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. 2024 Mar 4;21:24. doi: 10.1186/s12987-024-00513-z

Table 13.

WNT signaling

Citation Title Author affiliation Case # Ancestry Study design CNS phenotype Non-CNS phenotype Type of hydrocephalus Genetic methodology Genetic analysis Inheritance Genetic finding
Doherty et al., 2010 [96] Mutations in 3 genes (MKS3, CC2D2A and RPGRIP1L) cause COACH syndrome (Joubert syndrome with congenital hepatic fibrosis) University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital, USA 26 Subjects, 210 Controls USA, European, Asian, African, Native American, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, and Turkey Case series Intellectual impairment, hypotonia, ataxia, cerebellar vermis hypoplasia, encephalocele Congestive heart failure, hepatic fibrosis, coloboma, retinal disease, renal disease, polydactyly Communicating Genotyping, TGS Microsatellite marker assay, SNP AR 4p15.32 (CC2D2A)
Drielsma et al., 2012 [364] Two novel CCDC88C mutations confirm the role of DAPLE in autosomal recessive congenital hydrocephalus Institute of Interdisciplinary Research – IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 8 Subjects, 4 Parents, 721 Controls Jewish Ashkenazi, Palestinian, Case series Seizures, parietal polymicrogyria Hypertelorism, lung lymphangiectasias Communicating Cytogenetics, genotyping, TGS Karyotyping, MLPA, homozygosity mapping, sanger sequencing AR 14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)
Ekici et al., 2010 [98] Disturbed Wnt Signalling due to a Mutation in CCDC88C Causes an Autosomal Recessive Non-Syndromic Hydrocephalus with Medial Diverticulum University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 58 subjects, 224 controls Algeria Case series Mild psychomotor delay - - Genotyping, TGS Linkage analysis, homozygosity mapping, cycle sequencing AR 14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)
Ruggeri et al., 2018 [365] Bi-allelic mutations of CCDC88C are a rare cause of severe congenital hydrocephalus Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 2 Subjects - Case series Intellectual delay and infantile onset seizures Varying degrees of motor delay - WES Variant analysis, trio-based exome sequencing, sanger sequencing AR 14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)
Wallis et al., 2018 [366] Surprisingly good outcome in antenatal diagnosis of severe hydrocephalus related to CCDC88C deficiency Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 5 Subjects Moroccan, Saudi Case series Isolated hydrocephalus Developmental delay Obstructive TGS Massively parallel sequencing AR 14q32.11-q32.12 (CCDC88C)

Autosomal Recessive (AR). Multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification (MLPA). Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). Targeted genome sequencing (TGS). Whole exome sequencing (WES)