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Down Syndrome: A Complex Disease Dr Una Fairbrother Down Syndrome (DS) Affects one in about 700-1000 newborns Most significant genetic cause of mild to moderate mental retardation Due to alterations in neural development. Trisomy 21 or DS Only autosomal aneuploidy not lethal in the fetal or early postnatal period DS phenotypes show variable penetrance, affecting many different organs Clinical features of neonates with DS Flat facial profile, 90% Hypotonia, 80% Poor moro reflex, 85% Hyperflexibility of joints, 80% Excess skin on back of neck, 80% Slanted palpebral fissures, 80% Pelvic dysplasia, 70% Anomalous ears, 60% Dysplasia of mid joint of 5th finger, 60% Simian crease, 45% Down Syndrome – Disease Phenotype Mental retardation, Congenital malformations of the heart and gastrointestinal tract, Duodenal stenosis or atresia, Imperforate anus, Hirschsprung disease, Leukemia, Hearing loss, Alzheimer disease and others Human Chromosome 21 Many other disorders involving Chr21 genes 165 hits on OMIM including: Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SOD1 gene) Bethlem myopathy (COL6A1, A2 and A3) Acute myeloid leukemia (AML1) Chromosome 21 Structure Length of the short arm can vary greatly between individuals First example of large genomic region that can expand or contract on a scale of many mega bases Long arm: 225 genes originally identified (545 on chromosome 22) How Does Trisomy Arise? 95% of DS arises from non-disjunction of homologous chromosomes during 1st meiotic division in oogenesis Homogeneity means that phenotype severity cannot be predicted from the karyotype Need to understand the pathology and identify candidate genes Down Syndrome Research Functions of most of the Chromosome 21 genes are largely unknown As is their contribution, to the DS phenotype. Trisomy and Disease How does an extra copy of all or part of Chr21 result in the DS phenotype? Specific case of the more general problem - how does chromosomal imbalance produce abnormalities in morphology and function? No single mechanism explains the consequences No simple solution to counteract its phenotypic impact. Trisomy and Disease: Theories Amplified developmental instability hypothesis: DS phenotype due to non-specific disturbance of chr balance Or… Gene dosage hypothesis: DS due to cumulative effect of overexpression of specific chr 21 gene products Corroborated experimentally in mouse models Some genes undergo dosage compensation Stage and tissue specific Or Interaction effects Through interaction of Chr21 genes products with: each other the whole genome transcriptome Proteome Possibly through trans acting effects A proposed unifying model for the genetic mechanisms acting in autosomal trisomy Fitzpatrick (2005) TIGS 21:249-253 Mouse Models useful to elucidate contribution of specific genes to the DS phenotype. Strategies: assess single-gene by overexpressing single or combinations of genes assess effects of overexpressing large foreign DNA pieces, (YACs or BACs) in transgenic mice mouse trisomies that carry all (usually lethal) or part of MuChr16, which has regions of conserved homology with HuChr21. Down Syndrome Critical Regions (DSCRs) Loci in the DS critical regions (DSCRs) may have major effect Approach limited by high phenotypic variation among DS individuals To date little evidence of association between any particular phenotypic trait and overexpression of a specific Chr21 gene. Postgenomics Even knowing the molecular defect, it is difficult to decipher the complex pathophysiology of the disease, Developmental consequences of the trisomy Impact on behaviour and cognitive function. Facing a new era postgenomics where the goal is to identify protein function and physiological role of gene products. Congenital Heart Defects and DS 40% of trisomy 21 individuals have CHDs incidence in the euploid population, 0.8% Frequency of types of CHD in Down Syndrome Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) Defect in fusion of endocardial cushions Ventricular septal defect (VSD) Failure of interventricular septum to close Atrial spetal defect Incomplete fusion of endocardial cushions Tetralogy of Fallot, 4 defects including VSD Patient ductus arteriosus, closure usually occurs shortly after birth. Other Frequency 43% 32% (accounts for 35% of normal individuals) 10% 6% 4% 5% CHD Schematic Endocardial cushion Atrium Ventricle Heart septa ASD AVSD VSD Trisomy 21 and CHD If CHD phenotype is caused by overexpression of a gene/s on chromosome 21 then why do not all individuals with DS have a CHD? May be related to specific alleles and their protein products, which function well in the diploid but not in the trisomic state. Fig.1: “Critical regions” of chromosome 21 CHD Critical Regions on Chr21 Represen -tative markers tested in our families to date: S=D21S Genes in order cen gene tel (telomeric to marker at left) Key genes and markers in region (>2000 total known) "DOWN SYNDROM E CRITICAL REGION" TRISOM Y IN Ts65Dn MOUSE (PARTIA L TRISOM Y 16) "CHD CRITICA L REGION" (Korenbe rg et al.) REGION OF HETERO TRISOM Y IN TRISOMI C CHILDRE N WITH VSD Chromosom e 21 cytogenetic band limits Non-llinear scale: each Bar is approx 5Mb kbp approx from pter (not to scale) 21p centromere S1951 S215 S258 STCH,NRIP1 S16,S120 S13,s46 S1/S11 S1905 S8 NCAM2 S111 GABPA APP S82 GAPDP, BACH1 GRIK1 S300 S226 SOD1,CTBP2, IFNAR2 D21S58 IFNAR GART, SON3 CRYZL1 S235 ATP5O,DSCR1 S65 RUNX1 S17 S167 KCNE1, TPRD DCRA,DYRK1A DCRB S259 KIR4.2 S338 S55 ERG ETS2 S3 S343 C21LRP(DSCR2 ) HMG14 WRB S168 SH3BGR PCP4 S23,S349 DSCAM S53 S64 MX2 S1260,S356 MX1 S19,S359 S42 S49,S360,S18 69 HOXGT PKNOX1, S361 CBS, CRYAA Cystatin B, S1979 HES1 PFKL S400 C21orf2 S1870, S154 S171 COL6A1 COL6A2 S1575 UBE2G2 SMT3A, CD18 COL18A1 D21S112 12743 21q11.1 12825 21q11.2 21q21.1 21q21.2 21q21.3 21q22.13 21q22.2 21q22.3 13536 13657 17990 19648 24101 24246 27663 28014 30024 31594 31689 31954 32881 33081 34018 35153 35783 36418 36660 36745 37169 37464 37539 37671 37741 37813 38228 39207 39498 39722 40810 41261 41386 41436 42478 42644 42673 42917 43113 43150 43230 43800 44342 44467 44920 How Might haplotypic diversity Cause CHD in DS? Variants interact indirectly/ directly with other loci modulating phenotypes Functionality of gene drops below critical levels, endocardial cushions fail to fuse Hypothesis: combinations of mutations embedded in particular haplotypes, in trisomic individuals, disturb the supramolecular structure of a vital protein and modulate the predisposition of an individual to a single or several types of CHD. Do all CHD arise from the same mechanism? 4 CHDs in individuals+ DS, related but do not occur at same time in gestation Counter-intuitive that a single, simple mechanism is responsible for all CHDs Variants may interact indirectly/directly with other loci to modulate varying phenotypes (compound?) heterozygosity for rare, functionally deficient alleles, may cause analogous CHD in non-syndromic, euploid individuals. Heterotrisomy, a significant contributing factor to ventricular septal defect associated with Down syndrome? Baptista MJ, Fairbrother UL, Howard CM, Farrer MJ, Davies GE, Trikka D, Maratou K, Redington A, Greve G, Njolstad PR, Kessling AM. Hum Genet. 2000 107:476-82. Heterotrisomy for a gene or genes in a narrowed region region is a contributing factor to the pathogenesis of VSD in trisomy 21 Either through the presence of three different specific alleles or through the presence of specific combinations of alleles. Down syndrome congenital heart disease: a narrowed region and a candidate gene. Barlow GM, Chen XN, Shi ZY, Lyons GE, Kurnit DM, Celle L, Spinner NB, Zackai E, Pettenati MJ, Van Riper AJ, Vekemans MJ, Mjaatvedt CH, Korenberg JR.Genet Med. 2001 3:91-101. These data suggest that the presence of three copies of gene(s) from the region is sufficient for the production of subsets of DS-CHD. Propose DSCAM as a candidate for VSD. Encodes a cell adhesion molecule, spans more than 840 kb of the candidate region, and is expressed in the heart during cardiac development. DSCR1 gene expression is dependent on NFATc1 during cardiac valve formation and colocalizes with anomalous organ development in trisomy 16 mice. Lange AW, Molkentin JD, Yutzey KE Dev Biol. 2004 15;266(2):346-60. Nuclear factor of activated T cells or DSCR1 regulatory protein in calcineurin/NFAT signal transduction pathway. expressed during valvuloseptal developmentin the endocardium of the developing atrioventricular and semilunar valves, the muscular interventricular septum, and the ventricular myocardium. Candidate for abnormal development of heart in DS Cell type-specific over-expression of chromosome 21 genes in fibroblasts and fetal hearts with trisomy 21. Li CM, Guo M, Salas M, Schupf N, Silverman W, Zigman WB, Husain S, Warburton D, Thaker H, Tycko B BMC Med Genet. 2006 15;7:24. Expression microarrays Expression differed across cell/tissue types. MX1 up in senescent +21 fibroblasts. (MX1 is an interferon target) Interferon signaling a candidate pathway for senescence GART up in fetal hearts with +21 Abnormal purine metabolism may have a role in cardiac defects. Complex disease non-mendelian- familial aggregation, but no clear segregation. suggests causative agents and physiological mechanisms; evolution, development, homeostatic processes. generally more frequent than single-gene disorders. single-gene disorders and complex diseases have multiple genetic, developmental, and environmental factors. In single-gene disorders, one gene has a pronounced effect in producing the phenotype. Complex diseases is the major contributor to morbidity/mortality in developed countries. Single-gene disorders are a smaller burden of disease and death than do complex diseases.