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. 2017 Jul;62(7):733-735.
doi: 10.1038/jhg.2017.28. Epub 2017 Mar 9.

Characterization of contiguous gene deletions in COL4A6 and COL4A5 in Alport syndrome-diffuse leiomyomatosis

Kandai Nozu  1 , Shogo Minamikawa  1 , Shiro Yamada  2   3 , Masafumi Oka  1 , Motoko Yanagita  4 , Naoya Morisada  1 , Shuichiro Fujinaga  5 , China Nagano  6 , Yoshimitsu Gotoh  6 , Eihiko Takahashi  7 , Takahiro Morishita  8 , Tomohiko Yamamura  1 , Takeshi Ninchoji  1 , Hiroshi Kaito  1 , Ichiro Morioka  1 , Koichi Nakanishi  9 , Igor Vorechovsky  10 , Kazumoto Iijima  1
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Characterization of contiguous gene deletions in COL4A6 and COL4A5 in Alport syndrome-diffuse leiomyomatosis

Kandai Nozu et al. J Hum Genet. 2017 Jul.

Abstract

Alport syndrome-diffuse leiomyomatosis (AS-DL, OMIM: 308940) is a rare variant of the X-linked Alport syndrome that shows overgrowth of visceral smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal, respiratory and female reproductive tracts in addition to renal symptoms. AS-DL results from deletions that encompass the 5' ends of the COL4A5 and COL4A6 genes, but deletion breakpoints between COL4A5 and COL4A6 have been determined in only four cases. Here, we characterize deletion breakpoints in five AS-DL patients and show a contiguous COL4A6/COL4A5 deletion in each case. We also demonstrate that eight out of nine deletion alleles involved sequences homologous between COL4A5 and COL4A6. Most breakpoints took place in recognizable transposed elements, including long and short interspersed repeats, DNA transposons and long-terminal repeat retrotransposons. Because deletions involved the bidirectional promoter region in each case, we suggest that the occurrence of leiomyomatosis in AS-DL requires inactivation of both genes. Altogether, our study highlights the importance of homologous recombination involving multiple transposed elements for the development of this continuous gene syndrome and other atypical loss-of-function phenotypes.

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