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Wiley, Human Mutation: Variation, Informatics and Disease, 8(35), p. 954-958, 2014

DOI: 10.1002/humu.22596

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A Novel in-Frame 18-bp Microdeletion inMT-CYBCauses a Multisystem Disorder with Prominent Exercise Intolerance

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Abstract

A novel heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) micro-deletion affecting the cytochrome b gene (MT-CYB) was identified in an Italian female patient with a multisystem disease characterized by sensorineural deafness, cataracts, retinal pigmentary dystrophy, dysphagia, postural and gait instability and myopathy with prominent exercise intolerance. The deletion is 18-base pair long and encompasses nucleotide positions 15649-15666, causing the loss of six amino acids (Ile-Leu-Ala-Met-Ile-Pro) in the protein, but leaving the remaining of the MT-CYB sequence in frame. The defective complex III function was co-transferred with mutant mtDNA in cybrids, thus unequivocally establishing its pathogenic role. Maternal relatives failed to show detectable levels of the deletion in blood and urinary epithelium, suggesting a de-novo mutational event. This is the second report of an in-frame intragenic deletion in MT-CYB, which most likely occurred in early stages of embryonic development, associated with a severe multisystem disorder with prominent exercise intolerance. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.