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Table 7 Vesicle regulation and cell adhesion

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 findings

Al-Dosari et al., 2013 [279]

Mutation in MPDZ causes severe congenital hydrocephalus

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

1 Subject, 50 Controls

Saudi

Case series

Callosal agenesis, hypotonia

Chorioretinal coloboma, atrial septal defect

Communicating

TGS, genotyping

Autozygosity mapping, linkage analysis, sanger sequencing

AR

9p23 (MPDZ)

Al-Jezawi et al., 2018 [280]

Compound heterozygous variants in the multiple PDZ domain protein (MPDZ) cause a case of mild non-progressive communicating hydrocephalus

College of Medicine and Heath Sciences, United Arab Emirates University

1 Subject, 2 Parents, 100 Controls

United Arab Emirates

Case study

Isolated hydrocephalus

Large head with frontal bossing and high arched palate

Communicating

WES

Variant analysis, sanger sequencing

AR

9p23 (MPDZ)

DeMari et al., 2016 [62]

CLTC as a clinically novel gene associated with multiple malformations and developmental delay

SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

1 Subject, 2 Parents

Caucasian

Case study

Hypotonia

Prominent jaw, large anterior fontanel, bilateral hip laxity, and jaundice, low-set ears, depressed nasal bridge, anteverted nares, widely set involuted nipples

Communicating

WGS, cytogenetics

Karyotype, SNP microarray, co-segregation analysis, sanger sequencing

De novo

17q23.1 (A heterozygous de novo frameshift mutation, c.2737_2738dupGA p.D913Efs*59)

Mégarbané et al., 2013 [281]

Homozygous stop mutation in the SNX10 gene in a consanguineous Iraqi boy with osteopetrosis and corpus callosum hypoplasia

Unité de Génétique Médicale et laboratoire associé INSERM à l'Unité UMR_S 910, Pôle Technologie Santé, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon

1 Subject, 1 Control

Iraqi

Case study

Macrocephaly,

Brain atrophy, thin corpus callosum

Proptosis of the eyes, skeletal abnormality, strabismus, splenomegaly and joint hyperlaxity

Communicating

TGS

Direct sequencing

AR

7p15.2 (SNX10 gene)

Rajadhyax et al., 2007 [63]

Neurological presentation of Griscelli syndrome: obstructive hydrocephalus without haematological abnormalities or organomegaly

Genetics and Neurosurgery, Leeds General Infirmary, UK

1 Subject

Asian

Case study

Sixth nerve palsy, increased muscle tone

Patchy hyperpigmentation on the lower limbs, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

Obstructive

TGS

-

AR

2q36.3 (RAB27A)

Reis et al., 2008 [282]

Mutation analysis of B3GALTL in Peters Plus syndrome

Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

8 Subjects, 180 Controls

Dutch

Case series

Intellectual disability

Central corneal opacity, defects in the posterior layers of the cornea, and lenticulo-corneal and/or irido-corneal adhesions, short stature, short broad hands with fifth finger clinodactyly, distinctive facial features, cleft lip and/or cleft palate, hearing loss, abnormal ears, heart defects, genitourinary anomalies

Communicating

TGS

Direct sequencing,

AR

13q12.3 (beta1,3-glucosyltransferase gene (B3GALTL))

Rodriguez et al., 2001 [283]

Infantile Alexander disease: spectrum of GFAP mutations and genotype–phenotype correlation

Laboratoire de Neurogénétique Moléculaire, INSERM U546, Université Paris VI, France

15 Subjects, 50 Controls

-

Case series

Macrocephaly, psychomotor regression, seizures, and spasticity

Respiratory difficulties

Communicating

TES

-

De novo

17q21.31 (Missense, heterozygous, de novo GFAP mutations

(R79H; four had R239C; and one had R239H))

Sakakibara et al., 2007 [284]

A case of infantile Alexander disease diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging and genetic analysis

Nara Medical University, Japan

1 Subject

-

Case study

Megalencephalic, seizures, white matter abnormalities

Bulbar paralysis

Obstructive

TGS

-

AD

17q21.31 (R239H mutation of glial fibrillary acidic protein(GFAP))

Saugier-Veber et al., 2017 [285]

Hydrocephalus due to multiple ependymal malformations is caused by mutations in the MPDZ gene

Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, INSERM U1245, Normandy Centre for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, Rouen University Hospital, F76000, Rouen, France

5 Subjects, 3 Controls

-

Case series

Multifocal ependymal malformations

 

Obstructive

TGS, cytogenetics

Karyotyping, variant analysis, sanger sequencing, targeted NGS

AR

9p23 (MPDZ gene)

Takeyari et al., 2018 [286]

Japanese patient with Cole-carpenter syndrome with compound heterozygous variants of SEC24D

Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

1 Subject

Japanese

Case study

Craniosynostosis

Prominent eye and micrognathia, short neck, scoliosis, and chest deformity, bone fractures, wormian bones, lordosis, and long thin bones

-

TES

Variant analysis, sanger sequencing

-

4q26 (SEC24D)

Van der Knaap et al., 2005 [287]

Unusual variants of Alexander's disease

VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

10 Subjects, 100 Controls

-

Case series

Cerebral white matter abnormalities, brainstem lesions

Scoliosis, dysphagia, gait disturbances

Obstructive

TGS

-

De novo

17q21.31 (GFAP)

Zhang et al., 2020 [288]

Prenatal presentation and diagnosis of Baraitser-Winter syndrome using exome sequencing

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, Virginia, USA

1 Subject, 2 Parents

 

Case study

Interhemispheric cyst

Cystic hygroma and omphalocele, ocular coloboma, hypertelorism, heart, renal, musculoskeletal system defects

-

TGS

NGS, variant analysis,

AD

7p22.1 (ACTB)

  1. Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). Autosomal Dominant (AD). Autosomal Recessive (AR). Next generation sequencing (NGS). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). Targeted exome sequencing (TES). Targeted genome sequencing (TGS). Whole exome sequencing (WES). Whole genome sequencing (WGS)