OMIA 001967-9615 : Muscular dystrophy, Ullrich type, COL6A1-related in Canis lupus familiaris |
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.
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. Associated gene:Symbol | Description | Species | Chr | Location | OMIA gene details page | Other Links |
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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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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 |
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340 | Landseer | 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 |
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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