Segmental maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 7q in a patient with congenital chloride diarrhea.

BACKGROUND

The main symptoms of congenital chloride diarrhea (CCD) main symptoms are watery diarrhea, hypochloremia, and hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) is a heterogeneous imprinting disorder characterized by severe intrauterine retardation, poor postnatal growth, and facial dysmorphism.

METHODS

Parent-offspring trio whole-exome sequencing was used to identify the causal variants. Sequencing reads were mapped to the reference of human genome version hg19. Sanger sequencing was performed as a confirmatory experiment.

RESULTS

The proband was a patient with SRS caused by maternal uniparental disomy 7. The CCD of the proband was caused by homozygous variant c.1515-1 (IVS13) G>A; both mutated alleles were inherited from her mother.

CONCLUSION

We report the first clinical case of CCD and SRS occurring together. Patients with milder phenotypes may be difficult to diagnose in early stage, but close monitoring of potential complications is important for identification.