Abstract
Pathogenic variants in MCM2 could result in mild to severe sensorineural hearing loss in the affected individuals (deafness, autosomal dominant 70; DFNA70; OMIM: 616968), an extremely rare autosomal dominant progressive disorder. Here, we report a novel missense variant (NM_004526:c.388C>T, p.R130C; Clinvar: SCV002072508) in MCM2 in an Iranian family identified by whole-exome sequencing and confirmed by Sanger sequencing. The heterozygous variant (NM_004526:c.388C>T, p.R130C) in MCM2 was identified in the proband and his mother. The proband is a nine-year-old male born to nonconsanguineous parents. The proband was characterized by nonsyndromic hearing loss, while his mother showed a mild form of the disorder. This study reports the second disease-causing variant in MCM2 in the world and confirms that hearing loss arising from variants in MCM2 is nonsyndromic. Nevertheless, as was reported in the previous family, phenotype could vary among the patients with the same variant.
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The authors thank the Comprehensive Medical Genetics Center, Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran and its members for their invaluable contribution to this study.
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ZZ, conceptualization, methodology. MD, conceptualization, supervision. ASS, writing - original draft. NK, conceptualization, methodology, writing - original draft. HJK, methodology, project administration. SZ, investigation. SM, methodology. SST, writing and editing. SAD, physical examination and clinical characterization. SMBT, physical examination and clinical characterization.
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Zeraatpisheh, Z., Sichani, A.S., Kamal, N. et al. MCM2 mutation causes autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss (DFNA70): novel variant in the second family. J Genet 101, 24 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-022-01364-z
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