OMIA:001443-9685 : Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, 6 in Felis catus (domestic cat)

In other species: dog , sheep

Categories: Lysosomal storage disease , Nervous system phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s)s (MIM numbers): 601780 (trait) , 606725 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases:

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive

Considered a defect: yes

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2020

Cross-species summary: One of several variants of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) or Batten disease: CLN6; NCL6

History: The first report of this disorder in cats was by Katz et al. (2020).

Molecular basis: Katz et al. (2020): "Comparison of the [whole-genome] sequence data [of the affected cat] to whole exome sequence data from 39 unaffected cats and whole genome sequence data from an additional 195 unaffected cats revealed a homozygous variant in CLN6 that was unique to the affected cat. This variant was predicted to cause a stop gain in the transcript due to a guanine to adenine transition (ENSFCAT00000025909:c.668G>A; XM_003987007.5:c.668G>A)"

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

Clinical features: Katz et al. (2020): "A neutered male domestic medium-haired cat presented at a veterinary neurology clinic at 20 months of age due to progressive neurological signs that included visual impairment, focal myoclonus, and frequent severe generalized seizures that were refractory to treatment with phenobarbital. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed diffuse global brain atrophy."

Pathology: Katz et al. (2020): "Microscopic examination of the cerebellum, cerebral cortex and brainstem revealed pronounced intracellular accumulations of autofluorescent storage material and inflammation in all 3 brain regions. Ultrastructural examination of the storage material indicated that it consisted almost completely of tightly-packed membrane-like material. The clinical signs and neuropathology strongly suggested that the cat suffered from a form of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL)."

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
CLN6 ceroid-lipofuscinosis, neuronal 6, late infantile, variant Felis catus B3 NC_058373.1 (37173741..37207743) CLN6 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
1213 Domestic medium-haired Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, 6 CLN6 nonsense (stop-gain) Naturally occurring variant Felis_catus_9.0 B3 g.39334330G>A c.668G>A p.(W223*) ENSFCAT00000025909:c.668G>A; XM_003987007.5:c.668G>A (Katz et al. (2020) rs5334475122 2020 32518081

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2021). OMIA:001443-9685: 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.

2021 Rodney, A.R., Buckley, R.M., Fulton, R.S., Fronick, C., Richmond, T., Helps, C.R., Pantke, P., Trent, D.J., Vernau, K.M., Munday, J.S., Lewin, A.C., Middleton, R., Lyons, L.A., Warren, W.C. :
A domestic cat whole exome sequencing resource for trait discovery. Sci Rep 11:7159, 2021. Pubmed reference: 33785770. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86200-7.
2020 Katz, M.L., Buckley, R.M., Biegen, V., O'Brien, D.P., Johnson, G.C., Warren, W.C., Lyons, L.A. :
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis in a domestic cat associated with a DNA sequence variant that creates a premature stop codon in CLN6. G3 (Bethesda) 10:2741-51, 2020. Pubmed reference: 32518081. DOI: 10.1534/g3.120.401407.
Lyons, L.A. :
Precision medicine in cats-The right biomedical model may not be the mouse! PLoS Genet 16:e1009177, 2020. Pubmed reference: 33290388. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009177.

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  • Created by Frank Nicholas on 11 Jun 2020
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