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. 2020 Nov 21;2(1):100015. doi: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2020.100015

Table 1.

Clinical and molecular features of individuals with HDAC4 variants at a major 14-3-3 binding site

Individual # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Variant database accession ClinVar: SCV001427055 DECIPHER: 300920 DECIPHER: 275175 DECIPHER: 286901 ClinVar: SCV000741300.1 ClinVar:
SCV000574314.5
ClinVar: SCV001427054
Age 2 years 6 years 20 years 14 years 5 years 5 years 10 years
Gender female male female male male male female
HDAC4 variant NM_006037.4: c.731C>A p.(Thr244Lys) NM_006037.4: c.740A>G p.(Glu247Gly) NM_006037.4: c.742C>G p.(Pro248Ala) NM_006037.4: c.743C>T p.(Pro248Leu) NM_006037.4: c.743C>T p.(Pro248Leu) NM_006037.4: c.743C>T p.(Pro248Leu) NM_006037.4: c.743C>T p.(Pro248Leu)
Parental origin de novo de novo de novo de novo de novo de novo de novo

In silico predictions and scores

CADD probably deleterious; 32.0 likely deleterious; 28.2 likely deleterious; 25.1 likely deleterious; 27.3. likely deleterious; 27.3 likely deleterious; 27.3 likely deleterious; 27.3
PolyPhen-2 probably damaging; 1.000 probably damaging; 1.000 probably damaging; 1.000 probably damaging; 1.000 probably damaging; 1.000 probably damaging; 1.000 probably damaging; 1.000
PROVEAN deleterious; −5.32 deleterious; −6.21 deleterious; −7.10 deleterious; −8.87 deleterious; −8.87 deleterious; −8.87 deleterious; −8.87
SIFT damaging; 0.000 damaging; 0.000 damaging; 0.003 damaging; 0.001 damaging; 0.001 damaging; 0.001 damaging; 0.001

Development

Age at walking independently not achieved not achieved 18 months not achieved not achieved not achieved; walks with assistance not achieved; walks with assistance
Education special school special school from 7 years special school kindergarten with special education classes special school
Speech development non-verbal non-verbal; limited use of Makaton fluent; first words at 18 months few single words non-verbal single words only few single words

Neurology

Seizures infantile spasms; multiple seizure types non-responsive to medication no seizures generalized, with multiple seizure types and drop attacks from 11 years generalized tonic-clonic from 9 years no seizures no seizures
Central hypotonia + + + + + + +
Movement disorder + +
MRI brain cerebral atrophy; brainstem and cerebellar atrophy; abnormal signal within the gray matter nuclei some cerebellar atrophy; subtle symmetrical signal abnormality of dorsal pons and midbrain normal generalized paucity of cerebral and cerebellar bulk of brain matter slight enlargement of the lateral and 3rd ventricles; prominent extra-axial spaces thin corpus collosum; nonspecific minor ventriculomegaly; cerebral underdevelopment normal

Facial features

Hypertelorism + + + +
Full lower lip + + + + +
Widely spaced teeth + + + +
Frontal upsweep of hair + + + +
Long palpebral fissures + + + + +
Large ears + + +

Growth parameters

Height centile 20th 85th 3rd at 5 years 99th 12th 5th
Weight centile 9th–25th 99th 2nd at 8 years 15th 17th 25th
Head circumference centile 99th 84th 29th at 5 years 51st 24th 50th

Additional features

Feeding difficulties swallowing difficulties; gastrostomy-fed poor suck, needs pureed food swallowing difficulties, soft food, thickened fluids slow bite and chewing of food; oral aversion +
Drooling + +, preschool years + + + +
Sleep disturbance + + +
Hyperextensibility of finger joints + + +
Kyphosis/scoliosis progressive thoracolumbar scoliosis kyphosis scoliosis postural thoracolumbar kyphosis scoliosis
Hip anomalies bilateral femoral head subluxation at 5 years congenital hip dislocation congenital hip dislocation mild lateral subluxation of right hip
Delayed closure of anterior fontanelle + +
Visual problems absence of tracking astigmatism hypermetropia intermittent esotropia; hyperopia; astigmatism; amblyopia
Other apnea; hyperpigmented macule hydronephrosis; delayed dentition; pectus carinatum; patent ductus arteriosus severe nut allergy bilateral talipes equinovarus asymmetric chest wall; delayed dentition; undescended testis

Note: CADD (Combined Annotation Dependent Depletion) results show classification and Phred scores; PolyPhen-2 (Polymorphism Phenotyping v2) results show classification and score; PROVEAN (Protein Variation Effect Analyzer) and SIFT (Sorting Intolerant From Tolerant) threshold scores for binary classification were −2.50 and 0.05, respectively; + (plus) denotes feature present; − (minus) denotes feature absent; blank cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or not measured.