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Intergenerational Influence of Gender and the DM1 Phenotype of the Transmitting Parent in Korean Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13081465. [PMID: 36011377 PMCID: PMC9408469 DOI: 10.3390/genes13081465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2022] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common autosomal-dominant disorder caused by the CTG repeat expansion of the DMPK, and it has been categorized into three phenotypes: mild, classic, and congenital DM1. Here, we reviewed the intergenerational influence of gender and phenotype of the transmitting parent on the occurrence of Korean DM1. A total of 44 parent–child pairs matched for the gender of the transmitting parent and the affected child and 29 parent–child pairs matched for the gender and DM1 phenotype of the transmitting parent were reviewed. The CTG repeat size of the DMPK in the affected child was found to be significantly greater when transmitted by a female parent to a female child (DM1-FF) (median, 1309 repeats; range, 400–2083) than when transmitted by a male parent to a male child (650; 160–1030; p = 0.038 and 0.048 using the Tukey HSD and the Bonferroni test) or by a male parent to a female child (480; 94–1140; p = 0.003). The difference in the CTG repeat size of the DMPK between the transmitting parent and the affected child was also lower when transmitted from a male parent with classic DM1 (−235; −280 to 0) compared to when it was transmitted from a female parent with mild DM1 (866; 612–905; p = 0.015 and 0.019) or from a female parent with classic DM1 (DM1-FC) (605; 10–1393; p = 0.005). This study highlights that gender and the DM1 phenotype of the transmitting parent had an impact on the CTG repeat size of the DMPK in the affected child, with greater increases being inherited from the DM1-FF or DM1-FC situations in Korean DM1.
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Ren P, Deng F, Chen S, Ran J, Li J, Yin L, Wang Y, Yin H, Zhu Q, Liu Y. Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci with allelic transmission ratio distortion in F 1 chicken population. Mol Genet Genomics 2021; 296:331-339. [PMID: 33404883 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-020-01744-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Allelic transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is the significant deviation from the expected ratio under Mendelian inheritance theory, which may be resulted from multiple disrupted biological processes, including germline selection, meiotic drive, gametic competition, imprint error, and embryo lethality. However, it is less known that whether or what extent the allelic TRD is present in farm animals. In this study, whole-genome resequencing technology was applied to reveal TRD loci in chicken by constructing a full-sib F1 hybrid population. Through the whole-genome resequencing data of two parents (30 ×) and 38 offspring (5 ×), we detected a total of 2850 TRD SNPs (p-adj < 0.05) located within 400 genes showing TRD, and all of them were unevenly distributed on macrochromosomes and microchromosomes. Our findings suggested that TRD in the chicken chromosome 16 might play an important role in chicken immunity and disease resistance and the MYH1F with significant TRD and allele-specific expression could play a key role in the fast muscle development. In addition, functional enrichment analyses revealed that many genes (e.g., TGFBR2, TGFBR3, NOTCH1, and NCOA1) with TRD were found in the significantly enriched biological process and InterPro terms in relation to embryonic lethality and germline selection. Our results suggested that TRD is considerably prevalent in the chicken genome and has functional implications.
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- Peng Ren
- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Special Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources and Drug Development, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, 563000, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China
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- Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, 611130, China. .,Laboratory of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, 211 Huiming Road, Wenjiang, Sichuan, 611130, China.
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Trost B, Engchuan W, Nguyen CM, Thiruvahindrapuram B, Dolzhenko E, Backstrom I, Mirceta M, Mojarad BA, Yin Y, Dov A, Chandrakumar I, Prasolava T, Shum N, Hamdan O, Pellecchia G, Howe JL, Whitney J, Klee EW, Baheti S, Amaral DG, Anagnostou E, Elsabbagh M, Fernandez BA, Hoang N, Lewis MES, Liu X, Sjaarda C, Smith IM, Szatmari P, Zwaigenbaum L, Glazer D, Hartley D, Stewart AK, Eberle MA, Sato N, Pearson CE, Scherer SW, Yuen RKC. Genome-wide detection of tandem DNA repeats that are expanded in autism. Nature 2020; 586:80-86. [PMID: 32717741 PMCID: PMC9348607 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2579-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Tandem DNA repeats vary in the size and sequence of each unit (motif). When expanded, these tandem DNA repeats have been associated with more than 40 monogenic disorders1. Their involvement in disorders with complex genetics is largely unknown, as is the extent of their heterogeneity. Here we investigated the genome-wide characteristics of tandem repeats that had motifs with a length of 2-20 base pairs in 17,231 genomes of families containing individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)2,3 and population control individuals4. We found extensive polymorphism in the size and sequence of motifs. Many of the tandem repeat loci that we detected correlated with cytogenetic fragile sites. At 2,588 loci, gene-associated expansions of tandem repeats that were rare among population control individuals were significantly more prevalent among individuals with ASD than their siblings without ASD, particularly in exons and near splice junctions, and in genes related to the development of the nervous system and cardiovascular system or muscle. Rare tandem repeat expansions had a prevalence of 23.3% in children with ASD compared with 20.7% in children without ASD, which suggests that tandem repeat expansions make a collective contribution to the risk of ASD of 2.6%. These rare tandem repeat expansions included previously undescribed ASD-linked expansions in DMPK and FXN, which are associated with neuromuscular conditions, and in previously unknown loci such as FGF14 and CACNB1. Rare tandem repeat expansions were associated with lower IQ and adaptive ability. Our results show that tandem DNA repeat expansions contribute strongly to the genetic aetiology and phenotypic complexity of ASD.
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- Brett Trost
- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- MIND Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Montreal Neurological Institute and Azrieli Centre for Autism Research, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Discipline of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Verily Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Kristmundsdottir S, Eggertsson HP, Arnadottir GA, Halldorsson BV. popSTR2 enables clinical and population-scale genotyping of microsatellites. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:2269-2271. [PMID: 31804671 PMCID: PMC7141861 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Summary popSTR2 is an update and augmentation of our previous work ‘popSTR: a population-based microsatellite genotyper’. To make genotyping sensitive to inter-sample differences, we supply a kernel to estimate sample-specific slippage rates. For clinical sequencing purposes, a panel of known pathogenic repeat expansions is provided along with a script that scans and flags for manual inspection markers indicative of a pathogenic expansion. Like its predecessor, popSTR2 allows for joint genotyping of samples at a population scale. We now provide a binning method that makes the microsatellite genotypes more amenable to analysis within standard association pipelines and can increase association power. Availability and implementation https://github.com/DecodeGenetics/popSTR. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Snædis Kristmundsdottir
- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavík 102, Iceland.,School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavík University, Reykjavík 102, Iceland
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- School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavík University, Reykjavík 102, Iceland
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen, Reykjavík 102, Iceland.,School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavík University, Reykjavík 102, Iceland
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Id-Lahoucine S, Cánovas A, Jaton C, Miglior F, Fonseca PAS, Sargolzaei M, Miller S, Schenkel FS, Medrano JF, Casellas J. Implementation of Bayesian methods to identify SNP and haplotype regions with transmission ratio distortion across the whole genome: TRDscan v.1.0. J Dairy Sci 2019; 102:3175-3188. [PMID: 30738671 DOI: 10.3168/jds.2018-15296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Accepted: 12/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Realized deviations from the expected Mendelian inheritance of alleles from heterozygous parents have been previously reported in a broad range of organisms (i.e., transmission ratio distortion; TRD). Various biological mechanisms affecting gametes, embryos, fetuses, or even postnatal offspring can produce patterns of TRD. However, knowledge about its prevalence and potential causes in livestock species is still scarce. Specific Bayesian models have been recently developed for the analyses of TRD for biallelic loci, which accommodated a wide range of population structures, enabling TRD investigation in livestock populations. The parameterization of these models is flexible and allows the study of overall (parent-unspecific) TRD and sire- and dam-specific TRD. This research aimed at deriving Bayesian models for fitting TRD on the basis of haplotypes, testing the models for both haplotype- and SNP-based methods in simulated data and actual Holstein genotypes, and developing a specific software for TRD analyses. Results obtained on simulated data sets showed that the statistical power of the analysis increased with sample size of trios (n), proportion of heterozygous parents, and the magnitude of the TRD. On the other hand, the statistical power to detect TRD decreased with the number of alleles at each loci. Bayesian analyses showed a strong Pearson correlation coefficient (≥0.97) between simulated and estimated TRD that reached the significance level of Bayes factor ≥10 for both single-marker and haplotype analyses when n ≥ 25. Moreover, the accuracy in terms of the mean absolute error decreased with the increase of the sample size and increased with the number of alleles at each loci. Using real data (55,732 genotypes of Holstein trios), SNP- and haplotype-based distortions were detected with overall TRD, sire-TRD, or dam-TRD, showing different magnitudes of TRD and statistical relevance. Additionally, the haplotype-based method showed more ability to capture TRD compared with individual SNP. To discard possible random TRD in real data, an approximate empirical null distribution of TRD was developed. The program TRDscan v.1.0 was written in Fortran 2008 language and provides a powerful statistical tool to scan for TRD regions across the whole genome. This developed program is freely available at http://www.casellas.info/files/TRDscan.zip.
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- S Id-Lahoucine
- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada; Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada; The Semex Alliance, Guelph N1G 3Z2, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Dairy Network, Guelph N1K 1E5, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada; Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, Brazil
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- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada; HiggsGene Solutions Inc., Guelph N1G 4S7, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada; Angus Genetics Inc., St. Joseph, MO 64506
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- Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock, Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Animal Science, University of California-Davis, Davis 95616
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- Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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Huang LO, Infante-Rivard C, Labbe A. Analysis of case-parent trios for imprinting effect using a loglinear model with adjustment for sex-of-parent-specific transmission ratio distortion. Hum Genet 2017. [PMID: 28631064 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-017-1824-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is a phenomenon where parental transmission of disease allele to the child does not follow the Mendelian inheritance ratio. TRD occurs in a sex-of-parent-specific or non-sex-of-parent-specific manner. An offset computed from the transmission probability of the minor allele in control-trios can be added to the loglinear model to adjust for TRD. Adjusting the model removes the inflation in the genotype relative risk (RR) estimate and Type 1 error introduced by non-sex-of-parent-specific TRD. We now propose to further extend this model to estimate an imprinting parameter. Some evidence suggests that more than 1% of all mammalian genes are imprinted. In the presence of imprinting, for example, the offspring inheriting an over-transmitted disease allele from the parent with a higher expression level in a neighboring gene is over-represented in the sample. TRD mechanisms such as meiotic drive and gametic competition occur in a sex-of-parent-specific manner. Therefore, sex-of-parent-specific TRD (ST) leads to over-representation of maternal or paternal alleles in the affected child. As a result, ST may bias the imprinting effect when present in the sample. We propose a sex-of-parent-specific transmission offset in adjusting the loglinear model to account for ST. This extended model restores the correct RR estimates for child and imprinting effects, adjusts for inflation in Type 1 error, and improves performance on sensitivity and specificity compared to the original model without ST offset. We conclude that to correctly interpret the association signal of an imprinting effect, adjustment for ST is necessary to ensure valid conclusions.
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- Lam Opal Huang
- Section for Metabolic Genetics, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 1, 1st floor, DIKU, 2100, København Ø, Denmark.
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 1A2, Canada
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- Department of Decision Sciences, HEC Montréal, Montreal, QC, H3T 2A7, Canada
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Casellas J, Cañas-Álvarez JJ, González-Rodríguez A, Puig-Oliveras A, Fina M, Piedrafita J, Molina A, Díaz C, Baró JA, Varona L. Bayesian analysis of parent-specific transmission ratio distortion in seven Spanish beef cattle breeds. Anim Genet 2016; 48:93-96. [PMID: 27650416 DOI: 10.1111/age.12509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is the departure from the expected Mendelian ratio in offspring, a poorly investigated biological phenomenon in livestock species. Given the current availability of specific parametric methods for the analysis of segregation data, this study focused on the screening of TRD in 602 402 single nucleotide polymorphisms covering all autosomal chromosomes in seven Spanish beef cattle breeds. On average, 0.13% (n = 786) and 0.01% (n = 29) of genetic markers evidenced sire- or dam-specific TRD respectively. There were no single nucleotide polymorphisms accounting for both sire- and dam-specific TRD at the same time, and only one marker (rs43147474) accounted for (sire-specific) TRD in all seven breeds. It must be noted that rs43147474 is located in the fourth intronic region of the GTP-binding protein 10 gene, and this locus has been previously linked to the maintenance of mitochondria and nucleolar architectures. Alternatively, other candidate genes surround this hot-spot for sire-specific TRD in the cattle genome, and they are related to embryonic and postnatal lethality as well as prostate cancer, among others. This research characterized the distribution of TRD in the bovine genome, highlighting heterogeneous results when comparing across breeds.
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- J Casellas
- Grup de Recerca en Millora Genètica Molecular Veterinària, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Recerca en Remugants, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Anatomía, Embriología y Genética, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50013, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Grup de Recerca en Millora Genètica Molecular Veterinària, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Recerca en Remugants, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Grup de Recerca en Remugants, Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- MERAGEM, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071, Córdoba, Spain
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- Departamento de Mejora Genética Animal, INIA, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Ciencias Agroforestales, Universidad de Valladolid, 34004, Palencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Anatomía, Embriología y Genética, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50013, Zaragoza, Spain
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Huang LO, Infante-Rivard C, Labbe A. Analysis of Case-Parent Trios Using a Loglinear Model with Adjustment for Transmission Ratio Distortion. Front Genet 2016; 7:155. [PMID: 27630667 PMCID: PMC5005337 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2016] [Accepted: 08/16/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Transmission of the two parental alleles to offspring deviating from the Mendelian ratio is termed Transmission Ratio Distortion (TRD), occurs throughout gametic and embryonic development. TRD has been well-studied in animals, but remains largely unknown in humans. The Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT) was first proposed to test for association and linkage in case-trios (affected offspring and parents); adjusting for TRD using control-trios was recommended. However, the TDT does not provide risk parameter estimates for different genetic models. A loglinear model was later proposed to provide child and maternal relative risk (RR) estimates of disease, assuming Mendelian transmission. Results from our simulation study showed that case-trios RR estimates using this model are biased in the presence of TRD; power and Type 1 error are compromised. We propose an extended loglinear model adjusting for TRD. Under this extended model, RR estimates, power and Type 1 error are correctly restored. We applied this model to an intrauterine growth restriction dataset, and showed consistent results with a previous approach that adjusted for TRD using control-trios. Our findings suggested the need to adjust for TRD in avoiding spurious results. Documenting TRD in the population is therefore essential for the correct interpretation of genetic association studies.
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- Lam O. Huang
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill UniversityMontréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill UniversityMontréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill UniversityMontréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill UniversityMontréal, QC, Canada
- Douglas Mental Health University InstituteMontréal, QC, Canada
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Itoh H, Berthet M, Fressart V, Denjoy I, Maugenre S, Klug D, Mizusawa Y, Makiyama T, Hofman N, Stallmeyer B, Zumhagen S, Shimizu W, Wilde AAM, Schulze-Bahr E, Horie M, Tezenas du Montcel S, Guicheney P. Asymmetry of parental origin in long QT syndrome: preferential maternal transmission of KCNQ1 variants linked to channel dysfunction. Eur J Hum Genet 2015; 24:1160-6. [PMID: 26669661 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2015] [Revised: 10/30/2015] [Accepted: 11/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Transmission distortion of disease-causing alleles in long QT syndrome (LQTS) has been reported, suggesting a potential role of KCNQ1 and KCNH2 in reproduction. This study sought to investigate parental transmission in LQTS families according to ethnicity, gene loci (LQT1-3: KCNQ1, KCNH2, and SCN5A) or severity of channel dysfunction. We studied 3782 genotyped members from 679 European and Japanese LQTS families (2748 carriers). We determined grandparental and parental origins of variant alleles in 1903 children and 624 grandchildren, and the grandparental origin of normal alleles in healthy children from 44 three-generation control families. LQTS alleles were more of maternal than paternal origin (61 vs 39%, P<0.001). The ratio of maternally transmitted alleles in LQT1 (66%) was higher than in LQT2 (56%, P<0.001) and LQT3 (57%, P=0.03). Unlike the Mendelian distribution of grandparental alleles seen in control families, variant grandparental LQT1 and LQT2 alleles in grandchildren showed an excess of maternally transmitted grandmother alleles. For LQT1, maternal transmission differs according to the variant level of dysfunction with 68% of maternal transmission for dominant negative or unknown functional consequence variants vs 58% for non-dominant negative and variants leading to haploinsufficiency, P<0.01; however, for LQT2 or LQT3 this association was not significant. An excess of disease-causing alleles of maternal origin, most pronounced in LQT1, was consistently found across ethnic groups. This observation does not seem to be linked to an imbalance in transmission of the LQTS subtype-specific grandparental allele, but to the potential degree of potassium channel dysfunction.
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- Hideki Itoh
- INSERM, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan
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- INSERM, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, ICAN, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, ICAN, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.,AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière, Service de Biochimie Métabolique, UF Cardiogénétique et Myogénétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Cardiology Department, AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, ICAN, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
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- Hôpital Cardiologique de Lille, CHRU, Service de cardiologie A, Lille, France
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- AMC Heart Center, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Institute for Genetics of Heart Diseases (IfGH), University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Institute for Genetics of Heart Diseases (IfGH), University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan.,Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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- AMC Heart Center, Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Institute for Genetics of Heart Diseases (IfGH), University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.,Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF) of the University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan
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- Biostatistics Unit, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles-Foix, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Paris, France
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- INSERM, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S1166, Paris, France.,Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, ICAN, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
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Yilmaz A, Zhang L, Zhang XY, Son WY, Holzer H, Ao A. Chromosomal complement and clinical relevance of multinucleated embryos in PGD and PGS cycles. Reprod Biomed Online 2014; 28:380-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2012] [Revised: 10/16/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Rice WR. Nothing in Genetics Makes Sense Except in Light of Genomic Conflict. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2013. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110411-160242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- William R. Rice
- Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9610;
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Transmission ratio distortion: review of concept and implications for genetic association studies. Hum Genet 2012; 132:245-63. [PMID: 23242375 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-012-1257-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2012] [Accepted: 12/04/2012] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) occurs when one of the two alleles from either parent is preferentially transmitted to the offspring. This leads to a statistical departure from the Mendelian law of inheritance, which states that each of the two parental alleles is transmitted to offspring with a probability of 0.5. A number of mechanisms are thought to induce TRD such as meiotic drive, gametic competition, and embryo lethality. TRD has been extensively studied in animals, but the prevalence of TRD in humans remains largely unknown. Nevertheless, understanding the TRD phenomenon and taking it into consideration in many aspects of human genetics has potential benefits that have not been sufficiently emphasized in the current literature. In this review, we discuss the importance of TRD in three distinct but related fields of genetics: developmental genetics which studies the genetic abnormalities in zygotic and embryonic development, statistical genetics/genetic epidemiology which utilizes population study designs and statistical models to interpret the role of genes in human health, and population genetics which is concerned with genetic diversity in populations in an evolutionary context. From the perspective of developmental genetics, studying TRD leads to the identification of the processes and mechanisms for differential survival observed in embryos. As a result, it is a genetic force which affects allele frequency at the population, as well as, at the organismal level. Therefore, it has implications on genetic diversity of the population over time. From the perspective of genetic epidemiology, the TRD influence on a marker locus is a confounding factor which has to be adequately dealt with to correctly interpret linkage or association study results. These aspects are developed in this review. In addition to these theoretical notions, a brief summary of the empirical evidence of the TRD phenomenon in human and mouse studies is provided. The objective of our paper is to show the potentially important role of TRD in many areas of genetics, and to create an incentive for future research.
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Is there a Mendelian transmission ratio distortion of the c.429_452dup(24bp) polyalanine tract ARX mutation? Eur J Hum Genet 2012; 20:1311-4. [PMID: 22490986 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2012.61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Intellectual disability is common. Aristaless-related homeobox (ARX) gene is one of the most frequently mutated and pleiotropic genes, implicated in 10 different phenotypes. More than half of ~100 reported cases with ARX mutations are due to a recurrent duplication of 24 bp, c.429_452dup, which leads to polyalanine tract expansion. The excess of affected males among the offspring of the obligate carrier females raised the possibility of transmission ratio distortion for the c.429_452dup mutation. We found a significant deviation from the expected Mendelian 1:1 ratio of transmission in favour of the c.429_452dup ARX mutation. We hypothesise that the preferential transmission of the c.429_452dup mutation may be due to asymmetry of meiosis in the oocyte. Our findings may have implications for genetic counselling of families segregating the c.429_452dup mutation and allude to putative role of ARX in oocyte biology.
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Myotonic dystrophies (dystrophia myotonica, or DM) are inherited disorders characterized by myotonia and progressive muscle degeneration, which are variably associated with a multisystemic phenotype. To date, two types of myotonic dystrophy, type 1 (DM1) and type 2 (DM2), are known to exist; both are autosomal dominant disorders caused by expansion of an untranslated short tandem repeat DNA sequence (CTG)(n) and (CCTG)(n), respectively. These expanded repeats in DM1 and DM2 show different patterns of repeat-size instability. Phenotypes of DM1 and DM2 are similar but there are some important differences, most conspicuously in the severity of the disease (including the presence or absence of the congenital form), muscles primarily affected (distal versus proximal), involved muscle fiber types (type 1 versus type 2 fibers), and some associated multisystemic phenotypes. The pathogenic mechanism of DM1 and DM2 is thought to be mediated by the mutant RNA transcripts containing expanded CUG and CCUG repeats. Strong evidence supports the hypothesis that sequestration of muscle-blind like (MBNL) proteins by these expanded repeats leads to misregulated splicing of many gene transcripts in corroboration with the raised level of CUG-binding protein 1. However, additional mechanisms, such as changes in the chromatin structure involving CTCN-binding site and gene expression dysregulations, are emerging. Although treatment of DM1 and DM2 is currently limited to supportive therapies, new therapeutic approaches based on pathogenic mechanisms may become feasible in the near future.
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- Tetsuo Ashizawa
- Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
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Stanke F, Becker T, Hedtfeld S, Tamm S, Wienker TF, Tümmler B. Hierarchical fine mapping of the cystic fibrosis modifier locus on 19q13 identifies an association with two elements near the genes CEACAM3 and CEACAM6. Hum Genet 2010; 127:383-94. [PMID: 20047061 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-009-0779-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2009] [Accepted: 12/18/2009] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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On 19q13, TGFB1 and the cystic fibrosis modifier 1 locus (CFM1) have been identified as modifiers of the course of the monogenic disease cystic fibrosis (CF). Recently, we have described a transmission disequilibrium at the microsatellite D19S197, localized between TGFB1 and CFM1. To map the corresponding molecular variants, we have selected informative SNP markers within a 600-kb area and compared two-marker-haplotype-distributions between phenotypically contrasting sib pair groups, intending to type only phylogenetically old markers by aiming for close-to-maximal polymorphism information content of the SNPs. Starting with a seed set of five SNPs that cover intermarker distances of up to 50 kb, we have iteratively added more SNPs to the map, until we could identify two genomic fragments of 3,289 and 2,052 bp for which pairs with contrasting phenotypes showed different haplotype distributions on the final 17-SNP-map (P(raw) = 0.0002, P(corr17SNPs) = 0.0106 and P(raw) = 0.0008, P(corr17SNPs) = 0.0469, respectively). Resequencing of these fragments of four unrelated individuals for each element showed that the mildly and severely affected pairs differ in seven SNPs and concordant pairs differ from discordant pairs in five SNPs. Annotation of these variants indicate that CEACAM6 and a regulatory element near the 3' end of CEACAM3 are associated with CF disease severity and intrapair discordance, respectively. While our approach was only guided by the markers' position, the involvement of genes from the CEACAM family in host defense and innate immunity designates these proteins as likely modifiers of the multi-organ disease cystic fibrosis which is known for its cytokine imbalance and pro-inflammatory phenotype.
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- Frauke Stanke
- Department of Pediatrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
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Santos PSC, Höhne J, Schlattmann P, König IR, Ziegler A, Uchanska-Ziegler B, Ziegler A. Assessment of transmission distortion on chromosome 6p in healthy individuals using tagSNPs. Eur J Hum Genet 2009; 17:1182-9. [PMID: 19259136 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The best-documented example for transmission distortion (TD) to normal offspring are the t haplotypes on mouse chromosome 17. In healthy humans, TD has been described for whole chromosomes and for particular loci, but multiple comparisons have presented a statistical obstacle in wide-ranging analyses. Here we provide six high-resolution TD maps of the short arm of human chromosome 6 (Hsa6p), based on single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from 60 trio families belonging to two ethnicities that are available through the International HapMap Project. We tested all approximately 70,000 previously genotyped SNPs within Hsa6p by the transmission disequilibrium test. TagSNP selection followed by permutation testing was performed to adjust for multiple testing. A statistically significant evidence for TD was observed among male parents of European ancestry, due to strong and wide-ranging skewed segregation in a 730 kb long region containing the transcription factor-encoding genes SUPT3H and RUNX2, as well as the microRNA locus MIRN586. We also observed that this chromosomal segment coincides with pronounced linkage disequilibrium (LD), suggesting a relationship between TD and LD. The fact that TD may be taking place in samples not selected for a genetic disease implies that linkage studies must be assessed with particular caution in chromosomal segments with evidence of TD.
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Murphy AM, Meade KG, Hayes PA, Park SDE, Evans ACO, Lonergan P, MacHugh DE. Transmission ratio distortion at the growth hormone gene (GH1) in bovine preimplantation embryos: An in vitro culture-induced phenomenon? Mol Reprod Dev 2008; 75:715-22. [PMID: 17948248 DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The growth hormone gene (GH1) and its polypeptide product (GH) have a crucial role in reproduction, embryogenesis and general development. A polymorphism present in the fifth exon of the bovine GH1 gene (GH1 p.Leu127Val) has been associated with GH release and milk production in cattle. The objective of the present study was to examine the genotype frequencies of the GH1 p.Leu127Val polymorphism in bovine blastocysts produced in vitro and in vivo to determine if allelic variation of the GH1 gene affects embryo development and survival. A heterozygous (p.Leu127/Val127) sire was used for in vitro fertilization of oocytes of unknown maternal genotype (n = 104) and known maternal genotype (n = 115). PCR amplification and genotyping of the GH1 gene from Day 8 blastocysts derived from these fertilized oocytes demonstrated that there was significant over-representation from the expected Mendelian ratio of GH1 p.Leu127/Leu127 homozygotes from oocytes of known maternal genotype (P = 0.006). Contrary to this, analysis of in vivo-produced bovine blastocysts of known parental GH1 genotype (n = 69) did not reveal an overrepresentation of GH1 p.Leu127/Leu127 homozygotes. These results suggest that developing in vitro-produced embryos are exposed to a selection process, probably due to a less favorable culture environment, that acts to increase the number of GH1 p.Leu127/Leu127 homozygotes, thereby giving rise to the observed transmission ratio distortion (TRD) of GH1 genotypes when compared to in vivo produced embryos.
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- Angela M Murphy
- Animal Genomics Laboratory and Conway Institute for Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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Parental effect of DNA (Cytosine-5) methyltransferase 1 on grandparental-origin-dependent transmission ratio distortion in mouse crosses and human families. Genetics 2008; 178:35-45. [PMID: 18202356 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.081562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Transmission ratio distortion (TRD) is a deviation from the expected Mendelian 1:1 ratio of alleles transmitted from parents to offspring and may arise by different mechanisms. Earlier we described a grandparental-origin-dependent sex-of-offspring-specific TRD of maternal chromosome 12 alleles closely linked to an imprinted region and hypothesized that it resulted from imprint resetting errors in the maternal germline. Here, we report that the genotype of the parents for loss-of-function mutations in the Dnmt1 gene influences the transmission of grandparental chromosome 12 alleles. More specifically, maternal Dnmt1 mutations restore Mendelian transmission ratios of chromosome 12 alleles. Transmission of maternal alleles depends upon the presence of the Dnmt1 mutation in the mother rather than upon the Dnmt1 genotype of the offspring. Paternal transmission mirrors the maternal one: live-born offspring of wild-type fathers display 1:1 transmission ratios, whereas offspring of heterozygous Dnmt1 mutant fathers tend to inherit grandpaternal alleles. Analysis of allelic transmission in the homologous region of human chromosome 14q32 detected preferential transmission of alleles from the paternal grandfather to grandsons. Thus, parental Dnmt1 is a modifier of transmission of alleles at an unlinked chromosomal region and perhaps has a role in the genesis of TRD.
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Kakourou G, Dhanjal S, Mamas T, Gotts S, Doshi A, Fordham K, Serhal P, Ranieri DM, Delhanty JDA, Harper JC, SenGupta SB. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for myotonic dystrophy type 1 in the UK. Neuromuscul Disord 2007; 18:131-6. [PMID: 18053720 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2007.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2007] [Revised: 08/15/2007] [Accepted: 10/02/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a dominant multisystemic disorder caused by expansion of a trinucleotide repeat in a non-coding region of DMPK. Prenatal diagnosis (PND) is available; however, the decision to terminate affected pregnancies is difficult as the extent of disability is hard to predict from the size of the expansion. In preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) genetic analysis is carried out before the establishment of pregnancy. This paper reviews the largest number of cycles of PGD for DM1 in the UK indicating that PGD is a practical option for affected couples.
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- Georgia Kakourou
- Institute for Women's Health, UCL Centre for Preimplantation Genetics, 86-96 Chenies Mews, London WC1E 6HX, UK
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Bochud M, Chiolero A, Elston RC, Paccaud F. A cautionary note on the use of Mendelian randomization to infer causation in observational epidemiology. Int J Epidemiol 2007; 37:414-6; author reply 416-7. [PMID: 17881410 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dym186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Becker T, Jansen S, Tamm S, Wienker TF, Tümmler B, Stanke F. Transmission ratio distortion and maternal effects confound the analysis of modulators of cystic fibrosis disease severity on 19q13. Eur J Hum Genet 2007; 15:774-8. [PMID: 17406643 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Two entities localised within in a 5 Mb interval on 19q13, that is the transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGFbeta1) and the cystic fibrosis modifier 1, have been reported to modulate disease severity of cystic fibrosis (CF), albeit the designation of the risk allele for TGFbeta1 differs between studies. We have analysed genotyping data at seven microsatellite loci and four single nucleotide polymorphisms targeting the 19q13 area from 37 nuclear CF families with two affected offspring exhibiting extreme clinical phenotypes for indicators of transmission-ration distortion, maternal genetic or maternal non-genetic effects. Evidence for a transmission-ratio distortion was obtained at D19S112 (P=0.0304) near the recently characterised myotonic dystrophy locus myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK). Maternal and paternal genotype distributions were significantly different at rs1982073 (Leu10Pro at TGFbeta1) whereby all CF sibs heterozygous at rs1982073 inherited the Leu10 allele from their mother (P=0.000132) in our sibling panel. To ask whether the improved survival in CF over the last decades has any influence on TGFbeta1 allele frequencies, we analysed unrelated F508del homozygotes who were stratified by birth cohort. Sensitivity with respect to the survivor bias was reflected by significantly higher incidence of mild cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator mutation genotypes in the early born patient cohort (P=0.0169), and an allelic imbalance was also observed at TGFbeta1 (P=0.0664). In conclusion, the role of TGFbeta1 as a CF modulator, suggested from studies with a case-control setting, needs to be interpreted with caution unless family-based analysis is carried out to identify parental genetic and non-genetic effects.
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- Tim Becker
- Institute of Medical Biometrics, Informatics and Genetics (IMBIE), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Gutiérrez-Adán A, Perez-Crespo M, Fernandez-Gonzalez R, Ramirez MA, Moreira P, Pintado B, Lonergan P, Rizos D. Developmental Consequences of Sexual Dimorphism During Pre-implantation Embryonic Development. Reprod Domest Anim 2006; 41 Suppl 2:54-62. [PMID: 16984469 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00769.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Abnormalities of development potential arising from pre-implantation environment are not limited to in vitro culture (IVC) (for, i.e. in ruminants the large offspring syndrome produced by IVC), they may also be consequence of specific stress conditions experienced in vivo, like maternal diet, toxins, etc. A complex group of mechanisms (gene expression, epigenetic, metabolic, etc.) may operate to link early embryo environment with future health. Furthermore, during the pre-implantation period, in vitro produced male embryos have a higher metabolic rate, they grow faster than females, and they also have differential gene transcription of genes located in the Y-, X-, or in autosomal-chromosomes. As a consequence of these differences embryos may be affected differentially by natural or artificial environmental conditions, depending on their gender. It has been suggested that under some stress conditions male embryos are more vulnerable than females; however the biological fragility of male embryos is poorly understood. Evidences suggest that epigenetic differences produced by the presence of one or two X-chromosomes are the principal cause of the male and female pre-implantation differences, and we put forward the possible role of these early sex differences to control sex ratio of the offspring under different environmental conditions in Nature. By following the differences between male and female early embryos not only may be possible to manipulate sex ratio in farm animals, we can also gain further insight into aspects of early embryo development, X inactivation, and epigenetic and genetic processes related with early development that may have a long-term effect on the offspring.
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