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- Title
Genetic characterisation of a cohort of children clinically labelled as GH or IGF1 insensitive: diagnostic value of serum IGF1 and height at presentation.
- Authors
Storr, Helen L.; Dunkel, Leo; Kowalczyk, Julia; Savage, Martin O.; Metherell, Louise A.
- Abstract
Objective and design GH insensitivity (GHI) encompasses growth failure, low serum IGF1 and normal/elevated serum GH. By contrast, IGF1 insensitivity results in pre- and postnatal growth failure associated with relatively high IGF1 levels. From 2008 to 2013, 72 patients from 68 families (45M), mean age 7.1 years (0.4-17.0) with short stature (mean height SDS -3.9; range -9.4 to -1.5), were referred for sequencing. Methods As a genetics referral centre, we have sequenced appropriate candidate genes (GHR, including its pseudoexon (6), STAT5B, IGFALS, IGF1, IGF1R, OBSL1, CUL7 and CCDC8) in subjects referred with suspected GHI (n=69) or IGF1 insensitivity (n=3). Results Mean serum IGF1 SDS was -2.7 (range -0.9 to -8.2) in GHI patients and 2.0, 3.7 and 4.4 in patients with suspected IGF1 insensitivity. Out of 69 GHI patients, 16 (23%) (19% families) had mutations in GH-IGF1 axis genes: homozygous GHR (n=13; 66, two novel IVS5ds+1 G to A) and homozygous IGFALS (n=3; one novel c.1291delT). In the GHI groups, two homozygous OBSL1 mutations were also identified (height SDS -4.9 and -5.7) and two patients had hypomethylation in imprinting control region 1 in 11p15 or mUPD7 consistent with Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) (height SDS -3.7 and -4.3). A novel heterozygous IGF1R (c.112G>A) mutation was identified in one out of three (33%) IGF1-insensitive subjects. Conclusion Genotyping contributed to the diagnosis of children with suspected GHI and IGF1 insensitivity, particularly in the GHI subjects with low serum IGF1 SDS (<-2.0) and height SDS (<-2.5). Diagnoses with similar phenotypes included SRS and 3-M syndrome. In 71% patients, no diagnosis was defined justifying further genetic investigation.
- Subjects
SOMATOTROPIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SILVER-Russell syndrome; CHILDREN'S health; BLOOD serum analysis; PHENOTYPES; GENETIC mutation
- Publication
European Journal of Endocrinology, 2015, Vol 172, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
0804-4643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1530/EJE-14-0541