Mutations in SEPN1 cause congenital muscular dystrophy with spinal rigidity and restrictive respiratory syndrome (original) (raw)

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One form of congenital muscular dystrophy, rigid spine syndrome (MIM 602771), is a rare neuromuscular disorder characterized by early rigidity of the spine and respiratory insufficiency. A locus on 1p35–36 (RSMD1) was recently found to segregate with rigid spine muscular dystrophy 1 (ref. 1). Here we refine the locus and find evidence of linkage disequilibrium associated with SEPN1, which encodes the recently described selenoprotein N (ref. 2). Our identification and analysis of mutations in SEPN1 is the first description of a selenoprotein implicated in a human disease.

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We thank the patients and their families for their participation; K. Schwartz, M. Fiszman, F. Tomé and M. Fardeau, for continuous support and constructive discussions; A. Lescure, V. Allamand and U. Wewer for comments and suggestions on the manuscript; G. Boccara, M. Bonay, E. Leguern, B. Riou and the AFM BTR for providing human tissues. This work was supported by funds from the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Association Française contre les Myopathies (AFM), the European Commission and a Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Grant. B.M. was supported by grants from La Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) and La Fondation Bettencourt Schueller.

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  1. INSERM U523, Institut de Myologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris, 75651 CEDEX 13, France
    Behzad Moghadaszadeh, Nathalie Petit, Céline Jaillard, Norma Romero & Pascale Guicheney
  2. Department of Paediatrics and Neonatal Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
    Martin Brockington & Francesco Muntoni
  3. Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France
    Susana Quijano Roy & Brigitte Estournet
  4. Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna, Italy
    Luciano Merlini
  5. Service de Neuropédiatrie, Hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, France
    Isabelle Desguerre
  6. Clinique Sainte Odile, Strasbourg, France
    Denys Chaigne
  7. Department of Paediatric Neurology, Hacettepe Children's Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
    Haluk Topaloglu

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  1. Behzad Moghadaszadeh
  2. Nathalie Petit
  3. Céline Jaillard
  4. Martin Brockington
  5. Susana Quijano Roy
  6. Luciano Merlini
  7. Norma Romero
  8. Brigitte Estournet
  9. Isabelle Desguerre
  10. Denys Chaigne
  11. Francesco Muntoni
  12. Haluk Topaloglu
  13. Pascale Guicheney

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Correspondence toPascale Guicheney.

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Moghadaszadeh, B., Petit, N., Jaillard, C. et al. Mutations in SEPN1 cause congenital muscular dystrophy with spinal rigidity and restrictive respiratory syndrome.Nat Genet 29, 17–18 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng713

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