Spectrum of clinical features and genetic variants in mevalonate kinase (MVK) gene of South Indian families suffering from Hyperimmunoglobulin D Syndrome

PLoS One. 2020 Aug 21;15(8):e0237999. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237999. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

Hyper-IgD syndrome (HIDS, OMIM #260920) is a rare autosomal recessive autoinflammatory disorder caused by pathogenic variants in the mevalonate kinase (MVK) gene. HIDS has an incidence of 1:50,000 to 1:5,000, and is thought to be prevalent mainly in northern Europe. Here, we report a case series of HIDS from India, which includes ten patients from six families who presented with a wide spectrum of clinical features such as recurrent fever, oral ulcers, rash, arthritis, recurrent diarrhea, hepatosplenomegaly, and high immunoglobulin levels. Using whole exome sequencing (WES) and/or Sanger capillary sequencing, we identified five distinct genetic variants in the MVK gene from nine patients belonging to six families. The variants were classified as pathogenic or likely pathogenic as per the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology (ACMG-AMP) guidelines for annotation of sequence variants. Over 70% of patients in the present study had two recurrent mutations in MVK gene i.e. a nonsynonymous variant p.V377I, popularly known as the 'Dutch mutation', along with a splicing variant c.226+2delT in a compound heterozygous form. Identity by descent analysis in two patients with the recurrent variants identified a 6.7 MB long haplotype suggesting a founder effect in the South Indian population. Our analysis suggests that a limited number of variants account for the majority of the patients with HIDS in South India. This has implications in clinical diagnosis, as well as in the development of cost-effective approaches for genetic diagnosis and screening. To our best knowledge, this is the first and most comprehensive case series of clinically and genetically characterized patients with HIDS from India.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Asian People / genetics*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Exome Sequencing
  • Female
  • Gene Deletion
  • Genetic Association Studies
  • Haplotypes
  • Heterozygote
  • Humans
  • India
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency / genetics
  • Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency / pathology*
  • Pedigree
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / chemistry
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / genetics*
  • Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary

Substances

  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)
  • mevalonate kinase

Grants and funding

The study was funded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, India) through MLP1801 (RareGen-CSIR India) and Science and Engineering Research Board EMR/2016/006828/HS (PAC Health Sciences). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.