Project description:Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most frequent birth defect and affects nearly 1% of newborns. The etiology of CHD is largely unknown and only a small percentage can be assigned to environmental risk factors such as maternal diseases or exposure to mutagenic agents during pregnancy. Chromosomal imbalances have been identified in many forms of syndromic CHD, but next to nothing is known about the impact of DNA copy number changes in non-syndromic CHD. Here we present a sub-megabase resolution array CGH screen of a cohort with CHD as the sole abnormality at the time of diagnosis. Keywords: array CGH In this BAC array CGH study 104 patients with congenital heart disease and some of their parents were screened for DNA copy number changes at submegabase resolution. No dye swap was performed.
Project description:Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most frequent birth defect and affects nearly 1% of newborns. The etiology of CHD is largely unknown and only a small percentage can be assigned to environmental risk factors such as maternal diseases or exposure to mutagenic agents during pregnancy. Chromosomal imbalances have been identified in many forms of syndromic CHD, but next to nothing is known about the impact of DNA copy number changes in non-syndromic CHD. Here we present a sub-megabase resolution array CGH screen of a cohort with CHD as the sole abnormality at the time of diagnosis. Keywords: array CGH
Project description:Accurate and efficient DNA synthesis is an essential function of replicating cells. Mutations in replisome components lead to a number of syndromic diseases including immunodeficiencies. Dumbbell former 4 (DBF4) is the regulatory subunit of the DBF4-dependent kinase (DDK) which is essential for the activation of replication origins. We here studied a patient with severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) and syndromic features without a genetic diagnosis. We identified a private homozygous mutation in DBF4 (CADD 25.8 with a DBF4-specific MSC of 3.13) in a patient with SCN. The DBF4 mutant is normally expressed in stimulated PBMCs and dermal fibroblasts, but has a decreased CDC7-binding capacity in overexpression assays. DDK-specific phosphorylation of MCM2 was decreased in stimulated PBMCs with accumulation of CDK inhibitor p21, a G0 cell cycle arrest and impaired proliferation. Serum-starved fibroblasts showed a similar cell cycle phenotype but no p21 accumulation and normal MCM2 phosphorylation. In vitro differentiation of primary CD34+ cells recapitulated the SCN phenotype observed in vivo and was associated with a 4-fold increase in p21 gene expression. Single cell RNA sequencing of whole bone marrow revealed upregulation of p53 targets and activation of the PERK pathway of the unfolded protein response. Autosomal recessive functional DBF4 deficiency causes SCN with syndromic features.
Project description:We used Affymetrix CytoScan750K array to detect the pathogenic copy number variations in 7 Chinese children with congenital heart disease