OBJECTIVE: To identify genes related to normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) in one Japanese family with several members with NPH. METHODS:We performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) on a Japanese family with multiple individuals with NPH and identified a candidate gene.Then we generated knockout mouse using CRISPR/Cas9 to confirm the effect of the candidate gene on the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus.RESULTS: In WES, we identified a loss-of-function variant in CFAP43 that segregated with the disease. CFAP43 encoding cilia- and flagella-associated protein is preferentially expressed in the testis.Recent studies have revealed that mutations in this gene cause male infertility owing to morphologic abnormalities of sperm flagella. We knocked out mouse ortholog Cfap43 using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, resulting in Cfap43-deficient mice that exhibited a hydrocephalus phenotype with morphologic abnormality of motile cilia. CONCLUSION: Our results strongly suggest that CFAP43 is responsible for morphologic or movement abnormalities
of cilia in the brain that result in NPH.
雑誌名
Neurology
巻
92
号
20
ページ
e2364 - e2374
発行年
2019-04-19
出版者
Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
ISSN
0028-3878
EISSN
1526632X
DOI
10.1212/WNL.0000000000007505
権利
c 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND), which permits downloading and sharing the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
Nonsense mutation in CFAP43 causes normal-pressure hydrocephalus with ciliary abnormalities
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