Mutations in PHF6 are associated with Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome

Karen M. Lower; Gillian Turner; Bronwyn A. Kerr; Katherine D. Mathews; Marie A. Shaw; Ági K. Gedeon; Susan Schelley; H. Eugene Hoyme; Susan M. White; Martin B. Delatycki; Anne K. Lampe; Jill Clayton-Smith; Helen Stewart; Conny M.A. Van Ravenswaayl; Bert B.A. De Vries; Barbara Cox; Markus Grompe; Shelley Ross; Paul Thomas; John C. Mulley; Jozef Gécz

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Mutations in PHF6 are associated with Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome

Karen M. Lower, Gillian Turner, Bronwyn A. Kerr, Katherine D. Mathews, Marie A. Shaw, Ági K. Gedeon, Susan Schelley, H. Eugene Hoyme, Susan M. White, Martin B. Delatycki, Anne K. Lampe, Jill Clayton-Smith, Helen Stewart, Conny M.A. Van Ravenswaayl, Bert B.A. De Vries, Barbara Cox, Markus Grompe, Shelley Ross, Paul Thomas, John C. MulleyJozef Gécz

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Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome (BFLS; OMIM 301900) is characterized by moderate to severe mental retardation, epilepsy, hypogonadism, hypometabolism, obesity with marked gynecomastia, swelling of subcutaneous tissue of the face, narrow palpebral fissure and large but not deformed ears¹. Previously, the gene associated with BFLS was localized to 17 Mb in Xq26-q27 (refs 2-4). We have reduced this interval to roughly 9 Mb containing more than 62 genes. Among these, a novel, widely expressed zinc-finger (plant homeodomain (PHD)-like finger) gene (PHF6) had eight different missense and truncation mutations in seven familial and two sporadic cases of BFLS. Transient transfection studies with PHF6 tagged with green fluorescent protein (GFP) showed diffuse nuclear staining with prominent nucleolar accumulation. Such localization, and the presence of two PHD-like zinc fingers, is suggestive of a role for PHF6 in transcription.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	661-665
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature Genetics
Volume	32
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1040
Publication status	Published or Issued - 1 Dec 2002
Externally published	Yes

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Lower, K. M., Turner, G., Kerr, B. A., Mathews, K. D., Shaw, M. A., Gedeon, Á. K., Schelley, S., Hoyme, H. E., White, S. M., Delatycki, M. B., Lampe, A. K., Clayton-Smith, J., Stewart, H., Van Ravenswaayl, C. M. A., De Vries, B. B. A., Cox, B., Grompe, M., Ross, S., Thomas, P., ... Gécz, J. (2002). Mutations in PHF6 are associated with Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome. Nature Genetics, 32(4), 661-665. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1040

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