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Sorrentino U, Menegazzo M, Gabbiato I, Calosci D, Zambon CF, Zuccarello D. Challenges of Preimplantation Genetic Counselling in the Context of Cystic Fibrosis and Other CFTR-Related Disorders: A Monocentric Experience in a Cohort of 92 Couples. Genes (Basel) 2024; 15:937. [PMID: 39062716 PMCID: PMC11275312 DOI: 10.3390/genes15070937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2024] [Revised: 07/11/2024] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Cystic fibrosis is a highly prevalent genetic disorder caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in the CFTR gene, causing an altered function of the exocrine glands and a subsequent spectrum of hypofunctional and degenerative manifestations. The increasing availability of carrier screening programmes, the enhanced life expectancy of patients due to improved treatment and care strategies and the development of more precise and affordable molecular diagnostic tools have prompted a rise in demand of prenatal diagnosis procedures for at-risk couples, including Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT). However, challenges remain: heterogeneity among screening programmes, nuances of variant interpretation and availability of novel treatments demand a considerate and knowledgeable approach to genetic counselling. In this work, we retrospectively evaluated the molecular data of 92 unselected couples who received a diagnosis of CFTR-related status and were referred to the genetics clinic at the University Hospital of Padua for genetic counselling on eligibility for PGT. A total of 50 couples were considered eligible for the procedure based on risk of transmitting biallelic pathogenic variants. We report and discuss our experience with this case series in the context of the Italian medical care system and present an overview of the most relevant issues regarding genetic counselling for PGT in CFTR-related disorders.
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- Ugo Sorrentino
- Clinical Genetics Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy
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- Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgery Unit, Regional Center for Diabetes Therapy, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy
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- Clinical Genetics Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy
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- Clinical Genetics Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy
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- Clinical Genetics Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova, 35128 Padova, Italy
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Narwani K, Biancotti JC, Golan-Lev T, Buehler N, Hill D, Shifman S, Benvenisty N, Lavon N. Human embryonic stem cells from aneuploid blastocysts identified by pre-implantation genetic screening. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim 2010; 46:309-16. [PMID: 20224970 PMCID: PMC2855810 DOI: 10.1007/s11626-010-9303-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2009] [Accepted: 01/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Human embryonic stem cells are derived from the inner cell mass of pre-implantation embryos. The cells have unlimited proliferation potential and capacity to differentiate into the cells of the three germ layers. Human embryonic stem cells are used to study human embryogenesis and disease modeling and may in the future serve as cells for cell therapy and drug screening. Human embryonic stem cells are usually isolated from surplus normal frozen embryos and were suggested to be isolated from diseased embryos detected by pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Here we report the isolation of 12 human embryonic stem cell lines and their thorough characterization. The lines were derived from embryos detected to have aneuploidy by pre-implantation genetic screening. Karyotype analysis of these cell lines showed that they are euploid, having 46 chromosomes. Our interpretation is that the euploid cells originated from mosaic embryos, and in vitro selection favored the euploid cells. The undifferentiated cells exhibited long-term proliferation and expressed markers typical for embryonic stem cells such as OCT4, NANOG, and TRA-1-60. The cells manifested pluripotent differentiation both in vivo and in vitro. To further characterize the different lines, we have analyzed their ethnic origin and the family relatedness among them. The above results led us to conclude that the aneuploid mosaic embryos that are destined to be discarded can serve as source for normal euploid human embryonic stem cell lines. These lines represent various ethnic groups; more lines are needed to represent all populations.
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- Kavita Narwani
- The International Stem Cell Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Feyereisen E, Steffann J, Romana S, Lelorc'h M, Ray P, Kerbrat V, Tachdjian G, Frydman R, Frydman N. Five years’ experience of preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the Parisian Center: outcome of the first 441 started cycles. Fertil Steril 2007; 87:60-73. [PMID: 17074325 DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.05.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2005] [Revised: 05/27/2006] [Accepted: 05/27/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the evolution of techniques and strategies and to evaluate the results of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) from January 2000 to December 2004 in chromosomal, monogenic and mitochondrial DNA disorders treated at our institution. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Single French Parisian PGD center. PATIENT(S) Patients at risk of transmitting a serious genetic disorder to their offspring. INTERVENTION(S) 171 couples enrolled in the program undergoing stimulated and frozen embryo replacement cycles with PGD. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Results of the 441 first PGD cycles performed for various genetic conditions. RESULT(S) During 5 years, 416 stimulation and 25 frozen embryo replacement cycles were started, among which 52 clinical and 47 ongoing pregnancies occurred. In stimulation cycles, the overall ongoing pregnancy rate was 24% per embryo transfer, 11% per started cycle, and 27% per couple. The implantation rate was 16%. CONCLUSION(S) These encouraging results demonstrate that PGD might be considered as a valid alternative to prenatal diagnosis. Nevertheless, couples referred for PGD must be selected and counseled appropriately, considering the complexity of the treatment and the relatively low take-home baby rate.
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- Estelle Feyereisen
- Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique et de Médecine de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France
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Feyereisen E, Romana S, Kerbrat V, Steffann J, Gigarel N, Lelorc'h M, Burlet P, Ray P, Hamamah S, Chevalier N, Fanchin R, Foix-L'hélias L, Tachdjian G, Munnich A, Frydman R, Vekemans M, Frydman N. Indications et résultats du diagnostic pré-implantatoire (DPI). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 35:356-72. [PMID: 16940905 DOI: 10.1016/s0368-2315(06)76408-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To report the results of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) cycles performed in our unit from 2000 to 2004. Materials and methods. One hundred and seventy-one couples were enrolled in the PGD program over this period. The collected oocytes were inseminated by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). The resulting embryos were biopsied on the third day of development and the genetic analysis was performed on the same day. Embryo transfers were carried out on the fourth day. RESULTS The 416 stimulation cycles started yielded 280 oocyte pick-ups, 3506 oocytes retrieved, of which 2966 were suitable for ICSI. Among the 1982 embryos obtained, 1337 embryos were biopsied and genetic diagnosis was performed for 1083 (81%) of them. 381 embryos were transferred during the course of 189 transfer procedures. There were 51 clinical and 46 ongoing (35 single, 11 twin) pregnancies. In addition, 25 frozen embryo replacement cycles were initiated, leading to 6 embryo transfers and 1 ongoing pregnancy. A total of 58 unaffected children were born. CONCLUSION PGD has gained a place among the choices offered to couples at risk of transmission of a serious and incurable genetic disease. It might be a realistic alternative to prenatal diagnosis for patients carrier of chromosomal rearrangements, single gene defects, X-linked disesases or mitochondrial DNA disorders.
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- E Feyereisen
- Service de Gynécologie-Obstétrique et de Médecine de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine-Béclère, 157, rue de la Porte-de-Trivaux, 92141 Clamart Cedex
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Kalfoglou AL, Scott J, Hudson K. PGD patients' and providers' attitudes to the use and regulation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Reprod Biomed Online 2006; 11:486-96. [PMID: 16274615 DOI: 10.1016/s1472-6483(10)61145-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) providers and patients have a vested interest in policy related to the use and regulation of PGD. To understand their experiences and attitudes, 32 in-depth interviews were conducted. Participants included 13 people at risk of transmitting a single-gene alteration to their children (10/13 had actually used PGD to try to have an unaffected child) and 19 PGD service providers (four nurses, five genetic counsellors, two reproductive endocrinologists, two geneticists, two physician-geneticists, two embryologists, and two laboratory directors). Virtually all participants supported the use of PGD to avoid severe, life-threatening genetic illness or to select embryos that are a tissue match for a sick sibling, but their attitudes varied significantly over the appropriateness of using PGD to avoid adult-onset genetic disease, to select for sex, or to select for other non-medical characteristics. There was disagreement within the PGD provider community about whether or not PGD is experimental. Participants were more concerned about overzealous government regulation of PGD creating barriers to access than potential abuses of the technology, and expected the PGD provider community to take the lead in ensuring that PGD is used for ethically appropriate purposes.
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- Andrea L Kalfoglou
- Genetics and Public Policy Centre, Phoebe R Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036, USA
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Feriotto G, Breveglieri G, Finotti A, Gardenghi S, Gambari R. Real-time multiplex analysis of four beta-thalassemia mutations employing surface plasmon resonance and biosensor technology. J Transl Med 2004; 84:796-803. [PMID: 15094716 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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In this paper, biospecific interaction analysis (BIA) employing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and biosensor technologies was applied to the analysis of multiple mutations of the human beta-globin gene. To this aim, large target polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products were immobilized on sensor chips and then probes detecting beta degrees 39 (C>T), beta degrees IVSI-1 (G>A), beta(+)IVSI-6 (T>C) and beta(+)IVSI-110 (G>A) thalassemia mutations were sequentially injected. In this study, a total of ten normal and seven heterozygous subjects, and six homozygous patients were considered. The results obtained allow to conclude that discrimination between normal subjects, heterozygous, and homozygous patients is readily achieved for all the four mutations by PCR amplification of genomic DNA containing all the regions corresponding to the same mutations, immobilization of the same PCR products, and hybridization. To our knowledge the procedure described here is the first reported on the use of SPR-based BIA and biosensor technology for multiple detections of point mutations.
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- Giordana Feriotto
- Laboratory for the Development of Pharmacological and Pharmacogenomic Therapy of Thalassemia, Biotechnology Center, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy
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Feriotto G, Breveglieri G, Gardenghi S, Carandina G, Gambari R. Surface plasmon resonance and biosensor technology for real-time molecular diagnosis of beta o 39 thalassemia mutation. MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS : A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN DISEASE THROUGH THE CLINICAL APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2004; 8:33-41. [PMID: 15230640 DOI: 10.1007/bf03260045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Biospecific interaction analysis (BIA) employing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and biosensor technologies is of interest in clinical genetics. However, few data are available on its use in hereditary diseases caused by genetic mutations. AIM The primary aim of this study was the refinement of BIA technology for use in identifying the beta o 39 mutation of the beta-globin gene, a mutation which causes a common type of beta o thalassemia. METHODS Target-biotinylated PCR products were immobilized on streptavidin-coated sensor chips and diagnosed using SPR-based BIA performed by injecting specific oligonucleotide probes into the sensor chip. RESULTS We demonstrated that the beta o 39 mutation can be easily and reproducibly identified during the association phase. CONCLUSIONS This should be considered a pilot study demonstrating the ability of SPR-based BIA to detect point mutations in the beta-globin gene by real-time monitoring of hybridization between oligonucleotide probes and target-biotinylated PCR products generated from genomic DNA from normal, heterozygous individuals and homozygous beta o thalassemia patients.
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- Giordana Feriotto
- Laboratory for the Development of Pharmacological and Pharmacogenomic Treatment of Thalassemia, Biotechnology Center, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy
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Salvado CS, Trounson AO, Cram DS. Towards preimplantation diagnosis of cystic fibrosis using microarrays. Reprod Biomed Online 2004; 8:107-14. [PMID: 14759297 DOI: 10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60504-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common indication for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). A 3-bp deletion (DeltaF508) in the cftr gene, which accounts for approximately 80% of all CF mutations in the Caucasian population, is normally diagnosed in IVF embryos using fluorescent PCR (FL-PCR) and allelic sizing. In PGD, the possibility of using microarrays for genetic diagnosis is largely unexplored. Therefore, the aim of this study was to prove the diagnostic capability of microarrays for PGD, using DeltaF508 as a model mutation. To this end, oligonucleotide probes representing both the normal and DeltaF508 disease alleles were used to construct a single microarray platform. Target DNA, which was generated by PCR and labelled with the fluorescent dye Cy3, was hybridized to the array and the DeltaF508 genotypes assigned from the fluorescence bound to each allelic probe. The performance of the array was evaluated by its ability to detect DeltaF508 mutations in target DNA. Strong binding of the target to the probes was observed, allowing the expected DeltaF508 genotypes to be assigned. The reliability and accuracy of the microarray diagnosis for DeltaF508 was blindly assessed on 10 samples with either a homozygous normal, homozygous affected or heterozygous genotype. All samples were correctly genotyped. In addition, PCR products from a previous PGD case involving DeltaF508 were re-evaluated on the array, with results in complete concordance with allelic sizing methods used to make the original diagnosis. Together, these findings prove the concept that the DeltaF508 mutation of CF can be reliably and accurately diagnosed at the single cell level using microarray analysis. The availability of more cost-effective array platforms comprising mutation probes for common single-gene disorders and a reliable method of whole genome amplification (WGA) would allow PGD to be offered to the majority of PGD patients with minimal or no change to methodology.
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- C S Salvado
- Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash University, 27-31 Wright Street, Clayton 3168, Australia.
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- Division of Laboratory Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
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Feriotto G, Ferlini A, Ravani A, Calzolari E, Mischiati C, Bianchi N, Gambari R. Biosensor technology for real-time detection of the cystic fibrosis W1282X mutation in CFTR. Hum Mutat 2002; 18:70-81. [PMID: 11438995 DOI: 10.1002/humu.1151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In the present paper, biospecific interaction analysis (BIA) was performed using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and biosensor technologies to detect the Trp1282Ter mutation (W1282X) of the cystic fibrosis (CF) transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. We first immobilized on a SA5 sensor chip a single-stranded biotinylated oligonucleotide containing the sequence involved in this mutation, and the efficiency of hybridization of oligonucleotide probes differing in length was determined. Second, we immobilized on different SA5 sensor chips biotinylated polymerase-chain reaction (PCR) products from a normal subject as well as from heterozygous and homozygous W1282X samples. The results obtained show that both allele-specific 10- and 12-mer oligonucleotides are suitable probes to detect W1282X mutations of the cystic fibrosis gene under standard BIA experimental conditions. During the association phase performed at 25 degrees C, discrimination between mismatched and full matched hybrids was readily and reproducibly observed by using the 10-mer W1282X probes. By contrast, when the 12-mer DNA probes were employed, discrimination between mismatched and full matched hybrids was observed during the dissociation phase. Taken together, the results presented suggest that BIA is an easy, speedy, and automatable approach to detect point mutations leading to cystic fibrosis. By this procedure, it is possible to perform real-time monitoring of hybridization between target single stranded PCR products obtained by using as substrates DNA isolated from normal or heterozygous subjects, and homozygous W1282X CF samples and oligonucleotide probes, therefore enabling a one-step, non-radioactive protocol to perform diagnosis.
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- G Feriotto
- Biotechnology Center, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy
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Feriotto G, Corradini R, Sforza S, Bianchi N, Mischiati C, Marchelli R, Gambari R. Peptide nucleic acids and biosensor technology for real-time detection of the cystic fibrosis W1282X mutation by surface plasmon resonance. J Transl Med 2001; 81:1415-27. [PMID: 11598154 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3780355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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In this paper we demonstrate that peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are excellent probes able to detect the W1282X point mutation of the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene when biospecific interaction analysis (BIA) by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and biosensor technologies is performed. The results reported here suggest that BIA is an easy, fast, and automatable approach for detecting mutations of CF, allowing real-time monitoring of hybridization between 9-mer CF PNA probes and target biotinylated PCR products generated from healthy, heterozygous subjects and homozygous W1282X samples and immobilized on streptavidin-coated sensor chips. This method is, to our knowledge, the first application of PNAs, BIA, and SPR to a human hereditary mutation, and demonstrates the feasibility of these approaches for discriminating between normal and mutated target DNA. We like to point out that the procedure described in this paper is rapid and informative; results are obtained within a few minutes. This could be of great interest for molecular pre-implantation diagnosis to discriminate homozygous CF embryos from heterozygous and healthy embryos. Other advantages of the methodology described in the present paper are (a) that it is a nonradioactive methodology and (b) that gel electrophoresis and/or dot-spot analysis are not required. More importantly, the demonstration that SPR-based BIA could be associated with microarray technology allows us to hypothesize that the method described in the present paper could be used for the development of a protocol employing multispotting on SPR biosensors of many CF-PCR products and a real-time simultaneous analysis of hybridization to PNA probes. These results are in line with the concept that SPR could be an integral part of a fully automated diagnostic system based on the use of laboratory workstations, biosensors, and arrayed biosensors for DNA isolation, preparation of PCR reactions, and identification of point mutations.
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- G Feriotto
- Biotechnology Center, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy
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De Vos A, Van Steirteghem A. Aspects of biopsy procedures prior to preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Prenat Diagn 2001; 21:767-80. [PMID: 11559914 DOI: 10.1002/pd.172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Today, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is offered in over 40 centres worldwide for an expanded range of genetic defects causing disease. This very early form of prenatal diagnosis involves the detection of affected embryos by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) (sex determination or chromosomal defects) or by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (monogenic diseases) prior to implantation. Genetic analysis of the embryos involves the removal of some cellular mass from the embryos (one or two blastomeres at cleavage-stage or some extra-embryonic trophectoderm cells at the blastocyst stage) by means of an embryo biopsy procedure. Genetic analysis can also be performed preconceptionally by removal of the first polar body. However, additional information is then often gained by removal of the second polar body and/or a blastomere from the embryo. Removal of polar bodies or cellular material from embryos requires an opening in the zona pellucida, which can be created in a mechanical way (partial zona dissection) or chemical way (acidic Tyrode's solution). However, the more recent introduction of laser technology has facilitated this step enormously. Different biopsy procedures at different preimplantation stages are reviewed here, including their pros and cons and their clinical applications. The following aspects will also be discussed: safety of zona drilling by laser, use of Ca2+/Mg2+-free medium for decompaction, and removal of one or two cells from cleavage-stage embryos.
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- A De Vos
- Centre for Reproductive Medicine, University Hospital, Dutch-speaking Brussels Free University (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Brussels, Belgium.
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Pettigrew R, Kuo HC, Scriven P, Rowell P, Pal K, Handyside A, Braude P, Ogilvie CM. A pregnancy following PGD for X-linked dominant [correction of X-linked autosomal dominant] incontinentia pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome): case report. Hum Reprod 2000; 15:2650-2. [PMID: 11098039 DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.12.2650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Incontinentia Pigmenti (Bloch-Sulzberger syndrome) is a rare multisystem, ectodermal disorder associated with dermatological, dental and ocular features, and in <10% of cases, severe neurological deficit. Pedigree review suggests X-linked dominance with lethality in affected males. Presentation in female carriers is variable. Following genetic counselling, a mildly affected female carrier diagnosed in infancy with a de novo mutation was referred for preimplantation sexing, unusually selecting for male gender, with an acceptance of either normality or early miscarriage in an affected male. Following standard in-vitro fertilization and embryo biopsy, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) unambiguously identified two male and two female embryos. A single 8-cell, grade 4 male embryo was replaced. A positive pregnancy test was reported 2 weeks after embryo transfer, although ultrasonography failed to demonstrate a viable pregnancy. Post abortive fetal tissue karyotyping diagnosed a male fetus with trisomy 16. This is an unusual report of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) being used for selection of males in an X-linked autosomal dominant disorder and demonstrates the value of PGD where amniocentesis or chorion villus sampling followed by abortion is not acceptable to the patient. This case also demonstrates the importance of follow-up prenatal diagnosis.
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- R Pettigrew
- Guy's and St Thomas' Centre for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK
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Feriotto G, Lucci M, Bianchi N, Mischiati C, Gambari R. Detection of the deltaF508 (F508del) mutation of the cystic fibrosis gene by surface plasmon resonance and biosensor technology. Hum Mutat 2000; 13:390-400. [PMID: 10338094 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1004(1999)13:5<390::aid-humu8>3.0.co;2-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In the present paper, we applied surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and biosensor technologies for biospecific interaction analysis (BIA) to detect deltaF508 mutation (F508del) of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) gene in both homozygous as well as heterozygous human subjects. The proposed method is divided into three major steps. The first step is the immobilization on a SA5 sensor chip of two biotinylated oligonucleotide probes (one normal, N-508, and the other mutant, deltaF508) that are able to hybridize to the CFTR gene region involved in F508del mutation. The second step consists of the molecular hybridization between the oligonucleotide probes immobilized on the sensor chips and (1) wild-type or mutant oligonucleotides, as well as (2) single-stranded DNA obtained by asymmetric polymerase chain reaction (PCR), performed using genomic DNA from normal individuals and from F508del heterozygous and F508del homozygous patients. The third, and most important, step consists of the evaluation of differential stabilities of DNA/DNA molecular complexes generated after hybridization of normal and deltaF508 probes immobilized on the sensor chips. The results obtained strongly suggest that the proposed procedure employing SPR technology enables a one-step, nonradioactive protocol for the molecular diagnosis of F508del mutation of the CFTR gene. This approach could be of interest in clinical genetics, as the hybridization step is oftenly required to detect microdeletions present within PCR products.
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- G Feriotto
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ferrara University, Italy
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- Edward D. Kim
- Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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- Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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- Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, U.S.A
- Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, U.S.A
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Ray PF, Ao A, Taylor DM, Winston RM, Handyside AH. Assessment of the reliability of single blastomere analysis for preimplantation diagnosis of the delta F508 deletion causing cystic fibrosis in clinical practice. Prenat Diagn 1998; 18:1402-12. [PMID: 9949440 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0223(199812)18:13<1402::aid-pd500>3.0.co;2-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Following the birth of a baby girl confirmed to be homozygous normal for the delta F508 deletion causing cystic fibrosis (CF), many single-gene defects have been diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). A few misdiagnoses have been reported but no large-scale studies have been performed to assess the accuracy of diagnosis in a clinical setting. Here we focus on a series of 15 delta F508 PGD cycles performed at the Hammersmith hospital in an 18 month period. All the spare embryos that had not been selected for transfer after clinical diagnosis were disaggregated and the blastomeres were analysed individually to confirm the clinical results and assess the reliability of single blastomere analysis by the nested PCR method. A total of 484 blastomeres from 112 embryos of different delta F508 genotypes were analysed. The amplification rate for nucleated blastomeres was 95 per cent and the overall accuracy of diagnosis was 89 per cent. Using these figures, we calculate that the chance of selecting an affected embryo instead of a homozygous unaffected or heterozygous carrier is 1.3 per cent, and 0.3 per cent of selecting an affected embryo as unaffected when heterozygotes were not considered for transfer. Misdiagnoses risks were negligible when embryos were considered for transfer after obtaining two concordant results from the same embryo. This study highlights the fact that heterozygous carrier embryos are more often associated with misdiagnoses, due to the failure of amplification of one of the two alleles in heterozygous cells (allele dropout (ADO)) and undetected contamination. In a recessive condition such as CF, ADO cannot result in a serious error. Misdiagnoses due to contamination are potentially more dangerous, they, however, can be limited by only selecting homozygous unaffected embryos for transfer as the risks are quadrupled when heterozygotes are also considered for transfer. For diagnoses of dominant conditions we strongly recommend the systematic analysis of two blastomeres per embryo and the transfer of only embryos with two independent concordant results.
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- P F Ray
- Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, U.K.
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) should be considered in patients with a wide variety of clinical presentations and of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. In most cases the diagnosis is suggested by manifestations of chronic sinopulmonary disease and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, and then confirmed by a positive sweat test result. Patients may, however, present with pancreatic sufficiency or other atypical clinical features, sometimes in association with normal or borderline sweat test results. In such cases, the ability to detect CF mutations and to measure transepithelial bioelectric properties can be diagnostically useful. Mutation analysis can also be used for carrier screening, prenatal diagnosis, and newborn screening.
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- B J Rosenstein
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Strom CM, Ginsberg N, Rechitsky S, Cieslak J, Ivakhenko V, Wolf G, Lifchez A, Moise J, Valle J, Kaplan B, White M, Barton J, Kuliev A, Verlinsky Y. Three births after preimplantation genetic diagnosis for cystic fibrosis with sequential first and second polar body analysis. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1998; 178:1298-306. [PMID: 9662315 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9378(98)70336-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy and feasibility of sequential polar body removal and analysis for preimplantation genetic diagnosis of mendelian disorders. STUDY DESIGN Three couples with risk factors for cystic fibrosis had preimplantation genetic diagnosis with the use of sequential polar body analysis. After stimulation, oocytes were harvested and the first polar bodies were removed and analyzed on the day of aspiration. The following day, after fertilization, the second polar bodies were aspirated. Only embryos known to have inherited the normal maternal allele were transferred. RESULTS All three couples had successful pregnancies resulting in the births of unaffected infants. CONCLUSIONS Preimplantation diagnosis with the use of sequential polar body removal is feasible and can prevent the establishment of genetically abnormal pregnancies for couples at risk.
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- C M Strom
- Reproductive Genetics Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago 60657, USA
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Kuo HC, Ogilvie CM, Handyside AH. Chromosomal mosaicism in cleavage-stage human embryos and the accuracy of single-cell genetic analysis. J Assist Reprod Genet 1998; 15:276-80. [PMID: 9604759 PMCID: PMC3454745 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022588326219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Our purpose was to assess the effect of chromosomal mosaicism in cleavage-stage human embryos on the accuracy of single-cell analysis for preimplantation genetic diagnosis. METHODS Multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization with X, Y, and 7 or X, Y, 7, and 18 chromosome-specific probes was used to detect aneuploidy in cleavage-stage human embryos. RESULTS Most nuclei were diploid for the chromosomes tested but there was extensive mosaicism including monosomic, double-monosomic, nullisomic, chaotic, and haploid nuclei. CONCLUSIONS Identification of sex by analysis of a single cleavage-stage nucleus is accurate but 7% of females are not identified. One or both parental chromosomes 7 were absent in at least 6.5% of the nuclei. With autosomal recessive conditions such as cystic fibrosis, carriers would be misdiagnosed as normal or affected. With autosomal dominant conditions, failure to analyze the affected parents allele (1.6-2.5%) would cause a serious misdiagnosis and analysis of at least two nuclei is necessary to reduce errors.
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- H C Kuo
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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Ao A, Wells D, Handyside AH, Winston RM, Delhanty JD. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis of inherited cancer: familial adenomatous polyposis coli. J Assist Reprod Genet 1998; 15:140-4. [PMID: 9547690 PMCID: PMC3454978 DOI: 10.1023/a:1023008921386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Our purpose was to achieve preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of the dominant cancer predisposition syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis coli (FAPC), as an alternative to prenatal diagnosis. METHODS The affected patient was superovulated and oocytes were retrieved and fertilized by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Two cells were biopsied from each embryo and the whole genome was amplified by primer extension preamplification (PEP). Nested PCR was then used to amplify two APC fragments: one including the APC mutation site and the other an informative intragenic polymorphism. Both were detected by simultaneous single-strand conformation polymorphism and heteroduplex analysis. RESULTS Four normally fertilized embryos were biopsied on day 3 post ICSI, and two cells were successfully removed from each embryo. Following PEP the APC mutation was successfully amplified in 7 of 8 cells, and the polymorphism in 6 of 8 cells. The APC mutation was detected in three embryos. This result was confirmed by identification of the mutation associated polymorphism in two cases. A single embryo was diagnosed as homozygous normal for the mutation and the polymorphism in both cells sampled. This unaffected embryo was transferred to the mother, but no pregnancy resulted. CONCLUSIONS We report here the first diagnosis of a cancer predisposition syndrome in human preimplantation embryos. Our results indicate that difficulties associated with single-cell PCR, allele-specific amplification failure in particular, need not prevent preimplantation diagnosis of diseases with a dominant mode of inheritance, provided appropriate strategies are applied.
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- A Ao
- Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, RPMS, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Botkin JR. Ethical issues and practical problems in preimplantation genetic diagnosis. THE JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS : A JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS 1998; 26:17-3. [PMID: 11067582 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.1998.tb01902.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Author argues the preimplantation genetic diagnosis is ethically acceptable for currently intended uses, but a variety of ethical and practical issues will arise with further development of this technology.
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Sermon K, Lissens W, Joris H, Seneca S, Desmyttere S, Devroey P, Van Steirteghem A, Liebaers I. Clinical application of preimplantation diagnosis for myotonic dystrophy. Prenat Diagn 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0223(199710)17:10<925::aid-pd178>3.0.co;2-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Lees MM, Winter RM. Advances in genetics. Arch Dis Child 1996; 75:346-50. [PMID: 8984927 PMCID: PMC1511743 DOI: 10.1136/adc.75.4.346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- M M Lees
- Mothercare Unit of Clinical Genetics and Fetal Medicine, Institute of Child Health, London
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Ray PF, Winston RM, Handyside AH. Reduced allele dropout in single-cell analysis for preimplantation genetic diagnosis of cystic fibrosis. J Assist Reprod Genet 1996; 13:104-6. [PMID: 8688580 DOI: 10.1007/bf02072529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND For couples at risk of transmitting a known single-gene defect, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) allows the identification and transfer of only unaffected embryos following in vitro fertilisation (IVF), single-cell biopsy at about the eight-cell stage, and genetic analysis by PCR. This technique therefore avoids the risk of terminating an affected pregnancy diagnosed later in gestation. METHODS AND RESULTS Using nested PCR, the delta F508 mutation causing cystic fibrosis can be detected in single cells and we previously reported successful PGD in a couple in whom both partners carry the delta F508 mutation. To date we have treated 12 couples in a total of 18 cycles. This resulted in five singleton births confirmed to be homozygous normal. Single blastomeres from disaggregated embryos which had not been transferred were analysed to confirm the original diagnosis and assess reliability in clinical practice. Amplification efficiency and accuracy were high, with blastomeres from embryos diagnosed as homozygous normal or affected. In a proportion of blastomeres from presumed carrier embryos, one of the parental alleles failed to amplify, apparently at random (allele dropout, ADO). A possible explanation is the relative inaccessibility of one of the target allele early in the PCR. To test this we have used single lymphocytes from delta F508 carriers and investigated the effects of various denaturation temperatures in the early cycles of amplification. CONCLUSIONS Increasing the denaturation temperature reduced the rate of ADO without affecting amplification efficiency.
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- P F Ray
- Human Embryology Laboratory, Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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