Phenotype and genotype analyses of 21 Chinese patients with Dent disease

Abstract

Dent disease is a rare X-linked recessively inherited renal tubulopathy, caused by variants in the CLCN5 (Dent disease type 1, DD1) and OCRL (Dent disease type 2, DD2) genes, and characterized by low molecular weight proteinuria, hypercalciuria, microscopic hematuria, or nephrocalcinosis. In the current study, we collected and analyzed clinical data and genetic testing results of 21 children diagnosed with Dent disease, who were hospitalized at the Department of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University between January 2014 and August 2023, aiming to assist in the early diagnosis and treatment of these patients. Among the 21 patients, 16 (76.19%) had CLCN5 variants, and five (23.81%) had OCRL variants, and four of the variants were novel. All patients presented with low molecular weight proteinuria, 14 (66.67%) of whom had nephrotic-range proteinuria. Eight patients underwent renal biopsies because of diagnostic uncertainty. We transfected the novel CLCN5 missense variant (p.G222R) and OCRL missense variant (p.I371T) plasmids into both HEK293 and HK-2 cells and found a significantly lower expression of the OCRL1 protein in the transfected cells than in the wild-type cells (P < 0.05). Moreover, we observed an extremely skewed X-chromosome inactivation pattern in a female patient carrying the same novel CLCN5 variant, as assessed by the human androgen receptor gene assay. These findings provide insight into the clinical characteristics of Dent disease in Chinese patients and may shed light on its pathogenesis.

Keywords

Dent disease / CLCN5 gene / OCRL gene / low-molecular-weight proteinuria / children / X-chromosome inactivation

Fundings

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 82200744) and the Nanjing Science and Technology Development Funding (Grant No. YKK22159).

Acknowledgments

The authors thank all patients who participated in this article.

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