Description of an AGPAT2 pathologic allelic variant in a 54-year-old Caucasian woman with Berardinelli-Seip syndrome
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Caterina Pelosini Silvia Martinelli Brunella Bagattini Enrico Pucci Paola Fierabracci Giovanna Scartabelli Guido Salvetti Paolo Vitti
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
A 54-year-old Italian female patient was admitted to our Department with the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes poorly controlled with insulin therapy. The patient was born by consanguineous parents (first degree cousins); she had acromegaloid features, diffuse lipoatrophy and muscular pseudo-hypertrophy since childhood. To confirm the clinical hypothesis of congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL) or Berardinelli-Seip syndrome, the sequences ofAGPAT2 (encoding for 1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3- phosphate acyltransferase beta) and BSCL2 (encoding for seipin) candidate genes were analyzed. DNA analysis showed the presence of a homozygous mutation in exon 3 of the AGPAT2 gene (P112L). This is the first description of a Caucasian subject with CGL who carries the pathologic allelic variant P112L of the AGPAT2 gene.
Acta Diabetol DOI 10.1007/s00592-011-0308-7 Received: 18 January 2011 / Accepted: 21 June 2011 Springer-Verlag 2011
