{"id":756,"date":"2020-08-26T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clinlabint.3wstaging.nl\/opitz-c-syndrome-new-advances-to-improve-the-genetic-diagnose-of-an-ultra-rare-disease\/"},"modified":"2021-01-08T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T11:08:13","slug":"opitz-c-syndrome-new-advances-to-improve-the-genetic-diagnose-of-an-ultra-rare-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/opitz-c-syndrome-new-advances-to-improve-the-genetic-diagnose-of-an-ultra-rare-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Opitz C Syndrome: new advances to improve the genetic diagnose of an ultra-rare disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Opitz C syndrome (OCS), an ultra-rare disease that causes serious physical and intellectual disabilities, has an heterogeneous genetic base that makes its medical diagnostic and therapeutic intervention difficult, according to a new study by professors Daniel Grinberg, Susanna Balcells and Roser Urreizti, from the Group on Human Molecular Genetics of the of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona and the Rare Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBERER).<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">The new study concludes this severe and extremely rare disease could be considered a \u201cprivate syndrome\u201d for each patient.<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Described in 1969 by geneticist John M. Opitz, this ultra-rare pathology \u2013with only a few diagnosed cases worldwide- shows a great clinical variability in different levels of severity (trigonocephaly, intellectual disability, psychomotor retardation, among others). Therefore, clinical symptomatology of Opitz C syndrome can overlap other similar minority pathologies (Kleefstra, Kabuki, Bohring-Opitz syndromes, etc.). <\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">However, despite sharing several clinical manifestations, \u201cthis disease does not show a genetic base shared by the affected people, and its hereditary transmission model is still unknown\u201d, note the authors, also members of the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB) and the Research Institute Sant Joan de D\u00e9u (IRSJD).<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Since 2007, several genes have been related to this pathology, which is hard to diagnose due its wide clinical pattern (for instance, ASXL1, CD96, ASXL3 and MAGEL2). In this context, research lines of the Group on Human Molecular Genetics (UB-CIBERER-HSJD) \u2013in which Raquel Rabionet and Laura Castilla take part too- are broadening the knowledge of the genetic basis of this pathology which so far does not have any chance of receiving treatment, prenatal diagnosis nor genetic counselling.<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cIn these ultra-rare diseases, the application of new massive sequencing technologies is a determining factor regarding the molecular diagnosis for patients and therefore, to progress in the exploration of therapeutic applications\u201d, comment the authors.&nbsp; <\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">In some cases, affected patients can receive an early diagnose \u2013incomplete and too general- that makes any therapeutic intervention difficult. This is the case of a recent research study in which the Group on Human Molecular Genetics participated, and found two mutations in the PIGT gen in a patient who had initially been diagnosed Opitz C syndrome.<\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">This study could profile a precise molecular diagnose of the causes of the real pathology \u2013with a few cases gathered in the scientific bibliography- affecting the patient, considered as Opitz C at the beginning. <\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">The international scientific collaboration has been determining in the genetic diagnosis of other cases with severe affectations in the neuro-development that had been considered to be Opitz C syndrome. In particular, the UB team has participated in the identification of new genetic mutations associated with DPH1 syndrome \u2013a minority disease with a low prevalence among population- in patients of two different families from Malta and Yemen. <\/span><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">University of Barcelona<\/span>\n<link https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yxdrze2f><span lang=\"EN-GB\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yxdrze2f<\/span><\/link>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opitz C syndrome (OCS), an ultra-rare disease that causes serious physical and intellectual disabilities, has an heterogeneous genetic base that makes its medical diagnostic and therapeutic intervention difficult, according to a new study by professors Daniel Grinberg, Susanna Balcells and Roser Urreizti, from the Group on Human Molecular Genetics of the of the Faculty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinlabint.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}