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Reiter R, Brosch S, Lüdeke M, Fischbein E, Haase S, Pickhard A, Assum G, Schwandt A, Vogel W, Högel J, Maier C. Genetic and environmental risk factors for submucous cleft palate. Eur J Oral Sci 2012; 120:97-103. [PMID: 22409215 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0722.2012.00948.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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A multifactorial aetiology with genetic and environmental factors is assumed for orofacial clefts. Submucous cleft palate (SMCP), a subgroup of cleft palates with insufficient median fusion of the muscles of the soft palate hidden under the mucosa, has a prevalence of 1:1,250-1:5,000. We described the prevalence of risk factors among 103 German patients with the subtype SMCP and genotyped 24 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 12 candidate genes for orofacial clefts. Analysis of risk factors yielded a positive history for maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy in 25.2% of the patients, and this was significantly more frequent than in the normal population. The group of patients differed in allele frequencies at SNP rs3917192 of the gene TGFB3 (nominal P = 0.053) and at SNP rs5752638 of the gene MN1 (nominal P = 0.075) compared with 279 control individuals. Our results indicate a potential role of maternal smoking during pregnancy for the formation of SMCP. The analysis of genetic variants hints at the contribution of TGFB3 and MN1 in the aetiology of SMCPs.
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- Rudolf Reiter
- Section of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
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Skare O, Jugessur A, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Murray JC, Lunde A, Nguyen TT, Gjessing HK. Application of a novel hybrid study design to explore gene-environment interactions in orofacial clefts. Ann Hum Genet 2012; 76:221-36. [PMID: 22497478 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2012.00707.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Orofacial clefts are common birth defects with strong evidence for both genetic and environmental causal factors. Candidate gene studies combined with exposures known to influence the outcome provide a highly targeted approach to detecting GxE interactions. We developed a new statistical approach that combines the case-control and offspring-parent triad designs into a "hybrid design" to search for GxE interactions among 334 autosomal cleft candidate genes and maternal first-trimester exposure to smoking, alcohol, coffee, folic acid supplements, dietary folate and vitamin A. The study population comprised 425 case-parent triads of isolated clefts and 562 control-parent triads derived from a nationwide study of orofacial clefts in Norway (1996-2001). A full maximum-likelihood model was used in combination with a Wald test statistic to screen for statistically significant GxE interaction between strata of exposed and unexposed mothers. In addition, we performed pathway-based analyses on 28 detoxification genes and 21 genes involved in folic acid metabolism. With the possible exception of the T-box 4 gene (TBX4) and dietary folate interaction in isolated CPO, there was little evidence overall of GxE interaction in our data. This study is the largest to date aimed at detecting interactions between orofacial clefts candidate genes and well-established risk exposures.
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- Oivind Skare
- Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
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Jugessur A, Skare Ø, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Christensen K, Christiansen L, Nguyen TT, Murray JC, Gjessing HK. X-linked genes and risk of orofacial clefts: evidence from two population-based studies in Scandinavia. PLoS One 2012; 7:e39240. [PMID: 22723972 PMCID: PMC3378529 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2012] [Accepted: 05/17/2012] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Orofacial clefts are common birth defects of complex etiology, with an excess of males among babies with cleft lip and palate, and an excess of females among those with cleft palate only. Although genes on the X chromosome have been implicated in clefting, there has been no association analysis of X-linked markers. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We added new functionalities in the HAPLIN statistical software to enable association analysis of X-linked markers and an exploration of various causal scenarios relevant to orofacial clefts. Genotypes for 48 SNPs in 18 candidate genes on the X chromosome were analyzed in two population-based samples from Scandinavia (562 Norwegian and 235 Danish case-parent triads). For haplotype analysis, we used a sliding-window approach and assessed isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate (iCL/P) separately from isolated cleft palate only (iCPO). We tested three statistical models in HAPLIN, allowing for: i) the same relative risk in males and females, ii) sex-specific relative risks, and iii) X-inactivation in females. We found weak but consistent associations with the oral-facial-digital syndrome 1 (OFD1) gene (formerly known as CXORF5) in the Danish iCL/P samples across all models, but not in the Norwegian iCL/P samples. In sex-specific analyses, the association with OFD1 was in male cases only. No analyses showed associations with iCPO in either the Norwegian or the Danish sample. CONCLUSIONS The association of OFD1 with iCL/P is plausible given the biological relevance of this gene. However, the lack of replication in the Norwegian samples highlights the need to verify these preliminary findings in other large datasets. More generally, the novel analytic methods presented here are widely applicable to investigations of the role of X-linked genes in complex traits.
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- Astanand Jugessur
- Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
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Orofacial clefts (OFCs)--primarily cleft lip and cleft palate--are among the most common birth defects in all populations worldwide, and have notable population, ethnicity, and gender differences in birth prevalence. Interest in these birth defects goes back centuries, as does formal scientific interest; scientists often used OFCs as examples or evidence during paradigm shifts in human genetics, and have also used virtually every new method of human genetic analysis to deepen our understanding of OFC. This review traces the evolution of human genetic investigations of OFC, highlights the specific insights gained about OFC through the years, and culminates in a review of recent key OFC genetic findings resulting from the powerful tools of the genomics era. Notably, OFC represents a major success for genome-wide approaches, and the field is poised for further breakthroughs in the near future.
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- Mary L Marazita
- Center for Craniofacial and Dental Genetics, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA.
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Oegema R, Maat-Kievit A, Lequin MH, Schot R, Nanninga-van den Neste VMH, Doornbos ME, de Wit MCY, Halley DJ, Mancini GMS. Asymmetric polymicrogyria and periventricular nodular heterotopia due to mutation in ARX. Am J Med Genet A 2012; 158A:1472-6. [PMID: 22585566 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2011] [Accepted: 02/05/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Mutations in the ARX gene, at Xp22.3, cause several disorders, including infantile spasms, X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia (XLAG), callosal agenesis and isolated intellectual disability. Genotype/phenotype studies suggested that polyalanine tract expansion is associated with non-malformative phenotypes, while missense and nonsense mutations cause cerebral malformations, however, patients with structural normal brain and missense mutations have been reported. We report on a male patient born with cleft lip and palate who presented with infantile spasms and hemiplegia. MRI showed agenesis of corpus callosum (ACC), an interhemispheric cyst, periventricular nodular heterotopia (PVNH), and extensive left frontal polymicrogyria (PMG). Sequencing of the ARX gene in the patient identified a six basepair insertion (c.335ins6, exon 2). The insertion leads to a two-residue expansion of the first polyalanine tract and was described previously in a family with non-syndromic X-linked mental retardation. To our knowledge, ARX mutation causing PMG and PVNH is unique, but the spasms and ACC are common in ARX mutations. Clinicians should be aware of the broad clinical range of ARX mutations, and further studies are necessary to investigate the association with PMG and PVNH and to identify possible modifying factors.
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- Renske Oegema
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Chen Q, Wang H, Hetmanski JB, Zhang T, Ruczinski I, Schwender H, Liang KY, Fallin MD, Redett RJ, Raymond GV, Wu Chou YH, Chen PKT, Yeow V, Chong SS, Cheah FSH, Jabs EW, Scott AF, Beaty TH. BMP4 was associated with NSCL/P in an Asian population. PLoS One 2012; 7:e35347. [PMID: 22514733 PMCID: PMC3325933 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2012] [Accepted: 03/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Bone Morphogenetic Protein 4 gene (BMP4) is located in chromosome 14q22-q23 which has shown evidence of linkage for isolated nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCL/P) in a genome wide linkage analysis of human multiplex families. BMP4 has been shown to play crucial roles in lip and palatal development in animal models. Several candidate gene association analyses also supported its potential risk for NSCL/P, however, results across these association studies have been inconsistent. The aim of the current study was to test for possible association between markers in and around the BMP4 gene and NSCL/P in Asian and Maryland trios. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Family Based Association Test was used to test for deviation from Mendelian assortment for 12 SNPs in and around BMP4. Nominal significant evidence of linkage and association was seen for three SNPs (rs10130587, rs2738265 and rs2761887) in 221 Asian trios and for one SNP (rs762642) in 76 Maryland trios. Statistical significance still held for rs10130587 after Bonferroni correction (corrected p = 0.019) among the Asian group. Estimated odds ratio for carrying the apparent high risk allele at this SNP was 1.61 (95%CI = 1.20, 2.18). CONCLUSIONS Our results provided further evidence of association between BMP4 and NSCL/P.
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- Qianqian Chen
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Faculty of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Research, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, K K Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Lanteri AC, Parcells BW, Lizarraga AK, Magee W, Bermudez L. A Cross-sectional Comparison of Cleft Lip Severity in 3 Regional Populations. EPLASTY 2012; 12:e10. [PMID: 22331990 PMCID: PMC3273313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare the severity of unilateral cleft lips in populations of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Northern Africa and the Middle East. We hypothesize that severity of unilateral cleft lips shows significant variation between these populations. METHODS Medical photographs of 780 patients with primary unilateral cleft lips treated by Operation Smile during November 2007 were reviewed. Photographs of 352 patients from Asia (China, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia), 112 patients from the Middle East and North Africa (Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco), and 316 patients from Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, and Madagascar) were analyzed. The severity of cleft lips was determined using the Fisher method, which measures the columellar angle as a deviation of the columella from its normal vertical position. The angle was measured using a protractor with its base positioned along a line joining the lateral canthi. An analysis of variance calculated statistical differences between each region and their respective countries. RESULTS The Asian region was found to have the greatest severity of unilateral cleft lip deformity (P < .05). Analysis-of-variance tests show a significant difference between Asia and other regions studied. When stratifying the data by country, the Philippines and Vietnam showed the highest severity. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest a heterogeneous pattern of global severity. Unilateral cleft lips with the highest severity were predominant in the Asian region. The observed phenotypical differences can be used in future studies of gene variability or environmental factors to determine the cause of this significant disparity.
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Fredriksson L, Nilsson I, Su EJ, Andrae J, Ding H, Betsholtz C, Eriksson U, Lawrence DA. Platelet-derived growth factor C deficiency in C57BL/6 mice leads to abnormal cerebral vascularization, loss of neuroependymal integrity, and ventricular abnormalities. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2012; 180:1136-1144. [PMID: 22230248 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2011] [Revised: 11/04/2011] [Accepted: 12/02/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGFs) and their tyrosine kinase receptors (PDGFRs) are known to play important roles during development of the lungs, central nervous system (CNS), and skeleton and in several diseases. PDGF-C is a ligand for the tyrosine kinase receptor PDGFRα. Mutations in the gene encoding PDGF-C have been linked to clefts of the lip and/or palate in humans, and ablation of PDGF-C in 129/Sv background mice results in death during the perinatal period. In this study, we report that ablation of PDGF-C in C57BL/6 mice results in a milder phenotype than in 129/Sv mice, and we present a phenotypic characterization of PDGF-C deficiency in the adult murine CNS. Multiple congenital defects were observed in the CNS of PDGF-C-null C57BL/6 mice, including cerebral vascular abnormalities with abnormal vascular smooth muscle cell coverage. In vivo imaging of mice deficient in PDGF-C also revealed cerebral ventricular abnormalities, such as asymmetry of the lateral ventricles and hypoplasia of the septum, reminiscent of cavum septum pellucidum in humans. We further noted that PDGF-C-deficient mice displayed a distorted ependymal lining of the lateral ventricles, and we found evidence of misplaced neurons in the ventricular lining. We conclude that PDGF-C plays a critical role in the development of normal cerebral ventricles and neuroependymal integrity as well as in normal cerebral vascularization.
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- Linda Fredriksson
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Vascular Biology Group, Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Tissue Biology Group, Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Vascular Biology Group, Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Vascular Biology Group, Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Tissue Biology Group, Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Candidate pathway based analysis for cleft lip with or without cleft palate. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol 2012; 11:/j/sagmb.2012.11.issue-2/1544-6115.1717/1544-6115.1717.xml. [PMID: 22499695 DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The objective of this research was to identify potential biological pathways associated with non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCL/P), and to explore the potential biological mechanisms underlying these associated pathways on risk of NSCL/P. This project was based on the dataset of a previously published genome-wide association (GWA) study on NSCL/P (Beaty et al. 2010). Case-parent trios used here originated from an international consortium (The Gene, Environment Association Studies consortium, GENEVA) formed in 2007. A total of 5,742 individuals from 1,908 CL/P case-parents trios (1,591 complete trios and 317 incomplete trios where one parent was missing) were collected and genotyped using the Illumina Human610-Quad array. Candidate pathways were selected using a list of 356 genes that may be related to oral clefts. In total, 42 candidate pathways, which included 1,564 genes and 40,208 SNPs were tested. Using a pathway-based analysis approach proposed by Wang et al (2007), we conducted a permutation-based test to assess the statistical significance of the nominal p-values of 42 candidate pathways. The analysis revealed several pathways yielding nominally significant p-values. However, controlling for the family wise error rate, none of these pathways could retain statistical significance. Nominal p-values of these pathways were concentrated at the lower tail of the distribution, with more than expected low p-values. A permutation based test for examining this type of distribution pattern yielded an overall p-value of 0.029. Thus, while this pathway-based analysis did not yield a clear significant result for any particular pathway, we conclude that one or more of the genes and pathways considered here likely do play a role in oral clefting.
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Myking S, Myhre R, Gjessing HK, Morken NH, Sengpiel V, Williams SM, Ryckman KK, Magnus P, Jacobsson B. Candidate gene analysis of spontaneous preterm delivery: new insights from re-analysis of a case-control study using case-parent triads and control-mother dyads. BMC MEDICAL GENETICS 2011; 12:174. [PMID: 22208904 PMCID: PMC3260094 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-12-174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2011] [Accepted: 12/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Background Spontaneous preterm delivery (PTD) has a multifactorial etiology with evidence of a genetic contribution to its pathogenesis. A number of candidate gene case-control studies have been performed on spontaneous PTD, but the results have been inconsistent, and do not fully assess the role of how two genotypes can impact outcome. To elucidate this latter point we re-analyzed data from a previously published case-control candidate gene study, using a case-parent triad design and a hybrid design combining case-parent triads and control-mother dyads. These methods offer a robust approach to genetic association studies for PTD compared to traditional case-control designs. Methods The study participants were obtained from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). A total of 196 case triads and 211 control dyads were selected for the analysis. A case-parent triad design as well as a hybrid design was used to analyze 1,326 SNPs from 159 candidate genes. We compared our results to those from a previous case-control study on the same samples. Haplotypes were analyzed using a sliding window of three SNPs and a pathway analysis was performed to gain biological insight into the pathophysiology of preterm delivery. Results The most consistent significant fetal gene across all analyses was COL5A2. The functionally similar COL5A1 was significant when combining fetal and maternal genotypes. PON1 was significant with analytical approaches for single locus association of fetal genes alone, but was possibly confounded by maternal effects. Focal adhesion (hsa04510), Cell Communication (hsa01430) and ECM receptor interaction (hsa04512) were the most constant significant pathways. Conclusion This study suggests a fetal association of COL5A2 and a combined fetal-maternal association of COL5A1 with spontaneous PTD. In addition, the pathway analysis implied interactions of genes affecting cell communication and extracellular matrix.
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- Solveig Myking
- Department of Genes and Environment, Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
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Shen X, Liu RM, Yang L, Wu H, Li PQ, Liang YL, Xie XD, Yao T, Zhang TT, Yu M. The CRISPLD2 gene is involved in cleft lip and/or cleft palate in a Chinese population. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 91:918-24. [PMID: 21800413 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2010] [Revised: 04/18/2011] [Accepted: 04/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nonsyndromic cleft lip and/or cleft palate (NSCLP) are common congenital anomalies in humans, the etiologies of which are complex and associated with both genetic and environmental factors. Previous data suggested single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of rs1546124, rs4783099, and rs16974880 of the CRISPLD2 gene were associated with an increased risk of NSCLP; however, subsequent studies have yielded conflicting results. This study aims to evaluate the associations of the aforementioned polymorphisms with NSCLP in a Northwestern Chinese population. METHODS Three CRISPLD2 SNPs were genotyped in a case-control study (n = 907), including 444 NSCLP patients and 463 healthy individuals, using polymerase chain reaction-denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (PCR-DHPLC). RESULTS The genotype and allele frequencies of rs1546124 (odds ratio [OR], 2.30; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.58-3.34; p = 1 × 10(-5) ) and rs4783099 (OR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.54-1.00; p = 0.05) were different in NSCLP patients compared with controls. Furthermore, the CC genotype at rs1546124 was associated with increased risk for cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P; OR, 2.11; 95% CI, 1.41-3.15; p(correct) = 1.5 × 10(-4) ) and for cleft palate only (CPO; OR, 2.93; 95% CI, 1.69-5.07; p(correct) = 5.4 × 10(-4) ), whereas the T allele of rs4783099 was associated with decreased risk for CPO. Further gender stratification showed that the statistical association of these two loci is mainly in the male patients, and not in female patients. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that the CRISPLD2 gene contributes to the etiology of NSCLP in the Northwestern Chinese population. SNP rs1546124 is significantly related to NSCLP, associated with both CL/P and CPO groups, and SNP rs4783099 is significantly associated with CPO.
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- Xi Shen
- Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, China
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Rahimov F, Jugessur A, Murray JC. Genetics of nonsyndromic orofacial clefts. Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2011; 49:73-91. [PMID: 21545302 DOI: 10.1597/10-178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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With an average worldwide prevalence of approximately 1.2/1000 live births, orofacial clefts are the most common craniofacial birth defects in humans. Like other complex disorders, these birth defects are thought to result from the complex interplay of multiple genes and environmental factors. Significant progress in the identification of underlying genes and pathways has benefited from large populations available for study, increased international collaboration, rapid advances in genotyping technology, and major improvements in analytic approaches. Here we review recent advances in genetic epidemiological approaches to complex traits and their applications to studies of nonsyndromic orofacial clefts. Our main aim is to bring together a discussion of new and previously identified candidate genes to create a more cohesive picture of interacting pathways that shape the human craniofacial region. In future directions, we highlight the need to search for copy number variants that affect gene dosage and rare variants that are possibly associated with a higher disease penetrance. In addition, sequencing of protein-coding regions in candidate genes and screening for genetic variation in noncoding regulatory elements will help advance this important area of research.
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- Fedik Rahimov
- Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Dixon MJ, Marazita ML, Beaty TH, Murray JC. Cleft lip and palate: understanding genetic and environmental influences. Nat Rev Genet 2011; 12:167-78. [PMID: 21331089 DOI: 10.1038/nrg2933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1162] [Impact Index Per Article: 89.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Clefts of the lip and/or palate (CLP) are common birth defects of complex aetiology. CLP can occur in isolation or as part of a broad range of chromosomal, Mendelian or teratogenic syndromes. Although there has been marked progress in identifying genetic and environmental triggers for syndromic CLP, the aetiology of the more common non-syndromic (isolated) forms remains poorly characterized. Recently, using a combination of epidemiology, careful phenotyping, genome-wide association studies and analysis of animal models, several distinct genetic and environmental risk factors have been identified and confirmed for non-syndromic CLP. These findings have advanced our understanding of developmental biology and created new opportunities for clinical translational research.
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- Michael J Dixon
- Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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Nikopensius T, Kempa I, Ambrozaitytė L, Jagomägi T, Saag M, Matulevičienė A, Utkus A, Krjutškov K, Tammekivi V, Piekuse L, Akota I, Barkane B, Krumina A, Klovins J, Lace B, Kučinskas V, Metspalu A. Variation in FGF1, FOXE1, and TIMP2 genes is associated with nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate. BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH. PART A, CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR TERATOLOGY 2011; 91:218-25. [PMID: 21462296 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2010] [Revised: 01/19/2011] [Accepted: 01/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) is a common complex birth defect caused by the interaction between multiple genes and environmental factors. METHODS Five hundred and eighty-seven single nucleotide polymorphisms in 40 candidate genes related to orofacial clefting were tested for association with CL/P in a clefting sample composed of 300 patients and 606 controls from Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian populations. RESULTS In case-control comparisons, the minor alleles of FGF1 rs34010 (p = 4.56 × 10(-4) ), WNT9B rs4968282 (p = 0.0013), and FOXE1 rs7860144 (p = 0.0021) were associated with a decreased risk of CL/P. Multiple haplotypes in FGF1, FOXE1, and TIMP2 and haplotypes in WNT9B, PVRL2, and LHX8 were associated with CL/P. The strongest association was found for protective haplotype rs250092/rs34010 GT in the FGF1 gene (p = 5.01 × 10(-4) ). The strongest epistatic interaction was observed between the COL2A1 and WNT3 genes. CONCLUSIONS Our results provide for the first time evidence implicating FGF1 in the occurrence of CL/P, and support TIMP2 and WNT9B as novel loci predisposing to CL/P. We have also replicated recently reported significant associations between variants in or near FOXE1 and CL/P. It is likely that variation in FOXE1, TIMP2, and the FGF and Wnt signaling pathway genes confers susceptibility to nonsyndromic CL/P in Northeastern European populations.
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- Tiit Nikopensius
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia.
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Jugessur A, Shi M, Gjessing HK, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Weinberg CR, Christensen K, Boyles AL, Daack-Hirsch S, Nguyen TT, Christiansen L, Lidral AC, Murray JC. Fetal genetic risk of isolated cleft lip only versus isolated cleft lip and palate: a subphenotype analysis using two population-based studies of orofacial clefts in Scandinavia. BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH. PART A, CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR TERATOLOGY 2011; 91:85-92. [PMID: 21319277 PMCID: PMC3407039 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2010] [Revised: 09/05/2010] [Accepted: 09/07/2010] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Background Cleft lip only (CLO) and cleft lip and palate (CLP) are commonly regarded as variants of the same defect and traditionally combined to form the single group of cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) prior to analysis. However, recent data have suggested that at least a subgroup of isolated CLO may be etiologically distinct from isolated CLP. Methods To explore fetal genetic risk of isolated CLO separately from isolated CLP, we performed a sub-phenotype analysis using two population-based studies of clefts in Scandinavia. One hundred and twenty-one isolated CLO, 190 isolated CLP, and 592 control triads were available from Norway(1996–2001), and a further 76 isolated CLO and 107 isolated CLP triads were available from Denmark (1991–2001). Genotypes for 1315 SNPs in 334 autosomal cleft candidate genes were analyzed using two complementary statistical methods, TRIMM and HAPLIN, to look for genetic associations across the two national samples. Results Both TRIMM and HAPLIN identified strong associations between FGF12 and isolated CLO in both populations. In addition, only TRIMM identified associations with IRF6 and VCL , and only HAPLIN found an association with CX43 . When analyses were repeated on the larger sample of isolated CLP, no significant associations were found with FGF12 , IRF6, VCL or CX43 . Conclusions Despite some inconsistency in the pattern of associations across the two populations, the associations themselves were phenotype-specific. While both IRF6 and FGF12 have previously shown strong associations with isolated CL/P, the associations with VCL and CX43 are novel and warrant further investigation in other isolated CLO samples.
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- Astanand Jugessur
- Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Nydalen, Oslo, Norway.
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Wehby G, Fletcher JM, Lehrer SF, Moreno LM, Murray JC, Wilcox A, Lie RT. A genetic instrumental variables analysis of the effects of prenatal smoking on birth weight: evidence from two samples. BIODEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL BIOLOGY 2011; 57:3-32. [PMID: 21845925 PMCID: PMC3256988 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2011.564468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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There is a large literature showing the detrimental effects of prenatal smoking on birth and childhood health outcomes. It is somewhat unclear though, whether these effects are causal or reflect other characteristics and choices by mothers who choose to smoke that may also affect child health outcomes or biased reporting of smoking. In this paper we use genetic markers that predict smoking behaviors as instruments to address the endogeneity of smoking choices in the production of birth and childhood health outcomes. Our results indicate that prenatal smoking produces more dramatic declines in birth weight than estimates that ignore the endogeneity of prenatal smoking, which is consistent with previous studies with non-genetic instruments. We use data from two distinct samples from Norway and the United States with different measured instruments and find nearly identical results. The study provides a novel application that can be extended to study several behavioral impacts on health and social and economic outcomes.
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- George Wehby
- Assistant Professor of Health Economics, Dept. of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, E205 GH, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA, Phone: 319-384-5133; Fax: 319-384-5125
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- Assistant Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Yale University, 60 College St, #303; New Haven, CT 06520
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- Queen’s University, School of Policy Studies, Kingston, OntarioCanada, K7L 3N6
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- Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, N401 DSB, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA
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- University of Iowa, Dept of Pediatrics, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA, Phone 1 319 335 6897
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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Hozyasz KK. The search for risk factors that contribute to the etiology of non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) in the Polish population. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s0031-3939(10)70562-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Boyles AL, DeRoo LA, Lie RT, Taylor JA, Jugessur A, Murray JC, Wilcox AJ. Maternal alcohol consumption, alcohol metabolism genes, and the risk of oral clefts: a population-based case-control study in Norway, 1996-2001. Am J Epidemiol 2010; 172:924-31. [PMID: 20810466 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Heavy maternal alcohol consumption during early pregnancy increases the risk of oral clefts, but little is known about how genetic variation in alcohol metabolism affects this association. Variants in the alcohol dehydrogenase 1C (ADH1C) gene may modify the association between alcohol and clefts. In a population-based case-control study carried out in Norway (1996-2001), the authors examined the association between maternal alcohol consumption and risk of oral clefts according to mother and infant ADH1C haplotypes encoding fast or slow alcohol-metabolizing phenotypes. Subjects were 483 infants with oral cleft malformations and 503 control infants and their mothers, randomly selected from all other livebirths taking place during the same period. Mothers who consumed 5 or more alcoholic drinks per sitting during the first trimester of pregnancy had an elevated risk of oral cleft in their offspring (odds ratio (OR) = 2.6, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.4, 4.7). This increased risk was evident only in mothers or children who carried the ADH1C haplotype associated with reduced alcohol metabolism (OR= 3.0, 95% CI: 1.4, 6.8). There was no evidence of alcohol-related risk when both mother and infant carried only the rapid-metabolism ADH1C variant (OR = 0.9, 95% CI: 0.2, 4.1). The teratogenic effect of alcohol may depend on the genetic capacity of the mother and fetus to metabolize alcohol.
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- Abee L Boyles
- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, North Carolina 27709, USA.
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Letra A, Menezes R, Govil M, Fonseca RF, McHenry T, Granjeiro JM, Castilla EE, Orioli IM, Marazita ML, Vieira AR. Follow-up association studies of chromosome region 9q and nonsyndromic cleft lip/palate. Am J Med Genet A 2010; 152A:1701-10. [PMID: 20583170 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Cleft lip/palate comprises a large fraction of all human birth defects, and is notable for its significant lifelong morbidity and complex etiology. Several studies have shown that genetic factors appear to play a significant role in the etiology of cleft lip/palate. Human chromosomal region 9q21 has been suggested in previous reports to contain putative cleft loci. Moreover, a specific region (9q22.3-34.1) was suggested to present a approximately 45% probability of harboring a cleft susceptibility gene. Fine mapping of 50 SNPs across the 9q22.3-34.11 region was performed to test for association with cleft lip/palate in families from United States, Spain, Turkey, Guatemala, and China. We performed family-based analyses and found evidence of association of cleft lip/palate with STOM (rs306796) in Guatemalan families (P = 0.004) and in all multiplex families pooled together (P = 0.002). This same SNP also showed borderline association in the US families (P = 0.04). Under a nominal value of 0.05, other SNPs also showed association with cleft lip/palate and cleft subgroups. SNPs in STOM and PTCH genes and nearby FOXE1 were further associated with cleft phenotypes in Guatemalan and Chinese families. Gene prioritization analysis revealed PTCH and STOM ranking among the top fourteen candidates for cleft lip/palate among 339 genes present in the region. Our results support the hypothesis that the 9q22.32-34.1 region harbors cleft susceptibility genes. Additional studies with other populations should focus on these loci to further investigate the participation of these genes in human clefting.
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- Ariadne Letra
- Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA 15261, USA
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Pan Y, Ma J, Zhang W, Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhang H, Wang M, Zhang Z, Wang L. Replication of two novel susceptibility loci for non-syndromic orofacial clefts in a Chinese population. Oral Dis 2010; 17:304-8. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2010.01741.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nikopensius T, Jagomägi T, Krjutskov K, Tammekivi V, Saag M, Prane I, Piekuse L, Akota I, Barkane B, Krumina A, Ambrozaityte L, Matuleviciene A, Kucinskiene ZA, Lace B, Kucinskas V, Metspalu A. Genetic variants in COL2A1, COL11A2, and IRF6 contribute risk to nonsyndromic cleft palate. BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH. PART A, CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR TERATOLOGY 2010; 88:748-56. [PMID: 20672350 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Orofacial clefts are among the most common birth defects with a strong genetic component. Nonsyndromic cleft palate (NSCP) is a complex malformation determined by the interaction between multiple genes and environmental risk factors. METHODS We conducted a case-control association study to investigate the role of 40 candidate genes in predisposition to orofacial clefting. Five hundred ninety-one haplotype tagging single nucleotide polymorphism (tagSNPs) were genotyped in a clefting sample from the Baltic region, composed of 104 patients with nonsyndromic cleft palate and 606 controls from an Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian population. RESULTS In case-control comparisons, the minor alleles of IRF6 rs17389541 (p = 5.45 × 10(-4)) and COL2A1 rs1793949 (p = 7.26 × 10(-4)) were associated with increased risk of NSCP. Multiple haplotypes in COL2A1 and COL11A2 and haplotypes in WNT3, FGFR1, and CLPTM1were associated with NSCP. The strongest associations were found for IRF6 haplotype rs17389541/rs9430018 GT (p = 2.23 × 10(-4)) and COL2A1 haplotype rs12822608/rs6823 GC (p = 3.68 × 10(-4)). The strongest epistatic interactions were observed between MSX1 and BMP2, FGF1 and PVRL2, and COL2A1 and FGF2 genes. CONCLUSIONS This study provides for the first time evidence of the implication of IRF6, COL2A1, and WNT3 in the occurrence of NSCP. It is likely that variation in cartilage collagen II and XI genes, IRF6, and the Wnt and FGF signaling pathway genes contributes susceptibility to nonsyndromic cleft palate in Northeastern European populations.
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- Tiit Nikopensius
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
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Jugessur A, Shi M, Gjessing HK, Lie RT, Wilcox AJ, Weinberg CR, Christensen K, Boyles AL, Daack-Hirsch S, Nguyen TT, Christiansen L, Lidral AC, Murray JC. Maternal genes and facial clefts in offspring: a comprehensive search for genetic associations in two population-based cleft studies from Scandinavia. PLoS One 2010; 5:e11493. [PMID: 20634891 PMCID: PMC2901336 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2010] [Accepted: 06/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Fetal conditions can in principle be affected by the mother's genotype working through the prenatal environment. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Genotypes for 1536 SNPs in 357 cleft candidate genes were available from a previous analysis in which we focused on fetal gene effects. After data-cleaning, genotypes for 1315 SNPs in 334 autosomal genes were available for the current analysis of maternal gene effects. Two complementary statistical methods, TRIMM and HAPLIN, were used to detect multi-marker effects in population-based samples from Norway (562 case-parent and 592 control-parent triads) and Denmark (235 case-parent triads). We analyzed isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate (iCL/P) and isolated cleft palate only (iCP) separately and assessed replication by looking for genes detected in both populations by both methods. In iCL/P, neither TRIMM nor HAPLIN detected more genes than expected by chance alone; furthermore, the selected genes were not replicated across the two methods. In iCP, however, FLNB was identified by both methods in both populations. Although HIC1 and ZNF189 did not fully satisfy our stringency criterion for replication, they were strongly associated with iCP in TRIMM analyses of the Norwegian triads. CONCLUSION/SIGNIFICANCE Except for FLNB, HIC1 and ZNF189, maternal genes did not appear to influence the risk of clefting in our data. This is consistent with recent epidemiological findings showing no apparent difference between mother-to-offspring and father-to-offspring recurrence of clefts in these two populations. It is likely that fetal genes make the major genetic contribution to clefting risk in these populations, but we cannot rule out the possibility that maternal genes can affect risk through interactions with specific teratogens or fetal genes.
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- Astanand Jugessur
- Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Craniofacial Research, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Australia
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- Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
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- College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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- Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Departments of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
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Lakhwani S, García-Sanz P, Vallejo M. Alx3-deficient mice exhibit folic acid-resistant craniofacial midline and neural tube closure defects. Dev Biol 2010; 344:869-80. [PMID: 20534379 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2009] [Revised: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 06/01/2010] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Neural tube closure defects are among the most frequent congenital malformations in humans. Supplemental maternal intake of folic acid before and during pregnancy reduces their incidence significantly, but the mechanism underlying this preventive effect is unknown. As a number of genes that cause neural tube closure defects encode transcriptional regulators in mice, one possibility is that folic acid could induce the expression of transcription factors to compensate for the primary genetic defect. We report that folic acid is required in mouse embryos for the specific expression of the homeodomain gene Alx3 in the head mesenchyme, an important tissue for cranial neural tube closure. Alx3-deficient mice exhibit increased failure of cranial neural tube closure and increased cell death in the craniofacial region, two effects that are also observed in wild type embryos developing in the absence of folic acid. Folic acid cannot prevent these defects in Alx3-deficient embryos, indicating that one mechanism of folic acid action is through induced expression of Alx3. Thus, Alx3 emerges as a candidate gene for human neural tube defects and reveals the existence of induced transcription factor gene expression as a previously unknown mechanism by which folic acid prevents neural tube closure defects.
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- Sita Lakhwani
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Uz E, Alanay Y, Aktas D, Vargel I, Gucer S, Tuncbilek G, von Eggeling F, Yilmaz E, Deren O, Posorski N, Ozdag H, Liehr T, Balci S, Alikasifoglu M, Wollnik B, Akarsu NA. Disruption of ALX1 causes extreme microphthalmia and severe facial clefting: expanding the spectrum of autosomal-recessive ALX-related frontonasal dysplasia. Am J Hum Genet 2010; 86:789-96. [PMID: 20451171 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2010] [Revised: 04/05/2010] [Accepted: 04/09/2010] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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We present an autosomal-recessive frontonasal dysplasia (FND) characterized by bilateral extreme microphthalmia, bilateral oblique facial cleft, complete cleft palate, hypertelorism, wide nasal bridge with hypoplasia of the ala nasi, and low-set, posteriorly rotated ears in two distinct families. Using Affymetrix 250K SNP array genotyping and homozygosity mapping, we mapped this clinical entity to chromosome 12q21. In one of the families, three siblings were affected, and CNV analysis of the critical region showed a homozygous 3.7 Mb deletion containing the ALX1 (CART1) gene, which encodes the aristaless-like homeobox 1 transcription factor. In the second family we identified a homozygous donor-splice-site mutation (c.531+1G > A) in the ALX1 gene, providing evidence that complete loss of function of ALX1 protein causes severe disruption of early craniofacial development. Unlike loss of its murine ortholog, loss of human ALX1 does not result in neural-tube defects; however, it does severely affect the orchestrated fusion between frontonasal, nasomedial, nasolateral, and maxillary processes during early-stage embryogenesis. This study further expands the spectrum of the recently recognized autosomal-recessive ALX-related FND phenotype in humans.
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- Elif Uz
- Gene Mapping Laboratory, Department of Medical Genetics, Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey
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Carter TC, Molloy AM, Pangilinan F, Troendle JF, Kirke PN, Conley MR, Orr DJA, Earley M, McKiernan E, Lynn EC, Doyle A, Scott JM, Brody LC, Mills JL. Testing reported associations of genetic risk factors for oral clefts in a large Irish study population. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 88:84-93. [PMID: 19937600 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Suggestive, but not conclusive, studies implicate many genetic variants in oral cleft etiology. We used a large, ethnically homogenous study population to test whether reported associations between nonsyndromic oral clefts and 12 genes (CLPTM1, CRISPLD2, FGFR2, GABRB3, GLI2, IRF6, PTCH1, RARA, RYK, SATB2, SUMO1, TGFA) could be confirmed. METHODS Thirty-one single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in exons, splice sites, and conserved non-coding regions were studied in 509 patients with cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CLP), 383 with cleft palate only (CP), 838 mothers and 719 fathers of patients with oral clefts, and 902 controls from Ireland. Case-control and family-based statistical tests were performed using isolated oral clefts for the main analyses. RESULTS In case-control comparisons, the minor allele of PTCH1 A562A (rs2066836) was associated with reduced odds of CLP (odds ratios [OR], 0.29; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.13-0.64 for homozygotes), whereas the minor allele of PTCH1 L1315P (rs357564) was associated with increased odds of CLP (OR, 1.36; 95% CI, 1.07-1.74 for heterozygotes; and OR, 1.56; 95% CI, 1.09-2.24 for homozygotes). The minor allele of one SUMO1 SNP, rs3769817 located in intron 2, was associated with increased odds of CP (OR, 1.45; 95% CI, 1.06-1.99 for heterozygotes). Transmission disequilibrium was observed for the minor allele of TGFA V159V (rs2166975) which was over-transmitted to CP cases (p = 0.041). CONCLUSIONS For 10 of the 12 genes, this is the largest candidate gene study of nonsyndromic oral clefts to date. The findings provide further evidence that PTCH1, SUMO1, and TGFA contribute to nonsyndromic oral clefts.
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- Tonia C Carter
- Division of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Prevention Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Rojas-Martinez A, Reutter H, Chacon-Camacho O, Leon-Cachon RBR, Munoz-Jimenez SG, Nowak S, Becker J, Herberz R, Ludwig KU, Paredes-Zenteno M, Arizpe-Cantú A, Raeder S, Herms S, Ortiz-Lopez R, Knapp M, Hoffmann P, Nöthen MM, Mangold E. Genetic risk factors for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate in a Mesoamerican population: Evidence for IRF6 and variants at 8q24 and 10q25. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010; 88:535-7. [DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Klockars T, Ala-Mello S, Rautio J. Chromosomal abnormalities in Finnish orofacial cleft patients: excess of submucous cleft patients? Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2010; 47:352-8. [PMID: 20163256 DOI: 10.1597/09-198.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The aim was to identify chromosomal regions possibly involved in the development of orofacial clefts and to compare syndromic cleft phenotypes with previous reports. DESIGN We have retrospectively gathered and analyzed chromosomal aberrations and phenotypes of Finnish cleft patients treated at the Cleft and Craniofacial Centre, Helsinki University Central Hospital. SETTING The study was carried out at the Cleft and Craniofacial Centre, Helsinki University Central Hospital. PATIENTS The cleft register contains information on about 7600 Finnish cleft patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Identification of patients for further molecular analyses and identification of chromosomal regions associated with orofacial clefting. RESULTS We identified 37 cleft patients with chromosomal aberrations of putative research interest. CONCLUSIONS We were able to efficiently select patients for further molecular analyses and identify chromosomal regions that might be associated with orofacial clefting. The percentage of submucous cleft patients among cleft patients with chromosomal aberrations was unexpectedly high.
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- Tuomas Klockars
- Cleft and Craniofacial Centre, Department of Plastic Surgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
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Mangold E, Reutter H, Birnbaum S, Walier M, Mattheisen M, Henschke H, Lauster C, Schmidt GÃ, Schiefke F, Reich RH, Scheer M, Hemprich A, Martini M, Braumann B, Krimmel M, Opitz C, Lenz JH, Kramer FJ, Wienker TF, Nöthen MM, Diaz Lacava A. Genome-wide linkage scan of nonsyndromic orofacial clefting in 91 families of central European origin. Am J Med Genet A 2009; 149A:2680-94. [DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Jugessur A, Farlie PG, Kilpatrick N. The genetics of isolated orofacial clefts: from genotypes to subphenotypes. Oral Dis 2009; 15:437-53. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-0825.2009.01577.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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