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CHARGE syndrome is also extremely complex in terms of symptomatology, which can vary in severity from patient to patient, making it difficult to study.Ĭhromodomain helicase DNA-binding protein 7 (CHD7), a member of the SNF2-protein superfamily, is an ATP-dependent chromatin remodeler ( Allen et al., 2007). In addition to the six standard features, craniofacial defects including cleft palate/lip and asymmetric face palsy ( Pagon et al., 1981) and cardiovascular malformations including outflow tract defects, atrioventricular septal defect, persistent ductus arteriosus ( Corsten-Janssen et al., 2013), and aortic arch anomalies ( Corsten-Janssen and Scambler, 2017) are frequently present in CHARGE patients. Babies born with CHARGE syndrome often have life-threatening defects and require intensive treatments including many surgeries. It is the leading syndrome associated with deafness–blindness in school-aged children in the United States ( Flanagan et al., 2007). The chd7 fish mutants we generated recapitulate some of the craniofacial and cardiovascular phenotypes found in CHARGE patients and can be used to further determine the roles of CHD7.ĬHARGE syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disease that is named after the abbreviation for six standard features of this disorder: coloboma, heart disease, choanal atresia, retarded growth, genital hypoplasia, and ear anomalies and/or deafness ( Hsu et al., 2014). In contrast to its function in cranial NCCs, we found that the cardiac NCC-derived mural cells along the ventral aorta and aortic arch arteries are not affected in chd7 mutant fish. To understand the cellular mechanism of CHARGE syndrome, neural crest cells (NCCs), that contribute to craniofacial and cardiovascular tissues, are examined using sox10:Cre lineage tracing. It should be noted that the aberrant branching of the first branchial arch artery is observed for the first time in chd7 fish mutants. Many CHARGE patients have aortic arch anomalies.

Furthermore, the length of the ventral aorta is altered in chd7 mutants. In the chd7 mutant fish, we found shortened craniofacial cartilages and extra cartilage formation. These mutant phenotypes are enhanced in the maternal zygotic mutant background. Here, we describe the co-occurrence of craniofacial abnormalities and heart defects in zebrafish chd7 mutants. Animal models have been generated to mimic CHARGE syndrome however, heart defects are not extensively described in zebrafish disease models of CHARGE using morpholino injections or genetic mutants.

6Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesĬongenital heart defects occur in almost 80% of patients with CHARGE syndrome, a sporadically occurring disease causing craniofacial and other abnormalities due to mutations in the CHD7 gene.

5Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

4State Key Laboratory of Chemical Oncogenomics, Key Laboratory of Chemical Genomics, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China.

3Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

2Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

1Saban Research Institute and Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Gage Crump 5, Ruchi Bajpai 2,6 and Ching Ling Lien 1,3,6*

Ram Kumar 1,3, Chee Ern David Wong 1, Zhiyu Tian 1, Haipeng Bai 1,4, J.