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  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,060 Views
7 Pages

A Novel Genetic Variant in the WFS1 Gene in a Patient with Partial Uniparental Mero-Isodisomy of Chromosome 4

  • Maurizio Delvecchio,
  • Federica Ortolani,
  • Orazio Palumbo,
  • Concetta Aloi and ,
  • Alessandro Salina,
  • Francesco Claudio Susca,
  • Pietro Palumbo,
  • Massimo Carella,
  • Nicoletta Resta and
  • Elvira Piccinno
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Wolfram syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by optic atrophy and diabetes mellitus. Wolfram syndrome type 1 (WFS1) is caused by bi-allelic pathogenic variations in the wolframin gene. We described the first case of WFS1 due...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advance in Diabetes Genetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,880 Views
9 Pages

Multiple Retinal Anomalies in Wfs1-Deficient Mice

  • Arleta Waszczykowska,
  • Agnieszka Zmysłowska,
  • Marcin Braun,
  • Marilin Ivask and ,
  • Sulev Koks,
  • Piotr Jurowski and
  • Wojciech Młynarski
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Background: Wolfram syndrome (WFS, OMIM: #222300) is an ultrarare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic nerve atrophy and deafness. It has been reported that the average retinal thickness in WFS pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Animal Models for Studying and Screening Human Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
892 Views
30 Pages

16 December 2025

Background: Wolfram syndrome (WS) is an ultrarare neuroendocrine disorder caused by pathogenic variants in WFS1, frequently leading to progressive neurological, autonomic, and cognitive impairment. Anticipating neurological trajectories remains chall...

(This article belongs to the Section Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,641 Views
12 Pages

Clinical Spectrum Associated with Wolfram Syndrome Type 1 and Type 2: A Review on Genotype–Phenotype Correlations

  • Maurizio Delvecchio,
  • Matteo Iacoviello,
  • Antonino Pantaleo and
  • Nicoletta Resta

Wolfram syndrome is a rare neurodegenerative disorder that is typically characterized by diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy. Other common features are diabetes insipidus and hearing loss, but additional less-frequent findings may also be present. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wolfram Syndrome in Pediatric Age)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,357 Views
9 Pages

Clinical Peculiarities in a Cohort of Patients with Wolfram Syndrome 1

  • Giuseppina Salzano,
  • Luciana Rigoli,
  • Mariella Valenzise,
  • Roberto Chimenz and ,
  • Stefano Passanisi and
  • Fortunato Lombardo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Wolfram syndrome 1 is a rare, autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative, progressive disorder. Insulin-dependent, non-autoimmune diabetes mellitus and bilateral progressive optic atrophy are both sensitive and specific criteria for clinical diagnosis. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wolfram Syndrome in Pediatric Age)
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,805 Views
12 Pages

4 September 2023

Wolfram Syndrome (WFS) is a rare, autosomal, recessive neurogenetic disorder that affects many organ systems. It is characterised by diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellites, optic atrophy, and deafness and, therefore, is also known as DIDMOAD. Nearly 1...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Genomics of Rare Genetic Diseases)
  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,978 Views
18 Pages

Wolfram Syndrome 1: From Genetics to Therapy

  • Luciana Rigoli,
  • Valerio Caruso,
  • Giuseppina Salzano and
  • Fortunato Lombardo

Wolfram syndrome 1 (WS1) is a rare neurodegenerative disease transmitted in an autosomal recessive mode. It is characterized by diabetes insipidus (DI), diabetes mellitus (DM), optic atrophy (OA), and sensorineural hearing loss (D) (DIDMOAD). The cli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wolfram Syndrome in Pediatric Age)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,392 Views
17 Pages

Wolfram Syndrome 1: A Neuropsychiatric Perspective on a Rare Disease

  • Valerio Caruso,
  • Accursio Raia and
  • Luciana Rigoli

25 July 2024

Wolfram syndrome 1 (WS1) is an uncommon autosomal recessive neurological disorder that is characterized by diabetes insipidus, early-onset non-autoimmune diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and deafness (DIDMOAD). Other clinical manifestations are neur...

(This article belongs to the Section Neurogenomics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,397 Views
10 Pages

Cardiac Wolframinopathies: A Case Report of Myocarditis and a Literature Review of Cardiac Involvement in Wolfram Syndrome 1

  • Andrea Villatore,
  • Giulio Frontino,
  • Maria Lucia Cascavilla,
  • Davide Vignale and ,
  • Davide Lazzeroni and
  • Giovanni Peretto
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 March 2024

Purpose: Myocarditis is frequently a sporadic disease, but may also occur in the context of genetic disorders which may increase susceptibility to cardiac inflammation. Cardiac involvement in Wolfram syndrome type 1 (WS1) has been scarcely characteri...

(This article belongs to the Section Cardiology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,744 Views
12 Pages

Wolfram Syndrome Type 2: A Systematic Review of a Not Easily Identifiable Clinical Spectrum

  • Francesco Maria Rosanio,
  • Francesca Di Candia,
  • Luisa Occhiati,
  • Ludovica Fedi and ,
  • Francesco Paolo Malvone,
  • Davide Fortunato Foschini,
  • Adriana Franzese and
  • Enza Mozzillo
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Background: Wolfram syndrome (WS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that is characterized by the presence of diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and hearing loss, all of which are crucial elements for the diagnosis. WS is variably associated with d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wolfram Syndrome in Pediatric Age)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,663 Views
14 Pages

Wolfram Syndrome 1: A Pediatrician’s and Pediatric Endocrinologist’s Perspective

  • Anastasios Serbis,
  • Dimitrios Rallis,
  • Vasileios Giapros,
  • Assimina Galli-Tsinopoulou and
  • Ekaterini Siomou

12 February 2023

Wolfram syndrome 1 (WS1) is a rare autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in WFS1 and WFS2 genes that produce wolframin, a protein involved in endoplasmic reticulum calcium homeostasis and cellular apoptosis. Its main clini...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,622 Views
18 Pages

Early Intervention and Lifelong Treatment with GLP1 Receptor Agonist Liraglutide in a Wolfram Syndrome Rat Model with an Emphasis on Visual Neurodegeneration, Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Diabetic Phenotype

  • Toomas Jagomäe,
  • Kadri Seppa,
  • Riin Reimets,
  • Marko Pastak and ,
  • Mihkel Plaas,
  • Miriam A. Hickey,
  • Kaia Grete Kukker,
  • Lieve Moons,
  • Lies De Groef and
  • Mario Plaas
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

16 November 2021

Wolfram syndrome (WS), also known as a DIDMOAD (diabetes insipidus, early-onset diabetes mellitus, optic nerve atrophy and deafness) is a rare autosomal disorder caused by mutations in the Wolframin1 (WFS1) gene. Previous studies have revealed that g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,202 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of the Oral Bacterial Genome and Metabolites in Patients with Wolfram Syndrome

  • E. Zmysłowska-Polakowska,
  • T. Płoszaj,
  • S. Skoczylas,
  • P. Mojsak and ,
  • M. Ciborowski,
  • A. Kretowski,
  • M. Lukomska-Szymanska,
  • A. Szadkowska,
  • W. Mlynarski and
  • A. Zmysłowska
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

In Wolfram syndrome (WFS), due to the loss of wolframin function, there is increased ER stress and, as a result, progressive neurodegenerative disorders, accompanied by insulin-dependent diabetes. The aim of the study was to evaluate the oral microbi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Biomarkers in Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Disorders 2.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,859 Views
8 Pages

Next Generation Sequencing Analysis of MODY-X Patients: A Case Report Series

  • Giulio Maltoni,
  • Roberto Franceschi,
  • Valeria Di Natale,
  • Randa Al-Qaisi and ,
  • Valentina Greco,
  • Roberto Bertorelli,
  • Veronica De Sanctis,
  • Alessandro Quattrone,
  • Vilma Mantovani and
  • Stefano Zucchini
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

30 September 2022

Background: Classic criteria for a maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) diagnosis are often unable to identify all subjects, and traditional Sanger sequencing, using a candidate gene approach, leads to a high prevalence of missed genetic diagn...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanisms of Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
501 Views
17 Pages

Partial Ordering of Cations by the Wolframite Mechanism Using Fe2+- and Sc-Dominant Minerals of the Columbite Supergroup as Examples

  • Nikita V. Chukanov,
  • Natalia V. Zubkova,
  • Anatoly V. Kasatkin,
  • Igor V. Pekov and ,
  • Atali A. Agakhanov,
  • Vasiliy O. Yapaskurt,
  • Alla A. Virus,
  • Dmitry A. Ksenofontov and
  • Sergey N. Britvin
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

16 May 2026

In most cases, columbite-supergroup minerals are characterized by partial ordering of cations, which makes their identification based only on chemical composition and powder diffraction data difficult. Columbite-supergroup minerals with partially ord...

(This article belongs to the Section Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals & Nanominerals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,080 Views
13 Pages

Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss in a Romanian Population: Carrier Status and Frequent Variants in the GJB2 Gene

  • Anca-Lelia Riza,
  • Camelia Alkhzouz,
  • Marius Farcaș,
  • Andrei Pîrvu and ,
  • Diana Miclea,
  • Gheorghe Mihuț,
  • Răzvan-Mihail Pleșea,
  • Delia Ștefan,
  • Mihaela Drodar and
  • Radu Popp
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

26 December 2022

The genetic causes of autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL) are heterogeneous and highly ethnic-specific. We describe GJB2 (connexin 26) variants and carrier frequencies as part of our study and summarize previously reported ones for...

(This article belongs to the Section Human Genomics and Genetic Diseases)