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. 2024 Apr 8;111(5):841–862. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.03.007

Table 3.

Molecular diagnostic findings from iNeurons RNA-seq

ID Sex Age Gene Isoform Variant DNA Zygosity Inheritance Variant RNA RNA consequence Detection algorithma TPM iNeuron median TPM fibroblast median iN required?b
1 M 4 years ITPR1 NM_001378452.1 c.5980−17G>A het de novo r.5979_5980ins[5980−15_5980−1/5979+1_5980−18,a,5980−16_5980−1] two events: 15 nt intron inclusion at splice acceptor; entire intron inclusion AS 6.03 1.16 yes
2 M 22 years DCX NM_001195553.2 c.946+4588G>T hem de novo r.946_947ins[946+4619_947−1] 13,549 nt intron inclusion at splice acceptor AS 2.31 0 yes
3 F 4 years MBD5 NM_001378120.1 c.−925+35307_−557+13765delchr2:148056991_148356101del het maternal r.−924_−558del 5′ UTR exons 2–4 deletion containing 337 nt AE (0.84), AS 3.32 2.99 yes
4 F 7 years CACNA1A NM_001127222.2 c.5015G>C het de novo r.5015g>c (r.632_784del) skewed variant allele expression at 88% fraction; skipping of exon 5 (153 nt); uncertain if the two events are related MAE; AS 6.48 2.54 yes
5 M 36 years POLR3A NM_007055.4 c.1771−7C>G het paternal r.1771_1909del/1643_1909del two events: skipping of exon 14 (139 nt); skipping of exons 13–14 (267 nt) AS (moderate effect) 13.92 10.76 no
c.3892−297_3892−221del het maternal r.3891_3892ins[3892−1_3892−227/3892−74_3892−227] two events: 227 nt intron inclusion at splice acceptor; 154 nt cryptic exon inclusion from intron 29 AS (moderate effect)
6 F 5 years PIEZO2 NM_001378183.1 c.5257−1G>A het maternal r.5258del 1 nt shift of splice acceptor AE (0.17), AS (misalignment, NMD), MAE 4.56 2.14 yes
c.1528−1G>A het paternal r.1528del 1 nt shift of splice acceptor AE (0.17), AS (misalignment, NMD), MAE
7 M 2 years LZTR1 NM_006767.4 c.2178C>A het paternal r.2178c>a nonsense not applicable 25.41 36.41 no
c.1943−256C>T het maternal r.1942_1943ins[1942+342_1943−262/1942+360_1943−262] two events: 117 nt cryptic exon inclusion; 99 nt cryptic exon inclusion AE (0.53), AS
8 F 4 years USP9X NM_001039591.3 c.1315−284G>T mosaic de novo r.1314_1315ins[1315−281_1315−176/1315−281_1315−172] two events: 106 nt or 110 nt cryptic exon inclusion AE (0.36), AS 43.08 42.06 no
9 F 16 years BRAF NM_001374258.1 seq[GRCh38] t(5; 7)(q31.3; q34) NC_000005.10:g.140964619_qterdelins[NC_000007.14:g.140799141_qter] NC_000007.14:g.140799137_qterdelins[NC_000005.10:g.140964621qter] het de novo r.-226_980:(?)/−226_980:980_981ins[980+1_980+1225]:(?) two (or more) events: fusion gene of 5′ BRAF with sequence from 7q34; fusion gene of 5′ BRAF plus 1225 nt intron retention with sequence from 7q34; the question mark denotes uncertainty of the breakpoints AE (0.66), AS 6.35 5.83 no
10 M 2 years TMEM161B NM_153354.5 c.800+5G>A het maternal r.660_800del skipping of exon 8 (141 nt) AS (candidate disease-associated gene) 5.29 4.06 no
c.980T>C het paternal r.980u>c missense not applicable
11 M 26 years NSD2 NM_001042424.3 NC_000004.12:g.1869269_1873124del het unknown (NSD2)x53% expression reduction of the entire transcript AE (0.53) 7.70 13.85 no
12 F 4 years POGZ NM_015100.4 c.2546−20T>A het de novo r.2546_2570del/2545_2571ins[2545+1_2546−21,a,2546−19_2571−1] two events: skipping of exon 18 (25 nt); retention of introns 17–18 (446 nt) AS 20.87 22.03 no
13 M 10 years MYCBP2 NM_015057.5 c.8005C>T het de novo (MYCBP2)x75% stopgain variant likely causes NMD and skewed allele fraction AE (0.75), MAE 16.59 14.33 no
14 F 2 years VARS1 NM_006295.3 c.3288G>T het paternal r.3288delins[u,3288+1_3289−1] entire intron 27 retention (71 nt) AE (0.35), AS 30.3 38.98 no
c.2590_2592delAGCinsTGA het maternal (VARS1)x35% stopgain variant likely causes NMD and skewed allele fraction AE (0.35), MAE
15 F 10 years TIAM1 NM_001353694.2 c.1996−78G>A, c.1585−5707G>T, c.−188−13607G>A het unknown (TIAM1)x2% expression reduction of the entire transcript AE (0.02) 2.63 2.55 no
16 F 3 years NAV2 NM_145117.5 c.5011_5012del het maternal (NAV2)x25% frameshift variants likely cause NMD AE (0.25) 3.04 8.67 no
c.6580del het paternal
17 M 2 years RBM28 NM_018077.3 c.1745G>A het maternal r.1714_1788del variant likely destroys exon splicing enhancer and cause skipping of exon 16 (75 nt) AE(0.73), AS 5.26 5.37 no
c.1489_1492dup het paternal (RBM28)x73% frameshift variants likely causes NMD AE(0.73), MAE
18 F 9 years FBN1 NM_000138.5 c.248−151A>G het paternal r.247_248ins[248–282_248−152] inclusion of cryptic exon (131 nt) with premature stop codon likely causing NMD AE (0.58), AS (low abundance due to NMD), MAE 524.4 517.6 no

Abbreviations: AE, abnormal expression; AS, abnormal splicing; MAE, mono-allelic expression; NMD, nonsense-mediated decay.

The reduction of TIAM1 expression is considered as a possible molecular diagnosis with weaker evidence compared to all other variants in this table. This is because of a lack of the matching DNA variant underlying the expression change. Three rare variants in TIAM1 are listed. However, their causal relationship with the expression reduction is uncertain.

The FBN1 variant is considered as a partial molecular diagnosis, which may partly explain the Marfanoid phenotype in this individual, but not the neurological phenotypes.

The POLR3A variants are considered as a possible molecular diagnosis because of the atypical phenotypic match.

TMEM161B54 and MYCBP255 are recently identified disease-associated genes not included in disease-associated gene databases such as OMIM at the time of the analysis. Therefore, the findings in these two individuals are considered investigational.

The phenotypes of each proband are summarized as Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) terms (Data S2).

a

Content in parentheses following AE indicates the expression fold change in this individual; the content in parentheses following AS indicates that the splicing event escaped detection from the analysis pipeline but was rescued by manual analysis with special considerations.

b

The iNeuron process is required to activate the gene or isoform of interest to facilitate variant interpretation.