Phenotypic expansion of the BPTF-related neurodevelopmental disorder with dysmorphic facies and distal limb anomalies

Am J Med Genet A. 2021 May;185(5):1366-1378. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62102. Epub 2021 Jan 31.

Abstract

Neurodevelopmental disorder with dysmorphic facies and distal limb anomalies (NEDDFL), defined primarily by developmental delay/intellectual disability, speech delay, postnatal microcephaly, and dysmorphic features, is a syndrome resulting from heterozygous variants in the dosage-sensitive bromodomain PHD finger chromatin remodeler transcription factor BPTF gene. To date, only 11 individuals with NEDDFL due to de novo BPTF variants have been described. To expand the NEDDFL phenotypic spectrum, we describe the clinical features in 25 novel individuals with 20 distinct, clinically relevant variants in BPTF, including four individuals with inherited changes in BPTF. In addition to the previously described features, individuals in this cohort exhibited mild brain abnormalities, seizures, scoliosis, and a variety of ophthalmologic complications. These results further support the broad and multi-faceted complications due to haploinsufficiency of BPTF.

Keywords: chromatin remodeling; epilepsy; microcephaly.

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / physiopathology
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly / genetics*
  • Chromosome Deletion
  • Developmental Disabilities / genetics
  • Developmental Disabilities / physiopathology
  • Epilepsy / genetics*
  • Epilepsy / physiopathology
  • Facies
  • Female
  • Haploinsufficiency / genetics
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Intellectual Disability / genetics
  • Intellectual Disability / physiopathology
  • Language Development Disorders / genetics
  • Language Development Disorders / physiopathology
  • Male
  • Microcephaly / genetics*
  • Microcephaly / physiopathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders / genetics*
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders / physiopathology
  • Phenotype
  • Transcription Factors / genetics
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Transcription Factors