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CASE REPORT article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Intellectual Disabilities
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1446698
This article is part of the Research Topic Rare Genetic Disorders Associated with Intellectual Disability View all 3 articles

A Novel de novo Variant of NACC1 Caused Epileptic Encephalopathy and Intellectual Disability

Provisionally accepted
  • West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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    Background: Genetic disorders may also contribute to intellectual disability. Using the whole exon sequencing (WES), several variants are identified as autosomal dominant inheritance to intellectual disability. Thus, the WES application demonstrated a critical role in distinguishing intellectual disability in children patients, which provided essential diagnosis and promoted therapeutic strategy.The proband, an 18-month-old female, presented with a complex clinical profile characterized by profound developmental delay, epilepsy, and neurological developmental impairment. WES identified a heterozygous c.913A>G variant in exon 2 of NACC1, resulting in disease causing by amino acid sequence changed, protein features affected and splice site changes by MutationTaster analysis.The protein structure of NAC1 had been built and named AF-Q96RE7-F1, and the mutant site was beyond BTB/POZ, NLS and BEN domains. Then, Pymol software had been used to illustrate the molecular structure between wild type of mutant type of NAC1. The residues around 304 site of amino acid changed in NAC1 p.T304A with altered hydrogen bond, indicating an unstable structure. The patient was diagnosed with intellectual disability and profound developmental delay with epilepsy harboring a novel de novo NACC1 variant. Upon hospital admission, a comprehensive treatment regimen was initiated, including antiseizure medications, nutritional supplements, and rehabilitation training. As a consequence, the movement performance improved.However, the recurrent epilepsy attack still been occurred.This is the first case to reveal a novel NACC1 c.903A>G variant which induced neurological impairment in infant. And this report expanded the understanding of non-domain associated variant of NACC1 and developmental disorder.

    Keywords: NACC1, WES, Intellectual Disability, epileptic encephalopathy, Neurological developmental disorder

    Received: 10 Jun 2024; Accepted: 04 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Li, Wu, Gan, Hua and Qie. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yifei Li, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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