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Rare Mendelian Disease in Old Order Amish and Mennonite Patients

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The Clinic for Special Children (CSC) has integrated biochemical and molecular methods into a rural pediatric practice serving Old Order Amish and Mennonite (Plain) children. Among the Plain people, we have used single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) microarrays to genetically map recessive disorders to large autozygous haplotype blocks (mean = 4.4 Mb) that contain many genes (mean = 79). For some, uninformative mapping or large gene lists preclude disease-gene identification by Sanger sequencing. Seven such conditions were selected for exome sequencing at the Broad Institute; all had been previously mapped at the CSC using low density SNP microarrays coupled with autozygosity and linkage analyses. Using between 1 and 5 patient samples per disorder, we identified sequence variants in the known disease-causing genes SLC6A3 and FLVCR1, and present evidence to strongly support the pathogenicity of variants identified in TUBGCP6, BRAT1, SNIP1, CRADD, and HARS. Our results reveal the power of coupling new genotyping technologies to population-specific genetic knowledge and robust clinical data.

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A homozygous missense mutation in HERC2 associated with global developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder.

Puffenberger Erik G EG Jinks Robert N RN Wang Heng H Xin Baozhong B Fiorentini Christopher C Sherman Eric A EA Degrazio Dominick D Shaw Calvin C Sougnez Carrie C Cibulskis Kristian K Gabriel Stacey S Kelley Richard I RI Morton D Holmes DH Strauss Kevin A KA

Human mutation 20121201 12

We studied a unique phenotype of cognitive delay, autistic behavior, and gait instability segregating in three separate sibships. We initiated genome-wide mapping in two sibships using Affymetrix 10K SNP Mapping Arrays and identified a homozygous 8.2 Mb region on chromosome 15 common to five affected children. We used exome sequencing of two affected children to assess coding sequence variants within the mapped interval. Four novel homozygous exome variants were shared between the two patients; ...[more]

PMID: 23065719

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Rare Mendelian Disease in Old Order Amish and Mennonite Patients

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A homozygous missense mutation in HERC2 associated with global developmental delay and autism spectrum disorder.

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