Highly clustered de novo frameshift variants in the neuronal splicing factor NOVA2 result in a specific abnormal C terminal part and cause a severe form of intellectual disability with autistic features.
Mattioli, F.; Hayot, G.; Drouot, N.; Isidor, B.; Courraud, J.; Tran Mau Them, F.; Sellier, C.; Hinckelman, M.-V.; Goldman, A.; Telegrafi, A.; Boughton, A.; Gamble, C.; Moutton, S.; Quartier, A.; Jean, N.; Vanness, P.; Grotto, S.; Nambot, S.; Douglas, G.; Si, Y. C.; Chelly, J.; Shad, Z.; Kaplan, E.; Dineen, R.; Golzio, C.; Charlet, N.; Mandel, J.-L.; Piton, A.
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The Neuro-Oncological Ventral Antigen 2 NOVA2 protein is a major factor regulating neuron specific alternative splicing, previously associated with an acquired neurologic condition, the paraneoplastic opsoclonus-myoclonus ataxia (POMA). We report here six individuals with de novo frameshift variants in the NOVA2 gene affected with a severe neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by intellectual disability (ID), motor and speech delay, autistic features, hypotonia, feeding difficulties, spasticity or ataxic gait and abnormal brain MRI. The six variants lead to the same reading frame, adding a common 133 aa long proline rich C-terminus part instead of the last KH RNA binding domain. We detected forty-one genes differentially spliced after NOVA2 inactivation in human neural cells. The mutant NOVA2 protein shows decreased ability to bind a target RNA, to regulate specific splicing events and to rescue the phenotype of altered retinotectal axonal pathfinding induced by loss of NOVA2 ortholog in zebrafish. Our results suggest a partial loss-of-function mechanism rather than a full heterozygous loss of function, although a specific contribution of the novel C terminal extension cannot be excluded on the basis of the genetic findings.
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