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Table 13 WNT signaling

From: The genetic basis of hydrocephalus: genes, pathways, mechanisms, and global impact

Citation

Title

Author affiliation

Case #

Ancestry

Study design

CNS phenotype

Non-CNS phenotype

Type of hydrocephalus

Genetic methodology

Genetic analysis

Inheritance

Genetic finding

Doherty et al., 2010 [96]

Mutations in 3 genes (MKS3, CC2D2A and RPGRIP1L) cause COACH syndrome (Joubert syndrome with congenital hepatic fibrosis)

University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, USA

26 Subjects, 210 Controls

USA, European, Asian, African, Native American, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, and Turkey

Case series

Intellectual impairment, hypotonia, ataxia, cerebellar vermis hypoplasia, encephalocele

Congestive heart failure, hepatic fibrosis, coloboma, retinal disease, renal disease, polydactyly

Communicating

Genotyping, TGS

Microsatellite marker assay, SNP

AR

4p15.32 (CC2D2A)

Drielsma et al., 2012 [364]

Two novel CCDC88C mutations confirm the role of DAPLE in autosomal recessive congenital hydrocephalus

Institute of Interdisciplinary Research – IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

8 Subjects, 4 Parents, 721 Controls

Jewish Ashkenazi, Palestinian,

Case series

Seizures, parietal polymicrogyria

Hypertelorism, lung lymphangiectasias

Communicating

Cytogenetics, genotyping, TGS

Karyotyping, MLPA, homozygosity mapping, sanger sequencing

AR

14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)

Ekici et al., 2010 [98]

Disturbed Wnt Signalling due to a Mutation in CCDC88C Causes an Autosomal Recessive Non-Syndromic Hydrocephalus with Medial Diverticulum

University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

58 subjects, 224 controls

Algeria

Case series

Mild psychomotor delay

-

-

Genotyping, TGS

Linkage analysis, homozygosity mapping, cycle sequencing

AR

14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)

Ruggeri et al., 2018 [365]

Bi-allelic mutations of CCDC88C are a rare cause of severe congenital hydrocephalus

Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

2 Subjects

-

Case series

Intellectual delay and infantile onset seizures

Varying degrees of motor delay

-

WES

Variant analysis, trio-based exome sequencing, sanger sequencing

AR

14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)

Wallis et al., 2018 [366]

Surprisingly good outcome in antenatal diagnosis of severe hydrocephalus related to CCDC88C deficiency

Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

5 Subjects

Moroccan, Saudi

Case series

Isolated hydrocephalus

Developmental delay

Obstructive

TGS

Massively parallel sequencing

AR

14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)

  1. Autosomal Recessive (AR). Multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification (MLPA). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). Targeted genome sequencing (TGS). Whole exome sequencing (WES)