Mutations in SNORD118 cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts

Emma Jenkinson, Mathieu P Rodero, Paul Kasher, Carolina Uggenti, Anthony Oojageer, Laurence Goosey, Yohann Rose, Jill Urquhart, Simon Williams, Sanjeev S Bhaskar, James O'Sullivan, Gabriela M Baerlocher, Monika Haubitz, Gerardine Aubert, Kristin W Barañano, Angela J Barnicoat, Roberta Battini, Andrea Berger, Edward M Blair, Janice E Brunstrom-HernandezJohannes A Buckard, David M Cassiman, Rosaline Caumes, Duccio M Cordelli, Liesbeth M De Waele, Alexander J Fay, Patrick Ferreira, Nicholas A Fletcher, Alan E Fryer, Himanshu Goel, Cheryl A Hemingway, Marco Henneke, Imelda Hughes, Rosalind J Jefferson, Ram Kumar, Lieven Lagae, Pierre G Landrieu, Charles M Lourenço, Timothy J Malpas, Sarju G Mehta, Imke Metz, Sakkubai Naidu, Katrin Õunap, Axel Panzer, Prab Prabhakar, Geraldine Quaghebeur, Raphael Schiffmann, Elliott H Sherr, Kanaga R Sinnathuray, Calvin Soh, Helen Stewart, John Stone, Hilde Van Esch, Christine E G Van Mol, Adeline Vanderver, Emma L Wakeling, Andrea Whitney, Graham Pavitt, Sam Griffiths-Jones, Gillian Rice, Patrick Revy, Marjo S van der Knaap, John H Livingston, Raymond O'Keefe, Yanick Crow, Christopher Kershaw

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Abstract

Although ribosomes are ubiquitous and essential for life, recent data indicate that monogenic causes of ribosomal dysfunction can confer a remarkable degree of specificity in terms of human disease phenotype. Box C/D small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved non-protein-coding RNAs involved in ribosome biogenesis. Here we show that biallelic mutations in the gene SNORD118, encoding the box C/D snoRNA U8, cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC), presenting at any age from early childhood to late adulthood. These mutations affect U8 expression, processing and protein binding and thus implicate U8 as essential in cerebral vascular homeostasis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1185–1192
Number of pages11
JournalNature Genetics
Volume48
Issue number10
Early online date29 Aug 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Sept 2016

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