Congenital Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Inborn Pigmentary Disorders : First Report of Multilocus Syndrome in Piebaldism

Congenital sensorineural hearing loss may occur in association with inborn pigmentary defects of the iris, hair, and skin. These conditions, named auditory-pigmentary disorders (APDs), represent extremely heterogeneous hereditary diseases, including Waardenburg syndromes, oculocutaneous albinism, Tietz syndrome, and piebaldism. APDs are part of the neurocristopathies, a group of congenital multisystem disorders caused by an altered development of the neural crest cells, multipotent progenitors of a wide variety of different lineages, including those differentiating into peripheral nervous system glial cells and melanocytes. We report on clinical and genetic findings of two monozygotic twins from a large Albanian family who showed a complex phenotype featured by sensorineural congenital deafness, severe neuropsychiatric impairment, and inborn pigmentary defects of hair and skin. The genetic analyzes identified, in both probands, an unreported co-occurrence of a new heterozygous germline pathogenic variant (c.2484 + 5G > T splicing mutation) in the KIT gene, consistent with the diagnosis of piebaldism, and a heterozygous deletion at chromosome 15q13.3, responsible for the neuropsychiatric impairment. This case represents the first worldwide report of dual locus inherited syndrome in piebald patients affected by a complex auditory-pigmentary multisystem phenotype. Here we also synthesize the clinical and genetic findings of all known neurocristopathies characterized by a hypopigmentary congenital disorder.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:55

Enthalten in:

Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) - 55(2019), 7 vom: 07. Juli

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gironi, Laura Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Colombo, Enrico [VerfasserIn]
Brusco, Alfredo [VerfasserIn]
Grosso, Enrico [VerfasserIn]
Naretto, Valeria Giorgia [VerfasserIn]
Guala, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Di Gregorio, Eleonora [VerfasserIn]
Zonta, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Zottarelli, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Pasini, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Savoia, Paola [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

15q13.3 deletion
Auditory-pigmentary disorders
Case Reports
Genetic skin disorders
Genodermatoses
KIT
Multilocus syndrome
Neurocristopathies
Piebaldism

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Date Completed 02.01.2020

Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/medicina55070345

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NLM29898010X