Poch, A; Dougherty, MP; Roman, RA; Chorich, L; Hawkins, Z; Kim, S-H; Kim, H-G; Layman, LC
(2024)
Prevalence of pathogenic variants and digenic disease in patients diagnosed with normosmic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism/Kallmann Syndrome.
Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 589.
p. 112224.
ISSN 0303-7207
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2024.112224
SGUL Authors: Kim, Soo-Hyun
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Abstract
Background Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) is due to impaired gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) action resulting in absent puberty and infertility. At least 44 genes have been identified to possess genetic variants in 40–50% of nHH/KS, and 2–20% have presumed digenic disease, but not all variants have been characterized in vitro. Hypothesis The prevalence of pathogenic (P)/likely pathogenic (LP) variants in monogenic and digenic nHH/KS is lower than reported. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting University Research Laboratory. Subjects 158 patients with nHH/KS. Methods Exome sequencing (ES) was performed and variants were filtered for 44 known genes using Varsome and confirmed by Sanger Sequencing. Main outcome measures P/LP variants in nHH/KS genes. Results ES resulted in >370,000 variants, from which variants in 44 genes were filtered. Thirty-one confirmed P/LP variants in 10 genes (ANOS1, CHD7, DUSP6, FGFR1, HS6ST1, KISS1, PROKR2, SEMA3A, SEMA3E, TACR3), sufficient to cause disease, were identified in 30/158 (19%) patients. Only 2/158 (1.2%) patients had digenic variant combinations: a male with hemizygous ANOS1 and heterozygous TACR3 variants and a male with heterozygous SEMA3A and SEMA3E variants. Two patients (1.2%) had compound heterozygous GNRHR (autosomal recessive) variants—one P and one variant of uncertain significance (VUS). Five patients (3.2%) had heterozygous P/LP variants in either GNRHR or TACR3 (both autosomal recessive), but no second variant. Conclusion Our prevalence of P/LP variants in nHH/KS was 19%, and digenicity was observed in 1.2%. These findings are less than those previously reported, and probably represent a more accurate estimation since VUS are not included.
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Keywords: | 06 Biological Sciences, 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, Endocrinology & Metabolism | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology | ||||||||
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URI: | https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/116417 | ||||||||
Publisher's version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mce.2024.112224 |
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