Fetal anomalies
Gene: ZIC1 Green List (high evidence)I don't know
Single paper from 2015 with reports of variants in ZIC1 - unsure if JS phenotype? Amber/Red
PMID: 26340333; Reported 5 families with coronal craniosynotosis and learning disabilities with inconsistent brain abnormalities (1 pt with abnormalities of the cerebellum and pons). 4 nonsense and 1 missense reported to cause disease through GoF mechanism
PMID: 9412507; Zic1 deficient mice presented with ataxia and cerebellar hypoplasia (1998)
PMID: 14981711; This 2004 paper acknowledges that null mice shows JS phenotype, but excluded ZIC1 as causative gene because no pathogenic variants found in cohort of 47 JS patientsCreated: 4 May 2020, 12:12 a.m. | Last Modified: 4 May 2020, 12:17 a.m.
Panel Version: 0.20
Mode of inheritance
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown
Phenotypes
Structural brain anomalies with impaired intellectual development and craniosynostosis (MIM#618736)
Publications
Mode of pathogenicity
Other
Green List (high evidence)
5 families with heterozygous mutations located in the final (third) exon of ZIC1 who have a distinct phenotype in which severe craniosynostosis, specifically involving the coronal sutures, and variable learning disability are the most characteristic features. The location of the nonsense mutations predicts escape of mutant ZIC1 transcripts from nonsense-mediated decay, which was confirmed in a cell line from an affected individual. Both nonsense and missense mutations are associated with altered and/or enhanced expression of a target gene, engrailed-2, in a Xenopus embryo assay. Analysis of mouse embryos revealed a localized domain of Zic1 expression at embryonic days 11.5-12.5 in a region overlapping the supraorbital regulatory center, which patterns the coronal suture.
2 sibs with BAIDCS, Vandervore et al. (2018) identified heterozygosity for a frameshift mutation in the ZIC1 gene. Neither parent had evidence of the mutation by whole-exome sequencing, suggesting that gonadal mosaicism for the mutation was present in one of the parents. Expression of the mutated allele was detected in patient fibroblasts by RT-PCR, evidence that the mutant mRNA did not undergo nonsense-mediated decay and probably generates an abnormal protein.
Also heterozygous deletions of ZIC1 on chromosome 3q25.1 are associated with Dandy-Walker malformation of the cerebellum. Loss of the orthologous Zic1 gene in the mouse causes cerebellar hypoplasia and vertebral defects.
Sources: Expert listCreated: 12 Feb 2020, 12:58 a.m.
Mode of inheritance
MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
Phenotypes
Structural brain anomalies with impaired intellectual development and craniosynostosis; OMIM #618736
Publications
Gene: zic1 has been classified as Green List (High Evidence).
Phenotypes for gene: ZIC1 were changed from CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS 6 to Structural brain anomalies with impaired intellectual development and craniosynostosis; OMIM#618736
Publications for gene: ZIC1 were set to
Mode of inheritance for gene: ZIC1 was changed from MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown to MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, NOT imprinted
gene: ZIC1 was added gene: ZIC1 was added to Fetal anomalies. Sources: Expert Review Green,Genomics England PanelApp Mode of inheritance for gene: ZIC1 was set to MONOALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal, imprinted status unknown Phenotypes for gene: ZIC1 were set to CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS 6
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A. There are plausible disease-causing mutations(i) within, affecting or encompassing an interpretable functional region(ii) of this gene identified in multiple (>3) unrelated cases/families with the phenotype(iii).
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B. There are plausible disease-causing mutations(i) within, affecting or encompassing cis-regulatory elements convincingly affecting the expression of a single gene identified in multiple (>3) unrelated cases/families with the phenotype(iii).
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C. As definitions A or B but in 2 or 3 unrelated cases/families with the phenotype, with the addition of convincing bioinformatic or functional evidence of causation e.g. known inborn error of metabolism with mutation in orthologous gene which is known to have the relevant deficient enzymatic activity in other species; existence of an animal model which recapitulates the human phenotype.
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D. Evidence indicates that disease-causing mutations follow a Mendelian pattern of causation appropriate for reporting in a diagnostic setting(iv).
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E. No convincing evidence exists or has emerged that contradicts the role of the gene in the specified phenotype.
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A variant on one allele of this gene can cause the disease, and imprinting has not been implicated.
A variant on the paternally-inherited allele of this gene can cause the disease, if the alternate allele is imprinted (function muted).
A variant on the maternally-inherited allele of this gene can cause the disease, if the alternate allele is imprinted (function muted).
A variant on one allele of this gene can cause the disease. This is the default used for autosomal dominant mode of inheritance where no knowledge of the imprinting status of the gene required to cause the disease is known. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: autosomal dominant, dominant, AD, DOMINANT.
A variant on both alleles of this gene is required to cause the disease. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: autosomal recessive, recessive, AR, RECESSIVE.
The disease can be caused by a variant on one or both alleles of this gene. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: autosomal recessive or autosomal dominant, recessive or dominant, AR/AD, AD/AR, DOMINANT/RECESSIVE, RECESSIVE/DOMINANT.
A variant on one allele of this gene can cause the disease, however a variant on both alleles of this gene can result in a more severe form of the disease/phenotype.
A variant in this gene can cause the disease in males as they have one X-chromosome allele, whereas a variant on both X-chromosome alleles is required to cause the disease in females. Mapped to the following commonly used term from different sources: X-linked recessive.
A variant in this gene can cause the disease in males as they have one X-chromosome allele. A variant on one allele of this gene may also cause the disease in females, though the disease/phenotype may be less severe and may have a later-onset than is seen in males. X-linked inactivation and mosaicism in different tissues complicate whether a female presents with the disease, and can change over their lifetime. This term is the default setting used for X-linked genes, where it is not known definitately whether females require a variant on each allele of this gene in order to be affected. Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: X-linked dominant, x-linked, X-LINKED, X-linked.
The gene is in the mitochondrial genome and variants within this can cause this disease, maternally inherited. Mapped to the following commonly used term from different sources: Mitochondrial.
Mapped to the following commonly used terms from different sources: Unknown, NA, information not provided.
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