Mutations in EBF3 disturb transcriptional profiles and cause intellectual disability, ataxia and facial dysmorphism
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AccessionGSE90682
TitleMutations in EBF3 disturb transcriptional profiles and cause intellectual disability, ataxia and facial dysmorphism
DescriptionFrom a GeneMatcher-enabled international collaboration, we identified ten individuals with intellectual disability, speech delay, ataxia and facial dysmorphism carrying a deleterious variant in the EBF3 (Early B-cell Factor 3) gene detected by whole-exome sequencing. Five missense, two nonsense, one 9-bp duplication, and one splice-site variant in EBF3 were found; the mutation occurred de novo in eight individuals, and the missense variant c.625C>T [p.(Arg209Trp)] was inherited by two affected siblings from their healthy mother who is a mosaic. EBF3 belongs to the early B-cell factor family (also known as Olf, COE, or O/E) and encodes a transcription factor involved in neuronal differentiation and maturation. Structural assessment predicts damaging effects of the five amino acid substitutions on DNA-binding of EBF3. Transient expression of EBF3 mutant proteins in HEK 293T cells revealed mislocalization of all but one mutant in the cytoplasm in addition to nuclear localization. By transactivation assays, all EBF3 mutants showed significantly reduced or no ability to activate transcription of the CDKN1A reporter gene, and EBF3 mutant proteins were less tightly associated with chromatin as demonstrated by in situ subcellular fractionation experiments. Finally, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq experiments demonstrate that EBF3 acts as a transcriptional regulator and EBF3 mutant protein had reduced genome-wide DNA binding and gene regulatory activity. Our findings demonstrate that variants that disrupt EBF3-mediated transcriptional regulation cause intellectual disability and developmental delay, and are present in ~0.1%% of individuals with unexplained neurodevelopmental disorders.
Landing Pagehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE90682
RepositoryGene Expression Omnibus
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Clustergrammer
Published October 2017
Web-based tool for visualizing and analyzing high-dimensional data as interactive and shareable heatmaps
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ARCHS4
Published September 2017
ARCHS4 provides access to gene counts from HiSeq 2000 and HiSeq 2500 platforms for human and mouse experiments from GEO ...
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Interactive heatmap visualization of RNA-seq dataset GSE90682
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