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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a highly heterogeneous recessive inherited disorder. FAP54, the homolog of CFAP54 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, was previously demonstrated as the C1d projection of the central microtubule apparatus of flagella. A Cfap54 knockout mouse model was then reported to have PCD-relevant phenotypes. Through whole-exome sequencing, compound heterozygous variants c.2649_2657delinC (p. E883Dfs*47) and c.7312_7313insCGCAGGCTGAATTCTTGG (p. T2438delinsTQAEFLA) in a new suspected PCD-relevant gene, CFAP54, were identified in an individual with PCD. Two missense variants, c.4112A>C (p. E1371A) and c.6559C>T (p. P2187S), in CFAP54 were detected in another unrelated patient. In this study, a minigene assay was conducted on the frameshift mutation showing a reduction in mRNA expression. In addition, a CFAP54 in-frame variant knock-in mouse model was established, which recapitulated the typical symptoms of PCD, including hydrocephalus, infertility, and mucus accumulation in nasal sinuses. Correspondingly, two missense variants were deleterious, with a dramatic reduction in mRNA abundance from bronchial tissue and sperm. The identification of PCD-causing variants of CFAP54 in two unrelated patients with PCD for the first time provides strong supportive evidence that CFAP54 is a new PCD-causing gene. This study further helps expand the disease-associated gene spectrum and improve genetic testing for PCD diagnosis in the future.
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The authors thank all the patients and other participants in this study. This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFC0901502 to Kai-Feng Xu; No. 2016YFC0905100 to Xue Zhang; No. 2017YFC1001201 to Yaping Liu), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 81788101 to Xue Zhang; No. 31271345 to Yaping Liu), and the CAMS Initiative for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) (Nos. 2021-1-I2M-018 and 2016-I2M-1-002 to Xue Zhang and Yaping Liu; Nos. 2020-I2M-C&T-B-002 and 2018-I2M-1-003 to Xinlun Tian).
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Zhao, X., Ge, H., Xu, W. et al. Lack of CFAP54 causes primary ciliary dyskinesia in a mouse model and human patients. Front. Med. 17, 1236–1249 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11684-023-0997-7
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