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LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa
In a highly inbred Australian Shepherd litter, three of the five puppies developed widespread ulcers of the skin, footpads, and oral mucosa within the first weeks of life. Histopathological examinations demonstrated clefting of the epidermis from the underlying dermis within or just below the baseme...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7565164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32906717 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11091055 |
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author | Kiener, Sarah Laprais, Aurore Mauldin, Elizabeth A. Jagannathan, Vidhya Olivry, Thierry Leeb, Tosso |
author_facet | Kiener, Sarah Laprais, Aurore Mauldin, Elizabeth A. Jagannathan, Vidhya Olivry, Thierry Leeb, Tosso |
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description | In a highly inbred Australian Shepherd litter, three of the five puppies developed widespread ulcers of the skin, footpads, and oral mucosa within the first weeks of life. Histopathological examinations demonstrated clefting of the epidermis from the underlying dermis within or just below the basement membrane, which led to a tentative diagnosis of junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) with autosomal recessive inheritance. Endoscopy in one affected dog also demonstrated separation between the epithelium and underlying tissue in the gastrointestinal tract. As a result of the severity of the clinical signs, all three dogs had to be euthanized. We sequenced the genome of one affected puppy and compared the data to 73 control genomes. A search for private variants in 37 known candidate genes for skin fragility phenotypes revealed a single protein-changing variant, LAMB3:c.1174T>C, or p.Cys392Arg. The variant was predicted to change a conserved cysteine in the laminin β3 subunit of the heterotrimeric laminin-322, which mediates the binding of the epidermal basement membrane to the underlying dermis. Loss-of-function variants in the human LAMB3 gene lead to recessive forms of JEB. We confirmed the expected co-segregation of the genotypes in the Australian Shepherd family. The mutant allele was homozygous in two genotyped cases and heterozygous in three non-affected close relatives. It was not found in 242 other controls from the Australian Shepherd breed, nor in more than 600 other controls. These data suggest that LAMB3:c.1174T>C represents the causative variant. To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first report of a LAMB3-related JEB in domestic animals. |
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spelling | pubmed-75651642020-10-26 LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa Kiener, Sarah Laprais, Aurore Mauldin, Elizabeth A. Jagannathan, Vidhya Olivry, Thierry Leeb, Tosso Genes (Basel) Article In a highly inbred Australian Shepherd litter, three of the five puppies developed widespread ulcers of the skin, footpads, and oral mucosa within the first weeks of life. Histopathological examinations demonstrated clefting of the epidermis from the underlying dermis within or just below the basement membrane, which led to a tentative diagnosis of junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) with autosomal recessive inheritance. Endoscopy in one affected dog also demonstrated separation between the epithelium and underlying tissue in the gastrointestinal tract. As a result of the severity of the clinical signs, all three dogs had to be euthanized. We sequenced the genome of one affected puppy and compared the data to 73 control genomes. A search for private variants in 37 known candidate genes for skin fragility phenotypes revealed a single protein-changing variant, LAMB3:c.1174T>C, or p.Cys392Arg. The variant was predicted to change a conserved cysteine in the laminin β3 subunit of the heterotrimeric laminin-322, which mediates the binding of the epidermal basement membrane to the underlying dermis. Loss-of-function variants in the human LAMB3 gene lead to recessive forms of JEB. We confirmed the expected co-segregation of the genotypes in the Australian Shepherd family. The mutant allele was homozygous in two genotyped cases and heterozygous in three non-affected close relatives. It was not found in 242 other controls from the Australian Shepherd breed, nor in more than 600 other controls. These data suggest that LAMB3:c.1174T>C represents the causative variant. To the best of our knowledge, this study represents the first report of a LAMB3-related JEB in domestic animals. MDPI 2020-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7565164/ /pubmed/32906717 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11091055 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kiener, Sarah Laprais, Aurore Mauldin, Elizabeth A. Jagannathan, Vidhya Olivry, Thierry Leeb, Tosso LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa |
title | LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa |
title_full | LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa |
title_fullStr | LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa |
title_full_unstemmed | LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa |
title_short | LAMB3 Missense Variant in Australian Shepherd Dogs with Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa |
title_sort | lamb3 missense variant in australian shepherd dogs with junctional epidermolysis bullosa |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7565164/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32906717 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes11091055 |
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