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Congenital fibre-type disproportion (CFTD) with myopathy, is a genetically heterogeneous disease in which there is relative hypotrophy of type-1-muscle-fibres compared to type-2-fibres on skeletal muscle biopsy. The classical characteristics of CFTD are infantile hypotonia and nonprogressive muscle weakness with a broad range of clinical manifestations. Pathogenic mutations in the HACD1 gene encoding 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA-dehydratase-1 have recently been reported to be associated with this disease. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) was conducted in a 12-year-old girl born to consanguineous parents from the Iranian-Azeri-Turkish population. She was diagnosed with congenital myopathy at the age of 4-month-old due to hypotonia and abnormal electromyography. DNAs were extracted from the blood samples of the proband and her parents, and subjected to PCR-Sanger-sequencing to confirm the WES result. WES data analysis identified a homozygous single nucleotide change (A>T) at position c.785-2 located in intron 6 of the HACD1 gene (NC_000010.11(NM_014241.4):c.785-2A>T). This novel mutation located at the splice-acceptor site is disturbing the splicing procedure. The absence of this mutation among our control group (100 normal healthy adults from the same ethnic group) and not being reported in any other population database confirms the pathogenicity of this mutation. Bioinformatics analysis also classified this variant as a pathogenic mutation. PCR-Sanger-sequencing data analysis confirmed the WES result in the proband and showed that the parents were carriers for the mutation. A substitution (NC_000010.11(NM_014241.4):c.785-2A>T) mutation resulted in the removal of the splicing acceptor site at the HACD1 gene. This pathogenic mutation is associated with CFTD disease.
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NJ analysed WES data, designed primers and analysed Sanger Sequencing. BP performed clinical data analysis. HS performed bioinformatics analysis and contributed to writing the manuscript. MB performed clinical data analysis and was a major contributor to designing the project. MB designed the project and wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Jabbarpour, N., Poorshiri, B., Saei, H. et al. Identification of a novel mutation in the HACD1 gene in an Iranian family with autosomal recessive congenital myopathy, with fibre-type disproportion. J Genet 102, 18 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-022-01417-3
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