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Mutations in proteasome-related genes are associated with thyroid hemiagenesis

Author:
Budny, Bartlomiej  Szczepanek-Parulska, Ewelina  Zemojtel, Tomasz  Szaflarski, Witold  Rydzanicz, Malgorzata  Wesoly, Joanna  Handschuh, Luiza  Wolinski, Kosma  Piatek, Katarzyna  Niedziela, Marek  Ziemnicka, Katarzyna  Figlerowicz, Marek  Zabel, Maciej  Ruchala, Marek  


Journal:
ENDOCRINE


Issue Date:
2017


Abstract(summary):

Purpose Human thyroid development is a complex and still unexplained process. Thyroid hemiagenesis is a congenital anomaly, where one of the thyroid lobes fails to develop. In the majority of patients with thyroid hemiagenesis, the genetic background remains unknown. The aim of the study was to search for novel genetic contributors to the etiology of thyroid hemiagenesis. Methods A cohort of 34 sporadic patients diagnosed with thyroid hemiagenesis and one three-generation family were subjected to comprehensive genomic examination. Initially, targeted screening of associated transcription factors, known to be linked to thyroid development, was performed. As a next step, genomic examinations were applied using high-resolution microarrays, whereas for the thyroid hemiagenesis family, additionally the whole exome sequencing was performed. Results Screening of transcription factors revealed no causative mutations in the studied cohort. Genomic examinations revealed the presence of four recurrent defects (three deletions and one duplication) affecting highly conservative proteasome genes PSMA1, PSMA3, and PSMD3. In a thyroid hemiagenesis family a splice site mutation in a proteasome gene PSMD2 (c.612T > C cDNA.1170T > C, g.3271T > C) was found in both affected mother and daughter. Conclusions Our results shed a new light on etiology of thyroid hemiagenesis, so far suspected to be linked only to mutations in the genes directly involved in the thyroid development. We demonstrated, for the first time, that genomic alterations in proteasome-associated genes co-occur in patients presenting this developmental anomaly.


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