Listen!There are students playing music.They are from Xiao Qing Hua Guci Club(小青花鼓词社)of Wenzhou Experimental Primary School.This kind of performance is called“Wenzhou Guci(温州鼓词)”.
AIM:To analyze the pathogenicity and clinical features of patients in a consanguineous cone-rod dystrophy(CRD)family due to heterozygous variants in the GUCY2D gene.METHODS:Whole exome sequencing was used to screen fo...AIM:To analyze the pathogenicity and clinical features of patients in a consanguineous cone-rod dystrophy(CRD)family due to heterozygous variants in the GUCY2D gene.METHODS:Whole exome sequencing was used to screen for pathogenic genes and candidate pathogenic variants were obtained by bioinformatics analysis.Sanger sequencing was used for validation and familial cosegregation analysis to determine pathogenic variants.Pymol software was applied to produce a 3D structure image of the protein to analyze the structural and functional alterations of the protein.The pathogenicity of genetic variants was evaluated according to ACMG guidelines.RESULTS:The chief clinical symptoms of this proband included obvious visual impairment,protanopia and deuteranopia,peripheral punctate pigment,arteriolar attenuation,structural and functional abnormalities revealed by optical coherence tomography(OCT)and electroretinography(ERG)including thinning of the outer retinal layer,a discontinuous external limiting membrane(ELM)and ellipsoid zone(EZ),granular hyperreflective projections between the retinal pigment epithelium and the interdigitation zone,severe attenuation of photopic responses with mild reduced scotopic responses.Wholeexome sequencing revealed that the proband carried a heterozygous variant of the GUCY2D gene:c.2512C>T:p.Arg838Cys.Three-dimensional molecular structure analysis of the protein revealed that amino acid 838 was mutated from polar positively charged arginine to polar uncharged cysteine,and the spatial structure of the protein changed greatly.Sanger sequencing co-segregation analysis confirmed that such a variant was detected in neither the phenotypically normal parents nor the daughter of the proband,which was presumed to be a de novo one.The variant was determined to be pathogenic according to ACMG guidelines.The heterozygous variant at the same site was detected in the abnormal proband’s son with moderate attenuation of photopic electroretinographic responses and normal scotopic electroretinographic responses,supporting autosomal dominant inheritance.CONCLUSION:The de novo variant causing atypical autosomal dominant CRD is identified in a Chinese consanguineous family and this variant passes through this family in an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance,revealing the complex diversity and unpredictability of the inheritance mode for common single-gene genetic disease.展开更多
目的建立骨刺胶囊（昆布、骨碎补、白芍、党参等）指纹图谱,并结合质谱信息鉴定特征峰的化学结构信息。方法骨刺胶囊75%甲醇提取液的分析采用Phenomenex Luna C18柱（4.6 mm×250 mm,5μm）;流动相为乙腈-20 mmol/L甲酸铵水溶液体系...目的建立骨刺胶囊（昆布、骨碎补、白芍、党参等）指纹图谱,并结合质谱信息鉴定特征峰的化学结构信息。方法骨刺胶囊75%甲醇提取液的分析采用Phenomenex Luna C18柱（4.6 mm×250 mm,5μm）;流动相为乙腈-20 mmol/L甲酸铵水溶液体系;体积流量为1.0 m L/min,梯度洗脱;检测波长为254 nm。采用飞行时间质谱（TOFMS）结合离子阱多级质谱（Ion-trap/MSn）,鉴定骨刺胶囊指纹图谱中特征峰的结构,正、负两种离子模式扫描。结果骨刺胶囊HPLC-MS指认21个共有峰,表征昆布、白芍、杜仲、党参、马钱子、鸡血藤、骨碎补、延胡索和桂枝等9味药材的特征成分。以绿原酸为参照物峰,12批样品的相似度在0.821~0.945之间。结论该方法显示,骨刺胶囊主要化学成分相似,质量较稳定。展开更多
文摘Listen!There are students playing music.They are from Xiao Qing Hua Guci Club(小青花鼓词社)of Wenzhou Experimental Primary School.This kind of performance is called“Wenzhou Guci(温州鼓词)”.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82260206)Natural Science Foundation of Ningxia(No.2022AAC03387)+1 种基金Major Achievement Transformation Project of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region(No.2022CJE09011)the Key Research Development Project of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region(No.2024BEG02017).
文摘AIM:To analyze the pathogenicity and clinical features of patients in a consanguineous cone-rod dystrophy(CRD)family due to heterozygous variants in the GUCY2D gene.METHODS:Whole exome sequencing was used to screen for pathogenic genes and candidate pathogenic variants were obtained by bioinformatics analysis.Sanger sequencing was used for validation and familial cosegregation analysis to determine pathogenic variants.Pymol software was applied to produce a 3D structure image of the protein to analyze the structural and functional alterations of the protein.The pathogenicity of genetic variants was evaluated according to ACMG guidelines.RESULTS:The chief clinical symptoms of this proband included obvious visual impairment,protanopia and deuteranopia,peripheral punctate pigment,arteriolar attenuation,structural and functional abnormalities revealed by optical coherence tomography(OCT)and electroretinography(ERG)including thinning of the outer retinal layer,a discontinuous external limiting membrane(ELM)and ellipsoid zone(EZ),granular hyperreflective projections between the retinal pigment epithelium and the interdigitation zone,severe attenuation of photopic responses with mild reduced scotopic responses.Wholeexome sequencing revealed that the proband carried a heterozygous variant of the GUCY2D gene:c.2512C>T:p.Arg838Cys.Three-dimensional molecular structure analysis of the protein revealed that amino acid 838 was mutated from polar positively charged arginine to polar uncharged cysteine,and the spatial structure of the protein changed greatly.Sanger sequencing co-segregation analysis confirmed that such a variant was detected in neither the phenotypically normal parents nor the daughter of the proband,which was presumed to be a de novo one.The variant was determined to be pathogenic according to ACMG guidelines.The heterozygous variant at the same site was detected in the abnormal proband’s son with moderate attenuation of photopic electroretinographic responses and normal scotopic electroretinographic responses,supporting autosomal dominant inheritance.CONCLUSION:The de novo variant causing atypical autosomal dominant CRD is identified in a Chinese consanguineous family and this variant passes through this family in an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance,revealing the complex diversity and unpredictability of the inheritance mode for common single-gene genetic disease.
文摘目的建立骨刺胶囊（昆布、骨碎补、白芍、党参等）指纹图谱,并结合质谱信息鉴定特征峰的化学结构信息。方法骨刺胶囊75%甲醇提取液的分析采用Phenomenex Luna C18柱（4.6 mm×250 mm,5μm）;流动相为乙腈-20 mmol/L甲酸铵水溶液体系;体积流量为1.0 m L/min,梯度洗脱;检测波长为254 nm。采用飞行时间质谱（TOFMS）结合离子阱多级质谱（Ion-trap/MSn）,鉴定骨刺胶囊指纹图谱中特征峰的结构,正、负两种离子模式扫描。结果骨刺胶囊HPLC-MS指认21个共有峰,表征昆布、白芍、杜仲、党参、马钱子、鸡血藤、骨碎补、延胡索和桂枝等9味药材的特征成分。以绿原酸为参照物峰,12批样品的相似度在0.821~0.945之间。结论该方法显示,骨刺胶囊主要化学成分相似,质量较稳定。
