Project description:Background: Mental Retardation occurs with the prevalence of 2%-3% of general population. Molecular karyotyping by 1-Mb resolution microarray revealed that pathological genomic imbalances were found in 14%-20% of MR. Aim: The aim of this study is to find the submicroscopic rearrangements in patient with MR using the custom BAC microarray (probe spacing at 0.75 Mb throughout the human genome). Conclusion: We identified approximate 2.0-Mb deletion on 9q33.3-q34.11 in a female with MR (Patient 1). Keywords: array CGH
Project description:Mental retardation (MR) is a non-progressive cognitive impairment affecting 2 to 3% of the Western population. So far, point mutations and subtle deletions and insertions have been shown to represent only a proportion (<40%) of genetic causes underlying X-linked mental retardation (XLMR). We have screened a subset of 300 presumable X-linked families by X chromosome-specific array-CGH and identified 6 families with overlapping microduplications at Xp11.22 containing two candidate genes; both of which showed overexpression in the affected individuals. Array-CGH data revealed aberrant Cy5/Cy3 log2 ratios for different but overlapping sets of clones indicating varying sizes of these duplications in the different families. X chromosome-specific array-CGH performed for probands of families A, FAM3, B, MRX17, C, MRX31, and D, A057, revealing the duplications at Xp11.22. DNA from two unrelated MR patients were differentially labeled and co-hybridized onto the X-array. The patients with duplications were hybridized in Cy5 against unrelated MR patients, named Pat XY1-6, in the Cy3 channel.
Project description:Mental retardation (MR) is a non-progressive cognitive impairment affecting 2 to 3% of the Western population. So far, point mutations and subtle deletions and insertions have been shown to represent only a proportion (<40%) of genetic causes underlying X-linked mental retardation (XLMR). We have screened a subset of 300 presumable X-linked families by X chromosome-specific array-CGH and identified 6 families with overlapping microduplications at Xp11.22 containing two candidate genes; both of which showed overexpression in the affected individuals. Array-CGH data revealed aberrant Cy5/Cy3 log2 ratios for different but overlapping sets of clones indicating varying sizes of these duplications in the different families. Keywords: comparative genomic hybridization
Project description:Autism and mental retardation (MR) are often associated, suggesting that these conditions are etiologically related. Recently, array-based comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) has identified submicroscopic deletions and duplications as a common cause of MR. This prompted us to search for such genomic imbalances in autism and related disorders. Here we describe a 1.5 Mb duplication on chromosome 16p13.1, found in four autistic male patients from three families and several variably affected and unaffected relatives. A deletion of the same interval was identified in three unrelated patients with MR and other clinical abnormalities. Duplications and deletions of this interval have not been described before, neither as copy number variants in the Database of Genomic Variants nor in >600 individuals from other cohorts examined by high resolution array CGH in our laboratory. Thus, this is the first description of a recurrent genomic imbalance predisposing to autism and/or MR. Keywords: array CGH
Project description:This series represent the data set belonging to the publication by de Vries et al. Diagnostic genome profiling in mental retardation. American Journal of Human Genetics, vol 77: 606-616 (2005). In this study 100 patients with unexplained mental retardation were analyzed for DNA copy-number changes using a tiling-resolution genomewide microarray containing 32,447 BACs. Keywords: CGH
Project description:Gene expression in blood of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was studied. Transcriptional profiles were compared with age and gender matched, typically developing children from the general population (GP) or IQ matched children with mental retardation or developmental delay (MR/DD). Experiment Overall Design: Transcriptional profiles were compared with age and gender matched, typically developing children from the general population (GP) or IQ matched children with mental retardation or developmental delay (MR/DD)
Project description:Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a rare multiple congenital anomalies/mental retardation (MCA/MR) syndrome described in 19811,2. In 2010, exome sequencing identified MLL2 mutations in patients with KS3. Since then, 5 studies identified a mutation in MLL2 in 56-75,6% of KS patients3-7. Here, we describe 2 KS and 1 KS-like patient with a de novo partial or complete deletion of UTX, a histone demethylase interacting with MLL2 in gene regulation. UTX locates on the X chromosome and we showed that the X chromosome with the deleted copy of UTX is preferentially inactivated despite the fact that UTX escapes X-inactivation. This study unveiled deletion of UTX as a second cause of KS and highlights the growing role of histone methylase/demethylase in MCA/MR syndrome. Two patients were analysed by Agilent array CGH 244K (AMADID: 014693) Three patients DNA were analyzed by CGH on custom targeted array 44K (AMADID: 032482). Two of them were initially analyzed using 244K Whole genome Arrays (AMADID: 014693). One third patient was selected given suspicion of deletion in one of the targeted gene (KDM6A) as amplification of some exons performed in our lab to sequence this gene failed.