Predicted benign and synonymous variants in CYP11A1 cause primary adrenal insufficiency through missplicing

Maharaj, Avinaash, Buonocore, Federica, Meimaridou, Eirini, Ruiz-Babot, Gerard, Guasti, Leonardo, Peng, Hwei-Ming, Capper, Cameron P., Burgos-Tirado, Neikelyn, Prasad, Rathi, Hughes, Claire R., Maudhoo, Ashwini, Crowne, Elizabeth, Cheetham, Timothy D., Brain, Caroline E., Suntharalingham, Jenifer P., Striglioni, Niccolò, Yuksel, Bilgin, Gurbuz, Fatih, Gupta, Sangay, Lindsay, Robert, Couch, Robert, Spoudeas, Helen A., Guran, Tulay, Johnson, Stephanie, Fowler, Dallas J., Conwell, Louise S., McInerney-Leo, Aideen M., Drui, Delphine, Cariou, Bertrand, Lopez-Siguero, Juan P., Harris, Mark, Duncan, Emma L., Hindmarsh, Peter C., Auchus, Richard J., Donaldson, Malcolm D., Achermann, John C. and Metherell, Louise A. (2018) Predicted benign and synonymous variants in CYP11A1 cause primary adrenal insufficiency through missplicing. Journal of the Endocrine Society, 3 (1). pp. 201-221. ISSN 2472-1972

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Abstract / Description

Primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) is a potentially life-threatening condition that can present with nonspecific features and can be difficult to diagnose. We undertook next generation sequencing in a cohort of children and young adults with PAI of unknown etiology from around the world and identified a heterozygous missense variant (rs6161, c.940G>A, p.Glu314Lys) in CYP11A1 in 19 individuals from 13 different families (allele frequency within undiagnosed PAI in our cohort, 0.102 vs 0.0026 in the Genome Aggregation Database; P < 0.0001). Seventeen individuals harbored a second heterozygous rare disruptive variant in CYP11A1 and two had very rare synonymous changes in trans (c.990G>A, Thr330 = ; c.1173C>T, Ser391 =). Although p.Glu314Lys is predicted to be benign and showed no loss-of-function in an Escherichia coli assay system, in silico and in vitro studies revealed that the rs6161/c.940G>A variant, plus the c.990G>A and c.1173C>T changes, affected splicing and that p.Glu314Lys produces a nonfunctional protein in mammalian cells. Taken together, these findings show that compound heterozygosity involving a relatively common and predicted "benign" variant in CYP11A1 is a major contributor to PAI of unknown etiology, especially in European populations. These observations have implications for personalized management and demonstrate how variants that might be overlooked in standard analyses can be pathogenic when combined with other very rare disruptive changes.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Addison disease, silent variant, side chain cleavage enzyme, cytochrome p450scc, CYP11A1
Subjects:	500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
Department:	School of Human Sciences
Depositing User:	Eirini Meimaridou
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2019 08:12
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2020 09:56
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/4983

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