A GNAS1 imprinting defect in pseudohypoparathyroidism type IB
AUTOR(ES)
Liu, Jie
FONTE
American Society for Clinical Investigation
RESUMO
Pseudohypoparathyroidism type IB (PHPIB) is characterized by renal resistance to parathyroid hormone (PTH) and the absence of other endocrine or physical abnormalities. Familial PHPIB has been mapped to 20q13, near GNAS1, which encodes Gsα, the G protein α-subunit required for receptor-stimulated cAMP generation. However, Gsα function is normal in blood cells from PHPIB patients, ruling out mutations within the Gsα coding region. In mice Gsα is expressed only from the maternal allele in renal proximal tubules (the site of PTH action) but is biallelically expressed in most other tissues. Studies in patients with Albright hereditary osteodystrophy suggest a similar Gsα imprinting pattern in humans. Here we identify a region upstream of the Gsα promoter that is normally methylated on the maternal allele and unmethylated on the paternal allele, but that is unmethylated on both alleles in all 13 PHPIB patients studied. Within this region is an alternative promoter and first exon (exon 1A), generating transcripts that are normally expressed only from the paternal allele, but that are biallelically expressed in PHPIB patients. Therefore, PHPIB is associated with a paternal-specific imprinting pattern of the exon 1A region on both alleles, which may lead to decreased Gsα expression in renal proximal tubules. We propose that loss of exon 1A imprinting is the cause of PHPIB.
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