Schuurs-Hoeijmakers Syndrome (PACS1 Neurodevelopmental Disorder): Seven Novel Patients and a Review

Genes (Basel). 2021 May 13;12(5):738. doi: 10.3390/genes12050738.

Abstract

Schuurs-Hoeijmakers syndrome (SHMS) or PACS1 Neurodevelopmental disorder is a rare disorder characterized by intellectual disability, abnormal craniofacial features and congenital malformations. SHMS is an autosomal dominant hereditary disease caused by pathogenic variants in the PACS1 gene. PACS1 is a trans-Golgi-membrane traffic regulator that directs protein cargo and several viral envelope proteins. It is upregulated during human embryonic brain development and has low expression after birth. So far, only 54 patients with SHMS have been reported. In this work, we report on seven new identified SHMS individuals with the classical c.607C > T: p.Arg206Trp PACS1 pathogenic variant and review clinical and molecular aspects of all the patients reported in the literature, providing a summary of clinical findings grouped as very frequent (≥75% of patients), frequent (50-74%), infrequent (26-49%) and rare (less than ≤25%).

Keywords: PACS1; Schuurs–Hoeijmakers syndrome; T; intellectual disability; pathogenic variant c.607C > phosphofurin acidic cluster sorting protein 1; rare disorders.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / genetics
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / genetics
  • Male
  • Mutation / genetics
  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders / genetics*
  • Phenotype
  • Syndrome
  • Vesicular Transport Proteins / genetics*

Substances

  • PACS1 protein, human
  • Vesicular Transport Proteins