OMIA:001967-9615 : Muscular dystrophy, Ullrich type, COL6A1-related in Canis lupus familiaris (dog)

Categories: Muscle phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s)s (MIM numbers): 254090 (trait) , 120220 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive

Considered a defect: yes

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2015

Cross-species summary: Severe muscle dystrophy, due to variants in the genes encoding subunits of collagen VI.

Species-specific name: Muscular Dystrophy

Species-specific symbol: UCMD

History: Steffen et al. (2015) described the clinics, pathology, and molecular genetics of Landseer dogs with a severe muscular dystrophy. An earlier report described a myopathic Labrador Retriever, in which antibody staining of sections from a muscle biospy showed reduced sarcolemmal collagen VI protein expression (Marioni-Henry et al. 2014). The molecular genetic defect in the Labrador Retriever was later identified to be caused by mutations in a different gene - see OMIA 002274-9615 : Muscular dystrophy, COL6A3-related in Canis lupus familiaris for more detail. This myopathic Labrador Retriever showed a milder clinical phenotype than the Landseer dogs with muscular dystrophy (Steffen et al. 2015).

Mapping: Steffen et al. (2015) used one complete Landseer family with 3 affected and 3 non-affected offspring and one additional distantly related affected Landseer to map the disease causing variant. Using a combination of linkage and homozygosity mapping they narrowed the most likely postions for the causative variant to two genome segments on chromosome 10 and 31 comprising a total of 4.8 Mb. The specific critical intervals were defined as Chr10:61,871,450 - 66,047,210 and Chr31:38,752,158 - 39,364,930 (CanFam 3 assembly).

Molecular basis: Steffen et al. (2015) sequenced the complete genome of an affected Landseer at 14.2x coverage. The dog had ~2.8 million homozygous variants compared to the Boxer reference genome. When concentrating on the critical intervals and comparing the data to 170 dog genomes from control dogs of other breeds, only one private non-synonymous variant remained in the affected Landseer, a nonsense variant in the COL6A1 gene on chromosome 31, c.289G>T or p.Glu97*. This variant perfectly co-segregated with the phenotype in cohort of 58 Landseer dogs including 5 affected dogs. Collagen VI is made up of three different subunits encoded by the COL6A1, COL6A2, and COL6A3 genes. Variants abolishing the function of either these genes lead to a severe muscular dystrophy phenotype in humans, the so-called Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy. Based on the knowledge from humans, the identified canine COL6A1 nonsense variant seemed a very likely candidate causative variant for the Landseer disease. Steffen et al. (2015) genotyped 404 Newfoundland dogs and 473 dogs from diverse other breeds and did not find the mutant allele in these breeds.

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Clinical features: Generalized progressive muscle weakness is noticed very early in life. Due to the severity of the disease affected dogs are euthanized at 5-15 months of age (Steffen et al. 2015). Brands et al. (2020) "present the long-term follow up characterization of the clinical and pathological phenotype of the Landseer dogs [homozgous for the p.Glu97* variant] and a comparative analysis between dogs and humans in order to provide the Landseer dog as a useful model for human UCMD".

Pathology: "All affected dogs showed pathological variation in muscle fiber size and most of the fibers were round to anisomorphic instead of having a (physiological) polygonal shape. Many small fibres were scattered throughout the biopsies, along with some hypercontracted fibres. Sporadically invading phagocytes grouped around degenerating fibers. Staining for acidic phosphatase showed an increase of activity, indicating degeneration to necrosis in a large number of fibres. Some biopsies correlated to an advanced stage of disease with distinct proliferation of the endomysial connective tissue and an increase of adipose tissue. These findings demonstrate different stages of muscular destruction with compensatory hypertrophy and replacement of lost fibers by connective tissue and fat cells. The histhopathological findings were typical for a muscular dystrophy. However, relatively normal immunohistochemistry findings with an anti-dystrophin antibody clearly showed that the muscular dystrophy in the Landseer dogs is different from the Duchenne/Becker type." (Steffen et al. 2015)

Breed: Landseer (Dog) (VBO_0200809).
Breeds in which the phene has been documented. For breeds in which a likely causal variant has been documented, see the variant table below

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
COL6A1 collagen, type VI, alpha 1 Canis lupus familiaris 31 NC_051835.1 (38938729..38956907) COL6A1 Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene

Variants

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WARNING! Inclusion of a variant in this table does not automatically mean that it should be used for DNA testing. Anyone contemplating the use of any of these variants for DNA testing should examine critically the relevant evidence (especially in breeds other than the breed in which the variant was first described). If it is decided to proceed, the location and orientation of the variant sequence should be checked very carefully.

Since October 2021, OMIA includes a semiautomated lift-over pipeline to facilitate updates of genomic positions to a recent reference genome position. These changes to genomic positions are not always reflected in the ‘acknowledgements’ or ‘verbal description’ fields in this table.

OMIA Variant ID Breed(s) Variant Phenotype Gene Allele Type of Variant Source of Genetic Variant Reference Sequence Chr. g. or m. c. or n. p. Verbal Description EVA ID Inferred EVA rsID Year Published PubMed ID(s) Acknowledgements
340 Landseer (Dog) Muscular dystrophy, Ullrich type COL6A1 nonsense (stop-gain) Naturally occurring variant CanFam3.1 31 g.39303964G>T c.289G>T p.(E97*) XM_003434001.5; XP_003434049.2; previously incorrectly listed in this table as c.289C>T; p.(Q97*) - corrected 8/2/2022 2015 26438297

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2022). OMIA:001967-9615: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

2020 Brands, J., Steffen, F., Spennes, J., Leeb, T., Bilzer, T. :
COL6A1 related muscular dystrophy in Landseer dogs - a canine model for Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy. Muscle Nerve 63:608-616, 2020. Pubmed reference: 33382107. DOI: 10.1002/mus.27162.
2015 Steffen, F., Bilzer, T., Brands, J., Golini, L., Jagannathan, V., Wiedmer, M., Drögemüller, M., Drögemüller, C., Leeb, T. :
A nonsense variant in COL6A1 in Landseer dogs with muscular dystrophy. G3 (Bethesda) 5:2611-7, 2015. Pubmed reference: 26438297. DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.021923.
2013 Marioni-Henry, K., Haworth, P., Scott, H., Witte, P., Guo, L.T., Shelton, G.D. :
Sarcolemmal specific collagen VI deficient myopathy in a Labrador Retriever. J Vet Intern Med 28:243-9, 2013. Pubmed reference: 24147807. DOI: 10.1111/jvim.12224.

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