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LRIG2 Mutations Cause Urofacial Syndrome

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2013-02-01T00:00:00Z
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Stuart, Helen M.
Roberts, Neil A.
BURGU, BERK
Daly, Sarah B.
Urquhart, Jill E.
Bhaskar, Sanjeev
Dickerson, Jonathan E.
Mermerkaya, Murat
Silay, Mesrur Selcuk
Lewis, Malcolm A.
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Urofacial syndrome (UFS) (or Ochoa syndrome) is an autosomal-recessive disease characterized by congenital urinary bladder dysfunction, associated with a significant risk of kidney failure, and an abnormal facial expression upon smiling, laughing, and crying. We report that a subset of UFS-affected individuals have biallelic mutations in LRIG2, encoding leucine-rich repeats and immunoglobulin-like domains 2, a protein implicated in neural cell signaling and tumorigenesis. Importantly, we have demonstrated that rare variants in LRIG2 might be relevant to nonsyndromic bladder disease. We have previously shown that UFS is also caused by mutations in HPSE2, encoding heparanase-2. LRIG2 and heparanase-2 were immunodetected in nerve fascicles growing between muscle bundles within the human fetal bladder, directly implicating both molecules in neural development in the lower urinary tract.
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LRIG2 Mutations
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Stuart H. M. , Roberts N. A. , BURGU B., Daly S. B. , Urquhart J. E. , Bhaskar S., Dickerson J. E. , Mermerkaya M., Silay M. S. , Lewis M. A. , et al., -LRIG2 Mutations Cause Urofacial Syndrome-, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, cilt.92, ss.259-264, 2013
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