Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Variants of uncertain significance (VUS) surged with affordable genetic testing, posing challenges for determining pathogenicity. We examine the pathogenicity of a novel VUS P93S in Annexin A11 (ANXA11) – an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia-associated gene – in a corticobasal syndrome kindred. Established ANXA11 mutations cause ANXA11 aggregation, altered lysosomal-RNA granule co-trafficking, and transactive response DNA binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) mis-localization.
METHODS
We described the clinical presentation and explored the phenotypic diversity of ANXA11 variants. P93S’s effect on ANXA11 function and TDP-43 biology was characterized in induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons alongside multiomic neuronal and microglial profiling.
RESULTS
ANXA11 mutations were linked to corticobasal syndrome cases. P93S led to decreased lysosome colocalization, neuritic RNA, and nuclear TDP-43 with cryptic exon expression. Multiomic microglial signatures implicated immune dysregulation and interferon signaling pathways.
DISCUSSION
This study establishes ANXA11 P93S pathogenicity, broadens the phenotypic spectrum of ANXA11 mutations, underscores neuronal and microglial dysfunction in ANXA11 pathophysiology, and demonstrates the potential of cellular models to determine variant pathogenicity.
Highlights
ANXA11 P93S is a pathogenic variant.
Corticobasal syndrome is part of the ANXA11 phenotypic spectrum.
Hybridization chain reaction fluorescence in situ hybridization (HCR FISH) is a new tool for the detection of cryptic exons due to TDP-43-related loss of splicing regulation.
Microglial ANXA11 and related immune pathways are important drivers of disease.
Cellular models are powerful tools for adjudicating variants of uncertain significance.
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Veronica H. Ryan,
James Hawrot,
Sydney Lawton,
Daniel M. Ramos,
Y. Andy Qi,
Kory R. Johnson,
Xylena Reed,
Nicholas L. Johnson,
Aaron W. Kollasch,
Megan F. Duffy,
Lawren VandeVrede,
J. Nicholas Cochran,
Bruce L. Miller,
Camilo Toro,
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Debora S. Marks,
Jennifer S. Yokoyama,
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