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Erosive vitreoretinopathy and wagner disease are caused by intronic mutations in CSPG2/Versican that result in an imbalance of splice variants.
Mukhopadhyay, A, Nikopoulos, K, Maugeri, A, de Brouwer, A, van Nouhuys, C, Boon, C, Perveen, R, Zegers, H, Wittebol-Post, D, van den Biesen, P, van der Velde-Visser, S, Brunner, H, Black, GCM, Hoyng, C, Cremers, F
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2006;47( 8):3565-72.
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PURPOSE: Linkage intervals for erosive vitreoretinopathy (ERVR) and Wagner disease previously were found to overlap at 5q14.3. In a Japanese family with Wagner disease, a CSPG2/Versican splice site mutation (c.4004-2A-->G) was recently reported that resulted in a 39-nucleotide exon 8 in-frame deletion. We investigated whether CSPG2/Versican was mutated in six Dutch families and one Chinese family with Wagner disease and in a family with ERVR. METHODS: In all families, extensive ophthalmic examinations, haplotype analysis of the 5q14.3 region, and sequence analysis of CSPG2/Versican were performed. The effects of splice site mutations were assessed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and real-time quantitative RT-PCR (QPCR). RESULTS: Three novel intron 7 sequence variants (c.4004-5T-->C, c.4004-5T-->A, c.4004-1G-->A) were identified in seven families. The c.4004-5T-->C variant was identified in four families with Wagner disease and a family with ERVR. The families were shown to carry the same 5q14.3 haplotype, strongly suggesting that this is a common Dutch founder variant. All three changes segregated with the disease in the respective families and were absent in 250 healthy individuals. In patients with the c.4004-5T-->A and c.4004-1G-->A variants, RT-PCR analysis of CSPG2/Versican showed activation of a cryptic splice site resulting in a 39-nt exon 8 in-frame deletion in splice variant V0. QPCR revealed a highly significant (P < 0.0001) and consistent increase of the V2 (>38-fold) and V3 (>12-fold) splice variants in all patients with intron 7 nucleotide changes and in a Chinese Wagner disease family, in which the genetic defect remains to be found. CONCLUSIONS: Wagner disease and ERVR are allelic disorders. Seven of the eight families exhibit a variant in intron 7 of CSPG2/Versican. The conspicuous clustering of sequence variants in the splice acceptor site of intron 7 and the consistent upregulation of the V2 and V3 isoforms strongly suggest that Wagner disease and ERVR may belong to a largely overlooked group of diseases that are caused by mRNA isoform balance shifts, representing a novel disease mechanism.
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Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Genotype; Haplotypes; Humans; Linkage (Genetics); Male; Mutation; Pedigree; RNA Splicing; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Variation (Genetics); Vitreous Body; genetics: Chromosomes, Human, Pair 5; genetics: Eye Diseases; genetics: Introns; genetics: Lectins, C-Type; genetics: Proteochondroitin Sulfates; genetics: RNA Splice Sites; genetics: RNA, Messenger; genetics: Retinal Diseases