Fam83h Null Mice Support a Neomorphic Mechanism for Human ADHCAI Shih-Kai Wang1, Yuanyuan Hu1, Jie Yang1,2, Charles E
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Fam83h null mice support a neomorphic mechanism for human ADHCAI Shih-Kai Wang1, Yuanyuan Hu1, Jie Yang1,2, Charles E. Smith3, Amelia S Richardson1, Yasuo Yamakoshi4, Yuan-Ling Lee5, Figen Seymen6, Mine Koruyucu6, Koray Gencay6, Moses Lee7, Murim Choi7, Jung-Wook Kim8, Jan C-C. Hu1 & James P. Simmer1,* 1Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, 1210 Eisenhower Pl., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 2Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Peking University, 22 South Avenue Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China 3Facility for Electron Microscopy Research, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, 3640 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2C7, Canada 4Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Dental Medicine, Tsurumi University, 2-1-3 Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-8501, Japan 5Graduate Institute of Clinical Dentistry, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Chang-Te St, Taipei 10048, Taiwan 6Department of Pedodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey 7Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 275-1 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-768, Korea 8Department of Pediatric Dentistry & Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 275-1 Yongon-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-768, Korea Keywords Abstract Amelogenesis imperfecta, gain-of-function, hair defects, knockout mouse, skin defects, Truncation mutations in FAM83H (family with sequence similarity 83, member truncation mutation H) cause autosomal dominant hypocalcified amelogenesis imperfecta (ADHCAI), but little is known about FAM83H function and the pathogenesis of ADHCAI. Correspondence We recruited three ADHCAI families and identified two novel (p.Gln457*; Jung-Wook Kim, Department of Molecular p.Lys639*) and one previously documented (p.Q452*) disease-causing FAM83H Genetics, Department of Pediatric Dentistry & mutations.
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