Description
The copy number loss of 12q15q21.2 involves several coding genes, including CNOT2 (OMIM 604909) and BBS10 (OMIM 610148), and is expected to cause phenotypic and/or developmental abnormalities. This deletion interval overlaps the region of chromosome 12q15 deletion syndrome (OMIM 618608), which is characterized by developmental delay, hypotonia, feeding problems, learning difficulties, nasal speech, skeletal anomalies, and facial dysmorphic features. Some patients may also have congenital heart defects, vision impairment or hypothyroidism. Genotype-phenotype correlation studies have proposed CNOT2 as the critical gene responsible for at least some of the core clinical features of 12q15 microdeletion syndrome, as evidenced by the phenotypic characterization of individuals with truncating variants and focal deletions of this gene (Alesi et al., Am J Med Genet A 2019;179(8):1615-1621, PMID: 31145527; Uehara et al., Am J Med Genet A 2019;179(4):659-662, PMID: 30768759; Uehara et al., Am J Med Genet A 2019;179(12):2506-2509, PMID: 31512373). Additionally, biallelic loss-of-function variants of BBS10 are associated with autosomal recessive Bardet-Biedl syndrome-10 (OMIM 615987), which is characterized by progressive retinal dystrophy, obesity, polydactyly, cognitive impairment, and renal dysplasia.
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Origin | Affected | Number tested | Tissue | Purpose | Method | Individuals | Allele frequency | Families | Co-occurrences |
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1 | germline | unknown | not provided | not provided | not provided | | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |