Total submissions: 3
Submitter | RCV | SCV | Clinical significance | Condition | Last evaluated | Review status | Method | Comment |
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Institute for Genomic Medicine, |
RCV001353047 | SCV001547536 | pathogenic | Synpolydactyly type 1 | 2021-03-25 | criteria provided, single submitter | research | The c.209_210insGGCTGCGGCGGCGGCAGCGGC variant is predicted to cause a 7-residue expansion of the polyalanine tract in exon 1 of HOXD13. This variant was first reported to cause dominant synpolydactyly more than 20 years ago and has been described in multiple unrelated synpolydactyly kindreds (PMID: 9207113). In our research study, we sequenced three members of a family with four documented generations of polysyndactyly. After identifying a similar variant (9-alanine dup) in a different family with this condition, we observed suggestive evidence of a similar event in this trio, and performed Sanger sequencing to confirm the 21-bp duplication in the proband and affected father. The variant is absent from population frequency databases (gnomAD). Functional studies of the polyalanine repeat in exon 1 have shown that an increase of the Ala repeat above a certain length (22 Ala) is associated with a shift in the localization of Hoxd13 from nuclear to cytoplasmic, where it forms large amorphous aggregates (PMID: 15333588). We interpret the variant as pathogenic. |
Baylor Genetics | RCV000016001 | SCV004040672 | pathogenic | Syndactyly type 5 | 2023-04-13 | criteria provided, single submitter | clinical testing | |
OMIM | RCV000016001 | SCV000036268 | pathogenic | Syndactyly type 5 | 2005-11-01 | no assertion criteria provided | literature only |