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BMC Medical Genetics
Published in: BMC Medical Genetics 1/2019

Open Access 01-12-2019 | Nephrotic Syndrome | Research article

A comprehensive analysis of NPHS1 gene mutations in patients with sporadic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

Authors: Ling Zhuo, Lulin Huang, Zhenglin Yang, Guisen Li, Li Wang

Published in: BMC Medical Genetics | Issue 1/2019

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Abstract

Background

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is still one of the common causes of refractory nephrotic syndrome. Nephrin, encoded by podocyte-specific NPHS1 gene, participated in the pathogenesis of FSGS. The sites of NPHS1 mutations in FSGS is not clarified very well. In this study, we investigated the specific mutations of NPHS1 gene in Chinese patients with sporadic FSGS.

Methods

A total of 309 patients with sporadic FSGS were collected and screened for NPHS1 mutations by second-generation sequencing. The variants were compared with those extracted from 2504 healthy controls in the 1000 Genomes Project. The possible pathogenic roles of missense variants were predicted by three different software. We also compared these candidate causal mutations with those summarized from the previous studies.

Results

Thirty-two genetic mutations of NPHS1 gene were identified in FSGS patients, including 12 synonymous mutations, 17 missense mutations, 1 splicing mutation, and 2 intron mutations, of which c.G3315A (p.S1105S) was the most common variant (261/309). A novel missense mutation c.G2638 T (p.V880F) and a novel splicing mutation 35830957 C > T were identified in FSGS patients. The frequencies of the four synonymous mutations (c.C294T [p.I98I], c.C2223T [p.T741 T], c.C2289T [p.V763 V], c.G3315A [p.S1105S]) were much higher in FSGS patients than in controls. The frequencies of the four missense mutations (c.G349A [p.E117K], c.G1339A [p.E447K], c.G1802C [p.G601A], c.C2398T [p.R800C]) were much higher and one (c.A3230G [p.N1077S]) was lower in FSGS patients than in controls. Five missense mutations, c.C616A (p.P206T), c.G1802C (p.G601A), c.C2309T (p.P770L), c.G2869C (p.V957 L), and c.C3274T (p.R1092C), were predicted to be pathogenic mutations by software analysis.

Conclusions

NPHS1 gene mutations were quite common in sporadic FSGS patients. We strongly recommend mutation analysis of the NPHS1 gene in the clinical management of FSGS patients.
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Metadata
Title
A comprehensive analysis of NPHS1 gene mutations in patients with sporadic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Authors
Ling Zhuo
Lulin Huang
Zhenglin Yang
Guisen Li
Li Wang
Publication date
01-12-2019
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Medical Genetics / Issue 1/2019
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12881-019-0845-4

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