SANDRA MARA FERREIRA VILLARES
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LIM/18 - Laboratório de Carboidratos e Radioimunoensaios, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Noonan syndrome patients beyond the obvious phenotype: A potential unfavorable metabolic profile(2021) NORONHA, Renata M.; VILLARES, Sandra M. F.; TORRES, Natalia; QUEDAS, Elisangela P. S.; HOMMA, Thais Kataoka; ALBUQUERQUE, Edoarda V. A.; MORAES, Michelle B.; FUNARI, Mariana F. A.; BERTOLA, Debora R.; JORGE, Alexander A. L.; MALAQUIAS, Alexsandra C.Noonan syndrome (NS) and NS related disorders (NRD) are frequent monogenic diseases. Pathogenic variants in PTPN11 are observed in approximately 50% of these NS patients. Several pleiotropic phenotypes have previously been described in this condition. This study aimed at characterizing glucose and lipid profiles in patients with NS/NRD. We assessed fasting blood glucose, insulin, cholesterol (total and fractions), and triglyceride (TG) levels in 112 prepubertal children and 73 adults. Additionally, an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed in 40 children and 54 adults. Data were analyzed between age groups according to the presence (+) or absence (-) of PTPN11 mutation. Prepubertal patients with NS/NRD were also compared with a control group. Despite the lean phenotype of children with NS/NRD, they presented an increased frequency of low HDL-cholesterol (63% in PTPN11+, 59% in PTPN11- and 16% in control, p < .001) and high TG levels (29% in PTPN11+, 18% in PTPN11- and 2.3% in control). PTPN11+ patients had a higher median HOMA-IR (1.0, ranged from 0.3 to 3.2) in comparison with PTPN11- (0.6; 0.2 to 4.4) and controls (0.6; 0.4 to 1.4, p = .027). Impaired glucose tolerance was observed in 19% (10:54) of lean adults with NS/NRD assessed by OGTT. Moreover, women with PTPN11 mutations had lower HDL-cholesterol levels than those without. Our results suggest that children and young adult patients with NS/NRD have an unfavorable metabolic profile characterized by low HDL, a tendency of elevated TGs, and glucose metabolism impairment despite a lean phenotype.
- Novel inactivating mutations in the GH secretagogue receptor gene in patients with constitutional delay of growth and puberty(2011) PUGLIESE-PIRES, Patricia N.; FORTIN, Jean-Philippe; ARTHUR, Thais; LATRONICO, Ana Claudia; MENDONCA, Berenice B.; VILLARES, Sandra Mara F.; PARNHOLD, Ivo J.; KOPIN, Alan S.; JORGE, Alexander A. L.Background: A limited number of mutations in the GH secretagogue receptor gene (GHSR) have been described in patients with short stature. Objective: To analyze GHSR in idiopathic short stature (ISS) children including a subgroup of constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) patients. Subjects and methods: The GHSR coding region was directly sequenced in 96 independent patients with ISS, 31 of them with CDGP, in 150 adults, and in 197 children with normal stature. The pharmacological consequences of GHSR non-synonymous variations were established using in vitro cell-based assays. Results: Five different heterozygous point variations in GHSR were identified (c.-6 G>C, c.251G>T (p.Ser84Ile), c.505G>A (p.Ala169Thr), c.545 T>C (p.Val182Ala), and c.1072G>A (p.Ala358Thr)), all in patients with CDGP. Neither these allelic variants nor any other mutations were found in 694 alleles from controls. Functional studies revealed that two of these variations (p.Ser84Ile and p. Val182Ala) result in a decrease in basal activity that was in part explained by a reduction in cell surface expression. The p.Ser84Ile mutation was also associated with a defect in ghrelin potency. These mutations were identified in two female patients with CDGP (at the age of 13 years, their height SDS were -2.4 and -2.3). Both patients had normal progression of puberty and reached normal adult height (height SDS of -0.7 and -1.4) without treatment. Conclusion: This is the first report of GHSR mutations in patients with CDGP. Our data raise the intriguing possibility that abnormalities in ghrelin receptor function may influence the phenotype of individuals with CDGP.
conferenceObject Children with Noonan and Noonan-Like Syndromes Had a Lipid Profile Resembling Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes(2015) MALAQUIAS, A.; HOMMA, T.; MORAES, M.; FUNARI, M.; PEREIRA, A.; VILLARES, S.; BERTOLA, D.; JORGE, A.conferenceObject The Metabolic Profile Associated with RASopathies(2018) NORONHA, Renata; HOMMA, Thais; MORAES, Michelle; ALBUQUERQUE, Edoarda; FUNARI, Mariana; PEREIRA, Alexandre; VILLARES, Sandra; BERTOLA, Debora; JORGE, Alexander; MALAQUIAS, Alexsandra