Uniparental disomy of chromosome 16 unmasks recessive mutations of FA2H/SPG35 in 4 families

Autor: Montserrat Ruiz, Stephan Züchner, Anne S. Soehn, Tim W. Rattay, Aurora Pujol, David Monk, Konstanze Hörtnagel, Olaf Riess, Marion Döbler-Neumann, Peter Bauer, Stefanie Beck-Wödl, Karin Schäferhoff, Agatha Schlüter, Ludger Schöls, Rebecca Schüle
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
congenital
hereditary
and neonatal diseases and abnormalities

genetics [Heredodegenerative Disorders
Nervous System]

Adolescent
Hereditary spastic paraplegia
Genetic counseling
Mutation
Missense

Biology
medicine.disease_cause
Article
Mixed Function Oxygenases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Chromosome 16
Genotype
medicine
Malalties hereditàries
Humans
Missense mutation
Family
ddc:610
fatty acid alpha-hydroxylase
Child
Genetics
Paraplegia
Mutation
Uniparental Disomy
genetics [Mixed Function Oxygenases]
medicine.disease
Uniparental disomy
030104 developmental biology
Codon
Nonsense

Heredodegenerative Disorders
Nervous System

Microsatellite
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Genetic disorders
Chromosomes
Human
Pair 16

030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Microsatellite Repeats
Zdroj: Dipòsit Digital de la UB
Universidad de Barcelona
Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
instname
Neurology 87(2), 186-191 (2016). doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000002843
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002843
Popis: Objective: Identifying an intriguing mechanism for unmasking recessive hereditary spastic paraplegias. Method: Herein, we describe 4 novel homozygous FA2H mutations in 4 nonconsanguineous families detected by whole-exome sequencing or a targeted gene panel analysis providing high coverage of all known hereditary spastic paraplegia genes. Results: Segregation analysis revealed in all cases only one parent as a heterozygous mutation carrier whereas the other parent did not carry FA2H mutations. A macro deletion within FA2H , which could have caused a hemizygous genotype, was excluded by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification in all cases. Finally, a microsatellite array revealed uniparental disomy (UPD) in all 4 families leading to homozygous FA2H mutations. UPD was confirmed by microarray analyses and methylation profiling. Conclusion: UPD has rarely been described as causative mechanism in neurodegenerative diseases. Of note, we identified this mode of inheritance in 4 families with the rare diagnosis of spastic paraplegia type 35 (SPG35). Since UPD seems to be a relevant factor in SPG35 and probably additional autosomal recessive diseases, we recommend segregation analysis especially in nonconsanguineous homozygous index cases to unravel UPD as mutational mechanism. This finding may bear major repercussion for genetic counseling, given the markedly reduced risk of recurrence for affected families.
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