The ARID1B spectrum in 143 patients: from nonsyndromic intellectual disability to Coffin-Siris syndrome
2018
Pathogenic variants in ARID1B are one of the most frequent causes of intellectual disability (ID) as determined by large-scale
exome sequencingstudies. Most studies published thus far describe clinically diagnosed
Coffin–Siris patients (ARID1B-CSS) and it is unclear whether these data are representative for patients identified through sequencing of unbiased ID cohorts (ARID1B-ID). We therefore sought to determine genotypic and phenotypic differences between ARID1B-ID and ARID1B-CSS. In parallel, we investigated the effect of different methods of phenotype reporting. Clinicians entered clinical data in an extensive web-based survey. 79 ARID1B-CSS and 64 ARID1B-ID patients were included. CSS-associated
dysmorphic features, such as thick
eyebrows, long
eyelashes, thick alae nasi, long and/or broad
philtrum, small nails and small or absent fifth distal
phalanxand
hypertrichosis, were observed significantly more often (p < 0.001) in ARID1B-CSS patients. No other significant differences were identified. There are only minor differences between ARID1B-ID and ARID1B-CSS patients. ARID1B-related disorders seem to consist of a spectrum, and patients should be managed similarly. We demonstrated that data collection methods without an explicit option to report the absence of a feature (such as most
Human Phenotype Ontology-based methods) tended to underestimate gene-related features.
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