Symptomatic mosaicism for a novel FBN1 splice site variant in a parent causing inherited neonatal Marfan syndrome. Issue 8 (14th May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Postma, Julianne K.; Altamirano‐Diaz, Luis; Rupar, C. Anthony; Siu, Victoria M.
• Is Part Of: American journal of medical genetics. Volume 185:Issue 8(2021)
• Page Start: 2507
• Page End: 2513
• Publication Date: 2021-05-14
• Subjects: genotype–phenotype mapping -- Marfan syndrome -- mosaicism -- neonatal Marfan syndrome; Medical genetics -- Periodicals; 616.14205
• DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62339
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1552-4825

Abstract

Abstract: Neonatal Marfan syndrome is a severe, early onset presentation of pathogenic variants in FBN1 . Because of the significant cardiac involvement and early mortality, nearly all reported cases have been de novo, and the disorder has not been documented to be inherited from a symptomatic parent. Here, we present a female infant with neonatal Marfan syndrome who was born to a father with Marfan syndrome. Prior to the birth of his daughter, the father had been found to have an FBN1 missense variant of uncertain clinical significance. Initial familial variant testing of the infant did not reveal the same missense variant, but Sanger sequencing of FBN1 subsequently identified a pathogenic splice site variant. The father was then found to have 10%–20% mosaicism for the same splice site variant.