Journal article
HIST1H1E heterozygous protein-truncating variants cause a recognizable syndrome with intellectual disability and distinctive facial gestalt: A study to clarify the HIST1H1E syndrome phenotype in 30 individuals
Deepika D'Cunha Burkardt, Anna Zachariou, Chey Loveday, Clare L Allen, David J Amor, Anna Ardissone, Siddharth Banka, Alexia Bourgois, Christine Coubes, Cheryl Cytrynbaum, Laurence Faivre, Gerard Marion, Rachel Horton, Dieter Kotzot, Guillermo Lay-Son, Melissa Lees, Karen Low, Ho-Ming Luk, Paul Mark, Allyn McConkie-Rosell Show all
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART A | WILEY | Published : 2019
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61321
Abstract
Histone Gene Cluster 1 Member E, HIST1H1E, encodes Histone H1.4, is one of a family of epigenetic regulator genes, acts as a linker histone protein, and is responsible for higher order chromatin structure. HIST1H1E syndrome (also known as Rahman syndrome, OMIM #617537) is a recently described intellectual disability (ID) syndrome. Since the initial description of five unrelated individuals with three different heterozygous protein-truncating variants (PTVs) in the HIST1H1E gene in 2017, we have recruited 30 patients, all with HIST1H1E PTVs that result in the same shift in frame and that cluster to a 94-base pair region in the HIST1H1E carboxy terminal domain. The identification of 30 patient..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the patients and families for their active participation in this study and the clinicians that recruited them. We acknowledge support from the NIHR RM/ICR Biomedical Research Centre. K.T.-B. is supported by funding from the Child Growth Foundation (GR01/13) and the work was, in part, supported by a Wellcome Trust Award (100210/Z/12/Z). This study makes use of DECIPHER (http://decipher.sanger.ac.uk), which is funded by Wellcome. The Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study presents independent research commissioned by the Health Innovation Challenge Fund (grant number HICF-1009-003). See Nature PMID:25533962 or www.ddduk.org/access.html for full acknowledgements.