Differential inclusion of NEB exons 143 and 144 provides insight into NEB-related myopathy variant interpretation and disease manifestation
Silverstein, S.; Orbach, R.; Syeda, S.; Foley, R.; Gorokhova, S.; Meilleur, K. G.; Leach, M. E.; Uapinyoying, P.; Chao, K. R.; Donkervoort, S.; Bönnemann, C. G.
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Biallelic pathogenic variants in the gene encoding nebulin (NEB) are a known cause of congenital myopathy. We present two individuals with congenital myopathy and compound heterozygous variants (NM_001271208.2: c.2079C>A; p.(Cys693Ter) and c.21522+3A>G) in NEB. Transcriptomic sequencing on patient muscle revealed that the extended splice variant c.21522+3A>G causes exon 144 skipping. Nebulin isoforms containing exon 144 are known to be mutually exclusive with isoforms containing exon 143, and these isoforms are differentially expressed during development and in adult skeletal muscles. Patients MRIs were compared to the known pattern of relative abundance of these two isoforms in muscle. We propose that the pattern of muscle involvement in these patients better fits the distribution of exon 144-containing isoforms in muscle than with previously published MRI findings in NEB-related disease due to other variants. To our knowledge this is the first report hypothesizing disease pathogenesis through the alteration of isoform distributions in muscle.
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