Genetic study of congenital bile-duct dilatation identifies de novo and inherited variants in functionally related genes

作者：John Wong, Desmond Campbell, Ngoc Diem Ngo, Fanny Yeung, Guo Cheng, Clara Sze-Man Tang, Bhy Chung, Ngoc Son Tran, Man‐Ting So, Stacey S. Cherny, Pak C. Sham, Paul Kwong Hang Tam, María-Mercé García-Barceló · 发表于：BMC Medical Genomics · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.1186/s12920-016-0236-z · 被引用次数：27 · 研究领域：Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments、Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders、Congenital Ear and Nasal Anomalies

BACKGROUND: Congenital dilatation of the bile-duct (CDD) is a rare, mostly sporadic, disorder that results in bile retention with severe associated complications. CDD affects mainly Asians. To our knowledge, no genetic study has ever been conducted. METHODS: We aim to identify genetic risk factors by a "trio-based" exome-sequencing approach, whereby 31 CDD probands and their unaffected parents were exome-sequenced. Seven-hundred controls from the local population were used to detect gene-sets significantly enriched with rare variants in CDD patients. RESULTS: Twenty-one predicted damaging de novo variants (DNVs; 4 protein truncating and 17 missense) were identified in several evolutionarily constrained genes (p < 0.01). Six genes carrying DNVs were associated with human developmental disorders involving epithelial, connective or bone morphologies (PXDN, RTEL1, ANKRD11, MAP2K1, CYLD, ACAN) and four linked with cholangio- and hepatocellular carcinomas (PIK3CA, TLN1 CYLD, MAP2K1). Importantly, CDD patients have an excess of DNVs in cancer-related genes (p < 0.025). Thirteen genes were recurrently mutated at different sites, forming compound heterozygotes or functionally related complexes within patients. CONCLUSIONS: Our data supports a strong genetic basis for CDD and show that CDD is not only genetically heterogeneous but also non-monogenic, requiring mutations in more than one genes for the disease to develop. The data is consistent with the rarity and sporadic presentation o...