Complex genomic rearrangements at the PLP1 locus include triplication and quadruplication.

Autor: Christine R Beck, Claudia M B Carvalho, Linda Banser, Tomasz Gambin, Danielle Stubbolo, Bo Yuan, Karen Sperle, Suzanne M McCahan, Marco Henneke, Pavel Seeman, James Y Garbern, Grace M Hobson, James R Lupski
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: PLoS Genetics, Vol 11, Iss 3, p e1005050 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1553-7390
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005050
Popis: Inverted repeats (IRs) can facilitate structural variation as crucibles of genomic rearrangement. Complex duplication-inverted triplication-duplication (DUP-TRP/INV-DUP) rearrangements that contain breakpoint junctions within IRs have been recently associated with both MECP2 duplication syndrome (MIM#300260) and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD, MIM#312080). We investigated 17 unrelated PMD subjects with copy number gains at the PLP1 locus including triplication and quadruplication of specific genomic intervals-16/17 were found to have a DUP-TRP/INV-DUP rearrangement product. An IR distal to PLP1 facilitates DUP-TRP/INV-DUP formation as well as an inversion structural variation found frequently amongst normal individuals. We show that a homology-or homeology-driven replicative mechanism of DNA repair can apparently mediate template switches within stretches of microhomology. Moreover, we provide evidence that quadruplication and potentially higher order amplification of a genomic interval can occur in a manner consistent with rolling circle amplification as predicted by the microhomology-mediated break induced replication (MMBIR) model.
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