- Ng, Bobby G;
- Shiryaev, Sergey A;
- Rymen, Daisy;
- Eklund, Erik A;
- Raymond, Kimiyo;
- Kircher, Martin;
- Abdenur, Jose E;
- Alehan, Fusun;
- Midro, Alina T;
- Bamshad, Michael J;
- Barone, Rita;
- Berry, Gerard T;
- Brumbaugh, Jane E;
- Buckingham, Kati J;
- Clarkson, Katie;
- Cole, F Sessions;
- O'Connor, Shawn;
- Cooper, Gregory M;
- Coster, Rudy;
- Demmer, Laurie A;
- Diogo, Luisa;
- Fay, Alexander J;
- Ficicioglu, Can;
- Fiumara, Agata;
- Gahl, William A;
- Ganetzky, Rebecca;
- Goel, Himanshu;
- Harshman, Lyndsay A;
- He, Miao;
- Jaeken, Jaak;
- James, Philip M;
- Katz, Daniel;
- Keldermans, Liesbeth;
- Kibaek, Maria;
- Kornberg, Andrew J;
- Lachlan, Katherine;
- Lam, Christina;
- Yaplito‐Lee, Joy;
- Nickerson, Deborah A;
- Peters, Heidi L;
- Race, Valerie;
- Régal, Luc;
- Rush, Jeffrey S;
- Rutledge, S Lane;
- Shendure, Jay;
- Souche, Erika;
- Sparks, Susan E;
- Trapane, Pamela;
- Sanchez‐Valle, Amarilis;
- Vilain, Eric;
- Vøllo, Arve;
- Waechter, Charles J;
- Wang, Raymond Y;
- Wolfe, Lynne A;
- Wong, Derek A;
- Wood, Tim;
- Yang, Amy C;
- Genomics, University of Washington Center for Mendelian;
- Matthijs, Gert;
- Freeze, Hudson H
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) arise from pathogenic mutations in over 100 genes leading to impaired protein or lipid glycosylation. ALG1 encodes a β1,4 mannosyltransferase that catalyzes the addition of the first of nine mannose moieties to form a dolichol-lipid linked oligosaccharide intermediate required for proper N-linked glycosylation. ALG1 mutations cause a rare autosomal recessive disorder termed ALG1-CDG. To date 13 mutations in 18 patients from 14 families have been described with varying degrees of clinical severity. We identified and characterized 39 previously unreported cases of ALG1-CDG from 32 families and add 26 new mutations. Pathogenicity of each mutation was confirmed based on its inability to rescue impaired growth or hypoglycosylation of a standard biomarker in an alg1-deficient yeast strain. Using this approach we could not establish a rank order comparison of biomarker glycosylation and patient phenotype, but we identified mutations with a lethal outcome in the first two years of life. The recently identified protein-linked xeno-tetrasaccharide biomarker, NeuAc-Gal-GlcNAc2 , was seen in all 27 patients tested. Our study triples the number of known patients and expands the molecular and clinical correlates of this disorder.