Case Report: The third-generation sequencing confirmed a novel 7.2Kb deletion at β-globin gene in a patient with rare β-thalassemia.

Autor: Guoxing Zhong, Zeyan Zhong, Zhiyang Guan, Dina Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Kunxiang Yang, Dan Chen, Yinyin Liu, Ruofan Xu, Jianhong Chen
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Genetics; 9/12/2022, Vol. 13, p1-5, 5p
Abstrakt: Background: Thalassemia was the most common monogenic diseases worldwide, which was caused by mutations, deletions or duplications in human globin genes which disturbed the synthesis balance between α- and ß-globin chains of hemoglobin. There were many classics methods to diagnose thalassemia, but all of them had limitations. Although variations in the human β-globin gene cluster were mainly point mutations, novel large deletions had been described in recent years along with the development of DNA sequencing technology. Case report: We present a case of 32-year-old male with abnormal hematological results. However, 23 genotypes of the most common thalassemia were not detected by two independent conventional platforms. Finally, using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA), thirdgeneration sequencing (TGS) and Gap PCR detection methods, we first confirmed the case with a novel 7.2 Kb deletion (Chr11:5222800-5230034, hg38) located at HBB gene. Conclusion: Our results showed that TGS technology was a powerful tool for thalassemia breakpoint detection, had promising potentiality in genetic screening of novel thalassemia, especially for the novel deletions in globin genes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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