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Liang X, He Q, Jiao Y, Yang H, Huang W, Liu K, Lin H, Xu L, Hou Y, Ding Y, Zhang Y, Huang H, Zhao H. Identification of rare variants in PTCH2 associated with non-syndromic orofacial clefts. Gene 2024; 907:148280. [PMID: 38360123 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.148280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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Orofacial clefts (OFCs) represent the most prevalent congenital craniofacial anomalies, significantly impacting patients' appearance, oral function, and psychological well-being. Among these, non-syndromic OFCs (NSOFCs) are the most predominant type, with the etiology attributed to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Rare variants of key genes involved in craniofacial development-related signaling pathway are crucial in the occurrence of NSOFCs, and our recent studies have identified PTCH1, a receptor-coding gene in the Hedgehog signaling pathway, as a causative gene for NSOFCs. However, the role of PTCH2, the paralog of PTCH1, in pathogenesis of NSOFCs remains unclear. Here, we perform whole-exome sequencing to explore the genetic basis of 144 sporadic NSOFC patients. We identify five heterozygous variants of PTCH2 in four patients: p.L104P, p.A131G, p.R557H, p.I927S, and p.V978D, with the latter two co-occurring in a single patient. These variants, all proven to be rare through multiple genomic databases, with p.I927S and p.V978D being novel variants and previously unreported. Sequence alignment suggests that these affected amino acids are evolutionarily conserved across vertebrates. Utilizing predictive structural modeling tools such as AlphaFold and SWISS-MODEL, we propose that these variants may disrupt the protein's structure and function. In summary, our findings suggest that PTCH2 may be a novel candidate gene predicted to be associated with NSOFCs, thereby broadening the spectrum of causative genes implicated in the craniofacial anomalies.
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- Xuqin Liang
- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China; Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Guangdong Provincial High-level Clinical Key Specialty, Guangdong Province Engineering Research Center of Oral Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Department of Orthodontics, Stomatological Center, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen Peking University-The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Medical Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China; Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Stomatology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, PR China.
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- Department of Nephrology, Xi'an Children's Hospital, The Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China.
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China; Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China.
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Torazawa S, Miyawaki S, Imai H, Hongo H, Ono H, Ogawa S, Sakai Y, Kiyofuji S, Koizumi S, Komura D, Katoh H, Ishikawa S, Saito N. Association of Genetic Variants with Postoperative Donor Artery Development in Moyamoya Disease: RNF213 and Other Moyamoya Angiopathy-Related Gene Analysis. Transl Stroke Res 2024:10.1007/s12975-024-01248-7. [PMID: 38592555 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-024-01248-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024]
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Robust postoperative bypass development is a characteristic of moyamoya disease (MMD); however, genetic factors mediating this phenomenon remain incompletely understood. Therefore, we aimed to elucidate the relationship between postoperative donor artery development and genetic variants. We retrospectively enrolled 63 patients (79 hemispheres) who underwent combined revascularization surgery. Postoperative development of the superficial temporal artery (STA), middle meningeal artery, and deep temporal artery (DTA) was assessed using the caliber-change ratio determined from magnetic resonance angiography measurements. We analyzed RNF213 and 36 other moyamoya angiopathy-related genes by whole-exome sequencing and extracted rare or damaging variants. Thirty-five participants carried RNF213 p.Arg4810Lys (all heterozygotes), whereas 5 had RNF213 rare variants (RVs). p.Arg4810Lys was significantly associated with postoperative DTA development, while age at surgery, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia were inversely associated. Multiple regression analysis revealed that age and p.Arg4810Lys held statistical significance (P = 0.044, coefficient - 0.015, 95% confidence interval (CI) - 0.029 to 0.000 and P = 0.001, coefficient 0.670, 95% CI 0.269 to 1.072, respectively). Those with RNF213 RV without p.Arg4810Lys exhibited a significant trend toward poor DTA development (P = 0.001). Hypertension demonstrated a significant positive association with STA development, which remained significant even after multiple regression analysis (P = 0.001, coefficient 0.303, 95% CI 0.123 to 0.482). Following Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons, targeted analyses of RNF213 and 36 moyamoya angiopathy-related genes showed a significant association of only RNF213 p.Arg4810Lys with favorable DTA development (P = 0.001). A comprehensive analysis of RNF213, considering both p.Arg4810Lys and RVs, may provide a clearer prediction of postoperative DTA development.
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- Seiei Torazawa
- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Shinjuku Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
- Department of Neurosurgery, Fuji Brain Institute and Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
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Wang S, Zheng X, Wei Q, Lin J, Yang T, Xiao Y, Jiang Q, Li C, Shang H. Rare DNAJC7 Variants May Play a Minor Role in Chinese Patients with ALS. Mol Neurobiol 2024; 61:2265-2269. [PMID: 37870677 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-023-03677-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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DnaJ heat shock protein family member C7 gene (DNAJC7) has been identified as a genetic risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In our study, we aimed to screen for rare variants in DNAJC7 in a large cohort of Chinese ALS patients, and investigate the genotype-phenotype correlation of DNAJC7 in ALS. Four (0.19%) variants of DNAJC7 with minor allele frequency (MAF) < 0.1% among 2124 patients were identified, including 1 protein-truncating variant and 3 missense variants, all of which were predicted to be damaging. The patients carrying variants of DNAJC7 in our cohort tented to have a limb onset and a relatively slow disease progression. However, burden analysis did not show an enrichment of rare damaging variants in ALS patients compared to controls. Further analysis involving diverse regions and larger sample size is necessary to elucidate the role of DNAJC7 in the pathogenicity of ALS.
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- Shichan Wang
- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041610041, Sichuan, China.
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Cinciripini PM, Wetter DW, Wang J, Yu R, Kypriotakis G, Kumar T, Robinson JD, Cui Y, Green CE, Bergen AW, Kosten TR, Scherer SE, Shete S. Deep sequencing of candidate genes identified 14 variants associated with smoking abstinence in an ethnically diverse sample. Sci Rep 2024; 14:6385. [PMID: 38493193 PMCID: PMC10944542 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-56750-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024] Open
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Despite the large public health toll of smoking, genetic studies of smoking cessation have been limited with few discoveries of risk or protective loci. We investigated common and rare variant associations with success in quitting smoking using a cohort from 8 randomized controlled trials involving 2231 participants and a total of 10,020 common and 24,147 rare variants. We identified 14 novel markers including 6 mapping to genes previously related to psychiatric and substance use disorders, 4 of which were protective (CYP2B6 (rs1175607105), HTR3B (rs1413172952; rs1204720503), rs80210037 on chr15), and 2 of which were associated with reduced cessation (PARP15 (rs2173763), SCL18A2 (rs363222)). The others mapped to areas associated with cancer including FOXP1 (rs1288980) and ZEB1 (rs7349). Network analysis identified significant canonical pathways for the serotonin receptor signaling pathway, nicotine and bupropion metabolism, and several related to tumor suppression. Two novel markers (rs6749438; rs6718083) on chr2 are flanked by genes associated with regulation of bodyweight. The identification of novel loci in this study can provide new targets of pharmacotherapy and inform efforts to develop personalized treatments based on genetic profiles.
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- Paul M Cinciripini
- Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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- Department of Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
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Narayan P, Richter F, Morton S. Genetics and etiology of congenital heart disease. Curr Top Dev Biol 2024; 156:297-331. [PMID: 38556426 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2024.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common severe birth anomaly, affecting almost 1% of infants. Most CHD is genetic, but only 40% of patients have an identifiable genetic risk factor for CHD. Chromosomal variation contributes significantly to CHD but is not readily amenable to biological follow-up due to the number of affected genes and lack of evolutionary synteny. The first CHD genes were implicated in extended families with syndromic CHD based on the segregation of risk alleles in affected family members. These have been complemented by more CHD gene discoveries in large-scale cohort studies. However, fewer than half of the 440 estimated human CHD risk genes have been identified, and the molecular mechanisms underlying CHD genetics remains incompletely understood. Therefore, model organisms and cell-based models are essential tools for improving our understanding of cardiac development and CHD genetic risk. Recent advances in genome editing, cell-specific genetic manipulation of model organisms, and differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells have recently enabled the characterization of developmental stages. In this chapter, we will summarize the latest studies in CHD genetics and the strengths of various study methodologies. We identify opportunities for future work that will continue to further CHD knowledge and ultimately enable better diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of CHD.
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
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Wang S, Zheng X, Ou R, Wei Q, Lin J, Yang T, Xiao Y, Jiang Q, Li C, Shang H. Rare variant analysis of UQCRC1 in Chinese patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2024; 134:40-42. [PMID: 37984314 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 09/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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Mitochondrial ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase core protein 1 (UQCRC1) gene has been identified as a causative gene for autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD), with the p.Y314S variant potentially associated with polyneuropathy in PD patients. The objectives of our study were to screen for UQCRC1 variants in Chinese patients with early-onset PD (EOPD) and explore the role of UQCRC1 in EOPD. We investigated the rare variants in 913 EOPD patients in our cohort using whole-exome sequencing, assessing their link to PD at both allele and gene levels. A total of 7 rare variants (minor allele frequency < 0.1%) of UQCRC1 were identified. However, no excessive burden of rare UQCRC1 variants was suggested in the EOPD patients. Further analysis with larger sample size and diverse regions is needed to determine the role of UQCRC1 in PD.
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- Shichan Wang
- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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Kocagil S, Şafak İN, Saraç E, Aydın C, Artan S, Kırel B. Further Evidence for RFWD3 Gene Causing Fanconi Anemia Complementation Group W: Detailed Clinical Report of the Second Case in the Literature. Mol Syndromol 2023; 14:509-515. [PMID: 38058754 PMCID: PMC10697762 DOI: 10.1159/000531429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023] Open
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Introduction Fanconi anemia (FA) is a heterogeneous genetic disorder that is characterized by progressive bone marrow failure, congenital malformations, predisposition to malignancy, and short stature. The RFWD3 gene was recently associated with FA complementation group W, and only 1 patient is reported in the literature so far. Case Presentation Here, we report the second patient, a 10-year-old male, who has failure to thrive, central nervous system abnormalities, bilateral radial ray defects, urogenital anomalies, facial dysmorphism, and thrombocytopenia. The patient was suspected to have FA according to the aforementioned findings, and the homozygous c.1501C>T variant in the RFWD3 gene was detected by whole-exome sequencing. The diepoxybutane test and mitomycin C-induced peripheral blood cultures revealed 0.46 and 0.90 chromosomal breaks, respectively. Conclusion In this article, clinical findings of the second patient with FA complementation group W are discussed in detail, aiming to expand the clinical and molecular spectrums of the disease.
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- Sinem Kocagil
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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De Mattia E, Polesel J, Silvestri M, Roncato R, Scarabel L, Calza S, Spina M, Puglisi F, Toffoli G, Cecchin E. The burden of rare variants in DPYS gene is a novel predictor of the risk of developing severe fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity. Hum Genomics 2023; 17:99. [PMID: 37946254 PMCID: PMC10633914 DOI: 10.1186/s40246-023-00546-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite a growing number of publications highlighting the potential impact on the therapy outcome, rare genetic variants (minor allele frequency < 1%) in genes associated to drug adsorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination are poorly studied. Previously, rare germline DPYD missense variants were shown to identify a subset of fluoropyrimidine-treated patients at high risk for severe toxicity. Here, we investigate the impact of rare genetic variants in a panel of 54 other fluoropyrimidine-related genes on the risk of severe toxicity. METHODS The coding sequence and untranslated regions of 54 genes related to fluoropyrimidine pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics were analyzed by next-generation sequencing in 120 patients developing grade 3-5 toxicity (NCI-CTC vs3.0) and 104 matched controls. Sequence Kernel Association Test (SKAT) analysis was used to select genes with a burden of genetic variants significantly associated with risk of severe toxicity. The statistical association of common and rare genetic variants in selected genes was further investigated. The functional impact of genetic variants was assessed using two different in silico prediction tools (Predict2SNP; ADME Prediction Framework). RESULTS SKAT analysis highlighted DPYS and PPARD as genes with a genetic mutational burden significantly associated with risk of severe fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity (Bonferroni adjusted P = 0.024 and P = 0.039, respectively). Looking more closely at allele frequency, the burden of rare DPYS variants was significantly higher in patients with toxicity compared with controls (P = 0.047, Mann-Whitney test). Carrying at least one rare DPYS variant was associated with an approximately fourfold higher risk of severe cumulative (OR = 4.08, P = 0.030) and acute (OR = 4.21, P = 0.082) toxicity. The burden of PPARD rare genetic variants was not significantly related to toxicity. Some common variants with predictive value in DPYS and PPARD were also identified: DPYS rs143004875-T and PPARD rs2016520-T variants predicted an increased risk of severe cumulative (P = 0.002 and P = 0.001, respectively) and acute (P = 0.005 and P = 0.0001, respectively) toxicity. CONCLUSION This work demonstrated that the rare mutational burden of DPYS, a gene strictly cooperating with DPYD in the catabolic pathway of fluoropyrimidines, is a promising pharmacogenetic marker for precision dosing of fluoropyrimidines. Additionally, some common genetic polymorphisms in DPYS and PPARD were identified as promising predictive markers that warrant further investigation.
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- Elena De Mattia
- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Centro Di Riferimento Oncologico Di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy
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- Department of Applied Research and Technological Development, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy
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- Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCSS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCSS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy
- Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Via Delle Scienze, 206, 33100, Udine, UD, Italy
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081, Aviano, PN, Italy.
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Nomura S, Akagawa H, Yamaguchi K, Azuma K, Nakamura A, Fukui A, Matsuzawa F, Aihara Y, Ishikawa T, Moteki Y, Chiba K, Hashimoto K, Morita S, Ishiguro T, Okada Y, Vetiska S, Andrade-Barazarte H, Radovanovic I, Kawashima A, Kawamata T. Difference in Clinical Phenotype, Mutation Position, and Structural Change of RNF213 Rare Variants Between Pediatric and Adult Japanese Patients with Moyamoya Disease. Transl Stroke Res 2023:10.1007/s12975-023-01194-w. [PMID: 37768541 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-023-01194-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
Abstract
It is unclear how rare RNF213 variants, other than the p.R4810K founder variant, affect the clinical phenotype or the function of RNF213 in moyamoya disease (MMD). This study included 151 Japanese patients with MMD. After performing targeted resequencing for all coding exons in RNF213, we investigated the clinical phenotype and statistically analyzed the genotype-phenotype correlation. We mapped RNF213 variants on a three-dimensional (3D) model of human RNF213 and analyzed the structural changes due to variants. The RNF213 p.R4810K homozygous variant, p.R4810K heterozygous variant, and wild type were detected in 10 (6.6%), 111 (73.5%), and 30 (19.9%) MMD patients, respectively. In addition, 15 rare variants were detected in 16 (10.6%) patients. In addition to the influence of the p.R4810K homozygous variant, the frequency of cerebral infarction at disease onset was higher in pediatric patients with other rare variants (3/6, 50.0%, P = 0.006) than in those with only the p.R4810K heterozygous variant or with no variants (2/51, 3.9%). Furthermore, on 3D modelling of RNF213, the majority of rare variants found in pediatric patients were located in the E3 module and associated with salt bridge loss, contrary to the results for adult patients. The clinical phenotype of rare RNF213 variants, mapped mutation position, and their predicted structural change differed between pediatric and adult patients with MMD. Rare RNF213 variants, in addition to the founder p.R4810K homozygous variant, can influence MMD clinical phenotypes or structural change which may contribute to the destabilization of RNF213.
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- Shunsuke Nomura
- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University Yachiyo Medical Center, Owadashinden, Yachiyo-Shi, Chiba, 477-96, Japan.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 60 Leonard Ave., Toronto, ON, M5T 0S8, Canada.
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- Institute for Comprehensive Medical Sciences, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute for Comprehensive Medical Sciences, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University Yachiyo Medical Center, Owadashinden, Yachiyo-Shi, Chiba, 477-96, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 60 Leonard Ave., Toronto, ON, M5T 0S8, Canada
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, 60 Leonard Ave., Toronto, ON, M5T 0S8, Canada
- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University Yachiyo Medical Center, Owadashinden, Yachiyo-Shi, Chiba, 477-96, Japan
- Department of Neurosurgery, St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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Natsumoto B, Shoda H, Nagafuchi Y, Ota M, Okumura T, Horie Y, Okamura T, Yamamoto K, Tsuji M, Otsu M, Taniguchi H, Fujio K. Functional evaluation of rare OASL variants by analysis of SLE patient-derived iPSCs. J Autoimmun 2023; 139:103085. [PMID: 37354689 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2023.103085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023]
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BACKGROUND Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by genetic heterogeneity and an interferon (IFN) signature. The overall landscapes of the heritability of SLE remains unclear. OBJECTIVES To identify and elucidate the biological functions of rare variants underlying SLE, we conducted analyses of patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) in combination with genetic analysis. METHODS Two familial SLE patient- and two healthy donor (HD)-derived iPSCs were established. Type 1 IFN-secreting dendritic cells (DCs) were differentiated from iPSCs. Genetic analyses of SLE-iPSCs, and 117 SLE patients and 107 HDs in the ImmuNexUT database were performed independently. Genome editing of the variants on iPSCs was performed with the CRISPR/Cas9 system. RESULTS Type 1 IFN secretion was significantly increased in DCs differentiated from SLE-iPSCs compared to HD-iPSCs. Genetic analyses revealed a rare variant in the 2'-5'-Oligoadenylate Synthetase Like (OASL) shared between SLE-iPSCs and another independent SLE patient, and significant accumulation of OASL variants among SLE patients (HD 0.93%, SLE 6.84%, OR 8.387) in the database. Genome editing of mutated OASL 202Q to wild-type 202 R or wild-type OASL 202 R to mutated 202Q resulted in reduced or enhanced Type 1 IFN secretion of DCs. Three other OASL variants (R60W, T261S and A447V) accumulated in SLE patients had also capacities to enhance Type 1 IFN secretion in response to dsRNA. CONCLUSIONS We established a patient-derived iPSC-based strategy to investigate the linkage of genotype and phenotype in autoimmune diseases. Detailed case-based investigations using patient-derived iPSCs provide information to unveil the heritability of the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.
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- Bunki Natsumoto
- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan.
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan.
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan; Department of Functional Genomics and Immunological Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan; Department of Functional Genomics and Immunological Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan
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- Division of Stem Cell Processing/Stem Cell Bank, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Division of Stem Cell Processing/Stem Cell Bank, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan; Department of Functional Genomics and Immunological Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan
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- Laboratory for Autoimmune Diseases, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Institute of Molecular Function, Misato-shi Saitama, 341-0037, Japan
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- Department of Transfusion and Cell Transplantation, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara Kanagawa, 252-0374, Japan
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- Division of Stem Cell Processing/Stem Cell Bank, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Department of Allergy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan.
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Costantino F, Breban M. Family studies: A useful tool to better understand spondyloarthritis. Joint Bone Spine 2023; 90:105588. [PMID: 37201576 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2023.105588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is an immune-mediated disease characterized by a high heritability, reflected by strong familial aggregation. Therefore, family studies are a powerful tool for elucidating the genetic basis of SpA. First, they helped to assess the relative importance of genetic and environmental factors and established the polygenic character of the disease. Family-based designs were also historically used to identify genetic factors of susceptibility through linkage analyses. In SpA, three whole-genome linkage studies were published in the 1990's, unfortunately with few consistent results. After having been put aside for several years in favour of case-control GWAS, there is a renewed interest in family-based designs in particular to detect rare variant associations. This review aims at summarizing what family studies have brought to the field of SpA genetics, from genetic epidemiology studies to the most recent rare variant analyses. It also highlights the potential interest of family history of SpA to help diagnosis and detection of patients at high risk to develop the disease.
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- Félicie Costantino
- Rheumatology Department, AP-HP, Ambroise-Paré Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, 78180 Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, Université Paris-Centre, Paris, France.
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- Rheumatology Department, AP-HP, Ambroise-Paré Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, 78180 Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France; Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, Université Paris-Centre, Paris, France
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Xiang Y, Huang J, Wang Y, Huang X, Zeng Q, Li L, Zhao Y, Pan H, Xu Q, Liu Z, Sun Q, Wang J, Tan J, Shen L, Jiang H, Yan X, Li J, Tang B, Guo J. Evaluating the Genetic Role of Circadian Clock Genes in Parkinson's Disease. Mol Neurobiol 2023; 60:2729-2736. [PMID: 36717479 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-023-03243-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Increasing evidence suggests that circadian dysfunction is related to Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the role of circadian clock genes in PD is still poorly understood. This study aimed to illustrate the association between genetic variants of circadian clock genes and PD in a large Chinese population cohort. Ten circadian clock genes were included in this study. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) was conducted in 1997 early-onset or familial PD patients and 1652 controls (WES cohort), and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) was conducted in 1962 sporadic late-onset PD patients and 1279 controls (WGS cohort). Analyses were completed using the optimized sequence kernel association test and regression analyses. In the burden analysis of the circadian clock gene set, we found suggestive significant associations between the circadian clock genes and PD in the WES cohort when considering missense, damaging missense (Dmis), and deleterious variants. Moreover, the burden analysis of single genes revealed suggestive significant associations between PD and the loss-of-function variants of the CRY1 gene, missense, Dmis, and deleterious variants of the PER1 gene, and Dmis and deleterious variants of the PER2 gene in the WES cohort. Rare variants in the WGS cohort and all common variants in the WGS and WES cohorts were unrelated to PD. Phenotypic analysis indicated that deleterious variants of the PER1 gene were associated with dyskinesia in the WES cohort. Our study provides evidence of a potential link between circadian clock genes and PD from a genetic perspective.
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- Yaqin Xiang
- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Hunan Province in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- National Clinical Research Centre for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Medical Genetics, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Key Laboratory of Hunan Province in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- National Clinical Research Centre for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Medical Genetics, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- Key Laboratory of Hunan Province in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- National Clinical Research Centre for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Centre for Medical Genetics, Central South University, Changsha, China.
- Hunan International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Base of Neurodegenerative and Neurogenetic Diseases, Changsha, China.
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Zhao H, He Q, Wu X, Liang X, Jiao Y, Zhang Y, Bao S, Xu L, Hou Y, Zhu X, Ding Y. Identification of rare loss-of-function variants in FAM3B associated with non-syndromic orofacial clefts. Genomics 2023; 115:110630. [PMID: 37105387 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2023.110630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Orofacial clefts (OFCs) are the most common congenital craniofacial disorders and cause serious problems with the appearance, orofacial function and mental health of the patients. The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling pathway is critical for several aspects of craniofacial development and loss-of-function mutations of coding genes for multiple FGFs and FGFRs can lead to OFCs. We recently characterized FAM3B as a novel ligand of FGF signaling, which, through binding to FGFRs and activating downstream ERK, regulates craniofacial development in Xenopus. In this study, we identify two rare variants in FAM3B (p.Q61R and p.D128G) via target region sequencing of FAM3B on 144 unrelated sporadic patients with non-syndromic OFCs (NSOFCs). Bioinformatic analysis predict that these two variants are likely to be damaging and biochemical experiments show that these two variants weaken the FGF ligand activity of FAM3B by decreasing its expression and thus secretion. In summary, our results indicate that FAM3B is a novel candidate gene for NSOFCs in humans.
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- Huaxiang Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China; Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China; Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Department of Stomatology, The Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, PR China
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- Department of Stomatology, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Xining, Qinghai, PR China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China; Department of Orthodontics, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China.
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- Department of Human Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, PR China; Neuroscience Research Institute, Peking University, Beijing, PR China.
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, PR China.
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Chen S, Dong H, Luo Y, Zhang Y, Li P. Heterozygous variant in FGFR3 underlying severe phenotypes in the second trimester: a case report. BMC Med Genomics 2023; 16:80. [PMID: 37076826 PMCID: PMC10116793 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-023-01517-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Achondroplasia is a congenital skeletal system malformation caused by missense variant of FGFR3 gene with an incidence of 1 per 20,000-30,000 newborns, which is an autosomal dominant inheritance disease. Despite similar imaging features, the homozygous achondroplasia is absolutely lethal due to thoracic stenosis, whereas heterozygous achondroplasia does not lead to fetal death. CASE PRESENTATION A fetus with progressive rhizomelic short limbs and overt narrow chest was detected by prenatal ultrasound in the second trimester. Gene sequencing results of amniotic fluid sample indicated a rare missense variant NM_000142.4: c.1123G > T(p.Gly375Cys), leading to a glycine to cysteine substitution. Re-sequencing confirmed that it was a heterozygous variant, and thoracic stenosis was then confirmed in the corpse by radiological examination. CONCLUSIONS We identified a heterozygous variant of the FGFR3 gene as the rare pathogenic variant of severe achondroplasia in a fetus. Heterozygous variants of p.Gly375Cys may have a severe phenotype similar to homozygote. It's crucial to combine prenatal ultrasound with genetic examination to differentiate heterozygous from homozygous achondroplasia. The p.Gly375Cys variant of FGFR3 gene may serve as a vital target for the diagnosis of severe achondroplasia.
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- Shujun Chen
- Department of Ultrasound, The First People's Hospital of Chongqing Liang Jiang New Area, Chongqing, 400010, China
- Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China
- Institute of Ultrasound Imaging of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China
- Institute of Ultrasound Imaging of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China
- Department of Ultrasound, Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children, Women and Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The First People's Hospital of Chongqing Liang Jiang New Area, Chongqing, 400010, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The First People's Hospital of Chongqing Liang Jiang New Area, Chongqing, 400010, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China.
- Institute of Ultrasound Imaging of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China.
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Lin J, Li C, Cui Y, Hou Y, Zhang L, Ou R, Wei Q, Liu K, Yang T, Xiao Y, Jiang Q, Zhao B, Yang J, Chen X, Shang H. Rare variants in IMPDH2 cause autosomal dominant dystonia in Chinese population. J Neurol 2023; 270:2197-2203. [PMID: 36648520 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-023-11564-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Recently, IMPDH2 has been linked to dystonia. However, no replication study from other cohorts has been conducted to confirm the association. We aimed to systematically evaluate the genetic associations of IMPDH2 with dystonia in a large dystonia cohort. METHODS We analyzed rare variants (minor allele frequency < 0.01) of IMPDH2 in 688 Chinese dystonia patients with whole exome sequencing. The over-representation of rare variants in patients was examined with Fisher's exact test at allele and gene levels. RESULTS Four rare variants were detected in IMPDH2 in four patients with dystonia in our cohort, including three missense variants (p.Ser508Leu, p.Ala396Thr, and p.Phe24Val) and one splice acceptor variant (c.1296-1G>T). Two of them (c.1296-1G>T and p.Ser508Leu) were co-segregated in the family co-segregation analysis and were classified as pathogenic and likely pathogenic variant according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) guidelines, respectively. Gene burden analysis revealed enrichment of rare variants in IMPDH2 in dystonia. CONCLUSIONS Our work supplemented the evidence on the role of IMPDH2 in autosomal dominant dystonia in Chinese population, and expanded the genetic and phenotypic spectrum of IMPDH2, paving way for future studies.
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- Junyu Lin
- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Rare Disease Center, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No 37, Guo Xue Road, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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Li C, Hou Y, Wei Q, Lin J, Jiang Z, Jiang Q, Yang T, Xiao Y, Huang J, Cheng Y, Ou R, Liu K, Chen X, Song W, Zhao B, Wu Y, Cao B, Chen Y, Shang H. Mutation screening of SPTLC1 and SPTLC2 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Hum Genomics 2023; 17:28. [PMID: 36966328 PMCID: PMC10040122 DOI: 10.1186/s40246-023-00479-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Recently, several rare variants of SPTLC1 were identified as disease cause for juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by disrupting the normal homeostatic regulation of serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT). However, further exploration of the rare variants in large cohorts was still necessary. Meanwhile, SPTLC2 plays a similar role as SPTLC1 in the SPT function. METHODS To explore the genetic role of SPTLC1 and SPTLC2 in ALS, we analyzed the rare protein-coding variants in 2011 patients with ALS and 3298 controls from the Chinese population with whole exome sequencing. Fisher's exact test was performed between each variant and disease risk, while at gene level over-representation of rare variants in patients was examined with optimized sequence kernel association test (SKAT-O). RESULTS Totally 33 rare variants with minor allele frequency < 0.01 were identified, including 17 in SPTLC1 and 16 in SPTLC2. One adult-onset patient carried the variant p.E406K (SPTLC1) which was reported in previous study. Additionally, three adult-onset patients carried variants in the same amino acids as the variants identified in previous studies (p.Y509C, p.S331T, and p.R239Q in SPTLC1). At gene level, rare variants of SPTLC1 and STPLC2 were not enriched in patients. CONCLUSION These results broadened the variant spectrum of SPTLC1 and SPTLC2 in ALS, and paved the way for future research. Further replication was still needed to explore the genetic role of SPTLC1 in ALS.
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- Chunyu Li
- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No.37, Guoxue Lane, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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Lin J, Li C, Cui Y, Hou Y, Zhang L, Ou R, Wei Q, Liu K, Huang R, Yang T, Xiao Y, Jiang Q, Yang J, Chen X, Shang H. Mutation screening of AOPEP variants in a large dystonia cohort. J Neurol 2023. [PMID: 36933031 DOI: 10.1007/s00415-023-11665-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2023] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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STUDY OBJECTIVES Recently, AOPEP has been identified to be a novel causative gene of autosomal-recessive dystonia. However, no large cohort study has been conducted to confirm the association. We aimed to systematically evaluate the genetic associations of AOPEP with dystonia in a large Chinese dystonia cohort. METHODS We analyzed rare variants of AOPEP in 878 dystonia patients with whole-exome sequencing. The over-representation of rare variants in patients was examined with Fisher's exact test at allele and gene levels. RESULTS Among the 878 patients with dystonia, we found two patients with biallelic likely pathogenic variants in the AOPEP gene. One patient carried putative compound heterozygous variants (p.A212D and p.G216R) and presented with childhood-onset segmental dystonia involving the upper limbs and craniocervical muscles accompanied by myoclonus of the dystonia affected areas. One patient carried homozygote of p.M291Nfs*68 and presented with adult-onset isolated cervical dystonia. Another 15 patients were identified to carry heterozygous rare variants in AOPEP, including 2 loss-of-function variants (p.M291Nfs*68 and p.R493X) and 6 missense variants. One loss-of-function variant (p.R493X) was the same as previously reported. Nearly, all of the 15 patients carrying heterozygous variants in AOPEP presented with isolated dystonia with only craniocervical muscles affected, except for one patient who carried the p.R493X variant presented with segmental dystonia affecting the neck and right upper limb combined with parkinsonism. Gene-based burden analysis detected enrichment of rare variants and rare damaging variants of AOPEP in dystonia. CONCLUSIONS Our study supplemented the evidence on the role of AOPEP in autosomal-recessive dystonia in Chinese population, and expanded the genotypic and phenotypic spectrum of AOPEP.
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Li C, Hou Y, Wei Q, Lin J, Jiang Q, Yang T, Xiao Y, Huang J, Cheng Y, Ou R, Liu K, Chen X, Song W, Zhao B, Wu Y, Cao B, Chen Y, Shang H. Lack of association of TP73 rare variants with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a Chinese cohort. Hum Genomics 2022; 16:63. [PMID: 36451215 DOI: 10.1186/s40246-022-00437-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Recently, several rare variants of TP73 were identified as potential disease cause for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the European population. However, further replication was still necessary, especially in cohorts with different ethnic backgrounds. METHODS To explore the genetic role of TP73 in ALS in the Asian population, we analyzed the rare protein-coding variants in 2011 patients with ALS and 3298 controls with whole-exome sequencing. Fisher's exact test was performed between each variant and disease risk, while at gene level over-representation of rare variants in patients was examined with optimized sequence kernel association test. RESULTS Totally 24 rare variants with minor allele frequency < 0.01 were identified, among which nine were absent in controls. One variant p.P335T was previously reported, and another three variants were in the same amino acids as the variants reported in previous studies (p.R36Q, p.R414Q, p.R78C). At gene level, rare variants of TP73 were not enriched in patients. CONCLUSIONS Our findings did not support the genetic role of TP73 in ALS in the Chinese population. Replication of specific variants identified in patients from different cohorts might provide additional insight. The current results also broadened the mutation spectrum of TP73 and paved the way for further research.
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Mambueni HM, Hue C, Jobart-Malfait A, Said-Nahal R, El Hafci H, Petite H, Nich C, Breban M, Costantino F, Garchon HJ. Targeted resequencing of the 13q13 spondyloarthritis-linked locus identifies a rare variant in FREM2 possibly associated with familial spondyloarthritis. Joint Bone Spine 2022; 89:105419. [PMID: 35640836 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2022.105419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The strong heritability of spondyloarthritis remains poorly explained, despite several large-scale association studies. A recent linkage analysis identified a new region linked to SpA on 13q13. Here we searched for variants potentially explaining this linkage signal by deep-sequencing of the region. METHODS Re-sequencing of the 1.4 Mb target interval was performed in 92 subjects from the 43 best-linked multicases families (71 spondyloarthritis and 21 unaffected relatives), using hybridization capture-based protocol (Illumina Nextera®). Variants of interest were then genotyped by TaqMan and high resolution melting to check their co-segregation with disease in the same families and to test their association with spondyloarthritis in an independent cohort of 1,091 unrelated cases and 399 controls. Expression of FREM2 was assessed by immunostaining. RESULTS Of the 7,563 variants identified, 24 were non-synonymous coding single-nucleotide variants. Two of them were located in the FREM2 gene on a haplotype co-segregating with the disease, including one common variant (R1840W, minor allele frequency=0.11) and one rare variant (R727H, minor allele frequency=0.0001). In the case-control analysis, there was no significant association between R1840W and spondyloarthritis (P-value=0.21), whereas R727H was not detected in any of the genotyped individuals. Immunostaining experiments revealed that FREM2 is expressed in synovial membrane, cartilage and colon. CONCLUSIONS Targeted re-sequencing of a spondyloarthritis-linked region allowed us to identify a rare non-synonymous coding variant in FREM2, co-segregating with spondyloarthritis in a large family. This gene is expressed in several tissues relevant to spondyloarthritis pathogenesis, supporting its putative implication in spondyloarthritis.
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- Hendrick Mambu Mambueni
- Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, 2, avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
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- Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, 2, avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
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- Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, 2, avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
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- Rheumatology Department, AP-HP, Ambroise Paré Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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- Laboratory of Osteoarticular Biology, Bioingeneering and Bioimaging, UMR CNRS 7052 INSERM U1271, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Osteoarticular Biology, Bioingeneering and Bioimaging, UMR CNRS 7052 INSERM U1271, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Osteoarticular Biology, Bioingeneering and Bioimaging, UMR CNRS 7052 INSERM U1271, Paris, France; Université de Nantes, Orthopedics and Trauma Department, University Hospital Hôtel-Dieu, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, 2, avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France; Rheumatology Department, AP-HP, Ambroise Paré Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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- Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, 2, avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France; Rheumatology Department, AP-HP, Ambroise Paré Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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- Infection & Inflammation, UMR 1173, Inserm, UVSQ/Université Paris Saclay, Laboratory of Excellence INFLAMEX, 2, avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France; Genetics Department, AP-HP, Ambroise Paré Hospital, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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Li C, Zhi D, Wang K, Liu X. MetaRNN: differentiating rare pathogenic and rare benign missense SNVs and InDels using deep learning. Genome Med 2022; 14:115. [PMID: 36209109 PMCID: PMC9548151 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-022-01120-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Multiple computational approaches have been developed to improve our understanding of genetic variants. However, their ability to identify rare pathogenic variants from rare benign ones is still lacking. Using context annotations and deep learning methods, we present pathogenicity prediction models, MetaRNN and MetaRNN-indel, to help identify and prioritize rare nonsynonymous single nucleotide variants (nsSNVs) and non-frameshift insertion/deletions (nfINDELs). We use independent test sets to demonstrate that these new models outperform state-of-the-art competitors and achieve a more interpretable score distribution. Importantly, prediction scores from both models are comparable, enabling easy adoption of integrated genotype-phenotype association analysis methods. All pre-computed nsSNV scores are available at http://www.liulab.science/MetaRNN. The stand-alone program is also available at https://github.com/Chang-Li2019/MetaRNN.
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- Chang Li
- USF Genomics & College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 3720 Spectrum Boulevard, Suite 304, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- USF Genomics & College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 3720 Spectrum Boulevard, Suite 304, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
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De Mattia E, Silvestri M, Polesel J, Ecca F, Mezzalira S, Scarabel L, Zhou Y, Roncato R, Lauschke VM, Calza S, Spina M, Puglisi F, Toffoli G, Cecchin E. Rare genetic variant burden in DPYD predicts severe fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity risk. Biomed Pharmacother 2022; 154:113644. [PMID: 36063648 PMCID: PMC9463069 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2022.113644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Preemptive targeted pharmacogenetic testing of candidate variations in DPYD is currently being used to limit toxicity associated with fluoropyrimidines. The use of innovative next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches could unveil additional rare (minor allele frequency <1%) genetic risk variants. However, their predictive value and management in clinical practice are still controversial, at least partly due to the challenges associated with functional analyses of rare variants. The aim of this study was to define the predictive power of rare DPYD variants burden on the risk of severe fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity. The DPYD coding sequence and untranslated regions were analyzed by NGS in 120 patients developing grade 3–5 (NCI-CTC vs3.0) fluoropyrimidine-related toxicity and 104 matched controls (no-toxicity). The functional impact of rare variants was assessed using two different in silico predictive tools (i.e., Predict2SNP and ADME Prediction Framework) and structural modeling. Plasma concentrations of uracil (U) and dihydrouracil (UH2) were quantified in carriers of the novel variants. Here, we demonstrate that the burden of rare variants was significantly higher in patients with toxicity compared to controls (p = 0.007, Mann-Whitney test). Carriers of at least one rare missense DPYD variant had a 16-fold increased risk in the first cycle and an 11-fold increased risk during the entire course of chemotherapy of developing a severe adverse event compared to controls (p = 0.013 and p = 0.0250, respectively by multinomial regression model). Quantification of plasmatic U/UH2 metabolites and in silico visualization of the encoded protein were consistent with the predicted functional effect for the novel variations. Analysis and consideration of rare variants by DPYD-sequencing could improve prevention of severe toxicity of fluoropyrimidines and improve patients’ quality of life. DPYD genotype-guided dosing reduces fluoropyrimidine (FP) toxicity risk. Rare DPYD variants associate with severe FP toxicities. Carriers of rare DPYD variants have 11-fold increased risk of toxicity. DPYD sequencing and in silico functional prediction could prevent FP toxicity events.
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- Elena De Mattia
- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Department of Applied Research and Technological Development, Via Giacomo Venezian 1, 20133 Milano, Italy.
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- Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Auerbachstraße 112, 70376 Stuttgart, Germany; University of Tuebingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany.
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- University of Brescia, Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCSS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCSS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy; Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze, 206, 33100 Udine UD, Italy.
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, via Franco Gallini n. 2, 33081 Aviano PN, Italy.
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Morikawa R, Watanabe Y, Igeta H, Arta RK, Ikeda M, Okazaki S, Hoya S, Saito T, Otsuka I, Egawa J, Tanifuji T, Iwata N, Someya T. Novel missense SETD1A variants in Japanese patients with schizophrenia: Resequencing and association analysis. Psychiatry Res 2022; 310:114481. [PMID: 35235885 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2021] [Revised: 02/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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SETD1A has been identified as a substantial risk gene for schizophrenia. To further investigate the role of SETD1A in the genetic etiology of schizophrenia in the Japanese population, we performed resequencing and association analyses. First, we resequenced the SETD1A coding regions of 974 patients with schizophrenia. Then, we genotyped variants, prioritized via resequencing, in 2,027 patients with schizophrenia and 2,664 controls. Next, we examined the association between SETD1A and schizophrenia in 3,001 patients with schizophrenia and 2,664 controls. Finally, we performed a retrospective chart review of patients with prioritized SETD1A variants. We identified two novel missense variants (p.Ser575Pro and p.Glu857Gln) via resequencing. We did not detect these variants in 4,691 individuals via genotyping. These variants were not significantly associated with schizophrenia in the association analysis. Additionally, we found that a schizophrenia patient with the p.Glu857Gln variant had developmental delays. In conclusion, novel SETD1A missense variants were exclusively identified in Japanese patients with schizophrenia. However, our study does not provide evidence for the contribution of these variants to the genetic etiology of schizophrenia in the Japanese population.
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- Ryo Morikawa
- Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 757 Asahimachidori-ichibancho, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 757 Asahimachidori-ichibancho, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 757 Asahimachidori-ichibancho, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 757 Asahimachidori-ichibancho, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 757 Asahimachidori-ichibancho, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 757 Asahimachidori-ichibancho, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 757 Asahimachidori-ichibancho, Chuo-ku, Niigata 951-8510, Japan
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Curtis D. Exploration of weighting schemes based on allele frequency and annotation for weighted burden association analysis of complex phenotypes. Gene 2022; 809:146039. [PMID: 34688815 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2021.146039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Weighted burden analysis can incorporate variants with different frequencies and annotations into a combined test for association between a gene and a phenotype. However there has not been a systematic exploration of which weighting schemes provide maximum power to detect association. Here we assess different weighting schemes using a number of genes for which exome-wide evidence of association with common phenotypes was obtained in 200,000 exome-sequenced UK Biobank participants. We find that there are marked differences in optimal weighting schemes between genes, both with respect to allele frequency and to annotation, implying that there is no "one-size-fits-all" scheme which is generally optimal. It seems helpful to weight rare variants more highly than common ones, to give loss of function variants higher weights than protein-altering variants and to assign higher weights to protein-altering variants predicted to have more severe effects. However with the data currently available it does not seem possible to make more specific recommendations. This research has been conducted using the UK Biobank Resource.
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- David Curtis
- UCL Genetics Institute, University College London, London, UK; Centre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
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Collyer J, Xu F, Munkhsaikhan U, Alberson NF, Orgil BO, Zhang W, Czosek RJ, Lu L, Jefferies JL, Towbin JA, Purevjav E. Combining whole exome sequencing with in silico analysis and clinical data to identify candidate variants in pediatric left ventricular noncompaction. Int J Cardiol 2022; 347:29-37. [PMID: 34752814 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2021.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Understanding the overall variant burden in pediatric patients with left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) has clinical implications. Whole exome sequencing (WES) allows detection of coding variants in both candidate cardiomyopathy genes and those included on commercial panels. Other lines of evidence, including in silico analysis, are necessary to reduce the overwhelming number of variants to those most likely having a phenotypic impact. METHODS Five families, including five pediatric probands with LVNC, 5 other affected, and 10 unaffected family members, had WES performed, followed by bioinformatics filtering and Sanger sequencing. Review of the HGMD, variant classification by ACMG guidelines, and clinical information were used to further refine complex genotypes. RESULTS One nonsense and eleven missense variants were identified. In Family 1, affected siblings carried digenic heterozygous variants: E1350K-MYH7 and A276V-ANKRD1. The proband also carried heterozygous W143X-NRG1. Four affected members of Family 2 carried K184Q-MYH7 while unaffected members did not. In Family 3, homozygous A161T-MYH7 and heterozygous P4935T-OBSCN variants were identified in the proband with the latter being absent in his unaffected brother. In Family 4, proband's father and half-sibling have mild hypertrabeculation and carry T3796I-PLEC. The proband, carrying T3796I-PLEC and V2878A-OBSCN, demonstrated higher trabeculation burden. The proband in Family 5 carried four variants, R3247W-PLEC, C92Y-ERG, T1233M-NCOR2, and E54K-HIST1H4B. Application of ACMG criteria and clinical data revealed that W143X-NRG1, P4935T-OBSCN, and V2878A-OBSCN likely have no phenotypic role. CONCLUSIONS We report nine variants, including novel T3796I-PLEC and biallelic A161T-MYH7, likely contributing to phenotypes ranging from asymptomatic hypertrabeculation to severe LVNC with heart failure.
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- John Collyer
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; School of Pharmacy, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong 264003, China
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America; Laboratory of Genetics and Genomics, Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America
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- Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America
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- Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America
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- Division of Adult Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Pediatric Cardiology, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Pediatric Cardiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Pediatric Cardiology, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Pediatric Cardiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States of America; Children's Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States of America.
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Liu Y, Shen L, Zhang Y, Zhao R, Liu C, Luo S, Chen J, Xia L, Li T, Peng Y, Xia K. Rare NRXN1 missense variants identified in autism interfered protein degradation and Drosophila sleeping. J Psychiatr Res 2021; 143:113-122. [PMID: 34487988 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Revised: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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NRXN1 is involved in synaptogenesis and have been implicated in Autism spectrum disorders. However, many rare inherited missense variants of NRXN1 have not been thoroughly evaluated. Here, functional analyses in vitro and in Drosophila of three NRXN1 missense mutations, Y282H, L893V, and I1135V identified in ASD patients in our previous study were performed. Our results showed these three mutations interfered protein degradation compared with NRXN1-WT protein. Expressing human NRXN1 in Drosophila could lead to abnormal circadian rhythm and sleep behavior, and three mutated proteins caused milder phenotypes, indicating the mutations may change the function of NRXN1 slightly. These findings highlight the functional role of rare NRXN1 missense variants identified in autism patients, and provide clues for us to better understand the pathogenesis of abnormal circadian rhythm and sleep behavior of other organisms, including humans.
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- Yalan Liu
- Department of Otolaryngology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China; Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology Major Disease Research of Hunan Province, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China; Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Otolaryngology Major Disease Research of Hunan Province, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases of Hunan Province, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Center for Medical Genetics and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligences Technology (CEBSIT), Shanghai, China; Key Laboratory of Medical Information Research, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
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Lin F, Lin W, Zhu C, Lin J, Zhu J, Li XY, Wang Z, Wang C, Huang H. Sequencing of neurofilament genes identified NEFH Ser787Arg as a novel risk variant of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Chinese subjects. BMC Med Genomics 2021; 14:222. [PMID: 34511133 PMCID: PMC8436554 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-021-01073-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease with neuronal cell inclusions composed of neurofilaments and other abnormal aggregative proteins as pathological hallmarks. Approximately 90% of patients have sporadic cases (sALS), and at least 4 genes, i.e. C9orf72, SOD1, FUS and TARDBP, have been identified as the main causative genes, while many others have been proposed as potential risk genes. However, these mutations could explain only ~ 10% of sALS cases. The neurofilament polypeptides encoded by NEFH, NEFM, and NEFL are promising protein biomarkers for ALS and other degenerative diseases. However, whether the genetic variants of these genes were associated with ALS remain ambiguous. METHODS Here, we used PCR-Sanger to sequence the exons of these three genes in a cohort of 371 sALS patients and 711 healthy controls (Phase I) and validated the risk variant in another 300 sALS patients and 1076 controls (Phase II). RESULTS A total of 92 variants were identified, including 36 rare heterozygous variants in NEFH, 27 in NEFM, and 16 in NEFL, and only rs568759161 (p.Ser787Arg) in NEFH reached nominal statistical power (P = 0.02 at Phase I, P = 0.009 at Phase II) in the case-control comparison. Together, the Phase I and II studies showed the significantly higher frequency of the variant in cases (9/1342, 0.67%) than in controls (2/3574, 0.07%) (OR 12.06; 95% CI 2.60-55.88; P = 0.0003). No variants passed multiple testing in the discovery cohort, but rs568759161 was associated with ALS in a replication cohort. CONCLUSIONS Our results confirmed that NEFH Ser787Arg is a novel sALS risk variant in Chinese subjects, but NEFM and NEFL were not associated with sALS. These data may have implications for genetic counselling and for understanding the pathogenesis of sALS.
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- Feng Lin
- Department of Neurology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fujian, 350001, China
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- Department of Neurology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fujian, 350001, China
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- Department of Neurology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fujian, 350001, China
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- Department of Neurology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fujian, 350001, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, China
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- Department of Neurology, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fujian, 350001, China.
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He T, Liu M, Tao D, Leng X, Wang Z, Xie S, Zhang Y, Zhang X, Tan X, Liu Y, Yang Y. Is BRD7 associated with spermatogenesis impairment and male infertility in humans? A case-control study in a Han Chinese population. Basic Clin Androl 2021; 31:19. [PMID: 34470615 PMCID: PMC8411525 DOI: 10.1186/s12610-021-00139-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 07/03/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Background Bromodomain-containing protein 7 (BRD7), a member of the bromodomain-containing protein family, plays important roles in chromatin modification and transcriptional regulation. A recent model of Brd7-knockout mice presented azoospermia and male infertility, implying the potential role of BRD7 in spermatogenic failure in humans. This case-control study aimed to explore the association of the BRD7 gene with spermatogenic efficiency and the risk of spermatogenic defects in humans. Results A total of six heterozygous variants were detected in the coding and splicing regions of the BRD7 gene in patients with azoospermia. For each of four rare variants predicted to potentially damage BRD7 function, we further identified these four variants in oligozoospermia and normozoospermia as well. However, no difference in the allele and genotype frequencies of rare variants were observed between cases with spermatogenic failure and controls with normozoospermia; the sperm products of variant carriers were similar to those of noncarriers. Moreover, similar distribution of the alleles, genotypes and haplotypes of seven tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (tagSNPs) was observed between the cases with azoospermia and oligozoospermia and controls with normozoospermia; associations of tagSNP-distinguished BRD7 alleles with sperm products were not identified. Conclusions The lack of an association of BRD7-linked rare and common variants with spermatogenic failure implied a limited contribution of the BRD7 gene to spermatogenic efficiency and susceptibility to male infertility in humans. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12610-021-00139-3.
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- Tianrong He
- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Genetics, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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Płoszaj T, Antosik K, Jakiel P, Zmysłowska A, Borowiec M. Screening for extremely rare pathogenic variants of monogenic diabetes using targeted panel sequencing. Endocrine 2021; 73:752-757. [PMID: 34019234 PMCID: PMC8325655 DOI: 10.1007/s12020-021-02753-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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AIMS Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is one of the rare monogenic forms of diabetes. To date, about 12 genes in the scientific literature are closely related to the occurrence of the disease phenotype. However, there is still a high prevalence of undiagnosed cases of so-called MODY-X whose genetic background is still unknown. METHODS We performed tNGS for 523 patients with suspected MODY. Next 357 selected patients, in whom no damaging variants were found in 12 major genes causing MODY, were screened for the presence of pathogenic variants in four candidate genes (MNX1, RFX6, NKX2.2, and NKX6.1). All data were generated in one tNGS sequencing reaction and confirmed by Sanger sequencing. RESULTS In total, we selected five potentially damaging variants, in eight patients, in RFX6, NKX2.2, and NKX6.1 genes. Four of them have never been described in literature before. The frequency of occurrence of two of them in the RFX6 gene significantly differed in relation to the healthy population. The analysis of segregation in the family did not reveal that they were the only cause of the disease phenotype. CONCLUSIONS The very-rare variants indicated in this study show that this type of research on large population groups may help in the future for better understanding and more accurate diagnostics of extremely rare forms of MODY.
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- Tomasz Płoszaj
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Medical University of Lodz, Pomorska 251, 92-213, Lodz, Poland.
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Medical University of Lodz, Pomorska 251, 92-213, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Medical University of Lodz, Pomorska 251, 92-213, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Medical University of Lodz, Pomorska 251, 92-213, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Medical University of Lodz, Pomorska 251, 92-213, Lodz, Poland
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Ma M, Li Z, Mohamed MA, Liu L, Wei X. Aortic root aortopathy in bicuspid aortic valve associated with high genetic risk. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2021; 21:413. [PMID: 34461831 PMCID: PMC8404252 DOI: 10.1186/s12872-021-02215-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Background The bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is prone to ascending aortic dilatation (AAD) involving both the tubular segment and the aortic root. The genetic factor was proposed as one of the most important mechanisms for AAD. We hypothesized that the rare genetic variants mainly contribute to the pathogenesis of aortic roots in affected individuals. Methods The diameter of aortic root or ascending aorta ≥ 40 mm was counted as AAD. The targeted next-generation sequencing of 13 BAV-associated genes were performed on a continuous cohort of 96 unrelated BAV patients. The rare variants with allele frequency < 0.05% were selected and analyzed. Variants frequency was compared against the Exome aggregation consortium database. The pathogenicity of the genetic variants was evaluated according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics guidelines. Results A total of 27 rare nonsynonymous coding variants involving 9 genes were identified in 25 individuals. The burden analysis revealed that variants in GATA5, GATA6, and NOTCH1 were significantly associated with BAV. Eighty percent of the pathogenic variants were detected in root group. The detection rate of rare variants was higher in root dilatation group (71.4%) compared with normal aorta (29.0%) and tubular dilatation groups (29.6%) (P = 0.018). The rare variant was identified as the independent risk factor of root dilatation [P = 0.014, hazard ratio = 23.9, 95% confidence interval (1.9–302.9)]. Conclusions Our results presented a broad genetic spectrum in BAV patients. The rare variants of BAV genes contribute the most to the root phenotype among BAV patients. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12872-021-02215-y.
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- Mingjia Ma
- Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095# Jiefang Ave., Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Cardiology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Genetic Diagnosis Center, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People's Republic of China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiologic Disorders, Wuhan, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095# Jiefang Ave., Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095# Jiefang Ave., Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095# Jiefang Ave., Wuhan, 430030, People's Republic of China.
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Flores-Contreras EA, García-Ortiz JE, Robles-Espinoza CD, Zomosa-Signoret V, Becerra-Solano LE, Vidaltamayo R, Castaneda-García C, Esparza-García E, Molina-Aguilar C, Hernández-Orozco AA, Córdova-Fletes C. Clinical Exome Sequencing Enables Congenital Sialidosis Type II Diagnosis in Two Siblings Presenting with Unreported Clinical Features from a Rare Homozygous Sequence Variant p.(Tyr370Cys) in NEU1. Mol Syndromol 2021; 12:250-257. [PMID: 34421504 DOI: 10.1159/000515081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Sialidosis is a rare autosomal recessive disease that presents with progressive lysosomal storage of sialylated glycopeptides and oligosaccharides caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous sequence variants in the neuraminidase 1 (NEU1) gene. These sequence variants can lead to sialidosis type I and II; the latter is the most severe and presents prenatally or at early age. However, sialidosis diagnosis is challenging, especially in those health systems with limited resources of developing countries. Consequently, it is necessary to dip into high-throughput molecular diagnostic tools to allow for an accurate diagnosis with better cost-effectiveness and turnaround time. We report a 4-member pedigree segregating an ultrarare missense variant, c.1109A>G; p.Tyr370Cys, in NEU1 as detected by whole-exome sequencing. Two short-lived siblings, who presented with previously unreported clinical features from such a homozygous sequence variant, were diagnosed with sialidosis type II. Additionally, we present a novel molecular model exhibiting the consequences of the variant in the sialidase-1 tridimensional structure. This study allowed us to provide a definitive diagnosis for our patients, increase our understanding of this pathogenic variant, and improve genetic counseling.
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- Elda Ariadna Flores-Contreras
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
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- División de Genética, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Occidente, CMNO-IMSS, Guadalajara, Mexico
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- Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.,Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
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- División de Ciencias Biomédicas, Departamento de Clínicas, CUALTOS Universidad de Guadalajara, Tepatitlán, Mexico
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- Department of Basic Science, School of Medicine, Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro GG, Mexico
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- Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
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- Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.,Centre of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
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- Departamento de Bioquímica y Medicina Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
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Brown KM, Xu M, Sargen M, Jang H, Zhang M, Zhang T, Zhu B, Jones K, Kim J, Mendoza L, Hayward NK, Tucker MA, Goldstein AM, Yang XR, Stewart DR, Hicks B, Consonni D, Pesatori AC, Fargnoli MC, Peris K, Stratigos A, Menin C, Ghiorzo P, Puig S, Nagore E, Andresson T, Nussinov R, Calista D, Landi MT; MelaNostrum Consortium. Novel MAPK/AKT-impairing germline NRAS variant identified in a melanoma-prone family. Fam Cancer 2021. [PMID: 34215961 DOI: 10.1007/s10689-021-00267-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 06/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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While several high-penetrance melanoma risk genes are known, variation in these genes fail to explain melanoma susceptibility in a large proportion of high-risk families. As part of a melanoma family sequencing study, including 435 families from Mediterranean populations we identified a novel NRAS variant (c.170A > C, p.D57A) in an Italian melanoma-prone family. This variant is absent in exomes in gnomAD, ESP, UKBiobank, and the 1000 Genomes Project, as well as in 11,273 Mediterranean individuals and 109 melanoma-prone families from the US and Australia. This variant occurs in the GTP-binding pocket of NRAS. Differently from other RAS activating alterations, NRAS D57A expression is unable to activate MAPK-pathway both constitutively and after stimulation but enhances EGF-induced PI3K-pathway signaling in serum starved conditions in vitro. Consistent with in vitro data demonstrating that NRAS D57A does not enrich GTP binding, molecular modeling suggests that the D57A substitution would be expected to impair Mg2 + binding and decrease nucleotide-binding and GTPase activity of NRAS. While we cannot firmly establish NRAS c.170A > C (p.D57A) as a melanoma susceptibility variant, further investigation of NRAS as a familial melanoma gene is warranted.
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Peng LS, Li ZM, Chen G, Liu FY, Luo Y, Guo JB, Gao GD, Deng YH, Xu LX, Zhou JY, Zou Y. Frequent DYSF rare variants/mutations in 152 Han Chinese samples with ovarian endometriosis. Arch Gynecol Obstet 2021; 304:671-677. [PMID: 33987686 DOI: 10.1007/s00404-021-06094-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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PURPOSE Endometriosis is a common chronic gynecological disease greatly affecting women health. Prior studies have implicated that dysferlin (DYSF) aberration might be involved in the pathogenesis of ovarian endometriosis. In the present study, we explore the potential presence of DYSF mutations in a total of 152 Han Chinese samples with ovarian endometriosis. METHODS We analyze the potential presence of DYSF mutations by direct DNA sequencing. RESULTS A total of seven rare variants/mutations in the DYSF gene in 10 out of 152 samples (6.6%) were identified, including 5 rare variants and 2 novel mutations. For the 5 rare variants, p.R334W and p.G941S existed in 2 samples, p.R865W, p.R1173H and p.G1531S existed in single sample, respectively; for the two novel mutations, p.W352* and p.I1642F, they were identified in three patients. These rare variants/mutations were absent or existed at extremely low frequency either in our 1006 local control women without endometriosis, or in the China Metabolic Analytics Project (ChinaMAP) and Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) databases. Evolutionary conservation analysis results suggested that all of these rare variants/mutations were evolutionarily conserved among 11 vertebrate species from Human to Fox. Furthermore, in silico analysis results suggested these rare variants/mutations were disease-causing. Nevertheless, we find no significant association between DYSF rare variants/mutations and the clinical features in our patients. To our knowledge, this is the first report revealing frequent DYSF mutations in ovarian endometriosis. CONCLUSION We identified a high frequency of DYSF rare variants/mutations in ovarian endometriosis for the first time. This study suggests a new correlation between DYSF rare variants/mutations and ovarian endometriosis, implicating DYSF rare variants/mutations might be positively involved in the pathogenesis of ovarian endometriosis.
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- Li-Sha Peng
- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.,Central Lab, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.,Central Lab, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.,Central Lab, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.,Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China. .,Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory of Women's Reproductive Health of Jiangxi Province, Department of Gynecology, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No 318 Bayi Avenue, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China. .,Central Lab, Jiangxi Provincial Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.
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Liu J, Hu C, Zhou J, Li B, Liao X, Liu S, Li Y, Yuan D, Jiang W, Yan J. RNF213 rare variants and cerebral arteriovenous malformation in a Chinese population. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2021; 203:106582. [PMID: 33706059 DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2021.106582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is characterised by an abnormal tangle of arteries and veins, the rupture of which is a significant portion of the morbidity and mortality cases, especially in young populations. However, the exact risk factors and pathophysiologic mechanisms of AVM remain poorly understood. RNF213 variants have been identified as obvious susceptible factors of several cerebrovascular disorders, such as Moyamoya disease and intracranial aneurysms. Thus, this study aimed to determine whether there is an association between RNF213 rare variants and AVM. METHODS The AVM group included 22 patients with AVM. The control group included 1007 samples from the GeneSky in-house database and 208 samples from the 1000 Genome Project of Chinese Han Population. Genomic DNA samples were extracted from the peripheral blood of the AVM patients, and targeted exome sequencing of RNF213 was performed to assess the existence of low-frequency or rare variants. Sanger sequencing was performed to validate the identified variants. Logistic regression analysis was performed to calculate the odds ratios (ORs) and 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) of the candidate variants and risk of AVM. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 21.0. RESULTS The RNF213 c.10997T>C variant (amino acid mutation p.M3666T, NM_001256071) was observed in two AVM patients after filtration. It was significantly associated with AVM in the Chinese population (ORs, 10.30 and 25.08; 95 %; CIs, 1.38-77.10 and 4.34-144.90 compared with 1000 Genome Project of Chinese Han Population and GeneSky in-house database, respectively). CONCLUSION Rare variants of RNF213 are associated with AVM in the Chinese population, suggesting the important role of RNF213 in AVM. Further studies are needed to verify these findings.
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- Junyu Liu
- Department of Neurosurgery, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurology, Hunan People's Hospital, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, XiangYa School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China; Changsha Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Changsha Eighth Hospital), Changsha, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, XiangYa School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China; The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, XiangYa School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China; Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, XiangYa School of Public Health, Central South University, Changsha, China.
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Fitzgerald J, Wilson C, Kelly C, Gallagher L. 'More than a box of puzzles': Understanding the parental experience of having a child with a rare genetic condition". Eur J Med Genet 2021; 64:104164. [PMID: 33571692 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2021.104164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 01/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Chromosomal microarray (CMA) testing has been adopted as the first-tier diagnostic test for developmental disabilities. However, determining the clinical significance of the results is often complex. This qualitative study seeks to explore parental interpretation, adaption and coping in the context of ambiguous rare genetic findings in order to support parental adjustment and wellbeing. METHODS In-depth interviews were conducted with parents (n = 30) of children identified with a rare genetic chromosomal abnormality. RESULTS Three major themes were identified following a thematic analysis: 'Learning of the Genetic Diagnosis', "The Reality of the Rarity' and 'Beyond Genetics: The Child Takes Centre Stage'. Findings demonstrated that parental adjustment to their child's genetic results are mediated by several factors including child difficulties and stage of development, clinician communication, perception of genetics, intrinsic coping strategies, access to practical and emotional support as well as broader contextual experiences. CONCLUSION This study highlights the importance of considering the parental perspective in the context of genetic testing in clinical practice.
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- School of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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- Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Trinity College Dublin; Linn Dara Regional CAMHS Network, Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin 10, Ballyfermot; Children Health Ireland at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24
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Chen L, Zhou Y. A fast and powerful aggregated Cauchy association test for joint analysis of multiple phenotypes. Genes Genomics 2021; 43:69-77. [PMID: 33432394 DOI: 10.1007/s13258-020-01034-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pleiotropy is a widespread phenomenon in complex human diseases. Jointly analyzing multiple phenotypes can improve power performance of detecting genetic variants and uncover the underlying genetic mechanism. OBJECTIVE This study aims to detect the association between genetic variants in a genomic region and multiple phenotypes. METHODS We develop the aggregated Cauchy association test to detect the association between rare variants in a genomic region and multiple phenotypes (abbreviated as "Multi-ACAT"). Multi-ACAT first detects the association between each rare variant and multiple phenotypes based on reverse regression and obtains variant-level p-values, then takes linear combination of transformed p-values as the test statistic which approximately follows Cauchy distribution under the null hypothesis. RESULTS Extensive simulation studies show that when the proportion of causal variants in a genomic region is extremely small, Multi-ACAT is more powerful than the other several methods and is robust to bi-directional effects of causal variants. Finally, we illustrate our proposed method by analyzing two phenotypes [systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP)] from Genetic Analysis Workshop 19 (GAW19). CONCLUSION The Multi-ACAT computes extremely fast, does not consider complex distributions of multiple correlated phenotypes, and can be applied to the case with noise phenotypes.
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- Lili Chen
- School of Mathematical Sciences, Heilongjiang University, No. 74 Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin, 150080, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, Heilongjiang University, No. 74 Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin, 150080, People's Republic of China.
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Jiang LT, Li LX, Liu Y, Zhang XL, Pan YG, Wang L, Wan XH, Jin LJ. The expanding clinical and genetic spectrum of ANO3 dystonia. Neurosci Lett 2021; 746:135590. [PMID: 33388357 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Dystonia is a movement disorder with high clinical and genetic heterogeneity. Mutations in Anoctamin-3 (ANO3) gene have been reported to cause dystonia 24 (DYT24). This study aims to clarify the spectrum and frequency of ANO3 rare variants in Chinese populations with primary dystonia and understand the clinical and genetic features of DYT24. METHODS Sanger sequencing was used to screen all exons and exon-intron boundaries of ANO3 for rare variants in 115 primary dystonia patients. The clinical manifestations of patients with ANO3 variants in our study and previously reported literatures were further characterized. RESULTS Four distinct variants of ANO3 (c.1127A > G, c.1235 T > A, c.1531-3T > C, c.-11G > T) were identified in six unrelated individuals. Combined with our work and literature review, a total of 35 different rare variants distributed in ANO3 were identified in 62 dystonia patients. The predominant phenotype is cranio-cervical dystonia and more than half of patients develop head/limb tremor. Most of patients presented with isolated dystonia whereas few of them showed combined dystonia. The age of onset ranged from 1 to 69 years and peaked in late adulthood, while for generalized dystonia it peaked in a young age. Half of patients with generalized dystonia experienced deep brain stimulation (DBS). And all of them showed improvement of dystonia by DBS. CONCLUSIONS This study confirms a relatively high frequency of rare ANO3 variants in Chinese patients with dystonia and indicates that the late adulthood-onset, cranio-cervical dystonia seems to be an important feature of the ANO3 phenotype. Further functional studies are warranted to understand the role of ANO3 in dystonia.
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Xiang Y, Xiang X, Li Y. Identifying rare variants for quantitative traits in extreme samples of population via Kullback-Leibler distance. BMC Genet 2020; 21:130. [PMID: 33234108 PMCID: PMC7687851 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-020-00951-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background The rapid development of sequencing technology and simultaneously the availability of large quantities of sequence data has facilitated the identification of rare variant associated with quantitative traits. However, existing statistical methods depend on certain assumptions and thus lacking uniform power. The present study focuses on mapping rare variant associated with quantitative traits. Results In the present study, we proposed a two-stage strategy to identify rare variant of quantitative traits using phenotype extreme selection design and Kullback-Leibler distance, where the first stage was association analysis and the second stage was fine mapping. We presented a statistic and a linkage disequilibrium measure for the first stage and the second stage, respectively. Theory analysis and simulation study showed that (1) the power of the proposed statistic for association analysis increased with the stringency of the sample selection and was affected slightly by non-causal variants and opposite effect variants, (2) the statistic here achieved higher power than three commonly used methods, and (3) the linkage disequilibrium measure for fine mapping was independent of the frequencies of non-causal variants and simply dependent on the frequencies of causal variants. Conclusions We conclude that the two-stage strategy here can be used effectively to mapping rare variant associated with quantitative traits.
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- Yang Xiang
- School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Huaihua University, Huaihua, Hunan, 418008, People's Republic of China.,Key Laboratory of Research and Utilization of Ethnomedicinal Plant Resources of Hunan Province, Huaihua University, Huaihua, 418008, China.,Key Laboratory of Hunan Higher Education for Western Hunan Medicinal Plant and Ethnobotany, Huaihua University, Huaihua, 418008, China
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, 410081, People's Republic of China
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- School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Huaihua University, Huaihua, Hunan, 418008, People's Republic of China. .,Key Laboratory of Research and Utilization of Ethnomedicinal Plant Resources of Hunan Province, Huaihua University, Huaihua, 418008, China. .,Key Laboratory of Hunan Higher Education for Western Hunan Medicinal Plant and Ethnobotany, Huaihua University, Huaihua, 418008, China.
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Alborzian Deh Sheikh A, Gomaa S, Li X, Routledge M, Saigoh K, Numoto N, Angata T, Hitomi Y, Takematsu H, Tsuiji M, Ito N, Kusunoki S, Tsubata T. A Guillain-Barré syndrome-associated SIGLEC10 rare variant impairs its recognition of gangliosides. J Autoimmun 2020; 116:102571. [PMID: 33223341 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2020.102571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Revised: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), including its variant Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS), is an acute peripheral neuropathy that involves autoimmune mechanisms leading to the production of autoantibodies to gangliosides; sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids. Although association with various genetic polymorphisms in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is shown in other autoimmune diseases, GBS is an exception, showing no such link. No significant association was found by genome wide association studies, suggesting that GBS is not associated with common variants. To address the involvement of rare variants in GBS, we analyzed Siglec-10, a sialic acid-recognizing inhibitory receptor expressed on B cells. Here we demonstrate that two rare variants encoding R47Q and A108V substitutions in the ligand-binding domain are significantly accumulated in patients with GBS. Because of strong linkage disequilibrium, there was no patient carrying only one of them. Recombinant Siglec-10 protein containing R47Q but not A108V shows impaired binding to gangliosides. Homology modeling revealed that the R47Q substitution causes marked alteration in the ligand-binding site. Thus, GBS is associated with a rare variant of the SIGLEC10 gene that impairs ligand binding of Siglec-10. Because Siglec-10 regulates antibody production to sialylated antigens, our finding suggests that Siglec-10 regulates development of GBS by suppressing antibody production to gangliosides, with defects in its function predisposing to disease.
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- Amin Alborzian Deh Sheikh
- Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Immunology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
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- Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Structural Biology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Microbiology, Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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- Faculty of Medical Technology, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Structural Biology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Liang S, Shi X, Yu C, Shao X, Zhou H, Li X, Chang C, Lai KS, Ma J, Zhang R. Identification of novel candidate genes in heterotaxy syndrome patients with congenital heart diseases by whole exome sequencing. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2020; 1866:165906. [PMID: 32738303 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2020.165906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Revised: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Heterotaxy syndrome (HS) involves dysfunction of multiple systems resulting from abnormal left-right (LR) body patterning. Most HS patients present with complex congenital heart diseases (CHD), the disability and mortality of HS patients are extremely high. HS has great heterogeneity in phenotypes and genotypes, which have rendered gene discovery challenging. The aim of this study was to identify novel genes that underlie pathogenesis of HS patients with CHD. Whole exome sequencing was performed in 25 unrelated HS cases and 100 healthy controls; 19 nonsynonymous variants in 6 novel candidate genes (FLNA, ITGA1, PCNT, KIF7, GLI1, KMT2D) were identified. The functions of candidate genes were further analyzed in zebrafish model by CRISPR/Cas9 technique. Genome-editing was successfully introduced into the gene loci of flna, kmt2d and kif7, but the phenotypes were heterogenous. Disruption of each gene disturbed normal cardiac looping while kif7 knockout had a more prominent effect on liver budding and pitx2 expression. Our results revealed three potential HS pathogenic genes with probably different molecular mechanisms.
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Background Population stratification is a known confounder of genome-wide association studies, as it can lead to false positive results. Principal component analysis (PCA) method is widely applied in the analysis of population structure with common variants. However, it is still unclear about the analysis performance when rare variants are used. Results We derive a mathematical expectation of the genetic relationship matrix. Variance and covariance elements of the expected matrix depend explicitly on allele frequencies of the genetic markers used in the PCA analysis. We show that inter-population variance is solely contained in K principal components (PCs) and mostly in the largest K-1 PCs, where K is the number of populations in the samples. We propose FPC, ratio of the inter-population variance to the intra-population variance in the K population informative PCs, and d2, sum of squared distances among populations, as measures of population divergence. We show analytically that when allele frequencies become small, the ratio FPC abates, the population distance d2 decreases, and portion of variance explained by the K PCs diminishes. The results are validated in the analysis of the 1000 Genomes Project data. The ratio FPC is 93.85, population distance d2 is 444.38, and variance explained by the largest five PCs is 17.09% when using with common variants with allele frequencies between 0.4 and 0.5. However, the ratio, distance and percentage decrease to 1.83, 17.83 and 0.74%, respectively, with rare variants of frequencies between 0.0001 and 0.01. Conclusions The PCA of population stratification performs worse with rare variants than with common ones. It is necessary to restrict the selection to only the common variants when analyzing population stratification with sequencing data.
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- Shengqing Ma
- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, 2 South Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710071, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, 2 South Taibai Road, Xi'an, 710071, Shaanxi, China.
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Li X, Liu J, Wang K, Zhou J, Zhang H, Zhang M, Shi Y. Polymorphisms and rare variants identified by next-generation sequencing confer risk for lung cancer in han Chinese population. Pathol Res Pract 2020; 216:152873. [PMID: 32107087 DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2020.152873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2019] [Revised: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death worldwide, and genetic risk factors account for a large part of its carcinogenesis. The low economic requirements and high efficiency of next-generation sequencing (NGS) make it widely used in detecting genetic alterations in pathogenesis. METHODS We performed targeted panel sequencing in 780 Han Chinese lung cancer patients using a commercial probe, and the correlations between dozens of susceptible sites were verified in 1113 healthy controls. This study used Fisher's exact test and Benjamini-Hochberg FDR correction to analyze the mutual exclusion between mutated genes, and Pearson's p was used to verify the correlations between mutations and lung cancer susceptibility. RESULTS Our results determined the mutation spectrum and showed that each lung cancer patient carried at least one DNA mutation. The most frequently mutated gene was BRCA2 (mutation rate,10.6 %.). The co-occurrence and mutual exclusion analysis of DNA damage related genes showed that gene ATM was mutually exclusive from MSH6. We conducted a further case-control study in different subtypes of lung cancer and the results described 14 mutations associated with adenocarcinoma, 9 with squamous cell carcinoma, and 4 with small cell lung cancer. These variants were novel de-novo germline mutations in lung cancer. Particularly, rs3864017 in FANCD2 showed a protective effect of lung adenocarcinoma for carriers (OR = 0.146, 95 % CI = 0.052∼0.405, Padjusted = 3.37 × 10-4). CONCLUSIONS 18 candidate mutations might alter the risk of lung cancer in the Han Chinese population, including polymorphisms rs3864017(FANCD2), rs55740729(MSH6) and 16 rare variants. The underlying mechanisms of candidate genes in lung cancer remain unclear and we suggest more functional studies on exploring how these genes affect the risk of lung cancer.
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- Xiaoqi Li
- Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Hospital, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- DYnastyGene Biotech Co. Ltd., Building 25, No.10688 Bei Qing Road, Qingpu District, Shanghai 201700, PR China
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- Bio-X Institutes, Key Laboratory for the Genetics of Developmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China.
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Ahluwalia TS, Schulz CA, Waage J, Skaaby T, Sandholm N, van Zuydam N, Charmet R, Bork-Jensen J, Almgren P, Thuesen BH, Bedin M, Brandslund I, Christensen CK, Linneberg A, Ahlqvist E, Groop PH, Hadjadj S, Tregouet DA, Jørgensen ME, Grarup N, Pedersen O, Simons M, Groop L, Orho-Melander M, McCarthy MI, Melander O, Rossing P, Kilpeläinen TO, Hansen T. A novel rare CUBN variant and three additional genes identified in Europeans with and without diabetes: results from an exome-wide association study of albuminuria. Diabetologia 2019; 62:292-305. [PMID: 30547231 PMCID: PMC6323095 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-018-4783-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Identifying rare coding variants associated with albuminuria may open new avenues for preventing chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease, which are highly prevalent in individuals with diabetes. Efforts to identify genetic susceptibility variants for albuminuria have so far been limited, with the majority of studies focusing on common variants. METHODS We performed an exome-wide association study to identify coding variants in a two-stage (discovery and replication) approach. Data from 33,985 individuals of European ancestry (15,872 with and 18,113 without diabetes) and 2605 Greenlanders were included. RESULTS We identified a rare (minor allele frequency [MAF]: 0.8%) missense (A1690V) variant in CUBN (rs141640975, β = 0.27, p = 1.3 × 10-11) associated with albuminuria as a continuous measure in the combined European meta-analysis. The presence of each rare allele of the variant was associated with a 6.4% increase in albuminuria. The rare CUBN variant had an effect that was three times stronger in individuals with type 2 diabetes compared with those without (pinteraction = 7.0 × 10-4, β with diabetes = 0.69, β without diabetes = 0.20) in the discovery meta-analysis. Gene-aggregate tests based on rare and common variants identified three additional genes associated with albuminuria (HES1, CDC73 and GRM5) after multiple testing correction (pBonferroni < 2.7 × 10-6). CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION The current study identifies a rare coding variant in the CUBN locus and other potential genes associated with albuminuria in individuals with and without diabetes. These genes have been implicated in renal and cardiovascular dysfunction. The findings provide new insights into the genetic architecture of albuminuria and highlight target genes and pathways for the prevention of diabetes-related kidney disease.
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- Tarunveer S Ahluwalia
- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Niels Steensens Vej 2, 2820, Gentofte, Denmark.
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Gentofte and Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Gentofte and Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Abdominal Center, Nephrology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Inserm UMR-S 1166, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris, Paris, France
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Paris Descartes University-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- Department of Clinical Immunology and Biochemistry, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
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- Center for Clinical Research and Prevention, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
- Abdominal Center, Nephrology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Programs Unit, Diabetes and Obesity, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Diabetes, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- L'institut du thorax, Department of Endocrinology, CIC 1413 INSERM, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France
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- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Niels Steensens Vej 2, 2820, Gentofte, Denmark
- National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Paris Descartes University-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Niels Steensens Vej 2, 2820, Gentofte, Denmark
- University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Schizophrenia is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder that affects 1% of the population. Genome-wide association studies have identified common variants in candidate genes associated with schizophrenia, but the genetics mechanisms of this disorder have not yet been elucidated. The discovery of rare genetic variants that contribute to schizophrenia symptoms promises to help explain the missing heritability of the disease. Next generation sequencing techniques are revolutionizing the field of psychiatric genetics. Various statistical approaches have been developed for rare variant association testing in case-control and family studies. Targeted resequencing, whole exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing combined with these computational tools are used for the discovery of rare genetic variations in schizophrenia. The findings provide useful information for characterizing the rare mutations and elucidating the genetic mechanisms by which the variants cause schizophrenia.
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- Raina Rhoades
- Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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Takatori S, Wang W, Iguchi A, Tomita T. Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer Disease: Emerging Roles of Microglia in Disease Pathomechanisms. Adv Exp Med Biol 2019; 1118:83-116. [PMID: 30747419 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05542-4_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The accumulation of aggregated amyloid β (Aβ) peptides in the brain is deeply involved in Alzheimer disease (AD) pathogenesis. Mutations in APP and presenilins play major roles in Aβ pathology in rare autosomal-dominant forms of AD, whereas pathomechanisms of sporadic AD, accounting for the majority of cases, remain unknown. In this chapter, we review current knowledge on genetic risk factors of AD, clarified by recent advances in genome analysis technology. Interestingly, TREM2 and many genes associated with disease risk are predominantly expressed in microglia, suggesting that these risk factors are involved in pathogenicity through common mechanisms involving microglia. Therefore, we focus on factors closely associated with microglia and discuss their possible roles in pathomechanisms of AD. Furthermore, we review current views on the pathological roles of microglia and emphasize the importance of microglial changes in response to Aβ deposition and mechanisms underlying the phenotypic changes. Importantly, functional outcomes of microglial activation can be both protective and deleterious to neurons. We further describe the involvement of microglia in tau pathology and the activation of other glial cells. Through these topics, we shed light on microglia as a promising target for drug development for AD and other neurological disorders.
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- Sho Takatori
- Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Smith JA, Kho M, Zhao W, Yu M, Mitchell C, Faul JD. Genetic effects and gene-by-education interactions on episodic memory performance and decline in an aging population. Soc Sci Med 2021; 271:112039. [PMID: 30449520 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.11.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2018] [Revised: 10/19/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Both social and genetic factors contribute to cognitive impairment and decline, yet genetic factors identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) explain only a small portion of trait variability. This "missing heritability" may be due to rare, potentially functional, genetic variants not assessed by GWAS, as well as gene-by-social factor interactions not explicitly modeled. Gene-by-social factor interactions may also operate differently across race/ethnic groups. We selected 39 genes that had significant, replicated associations with cognition, dementia, and related traits in published GWAS. Using gene-based analysis (SKAT/iSKAT), we tested whether common and/or rare variants were associated with episodic memory performance and decline either alone or through interaction with education in >10,000 European ancestry (EA) and >2200 African ancestry (AA) respondents from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Nine genes in EA and five genes in AA were associated with memory performance or decline (p < 0.05), and these effects did not attenuate after adjusting for education. Interaction between education and CLPTM1 on memory performance was significant in AA (p = 0.003; FDR-adjusted p = 0.038) and nominally significant in EA (p = 0.026). In both ethnicities, low memory performance was associated with CLPTM1 genotype (rs10416261) only for those with less than high school education, and effects persisted after adjusting for APOE ε4. For over 70% of gene-by-education interactions across the genome that were at least nominally significant in either ethnic group (p < 0.05), genetic effects were only observed for those with less than high school education. These results suggest that genetic effects on memory identified in this study are not mediated by education, but there may be important gene-by-education interactions across the genome, including in the broader APOE genomic region, which operate independently of APOE ε4. This work illustrates the importance of developing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches for integrating social and genomic data to study cognition across ethnic groups.
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Nieuwoudt C, Jones SJ, Brooks-Wilson A, Graham J. Simulating pedigrees ascertained for multiple disease-affected relatives. Source Code Biol Med 2018; 13:2. [PMID: 30356812 DOI: 10.1186/s13029-018-0069-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Background Studies that ascertain families containing multiple relatives affected by disease can be useful for identification of causal, rare variants from next-generation sequencing data. Results We present the R package SimRVPedigree, which allows researchers to simulate pedigrees ascertained on the basis of multiple, affected relatives. By incorporating the ascertainment process in the simulation, SimRVPedigree allows researchers to better understand the within-family patterns of relationship amongst affected individuals and ages of disease onset. Conclusions Through simulation, we show that affected members of a family segregating a rare disease variant tend to be more numerous and cluster in relationships more closely than those for sporadic disease. We also show that the family ascertainment process can lead to apparent anticipation in the age of onset. Finally, we use simulation to gain insight into the limit on the proportion of ascertained families segregating a causal variant. SimRVPedigree should be useful to investigators seeking insight into the family-based study design through simulation. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13029-018-0069-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Rodríguez-López J, Sobrino B, Amigo J, Carrera N, Brenlla J, Agra S, Paz E, Carracedo Á, Páramo M, Arrojo M, Costas J. Identification of putative second genetic hits in schizophrenia carriers of high-risk copy number variants and resequencing in additional samples. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2018; 268:585-592. [PMID: 28421333 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-017-0799-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Copy number variants (CNVs) conferring risk of schizophrenia present incomplete penetrance, suggesting the existence of second genetic hits. Identification of second hits may help to find genes with rare variants of susceptibility to schizophrenia. The aim of this work was to search for second hits of moderate/high risk in schizophrenia carriers of risk CNVs and resequencing of the relevant genes in additional samples. To this end, ten patients with risk CNVs at cytobands 15q11.2, 15q11.2-13.1, 16p11.2, or 16p13.11, were subjected to whole-exome sequencing. Rare single nucleotide variants, defined as those absent from main public databases, were classified according to bioinformatic prediction of pathogenicity by CADD scores. The average number of rare predicted pathogenic variants per sample was 13.6 (SD 2.01). Two genes, BFAR and SYNJ1, presented rare predicted pathogenic variants in more than one sample. Follow-up resequencing of these genes in 432 additional cases and 432 controls identified a significant excess of rare predicted pathogenic variants in case samples at SYNJ1. Taking into account its function in clathrin-mediated synaptic vesicle endocytosis at presynaptic terminals, our results suggest an impairment of this process in schizophrenia.
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- Julio Rodríguez-López
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Servizo de Psiquiatría, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Servizo de Psiquiatría, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Servizo de Psiquiatría, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Servizo de Psiquiatría, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Servizo de Psiquiatría, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela, Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IDIS) de Santiago de Compostela, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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Podliesna S, Delanne J, Miller L, Tester DJ, Uzunyan M, Yano S, Klerk M, Cannon BC, Khongphatthanayothin A, Laurent G, Bertaux G, Falcon-Eicher S, Wu S, Yen HY, Gao H, Wilde AAM, Faivre L, Ackerman MJ, Lodder EM, Bezzina CR. Supraventricular tachycardias, conduction disease, and cardiomyopathy in 3 families with the same rare variant in TNNI3K (p.Glu768Lys). Heart Rhythm 2018; 16:98-105. [PMID: 30010057 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2018.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Rare genetic variants in TNNI3K encoding troponin-I interacting kinase have been linked to a distinct syndrome consisting primarily of supraventricular tachycardias and variably expressed conduction disturbance and dilated cardiomyopathy in 2 families. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to identify new genetic variants associated with inherited supraventricular tachycardias, cardiac conduction disease, and cardiomyopathy. METHODS We conducted next generation sequencing in 3 independent multigenerational families with atrial/junctional tachycardia with or without conduction disturbance, dilated cardiomyopathy, and sudden death. We also assessed the effect of identified variant on protein autophosphorylation. RESULTS In this study, we uncovered the same ultra-rare genetic variant in TNNI3K (c.2302G>A, p.Glu768Lys), which co-segregated with disease features in all affected individuals (n = 23) from all 3 families. TNNI3K harboring the TNNI3K-p.Glu768Lys variant displayed enhanced kinase activity, in line with expectations from previous mouse studies that demonstrated increased conduction indices and procardiomyopathic effects with increased levels of Tnni3k. CONCLUSION This study corroborates further the causal link between rare genetic variation in TNNI3K and this distinct complex phenotype, and points to enhanced kinase activity of TNNI3K as the underlying pathobiological mechanism.
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- Svitlana Podliesna
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Heart Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- USC Keck School of Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine (Division of Heart Rhythm Services), Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine (Division of Pediatric Cardiology), and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- USC Keck School of Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- USC Keck School of Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Heart Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine (Division of Heart Rhythm Services), Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine (Division of Pediatric Cardiology), and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- USC Keck School of Medicine, LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Bangkok General Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Centre de compétence pour les troubles du rythme cardiaque d'origine génétique, CHU Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France; Service de rythmologie Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Le Bocage 2, Dijon, France
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- Centre de compétence pour les troubles du rythme cardiaque d'origine génétique, CHU Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Centre de compétence pour les troubles du rythme cardiaque d'origine génétique, CHU Dijon-Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Fulgent Genetics, Temple City, California
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Heart Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Princess Al-Jawhara Al-Brahim Centre of Excellence in Research of Hereditary Disorders, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Centre de Génétique, Hôpital d'Enfants, Dijon, France; Equipe GAD, UMR1231, FHU TRANSLAD et Institut GIMI, CHU Dijon-Bourgogne et Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Dijon, France
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- Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine (Division of Heart Rhythm Services), Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine (Division of Pediatric Cardiology), and Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Heart Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Heart Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Murphy MM, Lindsey Burrell T, Cubells JF, España RA, Gambello MJ, Goines KCB, Klaiman C, Li L, Novacek DM, Papetti A, Sanchez Russo RL, Saulnier CA, Shultz S, Walker E, Mulle JG. Study protocol for The Emory 3q29 Project: evaluation of neurodevelopmental, psychiatric, and medical symptoms in 3q29 deletion syndrome. BMC Psychiatry 2018; 18:183. [PMID: 29884173 PMCID: PMC5994080 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-018-1760-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND 3q29 deletion syndrome is caused by a recurrent hemizygous 1.6 Mb deletion on the long arm of chromosome 3. The syndrome is rare (1 in 30,000 individuals) and is associated with mild to moderate intellectual disability, increased risk for autism and anxiety, and a 40-fold increased risk for schizophrenia, along with a host of physical manifestations. However, the disorder is poorly characterized, the range of manifestations is not well described, and the underlying molecular mechanism is not understood. We designed the Emory 3q29 Project to document the range of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric manifestations associated with 3q29 deletion syndrome. We will also create a biobank of samples from our 3q29 deletion carriers for mechanistic studies, which will be a publicly-available resource for qualified investigators. The ultimate goals of our study are three-fold: first, to improve management and treatment of 3q29 deletion syndrome. Second, to uncover the molecular mechanism of the disorder. Third, to enable cross-disorder comparison with other rare genetic syndromes associated with neuropsychiatric phenotypes. METHODS We will ascertain study subjects, age 6 and older, from our existing registry ( 3q29deletion.org ). Participants and their families will travel to Atlanta, GA for phenotypic assessments, with particular emphasis on evaluation of anxiety, cognitive ability, autism symptomatology, and risk for psychosis via prodromal symptoms and syndromes. Evaluations will be performed using standardized instruments. Structural, diffusion, and resting-state functional MRI data will be collected from eligible study participants. We will also collect blood from the 3q29 deletion carrier and participating family members, to be banked at the NIMH Repository and Genomics Resource (NRGR). DISCUSSION The study of 3q29 deletion has the potential to transform our understanding of complex disease. Study of individuals with the deletion may provide insights into long term care and management of the disorder. Our project describes the protocol for a prospective study of the behavioral and clinical phenotype associated with 3q29 deletion syndrome. The paradigm described here could easily be adapted to study additional CNV or single gene disorders with high risk for neuropsychiatric phenotypes, and/or transferred to other study sites, providing a means for data harmonization and cross-disorder analysis.
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- Melissa M. Murphy
- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA ,0000 0004 0371 6071grid.428158.2Marcus Autism Center, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA ,Emory Autism Center, 1551 Shoup Court, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA ,0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 12 Executive Park Drive, 2nd floor, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Psychology, Emory University, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 12 Executive Park Drive, 2nd floor, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA ,0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Psychology, Emory University, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA ,0000 0004 0371 6071grid.428158.2Marcus Autism Center, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA ,0000 0004 0371 6071grid.428158.2Marcus Autism Center, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Psychology, Emory University, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA ,0000 0004 0371 6071grid.428158.2Marcus Autism Center, 1920 Briarcliff Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- 0000 0001 0941 6502grid.189967.8Department of Psychology, Emory University, 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Suite 300, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA. .,Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
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Ryu S, Han J, Norden-Krichmar TM, Schork NJ, Suh Y. Effective discovery of rare variants by pooled target capture sequencing: A comparative analysis with individually indexed target capture sequencing. Mutat Res 2018; 809:24-31. [PMID: 29677560 PMCID: PMC5962423 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2018.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
Identification of all genetic variants associated with complex traits is one of the most important goals in modern human genetics. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been successfully applied to identify common variants, which thus far explain only small portion of heritability. Interests in rare variants have been increasingly growing as an answer for this missing heritability. While next-generation sequencing allows detection of rare variants, its cost is still prohibitively high to sequence a large number of human DNA samples required for rare variant association studies. In this study, we evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of sequencing for pooled DNA samples of multiple individuals (Pool-seq) as a cost-effective and robust approach for rare variant discovery. We comparatively analyzed Pool-seq vs. individual-seq of indexed target capture of up to 960 genes in ∼1000 individuals, followed by independent genotyping validation studies. We found that Pool-seq was as effective and accurate as individual-seq in detecting rare variants and accurately estimating their minor allele frequencies (MAFs). Our results suggest that Pool-seq can be used as an efficient and cost-effective method for discovery of rare variants for population-based sequencing studies in individual laboratories.
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Affiliation(s)
- Seungjin Ryu
- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
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