Novel pathogenic variant in the HRAS gene with lethal outcome and a broad phenotypic spectrum among Polish patients with Costello syndrome

Clin Dysmorphol. 2017 Apr;26(2):83-90. doi: 10.1097/MCD.0000000000000165.

Abstract

Costello syndrome (CS) is a rare congenital disorder from the group of RASopathies, characterized by a distinctive facial appearance, failure to thrive, cardiac and skin anomalies, intellectual disability, and a predisposition to neoplasia. CS is associated with germline mutations in the proto-oncogene HRAS, a small GTPase from the Ras family. In this study, a molecular and clinical analysis was carried out in eight Polish patients with the Costello phenotype. A molecular test showed two known heterozygous mutations in the first coding exon of the gene in seven patients: p.G12S (n=4) and p.G12A (n=3), and a novel pathogenic variant p.G60V in one child with an unusually severe, lethal course of the syndrome. In addition, a fatal course of CS was present in one patient with the p.G12A mutation and in another with p.G12S, there was a co-occurrence of Turner syndrome because of the distal Xp deletion. A severe clinical manifestation with a lethal outcome in an individual with p.G60V in HRAS and contrary observations of an attenuated phenotype in CS patients with other mutations at glycine-60 residue may suggest that the nature of the substituted amino acid plays a significant role in the clinical variability observed in some CS cases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Costello Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Costello Syndrome / genetics
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Genetic Association Studies
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Mutation, Missense
  • Phenotype
  • Poland
  • Proto-Oncogene Mas
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) / genetics*

Substances

  • MAS1 protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Mas
  • HRAS protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)