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Bosga-Bouwer AG, Kok K, Booman M, Boven L, van der Vlies P, van den Berg A, van den Berg E, de Jong B, Poppema S, Kluin P. Array comparative genomic hybridization reveals a very high frequency of deletions of the long arm of chromosome 6 in testicular lymphoma. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2006; 45:976-81. [PMID: 16865685 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Despite the fact that numerous studies have been performed on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), only few have concerned extranodal lymphomas occurring in the testis. We performed a cytogenetic and molecular study of 17 testicular non-Hodgkin lymphomas, of which 14 were proven primary DLBCL of the testis. Cytogenetic analysis revealed in 8 out of 11 evaluable cases a structural abnormality of the long arm of chromosome 6, with deletion or addition of material of unknown origin, and with breakpoints spanning the region 6q12-6q23. The cytogenetic findings were confirmed by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) with a chromosome 6 painting probe. Using array based-comparative genomic hybridization on 16 evaluable cases, including 5 cases not tested by cytogenetics or FISH, 14 (88%) showed chromosome 6q deletions. We identified two regions of minimal deletion (RMD), at 104-113 Mb (6q16.3-q21) and 137.5-138.8 Mb (6q23.3), respectively. In one case, we observed a 2.7 Mb homozygous deletion ranging from 135.3 to 138.0 Mb that partly overlapped with the RMD at 6q23.3. Our study indicates that 6q deletions play a major pathogenetic role in DLBCL of the testis and that many of these deletions are part of unbalanced translocations.
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- Anneke G Bosga-Bouwer
- Department of Clinical Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Altering DNA copy number is one of the many ways that gene expression and function may be modified. Some variations are found among normal individuals ( 14, 35, 103 ), others occur in the course of normal processes in some species ( 33 ), and still others participate in causing various disease states. For example, many defects in human development are due to gains and losses of chromosomes and chromosomal segments that occur prior to or shortly after fertilization, whereas DNA dosage alterations that occur in somatic cells are frequent contributors to cancer. Detecting these aberrations, and interpreting them within the context of broader knowledge, facilitates identification of critical genes and pathways involved in biological processes and diseases, and provides clinically relevant information. Over the past several years array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) has demonstrated its value for analyzing DNA copy number variations. In this review we discuss the state of the art of array CGH and its applications in medical genetics and cancer, emphasizing general concepts rather than specific results.
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- Daniel Pinkel
- Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.
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Vermeesch JR, Melotte C, Salden I, Riegel M, Trifnov V, Polityko A, Rumyantseva N, Naumchik I, Starke H, Matthijs G, Schinzel A, Fryns JP, Liehr T. Tetrasomy 12pter-12p13.31 in a girl with partial Pallister-Killian syndrome phenotype. Eur J Med Genet 2005; 48:319-27. [PMID: 16179227 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2005.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2005] [Accepted: 04/29/2005] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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A dysmorphic patient was shown to carry a small supernumerary marker chromosome. Multicolor, centromere-multicolor and regular FISH experiments proved the marker to be an analphoid 12pter derived isochromosome. Microdissection of the marker followed by reverse painting and array CGH analysis showed that the isochromosome contains approximately 6 Mb of 12pter-12p13.31 derived sequence. This is only the second report of a marker with a neocentromere 12pter and the molecular fine mapping of the duplicated region further refines the 12p region defining the Pallister-Killian syndrome phenotype. In addition, we show the feasibility of using microdissected chromosomes or chromosomal fragments to molecularly map the chromosomal breakpoints on array CGH. This technology may aid in the identification of chromosomal translocation breakpoints.
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- Joris Robert Vermeesch
- Center for Human Genetics, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, University of Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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Sanlaville D, Lapierre JM, Turleau C, Coquin A, Borck G, Colleaux L, Vekemans M, Romana SP. Molecular karyotyping in human constitutional cytogenetics. Eur J Med Genet 2005; 48:214-31. [PMID: 16179218 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2005.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2005] [Accepted: 04/08/2005] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Using array CGH it is possible to detect very small genetic imbalances anywhere in the genome. Its usefulness has been well documented in cancer and more recently in constitutional disorders. In particular it has been used to detect interstitial and subtelomeric submicroscopic imbalances, to characterize their size at the molecular level and to define the breakpoints of chromosomal translocation. Here, we review the various applications of array CGH in constitutional cytogenetics. This technology remains expensive and the existence of numerous sequence polymorphisms makes its interpretation difficult. The challenge today is to transfer this technology in the clinical setting.
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- Damien Sanlaville
- Service de cytogénétique, laboratoire de cytogénétique, hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, 149, rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France.
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Slater HR, Bailey DK, Ren H, Cao M, Bell K, Nasioulas S, Henke R, Choo KHA, Kennedy GC. High-resolution identification of chromosomal abnormalities using oligonucleotide arrays containing 116,204 SNPs. Am J Hum Genet 2005; 77:709-26. [PMID: 16252233 PMCID: PMC1271402 DOI: 10.1086/497343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2005] [Accepted: 08/10/2005] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Mutation of the human genome ranges from single base-pair changes to whole-chromosome aneuploidy. Karyotyping, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and comparative genome hybridization are currently used to detect chromosome abnormalities of clinical significance. These methods, although powerful, suffer from limitations in speed, ease of use, and resolution, and they do not detect copy-neutral chromosomal aberrations--for example, uniparental disomy (UPD). We have developed a high-throughput approach for assessment of DNA copy-number changes, through use of high-density synthetic oligonucleotide arrays containing 116,204 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, spaced at an average distance of 23.6 kb across the genome. Using this approach, we analyzed samples that failed conventional karyotypic analysis, and we detected amplifications and deletions across a wide range of sizes (1.3-145.9 Mb), identified chromosomes containing anonymous chromatin, and used genotype data to determine the molecular origin of two cases of UPD. Furthermore, our data provided independent confirmation for a case that had been misinterpreted by karyotype analysis. The high resolution of our approach provides more-precise breakpoint mapping, which allows subtle phenotypic heterogeneity to be distinguished at a molecular level. The accurate genotype information provided on these arrays enables the identification of copy-neutral loss-of-heterozygosity events, and the minimal requirement of DNA (250 ng per array) allows rapid analysis of samples without the need for cell culture. This technology overcomes many limitations currently encountered in routine clinical diagnostic laboratories tasked with accurate and rapid diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities.
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- Howard R Slater
- Genetic Health Cytogenetics Laboratory, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
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Speicher MR, Carter NP. The new cytogenetics: blurring the boundaries with molecular biology. Nat Rev Genet 2005; 6:782-92. [PMID: 16145555 DOI: 10.1038/nrg1692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 250] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Exciting advances in fluorescence in situ hybridization and array-based techniques are changing the nature of cytogenetics, in both basic research and molecular diagnostics. Cytogenetic analysis now extends beyond the simple description of the chromosomal status of a genome and allows the study of fundamental biological questions, such as the nature of inherited syndromes, the genomic changes that are involved in tumorigenesis and the three-dimensional organization of the human genome. The high resolution that is achieved by these techniques, particularly by microarray technologies such as array comparative genomic hybridization, is blurring the traditional distinction between cytogenetics and molecular biology.
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Howarth K, Blood K, Cooke S, Ng BL, Edwards P. P39: Use of array painting to detect balanced translocations in breast cancer. Eur J Med Genet 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2005.10.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Sanlaville D, Lapierre JM, Coquin A, Turleau C, Vermeesch J, Colleaux L, Borck G, Vekemans M, Aurias A, Romana SP. [Microarray CGH: principle and use for constitutional disorders]. Arch Pediatr 2005; 12:1515-20. [PMID: 16153813 DOI: 10.1016/j.arcped.2005.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2005] [Accepted: 07/12/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Chips technology has allowed to miniaturize process making possible to realize in one step and using the same device a lot of chemical reactions. The application of this technology to molecular cytogenetics resulted in the development of comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) on microarrays technique. Using this technique it is possible to detect very small genetic imbalances anywhere in the genome. Its usefulness has been well documented in cancer and more recently in constitutional disorders. In particular it has been used to detect interstitial and subtelomeric submicroscopic imbalances, to characterize their size at the molecular level or to define the breakpoints of translocation. The challenge today is to transfer this technology in laboratory medicine. Nevertheless this technology remains expensive and the existence of numerous sequence polymorphisms makes its interpretation difficult. Finally its is unlikely that it will make karyotyping obsolete as it does not allow to detect balanced rearrangements which after meiotic segregation might result in genome imbalance in the progeny.
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- D Sanlaville
- Service de cytogénétique, hôpital Necker-Enfants-malades, Assistance-publique-hôpitaux-de-Paris, 149, rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France.
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Speicher MR. Monitoring chromosome rearrangements. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2005; 570:19-41. [PMID: 18727497 DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3764-3_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Ferguson-Smith MA, Yang F, Rens W, O'Brien PCM. The impact of chromosome sorting and painting on the comparative analysis of primate genomes. Cytogenet Genome Res 2004; 108:112-21. [PMID: 15545723 DOI: 10.1159/000080809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2003] [Accepted: 12/18/2003] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Chromosome sorting by flow cytometry is the main source of chromosome-specific DNA for the production of painting probes. These probes have been used for cross-species in situ hybridization in the construction of comparative maps, in the study of karyotype evolution and phylogenetics, in delineating territories in interphase nuclei, and in the analysis of chromosome breakpoints. We review here the contributions that this technology has made to the analysis of primate genomes.
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- M A Ferguson-Smith
- Centre for Veterinary Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Froenicke L. Origins of primate chromosomes – as delineated by Zoo-FISH and alignments of human and mouse draft genome sequences. Cytogenet Genome Res 2004; 108:122-38. [PMID: 15545724 DOI: 10.1159/000080810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2003] [Accepted: 02/06/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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This review examines recent advances in comparative eutherian cytogenetics, including Zoo-FISH data from 30 non-primate species. These data provide insights into the nature of karyotype evolution and enable the confident reconstruction of ancestral primate and boreo-eutherian karyotypes with diploid chromosome numbers of 48 and 46 chromosomes, respectively. Nine human autosomes (1, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, and 20) represent the syntenies of ancestral boreo-eutherian chromosomes and have been conserved for about 95 million years. The average rate of chromosomal exchanges in eutherian evolution is estimated to about 1.9 rearrangements per 10 million years (involving 3.4 chromosome breaks). The integrated analysis of Zoo-FISH data and alignments of human and mouse draft genome sequences allow the identification of breakpoints involved in primate evolution. Thus, the boundaries of ancestral eutherian conserved segments can be delineated precisely. The mapping of rearrangements onto the phylogenetic tree visualizes landmark chromosome rearrangements, which might have been involved in cladogenesis in eutherian evolution.
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- L Froenicke
- California National Primate Research Center & School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, 95616, USA.
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- L Scott Cram
- Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
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Gribble SM, Fiegler H, Burford DC, Prigmore E, Yang F, Carr P, Ng BL, Sun T, Kamberov ES, Makarov VL, Langmore JP, Carter NP. Applications of combined DNA microarray and chromosome sorting technologies. Chromosome Res 2004; 12:35-43. [PMID: 14984100 DOI: 10.1023/b:chro.0000009325.69828.83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The sequencing of the human genome has led to the availability of an extensive mapped clone resource that is ideal for the construction of DNA microarrays. These genomic clone microarrays have largely been used for comparative genomic hybridisation studies of tumours to enable accurate measurement of copy number changes (array-CGH) at increased resolution. We have utilised these microarrays as the target for chromosome painting and reverse chromosome painting to provide a similar improvement in analysis resolution for these studies in a process we have termed array painting. In array painting, chromosomes are flow sorted, fluorescently labelled and hybridised to the microarray. The complete composition and the breakpoints of aberrant chromosomes can be analysed at high resolution in this way with a considerable reduction in time, effort and cytogenetic expertise required for conventional analysis using fluorescence in situ hybridisation. In a similar way, the resolution of cross-species chromosome painting can be improved and we present preliminary observations of the organisation of homologous DNA blocks between the white cheeked gibbon chromosome 14 and human chromosomes 2 and 17.
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- S M Gribble
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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Shaw-Smith C, Redon R, Rickman L, Rio M, Willatt L, Fiegler H, Firth H, Sanlaville D, Winter R, Colleaux L, Bobrow M, Carter NP. Microarray based comparative genomic hybridisation (array-CGH) detects submicroscopic chromosomal deletions and duplications in patients with learning disability/mental retardation and dysmorphic features. J Med Genet 2004; 41:241-8. [PMID: 15060094 PMCID: PMC1735726 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2003.017731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 407] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The underlying causes of learning disability and dysmorphic features in many patients remain unidentified despite extensive investigation. Routine karyotype analysis is not sensitive enough to detect subtle chromosome rearrangements (less than 5 Mb). The presence of subtle DNA copy number changes was investigated by array-CGH in 50 patients with learning disability and dysmorphism, employing a DNA microarray constructed from large insert clones spaced at approximately 1 Mb intervals across the genome. Twelve copy number abnormalities were identified in 12 patients (24% of the total): seven deletions (six apparently de novo and one inherited from a phenotypically normal parent) and five duplications (one de novo and four inherited from phenotypically normal parents). Altered segments ranged in size from those involving a single clone to regions as large as 14 Mb. No recurrent deletion or duplication was identified within this cohort of patients. On the basis of these results, we anticipate that array-CGH will become a routine method of genome-wide screening for imbalanced rearrangements in children with learning disability.
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- C Shaw-Smith
- University of Cambridge Department of Medical Genetics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK
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Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (array-CGH) has emerged as a revolutionary platform, enabling the high-resolution detection of DNA copy number aberrations. In this article we outline the use and limitations of genomic clones, cDNA clones and PCR products as targets for genomic microarray construction. Furthermore, the applications and future aspects of these arrays for DNA copy number analysis in research and diagnostics, epigenetic profiling and gene annotation are discussed. These recent developments of genomic microarrays mark only the beginning of a new generation of high-resolution and high-throughput tools for genetic analysis.
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- Kiran K Mantripragada
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Heike Fiegler
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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Rogers J. The Finished Genome Sequence of Homo sapiens. COLD SPRING HARBOR SYMPOSIA ON QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY 2003; 68:1-11. [PMID: 15338597 DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2003.68.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- J Rogers
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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