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Disruption of chromatin organisation causes MEF2C gene overexpression in intellectual disability: a case report.

Kevin YauyAnouck SchneiderBee Ling NgJean-Baptiste GaillardSatish SatiChristine CoubesConstance WellsMagali TournaireThomas GuignardPauline BouretDavid GenevièveJacques PuechbertyFranck PellestorVincent Gatinois
Published in: BMC medical genomics (2019)
Pathogenicity of MEF2C overexpression is still unclear as only four patients with mild intellectual deficiency carrying 5q14.3 microduplications containing MEF2C are described in the literature. The microduplications in these individuals also contain other genes expressed in the brain. The patient presented the same phenotype as 5q14.3 microduplication patients. We report the first case of a balanced translocation leading to an overexpression of MEF2C similar to a functional duplication.
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