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Schuurs–Hoeijmakers Syndrome (PACS1 Neurodevelopmental Disorder): Seven Novel Patients and a Review

by
Jair Tenorio-Castaño
1,2,3,4,
Beatriz Morte
1,3,†,
Julián Nevado
1,3,4,6,
Víctor Martinez-Glez
1,4,6,7,
Fernando Santos-Simarro
1,3,4,7,
Sixto García-Miñaúr
1,4,7,
María Palomares-Bralo
1,3,4,6,
Marta Pacio-Míguez
1,3,4,6,
Beatriz Gómez
1,3,
Pedro Arias
1,2,
Alba Alcochea
8,
Juan Carrión
8,
Patricia Arias
8,
Berta Almoguera
1,3,9,
Fermina López-Grondona
3,9,
Isabel Lorda-Sanchez
1,9,
Enrique Galán-Gómez
10,
Irene Valenzuela
4,11,
María Pilar Méndez Perez
12,
Ivón Cuscó
11,
Francisco Barros
1,13,
Juan Pié
1,14,
Sergio Ramos
1,2,
Feliciano J. Ramos
1,14,†,
Alma Kuechler
15,
Eduardo Tizzano
4,11,
Carmen Ayuso
1,3,9,
Frank J. Kaiser
15,16,
Luis A. Pérez-Jurado
1,5,†,
Ángel Carracedo
1,13,17,
The ENoD-CIBERER Consortium
,
The SIDE Consortium
3 and
Pablo Lapunzina
1,2,3,4,7,*,†
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CIBERER, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras, ISCIII, Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
2
Overgrowth Syndromes Laboratory, INGEMM, Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular, IdiPAZ, Hospital Universitario la Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 28046 Madrid, Spain
3
The SIDE Consortium: Spanish Intellectual Disability Exome Consortium, 28046 Madrid, Spain
4
Ithaca, European Reference Network, Hospital Universitario La Paz, 28046 Madrid, Spain
5
Genetics Unit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain and Institut Hospital del Mar D’Investigacions Mediques (IMIM), 08002 Barcelona, Spain
6
Structural and Functional Genomics—INGEMM, Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular, IdiPAZ, Hospital Universitario la Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 28046 Madrid, Spain
7
Clinical Genetics—INGEMM, Instituto de Genética Médica y Molecular, IdiPAZ, Hospital Universitario la Paz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 28046 Madrid, Spain
8
FEDER (Spanish Federation for Rare Diseases), Calle del Dr. Castelo 49, 28009 Madrid, Spain
9
Department of Genetics & Genomics, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria-Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IIS-FJD, UAM), 28046 Madrid, Spain
10
Clinical Genetics, Head of the Pediatrics Service, Hospital Materno Infantil de Badajoz, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Badajoz, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Extremadura, 06110 Plasencia, Spain
11
Department of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and Medicine Genetics Group, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
12
Clinical Genetics, Hospital Materno Infantil de Badajoz, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Badajoz, University of Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
13
Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, SERGAS, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), 15702 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
14
Unit of Clinical Genetics, Service of Paediatrics, University Clinic Hospital’ Lozano Blesa’ and Unit of Clinical Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Pharmacology-Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Zaragoza, CIBERER-GCV02 and ISS-Aragón, 50001 Zaragoza, Spain
15
Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, 45147 Essen, Germany
16
Center for Rare Disease/Zentrum für Seltene Erkrankungen (EZSE), University Hospital Essen, 45276 Essen, Germany
17
Centro de Investigación en Medicina Molécula y Enfermedades Crónicas (CIMUS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15702 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Authors are members of the The ENoD-CIBERER Consortium.
Genes 2021, 12(5), 738; https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12050738
Submission received: 8 April 2021 / Revised: 30 April 2021 / Accepted: 2 May 2021 / Published: 13 May 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genetic Tests)

Abstract

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Schuurs–Hoeijmakers syndrome (SHMS) or PACS1 Neurodevelopmental disorder is a rare disorder characterized by intellectual disability, abnormal craniofacial features and congenital malformations. SHMS is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease caused by pathogenic variants in the PACS1 gene. PACS1 is a trans-Golgi-membrane traffic regulator that directs protein cargo and several viral envelope proteins. It is upregulated during human embryonic brain development and has low expression after birth. So far, only 54 patients with SHMS have been reported. In this work, we report on seven new identified SHMS individuals with the classical c.607C > T: p.Arg206Trp PACS1 pathogenic variant and review clinical and molecular aspects of all the patients reported in the literature, providing a summary of clinical findings grouped as very frequent (≥75% of patients), frequent (50–74%), infrequent (26–49%) and rare (less than ≤25%).

1. Introduction

Schuurs–Hoeijmakers syndrome or PACS1 Neurodevelopmental disorder (MIM# 615009) is a rare autosomal dominant disease characterized by distinctive craniofacial features, intellectual disability (ID) with variable degrees of neurodevelopmental delay and congenital anomalies. It was initially reported in 2012 in two unrelated patients with remarkably similar facial features and ID [1]. A few years later a review of 17 additional individuals plus the two original patients were described in a systematic review [2]. As common features included a distinctive facial appearance, delayed speech and delayed psychomotor development/ID ranging from mild to moderate. Most patients had anomalies in the eyes, nose, heart, and gastrointestinal system. After this first review, further patients were reported mainly from series of patients with ID evaluated through massive paralleled sequencing studies [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. Remarkably, almost all patients show the same heterozygous de novo PACS1 variant c.607C > T that results in exchange of an arginine residue to a tryptophan at position 203 and is assumed to be a gain of function variant. Up to date, about 54 patients have been reported, all of them with a striking similar facial phenotype and with pathogenic change in PACS1.
PACS1 codes for the Phosphofurin Acidic Cluster Sorting Protein 1, which is involved in the localization of trans-Golgi network membrane proteins. In vivo functional assays were performed in the initial report of the SHMS, demonstrated that zebrafish embryos expressing the Arg203Trp change showed craniofacial abnormalities. This might be due to the inhibition of Pacs1’s ability to mediate the migration and specification of Sox10 in neural crest cells [1].
In this work, we report on seven novel SHMS patients all with the typical Arg203Trp variant. We systematically review all the cases reported so far providing a summary of clinical finding grouped in very frequent (≥75% of patients), frequent (50–74%), infrequent (26–49%) and rare (less than ≤25%).

2. Materials and Methods

All new patients reported herein were evaluated by clinical geneticists because of the association of ID and distinctive craniofacial features. Patient 4 was recruited by the Undiagnosed Rare Disease Program (ENoD) of CIBERER. This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Hospital Universitario La Paz, IdiPAZ (CEIC-HULP-PI3509), and all participants signed a specific informed consent. None of the parents were consanguineous and none of the patients had any remarkable information regarding the perinatal period. A detailed description of the clinical features of all the patients reported here is listed in Supplementary Table S1 and facial phenotypes are showed in Figure 1.
On molecular level, patients were diagnosed by either clinical exome sequencing (CES; Sophia Genetics, Boston, MA) or whole exome sequencing (WES) in singleton or trio analyses. Briefly, sequencing was carried out in NextSeq500 or HiSeq4000 platforms (Illumina, San Francisco, California, USA) following the manufacturer’s instructions. In-house pipelines for bioinformatic analysis were developed to perform quality control (QC) and variant annotation. A suite of QC, scripts that facilitate data quality assessment, was applied. QC also included an assessment of total reads, library complexity, capture efficiency, coverage distribution (95% at ≥20x, capture uniformity, raw error rates, Ti/Tv ratio in coding regions (typically 3.2 for known sites and 2.9 for novel sites), distribution of known and novel variants relative to dbSNP and zygosity. An automated pipeline for the annotation of variants was developed as well. Our application returned many types of variant annotations, including dbSNPrs identification, gene names and accession numbers, predicted functional effect, protein positions and, for amino-acid changes (dbNSFP, CADD), conservation scores and several population frequency databases, and known clinical associations along with a vast array of annotations for non-coding sequences derived from ENCODE. Databases for pathogenic variants such as ClinVar (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/, accessed on February 2021), Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) (http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac/index.php, accessed on February 2021), Leiden Open Variant Database (LOVD) (https://www.lovd.nl/, accessed on February 2021), Alamut (https://www.interactive-biosoftware.com/alamut-visual/), and Varsome (https://varsome.com/) were also reviewed. Finally, review, classification, and interpretation of the variant was made according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMGG) guidelines [15]. CNV analysis was performed applying a custom script named “LACONv” (https://github.com/kibanez/LACONv), which was developed in-house.

3. Results

We detected seven patients with the same pathogenic variant in PACS1. All of them carried the most common, recurrent, likely gain of function pathogenic variant [(NM_018026.4):c.607C>T (p.Arg203Trp), chr11 (GRCh37): 65978677)].
The c.607C>T change has been clearly demonstrated to be pathogenic [2]. Segregation analyses showed that none of the parents tested was carrier of the variant, meaning that all probands had a de novo pathogenic variant.
All patients had ID, abnormal speech and distinctive craniofacial features (Figure 1), including downslanting palpebral fissures, bulbous nose, upturned nose, broad nasal bridge, ocular hypertelorism, thin upper lip, low-set ears, wide, tented mouth, full eyebrows and long eyelashes, among others (Table 1). We listed all clinical features of our patients in Supplementary Table S1 and reviewed the clinical findings observed in our patients and in all previously reported patients (N = 61) in Table 1. This table contains a review of the clinical features described in all the 61 cases described in the literature with SHMS (37 males and 24 females). The most common findings, observed in more than 75% of patients, are ID, speech delay and distinctive craniofacial features. Eye anomalies are observed in 25–75% of the patients and are useful for diagnosis.
Features observed in single patients: persistent left superior vena cava, dysplastic aortic and pulmonary valves, large ears,, hearing impairment, ectropion, lens subluxation, Peters’ anomaly, irregular optic discs, oval pupils, delayed visual maturation, lacrimal duct stenosis, rethrognatia, frenulum linguae, absent nasal bone, high arched palate, narrow palate, bifid uvula, misplaced teeth, small teeth, micropenis, septate uterus, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, single umbilical artery, volvulus, short bowel syndrome, ectopic anus, poor feeding, neutropenia, leukopenia, finger and toe syndactyly, hip dysplasia, short toe, fibular subluxation, cerebral atrophy, subependymal nodular high-intensity lesions, cerebellar partial agenesis, colpocephaly, megacysterna magna, hypoplasia of corpus callosum, frontal cortical dysplasia, dysarthria, myoclonus, very high pain threshold, placenta previa, oligohydramnios, rigid behavior, anxiety, apnea, urticaria, clubbing nails, pigmented nevi, lipomyelomeningocele, lordosis, cervical ribs.

4. Discussion

SHMS or PACS1 Neurodevelopmental disorder was first reported in 2012 and it is a rare cause of ID. Likely, many patients still remain unreported and, although more than 150 patients are currently known, only 61 patients have been published up to date [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,16]. The disease causing PACS1 variant always occurred de novo and therefore was excluded in the unaffected analyzed parents.
In this paper we review the clinical and molecular aspects of seven more patients with SHMS as well as all the previously reported individuals, and provide a summary of clinical findings (Table 1). The findings observed in a small number of patients are also listed in Table 1. Patients with SHMS may be clinically diagnosed when ID and speech anomalies are associated with a recognizable facial phenotype consistent in round face, full arched eyebrows, ocular hypertelorism, downslanting palpebral fissures, eye anomalies, bulbous nasal tip, wide mouth with long and flat philtrum and tented and thin upper lip with abnormal vermillion.
The PACS1 protein is a trans-Golgi-membrane traffic regulator that directs protein cargo and several viral envelope proteins. It is upregulated during human embryonic brain development and has low expression after birth. Patients with SHMS produce a protein with dominant-negative or gain-of-function effects that lead to the clinical findings characteristic of the syndrome [2]. Currently, there are ongoing efforts to develop an anti-sense therapy that would work by binding to the mutant RNA, and stopping the production of the toxic protein that causes the symptoms of the disease (https://www.pacs1foundation.org/research).
In summary, here we report on seven novel patients with SHMS with pathogenic variant in PACS1 and review clinical and molecular findings of all the previously reported patients, providing a comprehensive review of the syndrome. In order to help physicians to recognize the syndrome, the clinical features of the 61 patients are grouped in very frequent (≥75% of patients), frequent (50–74%), infrequent (26–49%) and rare (less than ≤25%).

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/genes12050738/s1, title, Table S1: Clinical characteristics of the seven novel patients with SHMS reported in this paper, Table S2: The ENOD Consortium members, S3: The SIDE (Spanish Intellectual Disability Exome) Consortium members.

Author Contributions

P.L. supervised the work, P.L. and J.T.-C. designed the study, P.L. and J.T.-C. wrote the manuscript, P.A. (Pedro Arias) and M.P.M. prepared the samples for N.G.S. studies, B.M., J.N., M.P.-B., M.P.-M, B.A., I.C., F.B., J.P., S.R. and J.T., performed the molecular analysis, F.S.-S., V.M.-G., S.G.-M., F.L.G., I.L., E.G.-G., I.V., F.J.R., A.K., E.T., C.A., F.J.K., L.P.J., Á.C., M.P.M.P., and P.L. reviewed the clinical features of the patients, B.G., B.M. coordinate the project and sample collection, A.A., J.C., and P.A. (Patricia Arias), participated from patients associations. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was possible thanks to the funding provided by the project “Proyecto Piloto para la mejora del diagnóstico genético en personas y familias afectadas o con sospecha de padecer enfermedades raras de base genética” of the Ministry of Health, under the grant BOCM-20181126-24 provided by the Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid. Funding to J.P. and F.J.R. was partially provided by the group research grant DGA/FEDER B32_17R/B32_20R.

Institutional Review Board Statement

The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board (or Ethics Committee) of University Hospital La Paz (XXX).

Informed Consent Statement

Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.

Data Availability Statement

The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to patient’s inform consent restrictions.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all patients and families of patients with PACS1 Neurodevelopmental disorder for allowing us to share their data. This work was possible thanks to the funding provided by the project “Proyecto Piloto para la mejora del diagnóstico genético en personas y familias afectadas o con sospecha de padecer enfermedades raras de base genética” of the Ministry of Health, under the grant BOCM-20181126-24 provided by the Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid. We also thank the contribution of the researchers included in the SIDE Consortium, and the Scientific Committee and collaborators of the Undiagnosed Rare Disease Program, Centre for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (ENoD-CIBERER). This project has been funded by the 2017 funds for the strategies of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality that were approved in the CISNS, in support of the implementation of the strategy against rare diseases. We also thank FEDER (Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras) for its kind support and to make possible the development of this Project.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Facial phenotypes of four of the novel patients with PACS1 pathogenic variants. (A,B) patient 1; (C,D) patient 7; (EG) patient 4 and (I) patient 6.
Figure 1. Facial phenotypes of four of the novel patients with PACS1 pathogenic variants. (A,B) patient 1; (C,D) patient 7; (EG) patient 4 and (I) patient 6.
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Table 1. Summary of the clinical features of 61 patients (37 males and 24 females) with SHMS/PACS1 Neurodevelopmental disorder included in this paper. Clinical features are organized according to the HPO nomenclature and grouped in very frequent (≥75% of patients), frequent (50–74%), infrequent (26–49%) and rare (less than ≤25%) findings. In total, 58 patients were diagnosed after birth and three prenatally.
Table 1. Summary of the clinical features of 61 patients (37 males and 24 females) with SHMS/PACS1 Neurodevelopmental disorder included in this paper. Clinical features are organized according to the HPO nomenclature and grouped in very frequent (≥75% of patients), frequent (50–74%), infrequent (26–49%) and rare (less than ≤25%) findings. In total, 58 patients were diagnosed after birth and three prenatally.
Trait (HPO)N%
Very Frequent (≥75%)
Intellectual disability (HP:0001249)56/5897
Dysmorphic facial features (HP:0001999)49/6082
Speech delay (HP:0000750)42/5576
Frequent (50–74%)
Seizures (HP:0001250)33/5857
Infrequent (26–49%)
Global development delay (HP:0001263)26/5845
Cognitive impairment (HP:0100543)22/5838
Hypotonia (HP:0001290)22/5838
Motor delay (HP:0001270)21/5737
Cryptorchidism (HP:0000028)12/3930
Amenorrhea (HP:0000141)3/1030
Constipation (HP:0002019)15/5726
Structural brain anomalies (HP:0012443)13/4926
Rare (≤25%)
Downslanted palpebral fissures (HP:0000494)14/6123
Oral aversion (HP:0012523)12/5422
Autistic Spectrum Disorder (HP:0000729)12/5621
Bulbous nose (HP:0000414)13/6121
Microcephaly (HP:0000252)13/6121
Ocular Hypertelorism (HP:0000316)12/6120
Eye anomalies (other than colobomata) (HP:0000478)12/6120
Temper tantrums-aggressions (HP:0025160)11/5520
Clinodactyly (HP:0030084)12/6120
Abnormal skull shape (HP:0002648)11/6118
Single transverse palmar crease (HP:0000954)11/6118
Thin upper lip (HP:0000219)11/6118
Gastroesophageal reflux (HP:0002020)09/5516
Low-set ears (HP:0000369)9/6115
Arched eyebrows (HP:0002553)9/6115
Failure to thrive (HP:0001508)8/5714
Pes planus (HP:0001763)8/5714
Myopia (HP:0000545)7/4914
Cerebellar hypoplasia (HP:0001321)6/4314
Congenital heart defect (HP:0001627)7/5413
Wide mouth (HP:0000154)8/6113
Retinal coloboma (HP:0000480)6/4713
Full eyebrows (HP:0004523)7/6112
Long eyelashes (HP:0000527)7/6112
Umbilical hernia- Inguinal hernia (HP:0001537)7/6112
Short stature (HP:0004322)7/5712
Hypoplastic labia minora (HP:0000064)3/2512
Atrial septal defect (HP:0001631)6/5311
Patent ductus arteriosus (HP:0001643)6/5311
Ventricular septal defect (HP:0001629)6/5311
Low birth weight (HP:0001518)6/5611
Diastema (HP:000069996/5511
Downturned corners of the mouth (HP:0002714)7/6111
Anteverted nares (HP:0000463)7/6111
Coloboma of choroid (HP:0000567)5/4910
Epicanthus (HP:0000286)6/6110
Broad nasal bridge (HP:0012811)6/6110
Coloboma of optic nerve (HP:0000588)5/4910
Upturned nose (HP:0000463)6/6110
Flat philtrum (HP:0000319)6/6110
Recurrent infections (HP:0002719)6/6110
Iris coloboma (HP:0000612)5/579
Upswept anterior hairline (HP:0002236)5/618
Tented mouth (HP:0010804)5/618
G-tube feeding (HP:0040288)5/618
Pectus excavatum (HP:0000767)5/618
Synophrys (HP:0000664)4/617
Camptodactyly (HP:0012385)4/617
Short neck (HP:0000470)4/617
Clumsiness (HP:0002312)4/617
Absent speech (HP:0001344)4/567
Behavioral abnormality (HP:0000708)4/567
Sleep disturbance (HP:0002360)4/567
Abnormality of the kidney (HP:0000077)4/597
Scoliosis (HP:0002650)4/547
Widely spaced nipples (HP:0006610)4/617
Abnormality of the cerebral white matter (HP:0002500)3/437
Slender finger (HP:0001238)4/587
Coarctation of aorta (HP:0001680)3/536
Posteriorly rotated ears (HP:0000358)4/616
Flat occiput (HP:0005469)4/616
Eversion of lateral third of lower eyelids (HP:0007655)3/615
Nystagmus (HP:0000639)3/615
Strabismus (HP:0000486)3/615
Round face (HP:0000311)3/615
Low anterior hairline (HP:0000294)3/615
Micrognathia (HP:0000347)3/615
Large for gestational age (HP:0001520)3/615
Tapered finger (HP:0001182)3/575
Dystonia (HP:0001332)3/545
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Patent foramen ovale (HP:0001655)2/534
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Overlapping toes (HP:0001845)2/613
Epileptic encephalopathy (HP:0200134)2/613
Placental bleeding (HP:0025328)2/613
Inappropriate laughter (HP:0000748)3/593
Repetitive compulsive behavior (HP:0008762)2/583
Self-injurious behavior (HP:0100716)2/583
Pulmonary hypoplasia (HP:0002089)2/583
Short ears (HP:0400004)2/613
Almond-shaped eyes (HP:0007874)2/613
Telecanthus (HP:0000506)2/613
Ptosis palpebralis (HP:0000508)2/613
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Tenorio-Castaño J, Morte B, Nevado J, Martinez-Glez V, Santos-Simarro F, García-Miñaúr S, Palomares-Bralo M, Pacio-Míguez M, Gómez B, Arias P, et al. Schuurs–Hoeijmakers Syndrome (PACS1 Neurodevelopmental Disorder): Seven Novel Patients and a Review. Genes. 2021; 12(5):738. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12050738

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