Liver Involvement in Patients with Rare MBOAT7 Variants and Intellectual Disability: A Case Report and Literature Review

Abstract

The membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain-containing 7 (MBOAT7) protein is an acyltransferase catalyzing arachidonic acid incorporation into lysophosphatidylinositol. Patients with rare, biallelic loss-of-function variants of the MBOAT7 gene display intellectual disability with neurodevelopmental defects. The rs641738 inherited variant associated with reduced hepatic MBOAT7 expression has been linked to steatotic liver disease susceptibility. However, the impact of biallelic loss-of-function MBOAT7 variants on liver disease is not known. We report on a 2-year-old girl with MBOAT7-related intellectual disability and steatotic liver disease, confirming that MBOAT7 loss-of-function predisposes to liver disease.

Keywords: LPIAT1; fatty liver disease; intellectual disability; membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain-containing 7 (MBOAT7); steatotic liver disease.