Molecular signature of Schinzel-Giedion syndrome in human neural progenitors

Schinzel-Giedion syndrome (SGS) is a developmental syndrome, due to the accumulation of SETBP1 protein, which is fatal in early infancy. SGS has a multi-organ involvement with severe and persistent intellectual and physical problems. We produced a human SGS model that outlines disease-relevant phenotypes using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells and isogenic controls. Whole transcriptome profiling describes cancer-like alterations in SGS neural progenitors including deregulation of oncogenes and suppressors and enhanced proliferation. These findings demonstrated how SGS post-natal pathological traits mayhave developmental origin in the failure of controlling cell identity and homeostasis due to SETBP1 protein accumulation. 3x SETBP1 D868D NPCs, 3x SETBP1 D868N NPCs, 3x SETBP1 I871T NPCs