Genome sequencing identifies multiple deleterious variants in autism patients with more severe phenotypes.

Autor: Guo H; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.; Center for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China., Duyzend MH; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Coe BP; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Baker C; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Hoekzema K; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Gerdts J; Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Turner TN; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Zody MC; New York Genome Center (NYGC), New York, NY, USA., Beighley JS; Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Murali SC; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Nelson BJ; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Bamshad MJ; Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Nickerson DA; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA., Bernier RA; Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA., Eichler EE; Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA. eee@gs.washington.edu.; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. eee@gs.washington.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics [Genet Med] 2019 Jul; Vol. 21 (7), pp. 1611-1620. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Dec 03.
DOI: 10.1038/s41436-018-0380-2
Abstrakt: Purpose: To maximize the discovery of potentially pathogenic variants to better understand the diagnostic utility of genome sequencing (GS) and to assess how the presence of multiple risk events might affect the phenotypic severity in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Methods: GS was applied to 180 simplex and multiplex ASD families (578 individuals, 213 patients) with exome sequencing and array comparative genomic hybridization further applied to a subset for validation and cross-platform comparisons.
Results: We found that 40.8% of patients carried variants with evidence of disease risk, including a de novo frameshift variant in NR4A2 and two de novo missense variants in SYNCRIP, while 21.1% carried clinically relevant pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants. Patients with more than one risk variant (9.9%) were more severely affected with respect to cognitive ability compared with patients with a single or no-risk variant. We observed no instance among the 27 multiplex families where a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant was transmitted to all affected members in the family.
Conclusion: The study demonstrates the diagnostic utility of GS, especially for multiple risk variants that contribute to the phenotypic severity, shows the genetic heterogeneity in multiplex families, and provides evidence for new genes for follow up.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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