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. 2002 May;118(5):851-8.
doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2002.01761.x.

Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and molecular genetic studies in families with the Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome

Cristina Has  1 , Udo Seedorf, Frank Kannenberg, Leena Bruckner-Tuderman, Elzo Folkers, Regina Fölster-Holst, Ivo Baric, Heiko Traupe
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Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and molecular genetic studies in families with the Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome

Cristina Has et al. J Invest Dermatol. 2002 May.
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Abstract

The Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome is an X-linked dominant disease that is due to mutations in the gene for emopamil binding protein. Emopamil binding protein is a Delta8-Delta7 sterol isomerase and plays a pivotal role in the final steps of cholesterol biosynthesis. We wanted to know to what extent this X-linked dominant enzyme defect has functional consequences at the biochemical level and whether it is possible to predict the clinical phenotype from serum sterol measurements. Therefore we performed sterol biochemical studies in 11 Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome families and compared the results obtained to the clinical and molecular genetic findings. To assess disease severity a score considering bone and skin involvement and further features was used. For evaluation of the functional consequences we studied serum samples using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. For mutation screening we analyzed the emopamil binding protein gene using polymerase chain reaction, heteroduplex analysis of all exons, direct sequencing, and restriction enzyme analysis. Mutations in the emopamil binding protein gene were found in all 11 families including seven novel mutations affecting exons 2, 4, and 5. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis revealed markedly elevated levels of 8-dehydrocholesterol and of cholest-8(9)-en-3beta-ol and helped to identify somatic mosaicism in a clinically unaffected man. The extent of the metabolic alterations in the serum, however, do not allow prediction of the clinical phenotype, nor the genotype. This lack of correlation may be due to differences in X-inactivation between different tissues of the same patient and/or loss of the mutant clone by outgrowth of proficient clones after some time.

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