The difference of variation types between late-onset multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency patients carrying biallelic and single heterozygous variations in ETFDH: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Late-onset multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) is an autosomal recessive disease chiefly caused by mutations in ETFDH gene. Mutations in the ETFDH gene lead to abnormal structure, impaired function, and increased degradation of ETFDH protein. However, it is not known why approximately 10% of patients carry single heterozygous variants in ETFDH. We speculate that different variation types (e.g., null variants and missense variants) partially account for the phenomenon.
METHODS: In this study, six databases were searched up until December 01, 2024. Studies describing late-onset MADD patients carrying ETFDH variations were included. The analyses focused on the differences in variation types, computational pathogenicity scores of missense variants, and clinical characteristics between patients with biallelic and single heterozygous variations (biallelic group vs heterozygous group).
RESULTS: Of the initially screened 3638 studies, 30 met the inclusion criteria, including 498 late-onset MADD patients with biallelic variations and 62 with single heterozygous variations in ETFDH. The relative frequency of patients carrying null variants was lower in the biallelic group (21%, 95% CI [16%-27%]) than that in the heterozygous group (34%, 95% CI [23%-48%]) (P = 0.044). Missense variants in the heterozygous group had stronger pathogenicity than those in the biallelic group, as reflected by the computational prediction tools, SIFT, PolyPhen-2 and metaRNN (P <…
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