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Abstract

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable connective tissue disorder that causes bone fragility due to pathogenic variants in genes responsible for the synthesis of type I collagen. Efforts to classify the high clinical variability in OI led to the Sillence classification. However, this classification only partially takes into account extraskeletal manifestations and the high genetic variability. Little is known about the relation between genetic variants and phenotype as of yet. The aim of the study was to create a clinically relevant genetic stratification of a cohort of 675 Dutch OI patients based on their pathogenic variant types and to provide an overview of their respective medical care demands. The clinical records of 675 OI patients were extracted from the Amsterdam UMC Genome Database and matched with the records from Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The patients were categorized based on their harbored pathogenic variant. The information on hospital admissions, outpatient clinic visits, medication, and diagnosis-treatment combinations (DTCs) was compared between the variant groups. OI patients in the Netherlands appear to have a higher number of DTCs, outpatient clinic visits, and hospital admissions when compared to the general Dutch population. Furthermore, medication usage seems higher in the OI cohort in comparison to the general population. The patients with a COL1A1 or COL1A2 dominant negative missense non-glycine substitution appear to have a lower health care need compared to the other groups, and even lower than patients with COL1A1 or COL1A2 haploinsufficiency. It would be useful to include the variant type in addition to the Sillence classification when categorizing a patient’s phenotype.

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Title
From Genetics to Clinical Implications: A Study of 675 Dutch Osteogenesis Imperfecta Patients
Author
Storoni, Silvia 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Verdonk, Sara J E 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhytnik, Lidiia 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Pals, Gerard 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Treurniet, Sanne 1 ; Elting, Mariet W 3 ; Sakkers, Ralph J B 4 ; Joost G van den Aardweg 5 ; Eekhoff, Elisabeth M W 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Micha, Dimitra 6 

 Department of Internal Medicine Section Endocrinology, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Rare Bone Disease Center Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
 Rare Bone Disease Center Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Traumatology and Orthopeadics, University of Tartu, L. Puusepa 8, 50406 Tartu, Estonia 
 Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands 
 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
 Rare Bone Disease Center Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Human Genetics, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
First page
281
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
2218273X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2779532934
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.