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1. Copy-number analysis from genome sequencing data of 11,754 rare-disease parent-child trios: A model for identifying autosomal recessive human gene knockouts including a novel gene for autosomal recessive retinopathy

Author: Eric Olinger, Ian J. Wilson, Sarah Orr, Miguel Barroso-Gil, Ruxandra Neatu, Denize Atan, John A. Sayer, John C. Ambrose, Prabhu Arumugam, Roel Bevers, Marta Bleda, Freya Boardman-Pretty, Christopher R. Boustred, Helen Brittain, Mark J. Caulfield, Georgia C. Chan, Greg Elgar, Tom Fowler, Adam Giess, Angela Hamblin, Shirley Henderson, Tim J.P. Hubbard, Rob Jackson, Louise J. Jones, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Melis Kayikci, Athanasios Kousathanas, Lea Lahnstein, Sarah E.A. Leigh, Ivonne U.S. Leong, Javier F. Lopez, Fiona Maleady-Crowe, Meriel McEntagart, Federico Minneci, Loukas Moutsianas, Michael Mueller, Nirupa Murugaesu, Anna C. Need, Peter O’Donovan, Chris A. Odhams, Christine Patch, Mariana Buongermino Pereira, Daniel Perez-Gil, John Pullinger, Tahrima Rahim, Augusto Rendon, Tim Rogers, Kevin Savage, Kushmita Sawant, Richard H. Scott, Afshan Siddiq, Alexander Sieghart, Samuel C. Smith, Alona Sosinsky, Alexander Stuckey, Mélanie Tanguy, Ana Lisa Taylor Tavares, Ellen R.A. Thomas, Simon R. Thompson, Arianna Tucci, Matthew J. Welland, Eleanor Williams, Katarzyna Witkowska, and Suzanne M. Wood
Subjects: CNV analysis, Genome sequencing, NPHP1, Retinopathy, SLC66A1, Genetics, QH426-470, Medicine
Abstract: Purpose: In parent-child trios with genome sequencing data, we investigated inherited biallelic deletions to identify known and novel genetic disorders. Methods: We developed a copy-number variations analysis pipeline based on autosomal genome sequencing read depth of Genomics England 100,000 Genomes Project data from 11,754 parent-child trios and additional 18,875 non-trios. A control cohort of 15,440 cancer patients provided independent deletion frequencies. Results: Autosomal recessive (AR) modeling detected 34 distinct rare deletions that were homozygous in the proband and heterozygous in both parents. These inherited biallelic deletions were only detected in 52 trios. These “knockout” regions included 37 genes, having among them 8 with an Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man AR annotation. Deletions of NPHP1, followed by OTOA, both within segmental duplications, were the only recurrent findings explaining phenotypes in a total of 10 and 3 patients, respectively. Recurrent heterozygous NPHP1 deletions were detected in 0.3%-0.5% of controls. We reviewed “knockout” patients for the remaining 29 genes without disease associations and identified SLC66A1 as a likely novel cause for AR rod-cone dystrophy in 4 families. Conclusion: A tailored copy-number variations analysis of genome sequencing trio data shows that biallelic inherited gene deletions are rare, with NPHP1 biallelic deletions causing nephronophthisis the leading finding. We propose SLC66A1 as a novel cause for AR retinopathy.
Published: 2024
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2. Developing a National Newborn Genomes Program: An Approach Driven by Ethics, Engagement and Co-design

Author: Amanda Pichini, Arzoo Ahmed, Christine Patch, David Bick, Mathilde Leblond, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Dasha Deen, Simon Wilde, Sofia Garcia Noriega, Christella Matoko, Alice Tuff-Lacey, Chris Wigley, and Richard H. Scott
Subjects: newborn screening, whole genome sequencing, rare diseases, public health, ethics, public engagement, Genetics, QH426-470
Abstract: The transformative potential of whole genome sequencing (WGS) as a diagnostic tool in healthcare has been demonstrated by initiatives including the 100,000 Genomes Project and is now offered to certain patients in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Building on these foundations, the utility of WGS in the newborn period can now be explored. Genomics England is working in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement and other healthcare, patient and public interest groups to design a research program embedded in the NHS to explore the potential challenges and implications of offering WGS in all newborns. The program will aim to: 1) evaluate the feasibility, utility and impact on the NHS of screening for childhood-onset rare actionable genetic conditions; 2) understand how, with consent, genomic and healthcare data could be used to enable research to develop new diagnostics and treatments; and 3) explore the implications of storing an individual’s genome for use over their lifetime. Recognizing the important practical, scientific and ethical questions that we must explore in dialogue with the public and experts, we are taking a collaborative, evidence-based and ethically deliberate approach to designing the program. An iterative co-design process including a nationwide public dialogue has identified emergent themes and ethical considerations which are the focus of the program’s design. These themes will be further developed through continued engagement with healthcare professionals, researchers, ethics experts, patient groups and the public, with an ongoing commitment to embedding ongoing ethics research and co-design into the delivery of the program.
Published: 2022
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3. Newborn Screening by Genomic Sequencing: Opportunities and Challenges

Author: David Bick, Arzoo Ahmed, Dasha Deen, Alessandra Ferlini, Nicolas Garnier, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Mathilde Leblond, Amanda Pichini, Augusto Rendon, Aditi Satija, Alice Tuff-Lacey, and Richard H. Scott
Subjects: newborn, screening, genome, sequencing, Pediatrics, RJ1-570
Abstract: Newborn screening for treatable disorders is one of the great public health success stories of the twentieth century worldwide. This commentary examines the potential use of a new technology, next generation sequencing, in newborn screening through the lens of the Wilson and Jungner criteria. Each of the ten criteria are examined to show how they might be applied by programmes using genomic sequencing as a screening tool. While there are obvious advantages to a method that can examine all disease-causing genes in a single assay at an ever-diminishing cost, implementation of genomic sequencing at scale presents numerous challenges, some which are intrinsic to screening for rare disease and some specifically linked to genomics-led screening. In addition to questions specific to routine screening considerations, the ethical, communication, data management, legal, and social implications of genomic screening programmes require consideration.
Published: 2022
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4. MECOM-associated syndrome: a heterogeneous inherited bone marrow failure syndrome with amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia

Author: Manuela Germeshausen, Phil Ancliff, Jaime Estrada, Markus Metzler, Eva Ponstingl, Horst Rütschle, Dirk Schwabe, Richard H. Scott, Sule Unal, Angela Wawer, Bernward Zeller, and Matthias Ballmaier
Subjects: Specialties of internal medicine, RC581-951
Abstract: Abstract: Heterozygous mutations in MECOM (MDS1 and EVI1 complex locus) have been reported to be causative of a rare association of congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia and radioulnar synostosis. Here we report on 12 patients with congenital hypomegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia caused by MECOM mutations (including 10 novel mutations). The mutations affected different functional domains of the EVI1 protein. The spectrum of phenotypes was much broader than initially reported for the first 3 patients; we found familial as well as sporadic cases, and the clinical spectrum ranged from isolated radioulnar synostosis with no or mild hematological involvement to severe bone marrow failure without obvious skeletal abnormality. The clinical picture included radioulnar synostosis, bone marrow failure, clinodactyly, cardiac and renal malformations, B-cell deficiency, and presenile hearing loss. No single clinical manifestation was detected in all patients affected by MECOM mutations. Radioulnar synostosis and B-cell deficiency were observed only in patients with mutations affecting a short region in the C-terminal zinc finger domain of EVI1. We propose the term MECOM-associated syndrome for this heterogeneous hereditary disease and inclusion of MECOM sequencing in the diagnostic workup of congenital bone marrow failure.
Published: 2018
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5. MED27, SLC6A7, and MPPE1 variants in a complex neurodevelopmental disorder with severe dystonia

Author: Kimberley M. Reid, Robert Spaull, Smrithi Salian, Katy Barwick, Esther Meyer, Juan Zhen, Hiromi Hirata, Diba Sheipouri, Hind Benkerroum, Kathleen M. Gorman, Apostolos Papandreou, Michael A. Simpson, Yoshinobu Hirano, Irene Farabella, Maya Topf, Detelina Grozeva, Keren Carss, Martin Smith, Hardev Pall, Peter Lunt, Susanna De Gressi, Erik‐Jan Kamsteeg, Tobias B. Haack, Lucinda Carr, Rita Guerreiro, Jose Bras, Eamonn R. Maher, Richard H. Scott, Robert J. Vandenberg, F. Lucy Raymond, Wui K. Chong, Sniya Sudhakar, Kshitij Mankad, Maarten E. Reith, Philippe M. Campeau, Robert J. Harvey, and Manju A. Kurian
Subjects: MPPE1, Movement Disorders, MED27, Proline, SLC6A7, Dystonia, Neurology, Dystonic Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Animals, RNA, Neurology (clinical), Status dystonicus, Zebrafish
Abstract: BackgroundDespite advances in next generation sequencing technologies, the identification of variants of uncertain significance (VUS) can often hinder definitive diagnosis in patients with complex neurodevelopmental disorders.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to identify and characterize the underlying cause of disease in a family with two children with severe developmental delay associated with generalized dystonia and episodic status dystonicus, chorea, epilepsy, and cataracts.MethodsCandidate genes identified by autozygosity mapping and whole-exome sequencing were characterized using cellular and vertebrate model systems.ResultsHomozygous variants were found in three candidate genes: MED27, SLC6A7, and MPPE1. Although the patients had features of MED27-related disorder, the SLC6A7 and MPPE1 variants were functionally investigated. SLC6A7 variant in vitro overexpression caused decreased proline transport as a result of reduced cell-surface expression, and zebrafish knockdown of slc6a7 exhibited developmental delay and fragile motor neuron morphology that could not be rescued by L-proline transporter–G396S RNA. Lastly, patient fibroblasts displayed reduced cell-surface expression of glycophosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins linked to MPPE1 dysfunction.ConclusionsWe report a family harboring a homozygous MED27 variant with additional loss-of-function SLC6A7 and MPPE1 gene variants, which potentially contribute to a blended phenotype caused by multilocus pathogenic variants. © 2022 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
Published: 2022
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6. SOX11 variants cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with infrequent ocular malformations and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and with distinct DNA methylation profile

Author: Reem Al-Jawahiri, Aidin Foroutan, Jennifer Kerkhof, Haley McConkey, Michael Levy, Sadegheh Haghshenas, Kathleen Rooney, Jasmin Turner, Debbie Shears, Muriel Holder, Henrietta Lefroy, Bruce Castle, Linda M. Reis, Elena V. Semina, Katherine Lachlan, Kate Chandler, Thomas Wright, Jill Clayton-Smith, Franziska Phan Hug, Nelly Pitteloud, Lucia Bartoloni, Sabine Hoffjan, Soo-Mi Park, Ajay Thankamony, Melissa Lees, Emma Wakeling, Swati Naik, Britta Hanker, Katta M. Girisha, Emanuele Agolini, Zampino Giuseppe, Ziegler Alban, Marine Tessarech, Boris Keren, Alexandra Afenjar, Christiane Zweier, Andre Reis, Thomas Smol, Yoshinori Tsurusaki, Okamoto Nobuhiko, Futoshi Sekiguchi, Naomi Tsuchida, Naomichi Matsumoto, Ikuyo Kou, Yoshiro Yonezawa, Shiro Ikegawa, Bert Callewaert, Megan Freeth, Lotte Kleinendorst, Alan Donaldson, Marielle Alders, Anne De Paepe, Bekim Sadikovic, Alisdair McNeill, Deborah Nickerson, Michael Bamshad, Suzanne Leal, John C. Ambrose, Prabhu Arumugam, Roel Bevers, Marta Bleda, Freya Boardman-Pretty, Christopher R. Boustred, Helen Brittain, Mark J. Caulfield, Georgia C. Chan, Greg Elgar, Tom Fowler, Adam Giess, Angela Hamblin, Shirley Henderson, Tim J.P. Hubbard, Rob Jackson, Louise J. Jones, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Melis Kayikci, Athanasios Kousathanas, Lea Lahnstein, Sarah E.A. Leigh, Ivonne U.S. Leong, Javier F. Lopez, null FionaMaleady-Crowe, Meriel McEntagart, Federico Minneci, Loukas Moutsianas, Michael Mueller, Nirupa Murugaesu, Anna C. Need, Peter O’Donovan, Chris A. Odhams, Christine Patch, Mariana Buongermino Pereira, Daniel Perez-Gil, John Pullinger, null TahrimaRahim, Augusto Rendon, null TimRogers, Kevin Savage, Kushmita Sawant, Richard H. Scott, Afshan Siddiq, Alexander Sieghart, Samuel C. Smith, Alona Sosinsky, Alexander Stuckey, Mélanie Tanguy, Ana Lisa Taylor Tavares, Ellen R.A. Thomas, Simon R. Thompson, Arianna Tucci, Matthew J. Welland, Eleanor Williams, Katarzyna Witkowska, Suzanne M. Wood, Human Genetics, AGEM - Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, and ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis
Subjects: EXPRESSION, MUTATIONS, FEATURES, Hypogonadism, disorder, DNA Methylation, Genome sequencing, Methylation, Article, SOXC Transcription Factors, Klinefelter Syndrome, Phenotype, Neurodevelopmental disorder, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Exome Sequencing, SOX11, Medicine and Health Sciences, Neurodevelopmental, Humans, Exome, Genetics (clinical)
Abstract: Purpose: This study aimed to undertake a multidisciplinary characterization of the phenotype associated with SOX11 variants. Methods: Individuals with protein altering variants in SOX11 were identified through exome and genome sequencing and international data sharing. Deep clinical phenotyping was undertaken by referring clinicians. Blood DNA methylation was assessed using Infinium MethylationEPIC array. The expression pattern of SOX11 in developing human brain was defined using RNAscope. Results: We reported 38 new patients with SOX11 variants. Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism was confirmed as a feature of SOX11 syndrome. A distinctive pattern of blood DNA methylation was identified in SOX11 syndrome, separating SOX11 syndrome from other BAFopathies. Conclusion: SOX11 syndrome is a distinct clinical entity with characteristic clinical features and episignature differentiating it from BAFopathies. (C) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Published: 2022

7. An online compendium of treatable genetic disorders

Author: Richard H Scott, David P. Bick, David Dimmock, Sarah L Bick, Tom Fowler, and Mark J. Caulfield
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Computer science, Health Personnel, Inheritance Patterns, Disease, 030105 genetics & heredity, World Wide Web, 03 medical and health sciences, Rare Diseases, genetic diseases, Health care, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Genetics (clinical), Research Articles, Internet, Point (typography), treatment, business.industry, Mechanism (biology), Genetic disorder, mobile application, medicine.disease, Compendium, 030104 developmental biology, The Internet, business, Mobile device, Research Article
Abstract: More than 4,000 genes have been associated with recognizable Mendelian/monogenic diseases. When faced with a new diagnosis of a rare genetic disorder, health care providers increasingly turn to internet resources for information to understand the disease and direct care. Unfortunately, it can be challenging to find information concerning treatment for rare diseases as key details are scattered across a number of authoritative websites and numerous journal articles. The website and associated mobile device application described in this article begin to address this challenge by providing a convenient, readily available starting point to find treatment information. The site, Rx-genes.com (https://www.rx-genes.com/), is focused on those conditions where the treatment is directed against the mechanism of the disease and thereby alters the natural history of the disease. The website currently contains 633 disease entries that include references to disease information and treatment guidance, a brief summary of treatments, the inheritance pattern, a disease frequency (if known), nonmolecular confirmatory testing (if available), and a link to experimental treatments. Existing entries are continuously updated, and new entries are added as novel treatments appear in the literature.
Published: 2020

8. Whole genome sequencing for the diagnosis of neurological repeat expansion disorders in the UK: a retrospective diagnostic accuracy and prospective clinical validation study

Author: Kristina Ibañez, James Polke, R Tanner Hagelstrom, Egor Dolzhenko, Dorota Pasko, Ellen Rachel Amy Thomas, Louise C Daugherty, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Katherine R Smith, Zandra C Deans, Sue Hill, Tom Fowler, Richard H Scott, John Hardy, Patrick F Chinnery, Henry Houlden, Augusto Rendon, Mark J Caulfield, Michael A Eberle, Ryan J Taft, Arianna Tucci, Ellen M McDonagh, Antonio Rueda, Dimitris Polychronopoulos, Georgia Chan, Heather Angus-Leppan, Kailash P Bhatia, James E Davison, Richard Festenstein, Pietro Fratta, Paola Giunti, Robin Howard, Laxmi Venkata, Matilde Laurá, Meriel McEntagart, Lara Menzies, Huw Morris, Mary M Reilly, Robert Robinson, Elisabeth Rosser, Francesca Faravelli, Anette Schrag, Jonathan M Schott, Thomas T Warner, Nicholas W Wood, David Bourn, Kelly Eggleton, Robyn Labrum, Philip Twiss, Stephen Abbs, Liana Santos, Ghareesa Almheiri, Isabella Sheikh, Jana Vandrovcova, Christine Patch, Ana Lisa Taylor Tavares, Zerin Hyder, Anna Need, Helen Brittain, Emma Baple, Loukas Moutsianas, Viraj Deshpande, Denise L Perry, Subramanian S. Ajay, Aditi Chawla, Vani Rajan, Kathryn Oprych, Angela Douglas, Gill Wilson, Sian Ellard, I Karen Temple, Andrew Mumford, Dom McMullan, Kikkeri Naresh, Frances A Flinter, Jenny C Taylor, Lynn Greenhalgh, William Newman, Paul Brennan, John A Sayer, F Lucy Raymond, Lyn S Chitty, John C. Ambrose, Prabhu Arumugam, Marta Bleda, Freya Boardman-Pretty, Jeanne M. Boissiere, Christopher R. Boustred, Clare E.H. Craig, Anna de Burca, Andrew Devereau, Greg Elgar, Rebecca E. Foulger, Pedro Furió-Tarí, Joanne Hackett, Dina Halai, Angela Hamblin, Shirley Henderson, James Holman, Tim J.P. Hubbard, Rob Jackson, Louise J. Jones, Melis Kayikci, Lea Lahnstein, Kay Lawson, Sarah E.A. Leigh, Ivonne U.S. Leong, Javier F. Lopez, Fiona Maleady-Crowe, Joanne Mason, Michael Mueller, Nirupa Murugaesu, Chris A. Odhams, Daniel Perez-Gil, John Pullinger, Tahrima Rahim, Pablo Riesgo-Ferreiro, Tim Rogers, Mina Ryten, Kevin Savage, Kushmita Sawant, Afshan Siddiq, Alexander Sieghart, Damian Smedley, Alona Sosinsky, William Spooner, Helen E. Stevens, Alexander Stuckey, Razvan Sultana, Simon R. Thompson, Carolyn Tregidgo, Emma Walsh, Sarah A. Watters, Matthew J. Welland, Eleanor Williams, Katarzyna Witkowska, Suzanne M. Wood, and Magdalena Zarowiecki
Subjects: Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein, DNA Repeat Expansion, Whole Genome Sequencing, Whole Genome Sequencing/methods, Humans, Neurology (clinical), Prospective Studies, Child, Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein/genetics, State Medicine, United Kingdom, Retrospective Studies
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Repeat expansion disorders affect about 1 in 3000 individuals and are clinically heterogeneous diseases caused by expansions of short tandem DNA repeats. Genetic testing is often locus-specific, resulting in underdiagnosis of people who have atypical clinical presentations, especially in paediatric patients without a previous positive family history. Whole genome sequencing is increasingly used as a first-line test for other rare genetic disorders, and we aimed to assess its performance in the diagnosis of patients with neurological repeat expansion disorders.METHODS: We retrospectively assessed the diagnostic accuracy of whole genome sequencing to detect the most common repeat expansion loci associated with neurological outcomes (AR, ATN1, ATXN1, ATXN2, ATXN3, ATXN7, C9orf72, CACNA1A, DMPK, FMR1, FXN, HTT, and TBP) using samples obtained within the National Health Service in England from patients who were suspected of having neurological disorders; previous PCR test results were used as the reference standard. The clinical accuracy of whole genome sequencing to detect repeat expansions was prospectively examined in previously genetically tested and undiagnosed patients recruited in 2013-17 to the 100 000 Genomes Project in the UK, who were suspected of having a genetic neurological disorder (familial or early-onset forms of ataxia, neuropathy, spastic paraplegia, dementia, motor neuron disease, parkinsonian movement disorders, intellectual disability, or neuromuscular disorders). If a repeat expansion call was made using whole genome sequencing, PCR was used to confirm the result.FINDINGS: The diagnostic accuracy of whole genome sequencing to detect repeat expansions was evaluated against 793 PCR tests previously performed within the NHS from 404 patients. Whole genome sequencing correctly classified 215 of 221 expanded alleles and 1316 of 1321 non-expanded alleles, showing 97·3% sensitivity (95% CI 94·2-99·0) and 99·6% specificity (99·1-99·9) across the 13 disease-associated loci when compared with PCR test results. In samples from 11 631 patients in the 100 000 Genomes Project, whole genome sequencing identified 81 repeat expansions, which were also tested by PCR: 68 were confirmed as repeat expansions in the full pathogenic range, 11 were non-pathogenic intermediate expansions or premutations, and two were non-expanded repeats (16% false discovery rate).INTERPRETATION: In our study, whole genome sequencing for the detection of repeat expansions showed high sensitivity and specificity, and it led to identification of neurological repeat expansion disorders in previously undiagnosed patients. These findings support implementation of whole genome sequencing in clinical laboratories for diagnosis of patients who have a neurological presentation consistent with a repeat expansion disorder.FUNDING: Medical Research Council, Department of Health and Social Care, National Health Service England, National Institute for Health Research, and Illumina.
Published: 2022
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9. Clinical and Functional Characterization of the Recurrent TUBA1A p.(Arg2His) Mutation

Author: Jennifer F. Gardner, Thomas D. Cushion, Georgios Niotakis, Heather E. Olson, P. Ellen Grant, Richard H. Scott, Neil Stoodley, Julie S. Cohen, Sakkubai Naidu, Tania Attie-Bitach, Maryse Bonnières, Lucile Boutaud, Férechté Encha-Razavi, Sheila M. Palmer-Smith, Hood Mugalaasi, Jonathan G. L. Mullins, Daniela T. Pilz, and Andrew E. Fry
Subjects: TUBA1A, tubulin, p.(Arg2His), R2H, tubulinopathy, polymicrogyria, cerebellar hypoplasia, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
Abstract: The TUBA1A gene encodes tubulin alpha-1A, a protein that is highly expressed in the fetal brain. Alpha- and beta-tubulin subunits form dimers, which then co-assemble into microtubule polymers: dynamic, scaffold-like structures that perform key functions during neurogenesis, neuronal migration, and cortical organisation. Mutations in TUBA1A have been reported to cause a range of brain malformations. We describe four unrelated patients with the same de novo missense mutation in TUBA1A, c.5G>A, p.(Arg2His), as found by next generation sequencing. Detailed comparison revealed similar brain phenotypes with mild variability. Shared features included developmental delay, microcephaly, hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, dysplasia or thinning of the corpus callosum, small pons, and dysmorphic basal ganglia. Two of the patients had bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria. We examined the effects of the p.(Arg2His) mutation by computer-based protein structure modelling and heterologous expression in HEK-293 cells. The results suggest the mutation subtly impairs microtubule function, potentially by affecting inter-dimer interaction. Based on its sequence context, c.5G>A is likely to be a common recurrent mutation. We propose that the subtle functional effects of p.(Arg2His) may allow for other factors (such as genetic background or environmental conditions) to influence phenotypic outcome, thus explaining the mild variability in clinical manifestations.
Published: 2018
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10. Evaluating the performance of a clinical genome sequencing program for diagnosis of rare genetic disease, seen through the lens of craniosynostosis

Author: Zerin Hyder, Eduardo Calpena, Yang Pei, Rebecca S. Tooze, Helen Brittain, Stephen R.F. Twigg, Deirdre Cilliers, Jenny E.V. Morton, Emma McCann, Astrid Weber, Louise C. Wilson, Andrew G.L. Douglas, Ruth McGowan, Anna Need, Andrew Bond, Ana Lisa Taylor Tavares, Ellen R.A. Thomas, John C. Ambrose, Prabhu Arumugam, Roel Bevers, Marta Bleda, Christopher R. Boustred, Georgia C. Chan, Greg Elgar, Tom Fowler, Adam Giess, Angela Hamblin, Shirley Henderson, Tim J.P. Hubbard, Rob Jackson, Louise J. Jones, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Melis Kayikci, Athanasios Kousathanas, Lea Lahnstein, Sarah E.A. Leigh, Ivonne U.S. Leong, Javier F. Lopez, Fiona Maleady-Crowe, Meriel McEntagart, Federico Minneci, Loukas Moutsianas, Michael Mueller, Nirupa Murugaesu, Peter O’Donovan, Chris A. Odhams, Christine Patch, Mariana Buongermino Pereira, Daniel Perez-Gil, John Pullinger, Tahrima Rahim, Augusto Rendon, Tim Rogers, Kevin Savage, Kushmita Sawant, Afshan Siddiq, Alexander Sieghart, Samuel C. Smith, Alona Sosinsky, Alexander Stuckey, Mélanie Tanguy, Simon R. Thompson, Arianna Tucci, Matthew J. Welland, Eleanor Williams, Katarzyna Witkowska, Suzanne M. Wood, Susan L. Hill, Zandra C. Deans, Freya Boardman-Pretty, Mark Caulfield, Richard H. Scott, and Andrew O.M. Wilkie
Subjects: Proband, medicine.diagnostic_test, Base Sequence, business.industry, Chromosome Mapping, Genomics, Disease, Bioinformatics, medicine.disease, Genome, DNA sequencing, Article, Craniosynostosis, Craniosynostoses, Rare Diseases, medicine, Humans, Genetic Testing, Medical diagnosis, business, Genetics (clinical), Genetic testing
Abstract: PurposeGenome sequencing (GS) for diagnosis of rare genetic disease is being introduced into the clinic, but the complexity of the data poses challenges for developing pipelines with high diagnostic sensitivity. We evaluated the performance of the Genomics England 100,000 Genomes Project (100kGP) panel-based pipelines, using craniosynostosis as a test disease.MethodsGS data from 114 probands with craniosynostosis and their relatives (314 samples), negative on routine genetic testing, were scrutinized by a specialized research team, and diagnoses compared with those made by 100kGP.ResultsSixteen likely pathogenic/pathogenic variants were identified by 100kGP. Eighteen additional likely pathogenic/pathogenic variants were identified by the research team, indicating that for craniosynostosis, 100kGP panels had a diagnostic sensitivity of only 47%. Measures that could have augmented diagnoses were improved calling of existing panel genes (+18% sensitivity), review of updated panels (+12%), comprehensive analysis of de novo small variants (+29%), and copy-number/structural variants (+9%). Recent NHS England recommendations that partially incorporate these measures should achieve 85% overall sensitivity (+38%).ConclusionGS identified likely pathogenic/pathogenic variants in 29.8% of previously undiagnosed patients with craniosynostosis. This demonstrates the value of research analysis and the importance of continually improving algorithms to maximize the potential of clinical GS.
Published: 2021
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11. Pan-ancestry exome-wide association analyses of COVID-19 outcomes in 586,157 individuals

Author: Martin I. Jones, Joseph D. Szustakowski, Giorgio Sirugo, Lukas Habegger, Adam J. Mansfield, Will Salerno, Joshua D. Backman, Athanasios Kousathanas, David J. Carey, Yi-Pin Lai, James F. Wilson, Alison M. Meynert, Anne E. Justice, Alexander H. Li, Jack A. Kosmicki, Anthony Marcketta, Sándor Szalma, Shane McCarthy, A. R. Shuldiner, A. Baras, Daniel J. Rader, Michael N. Cantor, Ashish Yadav, Manuel A. R. Ferreira, F. S. P. Kury, Konrad Rawlik, Loukas Moutsianas, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Susan P. Walker, Xing Chen, Albert Tenesa, Paul Nioi, Adam E. Locke, Guillaume Butler-Laporte, E. N. Smith, Richard H Scott, Gundula Povysil, Joseph B. Leader, Lauren Gurski, Dorota Pasko, Marylyn D. Ritchie, A. Cordova-Palomera, Kyoko Watanabe, Colm O'Dushlaine, A. O'Neill, Tomoko Nakanishi, Erola Pairo-Castineira, Xiuwen Zheng, Emily Wong, Jeffrey G. Reid, Slavé Petrovski, Julie E. Horowitz, Anurag Verma, Justin W. Davis, Dylan Sun, Sahar Esmaeeli, Heiko Runz, Quanli Wang, John D. Overton, Shareef Khalid, Tooraj Mirshahi, Evan Maxwell, Mark J. Caulfield, Mark Lathrop, Olympe Chazara, Deepika Sharma, David Goldstein, Jonathan Marchini, Xiaodong Bai, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Nilanjana Banerjee, Rouel Lanche, J. B. Richards, Hyun Min Kang, J. K. Baillie, Yunfeng Huang, Sean O'Keeffe, Erika Kvikstad, Margaret M. Parker, and Joelle Mbatchou
Subjects: Male, 0301 basic medicine, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Current sample, 0302 clinical medicine, Data sequences, Report, Exome Sequencing, Genetics, Humans, Exome, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, 030212 general & internal medicine, Gene, Genetics (clinical), SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Prognosis, Hospitalization, 030104 developmental biology, Sample Size, Multiple comparisons problem, Susceptibility locus, Female, Interferons
Abstract: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness that can result in hospitalization or death. We used exome sequence data to investigate associations between rare genetic variants and seven COVID-19 outcomes in 586,157 individuals, including 20,952 with COVID-19. After accounting for multiple testing, we did not identify any clear associations with rare variants either exome wide or when specifically focusing on (1) 13 interferon pathway genes in which rare deleterious variants have been reported in individuals with severe COVID-19, (2) 281 genes located in susceptibility loci identified by the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, or (3) 32 additional genes of immunologic relevance and/or therapeutic potential. Our analyses indicate there are no significant associations with rare protein-coding variants with detectable effect sizes at our current sample sizes. Analyses will be updated as additional data become available, and results are publicly available through the Regeneron Genetics Center COVID-19 Results Browser.
Published: 2021
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12. Pathogenic huntingtin repeat expansions in patients with frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Author: Ramita Dewan, Ruth Chia, Jinhui Ding, Richard A. Hickman, Thor D. Stein, Yevgeniya Abramzon, Sarah Ahmed, Marya S. Sabir, Makayla K. Portley, Arianna Tucci, Kristina Ibáñez, F.N.U. Shankaracharya, Pamela Keagle, Giacomina Rossi, Paola Caroppo, Fabrizio Tagliavini, Maria L. Waldo, Per M. Johansson, Christer F. Nilsson, James B. Rowe, Luisa Benussi, Giuliano Binetti, Roberta Ghidoni, Edwin Jabbari, Coralie Viollet, Jonathan D. Glass, Andrew B. Singleton, Vincenzo Silani, Owen A. Ross, Mina Ryten, Ali Torkamani, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci, Susan M. Resnick, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Christopher B. Brady, Neil Kowal, John A. Hardy, Vivianna Van Deerlin, Jean Paul Vonsattel, Matthew B. Harms, Huw R. Morris, Raffaele Ferrari, John E. Landers, Adriano Chiò, J. Raphael Gibbs, Clifton L. Dalgard, Sonja W. Scholz, Bryan J. Traynor, Adelani Adeleye, Camille Alba, Dagmar Bacikova, Daniel N. Hupalo, Elisa McGrath Martinez, Harvey B. Pollard, Gauthaman Sukumar, Anthony R. Soltis, Meila Tuck, Xijun Zhang, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Bradley N. Smith, Nicola Ticozzi, Claudia Fallini, Athina Soragia Gkazi, Simon D. Topp, Jason Kost, Emma L. Scotter, Kevin P. Kenna, Jack W. Miller, Cinzia Tiloca, Caroline Vance, Eric W. Danielson, Claire Troakes, Claudia Colombrita, Safa Al-Sarraj, Elizabeth A. Lewis, Andrew King, Daniela Calini, Viviana Pensato, Barbara Castellotti, Jacqueline de Belleroche, Frank Baas, Anneloor L.M.A. ten Asbroek, Peter C. Sapp, Diane McKenna-Yasek, Russell L. McLaughlin, Meraida Polak, Seneshaw Asress, Jesús Esteban-Pérez, José Luis Muñoz-Blanco, Zorica Stevic, Sandra D’Alfonso, Letizia Mazzini, Giacomo P. Comi, Roberto Del Bo, Mauro Ceroni, Stella Gagliardi, Giorgia Querin, Cinzia Bertolin, Wouter van Rheenen, Frank P. Diekstra, Rosa Rademakers, Marka van Blitterswijk, Kevin B. Boylan, Giuseppe Lauria, Stefano Duga, Stefania Corti, Cristina Cereda, Lucia Corrado, Gianni Sorarù, Kelly L. Williams, Garth A. Nicholson, Ian P. Blair, Claire Leblond-Manry, Guy A. Rouleau, Orla Hardiman, Karen E. Morrison, Jan H. Veldink, Leonard H. van den Berg, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Hardev Pall, Pamela J. Shaw, Martin R. Turner, Kevin Talbot, Franco Taroni, Alberto García-Redondo, Zheyang Wu, Cinzia Gellera, Antonia Ratti, Robert H. Brown, Christopher E. Shaw, John C. Ambrose, Prabhu Arumugam, Emma L. Baple, Marta Bleda, Freya Boardman-Pretty, Jeanne M. Boissiere, Christopher R. Boustred, H. Brittain, Mark J. Caulfield, Georgia C. Chan, Clare E.H. Craig, Louise C. Daugherty, Anna de Burca, Andrew Devereau, Greg Elgar, Rebecca E. Foulger, Tom Fowler, Pedro Furió-Tarí, Joanne M. Hackett, Dina Halai, Angela Hamblin, Shirley Henderson, James E. Holman, Tim J.P. Hubbard, Rob Jackson, Louise J. Jones, Dalia Kasperaviciute, Melis Kayikci, Lea Lahnstein, Kay Lawson, Sarah E.A. Leigh, Ivonne U.S. Leong, Javier F. Lopez, Fiona Maleady-Crowe, Joanne Mason, Ellen M. McDonagh, Loukas Moutsianas, Michael Mueller, Nirupa Murugaesu, Anna C. Need, Chris A. Odhams, Christine Patch, Daniel Perez-Gil, Dimitris Polychronopoulos, John Pullinger, Tahrima Rahim, Augusto Rendon, Pablo Riesgo-Ferreiro, Tim Rogers, Kevin Savage, Kushmita Sawant, Richard H. Scott, Afshan Siddiq, Alexander Sieghart, Damian Smedley, Katherine R. Smith, Alona Sosinsky, William Spooner, Helen E. Stevens, Alexander Stuckey, Razvan Sultana, Ellen R.A. Thomas, Simon R. Thompson, Carolyn Tregidgo, Emma Walsh, Sarah A. Watters, Matthew J. Welland, Eleanor Williams, Katarzyna Witkowska, Suzanne M. Wood, Magdalena Zarowiecki, Sampath Arepalli, Pavan Auluck, Robert H. Baloh, Robert Bowser, Alexis Brice, James Broach, William Camu, John Cooper-Knock, Philippe Corcia, Carsten Drepper, Vivian E. Drory, Travis L. Dunckley, Faraz Faghri, Jennifer Farren, Eva Feldman, Mary Kay Floeter, Pietro Fratta, Glenn Gerhard, Summer B. Gibson, Stephen A. Goutman, Terry D. Heiman-Patterson, Dena G. Hernandez, Ben Hoover, Lilja Jansson, Freya Kamel, Janine Kirby, Neil W. Kowall, Hannu Laaksovirta, Francesco Landi, Isabelle Le Ber, Serge Lumbroso, Daniel JL. MacGowan, Nicholas J. Maragakis, Gabriele Mora, Kevin Mouzat, Liisa Myllykangas, Mike A. Nalls, Richard W. Orrell, Lyle W. Ostrow, Roger Pamphlett, Erik Pioro, Stefan M. Pulst, John M. Ravits, Alan E. Renton, Wim Robberecht, Ian Robey, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Michael Sendtner, Katie C. Sidle, Zachary Simmons, David J. Stone, Pentti J. Tienari, John Q. Trojanowski, Juan C. Troncoso, Miko Valori, Philip Van Damme, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Lorne Zinman, Diego Albani, Barbara Borroni, Alessandro Padovani, Amalia Bruni, Jordi Clarimon, Oriol Dols-Icardo, Ignacio Illán-Gala, Alberto Lleó, Adrian Danek, Daniela Galimberti, Elio Scarpini, Maria Serpente, Caroline Graff, Huei-Hsin Chiang, Behzad Khoshnood, Linn Öijerstedt, Christopher M. Morris, Benedetta Nacmias, Sandro Sorbi, Jorgen E. Nielsen, Lynne E. Hjermind, Valeria Novelli, Annibale A. Puca, Pau Pastor, Ignacio Alvarez, Monica Diez-Fairen, Miquel Aguilar, Robert Perneczky, Janine Diehl-Schimd, Mina Rossi, Agustin Ruiz, Mercè Boada, Isabel Hernández, Sonia Moreno-Grau, Johannes C. Schlachetzki, Dag Aarsland, Marilyn S. Albert, Johannes Attems, Matthew J. Barrett, Thomas G. Beach, Lynn M. Bekris, David A. Bennett, Lilah M. Besser, Eileen H. Bigio, Sandra E. Black, Bradley F. Boeve, Ryan C. Bohannan, Francesca Brett, Maura Brunetti, Chad A. Caraway, Jose-Alberto Palma, Andrea Calvo, Antonio Canosa, Dennis Dickson, Charles Duyckaerts, Kelley Faber, Tanis Ferman, Margaret E. Flanagan, Gianluca Floris, Tatiana M. Foroud, Juan Fortea, Ziv Gan-Or, Steve Gentleman, Bernardino Ghetti, Jesse Raphael Gibbs, Alison Goate, David Goldstein, Isabel González-Aramburu, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Angela K. Hodges, Heng-Chen Hu, Daniel Hupalo, Jon Infante, Alex Iranzo, Scott M. Kaiser, Horacio Kaufmann, Julia Keith, Ronald C. Kim, Gregory Klein, Rejko Krüger, Walter Kukull, Amanda Kuzma, Carmen Lage, Suzanne Lesage, James B. Leverenz, Giancarlo Logroscino, Grisel Lopez, Seth Love, Qinwen Mao, Maria Jose Marti, Elisa Martinez-McGrath, Mario Masellis, Eliezer Masliah, Patrick May, Ian McKeith, Marek-Marsel Mesulam, Edwin S. Monuki, Kathy L. Newell, Lucy Norcliffe-Kaufmann, Laura Palmer, Matthew Perkins, Olga Pletnikova, Laura Molina-Porcel, Regina H. Reynolds, Eloy Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Pascual Sanchez-Juan, Clemens R. Scherzer, Geidy E. Serrano, Vikram Shakkottai, Ellen Sidransky, Nahid Tayebi, Alan J. Thomas, Bension S. Tilley, Ronald L. Walton, Randy Woltjer, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Chiara Zecca, Hemali Phatnani, Justin Kwan, Dhruv Sareen, James R. Broach, Ximena Arcila-Londono, Edward B. Lee, Neil A. Shneider, Ernest Fraenkel, Noah Zaitlen, James D. Berry, Andrea Malaspina, Gregory A. Cox, Leslie M. Thompson, Steve Finkbeiner, Efthimios Dardiotis, Timothy M. Miller, Siddharthan Chandran, Suvankar Pal, Eran Hornstein, Daniel J. MacGowan, Terry Heiman-Patterson, Molly G. Hammell, Nikolaos.A. Patsopoulos, Oleg Butovsky, Joshua Dubnau, Avindra Nath, Matt Harms, Eleonora Aronica, Mary Poss, Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, John Crary, Nazem Atassi, Dale J. Lange, Darius J. Adams, Leonidas Stefanis, Marc Gotkine, Suma Babu, Towfique Raj, Sabrina Paganoni, Ophir Shalem, Colin Smith, Bin Zhang, Brent Harris, Iris Broce, Vivian Drory, John Ravits, Corey McMillan, Vilas Menon, Lani Wu, Steven Altschuler, Khaled Amar, Neil Archibald, Oliver Bandmann, Erica Capps, Alistair Church, Jan Coebergh, Alyssa Costantini, Peter Critchley, Boyd CP. Ghosh, Michele T.M. Hu, Christopher Kobylecki, P. Nigel Leigh, Carl Mann, Luke A. Massey, Uma Nath, Nicola Pavese, Dominic Paviour, Jagdish Sharma, Jenny Vaughan, HUS Neurocenter, Neurologian yksikkö, Department of Neurosciences, Clinicum, Pentti Tienari / Principal Investigator, Parkinson's UK, Human Genetics, ARD - Amsterdam Reproduction and Development, ANS - Complex Trait Genetics, Pathology, ANS - Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms, AII - Inflammatory diseases, Universidad de Cantabria, Rowe, James [0000-0001-7216-8679], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Huntington's Disease, Pathology, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntingtin, Neurology, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, International ALS/FTD Genomics Consortium, Neurodegenerative, frontotemporal dementia, 3124 Neurology and psychiatry, 0302 clinical medicine, Medicine, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Psychology, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Aetiology, Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD), NYGC ALS Consortium, Huntingtin Protein, DNA Repeat Expansion, General Neuroscience, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), International FTD Genetics Consortium, whole-genome sequencing, Frontotemporal Dementia, Neurological, Cognitive Sciences, Lewy body dementia, huntingtin, repeat expansions, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Humans, Mutation, Whole Genome Sequencing, Frontotemporal dementia, Huntington’s disease, medicine.medical_specialty, congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities, FALS Sequencing Consortium, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Atrophy, Rare Diseases, American Genome Center, Clinical Research, mental disorders, Genetics, Acquired Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, PROSPECT Consortium, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Lewy body, business.industry, International LBD Genomics Consortium, Neurosciences, 3112 Neurosciences, Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), nutritional and metabolic diseases, medicine.disease, Brain Disorders, nervous system diseases, 030104 developmental biology, Genomics England Research Consortium, 1701 Psychology, ALS, business, 1109 Neurosciences, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Hannu Laaksovirta konsortion jäsenenä. The Genomics England Research Consortium, The International ALS/FTD Genomics Consortium (iAFGC), The International FTD Genetics Consortium (IFGC), The International LBD Genomics Consortium (iLBDGC), The NYGC ALS Consortium, The PROSPECT Consortium,17 James B. Rowe,17 Luisa Benussi,18 Giuliano Binetti,18,19 Roberta Ghidoni,18 Edwin Jabbari,20,21 Coralie Viollet,22 Jonathan D. Glass,23 Andrew B. Singleton,24 Vincenzo Silani,25,26 Owen A. Ross,27 Mina Ryten,8,28,29 Ali Torkamani,30 Toshiko Tanaka,31 Luigi Ferrucci,31 Susan M. Resnick,32 We examined the role of repeat expansions in the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by analyzing whole-genome sequence data from 2,442 FTD/ALS patients, 2,599 Lewy body dementia (LBD) patients, and 3,158 neurologically healthy subjects. Pathogenic expansions (range, 40?64 CAG repeats) in the huntingtin (HTT) gene were found in three (0.12%) patients diagnosed with pure FTD/ALS syndromes but were not present in the LBD or healthy cohorts. We replicated our findings in an independent collection of 3,674 FTD/ALS patients. Postmortem evaluations of two patients revealed the classical TDP-43 pathology of FTD/ALS, as well as huntingtin-positive, ubiquitin-positive aggregates in the frontal cortex. The neostriatal atrophy that pathologically defines Huntington?s disease was absent in both cases. Our findings reveal an etiological relationship between HTT repeat expansions and FTD/ALS syndromes and indicate that genetic screening of FTD/ALS patients for HTT repeat expansions should be considered. We examined the role of repeat expansions in the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by analyzing whole-genome sequence data from 2,442 FTD/ALS patients, 2,599 Lewy body dementia (LBD) patients, and 3,158 neurologically healthy subjects. Pathogenic expansions (range, 40?64 CAG repeats) in the huntingtin (HTT) gene were found in three (0.12%) patients diagnosed with pure FTD/ALS syndromes but were not present in the LBD or healthy cohorts. We replicated our findings in an independent collection of 3,674 FTD/ALS patients. Postmortem evaluations of two patients revealed the classical TDP-43 pathology of FTD/ALS, as well as huntingtin-positive, ubiquitin-positive aggregates in the frontal cortex. The neostriatal atrophy that pathologically defines Huntington?s disease was absent in both cases. Our findings reveal an etiological relationship between HTT repeat expansions and FTD/ALS syndromes and indicate that genetic screening of FTD/ALS patients for HTT repeat expansions should be considered.
Published: 2020
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13. De novo SOX6 variants cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with ADHD, craniosynostosis, and osteochondromas

Author: M. Zarowiecki, A. Devereau, S.M. Wood, J. M. Boissiere, G. Elgar, Cara Forster, Liesbeth Keldermans, A. Sieghart, Allyn McConkie-Rosell, Augusto Rendon, S. R. Thompson, D. Polychronopoulos, Alexandre Arkader, Julien Thevenon, D. Kasperaviciute, Alma Kuechler, Bryan L. Krock, Dominique Martin-Coignard, Damian Smedley, T. Rahim, Barbara Mikat, Amber Begtrup, Priya Prasad, Lindsay B. Henderson, A. Stuckey, Mathilde Nizon, Tim Hubbard, I. U. S. Leong, M. Bleda, L. Lahnstein, C. E. H. Craig, Bertrand Isidor, Sarah Leigh, Joanne Mason, L. Moutsianas, T. Fowler, A. Siddiq, J. Pullinger, Marco Angelozzi, J. Ambrose, S. A. Watters, Saadet Mercimek-Andrews, K. Lawson, Claudia A. L. Ruivenkamp, Ian D. Krantz, J. E. Holman, Solveig Heide, Christel Depienne, Elizabeth T. DeChene, L. C. Daugherty, Alvaro Serrano Russi, Arianna Tucci, Mark J. Caulfield, Marie T. McDonald, Boris Keren, A. C. Need, Damara Ortiz, Nicola Foulds, William Spooner, Dara Tolchin, Eduardo Calpena, C. R. Boustred, Abdul Haseeb, Rudolf Gorazd, Charles Coutton, Alona Sosinsky, D. Perez-Gil, Sarah Stewart, J. M. Hackett, Giada Melistaccio, Andrew O.M. Wilkie, Radka Stoeva, Cédric Le Caignec, Pauline Le Tanno, Benjamin Cogné, Martina Mueller, Naghmeh Dorrani, Pedro Furió-Tarí, Gijs W. E. Santen, Hermann-Josef Lüdecke, Jessica P. Yeager, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, Damien Haye, Kieran B. Pechter, Mohnish Suri, Livija Medne, M. J. Welland, Patrick Reed, K. Savage, G. C. Chan, Anne C.H. Tsai, F. Maleady-Crowe, A. de Burca, Ellen M. McDonagh, T. Rogers, F. Boardman-Pretty, Emily Lancaster, Katherine R. Smith, Christopher A. Odhams, Véronique Lefebvre, M. Ryten, Olivier Pichon, D. Halai, Aleš Maver, Christine Patch, R. E. Foulger, Frédéric Bilan, Helen Stevens, Hilde Van Esch, Eleanor Williams, Brigitte Gilbert-Dussardier, C. Tregidgo, K. Witkowska, F. J. Lopez, Gwenaël Le Guyader, Richard H Scott, M. Kayikci, Ellen Thomas, and E. Walsh
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, Osteochondroma, Adolescent, Transcription, Genetic, media_common.quotation_subject, Nonsense, Medizin, Active Transport, Cell Nucleus, Mutation, Missense, Biology, Cell fate determination, Translocation, Genetic, Article, Craniosynostosis, 03 medical and health sciences, Craniosynostoses, 0302 clinical medicine, Intellectual disability, Genetics, medicine, Missense mutation, Humans, Computer Simulation, Amino Acid Sequence, RNA-Seq, Child, Gene, Genetics (clinical), media_common, Base Sequence, Brain, Infant, Syndrome, medicine.disease, 030104 developmental biology, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Child, Preschool, Genomic Structural Variation, Autism, Female, Haploinsufficiency, Transcriptome, SOXD Transcription Factors, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: SOX6 belongs to a family of 20 SRY-related HMG-box-containing (SOX) genes that encode transcription factors controlling cell fate and differentiation in many developmental and adult processes. For SOX6, these processes include, but are not limited to, neurogenesis and skeletogenesis. Variants in half of the SOX genes have been shown to cause severe developmental and adult syndromes, referred to as SOXopathies. We here provide evidence that SOX6 variants also cause a SOXopathy. Using clinical and genetic data, we identify 19 individuals harboring various types of SOX6 alterations and exhibiting developmental delay and/or intellectual disability; the individuals are from 17 unrelated families. Additional, inconstant features include attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, mild facial dysmorphism, craniosynostosis, and multiple osteochondromas. All variants are heterozygous. Fourteen are de novo, one is inherited from a mosaic father, and four offspring from two families have a paternally inherited variant. Intragenic microdeletions, balanced structural rearrangements, frameshifts, and nonsense variants are predicted to inactivate the SOX6 variant allele. Four missense variants occur in residues and protein regions highly conserved evolutionarily. These variants are not detected in the gnomAD control cohort, and the amino acid substitutions are predicted to be damaging. Two of these variants are located in the HMG domain and abolish SOX6 transcriptional activity in vitro. No clear genotype-phenotype correlations are found. Taken together, these findings concur that SOX6 haploinsufficiency leads to a neurodevelopmental SOXopathy that often includes ADHD and abnormal skeletal and other features.
Published: 2020

14. Comprehensive Rare Variant Analysis via Whole-Genome Sequencing to Determine the Molecular Pathology of Inherited Retinal Disease

Author: Keren J. Carss, Gavin Arno, Marie Erwood, Jonathan Stephens, Alba Sanchis-Juan, Sarah Hull, Karyn Megy, Detelina Grozeva, Eleanor Dewhurst, Samantha Malka, Vincent Plagnol, Christopher Penkett, Kathleen Stirrups, Roberta Rizzo, Genevieve Wright, Dragana Josifova, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Richard H. Scott, Emma Clement, Louise Allen, Ruth Armstrong, Angela F. Brady, Jenny Carmichael, Manali Chitre, Robert H.H. Henderson, Jane Hurst, Robert E. MacLaren, Elaine Murphy, Joan Paterson, Elisabeth Rosser, Dorothy A. Thompson, Emma Wakeling, Willem H. Ouwehand, Michel Michaelides, Anthony T. Moore, Andrew R. Webster, F. Lucy Raymond, Timothy Aitman, Hana Alachkar, Sonia Ali, David Allsup, Gautum Ambegaonkar, Julie Anderson, Richard Antrobus, Gururaj Arumugakani, Sofie Ashford, William Astle, Antony Attwood, Steve Austin, Chiara Bacchelli, Tamam Bakchoul, Tadbir K. Bariana, Helen Baxendale, David Bennett, Claire Bethune, Shahnaz Bibi, Marta Bleda, Harm Boggard, Paula Bolton-Maggs, Claire Booth, John R. Bradley, Angie Brady, Matthew Brown, Michael Browning, Christine Bryson, Siobhan Burns, Paul Calleja, Natalie Canham, Keren Carss, Mark Caulfield, Elizabeth Chalmers, Anita Chandra, Patrick Chinnery, Colin Church, Naomi Clements-Brod, Virginia Clowes, Gerry Coghlan, Peter Collins, Nichola Cooper, Amanda Creaser-Myers, Rosa DaCosta, Louise Daugherty, Sophie Davies, John Davis, Minka De Vries, Patrick Deegan, Sri V.V. Deevi, Charu Deshpande, Lisa Devlin, Rainer Doffinger, Natalie Dormand, Elizabeth Drewe, David Edgar, William Egner, Wendy N. Erber, Tamara Everington, Remi Favier, Helen Firth, Debra Fletcher, Frances Flinter, James C. Fox, Amy Frary, Kathleen Freson, Bruce Furie, Abigail Furnell, Daniel Gale, Alice Gardham, Michael Gattens, Neeti Ghali, Pavandeep K. Ghataorhe, Rohit Ghurye, Simon Gibbs, Kimberley Gilmour, Paul Gissen, Sarah Goddard, Keith Gomez, Pavel Gordins, Stefan Gräf, Daniel Greene, Alan Greenhalgh, Andreas Greinacher, Sofia Grigoriadou, Scott Hackett, Charaka Hadinnapola, Rosie Hague, Matthias Haimel, Csaba Halmagyi, Tracey Hammerton, Daniel Hart, Grant Hayman, Johan W.M. Heemskerk, Robert Henderson, Anke Hensiek, Yvonne Henskens, Archana Herwadkar, Simon Holden, Muriel Holder, Susan Holder, Fengyuan Hu, Aarnoud Huissoon, Marc Humbert, Roger James, Stephen Jolles, Rashid Kazmi, David Keeling, Peter Kelleher, Anne M. Kelly, Fiona Kennedy, David Kiely, Nathalie Kingston, Ania Koziell, Deepa Krishnakumar, Taco W. Kuijpers, Dinakantha Kumararatne, Manju Kurian, Michael A. Laffan, Michele P. Lambert, Hana Lango Allen, Allan Lawrie, Sara Lear, Melissa Lees, Claire Lentaigne, Ri Liesner, Rachel Linger, Hilary Longhurst, Lorena Lorenzo, Rajiv Machado, Rob Mackenzie, Robert MacLaren, Eamonn Maher, Jesmeen Maimaris, Sarah Mangles, Ania Manson, Rutendo Mapeta, Hugh S. Markus, Jennifer Martin, Larahmie Masati, Mary Mathias, Vera Matser, Anna Maw, Elizabeth McDermott, Coleen McJannet, Stuart Meacham, Sharon Meehan, Sarju Mehta, Carolyn M. Millar, Shahin Moledina, Anthony Moore, Nicholas Morrell, Andrew Mumford, Sai Murng, Sergey Nejentsev, Sadia Noorani, Paquita Nurden, Eric Oksenhendler, Sofia Papadia, Soo-Mi Park, Alasdair Parker, John Pasi, Chris Patch, Jeanette Payne, Andrew Peacock, Kathelijne Peerlinck, Christopher J. Penkett, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, David J. Perry, Val Pollock, Gary Polwarth, Mark Ponsford, Waseem Qasim, Isabella Quinti, Stuart Rankin, Julia Rankin, Karola Rehnstrom, Evan Reid, Christopher J. Rhodes, Michael Richards, Sylvia Richardson, Alex Richter, Irene Roberts, Matthew Rondina, Catherine Roughley, Kevin Rue-Albrecht, Crina Samarghitean, Richard Sandford, Saikat Santra, Ravishankar Sargur, Sinisa Savic, Sol Schulman, Harald Schulze, Richard Scott, Marie Scully, Suranjith Seneviratne, Carrock Sewell, Olga Shamardina, Debbie Shipley, Ilenia Simeoni, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Kenneth Smith, Aman Sohal, Laura Southgate, Simon Staines, Emily Staples, Hans Stauss, Penelope Stein, Sophie Stock, Jay Suntharalingam, R. Campbell Tait, Kate Talks, Yvonne Tan, Jecko Thachil, James Thaventhiran, Ellen Thomas, Moira Thomas, Dorothy Thompson, Adrian Thrasher, Marc Tischkowitz, Catherine Titterton, Cheng-Hock Toh, Mark Toshner, Carmen Treacy, Richard Trembath, Salih Tuna, Wojciech Turek, Ernest Turro, Chris Van Geet, Marijke Veltman, Julie Vogt, Julie von Ziegenweldt, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Ivy Wanjiku, Timothy Q. Warner, Evangeline Wassmer, Hugh Watkins, Andrew Webster, Steve Welch, Sarah Westbury, John Wharton, Deborah Whitehorn, Martin Wilkins, Lisa Willcocks, Catherine Williamson, Geoffrey Woods, John Wort, Nigel Yeatman, Patrick Yong, Tim Young, Ping Yu, Pediatric surgery, Molecular cell biology and Immunology, Pulmonary medicine, ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis, APH - Quality of Care, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), Rue-Albrecht, K, RS: CARIM - R1.04 - Clinical thrombosis and haemostasis, MUMC+: DA CDL Algemeen (9), Med Microbiol, Infect Dis & Infect Prev, RS: CARIM - R1.03 - Cell biochemistry of thrombosis and haemostasis, Biochemie, Raymond, Lucy [0000-0003-2652-3355], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Vascular Medicine, and Paediatric Infectious Diseases / Rheumatology / Immunology
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Male, DNA Mutational Analysis, EXOME, PROTEIN, Eye, whole-genome sequence, NIHR-BioResource Rare Diseases Consortium, Medical and Health Sciences, Choroideremia, ACTIVATION, 0302 clinical medicine, Ethnicity, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Exome, rare sequence variant, Copy-number variation, Aetiology, MUTATION, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Genetics & Heredity, Genetics, Genome, Adaptor Proteins, Biological Sciences, DYSTROPHY, copy-number variants, Female, Human, Common disease-common variant, LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS, Ethnic Groups, Genes, Recessive, Biology, DIAGNOSIS, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Rare Diseases, Retinal Diseases, STARGARDT DISEASE, Clinical Research, REVEALS, Journal Article, medicine, Recessive, Humans, retinal dystrophy, Eye Disease and Disorders of Vision, Alleles, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Whole genome sequencing, Base Sequence, Genome, Human, Human Genome, Signal Transducing, Neurosciences, Genetic Variation, medicine.disease, GENE, Introns, Stargardt disease, Good Health and Well Being, 030104 developmental biology, Genes, Mutation, 030221 ophthalmology & optometry, Human genome
Abstract: Inherited retinal disease is a common cause of visual impairment and represents a highly heterogeneous group of conditions. Here, we present findings from a cohort of 722 individuals with inherited retinal disease, who have had whole-genome sequencing (n = 605), whole-exome sequencing (n = 72), or both (n = 45) performed, as part of the NIHR-BioResource Rare Diseases research study. We identified pathogenic variants (single-nucleotide variants, indels, or structural variants) for 404/722 (56%) individuals. Whole-genome sequencing gives unprecedented power to detect three categories of pathogenic variants in particular: structural variants, variants in GC-rich regions, which have significantly improved coverage compared to whole-exome sequencing, and variants in non-coding regulatory regions. In addition to previously reported pathogenic regulatory variants, we have identified a previously unreported pathogenic intronic variant in $\textit{CHM}$ in two males with choroideremia. We have also identified 19 genes not previously known to be associated with inherited retinal disease, which harbor biallelic predicted protein-truncating variants in unsolved cases. Whole-genome sequencing is an increasingly important comprehensive method with which to investigate the genetic causes of inherited retinal disease.
Published: 2017
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15. Clinical and Functional Characterization of the Recurrent TUBA1A p.(Arg2His) Mutation

Author: Férechté Encha-Razavi, Sakkubai Naidu, Tania Attié-Bitach, Daniela T. Pilz, Neil Stoodley, Andrew E. Fry, Heather E. Olson, Jennifer Gardner, Sheila Palmer-Smith, Georgios Niotakis, Thomas D. Cushion, Julie S. Cohen, Hood Mugalaasi, Jonathan G. L. Mullins, Lucile Boutaud, Richard H Scott, Maryse Bonnières, and P. Grant
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Microcephaly, cerebellar hypoplasia, TUBA1A, Context (language use), Biology, Corpus callosum, Article, lcsh:RC321-571, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Polymicrogyria, medicine, Missense mutation, polymicrogyria, lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, Genetics, General Neuroscience, medicine.disease, Perisylvian polymicrogyria, tubulinopathy, p.(Arg2His), R2H, 030104 developmental biology, tubulin, Mutation (genetic algorithm), Cerebellar vermis, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: The TUBA1A gene encodes tubulin alpha-1A, a protein that is highly expressed in the fetal brain. Alpha- and beta-tubulin subunits form dimers, which then co-assemble into microtubule polymers: dynamic, scaffold-like structures that perform key functions during neurogenesis, neuronal migration, and cortical organisation. Mutations in TUBA1A have been reported to cause a range of brain malformations. We describe four unrelated patients with the same de novo missense mutation in TUBA1A, c.5G&gt, A, p.(Arg2His), as found by next generation sequencing. Detailed comparison revealed similar brain phenotypes with mild variability. Shared features included developmental delay, microcephaly, hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis, dysplasia or thinning of the corpus callosum, small pons, and dysmorphic basal ganglia. Two of the patients had bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria. We examined the effects of the p.(Arg2His) mutation by computer-based protein structure modelling and heterologous expression in HEK-293 cells. The results suggest the mutation subtly impairs microtubule function, potentially by affecting inter-dimer interaction. Based on its sequence context, c.5G&gt, A is likely to be a common recurrent mutation. We propose that the subtle functional effects of p.(Arg2His) may allow for other factors (such as genetic background or environmental conditions) to influence phenotypic outcome, thus explaining the mild variability in clinical manifestations.
Published: 2018

16. A Recurrent De Novo Nonsense Variant in ZSWIM6 Results in Severe Intellectual Disability without Frontonasal or Limb Malformations

Author: Susan Brammah, Honey Nagakura, Christopher T. Gordon, Laurence Hubert, Andrea M. Lewis, Renee Carroll, Richard H. Scott, Alexandrine Garrigue, Melanie Leffler, Jozef Gecz, Michael Field, Lucinda Murray, Sarah Risen, Seema R. Lalani, Marie Shaw, Geneviève de Saint Basile, Augusto Rendon, Raman Kumar, Tracy Dudding-Byth, LaDonna Immken, Patrick Nitschké, Arnold Munnich, Jeanne Amiel, Mark J. Cowley, Judy Spies, Bronwyn Kerr, Myriam Oufadem, Nina Powell-Hamilton, Claude Besmond, John D. Pollard, Emma Kivuva, Christine Bole-Feysot, William G. Newman, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Elizabeth E. Palmer, Jessica Tusi, Allison Tam, Richard Webster, Francesca Filippini, Marlène Rio, André E. Minoche, and Fan Xia
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Central Nervous System, media_common.quotation_subject, Nonsense, Limb Deformities, Congenital, Neurocognitive Disorders, Bioinformatics, 03 medical and health sciences, Exon, Report, Intellectual Disability, Intellectual disability, Peripheral Nervous System, Genetics, medicine, Journal Article, Missense mutation, Humans, Craniofacial, Gene, Genetics (clinical), media_common, business.industry, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, medicine.disease, Phenotype, DNA-Binding Proteins, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Codon, Nonsense, Peripheral nervous system, business, Mandibulofacial Dysostosis
Abstract: A recurrent de novo missense variant within the C-terminal Sin3-like domain of ZSWIM6 was previously reported to cause acromelic frontonasal dysostosis (AFND), an autosomal-dominant severe frontonasal and limb malformation syndrome, associated with neurocognitive and motor delay, via a proposed gain-of-function effect. We present detailed phenotypic information on seven unrelated individuals with a recurrent de novo nonsense variant (c.2737C>T [p.Arg913Ter]) in the penultimate exon of ZSWIM6 who have severe-profound intellectual disability and additional central and peripheral nervous system symptoms but an absence of frontonasal or limb malformations. We show that the c.2737C>T variant does not trigger nonsense-mediated decay of the ZSWIM6 mRNA in affected individual-derived cells. This finding supports the existence of a truncated ZSWIM6 protein lacking the Sin3-like domain, which could have a dominant-negative effect. This study builds support for a key role for ZSWIM6 in neuronal development and function, in addition to its putative roles in limb and craniofacial development, and provides a striking example of different variants in the same gene leading to distinct phenotypes.
Published: 2017
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17. Germline mutations affecting the histone H4 core cause a developmental syndrome by altering DNA damage response and cell cycle control

Author: Federico Tessadori, Harmjan R. Vos, Jeroen Bakkers, Richard H Scott, Karen Duran, Jane A. Hurst, Koen L.I. van Gassen, Maarten P.G. Massink, Robert M. van Es, Gijs van Haaften, Jacques C. Giltay, and Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Embryo, Nonmammalian, DNA Repair, Developmental Disabilities, Apoptosis, Diseases, Histones, 0302 clinical medicine, Histone methylation, Histone code, Developmental, Cancer epigenetics, Child, Zebrafish, Epigenomics, Genetics, Nonmammalian, biology, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental, Syndrome, Nucleosomes, Histone, Embryo, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Histone methyltransferase, Embryogenesis, Microcephaly, Female, Adolescent, Mutation, Missense, Genomic Instability, Histone H4, 03 medical and health sciences, Intellectual Disability, Histone H2A, Developmental biology, Journal Article, Animals, Humans, Germ-Line Mutation, Infant, Cell Cycle Checkpoints, 030104 developmental biology, Gene Expression Regulation, Mutation, biology.protein, Missense, DNA Damage
Abstract: Covalent modifications of histones have an established role as chromatin effectors, as they control processes such as DNA replication and transcription, and repair or regulate nucleosomal structure. Loss of modifications on histone N tails, whether due to mutations in genes belonging to histone-modifying complexes or mutations directly affecting the histone tails, causes developmental disorders or has a role in tumorigenesis. More recently, modifications affecting the globular histone core have been uncovered as being crucial for DNA repair, pluripotency and oncogenesis. Here we report monoallelic missense mutations affecting lysine 91 in the histone H4 core (H4K91) in three individuals with a syndrome of growth delay, microcephaly and intellectual disability. Expression of the histone H4 mutants in zebrafish embryos recapitulates the developmental anomalies seen in the patients. We show that the histone H4 alterations cause genomic instability, resulting in increased apoptosis and cell cycle progression anomalies during early development. Mechanistically, our findings indicate an important role for the ubiquitination of H4K91 in genomic stability during embryonic development.
Published: 2017

18. Common variations in BARD1 influence susceptibility to high-risk neuroblastoma

Author: Wendy B. London, Shahab Asgharzadeh, Nazneen Rahman, Sharon J. Diskin, Robert C. Seeger, Edward F. Attiyeh, Struan F.A. Grant, Marcella Devoto, Hongzhe Li, Carmel McConville, Cynthia Winter, Richard H Scott, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Maria Garris, Marci Laudenslager, Yael P. Mosse, Jayanti Jagannathan, Kristina A. Cole, Cecilia Kim, Kristopher R. Bosse, Eric F. Rappaport, John M. Maris, Mario Capasso, Joseph T. Glessner, Cuiping Hou, Hakon Hakonarson, Maura Diamond, Capasso, Mario, Devoto, M, Hou, C, Asgharzadeh, S, Glessner, Jt, Attiyeh, Ef, Mosse, Yp, Kim, C, Diskin, Sj, Cole, Ka, Bosse, K, Diamond, M, Laudenslager, M, Winter, C, Bradfield, Jp, Scott, Rh, Jagannathan, J, Garris, M, Mcconville, C, London, Wb, Seeger, Rc, Grant, Sf, Li, H, Rahman, N, Rappaport, E, Hakonarson, H, and Maris, J. M.
Subjects: Heterozygote, Genotype, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Genome-wide association study, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus (genetics), Biology, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Neuroblastoma, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Genetics, Genetic predisposition, medicine, Odds Ratio, SNP, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Genetic Variation, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6
Abstract: We conducted a SNP-based genome-wide association study (GWAS) focused on the high-risk subset of neuroblastoma. As our previous unbiased GWAS showed strong association of common 6p22 SNP alleles with aggressive neuroblastoma, we restricted our analysis here to 397 high-risk cases compared to 2,043 controls. We detected new significant association of six SNPs at 2q35 within the BARD1 locus (P(allelic) = 2.35 x 10(-9)-2.25 x 10(-8)). We confirmed each SNP association in a second series of 189 high-risk cases and 1,178 controls (P(allelic) = 7.90 x 10(-7)-2.77 x 10(-4)). We also tested the two most significant SNPs (rs6435862, rs3768716) in two additional independent high-risk neuroblastoma case series, yielding combined allelic odds ratios of 1.68 each (P = 8.65 x 10(-18) and 2.74 x 10(-16), respectively). We also found significant association with known BARD1 nonsynonymous SNPs. These data show that common variation in BARD1 contributes to the etiology of the aggressive and most clinically relevant subset of human neuroblastoma.
Published: 2009

19. Malan syndrome: Sotos-like overgrowth with de novo NFIX sequence variants and deletions in six new patients and a review of the literature

Author: Ros Quinlivan, Elisabeth Rosser, Levinus A. Bok, Ajith Kumar, Maaike Vreeburg, Merel Klaassens, Fatima Jaffer, Martine J. van Belzen, Jane A. Hurst, Richard H Scott, Tim Segboer, Deborah Morrogh, RS: FHML non-thematic output, Genetica & Celbiologie, MUMC+: MA Medische Staf Kindergeneeskunde (9), and MUMC+: DA KG Polikliniek (9)
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Article, Diagnosis, Differential, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Genetics (clinical), Familial hemiplegic migraine, Genetic Association Studies, Sequence Deletion, Episodic ataxia, Comparative Genomic Hybridization, biology, Sotos Syndrome, Sotos syndrome, Macrocephaly, Facies, Infant, Syndrome, medicine.disease, NFIX, Penetrance, Hypotonia, NFI Transcription Factors, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Mutation, biology.protein, Female, medicine.symptom, Haploinsufficiency
Abstract: De novo monoallelic variants in NFIX cause two distinct syndromes. Whole gene deletions, nonsense variants and missense variants affecting the DNA-binding domain have been seen in association with a Sotos-like phenotype that we propose is referred to as Malan syndrome. Frameshift and splice-site variants thought to avoid nonsense-mediated RNA decay have been seen in Marshall–Smith syndrome. We report six additional patients with Malan syndrome and de novo NFIX deletions or sequence variants and review the 20 patients now reported. The phenotype is characterised by moderate postnatal overgrowth and macrocephaly. Median height and head circumference in childhood are 2.0 and 2.3 standard deviations (SD) above the mean, respectively. There is overlap of the facial phenotype with NSD1-positive Sotos syndrome in some cases including a prominent forehead, high anterior hairline, downslanting palpebral fissures and prominent chin. Neonatal feeding difficulties and/or hypotonia have been reported in 30% of patients. Developmental delay/learning disability have been reported in all cases and are typically moderate. Ocular phenotypes are common, including strabismus (65%), nystagmus (25% ) and optic disc pallor/hypoplasia (25%). Other recurrent features include pectus excavatum (40%) and scoliosis (25%). Eight reported patients have a deletion also encompassing CACNA1A, haploinsufficiency of which causes episodic ataxia type 2 or familial hemiplegic migraine. One previous case had episodic ataxia and one case we report has had cyclical vomiting responsive to pizotifen. In individuals with this contiguous gene deletion syndrome, awareness of possible later neurological manifestations is important, although their penetrance is not yet clear.
Published: 2015

20. Chromosome 6p22 locus associated with clinically aggressive neuroblastoma

Author: Cecilia Kim, Robert C. Seeger, Stefano Monni, Richard H Scott, Edward F. Attiyeh, Shahab Asgharzadeh, Joseph T. Glessner, Eric F. Rappaport, Edward C. Frackelton, Cynthia Winter, Hongzhe Li, Mario Capasso, Carmel McConville, Hakon Hakonarson, Marcella Devoto, John M. Maris, Sharon J. Diskin, Kristina A. Cole, Marci Laudenslager, Wendy B. London, Nazneen Rahman, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Andrew W. Eckert, Cuiping Hou, Tracy Casalunovo, Struan F.A. Grant, Yael P. Mosse, John M., Mari, Yael P., Mosse, Jonathan P., Bradfield, Cuiping, Hou, Stefano, Monni, Richard H., Scott, Shahab, Asgharzadeh, Edward F., Attiyeh, Sharon J., Diskin, Marci, Laudenslager, Cynthia, Winter, Kristina A., Cole, Joseph T., Glessner, Cecilia, Kim, Edward C., Frackelton, Tracy, Casalunovo, Andrew W., Eckert, Capasso, Mario, Eric F., Rappaport, Carmel, Mcconville, Wendy B., London, Robert C., Seeger, Nazneen, Rahman, Marcella, Devoto, Struan F. A., Grant, Hongzhe, Li, and Hakon, Hakonarson
Subjects: Male, Genotype, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Locus (genetics), Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Article, Disease-Free Survival, Neuroblastoma, Medicine, SNP, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Allele, Genotyping, Alleles, Neoplasm Staging, Oncogene Proteins, N-Myc Proto-Oncogene Protein, business.industry, Homozygote, Case-control study, Infant, Nuclear Proteins, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, Case-Control Studies, Child, Preschool, Immunology, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, Female, business
Abstract: Neuroblastoma is a malignant condition of the developing sympathetic nervous system that most commonly affects young children and is often lethal. Its cause is not known.We performed a genomewide association study by first genotyping blood DNA samples from 1032 patients with neuroblastoma and 2043 control subjects of European descent using the Illumina HumanHap550 BeadChip. Samples from three independent groups of patients with neuroblastoma (a total of 720 patients) and 2128 control subjects were then genotyped to replicate significant associations.We observed a significant association between neuroblastoma and the common minor alleles of three consecutive single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at chromosome band 6p22 and containing the predicted genes FLJ22536 and FLJ44180 (P=1.71x10(-9) to 7.01x10(-10); allelic odds ratio, 1.39 to 1.40). Homozygosity for the at-risk G allele of the most significantly associated SNP, rs6939340, resulted in an increased likelihood of the development of neuroblastoma (odds ratio, 1.97; 95% confidence interval, 1.58 to 2.45). Subsequent genotyping of the three 6p22 SNPs in three independent case series confirmed our observation of an association (P=9.33x10(-15) at rs6939340 for joint analysis). Patients with neuroblastoma who were homozygous for the risk alleles at 6p22 were more likely to have metastatic (stage 4) disease (P=0.02), amplification of the MYCN oncogene in the tumor cells (P=0.006), and disease relapse (P=0.01).A common genetic variation at chromosome band 6p22 is associated with susceptibility to neuroblastoma.
Published: 2008

21. The Human Phenotype Ontology project: linking molecular biology and disease through phenotype data

Author: Danielle L. Brown, Caroline F. Wright, Jane A. Hurst, Richard H. Scott, Nicole L. Washingthon, Melissa A. Haendel, Bert B.A. de Vries, Andrew O.M. Wilkie, Steven Van Vooren, Nicole de Leeuw, Georgios V. Gkoutos, Christopher J. Mungall, Barbara J. Ruef, Paul N. Schofield, Erin Rooney Riggs, Sebastian Bauer, Sahar Mansour, Michael Brudno, Sandra C. Doelken, Anneke T. Vulto-van Silfhout, Christa Lese Martin, Isabelle Bailleul-Forestier, Sebastian Köhler, Sanjay M. Sisodiya, Soo Mi Park, Marta Girdea, Anne M. Kelly, Cynthia L. Smith, Andrew D Mumford, Laird G. Jackson, Andrew P. Jackson, Damian Smedley, Peter N. Robinson, Ronald J. Wapner, Ingo Helbig, Celia Moss, Suzanna E. Lewis, Jennifer Campbell, Janan T. Eppig, Willem H. Ouwehand, David R. FitzPatrick, Graeme C.M. Black, Helen V. Firth, Johanna A. Jähn, David H. Ledbetter, Monte Westerfield, and Kathleen Freson
Subjects: Databases, Factual, Flat file database, Interoperability, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Annotation, Mice, 0302 clinical medicine, Disease Ontology, Human Phenotype Ontology, Genetics, Animals, Humans, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Internet, Information retrieval, Neurodevelopmental disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 7], Unified Medical Language System, Genetic Diseases, Inborn, Biological Ontologies, Genomics, Phenotype, VI. Genomic variation, diseases and drugs, DECIPHER, Neurodevelopmental disorders Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences [Radboudumc 7], 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Contains fulltext : 136954.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) project, available at http://www.human-phenotype-ontology.org, provides a structured, comprehensive and well-defined set of 10,088 classes (terms) describing human phenotypic abnormalities and 13,326 subclass relations between the HPO classes. In addition we have developed logical definitions for 46% of all HPO classes using terms from ontologies for anatomy, cell types, function, embryology, pathology and other domains. This allows interoperability with several resources, especially those containing phenotype information on model organisms such as mouse and zebrafish. Here we describe the updated HPO database, which provides annotations of 7,278 human hereditary syndromes listed in OMIM, Orphanet and DECIPHER to classes of the HPO. Various meta-attributes such as frequency, references and negations are associated with each annotation. Several large-scale projects worldwide utilize the HPO for describing phenotype information in their datasets. We have therefore generated equivalence mappings to other phenotype vocabularies such as LDDB, Orphanet, MedDRA, UMLS and phenoDB, allowing integration of existing datasets and interoperability with multiple biomedical resources. We have created various ways to access the HPO database content using flat files, a MySQL database, and Web-based tools. All data and documentation on the HPO project can be found online.
Published: 2014
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22. Haploinsufficiency of SF3B4, a Component of the Pre-mRNA Spliceosomal Complex, Causes Nager Syndrome

Author: Michael J. Bamshad, Oana Caluseriu, Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Kati J. Buckingham, Jane L. Schuette, Jay Shendure, Richard H. Scott, Jillian S. Parboosingh, A. Micheil Innes, Julie Lauzon, Sarah Ng, Jacek Majewski, Victoria Mok Siu, Hilary Racher, Francois P. Bernier, Margaret J. McMillin, Ethylin Wang Jabs, Peter H. Byers, Bridget A. Fernandez, Jerome L. Gorski, Jeffrey W. Innis, Gregor Andelfinger, and Deborah A. Nickerson
Subjects: Adult, Male, Limb Deformities, Congenital, Genomics, Haploinsufficiency, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, symbols.namesake, Young Adult, Report, medicine, Genetics, RNA Precursors, Humans, Genetics(clinical), Exome, Child, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, 030304 developmental biology, Sanger sequencing, Spliceosomal complex, 0303 health sciences, Mutation, 030305 genetics & heredity, RNA-Binding Proteins, Reproducibility of Results, 3. Good health, Child, Preschool, symbols, Mendelian inheritance, Spliceosomes, Female, RNA Splicing Factors, Mandibulofacial Dysostosis
Abstract: Nager syndrome, first described more than 60 years ago, is the archetype of a class of disorders called the acrofacial dysostoses, which are characterized by craniofacial and limb malformations. Despite intensive efforts, no gene for Nager syndrome has yet been identified. In an international collaboration, FORGE Canada and the National Institutes of Health Centers for Mendelian Genomics used exome sequencing as a discovery tool and found that mutations in SF3B4, a component of the U2 pre-mRNA spliceosomal complex, cause Nager syndrome. After Sanger sequencing of SF3B4 in a validation cohort, 20 of 35 (57%) families affected by Nager syndrome had 1 of 18 different mutations, nearly all of which were frameshifts. These results suggest that most cases of Nager syndrome are caused by haploinsufficiency of SF3B4. Our findings add Nager syndrome to a growing list of disorders caused by mutations in genes that encode major components of the spliceosome and also highlight the synergistic potential of international collaboration when exome sequencing is applied in the search for genes responsible for rare Mendelian phenotypes.
Published: 2012

23. Syndromes and constitutional chromosomal abnormalities associated with Wilms tumour

Author: Nazneen Rahman, Richard H Scott, Lisa Walker, and Charles A. Stiller
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Wilms tumour, Review, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Wilms Tumor, Internal medicine, Genetics, medicine, Genetic predisposition, Humans, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genetics (clinical), Chromosome Aberrations, Karyotype, Wilms' tumor, Syndrome, medicine.disease, Phenotype, Kidney Neoplasms, Endocrinology, Increased risk, Cancer research, Carcinogenesis, Kidney disease
Abstract: Wilms tumour has been reported in association with over 50 different clinical conditions and several abnormal constitutional karyotypes. Conclusive evidence of an increased risk of Wilms tumour exists for only a minority of these conditions, including WT1 associated syndromes, familial Wilms tumour, and certain overgrowth conditions such as Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. In many reported conditions the rare co-occurrence of Wilms tumour is probably due to chance. However, for several conditions the available evidence cannot either confirm or exclude an increased risk, usually because of the rarity of the syndrome. In addition, emerging evidence suggests that an increased risk of Wilms tumour occurs only in a subset of individuals for some syndromes. The complex clinical and molecular heterogeneity of disorders associated with Wilms tumour, together with the apparent absence of functional links between most of the known predisposition genes, suggests that abrogation of a variety of pathways can promote Wilms tumorigenesis.
Published: 2006

24. Mutations in SNX14 Cause a Distinctive Autosomal-Recessive Cerebellar Ataxia and Intellectual Disability Syndrome

Author: Jorge M. Saraiva, Henry Houlden, S. Seto-Salvia, Mary O'Sullivan, Mina Ryten, Dawn E. Saunders, Francesco Lescai, A. Straatmaan-Iwanowska, B. Farren, Joshua Hersheson, Chela James, Nicholas W. Wood, Sérgio B. Sousa, Hywel Williams, Chiara Bacchelli, Konstantinos Mengrelis, Miho Ishida, Jane A. Hurst, Richard H. Scott, Bertrand Vernay, Andrew J. Duncan, Glenn Anderson, Gudrun E. Moore, Estelle Chanudet, Paul Gissen, Louise Ocaka, Philip Stanier, Dagan Jenkins, Anna C. Thomas, Deborah Morrogh, Y.J. Pai, Fabiana Ramos, Frank Baas, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, ANS - Amsterdam Neuroscience, and Genome Analysis
Subjects: Male, Cerebellar Ataxia, Molecular Sequence Data, Genes, Recessive, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Intellectual Disability, Report, Intellectual disability, Ataxia Cerebelar, Genetics, Humans, Medicine, Genetics(clinical), Gene Regulatory Networks, 10. No inequality, Sorting Nexins, Genetics (clinical), 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Base Sequence, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, business.industry, Deficiência Intelectual, Chromosome Mapping, Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Fibroblasts, medicine.disease, Human genetics, Pedigree, Microscopy, Electron, Codon, Nonsense, Nexinas de Classificação, Female, Erratum, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: Intellectual disability and cerebellar atrophy occur together in a large number of genetic conditions and are frequently associated with microcephaly and/or epilepsy. Here we report the identification of causal mutations in Sorting Nexin 14 (SNX14) found in seven affected individuals from three unrelated consanguineous families who presented with recessively inherited moderate-severe intellectual disability, cerebellar ataxia, early-onset cerebellar atrophy, sensorineural hearing loss, and the distinctive association of progressively coarsening facial features, relative macrocephaly, and the absence of seizures. We used homozygosity mapping and whole-exome sequencing to identify a homozygous nonsense mutation and an in-frame multiexon deletion in two families. A homozygous splice site mutation was identified by Sanger sequencing of SNX14 in a third family, selected purely by phenotypic similarity. This discovery confirms that these characteristic features represent a distinct and recognizable syndrome. SNX14 encodes a cellular protein containing Phox (PX) and regulator of G protein signaling (RGS) domains. Weighted gene coexpression network analysis predicts that SNX14 is highly coexpressed with genes involved in cellular protein metabolism and vesicle-mediated transport. All three mutations either directly affected the PX domain or diminished SNX14 levels, implicating a loss of normal cellular function. This manifested as increased cytoplasmic vacuolation as observed in cultured fibroblasts. Our findings indicate an essential role for SNX14 in neural development and function, particularly in development and maturation of the cerebellum.
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25. Mutations in PIEZO2 Cause Gordon Syndrome, Marden-Walker Syndrome, and Distal Arthrogryposis Type 5

Author: Michael J. Bamshad, Randall A. Heidenreich, Anita E. Beck, John M. Graham, Margo Whiteford, David Mowat, Margaret J. McMillin, Sehime Gulsun Temel, John C. Carey, Arthur S. Aylsworth, Elizabeth K. Schorry, Koenraad Devriendt, Jacqueline T. Hecht, Ingrid P.C. Krapels, Elliott H. Sherr, Yanick J. Crow, Stephen P. Robertson, Joshua D. Smith, Cynthia J. Curry, Richard H Scott, David D. Weaver, Kati J. Buckingham, Deborah A. Nickerson, Laurie H. Seaver, Judith G. Hall, Helen Stewart, David B. Everman, Kathryn M. Shively, Holly K. Tabor, Alan Fryer, Jay Shendure, Gordon T. Plant, Pierre Bitoun, Carol L. Clericuzio, Constance T. R. M. Stumpel, Jessica X. Chong, Jules G. Leroy, Miranda Splitt, Sarosh R. Irani, Jane A. Hurst, Maria Luisa Giovannucci Uzielli, Mariana Aracena, Kate Gibson, Heidi I. S. Gildersleeve, Marc S. Williams, MUMC+: DA KG Polikliniek (9), Klinische Genetica, Genetica en Celbiologie, RS: GROW - Developmental Biology, and RS: GROW - R4 - Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine
Subjects: Male, Contracture, Biology, Blepharophimosis, medicine.disease_cause, Ion Channels, Arachnodactyly, symbols.namesake, Marden–Walker syndrome, Retinal Diseases, Report, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Genetics(clinical), Abnormalities, Multiple, Exome, Child, Connective Tissue Diseases, Genetics (clinical), Exome sequencing, Arthrogryposis, Sanger sequencing, Mutation, Ophthalmoplegia, medicine.disease, Pedigree, Cleft Palate, Clubfoot, Child, Preschool, symbols, Female, medicine.symptom, Hand Deformities, Congenital
Abstract: Gordon syndrome (GS), or distal arthrogyposis type 3, is a rare, autosomal-dominant disorder characterized by cleft palate and congenital contractures of the hands and feet. Exome sequencing of five GS-affected families identified mutations in piezo-type mechano-sensitive ion channel component 2 (PIEZO2) in each family. Sanger sequencing revealed PIEZO2 mutations in five of seven additional families studied (for a total of 10/12 [83%] individuals), and nine families had an identical c.8057G>A (p.Arg2686His) mutation. The phenotype of GS overlaps with distal arthrogryposis type 5 (DA5) and Marden-Walker syndrome (MWS). Using molecular inversion probes for targeted sequencing to screen PIEZO2, we found mutations in 24/29 (82%) DA5-affected families and one of two MWS-affected families. The presence of cleft palate was significantly associated with c.8057G>A (Fisher's exact test, adjusted p value
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26. Prevalence, phenotype and architecture of developmental disorders caused by de novo mutation: The Deciphering Developmental Disorders Study

Author: Nicola S. Cooper, S Samant, H Purnell, Claire L. S. Turner, A Vandersteen, Alex Magee, Susan Tomkins, Louise C. Wilson, L Greenhalgh, IK Temple, Irina Colgiu, A Duncan, G Cross, Susan E. Holder, C Wragg, Deirdre E. Donnelly, Nadia Akawi, Linda Sneddon, Eamonn Sheridan, Wendy D Jones, I Ellis, David Bourn, Joanna Poulton, Ingrid Simonic, R Singzon, Lisa Bradley, Matthew E. Hurles, Meena Balasubramanian, Dominic J. McMullan, Trevor Cole, Gillian Roberts, J Thomson, Moira Blyth, G Hollingsworth, Neeti Ghali, Alex Henderson, Zara Skitt, E Roberts, G Woods, David Goudie, J Awada, Caroline Langman, U Anjum, Martin O. Pollard, Usha Kini, Stephen Clayton, J Burn, Daniel M Barrett, Vka Kumar, Angela E. Douglas, Natalie Canham, Ruth Armstrong, Denise Williams, C Shaw-Smith, Lorraine Gaunt, S Ingram, Edward Blair, K Brunstrom, O. W.J. Quarrell, Ben Hutton, Nora Shannon, S Wallwark, Laura E Mason, Sarah F. Smithson, Jeremy F. McRae, Amanda L. Collins, Shane McKee, Katrina Prescott, Lara Cresswell, Sofia Douzgou, L Islam, C Deshpande, J Waters, Anna Middleton, S-M Park, Tarjinder Singh, Liu He, M Tein, T Fendick, B Kaemba, Tara Montgomery, Michael Wright, Jenny Morton, J Roberts, Emma Hobson, Caroline Mackie Ogilvie, Katrina Tatton-Brown, Lucy Jenkins, A Coates, Abhijit Dixit, Deborah J. Shears, Kath Smith, D. Baty, D Lim, D Cilliers, Richard Gibbons, Ruth Newbury-Ecob, M Squires, Nicola K. Ragge, Anneke Seller, E Kivuva, Kay Metcalfe, Fiona Stewart, K Marks, Elisabeth Rosser, R Fisher, Andrew E. Fry, Joan Paterson, Diana Wellesley, Dian Donnai, Christopher P. Bennett, Jonathan Berg, Ganesh J. Swaminathan, Lucy Raymond, Sally Ann Lynch, Pradeep C. Vasudevan, Rosemarie Davidson, Melita Irving, John Dean, Margo Whiteford, Melissa Lees, S Payne, K-R Ong, Emma Gray, M Holder, Dragana Josifova, Claire Kirk, McConnell, Helen Cox, Sarju G. Mehta, Elena Prigmore, Emma Shearing, Anand Saggar, Angela Barnicoat, Alejandro Sifrim, Nicola Foulds, Katherine Martin, Joanna Kaplanis, Sahar Mansour, Kirsty Ambridge, Clowes, A Procter, Z Miedzybrodzka, Katherine Lachlan, S Schweiger, E Maher, Allyson Ross, Simon Brent, C Sequeira, Tabib Dabir, Netravathi Krishnappa, Andrew Smith, B Bernhard, Andrew Green, Sara Widaa, Daniel A. King, Astrid Weber, Harinder Gill, Frances Flinter, Ruth McGowan, Siddharth Banka, Susan E. McNerlan, Elizabeth M. Sweeney, L Nevitt, Michael Parker, Hood Mugalaasi, AP Bevan, L Harrison, Varghese, Lucy Hildyard, Murday, G Kirby, S Clasper, Sutton, Clare Taylor, Andrew Jackson, A Selby, E Wilkinson, Miranda Splitt, Stuart Aitken, Shelagh Joss, Fiona Connell, Julie Vogt, Jill Clayton-Smith, Alan Fryer, N Pratt, Parthiban Vijayarangakannan, Shehla Mohammed, Susan Price, Wayne Lam, Peter D. Turnpenny, C Tysoe, Raheleh Rahbari, Marc Tischkowitz, N Williams, Tessa Homfray, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Helen Murphy, Meriel M. McEntagart, Sian Ellard, M Ahmed, R O'Shea, Andrew R. Norman, Daniel Perrett, Harrison, Philip Greene, David Moore, R Hawkins, DT Pilz, FitzPatrick, P Batstone, Esther Kinning, Caroline F. Wright, Yanick J. Crow, Kate Chandler, C Donnelly, Leema Robert, Straub, Susan M. Gribble, Philip Jones, D de Vries, K Evans, Simon J. Davies, Diana Baralle, E Miles, Jeffrey C. Barrett, A Lampe, Joshua C. Randall, Bruce Castle, K McKay, D Rice, Becky Treacy, Richard H Scott, Rosemary Kelsell, Angela F. Brady, Julian R. Sampson, J Jarvis, Laura Yates, R Sandford, Hayley Archer, M Yau, Mohnish Suri, Caroline Pottinger, Dhavendra Kumar, R. Taylor, Alison Kraus, L Bourdon, Alan Donaldson, S Everest, S Kazembe, Sian Morgan, C Longman, Ingrid Scurr, Alison Male, Ajoy Sarkar, Helen Kingston, Emma McCann, Julie M. Phipps, Andrea H. Németh, A Pridham, D Bohanna, C Gardiner, Diana Johnson, Tomas W Fitzgerald, Eleni A. Chatzimichali, A Dobbie, Diana Rajan, Frances Elmslie, Mohsan Alvi, Pendaran Roberts, Bronwyn Kerr, M D'Alessandro, Elizabeth A. Jones, Simon Holden, U Maye, Helen V. Firth, J Rankin, H. Stewart, S Naik, Adrian Tivey, Chirag N. Patel, Tanya Bayzetinova, G Lowther, G Devlin, A Torokwa, DJ Bunyan, Judith A. Goodship, Sarah Hewitt, Emma Wakeling, Christoffer Nellåker, S Wilcox, Saba Sharif, MN Collinson, C Brewer, Jacqueline Eason, C McWilliam, Jane A. Hurst, Angus John Clarke, Mervyn Humphreys, and Stephen W. Hellens
Subjects: Genetics, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Genetic heterogeneity, Population, Biology, Phenotype, DNA sequencing, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, education, Indel, Gene, Exome, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Exome sequencing, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract: Individuals with severe, undiagnosed developmental disorders (DDs) are enriched for damaging de novo mutations (DNMs) in developmentally important genes. We exome sequenced 4,293 families with individuals with DDs, and meta-analysed these data with published data on 3,287 individuals with similar disorders. We show that the most significant factors influencing the diagnostic yield of de novo mutations are the sex of the affected individual, the relatedness of their parents and the age of both father and mother. We identified 94 genes enriched for damaging de novo mutation at genome-wide significance (P < 7 × 10−7), including 14 genes for which compelling data for causation was previously lacking. We have characterised the phenotypic diversity among these genetic disorders. We demonstrate that, at current cost differentials, exome sequencing has much greater power than genome sequencing for novel gene discovery in genetically heterogeneous disorders. We estimate that 42% of our cohort carry pathogenic DNMs (single nucleotide variants and indels) in coding sequences, with approximately half operating by a loss-of-function mechanism, and the remainder resulting in altered-function (e.g. activating, dominant negative). We established that most haplo insufficient developmental disorders have already been identified, but that many altered-function disorders remain to be discovered. Extrapolating from the DDD cohort to the general population, we estimate that developmental disorders caused by DNMs have an average birth prevalence of 1 in 213 to 1 in 448 (0.22-0.47% of live births), depending on parental age.AbbreviationsPTVProtein-Truncating VariantDNMDe Novo MutationDDDevelopmental DisorderDDDDeciphering Developmental Disorders study

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