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Wiley, Human Mutation: Variation, Informatics and Disease, 6(34), p. 801-811, 2013

DOI: 10.1002/humu.22313

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NovelFOXF1Mutations in Sporadic and Familial Cases of Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia with Misaligned Pulmonary Veins Imply a Role for its DNA Binding Domain

Journal article published in 2013 by Partha Sen, Yaping Yang, Colby Navarro, Iris Silva, Przemyslaw Szafranski, Katarzyna E. Kolodziejska, Avinash V. Dharmadhikari, Hasnaa Mostafa, Harry Kozakewich, Debra Kearney, John B. Cahill, Merrissa Whitt, Masha Bilic, Linda Margraf, Adrian Charles and other authors.
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Abstract

Alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) is a rare and lethal developmental disorder of the lung defined by a constellation of characteristic histopathological features. Non-pulmonary anomalies involving organs of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and genitourinary systems have been identified in approximately 80% of patients with ACD/MPV. We have collected DNA and pathological samples from more than 90 infants with ACD/MPV and their family members. Since the publication of our initial report of four point mutations and ten deletions, we have identified an additional thirty eight novel nonsynonymous mutations of FOXF1 (nine nonsense, seven frameshift, one inframe deletion, twenty missense, and one no stop). This report represents an up to date list of all known FOXF1 mutations to the best of our knowledge. Majority of the cases are sporadic whereas four familial cases with three showing maternal inheritance, consistent with paternal imprinting of the gene. Twenty five mutations (60%) are located within the putative DNA binding domain, indicating its plausible role in gene regulation. Five mutations map to the second exon. We identified two additional genic and eight genomic deletions upstream to FOXF1. These results corroborate and extend our previous observations and further establish involvement of FOXF1 in ACD/MPV and lung organogenesis.