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Uniparental disomy determined by whole-exome sequencing in a spectrum of rare motoneuron diseases and ataxias.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The genetic causes of many rare inherited motoneuron diseases and ataxias (MND and ATX) remain largely unresolved, especially for sporadic patients, despite tremendous advances in gene discovery. Whole exome data is often available for patients, but it is rarely evaluated for unusual inheritance patterns, such as uniparental disomy (UPD). UPD is the inheritance of two copies of a chromosomal region from one parent, which may generate homozygosity for a deleterious recessive variant from only one carrier-parent. Detection of UPD-caused homozygous disease-causing variants is detrimental to accurate genetic counseling. Whole-exome sequencing can allow for the detection of such events.

Methods

We systematically studied the exomes of a phenotypically heterogeneous cohort of unresolved cases (n = 96 families) to reveal UPD events hindering a diagnosis and to evaluate the prevalence of UPD in recessive MND and ATX.

Results

One hereditary spastic paraplegia case harbored homozygous regions spanning 80% of chromosome 16. A homozygous disease-causing mutation in the SPG35 disease gene was then identified within this region.

Conclusion

This study demonstrates the ability to detect UPD in exome data of index patients. Our results suggest that UPD is a rare mechanism for recessive MND and ATX.

SUBMITTER: Bis DM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5441426 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Uniparental disomy determined by whole-exome sequencing in a spectrum of rare motoneuron diseases and ataxias.

Bis Dana M DM Schüle Rebecca R Reichbauer Jennifer J Synofzik Matthis M Rattay Tim W TW Soehn Anne A de Jonghe Peter P Schöls Ludger L Züchner Stephan S

Molecular genetics & genomic medicine 20170405 3

<h4>Background</h4>The genetic causes of many rare inherited motoneuron diseases and ataxias (MND and ATX) remain largely unresolved, especially for sporadic patients, despite tremendous advances in gene discovery. Whole exome data is often available for patients, but it is rarely evaluated for unusual inheritance patterns, such as uniparental disomy (UPD). UPD is the inheritance of two copies of a chromosomal region from one parent, which may generate homozygosity for a deleterious recessive va ...[more]

PMID: 28546998

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Project description:OBJECTIVE: To review all cases with segmental and/or complex uniparental disomy (UPD), to study aetiology and mechanisms of formation, and to draw conclusions. DESIGN: Searching published reports in Medline. RESULTS: The survey found at least nine cases with segmental UPD and a normal karyotype, 22 cases with UPD of a whole chromosome and a simple or a non-homologous Robertsonian translocation, eight cases with UPD and two isochromosomes, one of the short arm and one of the long arm of a non-acrocentric chromosome, 39 cases with UPD and an isochromosome of the long arm of two homologous acrocentric chromosomes, one case of UPD and an isochromosome 8 associated with a homozygous del(8)(p23.3pter), and 21 cases with UPD of a whole or parts of a chromosome associated with a complex karyotype. Segmental UPD is formed by somatic recombination (isodisomy) or by trisomy rescue. In the latter mechanism, a meiosis I error is associated with meiotic recombination and an additional somatic exchange between two non-uniparental chromatids. Subsequently, the chromatid that originated from the disomic gamete is lost (iso- and heterodisomy). In cases of UPD associated with one isochromosome of the short arm and one isochromosome of the long arm of a non-acrocentric chromosome and in cases of UPD associated with a true isochromosome of an acrocentric chromosome, mitotic complementation is assumed. This term describes the formation by misdivision at the centromere during an early mitosis of a monosomic zygote. In cases of UPD associated with an additional marker chromosome, either mitotic formation of the marker chromosome in a trisomic zygote or fertilisation of a gamete with a marker chromosome formed in meiosis by a disomic gamete or by a normal gamete and subsequent duplication are possible. CONCLUSIONS: Research in the field of segmental and/or complex UPD may help to explain undiagnosed non-Mendelian disorders, to recognise hotspots for meiotic and mitotic recombinations, and to show that chromosomal segregation is more complex than previously thought. It may also be helpful to map autosomal recessively inherited genes, genes/regions of genomic imprinting, and dysmorphic phenotypes. Last but not least it would improve genetic counselling.

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Uniparental disomy determined by whole-exome sequencing in a spectrum of rare motoneuron diseases and ataxias.

Background

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Publications

Uniparental disomy determined by whole-exome sequencing in a spectrum of rare motoneuron diseases and ataxias.

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