title: Molecular analysis of 40 Italian patients with mucopolysaccharidosis type II: New mutations in the iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) gene.
abstract: Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPS2, or Hunter syndrome), rare X-linked lysosomal storage disorder, results from deleterious mutations in the iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS) gene. We report here the mutational analysis of a total of 40 unrelated Italian MPS II patients ranging from mild to severe phenotype. We are able to assign the genotype to 29 of them (72.5%), identifying 22 different mutations, five of which are unpublished (c.533delTT, W12X, N265I, c.1131-1142del, c.1131-1305del). A total of 55.2% of the molecularly characterised patients resulted from missense mutations, 20.7% from nonsense mutations, and another 13.8% of patients from small deletions (<20pb) or splice mutations, whereas 10.3% of the cases carried major structural alterations such as large deletion and rearrangements. The results reported here support the evidence of the mutational heterogeneity of the IDS gene as well as the difficulty to correlate genotype and phenotype in the patients with MPSII. However, the molecular characterisation of the patients is advantageous, making the carrier detection feasible for the females in the family at risk and improving the reliability of prenatal diagnosis techniques. Moreover, it provides a good foundation for therapeutic strategies.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio Diagnosi Pre-Postnatale delle Malattie Metaboliche, Istituto G. Gaslini, Genoa, Italy. dppm@ospedale-gaslini.ge.it
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Filocamo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bonuccelli
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Corsolini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mazzotti
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cusano
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gatti
mesh_terms: D002478:Cells, Cultured; D018389:Codon, Nonsense / Q000235:genetics; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D007066:Iduronate Sulfatase / Q000235:genetics*; D007558:Italy; D016532:Mucopolysaccharidosis II / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D020125:Mutation, Missense / Q000235:genetics; D010641:Phenotype; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D022821:RNA Splice Sites / Q000235:genetics; D017384:Sequence Deletion / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D018389:Codon, Nonsense; D022821:RNA Splice Sites; D007066:Iduronate Sulfatase