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Clinical and genetic findings in patients with congenital cataract and heart diseases

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases volume 16, Article number: 242 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Congenital cataract (CC) and congenital heart disease (CHD) are significant birth defects. In clinical practice, the concurrence of CC and CHD is frequently observed in patients. Additionally, some monogenic diseases, copy number variation (CNV) syndromes, and diseases associated with intrauterine infection involve both cataract and heart defects. However, little is known about the association between CC and CHD. Here, we characterised the demographic, clinical, and genetic features of patients with CC and heart defects.

Methods

Medical records for 334 hospitalised patients diagnosed with CC were reviewed. Demographic and clinical features of patients with CC with and without CHD were compared. Clinical and genomic information for patients with ‘cataract’ and ‘cardiac defects’ were reviewed from Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Resources (DECIPHER). Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridisation and whole-exome sequencing were performed in 10 trio families with CC and CHD to detect de novo genomic alterations, including copy number variants and single nucleotide changes.

Results

In a retrospective analysis of 334 patients with CC over the past 10 years at our hospital, we observed a high proportion of patients (41.13%) with CHD (including innocent CHD, which reported as left-to-right shunt in echocardiography test). The CC with CHD group had higher incidences of preterm birth and Down’s syndrome than the CC without CHD group. Atrial septal defect was the most frequent heart defect. A total of 44 cases with cataracts and heart diseases were retrieved from Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Resources (DECIPHER). In total, 52 genomic alterations were reported, 44% of which were de novo germline variants. In the 10 trio families with CC and CHD, we found de novo CNVs responsible for two well-known chromosomal disorders and identified a novel pathogenic mutation in GJA8 responsible for CC.

Conclusions

We observed significant associations between CHD and CC in our 10-year patient cohort. Based on the cohort and data from DECIPHER, developmental syndromes in some patients were due to genetic defects, thus explaining the concurrence of CC and CHD. Additionally, we detected de novo mutations as an independent cause of cataracts. Our findings suggest that developmental syndromes in patients with CC deserve more attention in clinical practice by ophthalmologists.

Background

Congenital cataract (CC) is one of the main causes of visual impairment and blindness in children. Opacity of the lens prevents light from entering the eye, thereby stunting the retinas and optic nerves and leading to amblyopia or blindness. About a quarter of CC cases are caused by genetic factors [1, 2], and other pathogenic mechanisms include infection and trauma [3]. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common congenital malformations in humans [4]. The aetiology involves both environmental and genetic factors [5]. The lens and heart belong to different systems and develop from different germ layers; the lens develops from the ectoderm [3] and the heart develops from the mesoderm [6]. Despite these differences, some clinicians have made key observations suggesting that they may be linked. Among patients with CC who visit ophthalmology departments, a portion also show CHD [7, 8].

Furthermore, among patients with CHD who visit cardiology departments, a portion also show ocular abnormalities involving CC [9]. However, few studies have focused on describing and explaining these observations [7, 9]. Over a period of longer than 10 years at our hospital, one of the main hospitals for the diagnosis and treatment of CC in northeast China, we have observed that patients with CC have a higher incidence of CHD than that in the general population. Accordingly, echocardiography has been used as a routine preoperative test for CC in the last ten years.

Some aetiological bases, including genetic mutations, underlying CC and CHD have been revealed respectively. More than 100 genes and nearly 200 loci have been identified in monogenic forms of CC [3]. Copy number variation (CNV), leading to the deletion or duplication of functional DNA fragments, is one of the main genetic mechanisms underlying CHD. In addition, some monogenic diseases, CNV syndromes, and intrauterine infection-related diseases involve concurrent cataract and heart defects, such as oculo-facio-cardio-dental syndrome (OFCD) caused by BCOR mutations [10], FBXL4-related encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome by FBXL4 mutations [11], Sengers syndrome caused by AGK mutations [12], Nance-Horan syndrome caused by NHS mutations [13], Down’s syndrome caused by trisomy 21 [14], and congenital rubella syndrome caused by rubella virus intrauterine infection [15]. The frequent co-occurrence of CC and heart defects prompted us to speculate whether the two defects share a common aetiological basis.

In the present study, we characterised the demographic and clinical features of patients with CC and heart defects by reviewing the 10-year patient cohort at our hospital. We also attempted to identify the individual and/or common causes underlying these two defects based on genetic findings for reported patients and newly recruited trio-families.

Results

Statistical analysis of clinical data

Based on early observations that CHD is frequently associated with CC, echocardiography for evaluating heart defects has become a routine preoperative examination for patients with CC in the past 10 years. In total, 334 patients with CC referred to our hospital in 2010–2020, including 248 who underwent echocardiography examination. We found that 41.13% of patients with CC (102/248) also had CHD. For the reason that left-to-right shunt in echocardiography also represent innocent CHD, such as small ASD (atrial septal defect)or PFO (patent foramen ovale), the observed CHD in this study include major heart structural defect and innocent CHD which cannot be classified as either physiologic or pathologic [16,17,18,19,20,21,22]. According to echocardiography results, these 248 patients were divided into two groups: CC with CHD (N = 102) and CC without CHD (N = 146). Medical records for these patients were evaluated, and the two groups were compared with respect to general information, family history, and clinical manifestations (Table 1). There were no significant differences in the proportions of males and females between the two groups. With respect to obstetric history, the proportion of premature births was significantly higher in the CC with CHD group (15.69%) than in the CC without CHD group (4.11%) (P = 0.002). Additionally, 2.94% of patients in the CC with CHD group had pregnancy with rubella, diabetes, rash, or cold, which were not reported in the CC without CHD group; however, there were no statistically significant differences in these conditions. Cataracts could be inherited from parents or occur de novo. There was no difference in the family history of CC between CC with CHD and without CHD groups. However, cataracts typically occurred de novo in both groups, with frequencies of 95.1% (N = 97) and 90.41% (N = 132) in CC with CHD and without CHD, respectively. For patients who had affected parents, maternal inheritance was more common. As for ophthalmic manifestations, most patients had bilateral cataracts and presented pure lens opacity, and there was no difference between the two groups. We also observed other ophthalmic manifestations in both groups, such as vitreous opacity, strabismus, and nystagmus; however, the frequencies of these phenotypes did not differ between the two groups. Developmental abnormalities were found in some patients, including brain CT abnormalities, diagnosed Down’s syndrome, developmental retardation, deafness, limb malformation, mental retardation, external auditory canal atresia, and anal atresia. It is noteworthy that four patients were diagnosed with Down’s syndrome in the CC with CHD group, and the frequency differed between the two groups (P = 0.028). Some other extraocular and extracardiac diseases/symptoms were occasionally identified in each group, but the differences in frequencies between groups were not significant.

Table 1 Clinical manifestations in patients with congenital cataracts with and without congenital heart defects
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When focusing on cardiac phenotypes in the CC with CHD group, atrial septal defect (ASD) (73, 71.57%) (We defined ASD as all symptoms with a left-to-right atrial shunt.) was the most common type of heart disease, followed by patent ductus arteriosus (17, 16.67%) and ventricular septal defect (VSD) (15, 14.7%). Most patients had a single type of heart defect (79, 77.5%), and a few patients had complex heart defects (23, 22.5%) (Fig. 1).

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Types of heart defects in patients with congenital cataracts in our 10 years cohort study

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Review of patients with cataract and heart disease in DECIPHER

A total of 44 cases with cataract and heart diseases were retrieved from the Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Resources (DECIPHER) (Additional file 2: Table 1), of which 57% were female, 36% were male, and 7% had no reported gender. In total, 52 genomic alterations were reported in these patients. In terms of the origin of the variants, 44% were de novo germline variants, 19% were imbalanced arising from a balanced parental rearrangement, 8% were paternally inherited, 2% were biparental, 2% were maternally inherited, 2% were de novo mosaic variants, and 23% were of unknown inheritance. Except for chr5 and chr16, variants were found on each chromosome, with 12% on chrX, 8% on chr1, and 10% on chr11. VSD (N = 10, 22.7%) and ASD (N = 10, 22.7%) were the most frequent heart defects. Eleven patients with abnormal cardiovascular systems were reported without a specific type, and other heart defects included pulmonary stenosis, patent ductus arteriosus, cardiomyopathy, tetralogy of Fallot, dysplastic pulmonary valve, valvular regurgitation, systemic arterial morphological, transposition of the great arteries, and defects in the atrioventricular tube (Fig. 2).

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Demographic and genetic characters of patients with CC and CHD in DECIPHER. A Gender composition of 44 patients. B Types of variants detected in patients. C Chromosome distribution of variants. D Types of cardiac defects in patients

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Genomic findings in family-trios with congenital cataract and congenital heart disease

We recruited 10 family-trios with CC and CHD and performed genome-scale screening for genomic alterations by microarray-based comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH) and/or whole-exome sequencing (WES). Since the patients were born to healthy parents and no pregnancy complications were reported, we focused on de novo genomic alterations that were large in size or had potential deleterious effects. These alterations were only detected in patients but not in their unaffected parents. De novo CNVs larger than 100 kb and de novo SNPs or insertions/deletions (InDels) interpreted as pathogenic or likely pathogenic are listed in Table 2 and Additional file 3: Table 2. De novo CNVs larger than 100 kb were detected in seven family trios. Among them, a 21q11.2-q22.3 duplication in patient 1 and 22q11.21 deletion in patient 2 are associated with specific diseases, Down syndrome and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, respectively (Fig. 3A, B). Other de novo CNVs do not have known associations with diseases; nonetheless, they are absent in the DGV database documenting copy number polymorphisms in healthy individuals (Additional file 1: Fig. 1A–E). Pathogenic or likely pathogenic de novo SNPs in six genes were detected in five trio families. All of these SNPs were heterozygous in the patient and absent from the genomes of the parents. GJA8 is a common pathogenic gene in CC. We detected a novel GJA8 missense mutation (c.590C > T p.S197F) in patient 3 (Fig. 3C). In silico prediction using VarCards (http://varcards.biols.ac.cn/) indicated that it was deleterious, with a D: A algorithm score of 22:23 and a damaging score of 0.96, and the mutation was extremely rare in public datasets, with no reported allele frequency. Mutations in POLG are responsible for progressive external ophthalmoplegia, which includes cataracts as an additional symptom. However, patient 8 with a POLG mutation did not present weakness of the external eye muscles or exercise intolerance. Biallelic mutations of YIF1B could lead to an autosomal recessive neurodevelopmental disorder, Kara-Barakat-Masson syndrome (KABAMAS), characterized by global developmental delay, motor delay, ocular abnormalities, and nervous system change [23, 24]. The visual deficits in KABAMAS included strabismus, optic atrophy, eye to eye contact, nystagmus. However, a cataract was not reported in KABAMAS patients [24]. Patient 10 carrying a heterozygous mutation of YIF1B, and present no typical KABAMAS clinical manifestations. Other genes with detected pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations were either not associated with any diseases (PRAMEF12, MDN1) or associated with unrelated phenotypes (LIPC) (Additional file 1:Fig. 1F–J).

Table 2 De novo genomic changes in trio families with congenital cataract and congenital heart diseases
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Fig. 3
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Pathogenic genomic alterations detected in family-trios with CC and CHD. A 21q11.2-q22.3 duplication detected using aCGH in patient 1. B 22q11.21 deletion detected by WES in patient 2. C GJA8 missense mutation in patient 3

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Discussion

Over 20 years of experience in ophthalmology has revealed that CC is frequently associated with CHD. However, barely any study was performed to describe and explain this observation [7, 9]. As one of the hospitals receiving and treating most patients with CC in northeast China, we have also observed this interesting association in our patient cohort and have used echocardiography as a routine preoperative examination for patients with CC for over 10 years. In a retrospective study of 334 patients with CC in the past 10 years at our hospital, we found a high frequency (41.13%) of CHD (including innocent CHD, which has left-to-right blood shunt). This was significantly greater than the 1% incidence of CHD in the general population worldwide [5, 25] and reinforces the significant association between CHD and CC [7, 9]. Further, patients with CC with and without CHD were compared with respect to gender, obstetric history, family history, and ocular, cardiac, and systematic manifestations. We found that the CC with CHD group had higher incidences of preterm birth and Down’s syndrome than those in the CC without CHD group. The risk of preterm birth may be associated with CHD or related to other maternal genetic factors or viral infection affecting embryogenesis [26]. We also observed that Down’s syndrome is significantly more frequent in the CHD group than in the non-CHD group. These results are consistent with those of the previous report indicating a possible relationship between CC and CHD in patients with Down’s syndrome [27].

CC with CHD is often reported in rare syndromes with well-defined genetic or chromosomal mutations or in syndromes resulting from intrauterine infection, such as OFCD syndrome caused by BCOR mutations [10], recurrent rearrangements of chromosome 1q21.1 [28], Down's syndrome [14], and congenital rubella syndrome [15]. BCOR acts as a pivotal multisystem transcriptional regulator during early embryogenesis. Recurrent rearrangements of chromosome 1q21.1 and Down's syndrome are both caused by chromosomal mutations involving many different genes, and congenital rubella syndrome is caused by multisystem interference by infection in early development. Accordingly, we reasoned that early in embryonic development, the eye and heart might be regulated by a set of reciprocally regulated genes, genes that function independently in these organs might be located in close proximity on the chromosome, or the foetus might be susceptible to infection.

We also reviewed genomic findings for 44 cases with CC and CHD in DECIPHER. We found no significant difference in sex ratio, the type, and proportion of heart disease, or clinical features between these cases and our patient cohort. The main types of heart disease were ASD and VSD. Genomic changes, including structural and nucleotide changes, were distributed across different chromosomes, showing no obvious enrichment (Additional file 2: Table 1). Nonetheless, we found pathogenic mutations for specific developmental syndromes with CC and CHD as manifestations, including BCOR mutations for OFCD syndrome (DECIPHER ID 262217, 267974, and 303226), and the 11q21.1 deletion for 1q21.1 rearrangements of chromosome 1q21.1 (DECIPHER ID 323303).

We further performed a comprehensive genetic analysis of 10 trio families with CC and CHD to determine the underlying genetic causes. These patients were born to non-consanguineous healthy parents. Therefore, de novo genomic changes are more likely to be the cause of the phenotype, if other risk factors can be excluded, such as viral infection. Consistent with the results of the DECIPHER analysis, we found de novo CNVs responsible for two well-known chromosomal disorders. Patient 1 was a 6-year-old boy with a developmental membranous cataract in the left eye, bilateral vitreous opacity, and VSD. By array CGH, we detected a de novo 21q duplication that could lead to Down’s syndrome. The patient presented obvious eye spacing and mental retardation. His parents indicated that the patient had been diagnosed with Down’s syndrome; however, no medical records were provided. About half of patients with Down’s syndrome are born with CHD. Ophthalmological abnormalities, including CC, are frequently found in patients with Down syndrome [29]. 21q11.2-q22.3 duplication detected in patient 1 overlaps with the Down syndrome critical region on chromosome 21 which contains the major genes responsible for the disease's pathogenesis [30]. Patient 2 was a 3-month-old male with bilateral congenital nuclear cataract and ASD. He was born prematurely. A genetic analysis showed that he carried a de novo deletion on 22q11. The deletion overlapped with pathogenic deletions causing 22q11 deletion syndrome, which usually includes multiple organ dysfunctions, such as abnormalities of the heart, palatal abnormalities, thyroid hypofunction, facial deformity, and mental diseases [31, 32]. Some cases have ocular symptoms, such as strabismus, ametropia, ocular dysplasia, and cataract [33]. 22q11 deletion syndrome is classified as proximal, central, and distal deletions [34]. The 22q11.21 deletion detected in patient 2 was a central deletion, and it does not contain the famous development gene TBX1. Nonetheless, genes functionally related to heart and eye development were found in the central deleted region. The region contains the CRKL gene, which plays an important role in the development of the heart [35, 36]. The Crkl gene is related to lens formation in mice [37]. ZNF74 is found at a relatively high frequency in patients with CHD with deletions/amplifications in the 22q11.2 region [38]. MED15 is related to heart development [39]. A SCARF2 microdeletion has been found in a patient with abnormal eye development by Migliavacca et al. [40]. The co-existence of defects in different tissues or organs could result from the dysregulation of different genes within the same rearranged chromosomal region. The identification of de novo pathogenic CNVs in our patients suggests that the co-occurrence of CC and CHD could be explained by a shared underlying chromosomal disorder. Thus, in clinical practice, both ophthalmologists and cardiologists should pay more attention to chromosomal disorders when patients present both CC and CHD.

We also identified a novel pathogenic mutation in the GJA8 gene responsible for CC in patient 3. The patient was a 2-month-old female with bilateral CC, ASD, coronary sinus dilation, and persistent left superior vena cava. She carried a deleterious de novo GJA8 missense mutation (c. 590C > T p. S197F). GJA8 encodes a gap junction protein, which is crucial for maintaining ionic and water balance and for the transparency and optical properties of the lens [41]. It is a well-known causative gene for cataracts. No evidence supported the causal relationship between GJA8 and heart defects, although other gap junction protein-coding genes, GJA1 and GJA5, play crucial roles in heart development and function [42,43,44]. It is likely that CC and CHD in patient 3 are two independent phenotypes with different underlying causes. The heart defects could have resulted from distinct genetic, environmental, and stochastic factors.

Conclusions

In this study, we observed significant associations between CHD and CCs in our 10-year patient cohort. Detailed clinical and genomic findings for both the patient cohort and cases in DECIPHER were evaluated. We found some patients had developmental syndromes due to genetic defects, especially CNVs affecting contiguous or reciprocally regulated genes involved in eye and heart development. Our findings suggest that developmental syndromes in patients with CC are underestimated in clinical practice by ophthalmologists. We also detected several de novo mutations in trios; however, we could not determine whether the de novo mutations detected in our trios are common or independent causes of heart and ocular anomalies. Comprehensive genetic analyses based on larger sample sizes and functional studies could provide further insight into the association between CC and CHD.

Methods

Subjects

The medical records for 334 hospitalised patients diagnosed with CC in the Department of Ophthalmology of Shengjing Hospital, Shenyang, China, from 2010 to 2020 were reviewed. Gender, age, family history, past medical history, birth status, ocular and systemic physical examination, and imaging data were collected. In total, 248 patients completed echocardiography and were included in statistical analyses and the collation of medical records. In addition, 10 trio families we recruited in 2018–2019. In these trio families, patients with CC and CHD were born to their healthy parents and no other family history or pregnancy complications were reported. Peripheral blood from patients and parents was collected for genetic analysis after obtaining informed consent. The study was approved by the institutional review board of China Medical University.

Statistical analysis of clinical data

Clinical data for 248 patients who underwent echocardiography were reviewed. General information, including date of birth, gender, and family history were collected. Cataracts in one or both eyes and other ocular abnormalities were identified based on the two-dimensional or three-dimensional ocular ultrasound and ophthalmic examinations. CHD was diagnosed by echocardiography and relevant systemic examinations. All 248 patients were divided into two groups, CC with or without CHD. Categorical variables were compared between the two groups by a chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test, and values of P < 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Statistical analyses were performed using IBM® SPSS® Statistics version 24 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA).

Review of patients with CC and CHD in DECIPHER

Reported clinical and genomic information for patients with ‘cataract’ and ‘cardiac defects’ were reviewed from the Database of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Resources (DECIPHER). The term ‘cataract’ was used for the search and patients with cardiac defects were manually selected according to the documented phenotypes. Clinical information (gender, inheritance, and type of heart disease) and genomic findings (genes with mutations and altered genomic regions) for 44 patients were reviewed and analysed.

Genetic testing for de novo genomic alterations

De novo genomic alterations were detected in 10 CC with CHD trios at a genome-wide scale. CNVs were detected by microarray-based comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH), and whole-exome sequencing (WES) was used to detect SNPs and InDels. When DNA was not sufficient to detect CNVs using aCGH, WES results were used to detect CNVs using the CoNIFER tool based on read depth [45]. Genetic testing was performed for each patient and his/her unaffected parents, and the status of genomic alterations (i.e. de novo or not) were determined accordingly. Eight trios were evaluated using aCGH and WES. Two trios were only evaluated by WES owing to insufficient DNA. For aCGH assays, the 4 × 180 K SurePrint G3 Human CGH Microarray was used (Agilent. Santa Clara, CA, USA), and Feature Extraction and Agilent Genomic Workbench were used for analyses. The Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) (http://dgv.tcag.ca) and DECIPHER (https://decipher.sanger.ac.uk/) were used to determine the pathogenicity of candidate CNVs as follows. (1) A full CNV region reported in the general population in DGV n ≥ 3 times or a CNV region without genes was defined as a benign CNV. (2) A full CNV region reported in the general population in DGV n < 3 times and including genes overlapping with CNV syndromes reported in DECIPHER or reported as causes of a similar phenotype in PubMed and OMIM was defined as a pathogenic CNV. (3) The remaining were defined as uncertain pathogenic [46,47,48]. For WES assays, pathogenic de novo variants were interpreted according to the ACMG/AMP 2015 guideline and VarCards (http://varcards.biols.ac.cn/). Sanger sequencings were used to verify candidate SNPs/InDels.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analysed in the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Abbreviations

CC:

Congenital cataract

CHD:

Congenital heart disease

CNV:

Copy number variation

DECIPHER:

Database of chromosomal imbalance and phenotype in humans using ensembl resources

aCGH:

Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridisation

WES:

Whole exome sequencing

DGV:

Database of genomic variants

OFCD:

Oculo-facio-cardio-dental syndrome

SNP:

Single nucleotide polymorphism

InDel:

Insertion–deletion

OMIM:

Online Mendelian inheritance in man database

ACMG/AMP:

American college of medical genetics and genomics and the association for molecular pathology

ASD:

Atrial septal defect

VSD:

Ventricular septal defect

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The authors thank all patients and their families who participated in this study. We are grateful to Dr. Xue Zhang (McKusick-Zhang Center for Genetic Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China) for excellent technical assistance.

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This work is financially supported by the Science and Technology Funds from Liaoning Education Department (No. L:2015593), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30973276), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (31801046), the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC0905100), the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (2016-I2M-1-002), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81741074).

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XL, NS, and WX conceptualised and designed the experiments; XL, ZS, and WX collected clinical data and peripheral blood from patients; WX guided clinical data interpretation; XL and YR performed the experiments; XL and NS analysed the data; XL and NS wrote the paper; NS and WX did the final critical review; All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Additional file 1: Figure 1

. aCGH results for CNVs of uncertain pathogenicity using the Agilent Cytogenomics tool and Sanger sequencing results for other pathogenic/likely pathogenic de novo SNPs. A–E show the 10q11.21 deletion in patient 4, 17q21.2 duplication in patient 5, 13q12.13 duplication in patient 6, 7q22.3 deletion in patient 7, 4q34.3-q35.1 duplication in patient 8, in order. F–J represent Sanger sequence results for mutations in PRAMEF12 (c.1372C>G p.R458G) and LIPC (c.317C>T p.A106V) in patient 5, POLG (c.2669A>C p.D890A) in patient 8, MDN1 (c.16697A>G p.Y5566C) in patient 9, and YIF1B (NM_001039672 c.709G>A p.V237I) in patient 10

Additional file 2: Table 1

. Genomic findings in patients with cataract and heart diseases in DECIPHER database

Additional file 3: Table 2

. Genomic location of CNVs in patients with congenital cataract and congenital heart diseases in trio families

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Li, X., Si, N., Song, Z. et al. Clinical and genetic findings in patients with congenital cataract and heart diseases. Orphanet J Rare Dis 16, 242 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-021-01873-7

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