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Non-polyalanine repeat mutation in PHOX2B is detected in autopsy cases of sudden unexpected infant death

BACKGROUND: Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), which is caused by PHOX2B with phenotypic variations, has a point of controversy: CCHS is putatively involved in autopsy cases of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) including sudden infant death syndrome. OBJECTIVE: The relation of C...

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Autores principales: Ueda, Atsushi, Osawa, Motoki, Naito, Haruaki, Ochiai, Eriko, Kakimoto, Yu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9053812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35486589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267751
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), which is caused by PHOX2B with phenotypic variations, has a point of controversy: CCHS is putatively involved in autopsy cases of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) including sudden infant death syndrome. OBJECTIVE: The relation of CCHS to SUID cases was investigated by extensive genotyping of PHOX2B. METHODS: We analyzed 93 DNA samples of less than one-year-old SUID cases that were autopsied in our department. Unrelated adult volunteers (n = 942) were used as the control. RESULTS: No polyalanine tract expansion was detected in the SUID cases. The allelic frequencies of repeat contractions and SNP (rs28647582) in intron 2 were not significantly different from that in those control group. Further extensive sequencing revealed a non-polyalanine repeat mutation (NPARM) of c.905A>C in a sudden death case of a one-month-old male infant. This missense mutation (p.Asn302Thr), registered as rs779068107, was annotated to ‘Affected status is unknown’, but it might be associated with the sudden death. CONCLUSION: NPARM was more plausibly related to sudden unexpected death than expansions because of severe clinical complications. This finding indicates possible CCHS involvement in forensic autopsy cases without ante-mortem diagnosis.