Project description:10 patients with Intellectual Disability diagnosed with a clinically relevant copy number change, selected to assess the dection performance of alternative platforms. 10 Affymetrix arrays were performed according to the manufacturer's directions on DNA extracted from peripheral blood samples.
Project description:10 patients with Intellectual Disability diagnosed with a clinically relevant copy number change, selected to assess the dection performance of alternative platforms.
Project description:Mate pair sequencing for the detection of balanced and unbalanced chromosomal aberrations in patients with intellectual disability and congenital malformations
Project description:Intellectual disability (ID) is a clinically important disease and a most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder. The etiology and pathogenesis of ID are poorly recognized. Exome sequencing revealed a homozygous missense mutation in the POLR3B gene in a consanguineous family with three Intellectual disability with craniofacal anomalies patients. POLR3B gene encoding the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase III. To explore how genetic variants alter cell expression in ID patients, RNA sequencing on blood samples was performed and to obtain insights into the biological pathways influenced by POLR3B mutation, we applied our RNA-Seq data to several gene ontology programs such as ToppGene, Enrichr, KEGG. We detected a significant decrease expression of several spliceosomal RNAs, ribosomal proteins and transcription factors in our ID patients. We hypothesize that POLR3B mutation dysregulates the expression of some important transcription factors, ribosomal and spliceosomal genes and impairments in protein synthesis and splicing mediated in part by transcription factors such as FOXC2, GATA1, .. contribute to impaired neuronal function and concurrence of intellectual disability and craniofacial anomalies in our patients. Our study highlights the emerging role of spliceosome and ribosomal proteins in intellectual disability.
