and audiometric data analyses were performed. The affected family members all had similar cross-sectional and longitudinal deterioration of pure tone average (PTA) once the process of hearing deterioration had started, and no gender, parent-of-origin or family branch differences on PTA could be found. Age at onset varied between the family branches. In summary, this is the ninth published genetically verified DFNA10 family. The results imply that unidentified factors, genetic or environmental, other than the EYA4 mutation, are of importance for the age at onset of DFNA10, and that mutation early in the variable region of the EYA4 protein can occur in the absence of dilated cardiomyopathy.
AuthorsCarina Frykholm, Joakim Klar, Hanna Arnesson, Anna-Carin Rehnman, Marianne Lodahl, Ulla Wedén, Niklas Dahl, Lisbeth Tranebjærg, Nanna D Rendtorff
JournalGene (Gene) Vol. 563 Issue 1 Pg. 10-6 (May 25 2015) ISSN: 1879-0038 [Electronic] Netherlands
PMID25681523 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Chemical References
  • EYA4 protein, human
  • Trans-Activators
Topics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Cardiomyopathies (genetics)
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Frameshift Mutation
  • Genes, Dominant
  • Genetic Linkage
  • Hearing Loss (epidemiology, etiology, genetics)
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural (genetics)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pedigree
  • Phenotype
  • Sweden
  • Trans-Activators (genetics, metabolism)
  • Young Adult

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