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Alport syndrome (ATS) is a type-IV collagen inherited disorder, caused by mutations in COL4A3 and COL4A4 (autosomal recessive) or COL4A5 (X-linked). Clinical symptoms include progressive renal disease, eye abnormalities and high-tone sensorineural deafness. A renal histology very similar to ATS is observed in a subset of patients affected by mutations in MYH9, encoding non-muscle-myosin Type IIa--a cytoskeletal contractile protein. MYH9-associated disorders (May-Hegglin anomaly, Epstein and Fechtner syndrome, and others) are inherited in an autosomal dominant manner and characterized by defects in different organs (including eyes, ears, kidneys and thrombocytes). We describe here a 6-year-old girl with haematuria, proteinuria, and early sensorineural hearing loss. The father of the patient is affected by ATS, the mother by isolated inner ear deafness. Genetic testing revealed a pathogenic mutation in COL4A5 (c.2605G>A) in the girl and her father and a heterozygous mutation in MYH9 (c.4952T>G) in the girl and her mother. The paternal COL4A5 mutation seems to account for the complete phenotype of ATS in the father and the maternal mutation in MYH9 for the inner ear deafness in the mother. It has been discussed that the interaction of both mutations could be responsible for both the unexpected severity of ATS symptoms and the very early onset of inner ear deafness in the girl.
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PMID:COL4A5-associated X-linked Alport syndrome in a female patient with early inner ear deafness due to a mutation in MYH9. 2314 74

The familial hematuric diseases are a genetically heterogeneous group of monogenic conditions, caused by mutations in one of several genes. The major genes involved are the following: (i) the collagen IV genes COL4A3/A4/A5 that are expressed in the glomerular basement membranes (GBM) and are responsible for the most frequent forms of microscopic hematuria, namely Alport syndrome (X-linked or autosomal recessive) and thin basement membrane nephropathy (TBMN). (ii) The FN1 gene, expressed in the glomerulus and responsible for a rare form of glomerulopathy with fibronectin deposits (GFND). (iii) CFHR5 gene, a recently recognized regulator of the complement alternative pathway and mutated in a recently revisited form of inherited C3 glomerulonephritis (C3GN), characterized by isolated C3 deposits in the absence of immune complexes. A hallmark feature of all conditions is the age-dependent penetrance and a broad phenotypic heterogeneity in the sense that subsets of patients progress to added proteinuria or proteinuria and chronic renal failure that may or may not lead to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) anywhere between the second and seventh decade of life. In addition to other excellent laboratory tools that assist the clinician in reaching the correct diagnosis, the molecular analysis emerges as the gold standard in establishing the diagnosis in many cases of doubt due to equivocal findings that complicate the differential diagnosis. Recent work led to the description of candidate genetic modifiers which confer a variable risk for progressing to chronic renal failure when co-inherited on the background of a primary glomerulopathy. Finally, more families are still waiting to be studied and more genes to be mapped and cloned that are responsible for other forms of heritable hematuric diseases. The study of such genes and their protein products will likely shed more light on the structure and function of the glomerular filtration barrier and other important glomerular components.
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PMID:Molecular genetics of familial hematuric diseases. 2404 92