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- Title
The strength of combined cytogenetic and mate-pair sequencing techniques illustrated by a germline chromothripsis rearrangement involving FOXP2.
- Authors
Nazaryan, Lusine; Stefanou, Eunice G; Hansen, Claus; Kosyakova, Nadezda; Bak, Mads; Sharkey, Freddie H; Mantziou, Theodora; Papanastasiou, Anastasios D; Velissariou, Voula; Liehr, Thomas; Syrrou, Maria; Tommerup, Niels
- Abstract
Next-generation mate-pair sequencing (MPS) has revealed that many constitutional complex chromosomal rearrangements (CCRs) are associated with local shattering of chromosomal regions (chromothripsis). Although MPS promises to identify the molecular basis of the abnormal phenotypes associated with many CCRs, none of the reported mate-pair sequenced complex rearrangements have been simultaneously studied with state-of-the art molecular cytogenetic techniques. Here, we studied chromothripsis-associated CCR involving chromosomes 2, 5 and 7, associated with global developmental and psychomotor delay and severe speech disorder. We identified three truncated genes: CDH12, DGKB and FOXP2, confirming the role of FOXP2 in severe speech disorder, and suggestive roles of CDH12 and/or DGKB for the global developmental and psychomotor delay. Our study confirmes the power of MPS for detecting breakpoints and truncated genes at near nucleotide resolution in chromothripsis. However, only by combining MPS data with conventional G-banding and extensive fluorescence in situ hybridizations could we delineate the precise structure of the derivative chromosomes.
- Subjects
NUCLEOTIDE sequence; IN situ hybridization; CHROMOSOME analysis; FOXP2 gene; CYTOGENETICS
- Publication
European Journal of Human Genetics, 2014, Vol 22, Issue 3, p338
- ISSN
1018-4813
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ejhg.2013.147