NDLI: Understanding the molecular mechanisms of human microtia via a pig model of HOXA1 syndrome

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Author	Qiao, Ruimin He, Yuyong Pan, Bo Xiao, Shijun Zhang, Xufei Jing, Li Zhang, Zhiyan Hong, Yuan Xing, Yuyun Ren, Jun
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Microtia is a congenital malformation of the outer ears. Although both genetic and environmental components have been implicated in microtia, the genetic causes of this innate disorder are poorly understood. Pigs have naturally occurring diseases comparable to those in humans, providing exceptional opportunity to dissect the molecular mechanism of human inherited diseases. Here we first demonstrated that a truncating mutation in HOXA1 causes a monogenic disorder of microtia in pigs. We further performed RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) analysis on affected and healthy pig embryos (day 14.25). We identified a list of 337 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the normal and mutant samples, shedding light on the transcriptional network involving HOXA1. The DEGs are enriched in biological processes related to cardiovascular system and embryonic development, and neurological, renal and urological diseases. Aberrant expressions of many DEGs have been implicated in human innate deformities corresponding to microtia-associated syndromes. After applying three prioritizing algorithms, we highlighted appealing candidate genes for human microtia from the 337 DEGs. We searched for coding variants of functional significance within six candidate genes in 147 microtia-affected individuals. Of note, we identified one EVC2 non-synonymous mutation (p.Asp1174Asn) as a potential disease-implicating variant for a human microtia-associated syndrome. The findings advance our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying human microtia, and provide an interesting example of the characterization of human disease-predisposing variants using pig models.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dmm.018291
Ending Page	622
Page Count	12
Starting Page	611
File Format	PDF
ISSN	17548403
e-ISSN	17548411
Journal	Disease Models & Mechanisms
Issue Number	6
Volume Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	The Company of Biologists
Publisher Date	2015-06-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	The Company of Biologists
Subject Keyword	Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) Medicine (miscellaneous) Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Medicine(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuroscience Immunology and Microbiology Medicine Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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