Intragenic and structural variation in the SMN locus and clinical variability in spinal muscular atrophy.

Autor:	Wadman RI; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Jansen MD; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Stam M; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Wijngaarde CA; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Curial CAD; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Medic J; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Sodaar P; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Schouten J; MRC Holland BV, 1057 DL Amsterdam, the Netherlands., Vijzelaar R; MRC Holland BV, 1057 DL Amsterdam, the Netherlands., Lemmink HH; Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands., van den Berg LH; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., Groen EJN; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands., van der Pol WL; UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CX Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Brain communications [Brain Commun] 2020 Jun 08; Vol. 2 (2), pp. fcaa075. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 08 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI:	10.1093/braincomms/fcaa075
Abstrakt:	Clinical severity and treatment response vary significantly between patients with spinal muscular atrophy. The approval of therapies and the emergence of neonatal screening programmes urgently require a more detailed understanding of the genetic variants that underlie this clinical heterogeneity. We systematically investigated genetic variation other than SMN2 copy number in the SMN locus. Data were collected through our single-centre, population-based study on spinal muscular atrophy in the Netherlands, including 286 children and adults with spinal muscular atrophy Types 1-4, including 56 patients from 25 families with multiple siblings with spinal muscular atrophy. We combined multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification, Sanger sequencing, multiplexed targeted resequencing and digital droplet polymerase chain reaction to determine sequence and expression variation in the SMN locus. SMN1 , SMN2 and NAIP gene copy number were determined by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification. SMN2 gene variant analysis was performed using Sanger sequencing and RNA expression analysis of SMN by droplet digital polymerase chain reaction. We identified SMN1 - SMN2 hybrid genes in 10% of spinal muscular atrophy patients, including partial gene deletions, duplications or conversions within SMN1 and SMN2 genes. This indicates that SMN2 copies can vary structurally between patients, implicating an important novel level of genetic variability in spinal muscular atrophy. Sequence analysis revealed six exonic and four intronic SMN2 variants, which were associated with disease severity in individual cases. There are no indications that NAIP1 gene copy number or sequence variants add value in addition to SMN2 copies in predicting the clinical phenotype in individual patients with spinal muscular atrophy. Importantly, 95% of spinal muscular atrophy siblings in our study had equal SMN2 copy numbers and structural changes (e.g. hybrid genes), but 60% presented with a different spinal muscular atrophy type, indicating the likely presence of further inter- and intragenic variabilities inside as well as outside the SMN locus. SMN2 gene copies can be structurally different, resulting in inter- and intra-individual differences in the composition of SMN1 and SMN2 gene copies. This adds another layer of complexity to the genetics that underlie spinal muscular atrophy and should be considered in current genetic diagnosis and counselling practices. (© The Author(s) (2020). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Guarantors of Brain.)
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