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Mate pair sequencing for the detection of chromosomal aberrations in patients with intellectual disability and congenital malformations.

ABSTRACT: Recently, microarrays have replaced karyotyping as a first tier test in patients with idiopathic intellectual disability and/or multiple congenital abnormalities (ID/MCA) in many laboratories. Although in about 14-18% of such patients, DNA copy-number variants (CNVs) with clinical significance can be detected, microarrays have the disadvantage of missing balanced rearrangements, as well as providing no information about the genomic architecture of structural variants (SVs) like duplications and complex rearrangements. Such information could possibly lead to a better interpretation of the clinical significance of the SV. In this study, the clinical use of mate pair next-generation sequencing was evaluated for the detection and further characterization of structural variants within the genomes of 50 ID/MCA patients. Thirty of these patients carried a chromosomal aberration that was previously detected by array CGH or karyotyping and suspected to be pathogenic. In the remaining 20 patients no causal SVs were found and only benign aberrations were detected by conventional techniques. Combined cluster and coverage analysis of the mate pair data allowed precise breakpoint detection and further refinement of previously identified balanced and (complex) unbalanced aberrations, pinpointing the causal gene for some patients. We conclude that mate pair sequencing is a powerful technology that can provide rapid and unequivocal characterization of unbalanced and balanced SVs in patient genomes and can be essential for the clinical interpretation of some SVs.

SUBMITTER: Vergult S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3992577 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mate pair sequencing for the detection of chromosomal aberrations in patients with intellectual disability and congenital malformations.

Vergult Sarah S Van Binsbergen Ellen E Sante Tom T Nowak Silke S Vanakker Olivier O Claes Kathleen K Poppe Bruce B Van der Aa Nathalie N van Roosmalen Markus J MJ Duran Karen K Tavakoli-Yaraki Masoumeh M Swinkels Marielle M van den Boogaard Marie-José MJ van Haelst Mieke M Roelens Filip F Speleman Frank F Cuppen Edwin E Mortier Geert G Kloosterman Wigard P WP Menten Björn B

European journal of human genetics : EJHG 20131009 5

Recently, microarrays have replaced karyotyping as a first tier test in patients with idiopathic intellectual disability and/or multiple congenital abnormalities (ID/MCA) in many laboratories. Although in about 14-18% of such patients, DNA copy-number variants (CNVs) with clinical significance can be detected, microarrays have the disadvantage of missing balanced rearrangements, as well as providing no information about the genomic architecture of structural variants (SVs) like duplications and ...[more]

PMID: 24105367

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Project description:Comparative genomic hybridization microarrays (array CGH or molecular karyotyping) for the detection of congenital chromosomal aberrations is the application of microarray technology that is coming fastest into routine clinical application. When using a two-channel microarray of genomic DNA probes for array CGH, the basic setup consists in hybridizing a patient sample against a normal reference sample and detecting copy number variations through the deviation of fluorescent signal intensity between patient and normal reference. Two major disadvantages of this setup are (1) the use of half of the resources to measure a (little informative) reference sample and (2) the possibility that deviating signals are caused by benign copy number variation in the ânormalâ reference instead of a patient aberration. We therefore propose a new experimental loop design that compares three patients in three hybridizations (Patient 1 vs. Patient 3, Patient 3 vs. Patient 2, and Patient 2 vs. Patient 1). We develop and compare two statistical methods (linear models of log ratios and mixed models of absolute measurements). In an analysis of data from 27 patients seen at our genetics center, this new setup together with the linear model analysis significantly overcomes the limitations of the classical setup. Furthermore, we observed that the linear models of the log-ratios had a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the mixed models of the absolute intensities. These improvements are important to guarantee a maximal efficiency of array CGH in a clinical setting and will therefore contribute to its quick adoption as a routine diagnostic tool. The method is implemented as a web application and is available at www.esat.kuleuven.be/loop. Keywords: comparative genomic hybridization The data set consists out of nine loop designs or 27 patients with mental retardation (MR) and multiple congenital anomalies (MCA). The patients were seen at our genetics center (Center for Human Genetics, U.Z.Leuven).

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Mate pair sequencing for the detection of chromosomal aberrations in patients with intellectual disability and congenital malformations.

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Mate pair sequencing for the detection of chromosomal aberrations in patients with intellectual disability and congenital malformations.

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